I know, it seems like a fairly random thought, but it came into my head when I recently favored George Harrison’s “When We Was Fab” as my video of the day. When I was very young, I had a big AM radio on my nightstand; every night my dad would turn it on for me to fall asleep to, then he’d come in later to turn it off. So I can remember when “Let It Be” was in heavy rotation, and the DJs were talking about The Beatles breaking up. But even though I was just a wee lass at the time, they were still a major cultural force through my formative years. All four of them (but especially Paul and Ringo) had a string of hits throughout the early ’70s, and when Yellow Submarine was first shown on TV (IMDb says it was just two days before my birthday: October 29, 1972) I was absolutely fascinated. My dad had just bought a new recliner, and I cut a door and windows in the big cardboard box it came in, and decorated the outside with my renditions of scenes from the movie; I kept that silly box in the garage for several years, until my youngest sister left it out in the rain. A few years later I discovered the bargain record section at TG&Y, and it was there I found and bought the “Blue Album” and “Red Album” and played the hell out of them. I can remember lying on the floor listening to the Blue one with Mae just a few months after John was murdered, an event I heard about on WRNO on the way to school; by general consensus, the radio was always on that station, New Orleans’ premier Classic Rock source, which had an annual “Beatles/Stones week” in which the first song at the top of every hour was from one of those two bands. All through the ’80s they regularly appeared on MTV; that included John, via a couple of videos from Double Fantasy (1980). And of course George was in the Traveling Wilburys and had a sideline producing movies such as Time Bandits (1981). It was probably the early ’90s before I really started thinking of them only in the past tense, and then we lost George to cancer about two years after I started my escort service. Anyhow, I don’t really have a point to make here; I guess I was just feeling a wave of nostalgia, and wanted to share it with y’all.
Archive for October, 2024
I Miss the Beatles
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Music, tagged imaginative fiction, nostalgia, video on October 11, 2024| 2 Comments »
Victor Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Amazingly Stupid Statements, blogging, Dark Corners, dirty, hysteria, nanny state, neofeminism, prohibitionist myths, psychology, racism, Standard Operating Procedure, With Folded Hands, yellow journalism on October 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »
If everyone grew up to be what he or she wanted to be in childhood we would have a workforce made up almost entirely of firemen, ballerinas, astronauts, teachers, cowboys and nurses. – “Amazingly Stupid Statements”
Each person has to decide whether he will go forth into the world as an active adult or just sit in the nursery with folded hands.
– “With Folded Hands”
Though every normal person has sexual feelings and every last one of us is the product of heterosexual intercourse, the American media (and to a lesser extent the British) seem to function under the premise that people having sex is something unusual and worthy of note.
– “Standard Operating Procedure”
The claims made in moral panics are usually so extreme and outrageous that in retrospect they seem wholly absurd. – “Dark Corners”
In the News (#1479)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged abortion, censorship, Colorado, cops, Dangerous Speech, drugs, internet, lawheads, Louisiana, Panopticon, Permanent Record, politicians, porn, prisons, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, Russia, scams, Shame Shame, Stop faking!, surveillance, teachers, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, Wisconsin on October 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »
[The government’s arguments are] the most bizarre I have heard in 40-plus years of being a lawyer. – Bruce Feder
Thinking with the wrong head creates its own problems without politicians’ help:
Multiple sites which promise to use [computer algorithms] to ‘nudify’ any photos uploaded are actually designed to infect users with powerful credential stealing malware…cybersecurity…researchers…believe the sites are run by Fin7, a notorious Russian cybercrime group…services for producing [computer]-generated n[udes]…are becoming enticing enough [to cheapskates and slimeballs] that hackers feel it is worth the time and effort to build fake versions they can then use to hack people…404 Media also found that one of the Fin7-run sites was included one of the web’s biggest porn site aggregators, potentially putting…any[one foolish enough to use]…the site at risk…
All cops will have these within a few years:
A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release [to the] public…due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them. The…customized glasses also pull other information about their subject from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members. The…pair are not releasing their code…but the experiment, tested in some cases on unsuspecting people in the real world…still shows the razor thin line between a world in which people can move around with relative anonymity, to one where your identity and personal information can be pulled up in an instant by [armed] strangers [with the power to destroy lives]…
Tenure is another individual protection the Establishment is working to eliminate:
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously voted to revoke the tenure of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s former Chancellor Joe Gow [because]…he…and…[his wife made] porn…Gow will lose his faculty salary of $91,915 and over $310,000 in unused sick leave…Gow told reporters…he plans to file a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds…[because]…the…decision goes against [explicit] promises to uphold free speech…
Politicians really do believe “election” grants them license to practice medicine:
Two common abortion pills are…[now] classified as “controlled substances” in Louisiana, due to a first-of-its-kind law that medical professionals warn will endanger the lives of women by restricting medication used to treat postpartum hemorrhage and other conditions. Louisiana, which already bans abortion, passed a law reclassifying mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV drugs – a designation typically reserved for drugs that carry a risk of…dependence. People caught with the drugs without a valid prescription could face up to five years in prison, although pregnant women who procure it for their own use are exempted from punishment under the law…
Privacy as we once knew it will soon be a thing of the past:
…[computerized] cameras mounted on cars and trucks…initially designed to capture license plates…are now photographing political lawn signs outside private homes, individuals wearing T-shirts with text, and vehicles displaying pro-abortion bumper stickers—all while recording the precise locations of these observations…a tool originally intended for traffic enforcement has evolved into a system capable of monitoring speech…the systems of DRN Data…owned by Motorola…can be used by private investigators, repossession agents, and insurance companies; a related Motorola business, called Vigilant, gives cops access to the same LPR data…those with access…can search for common phrases or names, such as those of politicians, and be served with photographs where the search term is present, even if it is not displayed on license plates…
The government is working to ensure these men die in their filthy cages:
…attorneys for former Village Voice Media executive vice president Scott Spear, one of the #Backpage3 defendants, filed an emergency motion with federal Judge Diane Humetewa…[because] Spear, who turns 74 in November, is being denied [his prescribed] medications by his jailers, and as a result is suffering a mental health crisis…Spear…[is] refusing legal visits from his attorneys and sounding confused, paranoid and out of touch with reality during phone conversations with friends and family…in…an [emergency] hearing…[prison operator] CoreCivic…admitted…den[ying] Spear his medications…argu[ing] that [yelling “Stop faking!” at] Spear [was good enough] and…[belching out the magic rights-denying word “]security[“]…CoreCivic’s [own records]…describe…delusional episodes on Spear’s part, including one in which Spear believed that his fellow prisoners were actors…
Some rapist cops are indiscriminate in their choice of victim:
A [Colorado cop] was arrested…on suspicion of incest…The [crime was discovered] after…Daniel Huff…[also] sexually assaulted an adult [woman]…Huff [has been rewarded with a paid vacation, as is typical for rapist cops]…
Apparently, Huff soon chose to kill himself rather than suffer the consequences of his crimes.
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Diary #745
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on October 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Since pigs have such short legs, a regular stock tank is much too tall for them; this giant bowl is just right. It’s like a really large version of the soft plastic bowl Cicero gets his dinner in, and for ten months out of the year it sits right where it is in this picture, where the rain can keep it constantly full. But since we get almost no rain in July and August, I start keeping an eye on it at the beginning of summer, and once it’s nearly empty I need to drag it about 7 or 8 meters south so it can be in range of the hose. Usually, filling it two or three times a week does the trick, but it stays so much cleaner and closer to full when it’s under the downspout like this, that as soon as the rain starts coming more frequently in September, I drag it back here where thirsty piggies know exactly where to find it.
Garden of the Muses
Posted in Biography, Current Events, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged censorship, ethics, libraries, politicians, Texas, Thought Control on October 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden. – Ezra Pound
“One of the most important things facing libraries today is protecting children from sexually explicit material.” -Alabama Republican Party Chairman and newly elected Library Board Chair and person who votes with a home made ID John Wahl pic.twitter.com/skhLdb5jZI
— Cathy Reisenwitz (@CathyReisenwitz) September 20, 2024
“This is not actually an important concern for libraries, despite braying to the contrary by wannabe censors.” – Maggie McNeill, actual librarian with a degree and all. It is not the job of libraries to enforce parental censorship choices; that is the job of parents. Libraries exist to provide information, including information the State and, yes, even parents, might not want legal minors to have. Blaming social trends on the mere existence of certain books is the act of a totalitarian; it is the desire to make certain ideas go away. But using state violence to suppress discussion of ideas the State or some parents find troubling will not make them go away; it merely cripples the ability of those affected by the censorship to weigh and consider different viewpoints. And more often than not, suppressed topics gain a typically-unwarranted luster merely by virtue of having been suppressed: “The book THEY didn’t want you to read!” is powerful marketing, even for trash. The only way to “protect” the young from what parents consider “bad” or “wrong” ideas is to openly discuss those ideas within the belief-framework the parents wish to instill; censorship is lazy parenting by people who want to raise programmable robots instead of thinking adults.
Censors are delusional bigots with warped morality, but they aren’t always stupid; since most thinking people still recognize censorship as an evil, the censors attempt to justify it by various excuses, one of which is trying to pass off the removal of books they dislike as weeding. For those unfamiliar with the term as it applies to libraries, “weeding” is the process of making room for new books by removing outdated, obsolete, unused or decrepit ones already in the collection. It can be neither a haphazard process nor a biased one; the kind of people who want to get rid of ideas they dislike cannot be allowed to weed any library but their own personal ones. But how do we weed out dishonest weeders? As it turns out, I did my MLIS thesis project on exactly this subject. The predominant method of weeding for decades has been the CREW method, ironically developed by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in the mid-1970s; unfortunately, the method is heavily reliant on the professional judgment of librarians, making it easy for unethical actors to disguise censorship as weeding. For my project, I created a microcosm of the public library I worked in by borrowing the first book on every shelf in the library, then I weeded that collection by CREW and two other methods. What I discovered was that for every section but the Dewey 800s (literature), the results of the professional-labor-intensive CREW method were statistically indistinguishable from simply weeding any book that had not been checked out for three years. Note that our library did not include popular fiction in the 800s, but in a separate alphabetical-by-author section, and the quick method worked just fine for that section. In my analysis, I pointed out that this allowed library assistants to do most of the weeding (subject to review by professionals of course), and eliminated the possibility of biased librarians “weeding” materials they simply did not like in favor of a vox populi, vox dei approach which seems philosophically appropriate for a public institution. Obviously, my findings would not apply to academic libraries, law or medical libraries, etc; however, those are not generally in danger of being vandalized by self-appointed guardians of morality. It should also be obvious that my findings would be of no help in any of the jurisdictions where politicians have decided that their prejudices trump the judgment of actual library professionals. It might, however, provide some leverage for those wishing to challenge the decisions of a single biased librarian in an otherwise-well-run institution.
Links #744
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, artificial stupidity, California, China, cops, Never Call the Cops, New York, Pakistan, video on October 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »
[Computers have the] capability of producing mass amounts of nonsense rapidly. – MycoMutant
There was really only one choice of video to honor Kris Kristofferson’s passing. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, C.J. Ciaramella (x2), Jesse Walker again (x2), T. Greg Doucette, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson.
- Cop is a cop is a cop is a cop.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Mummy cheese from the Leng Plateau.
- The blue light goes off for the last time.
- “Nothing short of a disorganized circus“.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
From the Archives
- My 1st profession has become as much an authoritarian target as my 2nd.
- This appears to be all that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
- Cops won’t drop this fantasy until local media stop obediently parroting it.
- Amazon also eagerly hands data from internet-connected devices to cops.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- 9 years after a previous government abandoned the same idiotic scheme.
- “Child porn” is here used as pretext for mass surveillance on a vast scale.
- Anyone whose brain isn’t rotted by prohibitionism could’ve predicted this.
- Censors are now pretending thoughts they don’t like constitute a “crime”.
- There is nothing “shocking” about a cop abusing a minor or anyone else.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- Frisco pigs are no longer satisfied with waiting for useful idiots’ consent.
- “Banned Books Week” used to be little more than an academic exercise.
- “Politician has kept woman” doesn’t become interesting if he’s Russian.
- Idaho paper approves of sheriff appointing himself chief library censor.
- Making a hobby of accusing strangers of felonies might be dangerous.
- Sows are just as disgusting and predatory as their male counterparts.
- “Police explorer” programs are grooming schemes for predatory cops.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Why are men with so much to lose so goddamned stupid about sex?
- October is more than just my native month; it is my native country.
- “Having sexual relations” is such a neutered way to say “molesting”.
- Politicians use the same airy-fairy censorship excuses everywhere.
- Cops will use any excuse politicians give them to commit violence.
- The number of politicians who support such reform is very small.
- Maybe it’s a bad idea to teach kids to blindly submit to authority.
- It’s always a pleasure to watch experts trash harmful sex myths.
- Another sexual predator specifically targets traumatized women.
- Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops.
- Cops, flying, Michael Gambon, Alice Cooper, and much more.
- Murder by cop is one of the top causes of death in US males.
- At least one ACLU chapter is finally stepping up to the plate.
- Most Americans still believe France is a sex-positive society.
- The 100% predictable result of a deeply-stupid court ruling.
- Even the distancing “former” is the same as for rapist cops.
- What fraction of unsolved murders are committed by cops?
- Literally making mincemeat out of small green tomatoes.
- A very good essay on how anti-sex “feminism” is bigotry.
- Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- Surely you didn’t think this would stop with LGBT books?
- A “majority” can be just as authoritarian as a dictator.
- Transforming an open space into a functional shower.
- Expect use of this term to continue expanding wildly.
- PayPal is becoming an active threat to civil liberties.
- Spokane allowed this animal to run wild for years.
- The stupider the belief, the harder it is to debunk.
- This same nonsense pops up every 2 to 3 years.
- Not even a rapist cop’s own daughters are safe.
- They’ll use any excuse to protect their own.
- Cops, Coolio, Judy Tenuta, and much more.
- Cops, Tommy Kirk, Elvis, and much more.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- The third bathhouse rafter is in place.
- When Cicero moved outside full-time.
- The last part of building the stable.
- The first fire in my atrium stove.
- The Evil of Throwback Thursday.
- I have no explanation for this.
- Rapist screw of the week.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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In the News (#1478)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged A Moral Cancer, abortion, advertising, asset seizure, blogging, Business As Usual, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, domestic violence, drugs, Gateway, Georgia, I Spy, Idaho, marriage, Mississippi, Policing for Profit, politicians, propaganda, Property of the State, rape, surveillance, The Cop Myth, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape on October 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. – Judge Robert McBurney
This will never stop until it is treated as what it is: armed robbery:
The predatory, for-profit policing of the Lexington [Mississippi cop shop] has repeatedly violated the civil rights of residents, making arrests equal to roughly a fourth of the entire town’s population and burdening them with fines and debts of over $1.7 million…around $1,400 for every man, woman and child in the town…[a DoJ] report details a litany of brutal, extractive practices primarily aimed at the Black residents of Lexington: countless arrests over extreme minutiae, including…“jailing people for conduct that is not criminal, like using profanity and owing money to the police.” Since 2021, Lexington police have engaged in an aggressive campaign of punishment, often violent, against the residents of the town…the Lexington Police…Department’s funding ballooned from…$662,925 to $965,130 in 2023, all a consequence of the plunder…[civil rights lawyer] Jill Collen Jefferson…said the residents of Lexington have lived under what amounts to a state of occupation…Police Chief…Charles Henderson…[h]as a[lso tried to coerce] roughly a dozen women [into] sex, jailing or ticketing those who refused…[and] multiple [Lexington cops]…routinely [follow his example]…
Politicians want to pay for “self-care” for cops traumatized by raping dirty whores:
Both houses of Congress have approved the IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act…and it’s now awaiting President Joe Biden’s signature. The bill would provide “self-care” services to Homeland Security Investigations…staff [“]exposed[” to women they infantilize as “]victims of human trafficking[” they choose]…to subject…to…traumatizing experiences…[most] of the “human trafficking” work the agency does just involves plain old prostitution stings…particularly when the[y] target Asian massage businesses. At best, these stings tend to be dubious uses of resources and authority…At worst, they put people vulnerable to violence and sexual exploitation in more precarious positions—by [brutaliz]ing…sex workers and saddling them with court fees and criminal records…or [steal]ing…the assets of immigrant sex workers and masseuses…and even [raping them]…
It’s rare to see a modern judge explicitly rule in favor of self-ownership:
A judge in Georgia…[named] Robert McBurney…ruled the [state’s 6-week] abortion ban unconstitutional under Georgia’s state constitution…“‘liberty’…in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices,” McBurney wrote…“While the State’s interest in protecting ‘unborn’ life is compelling, until that life can be sustained by the State ― and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work ― the balance of rights favors the woman”…Physicians in the state can now provide abortions until fetal viability, reverting to Georgia’s 2019 abortion law…
Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness:
Various “experts” are calling on state governments to impose age restrictions on the sale of nonalcoholic drinks…under the guise of protecting against underage alcohol consumption, based on the argument that products like nonalcoholic beer could be a gateway to the real thing…[but in] reality…studies [show]…”[nonalcoholic beverage] consumption usually started after adolescents began consuming alcohol”…in other words…teenagers are using nonalcoholic beverages in place of alcoholic beverages, rather than as an on-ramp to real drinking…
If “official” busybodies can spy on you via your car, so can unofficial ones:
…a group of independent security researchers revealed that they’d found a flaw in a web portal operated by…Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles…from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer…they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will. After the researchers alerted Kia to the problem in June, Kia appears to have fixed the vulnerability in its web portal…But Kia’s patch is far from the end of the car industry’s web-based security problems…a slew of similar web-based vulnerabilities…affect…cars sold by Acura, Genesis, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Toyota, and more…
“Cop murders wife or girlfriend and claims it was suicide” is a recurring theme in this tag:
…Dan Howard, a [typical and representative]…Idaho [cop murdered his wife]…in February 2021…[then staged the scene to look like a suicide, claiming] he discovered his wife in the bathtub….[where] she had shot herself in the head…[but] there [wasn’t enough]…blood…In the laundry room, the dryer was running…[and] full of clean bath towels and mats…Howard appeared to have recently showered, changed his clothes, and applied fresh deodorant…no…signs of…a suicide note…they…had more than $2 million in assets…yet…Howard [was a tightwad, and they started to argue more after he got away with murdering]…a woman during a traffic stop…the…[wife,] Kendy…had an affair, and…told Dan she…wanted a divorce. And she had started the process of buying a new house. By the end of January 2021, just days before her death, Kendy met with a divorce lawyer…two years…[later] Howard was [convicted of] murder. He…had…[broken] her jaw, then [strangled] her…[and] staged the scene by placing Kendy’s body in the bathtub and shooting her…
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Half the Lies
Posted in History, Perception, Tyranny, tagged All-Purpose Excuse, hysteria, left-right myth, pizza!, politicians, propaganda, The Implosion Begins on October 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Regardless of how much partisan “journalists” bray that “sex trafficking” hysteria is a “right-wing conspiracy theory”; they themselves did at least half of the work to turn it into a moral panic, from its introduction in the New York Times in January ’04 until it was finally taken over by QAnon in 2018-19. For a while there was a tug-o-war between Trumpists & Anti-Trumpists for control of the narrative, and when MAGA won the soi-disant “progressives” suddenly pivoted to debunking it. These people absolutely do not care about sex workers or anyone else their shamelessly-puritanical rhetoric harmed for two decades; they just suffer from a pathological need to be “correct”, and when it became obvious they were losing control of their own propaganda narrative, they turned to “sour grapes”.
Throwback Thursday vs. the Mummy
Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged advertising, agency denial, Banned Books Week, blogging, censorship, France, Hollywood, Islam, psychology, social purity, The Enlightenment Police, Thought Control on October 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Busybody control freaks…don’t give a damn about women’s dignity, but are happy to use it as an excuse for oppression.
– “The Enlightenment Police”
The urge to censor is a mental illness. No normal person wants to control what other people think, and no sane person could believe that he can control what anyone else thinks.
– “Thought Control”
My sex appeal is about as gentle and understated as a brick to the face, and some men have even described me as “intimidating”. – “Your Move”
In true horror, there is little to no “explanation”, because the unknown is far more horrifying than any trite Hollywood “origin”. – “No Explanation“
In the News (#1477)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged abortion, censorship, China, consensual crime, cops, drivers, drugs, Florida, hysteria, If Men Were Angels, illegal aliens, internet, law, New Jersey, Oklahoma, politicians, rape, Texas, The Cop Myth, The Red Umbrella, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, violence vs. sex workers, Where Are the Protests?, You Were Warned on October 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Doesn’t all political speech induce some kind of emotional distress for those who disagree with it? – Dan Crenshaw
Where Are the Protests? (#830)
Lin’s story is a rare firsthand account of the harsh conditions and violent atmosphere endured by Chinese workers on many marijuana farms in Oklahoma and other states…Chinese criminal groups, some with suspected ties to the Chinese state, have become a dominant force in the [criminalized] U.S. marijuana trade and subjected thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers to abuse and exploitation. Until now, though, much of that information about illegal activity in the cannabis industry has come from law enforcement [propaganda, and is therefore of dubious validity]…Lin gave a frightening front-line look inside the underworld…
As long as sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence:
Three Jersey City men held two [escorts] against their will at gunpoint, repeatedly raped them, transferred more then $2,000 from their phones and stole cash from them…Mohamed Mohamed…Abdalla Abdelsalam Elsayed…and Mahmoud Hegazi…were arrested Sept. 20 and are being held…[on] 21 counts…on Sept. 11…[the victims were tricked in]to go[ing] to an apartment…[under the pretext of a normal business arrangement, but]…one of the men pulled out a handgun…[and] forced [her to lie to her safety call] at gunpoint[, claiming]…she was “OK”…the woman was then [gang-raped] and [electronically robbed]…The second victim…was [similarly violated]…
Politicians no longer care about whether their new diktats are Constitutional:
[Politicians have] advanced two internet [censorship] bills, including a [sligh]tly revised version of the [horrible]…KOSA…which had stalled after passing the Senate….KOSA [is] one of the most potentially dangerous federal bills among those that [civil rights advocates] have [warned the public about; it] resurfaced in the last few weeks, as part of a package with a…[more restrictive] version of…COPPA…[sponsor] Marsha Blackburn…[tipped her hand] last year…when she stated that KOSA would aid in her mission of “protecting minor children from the transgender”…[and] last week…[she tried to] stok[e] up panic among her base by [belch]ing [out the magic bugaboo word]…“fentanyl”…
…Texas is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue denying emergency medical care to pregnant women…Across the United States, maternal mortality rose 11 percent between 2019 to 2022; in Texas…the maternal death rate surged 56 percent…[yet] officials in Texas are nevertheless charging ahead with their effort to ensure that the state can continue blocking doctors from providing emergency medical treatment to pregnant residents. The state sued the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that…[Texas] hospitals [should be required] to [deny] emergency abortions [even] if necessary to preserve a woman’s health…
Why are people shocked when men paid and encouraged to behave violently, behave violently?
…a Fort Worth [cop has been] charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon…William Martin…was [not wearing his magical clown costume]…when he [had] a collision…on the freeway…[with a man named Samuel] Christopher [which was so minor Christopher] was not [even] aware of [it], but [he] noticed Martin closely following him, constantly changing lanes to stay behind…he tried to get away, but Martin sped past him and pulled…in front of Christopher, [intentionally] causing…[another] collision…Christopher…[then] tried to drive away [because] Martin…got out with [a] handgun…[and] shot at [Christopher] three times…Police talked with 14 witnesses…and none of them saw the initial collision [because it was so minor, but]…they [all] saw Martin chas[e] Christopher…pull in front of [him] to cause the collision, and [shoot] at [him]…Martin…[lied to other cops later, spinning an elaborate yarn in which]…Christopher looked directly at him before driving into his lane and hitting the side of his car…[then intentionally] rammed [him again when he cut Christopher off and jumped out]…with his pi[stol]…
“Misconduct with minor” is quite a way to say “getting a teenage girl drunk so he could molest her”:
A [typical and representative] Tallahassee [Florida cop] is behind bars [because he got]…a [teenage girl drunk] and [molested her]…Danny Moore…[was] re[ported by a neighbor who saw the girl drunk]…Moore initially [lied to his cop cronies about being a cop, then told]…them a young teenage girl was inside his apartment…as [though she had suddenly magically appeared there]…in…[reality]…he…[found her] on a mobile app and…drove [her] to a nearby liquor store [specifically so he could molest her]…
Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house:
…a…[typical and representative Florida cop] who was also a youth group pastor…was arrested on child molestation charges…Pablo Rios Hernandez…[molested a 12-year-old in February of 2023, and could have been] arrested [in March of that year, but his cronies dawdled as long as they could]…
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