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jmowreader's JournalIs gas starting to go down in your area?
Last week I filled up at a Chevron station that was charging $5 per gallon for regular. Last night I drove past the same station and they were at $4.94.
Still not great, but a little better.
I have a small medical question
A pregnancy test works by detecting the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG), which is only created when you're pregnant. When you stop being pregnant, the level of HCG in your system tapers off until it falls below the level of detection.
Now...let's assume that Mary Jones is pregnant and doesn't want to be. Mary lives in a state where abortion has been banned and exit/entry pregnancy tests are administered to all women traveling across the state line.
The question: How long after Mary's abortion in New Mexico does she have to get back into Texas before her HCG level drops below the limits of detection?
There's an issue we need to seriously consider here
Are we going to call the fat fuck who tried to declare himself President for Life the Manhattan Strangler, the New York Strangler or the Palm Beach Strangler?
On the date Idaho turns on its abortion ban...
I will do ten searches a day, every day, for abortion information.
I am a single male and all my closest friends are post-menopausal.
I urge everyone who (1) can't get pregnant or get anyone else pregnant and (2) lives in a red state to start searching for abortion information online. If the bastards are going to breach the federal wiretapping laws to chase down people getting abortions, let's give them A LOT of spurious data.
Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Republican Party and all the odious apparatus of fascist rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Texas, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our nation, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
I love my editor!
You folks remember that back on the 11th of June the Illinois Nazis decided to invade Coeur d'Alene, Idaho's Pride in the Park celebration and were arrested by a line of cop cars that looked very much like a scene from The Blues Brothers.
Well...some of the more pathetic members of our community are attacking the mayor and police for doing that.
Someone sent an email to ten city officials: "
Name), you stupid, weak (gay slur, starts with F). Kill yourself. It's your only honorable way out you absolutely repulsive piece of shit."
We are printing the email in the newspaper - with the F word and "piece of shit" intact.
I wonder how the Hard Right is feeling right now
On the day the disgusting Dobbs ruling was finally made official...President Biden received for signature the biggest gun control law we've had since 1968.
My "Lightyear" review: Is THAT what all the fuss was about?
We're all familiar with the Hard Right's opinion of the new Disney-Pixar movie "Lightyear." Apparently, because the film has been banned in several nations the Hard Right doesn't even like, due to the presence of an on-screen kiss between two women, this film should be shunned by all.
Naturally, the second I heard Senator Ted Cruz was against this picture I immediately went to AMC's website and bought a ticket.
Today I got to the theater and was told in no uncertain terms, "sir, you may not bring your 900-pound atomic clock calibrated in microseconds* into the auditorium." And it turns out I would have needed it to time this smooch because the Kiss That Will Consign Us All To Hell is about two frames long. The worst part is you don't even get to see the kiss, because the back of an actor's head is blocking the view.
They're also pissed off that Tim Allen doesn't voice Buzz. The Boeberts of the world claim it's because of his politics. I suspect it's because he's 69 flippin' years old and they needed a voice actor who sounds about 30 years younger. So they got Chris Evans, who plays Captain America. Pretty decent choice.
My capsule review: this is a wholesome and fairly cute tale of teamwork and redemption. I highly recommend it.
A few spoilers follow:
The film opens with an explanation that Andy Davis got a Buzz Lightyear doll because he was the main character in Andy's favorite movie, and that this is the movie.
Buzz and his best friend Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) are flying a space exploration mission when they decide to divert to a habitable planet. Unfortunately, it's inhabited...by man-eating bugs and vines that behave like bobbit worms. The vines trash their spaceship, and the scientists being carried on the ship in suspended animation are thawed to enact repairs to the vessel. The scientists instead choose to build a city protected against the man-eating flora and fauna. Their antivine system isn't great, in that every once in a while a vine will work its way into the city and slurp down one of the residents, but aside from that...
Buzz and Alisha are Space Rangers and Space Rangers never abandon a mission, so they attempt to formulate a fuel that will get them into hyperspace. Space Rangers aren't trained chemists, so the fuel never performs properly. There's an even worse problem: Testing the fuel interrupts the space-time continuum so that for every minute Buzz is in space one year passes on the planet surface. Alisha gives Buzz a robotic cat named Sox, who perfects the fuel himself.
After Alisha, who as spaceship commander became the leader of the city after the crash, died of old age a Commander Burnside (voiced by Isiah Whitlock Jr.) takes over, stops the fuel research program because he's decided the colony has settled in, and attempts to have Buzz's cat euthanized. Buzz grabs the cat, jumps out the window, steals a rocket and tests Sox' fuel, which works properly. It also REALLY hoses the space-time continuum and society has advanced 22 years by the time he lands.
Then there's a long sequence involving Buzz, Sox and three other people, one of whom is Alisha's granddaughter, saving the planet and receiving a very high honor for doing so. You'll have to see the movie because it is a bit on the convoluted side.
It's beautifully rendered. It's funny, and touching in places. And it teaches the kiddies valuable lessons. I can't say enough good about this movie, or enough bad about the Republican trolls who are attacking it.
* No, I don't have an HP5061A clock, but I'd really love to have one.
Trump's latest money laundering scheme is right up his fairway
Look into “LIV Golf.”
I’m not sure how they pronounce LIV…it’s the Roman numerals for 54, which is both the number of holes they play on their tournaments and your score if you birdied every hole on a par-72 course, so it could be “el-eye-vee golf,” “live golf” or “54 golf.” But anyway.
The company belongs to the Saudi government. They’re playing nine tournaments, and two are on Trump’s courses. The CEO of the company is major Trump supporter Greg Norman.
Sounds like a racket to me.
AP is reporting names of the U-Haul Army, and the national leader was one of them
https://apnews.com/article/climate-texas-idaho-government-and-politics-southern-poverty-law-center-4f6b998f83814e8951eef658f44d818dAmong the people in the truck full of Patriot Front nazis were Thomas Rousseau, national president of Patriot Front, and Mitchell Wagner, who defaced a mural of famous Black Americans on a college campus in St. Louis.
This one looks to be much more significant than we first thought. Rousseau doesn't seem to come out of Texas except for the biggest events - he was in Charlottesville, for instance.
Right wing tears are the sweetest of all
On Saturday thirty Nazis were arrested in Coeur d’Alene, ID, on their way to attack a Pride event.
Today, Mexican driver Daniel Suarez won his first NASCAR Cup race. This win puts him into the NASCAR playoffs, so we might see our first Mexican NASCAR Cup champion this year.
And tomorrow, the Democrats in Congress hold their next hearing that may very well see Trump be buried under the jail.
I have no idea what we will ever do about this flood of Republican tears, except maybe to catch them in buckets and send the water to blue states.
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