Some colleges and universities have also required students, professors and
other staff members to be vaccinated before returning to campus. The schools
want to return to full classrooms, busy dining halls and a vibrant campus
life. They want students to be able to go to football games, events and even
parties without fear of outbreaks. The only way to do that is to achieve
significant levels of immunity. The only way to do that quickly and safely is
through vaccination. More than 500 colleges and universities in the United
States have mandated Covid vaccination so far. My school, Indiana University,
where I am the chief health officer, is one of them. Schools like ours believe
that the only way to get to the level of safety we need to reopen without
outbreaks or worse is to get nearly everyone immunized. Some private companies
have done the same. Many of our health care systems in Indiana have mandated
vaccination.
For college-aged students, the potential for adverse reactions to the COVID
vaccination appear to outweigh the risks of the virus itself for that age
group, said Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a professor of psychiatry and director of the
Medical Ethics Program at the University of California, Irvine.
Asked
by The College Fix whether potential side effects of the COVID-19 vaccination
outweigh risks of possibly contracting the virus for college-aged students, he
said “the answer is likely yes.”
“[A]t the very least, based on
current evidence, it’s entirely plausible to assume the answer is yes: that
risks of Covid vaccination outweigh potential benefits of the vaccine for
college age students,” Kheriaty said via email on Wednesday.
“We
don’t know with certainty what percentage of college-age students have
side-effects, or serious adverse effects, from the vaccine because the current
systems (e.g., VAERS) used to track adverse events are not sufficient to
answer that scientific question,” Kheriaty said.
VAERS stands for
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, and it relies on self-reporting and
may contain unverified reports that show an association but not causation,
Kheriaty said.
He said that while there may be a few fraudulent
reports to VAERS, someone would have to be pretty motivated to spend the
30-plus minutes required to file just one of the reports into the “cumbersome
system,” Kheriaty said.
“Much more likely, however, adverse events
are under-reported in VAERS — there are several studies suggesting that this
is the case,” he said. “Even if adverse effects are not underreported, the
reported rates of myocarditis in people under 30 — especially in young men —
suggest that the risks of vaccination outweigh the risks of Covid in this
population.”
I think that for college age people, the risk calculus for the various
WuFlu vaccines is equivocal enough that it's likely a wash. If you choose to
get vaccinated, fine, the risks of vaccine side effects are real, but small,
and if you choose not to get vaccinated, that's a reasonable decision too, the
risks of WuFlu are also small in that age bracket.. For younger people, high
school and below, there is probably not a good reason to get vaccinated; the
risk from the vaccines likely outweighs the risk of the virus itself. We have
no business mandating vaccines in young people that are more dangerous than
the disease.
The temperature was right around 90 F under clear, windless skies when we got to the beach.
Not the the most lovely fossil, but one of the rarer one, a whale bulla, or ear bone. I guess we're going to find that whale one piece at a time.
An unusually colored (most of our teeth are black or gray) Sand Tiger Shark tooth. Good enough for the kitchen shelf.
"Are you sure you want to go up here, boss?"
OK, explain this. It appears to be a piece of brass fitting of some sort, stuck in a rock. I guess the rock must have stuck together with the brass inside, but I thought that kind of rock was old. Hmmm.
Another piece of whale, I guess. It was pretty slimy when Georgia picked it up, but it cleaned up easily.
Skye spent most of the walk in the water, cooling.
"We made a very straightforward claim: NSA has read my private emails without
my permission... Tonight's statement from the NSA does not deny that instead
it comes with this non-sequitur: Tucker Carlson has never been an intel
target."
Carlson responded to the NSA’s statement on his show Tuesday night. He said he
was “glad to know” that he wasn’t an “intelligence target” but still asked if
the Biden administration had read his personal emails. The Fox News host said
he spoke to NSA officials directly and they “refused to explain why they
couldn’t answer that simple question.”
Techno Fog noted something most of us would also note {SEE HERE} the NSA statement is an obtuse non-denial. However, there’s a lot more in
that statement that should alarm everyone. I don’t know if I can cover it all
here; this is actually serendipitous for a larger framework article I have
been working on. But here’s some top-line initial reactions.
First,
notice the time of the tweet message. Exactly 8:00pm to coincide with the
beginning of Tucker Carlson’s broadcast. That’s typical political operative
snark, which wouldn’t be too surprising if it were not the fact this is from
the actual National Security Agency.
Many people in/around the
intelligence apparatus have noted and confirmed to me that most of the modern
human resources, within the working analytical part of the intelligence
apparatus, are immature, solitary and emotionally stunted individuals.
Accepting things as they directly appear, this subtle snark is actual
confirmation.
Second, “Tucker Carlson has never been an
intelligence target of the agency“, is akin to the NSA previously saying none
of the 17 Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential race were
“officially” targets of metadata surveillance; the surveillance just happened
because, well, it was rogue contractors from our partner agency (FBI) using
the facilitation of the NSA database for their opposition research. Oh, well,
if that’s all it was… and not official NSA conduct… then, well, okay, move
along. Or something.
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for the Pentagon’s
acquisition and sustainment office, was informed May 11 that “her security
clearance for access to classified information is being suspended” as “a
result of a reported Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified Information and
subsequent removal of access by the National Security Agency,” according to a
memo made available to Bloomberg News. . . . Arrington is a former
two-term Republican state representative from South Carolina who ran an
unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2018 that emphasized her private-sector
cyber experience. She was brought into the Pentagon in 2019 under the category
of “Highly Qualified Expert” and later competed for and attained the
nonpartisan Senior Executive Service status, Zaid said.
That means that anyone who attended the January 6 protest and went inside the
Capitol, but has not yet been charged, will wake up every morning until the
statute of limitations expires and wonder,
“Will today be the day the Democrat Justice Department arrests me because I
protested the election of Joe Biden?”
The argument could be made that, having opted to go down this
path early on, the Democrat Justice Department needs to continue to identify
and bring charges simply as a matter of even-handedness. Suspects whose
identity has been harder to come by should not benefit by avoiding prosecution
compared to individuals who the FBI was able to identify in the days and weeks
that followed January 6.
While that might be true, the heavy-handed
policy of “no exceptions” which is being followed only ensures that the damage
to the country created by political divisions which exist will only get worse.
It is a statement by the Biden Administration that it intends to criminalize
to the greatest extent allowed by law the sentiment following the 2020
election that the outcome was not legitimate.
More significantly, it is a legitimate basis upon which the segment of the
population who politically oppose the Biden Administration can reasonably
claim the Administration is employing the criminal justice system to
delegitimize that political opposition by declaring it to be based in
criminality.
In today's
Morning Report
at Ace's JJ Sefton noted another violent protest just occurred in Washington DC,
and nobody cared, because it was left wing:
A group calling themselves "Sunrise Movement" created what some people might
deem an insurrection. Fortunately, none were wearing MAGA hats so no unarmed
protestors were shot by mystery guards. Dozens were supposedly arrested . .
.
. . . New York's uber-progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman just
couldn't pass up a chance to do some race-baiting, and graciously dropped an
"F" bomb to let us know he means it:
"They occupy our streets.
They mass incarcerate us, but they leave us food insecure, in transportation
deserts, and our buildings and schools falling apart. Fuck that!" Bowman
said at the event while speaking about the history of discrimination against
black people. "We've got to go big, and take it to another level. And this
is our moment. This is the moment" . . .
. . . Sunrise Movement
is allegedly funded by Comrade George Soros. They blocked all 10 entrances
to the White House and bellowed their demands. No reports of tear gas,
pepper spray, firearms, or batons being used on the potential green panther
insurrectionists.
Last Thursday, Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Tony Gonzales
(R-Texas), David Joyce (R-Ohio), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Maria Elvira Salazar
(R-Fla.), and Van Taylor (R-Texas) introduced legislation to investigate the
involvement of antifa in the nationwide riots of 2020.
“Last year,
organized cells of criminals hijacked overwhelmingly peaceful protests and
used the legitimate grievances of others as cover to commit horrific acts of
violence,” Mace said in a statement. “They caused billions of dollars in
property damage and attacked law enforcement officers and innocent bystanders
in cities across the country.”
“These riots often caused the most
harm to the marginalized communities the criminals claimed to represent,” Mace
added. “Antifa bands represent the same threat to our nation posed by other
terrorist groups. We must do all we can to understand and neutralize this
dangerous movement before more are harmed.”
A Ruling Class judge first gave this corrupt government official, who
forged a document in order to frame a man, then entered that forgery into
evidence in a FISA hearing,
no jail time at all. The judge's excuse? Well, this criminal lost his job. And might
lose his law license. Isn't that punishment enough?
"[He] lost his job,
and his government service is what has given his life much of its meaning,"
Boasberg said Friday. "He was also earning $150,000 a year and who knows
where the earnings go now. He may be disbarred or suspended from the
practice of law, you may never be able to work in the national security
field again. These are substantial penalties."
I think the
average street criminal would be surprised to learn that losing your job due
to a crime, and maybe losing your Ruling Class Credential of a law license,
is punishment enough.
And now -- about that losing his law
license part. He lost it for just one year. The suspension is
dated retroactively to August 2020.
Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability—and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.
Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.”
The California Independent System Operator’s warning of impending electricity shortages heralds another blackout-riddled summer at the same time California’s electricity prices are skyrocketing.
In 2020, California’s electricity prices jumped by 7.5%, making it the biggest price increase of any state in the country last year and nearly seven times the increase that was seen in the United States as a whole.
According to data from the Energy Information Administration, the all-sector price of electricity in California last year jumped to 18.15 cents per kilowatt-hour, which means that Californians are now paying about 70% more for their electricity than the U.S. average all-sector rate of 10.66 cents per kWh. Even more worrisome: California’s electricity rates are expected to soar over the next decade. (More on that in a moment.)
The surging cost of electricity will increase the energy burden being borne by low- and middle-income Californians. High energy costs have a particularly regressive effect in California, which has the highest poverty rate—and some of the highest electricity prices—in the country. In 2020, California’s all-sector electricity prices were the third-highest in the continental U.S., behind only Rhode Island (18.55 cents per kWh) and Connecticut (19.19 cents per kWh.)
Amid a West Coast heat wave that includes triple-digit temperatures, California’s power grid operators have called on residents to not use as much electricity so as to put less strain on the state’s beleaguered grid.
In what may be an early example of the saying “What’s sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander,” Tucker Carlson reported on his show Monday night that
he has received notice — AND EVIDENCE — that internal communications among the
staff of his show are being monitored by the Intelligence Community of the
Biden Administration. This would be the first reported instance that I’m aware
of regarding a Biden Administration official leaking information to a news
media outlet calling attention to allegedly illegal/objectionable conduct
taking place inside the Administration.
These kinds of leaks were
endemic during the Trump Administration, as liberal Trump-hating officials in
the government bureaucracy regularly leaked information to media outlets
hostile to Trump such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN. Now we
have a Biden Administration Official engaged in the same conduct — but this
time the operations being “leaked” are targeted at a media outlet hostile to
Biden.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Democrat presidents have sicced American
intelligence agencies on the media. Barack Obama
infamously tapped
the landlines and cellphones of the Associated Press, Fox News reporter
James Rosen,
New York Times reporter James Risen, and,
allegedly, Sharyl Attkisson, who was with CBS News at the time. Most notoriously, Obama and his vice
president, Joe Biden, green-lit
spying on the Trump campaign
over vacuous, political, and knowingly false claims about his ties with
Russia.
This kind of “I’m so sorry, I’ve learned my lesson, and I promise to never do
anything to land myself back in front of you, Judge, so help me God” is
standard procedure for a criminal defendant and her lawyer. There was nothing
shocking about Anna Morgan Lloyd making comments like that as part of the
effort to achieve exactly what she achieved — a sentence with no jail time.
From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.28.21, Behind The Black has Today’s blacklisted American: Rudy Giuliani loses law license for daring
to represent Donald Trump. The title says it all, but read it anyway.
And as Trump’s lawyer, it was Giuliani’s job to make Trump’s case, in all
appropriate forums, which is exactly what Giuliani was doing.
In
New York, however, that is no longer allowed. The First Amendment no longer
exists. Nor does freedom of speech. If you are a lawyer and dare question any
opinions of any Democrat, or have the nerve to take on any Republican as a
client and work to defend them, the Democrats in New York who control the
legislature and courts at almost all levels will team up to take your law
license away and work to destroy you.
Moreover, the Democratic
Party machine will act to destroy you without a hearing. Giuliani never got
one before these judges, something that is unheard of in such cases and is
also a violation of the Constitution, this time the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments, which state that all accused parties will have the right to due
process and the right to make their case before a judge or jury.
Not
in New York. That state now has star chamber law, whereby secret gatherings of
partisan Democrats decide your fate behind closed doors, and you have no right
to dispute their conclusions, to their face.
Earth to Chucky: With the exception of Fox News, every other major news
outlet on the planet was right there with you and the Democrat Party every
step of the way with your TDS-riddled efforts to remove Trump from the White
House from the moment he was inaugurated. 24×7. 365 days a year. Four
insidious years. Remember? We do.
Apparently, if confirmed, the guiding hands that pull the puppet strings within the justice department have weighed the benefit of starting a full-scale civil war and determined it is not in their best interests, at least at the moment, and possibly not until they can get COVID lockdown 2.0 triggered, to anger 100 million very focused American patriots.
Oregon’s State Senate on Saturday passed a bill that would make illegal immigrants in the state eligible for Medicaid-funded medical services -- sending the legislation to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown for signature.
The bill, HB 335, expands eligibility to adults who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid-funded state medical assistance program but are excluded due to their immigration status. It passed 17-11 in the Senate, after having passed the House 37-21 earlier this week.
The development was first reported by The Lund Report, an Oregon-based outlet. The outlet had previously cited estimates that there are more than 110,000 illegal immigrants in the state and that the program would cost $100 million in the next two years.
Lawmakers in favor of the bill had estimated that the bill "would expand Medicaid coverage to include approximately 100,000 Oregonians who would otherwise be eligible except for their status as undocumented immigrants."
The Medicaid program is jointly funded by the federal government and states. The federal government pays states for a specified percentage of program expenditures, called the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP). States must ensure they can fund their share of Medicaid expenditures for the care and services available under their state plan.
As near as I can find, the FMAP for Oregon is 64.47%.
Virginia could open a small commercial shrimp fishery off Virginia Beach, after a four-year experiment showed it is ecologically sustainable and commercially viable.
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission plans to hold a public hearing July 27 to consider proposed regulations to allow trawling for shrimp. Unlike the shrimpers operating to the south, Virginia fishermen would be allowed to tow only small nets, to reduce the chance of trapping too many other species.
“This will be a small-boat, small-gear fishery,” Pat Geer, VMRC’s Fisheries Management Division chief told the commission in a recent briefing.
While shrimp have been seen in Virginia waters for years, fishermen began reporting large numbers of them in 2017.
Warmer ocean temperatures and changes in currents that resulted have pushed larval shrimp north from North Carolina — and in recent years, North Carolina shrimpers have been working along the state line.
The eight fishermen who harvested shrimp last year caught 418,616 pounds of shrimp, VMRC data shows.
Salma Hayek has been steadily sharing bikini and one-piece selfies on her
Instagram. They're all from one trip, the 54-year-old actress told
Entertainment Tonight, and she has absolutely no plans to stop posting them or
regrets sharing so many pictures.
"I had to lose a lot of weight
and exercise to get into the bikini towards the end of last year," she said,
telling the outlet that she took many photos once she got down to the size she
wanted while on her trip. "I'm glad I took a lot of pictures, I have no shame
on it, because it was the first week of the vacation." She said that sharing
the shots generally has been "liberating."
"I saved my pictures; I'm not in the same condition today, and I'm
spreading the love out like every two weeks," she admitted. "I'm going to put
up another one. I’m almost running out of them, but I don't know if you have
that feeling, like, 2021!"
Yes, she's aware some people may be over
it, by the way. She's not: "People are sick of it, but I'm going to let them
take a break," she joked. "They're going to think I'm wearing a bikini every
day. No, they're all from the same location." Hayek has 17.3 million Instagram
followers, for context. Her last bikini shot, posted on January 19, got over 2
million likes.
It was 90 F at home, and flirting with 80 at the beach with a strong SE breeze.
Georgia had baby sitting duty, so Skye and I were on our own.
There were many fewer people than on the weekend, but there were still a few to
give me competition for shark's teeth. And Skye got some pets
By far the best of 22 teeth (and some miscellaneous other stuff), a 1 5/16ths
inch lower Snaggletooth, which easily displaced previous the best so far
this year for a prime spot on the kitchen window sill.
This is obviously not going to sit well with a lot of Republicans nor is this
going to give them confidence that Barr did everything he could to root out
FBI and DOJ corruption while serving in his position as attorney general.
After all, the much-ballyhooed Durham investigation continues to go absolutely
nowhere while people that allegedly committed crimes spend their time on CNN
blasting out political partisanship (i.e.
Andrew McCabe).
There is a specific irony of Bill Barr using Wayne County, Michigan, as “no
evidence” of ballot fraud while simultaneously admitting no other area other
than Wayne county has voting precincts that do not count ballots. Only in
Wayne county do the 662 precincts deliver ballots to a central counting
facility. The Wayne County process itself is designed specifically to make
ballot fraud easier…. The former AG says move along, move along, nothing to
see here… “that’s what they do.”
The timing of this article release
to coincide with the DOJ challenging election reforms in Georgia, combined
with the Arizona audit finishing up their initial hand recount and
verification of ballots, does not seem coincidental.
My own feelings about Barr are complex. I believe he volunteered for the AG
position because he saw how deeply politicized the DOJ had become. I believe
he tried to reform it, but failed; the rot is too deep for one man to clean up
in a few months. Regarding the possibility of election fraud; he presumably
told his "underlings," who remained "deep staters to look into it. They
probably scoffed and told him it was all on the up and up. And then took jobs
with the CNC or CNN.
George Washington University Law Professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan
Turley sat down with “Fox & Friends” Saturday to analyze the DOJ
lawsuit.
“I’m highly skeptical and I think they may ultimately
regret this move. It could indeed clarify this issue in a way the Biden
administration does not want,” Turley said.
Turley raised questions
over the merit of the lawsuit citing similarities between Georgia and other
states such as Delaware. “But, this is a very dubious case in my view. Because
the Georgia law has great overlap with other states like Delaware” he said.
Turley
also mentioned the popularity of requiring identification when going to the
polls to vote, a key component of the Georgia voting law. “Voter
identification as an example is extremely popular with voters And you now see
a lot of democratic members beginning to say really, ‘we are not questioning
that anymore.’” he added.
The
33-page opinion
is damning and embarrassing; in all likelihood, it will result in Giuliani’s
eventual disbarment. It also is deeply concerning in its heavy reliance on
Giuliani’s statements out of court. While lawyers have been disciplined for
out-of-court statements in some cases, this suspension seems primarily a
judgment on Giuliani’s public advocacy. The court states that when he uses
“his large megaphone, the harm is magnified. ... One only has to look at the
ongoing present public discord over the 2020 election, which erupted into
violence, insurrection and death on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, to
understand the extent of the damage that can be done when the public is misled
by false information about the elections. The AGC [Attorney Grievance
Committee] contends that respondent's misconduct directly inflamed tensions
that bubbled over into the events of January 6, 2021 in this nation's
Capitol.”
Such rhetoric leaves the impression that the
investigators and the court itself were eager to impose judgment on Giuliani
for the Capitol riot and other unrest through a bar action. In an actual case
for incitement, such a causal connection would be rejected by any court as a
violation of free speech. Many lawyers can be accused of fanning unrest or
even violence, in cities ranging from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Ore.,
through their declarations on subjects ranging from police shootings to
election fraud.
Likewise, Democratic members of Congress, attorneys
representing Democratic campaigns and lawyers serving as legal analysts on
television have challenged presidential elections regularly and
unsuccessfully, including challenges made at the certification of the votes
before Congress. Many refused to recognize the legitimacy of Trump's
presidency following the 2016 election and made elaborately argued but
ultimately false claims alleging, among other things, collusion between the
Trump campaign and Russia. This included lawyers who were
accused of lying to the public, the media
and even Congress
in major controversies. Yet there was no cry to disbar the lawyers and members
of Congress behind those claims or challenges.
Dershowitz warned of the “danger” of allowing Giuliani to be disbarred
“without a hearing.” He argued that equal justice for all is now “mortally
wounded.”
“I taught legal ethics for, I don’t know, 35 years at
Harvard Law school. I think of myself as a leading expert on legal ethics.
I’ve never ever seen a case where a lawyer was essentially disbarred … without
a hearing,” Dershowitz outlined. “I mean, the most basic concept of due
process is you don’t deprive somebody of his living, of his freedom, of his
ability to work without a hearing. And then the criteria under which they
suspended his law license is so vague. It says in the course of representing a
client, a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of fact or law to
a third person. In other words, if he goes on your show, or he goes on my
podcast, or he goes on Fox or anywhere else, and he makes a statement which
turns out to be false, and he had reason to believe it was false, he could be
disbarred. Do you know how many lawyers we’d have left if we applied that
standard across the board? … We have case after case after case where
prosecutors, defense attorneys, lawyers of every kind, have made statements …
which turn out to be untrue, and they’re never disbarred. And certainly not
without a hearing. And so, this is a first. … The atmosphere is such today
that if you defended President Trump in any way, they’re out to get you. And
they’re certainly out to get Rudy Giuliani.”
“The idea of holding
lawyers to this standard of truth-telling when they’re on television is a
whole new ballgame. It will chill free speech. It will chill advocacy,” he
added.
Host John Catsimatidis asked if the words “equal justice for
all” are dead.
“I think they are mortally wounded,” Dershowitz
replied. “I don’t think we’re seeing equal justice for all. I think we’re
seeing selective justice. … When a prosecutor runs for office, like the
attorney general of New York ran for office on the promise that she will get
Donald Trump, is that equal justice? Or is that show me the man, and I’ll find
you the crime?”
So, let’s unpack this “anti-government domestic extremist” business. An
integral part of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism is an
intelligence community
assessment
published in March. Having spent some time in the intelligence community, I
was puzzled as to how agencies with the mission of foreign intelligence
collection—and which are statutorily and explicitly restricted from conducting
domestic intelligence operations—are now writing Intelligence Community
Assessments on U.S. citizens residing on U.S. soil. Notwithstanding the
troubling legal aspects, the assessment also lacked evidence to back up its
broad assertions that America’s greatest threat comes from domestic
extremists.
The strategy document claims to focus on unlawful
violence from domestic extremists that pose a threat to public safety. The
reality is there isn’t that much politically motivated domestic extremist
violence happening in United States. Sure, there are countless
FBI-manufactured plots and Homeland Security fever dreams of internet chatter
to scare the public. But if one excludes Black Lives Matter and Antifa, actual
political violence incidents, in a country of 330 million people, is a
statistical anomaly. The extremely rare occurrences—the report mentions six
over a 26-year period (including a Black Lives Matter activist misidentified
as an anti-government extremist—does not make a domestic terrorism
pandemic.
Since our national security warriors need a domestic
enemy, they have decided to focus on noncriminal (or, at best, pre-criminal)
thoughts and intentions of that enemy. In other words, the national security
apparatus plans to decide
who will commit violence
in the future, and then act against those individuals or groups to “disrupt”
their plans.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sent a letter to top government
officials seeking answers about the January 6 investigation and conditions in
a D.C. jail specifically used to house Capitol defendants. Greene requests the
release of at least 14,000 hours of surveillance footage captured by USCP
security system on January 6 as well as the identity of the officer who shot
and killed Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female veteran Trump supporter. “It is
abundantly clear that there is a two-track justice system in the United
States,” Greene wrote. Her letter can be found below . . .
The Atlantic Stingray is found in the western Atlantic Ocean from
Chesapeake Bay southward to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, to as far as
Campeche, Mexico. ... The Atlantic stingray
is capable of tolerating varying salinities and can enter freshwater; it
has been reported from the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, and the
St. Johns River in Florida.
A pretty good crowd at Matoaka today. About 80 F, and the humidity is sneaking up, but between a few
clouds, and a nice SW breeze, it wasn't too hot.
The best of a large number of shark's teeth, a pretty complete Cow Shark tooth, and the fresh barb off the Stingray.
If stepped on, the Atlantic stingray can inflict a painful, though rarely life-threatening wound.
One of the finest drip sand castles I've ever seen. I surely don't have that
much patience.
After useless lockdowns robbed Oregon students of a year-and-a-half worth of education, what’s a smart group of lawmakers to do?
Treat next year’s students as though they can’t learn, either… and the year after that, and the year after that, etc.
A bill to prohibit Oregon schools from requiring students to show they can read, write and do math at a basic high school level is headed to Gov. Kate Brown after lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday.
There had been requirements in place that students actually gain a few, basic skills before being given a diploma indicating they had gained a few, basic skills — but only since 2009.
Those requirements were suspended last year, an inevitable result of the self-defeating lockdowns.
And they’ll stay suspended, at the very least through the Class of ’24, when Governor Kate Brown signs SB744.
How much education do you need to throw Molotov cocktails at the Federal Courthouse in Portland anyway?
For
instance, Georgia will formally have 17 days of early voting, while Delaware will
have just 10, starting in 2022. Georgia has no-excuse mail in voting; Delaware
doesn’t. Delaware does require a voter to prove their identification. Most
states, including Delaware, do not allow people to randomly wander around and
give people in line food and drink, because there is no electioneering with a
certain distance, and it is almost considered a bribe.
Carr called the lawsuit a “campaign flier,” telling host Tucker Carlson the
DOJ “is playing politics.”
“They are not upholding the rule of
law and this blatantly political lawsuit is legally, factually, and
constitutionally wrong. Anybody who looks at our law can see it improve
security and access, improves transparency in Georgia’s law,” he said.
Well, yeah. But, Democrats do not want to actually read the Georgia law. They
just want to trot out their hater talking points.
Wait, the DOJ is using reports, most of which were false, from partisan
mainstream “news” outlets to decide on which red states to target with
lawsuits? That seems a little out of bounds. It also seems completely
antithetical to the mission of the DOJ. Shouldn’t they be pursuing lawsuits
based on gathered evidence and demonstrated illegality, not what a talking
head on CNN says?
Heck, even general claims by the media that
Georgia’s law was “voter suppression” are clearly opinion and not actually
based in fact. The DOJ apparently bought them hook, line, and sinker, though,
as their lawsuit makes wild claims about black people being denied equal
ballot access — when that’s clearly not true in regards to Georgia’s reform
law or their system in general.
So, here’s a question for Garland. If this is all on the up and up and you’re
really just (wrongly) concerned about ‘restrictions’ in the law, why aren’t
you concerned about the New York law which is more restrictive in parts? Why
are you trying to undo the law that was legally passed, trying to undo the
will of the people?
It’s more than a little troubling that the DOJ
is being used to seemingly pursue a partisan agenda.
Trump, in his statement said: "Biden’s Department of Justice just announced
that they are suing the Great State of Georgia over its Election Integrity
Act. Actually, it should be the other way around! The PEOPLE of Georgia should
SUE the State, and their elected officials, for running a CORRUPT AND RIGGED
2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION — and for trying to suppress the VOTE of the
AMERICAN PEOPLE in Georgia. If we don’t address these issues from the 2020
Election head on, and we allow the Radical Left Democrats to continue to
politicize the DOJ and Law Enforcement, we will lose our Country. SAVE
AMERICA!"
At first Favorito simply said, “The New York Supreme Court made false
assumptions about Georgia on it and used them improperly against
Giuliani.”
Then he added: “The State Farm Arena video they
showed, I’m sorry, showed clear violations of Georgia law committed by
election officials.”
Favorito went silent. I thought that was
it—he might even want to pull back—-but the opposite was true. He wanted to
say something stronger, with more evidence, and later sent me the following
two paragraphs via email:
“The New York Supreme Court falsely
concluded that the Georgia hand count audit ‘confirmed the results of the
election with a zero percent risk limit.’ The truth documented by expert
witness testimony at our May 21st hearing is that the hand count audit had a
21% error rate. That expert witness testimony and recently released public
ballot images confirm the correctness of Giuliani’s argument that the vote
count was inaccurate.”
“The New York Supreme Court also falsely
disagreed that the State Farm Arena video ‘can be viewed as evidence of
illegal conduct during the vote tabulation process.’ We identified four
violations of Georgia election transparency law in the video. In addition,
the video clearly shows potentially illegal duplicate ballot scanning.
Furthermore, the hand count audit results indicate thousands of duplicate
ballots were scanned into the results further confirming Giuliani’s argument
that the vote count was inaccurate.”
[All bolds are Favorito’s.
The italics are direct quotes from the New York State Supreme Court.]
At issue are limits the First Amendment places regulating lawyers' speech outside the context of court proceedings, including bald-faced lies like those Giuliani has repeatedly told to the American people in the months following the election, as well as whether the mechanism of lawyer discipline is an effective way to address such wholesale lying to the nation. Politically, the problem here is that the abrupt suspension of his license to practice in New York State, even before a hearing where he could present his defense, helps support his phony claims about a supposed “deep state,” “Democrat” conspiracy against him and his client, Trump. Contrary to the wise counsel of W.S. Gilbert and Dee Dee Ramone, the punishment here does not appear to fit the crime...
The Republican-led Arizona Senate's audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County reached a significant milestone on Friday, but it will probably be weeks before the findings are released to the public.
"Audit Update: Paper examination and counting are finished today. Thank you to all the amazing Arizona volunteers who made this audit possible!" said a missive from the "Maricopa Arizona Audit" Twitter account.
