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jmowreader's JournalNTSB preliminary report on the East Palestine derailment
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/RRD23MR005%20East%20Palestine%20OH%20Prelim.pdfOne paragraph stands out:
In other words, they were faced with five railcars full of extremely hazardous material that was preparing to explode, and they got people to go in there, climb up on those railcars, open the vent hatches and set this stuff on fire to prevent an even worse catastrophe. The courage it would have taken to do this is unimaginable.
Cat etiquette question
If you need to remove your cat from your bed to make it, is it proper to put the cat back when you are done?
If you ever met Jimmy Carter, check in here
In 1996, the odious racist Jesse Helms was running for reelection against former Mayor of Charlotte Harvey Gantt. President Carter came to Fayetteville to speak at a campaign rally for Gantt. Among the first things he said was an admission that Jesse Helms was a distant cousin of his..."so we're here tonight to bring Cousin Jesse back home for good!" The crowd loved it. After the speech President Carter shook the hand of every single person in the room.
Wonderful, very fine man - Carter, not the racist fuck he was campaigning against.
Is Textualism a synonym for Laziness?
Last night my paper ran a story off the AP feed about how the Supremes' latest gun control ruling - that all gun control laws have to be rooted in our nation's history - is causing a lot of panic in the lawmaking sector. Basically, you've got to read 300 years of the history of this nation to decide to make a law regulating gun usage. You know, when this nation was founded domestic abusers were allowed to have guns so in 2023 we've got to let them keep them, something like that.
I'm at the point where I won't be surprised if the Supremes overturn Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108, which governs the lighting system on cars, because what color headlights should be aren't in the Constitution...or if they decide to overturn an internet-fraud statute because the Internet isn't mentioned in the Constitution. (We will not dwell on two facts - unlike the states, who tend to use their constitutions as dumping grounds for laws they want to make hard to overturn, the US Constitution is a broad outline of how to run the country; and that in 1789 there were no headlights or Internet for the Constitution's authors to regulate.)
Okay. So back to the point. I suspect the real motivation behind textualism - the legal theory that any law has to conform to the Constitution as it was originally written over 200 years ago - is that it's simply easier to say "James Madison didn't put this in here so you can't have it."
The catalytic converter from the Wienermobile was stolen
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a42844424/someone-stole-a-wienermobiles-catalytic-converter/Nothing is sacred anymore. During Super Bowl Weekend there was an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in the Las Vegas area, and of course some Republican rat bastard who probably needed the money for fentanyl stole its catalytic converter.
Don't get your hopes up on Trump seeing justice even if he is indicted
Donald Trump did NOT change his home of record from New York to Florida for golf, taxes, climate, lack of liberals, the quality of Alzheimer's care in that state or any of the other reasons old rich Republicans move to that state.
The reason is probably more insidious: He chose Florida because of its leadership. Of all the state chief executives in America, Dictator Swamp Stalin is probably the most likely one to trigger a constitutional crisis by ignoring an extradition order from one of the states who are currently after Trump's ass.
The MAGAts are missing a prime chance for pearl clutching
I know they're 100-percent butthurt over "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Rihanna singing "Bitch Better Have My Money" and...well, whatever the hell else they are pissed off about...but did they notice the backs of the players' helmets and the end zones?
End zones first. The NFL started stenciling the words "It Takes All Of Us" and "Inspire Change" into the borders of the end zones in 2021.
As for helmets, players were allowed to wear End Racism, Stop Hate, It Takes All of Us, Black Lives Matter, Inspire Change, Say Their Stories or Choose Love on the white bumper pad of their helmets since the 2021 season.
Tell me if this is out of line
I propose that with immediate effect, the individual legally known as Ron DeSantis, who currently serves as Dictator of Florida, shall henceforth and forevermore be known as "Swamp Stalin."
Cruella de Vil fest: It was as bad as you imagined
https://cdapress.com/news/2023/feb/12/buley-writing/Last night was the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee's Trump Day Dinner. (They call it the "Lincoln Day Dinner" but...you know, why do the GOP still worship that woke old fart? Don't they prefer presidents who don't go to the theater?) Chief Troll Brent Regan invited Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the keynote speaker.
I'm not going to summarize my good friend and coworker Bill Buley's excellent writing on this. He deserves to be read in full, so, please click on the link. However, you can pretty much guess what she talked about: the Chinese Spy Balloon that had to be shot down over the Atlantic, the border, Ukraine, spending she doesn't like...
Oh, she also wore the Cruella de Vil suit.
Just so you know: The invocation was presented by one Pastor Tim Remington, who is on the shit list of about half the city - and high enough on those shit lists that less-radical Republicans shot him once and burned down the building his thrift store was in.
What the Republican SOTU response would have been like...
…if she had really watched the speech.
“To all Americans, I am Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of the State of Arkansas.
By all rights I should tell you that we got owned by President Biden tonight. I can’t do that because Tucker Carlson said he was going to endorse a snapping turtle for my job if I did, and y’all know snapping turtles are even less fit for public office than I am. So I’m going to spend ten minutes telling you how Democrats are a woke mob that wants to expose your kids to porn, and the rest of my allotted time showing your kids the contents of the porn folder on Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
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