Iowa Tarrifs ≠ Pennsylvania Tarrifs

Ironically, Doug Ward has 'liked' multiple posts condemning child s*xual abuse within the Catholic Church.

Maybe he should be more focused on his wife than the Catholic Church.

Shitting on the husband? Tweeter is a bit of an ass

Third POTD in one thread.

@LuFins-Dad said in Joy Reid goes more racist.:

We can call it the WeGrow League!

Coffee....everywhere.

Perhaps a referral would be in order.

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@George-K said in Guess who saved Israel from Iran's attack:

Yeah, funny how all those experts, back in the day, told us you can't shoot a missile with a missile.

They called it "Star Wars" out of derision, remember.

At the time was derisively described in the slick press as “shooting a bullet with a bullet”. On the other hand, the extent to which that technology and stealth technology had already been under development and successfully tested in secret was well hidden to them.

Maybe this should be add to here:

Sad Cognitive Decline of a President

@George-K said in Raising the Croc:

Turn off the sound, because the music is annoying AF.

Perhaps this should go in the "Nope" thread.

Dumb. Maybe we should direct this guy to the story of the chimpanzee/warthog/etc. raised since birth and was so friendly, etc etc. etc. until the animals remembered they were wild animals and chewed their owners face off.

Yup. Good for the goose.

Kind of disagree. A person could argue that the situation was the same when the arthur was a young adult. Read writings and letters from 100-200 years ago, and it seems as though people were much more "literate", but there was a very high illiteracy rate. Things and times change.

The judge "hopes the rest of the community learns from this?" What EXACTLY is the "community" he is referring to, and why EXACTLY does that "community" need help with not smothering their children while high on meth?

His dog whistles are disgusting. I find this white male judge's racism to be deeply troubling, and I won't feel safe until he's in prison.

Scary stuff

Her case is eventually covered in all true crime outlets. And there are a million of them.

Based on looking at the floor, it looks like the stack has 5 options, left/right/forward/backward and stay.

I expect the stack always has a destination, and is looking for a path to get there, one step at a time.

I'd start with that and watch it for a while to see what develops.

After watching for a while I would probably want a way to assign priority and to keep select paths clear, maybe some express lanes or variable speeds.

Just saw a note that the Congress Representatives are going to vote on the three foreign aid requests (Taiwan/Ukraine/Isreal) separately on Saturday.

It will be interesting.

https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2024-04-18/legislature-passes-spending-bill-gun-control-measures-after-marathon-session

Earlier in the day, lawmakers gave final approval to a suite of gun control measures roughly six months after the worst mass shooting in Maine history made gun safety a top political issue of the legislative session.

One bill will require buyers who purchase from a licensed firearms dealer to wait 72 hours before picking up their guns. Another bill bans the sale in Maine of "bump stocks" and other mechanical or electronic devices that allow a semi-automatic firearm to function more like a machine gun.

Opponents said the 72-hour waiting period would not have prevented last October's mass shooting in Lewiston that left 18 dead. But supporters like Democratic Sen. Anne Carney of Cape Elizabeth predicted that the delay will help deter impulsive decisions that can end in suicide or homicide.

"This legislation doesn't look backward," Carney said. "It looks forward at how we can prevent suicide and harmful behavior going forward."

Lawmakers also passed a bill sponsored by Mills that will require background checks on all private gun sales that were advertised online or in print. Another provision of the bill would make it a felony offense to "recklessly" sell a firearm to a prohibited person.

The bill also seeks to remove a perceived barrier to police utilizing the state's "yellow flag" gun confiscation law by allowing police to take a potentially dangerous person into "protective custody" even if they have not committed a crime. The change is a direct response to the fact that police did not attempt to yellow flag the Lewiston gunman, in part, because they felt the did not have legal grounds to take him into protective custody in order to bring him for a mental health evaluation.

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https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-unveils-official-campaign-slogan-death-to-america?utm_source=The Babylon Bee Newsletter&utm_medium=email

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245491081/lawyers-for-nassar-assault-survivors-have-reached-100m-deal

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

An internal investigation found that FBI agents mishandled abuse allegations by women more than a year before Nassar was arrested in 2016.