@Duluth said in The recent troll account:

(a mental patient who is obsessed with TSF)

who, me?

Pretty great idea.

@Nat said in US Politics:

Sad sad news, undermining decades of women's rights. Of course those most affected will likely be poorer women who can't afford to move out-of-state for an abortion - how can they manage? Even though it's been coming, the impact today feels ... shattering

It’s true. When people are spoonfed dogshit and expected to believe it’s chocolate ice-cream, news can be pretty confusing. Even shattering.

Now, back to reality.

One, it was never a “right” because it was never codified into law. Biden has the Presidency, Congress and Senate. He promised he was going to get the law codified, but like Obama before him never even attempted, and for a very good reason. The law as the abortion-rights extremists demand is that there be zero restrictions for any abortion. Zero. The only other nations on the planet that have as permissive an abortion policy to what these American whackjobs demand is China and North Korea. It’s a club of two, and American abortion activists want USA to be the third.

This is “undermining rights”? Is this really progress? Is this the future you want?

The Supreme Court threw Roe back at the legislature, arguing correctly it doesn’t belong in the judiciary branch. They don’t make laws, they interpret them; and Roe v Wade could not be propetly interpreted, it has always been a mess, as even the most celebrated liberal SCOTUS darling Ruth Bader Ginsburg insisted for 50 years.

What was being waged by this current SCOTUS was the “right” of the “baby” in Mississippi, where abortion is restricted after 15 weeks and the “baby” is protected, which puts Mississippi in the same company as the rest of the western world, rather than unrestricted abortions which the abortionists want Mississppi and other States placed in the same category as China and North Korea — unlimited abortions with zero restrictions and no questions asked.

I don’t expect the average person to understand this — even Macron and other ignorant European leaders are protesting the U.S. Supreme Court decision when their OWN abortion policies are at least and generally MORE restrictive than anything in Mississippi. If you believe there are unrestricted abortions in Europe, then you have been badly misled.

And here’s where Biden’s promise of codifying Roe into law was always a non starter:

When you ask most Americans whether they support abortion, you’ll find a majority do, usually somewhere in the 55-60% percentile.

That would be me. That’s my personal position. I believe a woman should have the right to abortion and abortion access — within reason.

See, when you poll WHEN abortions should be permitted — e.g. in a third trimester, or 8th month of pregnancy — that number collapses to 15-18%.

Again, I fall within that percentile. Is that unreasonable? Does that make me a totalitarian anti-choice fascist?

So while a majority of Americans believe in abortion rights, only a very slim minority believes in unrestricted abortions. Some extremist abortion activists — I call them psychopaths — believe a parent should even be able to dispose of a human child up to five years old. Surely, there has to be a point where a fetus becomes a viable human life. Hell, there are babies who have been delivered during a second trimester who are healthy today, so: What’s your number? Supplemental: If I support abortion rights, but do not support aborting babies at, say, 42 weeks, does that position make me pro-choice or pro-life? Serious question for somebody who is shattered.

The court has thrown the law back at the States. Those states will determine their own laws. It’s possible that a culturally conservative state like Utah will ban abortion altogether; whereas liberal states like California and Massachusetts might permit partial-birth abortions, if that’s what the voters of those states want.

And this is where the pro-choice movement is losing. Americans don’t want unrestricted abortions. Period. That’s strictly for population-control dystopian tyrannies in China and North Korea. Most Americans want SOME sane protection for the unborn. That’s not unreasonable.

And opinions are only hardening. You just have to look at the polling from the past two decades.

1. Science. Ever since advent of ultrasounds, polling for unrestricted abortions has gone down. You can call a fetus a “just a clump of cells” or call it “fetal matter” the same way you dismiss something as “fecal matter,” and people kinda believe it. But evidence has demonstrated that when you show them an ultrasound, they don’t see a clump of cells, they see themselves. Which is why many people are okay with first-trimester abortions BUT totally repulsed by third-trimester abortions.

There is nuance here; just don’t expect your activist local news media clowns to weigh any of it.

2. Immigration from South and Central America. Sure, the liberals and Democrats want them naturalized into the United States as quickly as possible, but biting them in the arse is the not-so-little-secret that a majority of them are Catholics and women inmigrants are especially disgusted by abortion. So, more ultrasounds and more immigrants means unrestricted abortion is going to be decreasing in popularity from it’s 18% high mark.

So, please, for the sake of your own sanity, tamp down the sky-is-falling hysteria. Abortion is not going away in the United States, it’s just that now it’s more likely their laws will align something closer to the laws of most of Europe and the rest of the civilized world, and not mirror what we see in North Korea. Is that really such an awful triggering tragedy that we get “shattered” by it?

We’re now a year and a half into Covid, with no end in sight.

What really annoys me about gov’t, health officials and state media regularly pointing fingers at “anti-vaxxers” is they won’t extend the same shame to obese people —who are seriously affecting fatality rates and ICUs far beyond the numbers of healthy people whose natural immunity systems offer them as much (if not more) protection than the experimental vaccines. These gov’ts and their media cohort refuse to condemn high BMIs because they have to stay in their politicially-correct lanes and refrain from fat-shaming. Evidence if any was required that our leaders can stamp their feet and blow a lot of smoke, but they’re not really serious. If we really are all in this together, than the fat-bodies need to start pulling their own weight, and our leaders need to be saying as much, pushing the message every day.

If they are vulnerable and at high-risk — and clearly they are, proven as scientific fact — they need to be getting DAILY exercise, resistance training, cardio, and dieting etc.. It’s been well over a year. There are no excuses. Covid doesn’t scare me in the slightest, but I’ve been a good citizen and vaxxed twice to protect fat-bodies and seniors. I’m still wearing a mask and nothing has changed. Fat-bodies need to protect themselves, and make necessary sacrifices for the rest of us. Put down the soda and get on a treadmill already ffs.

/End of rant.

I hit one of my best wagers ever a few days back at Eagle Farm, early quaddie on Bet365.

Played a short ticket, a 20-cent quaddie selecting the logical and throwing in (as-is my habit) a darkhorse Kiwi in every leg.

One of those logicals — a local-bred, Jumbo Goal — takes out the first leg at 5/2.

Nothing to get too terribly excited about. But I have no idea the ride I’m about to be taken on…

2nd leg KIANDRA GOLD (NZ) wins at 15-1. Sweet.

3rd leg THATFRIDAYFEELING (NZ) shocks at 25-1. I’m levitating.

4th & final leg LETHAL WARNING (NZ) knocks me delirious at 20-1.

Total wager — $19.20
Payout: $3,482.90

Love. Those. Kiwi. Darkhorses!!!!

Elon gets a reply. He’s updated his twitter handle.

Another shocking fall into unconsciousness for a NSW apprentice jockey within 24 hours of Leah Kilner being induced into a coma, Elissa Meredith was airlifted to emergency and the Gunnedah race meet cancelled. Two days in a row I’ve watched this. Racing is a dangerous sport. Pray for these young ladies.

https://www.racenet.com.au/news/second-apprentice-hospitalised-in-24-hours-after-elissa-meredith-falls-at-gunnedah-20220704

"For the first time in 50 years, national office seekers will have to specify their positions. Democrats will be forced either to stand firm on an unpopular extreme or moderate their positions and anger their base further. As of now, they cannot decide…”

Jul 3  /  Faith, Freedom, Self-Reliance

Democrats don't know what to do after<i> Roe </i>overturning

Despite having a six-week heads-up via a leaked draft of the Supreme Court's decision, the Democratic Party appeared caught completely off foot by the Dobbs ruling, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade.

LOL.

Slow down, Nazi!

Robby Soave  /  Jul 2  /  Health,Law & Government

Oregon Health Officials Delayed a Meeting Because 'Urgency Is a White Supremacy Value'

A second public health official cited the work of antiracist educator Tema Okun after several people on the thread objected.

Intersectionality Olympics.

(Don’t fart too much, guys, your greenhouse gas is now sexual assault.)

Prayers up for apprentice jockey Leah Kilner, she’s in a coma. She went down hard in the home straight during an early/midcard race at Grafton about 9 hours ago. I was watching the race live, her horse was back at rear and not affected by any other horse, but tripped itself and went down, throwing her hard face-first into the turf. It looked rough enough, not unusual, but this was worse than it looks. She went straight into a coma, the rest of the racecard was cancelled, she was airlifted to emergency and is right now on life support. Stomach-churning.

🙏

https://www.racenet.com.au/news/leah-kilner-flown-to-hospital-after-shocking-fall-at-grafton-sees-races-called-off-20220703

Speaking of epic bootleg quality, I was just re-listening to this one today, from imho one of the greatest bootleg vinyl ever released, top drawer for too many reasons

Unreleased song, in any capacity;
Audio quality for an early 70’s boot is excellent;
Lowell George’s priceless introduction about a Sunset Blvd hustler cruising for a hippie chick;
Explodes into hard rock a-la The Mothers, a little like Zep meets Allmans, with soaring tone and sustain, harder than anything LF did in the studio;
Segues into a congaline drum ‘n bass salsa;
Then a short, manic Richie Hayward drum solo;
Reprise and out.

13-minute hard rock instrumental, the kind you never hear on a radio.

This is why nutjobs come to record shows. Rock and Roll Heaven!

This from the same bootleg, same ‘73 Santa Monica show, is another never-released original, for all intents this song doesn’t officially exist, in any capacity. But here it is, mining the same source material as Zeppelin and the Stones, and imo stronger than either. Crusing time.

If you are a completist (hands up!) the BBC Sessions 3-cd set released a few years ago from early when Zeppelin were unknowns is excellent. Much of it had been available on bootlegs and trader tapes for decades, but the clean versions are awesome, the acoustic set especially. Zeppelin are not my fave band by any means, but I have over the course of many decades listened to every live recording of the three songs I listed above in an effort to whittle down to the Most Definitive versions, and while I still haven’t solved the riddle, after thousands of plays (again - live audience bootleg-quality audio), I’ve never grown tired of them.

Jody.