Winston Smith November 14, 2024 9:04 am An unpopular position for me to take, but Tulsi is a Trojan Horse.…
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2016, yep, that one election my prediction was wrong. For the next eight years of US elections, I was correct…
Thanks for the UN report, Dover, but I stopped reading it when I got to these sorts of comments. For…
Good news from the Netherlands? https://x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1856753778814308733?t=xv5kBPk-3W4HRXH8Ugn9Hg&s=19
JC November 14, 2024 12:03 pm Will be interesting to see which country is the buyer.It’s marketing bullshit to suggest…
A desxription of all those woke, lefties raging around the world. Histrionic narcissists.
As I said in yesterday’s post, Lincoln was right. There is no half-way house on these issues, one or the other side will win.
Are Dems Crushing the Poor & Middle Class on Purpose? Roger Kimball, Spectator
Taking a page from Lenin’s playbook
It’s like Biden wants us to be poor
I have often been struck by the number of pithy observations — revelatory, pointed or simply true — that were not said by the person to whom they are attributed. Vladimir Lenin apparently never said (in Russian or in English) that “the way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
This was an insight that Lenin thoroughly grasped. It stands behind his chilling observation that “communism means keeping track of everything.” (Another attribution, true, but if he didn’t say exactly that, he assuredly meant it.) Imagine if Lenin had had the surveillance tools provided by Google, Facebook and other social media. His agenda of dependency would have proceeded even further than it did.
As it happens, we do not need to imagine such a contingency. We have our very own made-in-America variety present and accounted for. Over the course of a few months, we have gone from a situation where all the beautiful people running our lives were telling us that inflation was merely “transitory,” that it was a “high-class problem” because it meant that more people were buying things (yes, Jen Psaki actually said that), to screaming headlines that inflation is out of control, that it is the worst in forty years, that it is tanking the economy.
The real question is whether Biden — or whoever is pulling his strings — is deliberately taking a page from Lenin’s playbook or (is this more or less frightening?) whether it is simply the supreme incompetence of his entire administration.
I do not know the answer. But here’s a thought experiment. Ask yourself what Biden and his minders would have done differently had they actually intended to impoverish the American citizenry.
Of course he has.
Norway Shooting Suspect Islamist With Mental Health Issues (25 Jun)
These journos are on a dangerous course. If they always say Islamic jihadis are mentally ill the public might get a certain unintended impression about such things. Wouldn’t want that would we?
Matt Taibbi audio column on inflation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Ml-k7biuw
Dim Smith on Outsiders desperately trying to differentiate himself from Groundhog Guy.
Yawn …
Here’s how to do renewables, but the fixed cost of new homes would increase.
A home system, integrated sub systems:
Solar UV which can run in overcast conditions.
Heat exchanger with in ground well/heat sink.
A Rankine cycle heat rejection turbine.
Paper, human waste and vegetables matter fermentation to produce basic organic fuels such as ethanol and acetone.
A primary fuel turbine for heat and direct electricity.
A gas (air) compression system as charged “fuel”.
A catalytic/cracker system to convert fuels into other fuels (like propane).
Batteries, inverter etc.
Wood furnace.
Solid fuel pelletiser.
A sulfur/iodine exchange cycle system to make fuels from air and water.
Automation and mechanical systems.
I would expect 100k – 150k in costs. The safety, reliability and redundancy of the system would have to be world class and could possibly cost another $100k.
A friend nearly went off grid and was up for about $45k.
A 900 m shared electrical supply cable was marginally cheaper, including the cost of poles and construction.
Winston, it was an oblique reference to a famous movie tagline.
Some advice would be appreciated. Re internet and Optus mucking about with your email…
I read the stuff yesterday (didn’t really understand it) and I’m guessing it’s a silly question but why would any provider mess about with someone’s emails ..
To what end?
Smith is quitting Parliament after getting pissed and crashing his car.
These journos are on a dangerous course. If they always say Islamic jihadis are mentally ill the public might get a certain unintended impression about such things. Wouldn’t want that would we?
These days “mental issues” seem to be the catch-all media cover for lotza problems .. reading most stories involving CENTRELINK/welfare issues and 9 times out of 10 you get the “victim” is suffering some sort of “mental” issue ……
Distinguished Professor: “Fed Up” With “Religious Climate Claptrap”…”Green Energy Fantasies”
Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke, (photo above) Member of the University Council at the University of Leipzig, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, came out and stated at Facebook not so long ago:
I’m fed up, or to put it even more clearly: I’m fed up with the permanent and increasingly religious climate claptrap, green energy fantasies, electric car worship, scary stories about doomsday scenarios from corona to conflagrations to weather catastrophes. I can no longer stand the people who shout this into microphones and cameras every day or print it in newspapers. I suffer from having to witness how natural science is turned into a whore of politics.
I am tired of being told what to be ashamed of by abused, pubescent children. I am tired of being told by some deranged people that I am to blame for everything and everyone – but especially as a German for the past, present and future misery of the whole world.”
BWAHAHAHAHABWHA,
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/man-says-he-had-sex-organs-removed-on-nhs-then-regretted-it-the-same-day/324446
Dotsays:
June 26, 2022 at 9:51 am
Used to work with a lady who had a rural property and did same. The inflated cost of the power poles & wires the power provider wanted to connect to the grid was eye watering. She checked out solar and deep cycle batteries. The later was cheaper by far.
Just got my electrickery bill for the Autumn quarter – $11 more than the previous bill.
Be interesting to compare it to the upcoming winter quarter bill, given recent events.
Please.
No oblique references.
It’s not that sort of blog.
Pancho – I thought Dim had decided to try and resurrect his DOA political career* given Groundhog Guy’s recent ascension to the leadership?
Funnily enough, I have no idea who was the leader of the Victorian Gliberals prior to Groundhog Guy.
*Following that regrettable vehicular contretemps with a suburban house fence.
The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
The war in Ukraine is a multi-dimensional disaster, which is likely to get much worse in the foreseeable future.
The war in Ukraine is a multi-dimensional disaster, which is likely to get much worse in the foreseeable future. When a war is successful, little attention is paid to its causes, but when the outcome is disastrous, understanding how it happened becomes paramount. People want to know: how did we get into this terrible situation?
I have witnessed this phenomenon twice in my lifetime—first with the Vietnam war and second with the Iraq war. In both cases, Americans wanted to know how their country could have miscalculated so badly. Given that the United States and its NATO allies played a crucial role in the events that led to the Ukraine war—and are now playing a central role in the conduct of that war—it is appropriate to evaluate the West’s responsibility for this calamity.
I will make two main arguments today.
First,
the United States is principally responsible for causing the Ukraine crisis. This is not to deny that Putin started the war and that he is responsible for Russia’s conduct of the war. Nor is it to deny that America’s allies bear some responsibility, but they largely follow Washington’s lead on Ukraine. My central claim is that the United States has pushed forward policies toward Ukraine that Putin and other Russian leaders see as an existential threat, a point they have made repeatedly for many years. Specifically, I am talking about America’s obsession with bringing Ukraine into NATO and making it a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. The Biden administration was unwilling to eliminate that threat through diplomacy and indeed in 2021 recommitted the United States to bringing Ukraine into NATO. Putin responded by invading Ukraine on February 24th of this year.
Second,
the Biden administration has reacted to the outbreak of war by doubling down against Russia. Washington and its Western allies are committed to decisively defeating Russia in Ukraine and employing comprehensive sanctions to greatly weaken Russian power. The United States is not seriously interested in finding a diplomatic solution to the war, which means the war is likely to drag on for months if not years. In the process, Ukraine, which has already suffered grievously, is going to experience even greater harm. In essence, the United States is helping lead Ukraine down the primrose path. Furthermore, there is a danger that the war will escalate, as NATO might get dragged into the fighting and nuclear weapons might be used. We are living in perilous times.
Let me now lay out my argument in greater detail, starting with a description of the conventional wisdom about the causes of the Ukraine conflict.
The real question is whether Biden — or whoever is pulling his strings — is deliberately taking a page from Lenin’s playbook or (is this more or less frightening?) whether it is simply the supreme incompetence of his entire administration.
I do not know the answer. But here’s a thought experiment. Ask yourself what Biden and his minders would have done differently had they actually intended to impoverish the American citizenry.
Biden and his minders (The Deep State) would have probably not done anything differently, just added more stuff in order to wreck the Market Economy and restrict Freedoms.
The thing is, is that this ‘Build Back Better’ thing will not work out the way that they have intended. There is now ongoing ‘Push Back’ and the mid term Elections will most likely not go the Dumb Dumb Dems way.
That should change things a bit, however, even if the the Republicans get more Gov’ment control, the US Public could not completely rely on them to undo the damage now being caused. Individual US States such as Florida are trying their best to ‘Push Back’ though.
It’s People Power that’s what is needed and this will likely lead to the break up of the USA with certain US States who are more Market Economy and Freedom thinking aligning themselves against the lunatic ‘Build Back Better’ US States.
People are voting with their feet and migrating from the lunatic left leaning US States to the more ‘Market Economy’/Freedom US States. All IMHO.
Boy that is a Big Crowd President Trump is speaking to in Illinois
Old Ozzie, this last bit has a ring of truth to it.
Along with the Swedes, the Germans are responsible for the genesis of the gerbil warming hysteria and of course let’s not mention how many wars those fuckers started.
Yes, it is becoming rather tiresome.
Why blame ol’ slack Joe?
The problem goes back to the Reagan years when the Supreme Court recognised Corporations as having the same Rights as Citizens.
Basically, they’ve increased the money supply by x 4, yet none of that money ended up on Main Street.
It ended up with The Banks, who lent it out to bid up asset prices to astronomical levels.
Same has happened in Australia.
You may have noticed?
BLAM!
The Pentagon has stated that any abortion laws enacted as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision will not be recognized.
LOL. The Pentagon is always breaking the law. Usually by invading other Countries without that Country’s permission.
The Pentagon is a federal institution and the feds don’t follow state law. It’s no biggie and it doesn’t change a thing in terms of the states getting control of the abortion issues.
A man can fail many times, but xe isn’t a failure until xe begins to blame somebody else
— apologies to John Burroughs
The pentagon coming out with that dance routine is just the sort of attention whoring you’d expect from this administration.
The Green Party in Germany is backing continuing War in Ukraine, so they can’t be too serious about cutting emissions.
They’ve also fired up Germany’s brown coal power houses, at the moment supplying 72% of Germany’s Electricity [Nuclear 15%] though RMIT and the ABC dispute those figures.
Damn straight. People’s egos are writing cheques their bodies can’t cash.
Dutch power grid can’t handle influx of electric car charging points
By 2025, there will be some 3,000 neighborhoods in the Netherlands where no new electric car charging points can be installed, knowledge center ElaadNL said to BNR. The growing demand for electric vehicles and accompanying charging stations is quickly overloading the power grid, grid operators confirmed to the broadcaster.
According to Rutger Croon of ElaanNL, the power grid in some 3,000 neighborhoods won’t have room for more charging stations within the next three years. Unless smart charging – when vehicles connect digitally to the grid and only charge when less power is used, like at night – is the only option.
Grid operator Stedin also told BNR that the government must invest heavily in the rollout of smart charging “otherwise the grid will be too crowded.” The other option is to upgrade the power grid. “But that costs a lot of money and is a social choice. So we’d rather not do that.”
According to ElaadNL, there will be almost 5 million charging points in the Netherlands by 2050.
Does it mean they would set up abortion clinics on Defence bases in “recalcitrant” states?
And possibly set up sham enlistments to give civilians access?
I really can’t see what they are getting at except for the normal DC swampy virtue signalling.
How similar are the trajectories of Godless societies that are by definition going insane?
Note the historical prevalence of eunuchs in these societies, particularly those mentioned in The Old Testament.
What do you call a male that has had their sex organs wholly or partially removed? (Forget about the supposed reason for a minute.).
🙂
Anikin, that was satire, right?
🙂
Right?
Energy Minister Chris Bowen says the key to addressing long-term challenges in the electricity sector is to pump more renewables into the system.
Battery operated Chris Bowen needs some reliable energy pumped into him. Around 30,000 volts and as many amps as possible. There. That should fix it and hopefully save the Grid.
Mearsheimer is very good but I think he’s wrong here.
At some point the US will abandon Ukraine.
“America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.”
– Bernard Lewis
At least one good metal song came out of ‘rona.
Bring back the plague by cattle decapitation.
Dutch power grid can’t handle influx of electric car charging points
When you substitute engineering for virtueering.
Hate half of the message though.
John Burroughs
Err, I fear you will become a black sheep such as myself.
She checked out solar and deep cycle batteries. The later was cheaper by far.
Yep, makes sensible economic sense as long as you’re not running heavy equipment, in that case you just buy a big genset and you’ll still be ahead.
Any engineers want to comment on the cost of a full blown off grid/renewable/possible feed back into grid system like I described before?
BWAHAHAHAHABWHA,
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/man-says-he-had-sex-organs-removed-on-nhs-then-regretted-it-the-same-day/324446
Hey eunuch, how are they hanging?
From the link upthread dealing with its ‘I wanted my cock removed but then I didn’t’ dunderhead:
A man, you say?
The. Man. Who. Says. He. Is. Gay. Uh huh.
No, the correct term is either ‘self-castrated’ or ‘enthusiastically and willingly castrated’.
The term ‘false vagina’ should be added to the lexicon in every country on Earth – as in, ‘that Irish roofer and driveway repairer is as dodgy as a false vagina’.
Fuck off you ‘found yourself’ on the table. Was it an accident? You walked into your lounge room one day and ‘found yourself on the operating table’?
“Immediately on waking up from surgery, I knew I had made the biggest mistake of my life.”
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The best bit:
Someone should have told Mr. Twitchy No-Dick that for most blokes, a cock is quite the accessory.
Search wars continue.
Brave Search Passes 2.5 Billion Queries in First Year (25 Jun)
I use it, and it’s improving, although not yet at the level of DDG*. For example the “news” tab was hopeless a few months ago but is now starting to deliver more useful results. Don Surber recommends Dogpile.com, but it seems to use cookies and requires a Captcha each time I try to use it (I get Brave browser to delete cookies on exit.)
* Interestingly Goolag has gotten so bad and so censorious it is now worse than DDG for delivering even pretty innocuous searches.
how are they hanging?
On the coat hook behind the operating theatre door.
What I’d like to know is, were the decision makers warned about this but decided to go ahead anyway?
Boy pussy.
Snot pocket.
Busted cunty boi clit.
Post op brick house poonbro.
I would expect 100k – 150k in costs. The safety, reliability and redundancy of the system would have to be world class and could possibly cost another $100k.
Dot, I reckon the key is to having less systems. Each system adds complexity and reliability issues.
Start with a steam boiler. This could probably easily made to run on 3 plus fuels. Wood, gas, oil, anything else that will burn.
I reckon from there the best option is a small scale steam turbine. No uppy downy bits means that it might run for 60,000 hours no overhaul. This does introduce the possibility of running on compressed air but my understanding is that the efficiency isn’t good.
If you want to run on compressed air efficiently then you need a reciprocating engine with a compression stroke (heats the charge to then cause expansion in the incoming cold charge). Not sure if there is an equivalent for turbines, but maybe a pre-heat chamber might work.
From there, you use the turbine to run an AC generator into an inverter that either rectifies to DC to charge batteries or supplies your grid in AC. Managing this is complex but there are probably now off the self inverters that would do it.
The big issue with inverters is that they generally look for an incoming grid supply, plus you need a load bank. Now a compressor(s) filling a big air receiver might be a good load bank.
And unlike a bad haircut, you can’t console yurself with the thought that it’ll soon grow back.
Congratulations, you have become a human object lesson.
triple it
then add a live-in maintenance guy
What about his uterus, did the surgeon take that out two. Does the freak get it put back on now? Wonder if plays on the motorway at night. No more golden rivet for him. It is better to receive than give.
too
Guessing this isn’t dominating Oz sporting headlines this morning .. LOL!
The Matildas were left reeling early Sunday morning, after suffering a jaw-dropping seven-nil loss in their game against Spain.
we can turn his scrotum into a nice little coin purse…
Lavrov is quoted as saying a couple of days ago that Europe is building a war coalition. Are euroweenies all insane?
S M O O T H I E S
Potential selling point if they ever let him back in to the bathhouse.
These idiots have form wrt insane war mongering.
If people avoid state controls either by arguing that federal employees are not bound by state laws, by private employers financing out-of-state trips to procure an abortion that would contradict state laws, then this purported middle way will collapse.
Immune evasive Omicron sub-variant set to become dominant strain in Australia.
Epidemiologists still calling for booster jabs.
In a Mexican or Turkish gaol.
Sharing a cell with someone called “Bubba”.
He will forevermore be known as a ‘renovator’s delight’.
Experts.
Top men. Top men …
Russian gas imports to Europe (all pipelines) falls to 136mcm/d.
Less than a third of what it was in Feb.
Part hot weather.
Part Russia squeezing the Germans.
Btw the Brave Search claim of being an “unbiased alternative” isn’t exactly correct.
If you try something like ‘climate change site:realclimatescience.com’ you will get zero hits. Which means Tony Heller’s blog is being hard blocked. But if you search ‘real climate science tony heller’ you will get his main page and his About page as the top two hits…followed by a swag of the usual climate propaganda and hit pieces from desmog and SkS.
By contrast if you search DDG and Bing with ‘real climate science tony heller’ his site doesn’t appear at all. Zilch, zip, except the propaganda rubbish.
On Goolag though it does what Brave Search does, those same top two hits then the rubbish. So it looks like Brave Search is using Goolag, but then is trying to get around all the Goolag censorship. Unfortunately both Bing and Goolag hard block any routine results** from Tony Heller’s blog, so keep it in mind that you aren’t ever going to see any general search results that Goolag and Bing both dislike.
The underlying problem is that big security platforms like Cloudflare refuse web crawlers from anyone other than Bing and Goolag. So no start-up search engine can ever directly categorize the web, they have to go through one or other of the big guys.
** If you Goolag search ‘climate change site:realclimatescience.com’ it does work, you get actual hits from his blog. So there’s a general search block of some sort, but not a specific block. Microtheft however completely hard blocks anything from Tony Heller on Bing.
The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
The war in Ukraine is a multi-dimensional disaster, which is likely to get much worse in the foreseeable future.
Conclusion
Simply put, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine is a colossal disaster, which as I noted at the start of my talk, will lead people all around the world to search for its causes. Those who believe in facts and logic will quickly discover that the United States and its allies are mainly responsible for this train wreck. The April 2008 decision to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO was destined to lead to conflict with Russia. The Bush administration was the principal architect of that fateful choice, but the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have doubled down on that policy at every turn and America’s allies have dutifully followed Washington’s lead. Even though Russian leaders made it perfectly clear that bringing Ukraine into NATO would be crossing “the brightest of red lines,” the United States refused to accommodate Russia’s deepest security concerns and instead moved relentlessly to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia’s border.
The tragic truth is that if the West had not pursued NATO expansion into Ukraine, it is unlikely there would be a war in Ukraine today and Crimea would still be part of Ukraine. In essence, Washington played the central role in leading Ukraine down the path to destruction. History will judge the United States and its allies harshly for their remarkably foolish policy on Ukraine. Thank you.
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities and The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
Circumcision circumcision!
Dyslexia is dangreous
James Woods is fun.
James Woods Rips Monica Lewinsky over Her ‘F**k’ SCOTUS Rant: ‘You’re Going to Need a Bigger Dress’ (24 Jun)
Lewinsky’s tweet is too rude for me to quote, so you’ll have to go to Wood’s feed, or read this Breitbart story.
I think it will mean what some of the large firms are saying they will do. If a marine, navy seal or green beret gets “theyself” pregnant the Pentagon will afford them the cost of travel to get a hoovering.
They could have hoovering clinics on base, but I doubt it.
These idiots have form wrt insane war mongering.
Hiram Maxim turned up to a European trade fair with a vast array of new electrical appliances. Which were received with indifference.
Maxim concluded that the only thing that really interested Europeans was new and more efficient ways of killing each other.
He obliged them with The Maxim Machine Gun. The European’s received it with excitement and ultimately used it to scythe through an entire generation.
She needs a bigger vocabulary.
the cost of a full blown off grid
triple it
then add a live-in maintenance guy.
I reckon the most feasible thing at the moment if you’re not able to do it all yourself is one of those bigger LPG powered gensets, a good sized lpg tank and a good sized solar inverter with battery bank.
Dover, be very clear headed about this. The SCOTUS offered zero opinion on abortion except to say that there’s nothing in the constitution that determines a right to an abortion. Therefore, the Feds and the states can organize themselves any way they want with respect to abortion. And yes, the Feds and big firms can offer hoovering holidays to whomever they want.
SCOTUS simply struck down a bad finding, but didn’t negate abortion. Let’s say Wade never happened. There is no way the blue states wouldn’t have hoovering clinics.
Also, the SCOTUS would also strike down any federal laws that tried to force the states to allow or even ban abortion. Hoovering is now a state issue.
Have to disagree with comments like this.
The NHS has no business enabling mentally ill people to self-mutilate at public expense.
Guy is obviously a flake of the first order, unstable. If he had asked them to cut off his leg (yes, this is a thing) would they have done that as well?
Hopefully some massive lawsuits in the next few years will deter surgeons and hospitals from acceding to requests for mutilation.
Thanks Rick and matrix.
It certainly is very interesting.
Anyway, on a more serious note, is Adam Sandler’s The Waterboy the source of the often used REEEEEEEEE! epitaph to an online triggering?
I get triggered easily. It is because of my huge medulla oblongata.
There is a stumpy prostitute in the awful Cradle of Filth* “movie”**.
*A British black metal band.
** Not even funny on grounds of being ironically bad.
I don’t think so. England, as in the south of the island is pretty level headed. The Dutch are pretty decent. There’s lots and lots of sanity pockets in a mostly insane continent.
It’s really funny when you think about it. Europe going insane twice in the last century caused so much grief to the world and these fuckers are lecturing the world on behavior. It’s hysterical.
Does anyone have any insight in this observation? Roaming around the web, looking for D’rat insanity, I’m finding that least attractive women (read really fucking pig ugly) are making the most noise about abortion. It’s like, they have zero awareness that there would be almost zero chance they would end up getting pregnant. 🙂 Is my observation off on this?
Depends on who is on the court. The 14th amendment argument is a good one.
Neither side thinks this is or could be the end of the issue. No one opposed to abortion is satisfied with a regime where it is available in any state, or where private employers or the federal government, or an NGO fund an out-of-state trip to so they can kill their child in utero. It can only end with the entire country one way or the other. Just like the issue of slavery. There is simply no half-way house.
Well actually there is. There is no risk of being punished if as sheila gets into her car and goes across state lines to get a hoovering. Unlike slavery, if you were caught you were deadsky or beaten up to an inch of your life.
You’re going to hear lots and lots of bawling now about road trips and other assorted hoovering travel.
Well well well, just going through some Blogs more localised to NQ affairs and caught this snippet. Wagners won the contract to build a boardwalk along the Ross Creek in Townsville, as usual the cost is inflated and the State Government is involved. These guys seem to have their fingers in every pie at the moment…
5m wide and 280m long. $6.2mil. Nearly$4,500 per square metre, nice little earner.
Hahahaha, if you think the current SCOTUS is going to be constrained by logic or precedent, you’re a fool.
I wonder if they got the contract for the Coathanger flagpole on Anna’s recommendation?
Fatboy, If you really believe that, then you would have been against SCOTUS downing those original findings that supported slavery or Jim Crow. Are you now coming out as an obese white supremacist? This court actually did show constraint by terminating the decision of an earlier court that was truly despicable in the way it overrode the constitution. It was a terrible decision that needed to be removed.
You don’t have to be pro-abortion to consider Wade was an abomination… like you.
Guess who penned this ABC op-ed? I’ll give you the first two sentences as a clue:
That’s right. sTan has had yet another of his undergraduate PPE essays published.
I will say this for sTan, however – at least he doesn’t bring Indigenous issues into everything he writes.
JC, that wasn’t the point re slavery, and, anyway, no slave owners were beaten to an inch of their lives or charged if travelling interstate. Completely stumped how people think the women travelling interstate is akin to a slave on the run. It’s the child in utero, deprived of the full protection of the law, that is analogous to the slave. The point, however, is that abortion is still a live issue post-Dobbs, just as slavery was post-Dredd Scott. And Dobbs didn’t directly address whether abortion is only a state issue so a federal legislative or SCOTUS ban is still possible.
He’s not wrong though.
A society’s stability is based on people feeling they have a stake in its perservation.
Absent that, the state must assert its power to survive and the consent of the governed is withdrawn.
Then all bets are off.
We’re going down a rabbit hole. It was the runaway slaves getting caught and either killed or beaten.
You brought up the issue of slavery. It’s nothing like slavery.
It can only end with the entire country one way or the other. Just like the issue of slavery. There is simply no half-way house.
The Founding Fathers envisaged the United States as a group of self-governing democracies which co-operated for certain specific matters – sort of like a combination of NATO and the pre-Maastricht European Community.
Slavery presented serious problems because of the high prevalence of runaway slaves reaching the north, whereupon they had to be either allowed to stay free, or forcibly returned to slavery. That’s why Dredd Scott didn’t solve anything. As a purely practical matter it would have been unworkable either way. Either free states would be forced to trash their own laws to return the slave, or there would have been a multi-generation problem, because according to the laws of the slave states children born to slaves were themselves slaves and therefore property which could be left by will, and so there would have been a situation where someone born, raised and permanently resident in Connecticut who visited South Carolina could be enslaved because their grandfather had run away – and then which state’s laws would prevail?
Abortion may well be morally an equivalent issue but it just doesn’t raise the same purely constitutional problems that slavery did.
The 14th Amendment argument is plausible but suffers one major problem. The citizenship clause hinges on a “person” being “born” in the USA. The pro-life argument thus requires a Court to interpret “person” elsewhere in the 14th Amendment in a way in which it simply couldn’t be applied to the citizenship test.
Yes Tim, and I read there are some decisions coming out later on this year with a more commercial bent, pushing the Fed/state relationship back towards its original intent. For the next couple of years the SCOTUS could end up being the only game in town as far as far-reaching actions go.
Rockdoctor – Not too horrendous, depending on the design and the geotech issues. The Red Bluff boardwalk is 380m over water on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. The budget for it was $2.7 million in 2010. Gives you a point of comparison anyway.
I tend not to ride it these days since the shared path there is very busy. It’s a nice boardwalk though and the view is excellent.
Two biggies that are still awaiting decisions.
The EPA one is huge I think.
I believe there was another impacting interstate commerce and the feds, but I could be wrong.
So, a portrait of an SASR trooper in full rig, or a sailor manning a gun, or a Ronnie RAAF on a strafing run should all be contenders?
Perhaps.
But here’s the winner.
The rationale?
No runaway slave was being beaten in free state. It was the decision in Dredd Scott that permitted that to continue in slave states. And Dobbs, although welcome in denying an federal right to kill the child in utero, still allows states to permit it. The only way to stop the proverbial slave from being beaten and killed is a federal ban on abortion.
Mental health covers a lot of things from removing a woman’s top on a Bali dance floor to removing someone’s head on a London street.
Apologies to anyone with genuine mental illness.
Anybody else remember the recruiting campaign “My Army lets me have all the time I want with my children?”
JC at 11:28.
Correct.
All the Supreme Court has done is state the obvious – that abortion is not an issue contemplated by the Constitution. They did not say that the Constitution forbids abortion.
Look at the obverse side of the coin. Let’s say an anti-abortion group decides to run a SCOTUS case to shut down a hoovering clinic in, say, LA which is legal under California law.
These same judges will presumably throw the case out on the basis that the Constitution is silent on the matter and the state of California has a right to make such laws.
Perversely, the three dissenters and Roberts would probably agree.
Keep your shirt on monty, they won’t over-turn Watergate.
I tend not to ride it these days since the shared path there is very busy. It’s a nice boardwalk though and the view is excellent.
On riding these days I find the bike tracks I use are going back to pre-BAT FLU usage .. can count other bikers on one hand most days and “mums wiv bubs” & walkers almost disappeared, no joggers (but never was many!) .. could be the cold weather but more likely folk getting back to normal .. exercise is effort, after all! .. except for face nappies still lotza those around Fairfield .. LOL!
incoherent ramblersays:
June 26, 2022 at 11:18 am
on waking up from surgery …
Circumcision circumcision!
Dyslexia is dangreous
One of my favourites like that is –
“Is that a full bottle in front of me or have I had a full frontal lobotomy?”
Read the SCATHING Boomer responses to ‘lazy and entitled’ young Aussies who complained ‘toxic’ old-style managers are making their working lives hell: ‘We have reared a generation of selfish wimps’
– Older generations erupt at Millennials calling then ‘weak and lazy’ at work
– Business guru Kathy McKenzie said Gen Z and Y hate ‘being told what to do’
– Australia is in midst of a major jobs crisis with businesses struggling to find staff
We Are Witnessing What Happens When Unrestrained Youth Gets Power
When most of us think of the worst emperors in Roman history we think of names like Commodus, Nero, Caligula, and Elagabalus. To a man they were vain, self-centered, bloodthirsty hedonists who took what they wanted and tortured and killed many thousands of Romans and provincials.
All emperors, including the great ones like Augustus, Trajan, and Aurelian had blood on their hands to one degree or another but most tried to maintain or grow the empire. Commodus et al didn’t. Their goal was to satiate their lusts, whether literal lust or gluttony or, sadly, bloodlust. While there were other bad emperors, these four are among the worst.
What makes this relevant today is the fact that all four of these “men” were spoiled, pampered, entitled sadists who were given free rein when they were still essentially children. Commodus was the oldest at 19, while Nero was 17, and both Elagabalus and Caligula were 16.
They were overindulged brats who never faced consequences for their behavior. They were given virtually anything they wanted or, just as often, allowed to take what they wanted with impunity. And at those ripe young ages, and with that upbringing, they were literally given the keys to the kingdom and unleashed on the Empire—and virtually everyone in it suffered as a result.
Every day in America we see modern-day Commoduses or Caligulas wreaking havoc on our streets and in our stores, restaurants, schools, and more. Instead of a single entitled Emperor, America in 2022 is being ravaged by a generation of young men—many of whom have grown up fatherless—who have been told that they can do and say anything they want and that, regardless of what they do, there will be no consequences for them.
Which could only happen by Federal legislation, which would probably struck down by SCOTUS under the very principles outlined in Dobbs.
That is, that this is a state matter.
It could become a Constitutional matter if the Constitution was amended, of course.
Good luck with that.
It’s one of those F Scott Fitzgerald things where two opposing truths can be true.
I’ve said here and at Sinc’s that I oppose abortion being criminalised. Other than that, I refuse to get involved in endless, pointless, circular arguments.
The only point I choose to make is that, according to some, millions of women who have had abortions are murderers.
What are you going to do, put them in jail?
Reminds me of the old joke. “Appeal upheld”, said the Saudi judge throwing the man his hands.
We will see how states legislate the issue and the response.
Craddock and George:
Not at all. There is no such ratio. The only thing close to this is Kavanugh’s concurrence which no one joined.
You’ll Have to Wear a Raincoat to Read These Spittle-Flecked Tweets From Lefties about the End of Roe
Wow. Just wow.
About the only thing missing from these exploding leftist heads’ tweets after the Dobbs decision was announced is some nutcase setting themself on fire.
I don’t want to give anyone any ideas, but really guys. Get a grip.
– And don’t forget the transgender women/men/nonbinary — oh, to hell with it.
Please don’t cut trans men and nonbinary people out of the conversation today. This is not just a women’s rights issue, anyone who can get pregnant is affected.
– It would exhaust me if I had to keep track of all the toes I couldn’t step on, all the people I would have to include or exclude, all the apologies I’d have to make in advance, all the apologies I’d have to make after realizing there was still a chance someone might be offended…
STOP THE SILLINESS AND JUST LIVE!
– Then there are the people who are incoherently nuts. This poor sot thinks the world is about to end.
– Jesus. And the left thought the Trump supporters who rioted at the Capitol were unhinged?
– Finally, something from my old (former) friend Jennifer Rubin. She wasn’t always a screaming harpy, parroting radical left talking points. She was actually a human being once.
– Joel Barry, Managing Editor of the Babylon Bee, had the tweet of the day.
I see everyone suddenly remembered what a woman is
A Texan woman going to a blue state for an abortion wouldn’t be either. Neither would she be terrorized leaving the state openly to obtain an abortion. What’s your point?
Yea and?
Guy is obviously a flake of the first order, unstable. If he had asked them to cut off his leg (yes, this is a thing) would they have done that as well?
Johanna. I don’t think society NOT laughing at this insanity has helped the situation at all.
Society told this individual what he was doing was ok. NHS told this individual what he was doing was ok.
Then when his bits landed in a kidney bowl reality suddenly hit him.
Ridicule is a powerful tool. I think we need to stop being nervous about using it. Being sympathetic to these peoples mental illness hasn’t helped them.
Yes, they are but since the law permitted it I would not retrospectively prosecute them. Also, charity requires me to conclude that a significant minority, given the prevailing culture, did not fully comprehend the enormity involved.
Another American Loony – Strange Analogy
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA): We’re Talking About Outlawing Abortion ‘on the Heels of a Baby Formula Shortage’
From the Comments
– Seriously… that’s where she goes with this? We should abort Babies due to a formula shortage. Guess we might as well have stopped crapping when there was a toilet paper shortage. Or stopped voting for liberals when there was an intelligence shortage, oh wait, that last one is a good idea.
– Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) looks like a discarded mannequin from a boutique in East St. Louis.
– The mannequin is much more honest and intelligent because it knows the Supreme Court DID NOT OUTLAW ABORTIONS. It transferred it to state control AYANNA PRESSLEY IS LYING.
– Appears the leftist Dumpofcraps think if abortion were legal, there wouldn’t be a formula shortage
Indolentsays:
June 26, 2022 at 9:01 am
Austria Scraps Coronavirus Vaccine Mandate Law
As I said on another thread the other day – What a shame that the heading doesn’t say –
Australia Scraps Coronavirus Mandates.
NASA hasn’t been covering itself in glory much lately.
NASA asteroid mission on hold due to late software delivery (25 Jun)
Maybe if they didn’t spend so much time on lefty politics and suchlike they’d have enough people to do some actual work.
NASA Juneteenth Event Celebrates Black Space Explorers Past And Future (22 Jun)
DICK’S Sporting Goods Offers $4k to Employees Who Choose Abortion
Silent on Giving $4K to Employees Who Choose to Have Their Babies
I accidentally reported Bruce of Newcastle’s comment at 9:38 am. Mea culpa, Bruce.
Climate Change In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, the court will decide how aggressively the E.P.A. may regulate carbon emissions from power plants.
This has been going on for nearly 20 years where the EPA’s capacity to determine social and economic parameters because of gerbil warming has seen a lot of court time. In 2011 SCOTUS qualified the EPA; see A.E.P. v. Connecticut. Ginsberg noted “Congress could hardly preemptively prohibit every discharge of carbon dioxide unless covered by a permit. After all, we each emit carbon dioxide merely by breathing.”
Fester
No kidding, you interpret and post stuff in the same exact what leftwingers do. It’s just so basic and binary… and annoying. Go feed those magpies or have they too rejected you?
Quadrant magazine.
Did they not talk about “returning this matter to the people and their elected representatives” or somesuch?
Whether this is ratio or obiter is only a matter to be considered when it comes to precedent. But it is a clear indication of where the SC thinks this belongs.
Let’s say they meant this to mean Federal Congress as well as state houses. What if a conservative congress passes a law prohibiting abortion and there are conflicting state laws? What happens then?
Of course, the Feds won’t pass such a law. The whole point of Roe was avoidance of political accountability. Federal congressmen will be loath to grasp that nettle again.
The Texan woman here is not the runaway slave, the child in utero is, and the latter will be beaten and killed in a blue state. That is the point.
And that is why this can only be a waypoint between either abortion being legal or banned across all states.
8kVA gas gen is about 6.0 litres/hr at full and about 3.5 at half load
1kg of LPG is about 0.5 cubic metres
a 210kg fatboy LPG Gas Bottle is about 750mm diam and 1500 high and contains about 400 cubic metres
I think LPG is just under a dollar per litre at the moment.
not sure but I think you either need a deposit on the bottles you rent them.
what’s that work out to? … 3 or 4 days per fatboy.
not bad I suppose
I see everyone suddenly remembered what a woman is
And a non-woman who has a ‘phantom pregnancy’ doesn’t need an abortion. The non-woman is maybe the abortion though.
Any talk of retrospective prosecution for those engaged in abortions which were legal prior to Dobbs is fraught – both legally and morally.
And be careful of unintended consequences when you go down that path.
Good on you.
Should happen more often.
Oh no it’s not. Please.
Not really. We don’t have that much experience of it, but living in a state is more recognizable to an individual than it is in Australia. For instance nearly all medical insurance policies are state based in the US and it’s burdensome going from one state to another for medical assistance. There is much less national uniformity than there is in Australia and much more acceptance of that too.
Yes as bug eyes (AOC) said, a woman is a birthing person.
Unless Dobbs specifically excludes it, it doesn’t, why foreclose that avenue? And why assume a future federal legislature would not venture a federal ban? Few people 5 years ago imagined Dobbs was possible.
I mean! .. who really wants to get out of bed in winter for a measly $217 + freebies a year .. LOL!
Mr Albanese has refused to bring back parliament until July 26 – more than eight weeks since the May 21 election.
One of the extraordinary excuses he gave was that he wanted his MPs – who are paid $217,060 by taxpayers – to enjoy the school holidays.
Should read $217K
Preamble to Week in Pictures.
A valuable lesson in the comsequences of personal hubris (RGB) and politically expedient corner cutting (Harry Reid):-
There’s a good side. They’re doing less damage being away.
No, of course, not, that is why I support the extension of the protection of the law to the child in utero. However, I also think retrospective prosecution is wrong, all the more so given the actual murderer is the doctor, and because these acts were aided and abetted by many, including, importantly, the state.
Looks like Chairman Dan’s regime isn’t going to end in violent overthrow but rather Ffffffffade away Who-style. Well done Victoriastan Lieborals we didn’t expect anything less from you.
One of the extraordinary excuses he gave was that he wanted his MPs – who are paid $217,060 by taxpayers – to enjoy the school holidays.
Send them all to Antarctica on a ‘fact finding’ mission.
shatterzzz
These days “mental issues” seem to be the catch-all media cover for lotza problems .. reading most stories involving CENTRELINK/welfare issues and 9 times out of 10 you get the “victim” is suffering some sort of “mental” issue ……
Workophobia?
Another mistaken argument claims that the unborn cannot be protected by the 14th Amendment because it begins by declaring that “persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.” But that provision establishes which persons are citizens, and therefore entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizenship; it does not say that only citizens are persons. Indeed, it clearly acknowledges persons who are not citizens. And the due process and equal protection provisions of the amendment expressly protect all persons — not just citizens.
Fine, but that’s not the point I was making.
It is clearly correct that “citizen” (within the meaning of the 14th amendment) is a subset of “person” (within the meaning of the 14th amendment), not a synonym for it. (Actually I’m not aware of anyone denying that – the thing you’ve quoted looks like a classic case of strawman.)
But that in itself doesn’t tell us what a “person” is, or isn’t, in the context of the 14th amendment.
Within a week or two of arriving at law school, a law student realises that statutory interpretation isn’t just a matter of using a dictionary properly, or imposing preconceptions onto legislative documents. The meaning of a word in a legislative document can be ascertained only by supplementing pure linguistic analysis of a word or phrase with logical analysis of how a proposed interpretation fits in with the rest of the relevant document and the legal regime of which it forms part.
If “person” (within the meaning of the 14th amendment) includes someone who hasn’t yet been born, then the straightforward meaning of the words of the 14th amendment require that a foetus in utero is a “person” but cannot be a “citizen”. If the Court is doing its job properly it will demand that the party asserting that a foetus in utero is a “person” (within the meaning of the 14th amendment) explain how that interpretation makes sense in relation to the rest of the Constitutional framework of the USA and its states.
That is, they’ll need to be persuaded that foetuses being non-citizen “persons” for 14th amendment purposes can actually work under the entire Constitutional framework, not just to give pro-lifers what they want, but in every other respect. (To take a rather flippant example, would a pregnant US citizen returning from an overseas trip need to get a visa for the foetus? Presumably not, but issues like that would have to be addressed if foetuses were 14th amendment “persons”.)
There may be satisfactory explanations. But foetuses not being recognised as 14th amendment “persons” has clearly worked just fine in a purely legal/administrative technical sense (yes, I know, except for the aborted foetuses…), and the Court will be reluctant to make an open ended change without being satisfied that that interpretation can be given effect without making it impracticable to give proper effect to other settled Constitutional principles.
What appears logical can be a subjective matter, and reasonable minds may disagree on this (as will morons). However, whether the current – or any – SCOTUS bench is constrained by precedent is not a question of opinion. SCOTUS is literally the only US court that is not constrained by precedent established by the prior decisions of other courts, including prior SCOTUS decisions.
Roe was bad law. It invented a right out of nothing. It was particularly vulnerable to being overruled at some future point, and this should surprise no one. A deeply and broadly polarising decision arrived at via the weakest of reasoning is inherently unsafe.
How is the child in utero not analogous to the runaway slave? Both are being denied the protection of the law. The Texas woman’s child is analogous to Dredd Scott, arguing that his or her conception in Texas affords them not only the protection of the law in Texas, but in all US states.
Come on, no one opposed to abortion believes this is just a medical procedure like hip surgery so this stuff about insurance has no legs.
As I said on another thread the other day – What a shame that the heading doesn’t say –
Australia Scraps Coronavirus Mandates.
At least it probably made Dickhead Dan do a double take.
From the same article:
I think LPG is just under a dollar per litre at the moment.
not sure but I think you either need a deposit on the bottles you rent them.
what’s that work out to? … 3 or 4 days per fatboy.
not bad I suppose
LPG powered engines have some issues of their own, but not the long term storage ones. I recently turned on some lpg powered equipment that hadn’t been used for 15 years, no problems. If you were doing that with diesel or mogas then your chances of that happening without pulling apart the fuels system and cleaning are close to zero.
Nonsense on stilts. The commerce clause is interpreted so broadly that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to construct federal legislation preventing states from banning abortion as a form of regulating interstate commerce.
There will be no such federal legislation because any bill proposing it will die in the Senate even if it gets through the HoR, and this won’t change any time soon.
dover0beach says:
June 26, 2022 at 1:40 pm
So, murder was OK because something or other
No, of course, not, that is why I support the extension of the protection of the law to the child in utero. However, I also think retrospective prosecution is wrong, all the more so given the actual murderer is the doctor, and because these acts were aided and abetted by many, including, importantly, the state.
Look, here’s the problem you have, have always had.
Either abortion is murder or it is not. Under all and any circumstances. That’s it. On and on they go.
Start rounding up the murderers,
Fanatics on both sides can continue to argue about ir,
Roe was bad law. It invented a right out of nothing. It was particularly vulnerable to being overruled at some future point, and this should surprise no one. A deeply and broadly polarising decision arrived at via the weakest of reasoning is inherently unsafe.
Even RBG agreed that the foundation of R v W was very weak.
Because a kid in utero is NOT a 6’8′ Mandingo trying to cross the border into the north on foot.
Surgical abortion is a medical procedure.
Just moved on AAP. Honestly, this is the age when despair is the only option open to the sane.
One of the world’s oldest living cultures is helping scientists understand galaxies and stars with the launch of the first of three NASA rockets from the Northern Territory.
The rocket is scheduled to launch from the Arnhem Space Centre on the Dhupuma Plateau, near Nhulunbuy, about 10.44pm on Sunday.
It will carry an X-ray Quantum Calorimeter, allowing University of Michigan scientists to measure interstallar X-rays with precision to provide new data on the structure and evolution of the cosmos.
About 75 NASA personnel are in Arnhem Land for the launch, which is the agency’s first in Australia in 27 years and first-ever from a commercial spaceport outside the US.
The Yolngu helped build Arnhem Space Centre, which is owned by Equatorial Launch Australia, on their land.
They’re also taking part in the upcoming launch, including retrieving rocket modules when they return to Earth.
And thus does it continue through further paragraphs of patronising, condescending piffle.
I’ve never heard of a mattress stuffed with horse hair. Really?
Areff
Don’t be so arrogant. The current launch pad is on the exact same site Yolngu dudes sent their space ships into deep space hundreds of years ago .. that is up until the white man came and destroyed it.
dover0beachsays:
June 26, 2022 at 1:56 pm
One hates to have to repeat oneself, but…
Within a week or two of arriving at law school, a law student realises that statutory interpretation isn’t just a matter of using a dictionary properly, or imposing preconceptions onto legislative documents. The meaning of a word in a legislative document can be ascertained only by supplementing pure linguistic analysis of a word or phrase with logical analysis of how a proposed interpretation fits in with the rest of the relevant document and the legal regime of which it forms part.
Whether or not a foetus in utero was regarded as a “person” in other statutes is not irrelevant (because the history of an amendment can shed light on its interpretation), but it’s secondary to whether such an interpretation can work in harmony with the rest of the legislative document in which it appears. And that’s not determined by referring to the use of the word in other contexts, no matter how venerable.
Thanks, JC. I forgot all about the Cape Kadicha Man launch complex.
Dover Beach:
And if we thought the Generals would be on the side of Democracy, we need to think again.
Sounds like someone getting cold feet about the situation he has got himself into. Probably means we are screwed.
Err, OCO, the argument was about the Feds introducing laws banning abortion nationwide, not Federal laws frustrating cross border abortion.
Rabz – I was joking!
Surely the fart part was a giveaway?
I guessed your entry here would involve a poor effort at trickery but what you claim doesn’t follow. No one believes that a change in a law that doesn’t also retrospectively involve the prosecution of past acts that infringe the new law undermines the proponent of the new law. The chutzpah of that ‘argument’ would make even a Jesuit blush.
JC
I’ve never heard of a mattress stuffed with horse hair. Really?
IIRC, fairly common before the 1950s/1960s.
They’re both human beings in the relevant sense being denied the protection of the law.
Is it? What disease does it remedy?
Just been browsing on the internet. Here’s one for Johanna. She may know about him, but I didn’t before reading it:
Simon Stevin (wiki)
The Dutch Republic started in 1588 as a successful rebellion led by Prince Maurice, who was advised and tutored by Stevin, and became a great trading nation, as well as being very good at pumping water around. All three things, it seems, due very much to this guy.
How did that work out in Bostock?
Dover
Is it? What disease does it remedy?
Failure of intellectual ability to identify and use basic contraception methods?
Err, OCO, the argument was about the Feds introducing laws banning abortion nationwide, not Federal laws frustrating cross border abortion.
Actually OCO has a point under current US authorities.
A bloke who grew wheat on his own farm and made his own bread was held to be subject to the commerce power, even though he hadn’t bought or sold anything or even offered to do so (Wickard v. Filburn (1942)). Things have fluctuated a bit since then but the Court might have to bring the interpretation of the commerce clause back to within a trillion light years of reality to strike down a federal law about abortion.
dover0beachsays:
June 26, 2022 at 3:18 pm
One hates to have to repeat oneself,
How did that work out in Bostock?
Huh?
If you’re referring to the Bostock Title VII decision, that’s either:
(a) a proper application of interpretation principles, in which case any complaint should be about the legislation; or
(b) not, in which case the fault is with the failure to apply the interpretation principles properly, which doesn’t invalidate the principles.
Areff – I’m sure you will read about aboriginal supercomputers in Bruce Pascoes’ next book.
Claim: Australia’s Supercomputer Gadi will Solve the Climate Crisis (WUWT, 24 Jun)
From the original Canberra Times report, which is linked in the story:
So there you go, the Ngunnawal were computational climate scientists long before the rest of us started talking about the weather. Or something.
Failure of intellectual ability to identify and use basic contraception methods?
What are your basic contraception methods , SpongeBob?
The Pill has been a proven disaster for women’s long term health,
Frenchies are a stupid idea, Controids contain Mercury, ever heard of the Dalkon Shield and the Copper 7 [?], the Rhythm Method doesn’t work, the Bates Method is rubbish, DepoProvera is a fucked idea, etc.
Over to you, Dr. SpongeBob MD.
Failure of intellectual ability …
Some clown hanging round to troll comments talks about a
Failure of intellectual ability
Lol
I’m reading a history of the Royal Australian Air Force. There’s a two page spread on World War 11’s “First Nation” flyers, which repeats the old myths about “Indigenous Australians were not even counted in the national census” and “were not recognized as citizens of their own country.” WFM.
More very, er, factual reportage of the Ukraine War.
H/t Reminiscence of the Future
There’s a two page spread on World War 11’s “First Nation” flyers …
Give the readers a rundown on Len Waters then Zulu.
Many may not know his story?
From the Oz on Roe v Wade.
About halfway down the article there is a photo of a placard from a protest in Portland (where else?):-
Apart from the epic lack of a sense of irony, it typifies the left. Once a gain is made we ratchet ever upward. Once gained, any leftist article of faith can ever be rescinded.
I honestly had to re-check the caption to see whether the placard was pro or anti abortion.
Any?
Should be “no”.
The way I hear it is that abortion is another way of practising ‘care’. The practice of destroying life is then not a cause of regret or grief or contrition but just another one of the many fashionably puritanical virtues.
What to do if the Police turn up to sieze your firearms – from the National Shooting Council.
Who are their parents?
Was it seriously suggested that removing a Federal case law ruling on abortion is the same as…slavery?
Careful now. What if the six declare that a fetus gets equal protection per Amendment XIV?
This is evident also in the churches with various liberal causes.
I have a friend who has an autoimmune condition that this effectively treats.
The pill has horrendous side effects for her.
Over to you Dr Gargoolery, PhD (Taxidermy).
Florida is 15 weeks.
How many EU countries have 15 weeks as their cut off?
Actually, the argument was about whether such a federal law would be held to be constitutional. It seems you are only reading the text of the clause and have not considered the jurisprudence that has established the extremely broad scope of its application in federal legislation that goes far beyond the regulation of interstate commerce.
The question is whether the ability to ban abortion is a power reserved by the states, or does Congress have an enumerated power to regulate abortion at the federal level. I’m saying the commerce clause could easily be cited as that enumerated power and this would likely be upheld by the courts.
Write to the RAAF about it, Zulu.
Jeez that’s bullshit though.
Originalism please.
What about (c) the principles of interpretation themselves are inadequate? This is evidenced by the varieties of originalism.
I might do just that.
Len Waters, Zulu.
What about his story?
The Pill has been a proven disaster for women’s long term health,
Frenchies are a stupid idea, Controids contain Mercury, ever heard of the Dalkon Shield and the Copper 7 [?], the Rhythm Method doesn’t work, the Bates Method is rubbish, DepoProvera is a fucked idea, etc.
Over to you, Dr. SpongeBob MD.
Thank you for that negativity, Perfesser Dickless. Can we take your comment as a ringing endorsement of unlimited access to abortion at all stages of pregnancy?
Sounds like judicial activism.
Please. No backsliding.
Here y’ar Zulu, looks like it would kill you to give an abo any credit.
Yeah, it’s Wikipedia and the Black Armband version, but until someone writes the story without the spin, that’s all we got.
What’s worse?
The US lying to itself.
The US filleting its own institutions.
Or the US always looking for the easy way out when it comes to the legislations process.
Again, Bostock.
Can we take your comment as a ringing endorsement of unlimited access to abortion at all stages of pregnancy?
No, you can take it that I’ve demolished your argument, SpongeBob.
For all anyone here knows, you support abortions up to and after birth.
I’m watching moving called Blood Ties.
Marion Cotillard is just mesmerising in every scene she’s in.
We are still having trouble with Optus and our outgoing emails. It is doing my head in. Worse than damn Covid….
We access NBN via satellite – Activ8, and our internet server is Optusnet. Suddenly all outgoing emails are being sent to “Spam” on Webmail. Local computer guru can’t correct it & reckons the problem is between Optus & Activ8. Both of the latter deny this – of course – and say there is no blocks at any port.
It’s starting to look like we may have to consider connecting to Starlink for NBN. I guess that means keeping Optus for mobile connection. I heard somewhere that Optus mobile users are still having trouble when connecting to Starlink for internet. Has anyone had any experience with the two together?
BTW the computer “guru” was next to useless, and persuaded us, in our lousy headspace, to upgrade running systems of our IMAC, MacAir & iPad. The IMAC is slower than it was before!!!
Or the US always looking for the easy way out when it comes to the legislations process.
Who cares?
The United States is a failed State.
The best we can hope for is that Albanese doesn’t commit Troops to Ukraine while he’s sucking Macron’s cock.
They’re already in gaol
Someone in my family is fully off grid, in a very large country home (40 50 squares plus garage shed etc ) with air con and some under floor heating and a couple of wood fires for winter.
I don’t think it cost anything like 100k when set up about five years ago. .
Solar panels with some battery storage.
It is bullshit. Thank FDR for that.
Hell, the commerce clause was used to justify the federal prosecution of someone growing their own weed for medicinal purposes under the Controlled Substances Act, even though this was legal in their state, even though no commerce had occurred, even though the weed didn’t leave the state. If an activity has even a faint commercial component to it that could arguably have an effect on interstate commerce (this effect can be very faint and very indirect), the Feds are likely to be able to stick their beaks in, should they choose to.
I have seen little discussion over whether it would be constitutional for the Feds to prevent states from restricting access to abortion. I suspect it would be found to be constitutional. There is no way such legislation would make it through Congress.