Ignored? Even the sheep? Even in Arkansas?
“Biologists love penises,” writes Rachel Gross in “Vagina Obscura,” noting that the vagina has typically been given short shrift.
Category: Knowledge and News
After this ruling (Dobbs v. Jackson), about half of the states will enact near-total bans of abortion.
For example:
The Texas attorney general says abortion is now illegal in the state. He has given his staff the day off to celebrate and has declared June 24 an annual holiday for his office.
Fortunately, Texas has no other problems, allowing the police to spend all of their time arresting physicians and pregnant women.
“THE has been a rallying cry in the Ohio State community for many years.”
Damn! I already had my football uniforms ordered for THE Other Crap University. Our rallying cry is “Makes Trump U seem legit.” Since all of our students are in their 50s through 70s, we don’t have much of a football team, but we do beat Rutgers every year.
If ever an article was intended for Other Crap …
See the comments for an interesting addition.
USA:
On June 10, 2022, the 7-day average number of COVID fatalities per day hit its all-time low since they first had reasonably accurate numbers, way back in in April of 2020. The rate of fatalities per capita has now dropped lower than Canada’s.
In contrast, the number of reported cases in the States is not declining, but neither is it increasing. The 7-day average has been hovering around 100,000 since May 17. It should be noted that the case numbers are really unreliable now, because in-home rapid testing has become so widely employed. It is presumed that many, many positive tests are not reported to authorities.
Roughly half of the states have declined in the past two weeks, and in some cases by very large percentages. Nearly every Northeastern state has seen cases fall by 30 percent or more, led by Maine and Connecticut, which are reporting only half as many as a fortnight ago.
There are still areas of the country in trouble. Alaska, Colorado and Florida, for example, are all four times the red line for new cases and are still increasing. COVID hospitalizations are also increasing in all three of those states.
We may be through with the virus, but it is not through with us. The nation’s official testing percentage is 14%, which is well into the red zone, and about five times higher than it was in early April. We are fortunate that the most common current strains are rarely fatal.
Global:
As of last week, only 18 major countries were still in the red zone for new cases (1000 cases per million population per week). They are listed below, from most cases (per capita) to fewest.
Taiwan
N. Korea
Portugal
New Zealand
Australia
Singapore
Germany
Chile
Israel
Greece
Austria
France
Italy
USA
Finland
Spain
S. Korea
Brazil
Cases are still increasing in seven of those countries:
Israel
Austria
Brazil
Italy
Chile
Germany
Greece
And fatalities are increasing in four of those seven:
Chile
Brazil
Austria
Italy
None of those four are currently in the red zone for fatalities, so no countries made the devil’s quadrifecta.
There are only two major countries in the world still in the red zone for fatalities: Taiwan and Portugal. Both of those countries are in rough shape overall, but the “new cases” rate is declining in both. Unfortunately, the decline is from “extremely bad” to “still extremely bad, but less than last week.” Taiwan’s new case rate is still 20 times the red line, and Portugal’s is 11x. Taiwan is currently leading the world in both new cases per capita and fatalities per capita, while Portugal is third in new cases and second in fatalities.
To place Taiwan’s numbers into North American perspective, both its case rate and its fatality rate are approximately ten times as high as the USA’s.
“This 830-million-year-old crystal might contain life. And we’re about to open it.”
“It does sound like a really bad B-movie, but there is a lot of detailed work that’s been going on for years to try to figure out how to do that in the safest possible way.”
But the jurors admonished the prosecution for wasting their time.
there is no limit to the number of guns you can own in texas but there IS a limit to the number of dildos you can own (5)
— nicole tersigni (@nicsigni) May 26, 2022
Story here
When Ted Cruz was the Solicitor General in Texas, his office argued the following before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals:
“There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.”
“How to Murder Your Husband”? Say, that is romantic. Bronte sisters, step aside! There’s a new queen of romance in town.
Romantic or not, it represents a tough job for a defense lawyer.
Her original title was to be “If I Did It,” but that was already taken.
The shooter was not an illegal alien, unless you consider North Dakota a foreign country, because that’s where he was born.
The shooter was not a transgender person. All of the photos purporting to show that are clearly identified as completely different people, who are understandably pissed off about how their pictures are being used.
It goes without saying that this was not a false flag operation. 19 aggrieved sets of parents are mourning the loss of 19 fourth graders. These parents are joined in grief to the friends and families of two educators.
The crazy begins. Leading the charge has been the ever gullible Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, who spread two of the three rumors in a single tweet, claiming that the shooter was a “transsexual leftist illegal alien.” In the past Gosar has supported various lunatic theories by tweeting doctored photos and once famously declaring that Antifa was responsible for storming the Capitol on Jan 6.
Is this a great country, or what?
Oh, sure, the U.S. Constitution defends this, but this is deeper than man’s law. The right to advertise beer with penis imagery was dictated by god himself. I believe you can find it in St Paul’s letter to the Dalmatians, 4:20.
Curiously, the Dalmatians never wrote back.
I guess they knew how to pick their spots.
Although there is probably some simple explanation, this does look really cool!
OK, maybe it should be called a “transit” rather than an eclipse, but it is still fascinating to see odd-shaped Phobos make its way across the sun.
It leads one to ponder the wonderful celestial coincidence that our moon and our sun appear to be almost the same size (and shape) from our perspective, thus creating such spectacular eclipses.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
“No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending.”
Here is the full draft.
If the court upholds Mississippi’s law, which seems to be indicated, that state will allow no exceptions for rape and incest!
The USA would become just the fourth major country to tighten abortion controls since 1994, joining Poland, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
The full COVID update for Tuesday is here.
In the USA, cases are up 61% in the past two weeks, and there are now more states in the “new cases” red zone than out, 29 to 21. And the official numbers are probably low because more and more people are testing at home rather than heading out to a lab or clinic. Positive home tests have a way of staying out of the official stats.
The official testing percentages are creeping steadily upward. No states have re-entered the red zone yet, but a handful are getting close.
There is also some good news. COVID total hospitalizations and ICU cases remain steady, and fatalities are still declining. Only five states are in the fatality red zone.
Only one state (Kentucky) is in the red zone for both new cases and fatalities.
“In much of Earth’s northern hemisphere, this line of planets appears most nearly horizontal, but in much of Earth’s southern hemisphere, the line appears more nearly vertical. Pictured over the Sydney Opera House in southern Australia, the planet line was captured nearly vertical about five days ago.”