Deep thoughts for hump day:
Kennedy discusses thoughts on evolution and the value of man from the evolutionary point of view; the various -isms of theology, adaptation vs. evolution and their differences. And why knowing the differences is important.
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First? Mmm K, it’s Hump day we’re halfway there.
Mornin’ Gang
So my wife is headed off to the Land of Fruits N Nuts to take care of the granddaughters for a few days then fly to Hobby to spend a few days with her buddies there. I’m getting ready to put her big bag into the back of the Tahoe and she says; “oh crap you need to get the bag of corn out of the back”. That’s my girl. 😉
I’ve never really understood the Joe Rogan phenomena. The few times I tried to listen he was rambling on about something and didn’t make logical sense. I agree with Kennedy Hall that Joe Rogan is a confused dilettante who tends to throw a lot of unsubstantiated opinions.
Sending your child to public schools is child abuse.
This demented, disturbed boy pretending to be a girl recently enrolls in the school, makes a hit list known to many students and the girls on the list go repeatedly to administrators who do nothing.
One little girl went to her guidance counselor about it and the counselor told her to watch her back because this boy is going to come after you.
I would run this counselor out of the schools and out of town.
A teen transvestite with an apparent history of violence will likely face several charges over a savage, unprovoked attack that sent a 12-year-old girl to the hospital with head trauma Wednesday in North Wales, Pennsylvania.
The attack, which was caught on video, took place at 1:20 p.m. in the cafeteria at Pennbrook Middle School.
According to Upper Gwynedd Police Chief David Duffy, video of the incident in Montgomery County “depicts a sudden, violent, unprovoked assault with the assailant coming from behind the victim,” reported WPVI-TV.
The video apparently shows the attacker brutally hammer the victim over the head with a Stanley cup*, then smash her face repeatedly against the table. A security guard reportedly had to pry the attacker off his bloodied victim, who was subsequently shielded by a teacher.
*I included a photo of a Stanley cup to show how large and heavy they are.
Good Morning Hamsters.
We had a whole 68 at 6 this morning and a sunny sky that morphed into overcast and no breeze. The woodsy critters are making their rounds, and Old Glory is not moving on the front porch.
The assault on the schoolgirl in PA by an obviously dangerous male student posing as a female student likely has gone around the world several times by now and horrified parents and teachers everywhere. Follow-up reports will be interesting to read to discover how detailed they are or how much is left unsaid/written to “protect” the assailant and his parents from public opinion.
There is a pandemic of failure to perform abroad the nation’s governmental agencies. Incompetence and apathy, arrogance and unprofessional insularity appear to be the overriding characteristics of elected and appointed people with authority over our lives and those of our families.
In October 2022, Angela Prichard was murdered by her estranged husband, Christopher Prichard. The crime wasn’t entirely unpredictable; Angela Prichard had repeatedly sought help from police months before she was killed. But officers did nothing, even ignoring Christopher Prichard’s repeated violations of a restraining order.
Angela Prichard’s family is now suing the city of Bellevue, Iowa, claiming that police inaction directly led to Angela Prichard’s death and deprived her of her due process rights.
In April 2022, Christopher Prichard was arrested on a domestic violence charge against Angela Prichard, and a no-contact order was issued—though that order was terminated less than a month later. Around July or August, the suit states that Angela Prichard found a tracking device in her car and several hidden cameras in her home. However, when she called the police to report the devices—a violation of Iowa anti-stalking laws—the officers did nothing.
And yet, TPTB want to remove 2A rights. They want us to be baby zebras surrounded by hungry hyenas.
We give immunity to millions of judges, magistrates, law enforcement officers and social service workers and yet we are still here…
I don’t blame Supreme Court justices who might have the mistaken belief Congress would step forward to statutorily remedy this huge problem in view of their stark rulings. Some blame could be laid at the feet of the Founders who naively assumed integrity would reign among our judicial and policing systems and explicitly stating the immediate protection of life was a compelling and essential part of due process. Other blame could be cast upon the members of Congress during Reconstruction in 1968 who wrote the 14th Amendment.
THE POLICE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PROTECT YOU
The DeShaney decision has been cited by many courts across the nation and reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Namely—on June 27, 2005, in Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the U.S. Supreme Court again ruled that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.[8] The decision overturned a federal appeals court ruling which permitted a lawsuit against the town of Castle Rock for the police’s failure to respond after Jessica Gonzales tried to get the police to arrest her estranged husband Simon Gonzales for kidnapping their three daughters (ages 7, 8, and 10) while they were playing outside, in violation of a court-issued protective order. [9]
After Simon called to tell Jessica where they were at (in Denver at an amusement park), for hours she pleaded for the police to arrest Simon. [10] But, the police failed to act before Simon showed up at the police department and started shooting inside, and with the bodies of the 3 children in the trunk of his car.[11]
In her suit against the town, Jessica argued that the protective order stating “you shall arrest” or issue a warrant for arrest of a violator and that it gave her a “property interest” within the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s Due Process guarantees, which prohibits the deprivation of property without due process.[12] By framing their case as one of procedural Due Process and not of substance, Jessica and her lawyers had hoped to get around the 1989 DeShaney precedent.
To no avail, the U.S. Supreme Court saw little difference between this case and the DeShaney case.[13] Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, stated that Ms. Gonzales did not have a “property interest” in enforcing the restraining order and that “such a right would not, of course, resemble any traditional conception of property.”[14] [15] The Court went on to reaffirm the DeShaney ruling that there is no affirmative right to aid by the government or the police found in the U.S. Constitution, and thus no legal recourse could be brought thereunder. [16] The “no duty to protect” rule remains unwavering and the law today.
THE POLICE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PROTECT YOU
How could they? When a person honestly considers that the number of police to population ratio is considered one should figure out that there just ain’t enough cops to protect anyone. My brother was a cop and he brought up what i believe is fact, that a cops job is basically after the fact. Cops react after an offense occurs, there is preciously little cops can do to “protect” anyone.
True, however when they are at a place, time, and in a position to, they should.
I agree with your brother, but what about cops who deliberately ignore someone in mortal danger like Angela Pritchard in my 9:09 AM comment or Jessica Gonzales whose pleas were ignored and her three children were murdered ?
Should you send your son, nephew or grandson to a school of higher education today ?
Speaking of constitutional protections, Joe Biden couldn’t care less. The waste of time and resources soon to be spent on nullifying these regulations is outrageous. They are clearly violations of due process protections and the courts have ruled against colleges and universities repeatedly on this exact question.
On Friday, the Biden administration unveiled final Title IX regulations, nearly two years after the administration proposed dramatic changes to how colleges handle sexual assault allegations. The new rules largely mirror proposed regulations released last year and will effectively reverse Trump-era due process reforms.
According to the final regulations, accused students will lose their right to a guaranteed live hearing with the opportunity to have a representative cross-examine their accuser. This is accompanied by a return to the “single-investigator model,” which allows a single administrator to investigate and decide the outcome of a case.
Further, under the new rules, most schools will be required to use the “preponderance of the evidence” standard, which directs administrators to find a student responsible if just 51 percent of the evidence points to their guilt. Schools are also no longer required to provide accused students with the full content of the evidence against them. Instead, universities are only bound to provide students with a description of the “relevant evidence,” which may be provided “orally” rather than in writing.
First of all If I had a son, nephew or grandson or even a female version I would do all I could do to send them to some type of technical college. In lieu of a technical college and getting back to your larger subject and this abuse of constitutional rights I would encourage them to find a trade like electrician or even a plumber that has a journeyman program.
Frankly I hold colleges like Texas, UH, A&M in high disdain. From my point of view colleges focus on everything but TRUE higher education.
What do you do with a very bright child who wants to pursue scientific fields, engineering, mathematics, economics or medicine ? It’s a conundrum.
I got to see the full videos from many angles. In color. With sound.
We found him guilty of manslaughter. He’s at Ben Taub for “heart issues” he experienced in jail Monday night. Sentencing will be next Monday.
Wow. That was your jury trial?
It’s been so long since it happened I’ve forgotten the story details.
This is not near good enough for me. I want a public list of every apathetic, incompetent FBI employee who was fired for this. Was anybody actually fired ?
And remember the federal government is self-insured so when they pay out settlements like this, it is coming out of your pockets.
The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced it has reached a $138.7 million settlement deal with victims of the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to resolve their claims of wrongdoing against the FBI in its failures to investigate allegations of sexual abuse.
“For decades, Lawrence Nassar abused his position, betraying the trust of those under his care and medical supervision while skirting accountability,” Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer said in a statement. “These allegations should have been taken seriously from the outset. While these settlements won’t undo the harm Nassar inflicted, our hope is that they will help give the victims of his crimes some of the critical support they need to continue healing.”
Once finalized, the settlement will resolve 139 tort claims filed against the DOJ and the FBI in 2022 by the long list of athletes and patients who reported abuse by Nassar, including Maggie Nichols, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.
Well my wife’s plane left NW Florida Beach A/P about 10:45 AM and is now near Mossy Head along I 10, doing 497 MPH @ 33K feet, still climbing not reached cruising altitude just yet. She should be arriving at Hobby a little after noon, 12 AM CST. 😉
Tip of the day:
To make octopus or squid taste better, parboil it in a light radish broth.
I’ll make note of that.
If you find a toilet in your dream, don’t use it.
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Listened to some more of my Catholic podcasts while harvesting food and pests from my garden this morning. Return to Tradition guy Anthony Stine has inside info that the Vatican will be releasing another harmful document about Marian apparitions, which are, of course, a big thing in the Catholic Church. Two of the takeaways from his discussion:
Secondly, a discussion of the declining number of vocations ever since Vatican II, but especially since pachapapa began his reign of tyranny. I don’t even know how many good priests, bishops, and nuns have been kicked to the curb because they resisted modernism and heresy.
And don’t even get me started on the Fr. Rupnick stomach turning disaster….
I pray every day for my Church.
Hubby and I just left our neighbor’s back yard. She’s getting rid of the trampoline to make room for the grandson’s peewee baseball team this weekend. I suggested we could use the frame as a shade cover structure for at least part of my garden; use the mat as a weed cover, and the safety netting could also be used to provide shade during the hottest parts of the summer.
Tomorrow, we roll it like a huge wagon wheel into our back yard.
Mr. Childers’ discussion of the testimony by David Pecker in the Trump trial was amusing…highly amusing. Coverage of Ukraine disappointing and sad. Biden’s latest antics alarming – is he TRYING to push BRICS? And I wish we could borrow the Argentinian leader for a while….
I just recovered my Amazon package – where it was left in front of a sign that says “DO NOT DELIVER HERE….” with instructions where to go. Which match the instructions in the Amazon system. There is one driver who is just lazy and can’t follow instructions. That’s how I lost a package of laser ink one time….
The Dems have lost a House member.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/donald-payne-dies-at-65/
I wonder what happens to that seat in the next election cycle, given the political turmoil we are experiencing?
It is Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, the site of violent, destructive race riots in 1967. The result was the hollowing out of a vibrant manufacturing center and the flight of Jewish, Italian and Irish residents, both middle and upper class. Businesses and corporations followed. The American taxpayers have poured billions into the almost totally black city to try and prop it up, but it has been mired in corruption and gangster politics ever since.
I would be shocked if anyone but a black, leftist Democrat replaces Donald Payne.
I was out on the dam of the little pond whacking up the huge oak that fell across it last year and the Mower Shop called and said my Hustler was ready to go.It was almost 3 PM and I was at a stopping point so I went to pick it up. When I got home I was just going to put it back in the tractor shed but as I was going down the trail I thought I’d clean it up a little and engaged the blades. The belt barked once and I thought that was strange and then I started smelling rubber burning and when I looked down blue smoke was boiling out from under the mower. I looked under there and the belt for the blades was all chewed up. FWIW; The mower deck was working fine before I took it in for the transmission idler pulley and belt. SO I took it back and the kid said it was their fault,new guy put the belt on wrong. They said they take care of it but didn’t know if they had the belt even though they use them all the time. When I got back, feed the chickens and took Dawg for a walk I was tarred so I hit the shower and by the time I got out, about 4:30 Shelia called and said the mower was ready, they had the belt. Such a deal, I’ll pick it up first thing in the morning. 😉
It’s always best practice to triple-check your routing of deck belts.
Ask me how I know.
Check your own work. Have somebody else check it. Then check it again yourself.
It’s a simple rule of engineering and construction.
Okay, I have some good news, actually great news. In spite of everybody whining and complaining, Conservatives and Leftists alike, the hard working people of the world who don’t have time to complain are doing God’s work.
If you’re looking for further evidence that the world is recovering from the disruptions of pandemic policy, the Simon Abundance Index provides just that. After a brief retreat, the index once again portrays a world of cheaper commodities that contribute to human prosperity. Born from a famous 1980 bet between economist Julian Simon and doomsayer Paul Ehrlich, the index stands as testimony for Simon’s belief that the greatest resource is human ingenuity—although government intervention is perfectly capable of screwing up a good thing.
and,
The index was born in the days of worries over population growth and the strain more people would place on the world’s resources. The Limits to Growth, published by the Club of Rome in 1972, famously predicted that nonrenewable natural resources including copper and aluminum would start running out in a matter of years, hiking prices and curtailing availability. “Population growth and the law of increasing costs could rapidly drive the system to the point where all available resources were devoted to producing food,” insisted the authors.
“In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now,” warned Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb (1968).
Remember that hysterical nonsense ? I was a teenager and thought Paul Ehrlich was an idiot then.
I have only now had time late this afternoon to listen the hour long podcast uninterrupted of an interview of Jon Levenson of Harvard by a young Notre Dame professor, Gabriel Said Reynolds, about the heritage of Abraham.
I know this is off in the weeds for most here, but Shannon might be interested or perhaps others I don’t know about.
I went around in person during my many errands today walking in and trying to get quotes on a front end brake job for one of our vehicles. I was amazed at how obstinate some of them are. I said I can do this brake job myself. I know what the parts cost and I know how long it should take – rotors and pads. If I wasn’t busy, I’d do it myself.
The only guy to give me a quote was about $800. Three other shops wouldn’t give me any price at all..it’s too complicated. One said maybe $440, but we’re not sure and you have to bring it in for an inspection. That sounded like such a scam I would never do business with them. Good grief, these people think everyone who calls them is an idiot.
Finally, at the end of the day near my home, this Meinicke guy said bring it in the morning for 90 minutes and $489.
My last brake job, all four wheels was right at $400 here in Podunk. That was about 2 years ago but Post COVID. And NO, I don’t do brakes anymore, it’s not a fun job and I’d rather pay someone than do it myself. That said; I’d not pay $800 bucks for a brake job. One more thing my GMC is the first vehicle I’ve had with 4 wheel discs. I don’t like discs on the rear, unnecessary.
I didn’t know that meineke even existed anymore.
BTW- SQW won the blog today with the bacon-wrapped Earth.
DI had some good stuff in it, but listening to people smarter than I have convinced me that he poisoned the good with bad. He does that. I believe the term is “Peronism”. Put some good stuff in for folks to focus on while stabbing the faith in the back while they’re looking elsewhere.
Good presentation, Shannon.
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