LongRider

Happy Winter Solstice for those who celebrate! The real reason for the season, the return of the Sun.

I see a claim made on Mastadon that "Starry Starry Knight@[email protected] Thing is, strict adherence to the text of the #14thamendment requires #SCOTUS to pass the matter to #congress to "remove such disability"... "But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." Section 3 of the 14th Amendment sez: Section 3 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." Would anyone like to comment? Will that clause have any on the affect the ruling being sent to the SC?

20 December... is the 354th day of the year 2023. There are 11 days remaining until the end of this year. 1968 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California. 2004 A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history. 2007 The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

19 December... is the 353rd day of the year 2023. There are 12 days remaining until the end of this year. 1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.

This article is from June 21, 2023 and discusses issues of the Corona virus droplets in the air. "Through manipulating the gaseous content of the air, the team confirmed that the aero-stability of the virus is controlled by the alkaline pH of the aerosol droplets containing the virus. Importantly, they describe how each of the SARS-CoV-2 variants has different stabilities while airborne, and that this stability is correlated with their sensitivities to alkaline pH conditions. The high pH of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 virus droplets is likely a major driver of the loss of infectiousness, so the less acid in the air, the more alkaline the droplet, the faster the virus dies. Opening a window may be more important than originally thought as fresh air with lower carbon dioxide, reduces acid content in the atmosphere and means the virus dies significantly quicker." June: Airborne viruses | News and features | University of Bristol

18 December... is the 352nd day of the year 2023. There are 13 days remaining until the end of this year. 1892 premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg. 1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mi/h in a Jeantaud electric car. 1865 On this day by proclamation of the U.S. secretary of state, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, officially entered into force, having been ratified by the requisite states on December 6.

Hilariously, he auditioned for the part in the "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm." He did great!

17 December... is the 351st day of the year 2023. There are 14 days remaining until the end of this year. 1903 The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane. 1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. 2003 SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.

Don't you mean your striving to make this shit classy? If the film is about Rudy G. there is no way to make it classy. I do think however, opening the film at the Four Seasons Landscaping Company would be a nice touch. (Don't forget a longshot that shows the sex shop.)

MAGAts, Chico son estúpidos. (MAGAt's, Boy are they stupid)

16 December... is the 350th day of the year 2023. There are 15 days remaining until the end of this year. 1707 Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. 1811 The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today’s heartland states of the United States. 1775 Jane Austen, English writer (d. 1817) 1917 Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (d. 2008) 1928 Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)

I received a flyer in the mail today from the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, operating as the Freedom Foundation. They have included a postcard for me to fill out, which contains the message of me resigning my membership in the SEIU Union (which I am no longer a member of due to being retired.) Wikipedia sez "The Freedom Foundation was founded in 1991 by Lynn Harsh and former Republican legislator and gubernatorial candidate Bob Williams.[6] The Freedom Foundation says "We're a battle tank that's battering the entrenched power of left-wing government union bosses who represent a permanent lobby for bigger government, higher taxes, and radical social agendas." The governing principles of the organization are to "eliminate the desire for dependence on government that has permeated [American] culture" and to promote an understanding of the principles of liberty by "disseminat[ing] those truths and motivat[ing] the citizen to act upon them." If I was working, there is no way I would resign my union membership. So, I'm going to fill out the post card with a few choice words for them written in the spaces. Since the postcard is prepaid, it will be on their dime. Fuck those guys!

15 December... is the 349th day of the year 2023. There are 16 days remaining until the end of this year. 1965 Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7. 2000 The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

14 December... is the 348th day of the year 2023. There are 17 days remaining until the end of this year. 1958 The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. A pole of inaccessibility with respect to a geographical criterion of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach according to that criterion. Often it refers to the most distant point from the coastline, implying a maximum degree of continentality or oceanity. The southern pole of inaccessibility is the point on the Antarctic continent most distant from the Southern Ocean. A variety of coordinate locations have been given for this pole. The discrepancies are due to the question of whether the "coast" is measured to the grounding line or to the edges of ice shelves, the difficulty of determining the location of the "solid" coastline, the movement of ice sheets and improvements in the accuracy of survey data over the years, as well as possible topographical errors. Pole of inaccessibility - Wikipedia 2008 President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

Took a quick look tonight. Will look more deeply at the site tomorrow when I'm fresh. First impression is the website looks good and is easy to use. More later.

13 December... is the 317th day of the year 2023. There are 48 days remaining until the end of this year. 1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators. 1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans. The two-acre (8,100 m2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing as a result of their service in Vietnam and South East Asia during the war. The names on the Wall, originally numbering 57,939 when it was dedicated in 1982, are listed in the chronological order of the dates of casualty.[8] Additional names have been added throughout the years since: as of May 2018 there are 58,320 names.

12 December... is the 346th day of the year 2023. There are 19 days remaining until the end of this year. 1950 Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services. 1982 Women’s peace protest at Greenham Common – 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km perimeter fence. Amazing protest "On the 5th September 1981, the Welsh group “Women for Life on Earth” arrived on Greenham Common, Berkshire, England. They marched from Cardiff with the intention of challenging, by debate, the decision to site 96 Cruise nuclear missiles there. On arrival they delivered a letter to the Base Commander which among other things stated ‘We fear for the future of all our children and for the future of the living world which is the basis of all life’..."The conduct and integrity of the protest mounted by the Women’s Peace Camp was instrumental in the decision to remove the Cruise Missiles from Greenham Common." Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (greenhamwpc.org.uk)

11 December... is the 345th day of the year 2023. There are 20 days remaining until the end of this year. 1934 Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time. 1931 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

10 December... is the 344th day of the year 2023. There are 21 days remaining until the end of this year. 1884 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time. 1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected. 1948 The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

9 December... is the 343rd day of the year 2023. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year. 1868 The world's first traffic light was erected near Westminster Bridge in London; however, it was removed a month later after a gas leak caused one of the lights to explode.

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Interesting. When I have an MRI done, it's for my head, as it the pituitary gland that is being scanned. The metal in my left ankle and right foot has never been a problem, and always declared. There is some skepticism noted in the article as to whether the story is true or not, and hopefully, it's not true.

I hope R's will fracture and disintegrate, but I don't see any non loony R party. They are just too far gone and too high on their own supply of bullshit.

8 December... is the 342nd day of the year 2023. There are 23 days remaining until the end of this year. 1941 Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7 in the United States. 1990 Lech Wałęsa—who had led Solidarity, Poland's first independent trade union, and had received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983—won Poland's first direct presidential election by a landslide. 1998 The United Nations General Assembly declared anti-Semitism a form of racism.

@Fragile Bird what a story! Hard to understand why a person would bring a weapon into an MRI machine in the first place. Sadly, the cliche about dumb Americans and their guns is such that even I resort to it. What a world.