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August 17, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-court-will-force-teen-to-give-birth-as-shes-not-sufficiently-mature-for-abortion
A Florida appeals court will force a parentless 16-year-old girl to give birth because the teen is not “sufficiently mature” to decide for herself whether or not to terminate the pregnancy. A circuit court judge previously denied the girl’s request to waive a state law requiring minors get parental consent for an abortion. On Monday, a three-judge panel upheld the decision.
“This is so profoundly wrong, on so many levels,” healthcare attorney Harry Nelson, who is not involved in the case, told The Daily Beast Tuesday. “...The true believers who think it’s a good thing to require children to have children, that they think this is going to be a net benefit to anyone, are in a delusional place.”
The unnamed teen, according to the appellate ruling, is getting a GED through a program for young people who have experienced traumatic events in their lives. In her petition, the girl—who lives with a relative and has an appointed guardian—argued that she is “still in school” and “is not ready to have a baby,” noting that her guardian was “fine with what [she] wants to do.” She met with Escambia County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer J. Frydrychowicz, along with a case worker and a child advocate, but “inexplicably” did not request a lawyer who would have represented her for free, the ruling states.
“The trial judge displayed concern for the minor’s predicament throughout the hearing; she asked difficult questions of the minor on sensitive personal matters in a compassionate manner,” it continues. “The trial judge’s tone and method of questioning were commendable and her ability to produce a thoughtful written order in a rapid fashion is admirable (she prepared her written order immediately after the hearing, handing a copy thereafter to the minor).”
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1559541026695544833
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Twisted Florida Ruling Says Pregnant Teen Isn't 'Mature' Enough for Abortion
An appeals court has upheld a decision to deny the parentless girl’s request to waive a state law requiring minors get parental consent for an abortion.https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-court-will-force-teen-to-give-birth-as-shes-not-sufficiently-mature-for-abortion
A Florida appeals court will force a parentless 16-year-old girl to give birth because the teen is not “sufficiently mature” to decide for herself whether or not to terminate the pregnancy. A circuit court judge previously denied the girl’s request to waive a state law requiring minors get parental consent for an abortion. On Monday, a three-judge panel upheld the decision.
“This is so profoundly wrong, on so many levels,” healthcare attorney Harry Nelson, who is not involved in the case, told The Daily Beast Tuesday. “...The true believers who think it’s a good thing to require children to have children, that they think this is going to be a net benefit to anyone, are in a delusional place.”
The unnamed teen, according to the appellate ruling, is getting a GED through a program for young people who have experienced traumatic events in their lives. In her petition, the girl—who lives with a relative and has an appointed guardian—argued that she is “still in school” and “is not ready to have a baby,” noting that her guardian was “fine with what [she] wants to do.” She met with Escambia County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer J. Frydrychowicz, along with a case worker and a child advocate, but “inexplicably” did not request a lawyer who would have represented her for free, the ruling states.
“The trial judge displayed concern for the minor’s predicament throughout the hearing; she asked difficult questions of the minor on sensitive personal matters in a compassionate manner,” it continues. “The trial judge’s tone and method of questioning were commendable and her ability to produce a thoughtful written order in a rapid fashion is admirable (she prepared her written order immediately after the hearing, handing a copy thereafter to the minor).”
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1559541026695544833
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August 17, 2022
https://archive.ph/cdYSD
A stroll through a farmers market during the summer is as tempting to me as a walk through a candy store is to others. Booth after booth is piled high with multicolored tomatoes, corn and bell peppers. This is the time of year, I like to take full advantage of what’s out there, and this dish of Shrimp With Summer Vegetables from chef Kenneth Temple, a private chef in Dallas, let me do just that.
Summer corn scraped from the cob adds a delightful freshness here, but you can use frozen or canned as well. He tosses in multicolor cherry tomatoes and red or orange bell peppers, so the dish is full of bright colors. Minced jalapeños give the vegetables heat and lemon juice and zest add zing. Then, right at the end, he stirs in fresh spinach and parsley to wilt and fresh garlic for a little additional bite. The vegetables walk a line between sweet and spicy, making them ideal to serve with grilled seafood and meats. (I actually enjoy eating a big bowl of the vegetables, which remind me of succotash, all on their own.) For Temple, however, they are an ideal foundation for one of his favorite cooking techniques: blackening.
When he was about 8, Temple said the first thing he ever cooked was a smoked sausage that he fried in a skillet until it was dark and charred on the outside. He added it to an omelette and loved the combination of creamy eggs and the crusty pieces of sausage. “At 8 years old, I didn’t know it was a technique. I just enjoyed the bitter, crispy, crunchy exteriors.” Here, the vegetables are the milder complement for the highly seasoned shrimp, slightly charred in fat over high heat. “To me, this is the perfect example of a balanced dish,” he said. “You want to season everything, but you have to understand the flavors you’re building. With the milder vegetables and the spicy shrimp then it is all balanced.”
If you want to try blackening the shrimp, Temple’s technique is simple. First, he advises to remove your shrimp from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before starting to cook. Then turn the vent on over your stove, as it can get a bit smoky. The shrimp are then tossed with melted butter and seasoned with your favorite spicy seasoning mix. Temple, who is originally from New Orleans, likes to use a Creole or Cajun blend. “If your protein is cold, it’s going to cool off the butter and resolidify,” he said. “They will begin to steam, not blacken, when added to the pan.”
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recipe at the top link
Blackened shrimp top fresh corn, tomatoes and peppers in this colorful summer combo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/06/29/blacked-shrimp-recipe-summer-vegetables/https://archive.ph/cdYSD
A stroll through a farmers market during the summer is as tempting to me as a walk through a candy store is to others. Booth after booth is piled high with multicolored tomatoes, corn and bell peppers. This is the time of year, I like to take full advantage of what’s out there, and this dish of Shrimp With Summer Vegetables from chef Kenneth Temple, a private chef in Dallas, let me do just that.
Summer corn scraped from the cob adds a delightful freshness here, but you can use frozen or canned as well. He tosses in multicolor cherry tomatoes and red or orange bell peppers, so the dish is full of bright colors. Minced jalapeños give the vegetables heat and lemon juice and zest add zing. Then, right at the end, he stirs in fresh spinach and parsley to wilt and fresh garlic for a little additional bite. The vegetables walk a line between sweet and spicy, making them ideal to serve with grilled seafood and meats. (I actually enjoy eating a big bowl of the vegetables, which remind me of succotash, all on their own.) For Temple, however, they are an ideal foundation for one of his favorite cooking techniques: blackening.
When he was about 8, Temple said the first thing he ever cooked was a smoked sausage that he fried in a skillet until it was dark and charred on the outside. He added it to an omelette and loved the combination of creamy eggs and the crusty pieces of sausage. “At 8 years old, I didn’t know it was a technique. I just enjoyed the bitter, crispy, crunchy exteriors.” Here, the vegetables are the milder complement for the highly seasoned shrimp, slightly charred in fat over high heat. “To me, this is the perfect example of a balanced dish,” he said. “You want to season everything, but you have to understand the flavors you’re building. With the milder vegetables and the spicy shrimp then it is all balanced.”
If you want to try blackening the shrimp, Temple’s technique is simple. First, he advises to remove your shrimp from the refrigerator at least 30 minutes before starting to cook. Then turn the vent on over your stove, as it can get a bit smoky. The shrimp are then tossed with melted butter and seasoned with your favorite spicy seasoning mix. Temple, who is originally from New Orleans, likes to use a Creole or Cajun blend. “If your protein is cold, it’s going to cool off the butter and resolidify,” he said. “They will begin to steam, not blacken, when added to the pan.”
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recipe at the top link
August 17, 2022
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August 17, 2022
https://prospect.org/environment/manchin-permitting-deal-teeters-despite-gas-industry-support/
In late July, when the White House climate agenda seemed well and truly dead, President Biden gave a speech, flanked by a despairing Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), where he nearly declared a climate emergency, and then stopped short. It’s one sign that Biden was aware of just-resumed talks between Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over the deal that would become the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will be signed into law by the president today.
But the final deal between Schumer and Manchin still has a missing component: a privately negotiated side deal that would overhaul the permitting process for energy infrastructure. The agreement, which calls for the approval of a gas pipeline in Manchin’s home state of West Virginia, could undercut the IRA’s down payment on clean energy by accelerating approval for energy projects that could ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production and exports of natural gas.
The legislation requires 60 votes, and although its text has not been released even to members of Congress, it is set to be attached to a must-pass government funding bill, making it politically dicey to dispute Manchin’s terms. But so far, opponents in both parties are resisting the gambit. Manchin, who made permitting reform a condition of his signing on to the IRA, has received assurances from Schumer that this deal would go through. Yet after key leaders in both parties did not agree to the contents or the manner of passing the bill, the privately struck deal could unravel.
Since the IRA will be law either way, there’s nothing holding other Democrats to agree to deregulating what are considered bedrock environmental programs. Now, multiple representatives are pushing to peel off the permitting agreement from any must-pass legislation and run it as its own bill, lowering the political cost of opposing it. House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) said he doesn’t feel an “obligation” to support the deal, since he was not part of the negotiations.
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Manchin Permitting Deal Teeters Despite Gas Industry Support
https://prospect.org/environment/manchin-permitting-deal-teeters-despite-gas-industry-support/
In late July, when the White House climate agenda seemed well and truly dead, President Biden gave a speech, flanked by a despairing Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), where he nearly declared a climate emergency, and then stopped short. It’s one sign that Biden was aware of just-resumed talks between Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) over the deal that would become the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will be signed into law by the president today.
But the final deal between Schumer and Manchin still has a missing component: a privately negotiated side deal that would overhaul the permitting process for energy infrastructure. The agreement, which calls for the approval of a gas pipeline in Manchin’s home state of West Virginia, could undercut the IRA’s down payment on clean energy by accelerating approval for energy projects that could ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production and exports of natural gas.
The legislation requires 60 votes, and although its text has not been released even to members of Congress, it is set to be attached to a must-pass government funding bill, making it politically dicey to dispute Manchin’s terms. But so far, opponents in both parties are resisting the gambit. Manchin, who made permitting reform a condition of his signing on to the IRA, has received assurances from Schumer that this deal would go through. Yet after key leaders in both parties did not agree to the contents or the manner of passing the bill, the privately struck deal could unravel.
Since the IRA will be law either way, there’s nothing holding other Democrats to agree to deregulating what are considered bedrock environmental programs. Now, multiple representatives are pushing to peel off the permitting agreement from any must-pass legislation and run it as its own bill, lowering the political cost of opposing it. House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) said he doesn’t feel an “obligation” to support the deal, since he was not part of the negotiations.
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August 16, 2022
In April 2009, a Food Network production team arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, to film a special featuring local cookbook authors Matt and Ted Lee, complete with a cooking demonstration. "Taste a true original Charleston dish—Country Captain," the producers announced in their Craigslist call for audience members. To get the backstory on the dish, the producers phoned up local food writers and industry insiders, including my colleague Jeff Allen at the Charleston City Paper. The producers didn't have much information to share, for if country captain was "a true original Charleston dish," that was news to the paper's staff. "I had heard of it as a dish," Allen recalls. "But I had never associated it with Charleston cuisine or the classic repertoire of the colonial era." That was my reaction, too. The name was vaguely familiar, but, despite having lived in Charleston for over a decade and in South Carolina almost my entire life, I couldn't recall ever actually eating it.
Which isn't to say that no one in South Carolina was cooking country captain, a fragrant and somewhat spicy dish consisting of chicken parts simmered in a tomato-based curry sauce. That sauce generally includes onions, garlic, and green peppers and it's finished with almonds and currants. It's almost always served over plain white rice. Matt and Ted Lee remember first encountering it in the 1980s in Mt. Pleasant, a suburb just north of Charleston, when it was served to them by a childhood friend's mother. "It's instantly lovable," Matt Lee says. "Even to a nine year old. It's chicken and gravy, but flavorful gravy." They liked it so much that they included it in their first cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook. The Food Network "cooking demonstration" turned out to be a set-up: the Lee Brothers were the victims of a Bobby Flay "throwdown," where the celebrity chef shows up unannounced and tries to best cooks at making whatever their own specialty is in a head-to-head contest. The Lee Brothers won.
A Lowcountry Classic?
But, of the dozens of recipes in the Lee Brothers' cookbook, why did the Food Network seize upon country captain? (The Lee Brothers confirm that the producers chose the dish.) Journalist Sam Sifton could be to blame. In January 2009, just a few months before the throwdown was staged, Sifton wrote in the New York Times Magazine that country captain is "a dish you'll find in both [Charleston and Savannah] and throughout the Lowcountry that surrounds them, in restaurants and home dining rooms alike. Made correctly, it captures exactly that moment of excitement you feel when first arriving in the region from far away: a sense that everything really is different in the South, that it is the one last, true regional culture in the United States."
Sifton's misty-eyed preamble makes it sound like country captain is as much a Lowcountry classic as shrimp and grits and hoppin' John. But we can forgive some running rough-shod over the finer delineations of the sub-regions of Southern cuisine, for almost everyone does the same. (Remember where pimento cheese really comes from.) The rest of Sifton's piece does a good job outlining the murkiness that surrounds country captain's provenance, with interviews from Southern food luminaries like John T. Edge. Almost everyone who has written about the recipe in any depth has correctly identified that its origins are Indian and that it eventually made its way to the South. How it got there, though, is the tricky part.
An Indian Dish Comes to America............
Chicken tikka masala.
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Country Captain is the Southern Icon You May Have Never Tasted
https://www.seriouseats.com/country-captain-southern-recipe-historyIn April 2009, a Food Network production team arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, to film a special featuring local cookbook authors Matt and Ted Lee, complete with a cooking demonstration. "Taste a true original Charleston dish—Country Captain," the producers announced in their Craigslist call for audience members. To get the backstory on the dish, the producers phoned up local food writers and industry insiders, including my colleague Jeff Allen at the Charleston City Paper. The producers didn't have much information to share, for if country captain was "a true original Charleston dish," that was news to the paper's staff. "I had heard of it as a dish," Allen recalls. "But I had never associated it with Charleston cuisine or the classic repertoire of the colonial era." That was my reaction, too. The name was vaguely familiar, but, despite having lived in Charleston for over a decade and in South Carolina almost my entire life, I couldn't recall ever actually eating it.
Which isn't to say that no one in South Carolina was cooking country captain, a fragrant and somewhat spicy dish consisting of chicken parts simmered in a tomato-based curry sauce. That sauce generally includes onions, garlic, and green peppers and it's finished with almonds and currants. It's almost always served over plain white rice. Matt and Ted Lee remember first encountering it in the 1980s in Mt. Pleasant, a suburb just north of Charleston, when it was served to them by a childhood friend's mother. "It's instantly lovable," Matt Lee says. "Even to a nine year old. It's chicken and gravy, but flavorful gravy." They liked it so much that they included it in their first cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook. The Food Network "cooking demonstration" turned out to be a set-up: the Lee Brothers were the victims of a Bobby Flay "throwdown," where the celebrity chef shows up unannounced and tries to best cooks at making whatever their own specialty is in a head-to-head contest. The Lee Brothers won.
A Lowcountry Classic?
But, of the dozens of recipes in the Lee Brothers' cookbook, why did the Food Network seize upon country captain? (The Lee Brothers confirm that the producers chose the dish.) Journalist Sam Sifton could be to blame. In January 2009, just a few months before the throwdown was staged, Sifton wrote in the New York Times Magazine that country captain is "a dish you'll find in both [Charleston and Savannah] and throughout the Lowcountry that surrounds them, in restaurants and home dining rooms alike. Made correctly, it captures exactly that moment of excitement you feel when first arriving in the region from far away: a sense that everything really is different in the South, that it is the one last, true regional culture in the United States."
Sifton's misty-eyed preamble makes it sound like country captain is as much a Lowcountry classic as shrimp and grits and hoppin' John. But we can forgive some running rough-shod over the finer delineations of the sub-regions of Southern cuisine, for almost everyone does the same. (Remember where pimento cheese really comes from.) The rest of Sifton's piece does a good job outlining the murkiness that surrounds country captain's provenance, with interviews from Southern food luminaries like John T. Edge. Almost everyone who has written about the recipe in any depth has correctly identified that its origins are Indian and that it eventually made its way to the South. How it got there, though, is the tricky part.
An Indian Dish Comes to America............
Chicken tikka masala.
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August 16, 2022
Extraordinary white moose was spotted taking a dip in a pool in Sweden's Varmland County
https://twitter.com/Gabriele_Corno/status/1559108395801759745
August 15, 2022
A Black parent filed a civil rights lawsuit last week against the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Board of Education, saying that a cotton field was set up at an elementary school in 2017 that was intended to teach students about the experiences of slaves.
Rashunda Pitts said her 14-year-old daughter, who is referred to as “S.W.” in the lawsuit, experienced emotional distress as a result of the project at Laurel Cinematic Arts Creative Tech Magnet that her social justice teacher said was to help students “gain a real-life experience as to what the African American slaves had endured,” according to the lawsuit, which also named the school’s then-principal and social justice teacher as defendants. Pitts said that in September 2017, she noticed her daughter had become “very quiet and reserved” when she used to “vibrantly share her day with her mother,” the suit states.
One day, as Pitts was dropping off her daughter at Laurel Cinematic Arts Creative Tech Magnet, she saw a cotton field in front of the school and called the office to speak with the school’s principal, Amy Diaz, who was unavailable, according to the lawsuit. Pitts spoke with Assistant Principal Brian Wisniewski, who explained that S.W.'s class was reading Frederick Douglass’ autobiography and the cotton field was created so students could have a “real life experience” of slavery, the lawsuit says.
After Pitts expressed her disappointment with the project, Wisniewski agreed and said the school’s principal would reach out to Pitts, the lawsuit states. Diaz listened to Pitts’ request for the cotton field to be taken down in 24 hours but said that the school couldn’t accommodate such a quick turnaround, saying it could aim for the end of the week or the following week, but couldn’t make any promises, according to the lawsuit.
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Black mom sues L.A. Unified over cotton-picking project at elementary school, suit says
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-15/black-mother-sues-lausd-over-cotton-picking-project-at-elementary-schoolA Black parent filed a civil rights lawsuit last week against the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Board of Education, saying that a cotton field was set up at an elementary school in 2017 that was intended to teach students about the experiences of slaves.
Rashunda Pitts said her 14-year-old daughter, who is referred to as “S.W.” in the lawsuit, experienced emotional distress as a result of the project at Laurel Cinematic Arts Creative Tech Magnet that her social justice teacher said was to help students “gain a real-life experience as to what the African American slaves had endured,” according to the lawsuit, which also named the school’s then-principal and social justice teacher as defendants. Pitts said that in September 2017, she noticed her daughter had become “very quiet and reserved” when she used to “vibrantly share her day with her mother,” the suit states.
One day, as Pitts was dropping off her daughter at Laurel Cinematic Arts Creative Tech Magnet, she saw a cotton field in front of the school and called the office to speak with the school’s principal, Amy Diaz, who was unavailable, according to the lawsuit. Pitts spoke with Assistant Principal Brian Wisniewski, who explained that S.W.'s class was reading Frederick Douglass’ autobiography and the cotton field was created so students could have a “real life experience” of slavery, the lawsuit says.
After Pitts expressed her disappointment with the project, Wisniewski agreed and said the school’s principal would reach out to Pitts, the lawsuit states. Diaz listened to Pitts’ request for the cotton field to be taken down in 24 hours but said that the school couldn’t accommodate such a quick turnaround, saying it could aim for the end of the week or the following week, but couldn’t make any promises, according to the lawsuit.
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August 12, 2022
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1558211140957732865
Clatty boot chatting her usual shite.
A clear and present danger
Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing articles of impeachment on Merrick Garland, claiming Trump is
“political persecution.”https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1558211140957732865
Clatty boot chatting her usual shite.
A clear and present danger
August 12, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doctors-urge-calm-as-right-wingers-lie-about-kids-and-monkeypox
With the American monkeypox outbreak in a state of uncontrolled spread, public health authorities are concerned that outdated science and bad-faith scapegoating are combining forces to frighten parents about the epidemic’s threat to their children.
Epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists and public health authorities are in near-universal agreement that the current outbreak appears to pose low risk to kids at the moment. But as far-right figures tie the virus to baseless panic about LGBT people “grooming” children, and as some media outlets and online influencers speculate that monkeypox could flourish in school settings, those assurances risk being drowned out.
“The few kids infected have been close household contacts of cases,” emphasized Dr. David Freedman, a professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama and an expert in tropical diseases. “I just don’t think that silent carriage into a school setting is a big risk unless guidelines are completely ignored.”
The tangle of unintentional misinformation and purposeful disinformation has grown in recent weeks as leading far-right conservative figures and conspiracy theorists have latched on to a handful of paediatric cases as proof that gay men are sexually abusing children on a mass scale.
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Doctors Urge Calm as Right-Wingers Lie About Kids and Monkeypox
“The European countries that have reported paediatric cases have reported one or two cases, and so the virus isn’t spreading among kids,” said Dr. Kristina Bryant.https://www.thedailybeast.com/doctors-urge-calm-as-right-wingers-lie-about-kids-and-monkeypox
With the American monkeypox outbreak in a state of uncontrolled spread, public health authorities are concerned that outdated science and bad-faith scapegoating are combining forces to frighten parents about the epidemic’s threat to their children.
Epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists and public health authorities are in near-universal agreement that the current outbreak appears to pose low risk to kids at the moment. But as far-right figures tie the virus to baseless panic about LGBT people “grooming” children, and as some media outlets and online influencers speculate that monkeypox could flourish in school settings, those assurances risk being drowned out.
“The few kids infected have been close household contacts of cases,” emphasized Dr. David Freedman, a professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama and an expert in tropical diseases. “I just don’t think that silent carriage into a school setting is a big risk unless guidelines are completely ignored.”
The tangle of unintentional misinformation and purposeful disinformation has grown in recent weeks as leading far-right conservative figures and conspiracy theorists have latched on to a handful of paediatric cases as proof that gay men are sexually abusing children on a mass scale.
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