"While the population of minors dealing with this is an extreme minority, this could lead to significant harms from suicide to drug use to isolation,” Hutchinson said.
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BREAKING: Biden’s DHS may restart construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall to fill any "gaps” in the current barrier, says DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
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NY budget will likely hike taxes on state’s top earners to highest in the country
The additional tax revenue would be used to up spending for schools, provide funds for undocumented workers and for small businesses and tenants who are behind on their rent, the Journal reported.
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- Oracle has lost its copyright suit against Google over the latter's use of the Java API. (ZDNet)
This was a hugely important case; a win here for Oracle would have destroyed the US software industry, which has its problems but doesn't deserve to be wiped out.
Interesting to note that the 6-2 split had Thomas and Alito dissenting. I'll need to read their opinion because they are not idiots.
The full decision is here.
The decision doesn't sound particularly decisive according to commenters at Hacker News.
The fact that the Supreme Court decided not to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that APIs are copyrightable means that binding precedent on every court except the Supreme is that they are. And for fair use, one of the statutory factors is the "effect" of the copying on the "market for or value of the copyrighted work."
That is, they handed the case to Google, but set no precedent for the lower courts. In short, they punted.
Not unfamiliar behaviour for SCOTUS watchers.
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Good morning kids. Tuesday, and in the lead is the continued Orwellian assault on logic and reason, the focus of which is the recently passed voter integrity law in the state of Georgia. I have no love lost for Brian Kemp and his state's Republican lawmakers. In abrogating their legal responsibility and absolute moral authority to prevent Georgia's 2020 national electors from being stolen, they, along with the four or five other cities across the country that used an overflowing sewer in Atlanta as the pretext and camouflage to hijack their states' elections, they have put us figuratively and quite probably literally before too long under the gun.
Perhaps Kemp's and his party's reasoning for passing these laws, which if you look at the fine print aren't necessarily as tough as they are being made out to be (and that in itself is another reason to be utterly disgusted with anything GOP) was trying to wash away the taint of failure from last November and save their sorry asses from an irate electorate. They had to have known, especially since one of the fattest faces of election fraud there and nationally for well over a year is Stacy "Tank" Abrams, that signing this law would cause a reaction from her and her ilk. In any case the firestorm that it has touched off is off the charts, especially given the absolute stranglehold on elections courtesy of Dao-Min Yen among other things, and the near compete control the Enemy has of all branches of government, the bureaucracy, the media, schools and an alarmingly large swathe of the private sector.
Well, you take the most flak when you're directly over the target. And in digging his heels in and doubling down on defending the law Brian Kemp is acting merely out of political expediency, then so be it. To paraphrase Milton Friedman, this is a prime example of an absolutely wrong person profiting politically (TBD) by doing the right thing. As I alluded earlier, the Orwellian, insane position that somehow requiring someone to have a valid ID to prove who they are when casting a vote is the moral and legal equivalent of lynching Emmet Till does not and cannot hold water in this or any other universe, despite the volume in both decibels and phlegm being spewed in all directions from the usual suspects.
Dao-Min Yen, Mail-In Voting and the imminent legalized election-rigging of the "For the People" Act (sound of Sefton retching), how is it that on one day every two years, asking someone to show an ID is racist and disenfranchising? Do blacks and minorities not have driver's licenses, or passports, or other government-issued IDs? How are they supposed to get into most if not all buildings, take out loans, buy cigarettes and booze, certain over the counter and most prescription medicines, gain admittance to bars and nightclubs or even... get on an airplane?
I'd like to think Delta CEO Ed Bastian is merely doing this to avoid having to put out the mostly peaceful flames on the backs of his wife and kids courtesy of the mostly peaceful Armed Militant Wing of the Democrat Party, Black Lives Matter/Antifa. If on the other hand he is below a certain age and a product of the American higher education system that is alarming. Either way, we as a nation - now in name only - are well and truly screwed.
And speaking of Democrats, Atlanta and Nazis, Coca-Cola has also jumped on the woke bandwagon in declaring something completely rational and reasonable to be racist and evil. Too bad as they try to burn the negative and every copy of Gone With the Wind and erase history, they seemed to have missed this little nugget from the Wayback Machine:
Tyranny -- It's the real thing.
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- "If Coke remains so intent on "cancelling" white Americans for the problems it sees in America's history, then Americans should cancel Coke for the problems it overlooked in Nazi Germany's." Maybe Coke Should Be Cancelled for Its Nazi Past
- David Horowitz: The Enemy Within reveals how a totalitarian movement is destroying America." Why I Wrote This Book
- Lloyd Billingsley: "Hope springs eternal." Lessons From a Journalist's First Encounter with Totalitarianism
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French bulldog has tantrums, sasses owner into giving her what she wants. I don't know if this is cute or just as insufferable as it would be in a child.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed House Bill 1570, which would have banned gender confirming treatments for minors.
Until Monday, Hutchinson had to either sign the bill into law, not sign it and allow it to become law, or veto the bill.
"This is a government overreach. You are starting to let lawmakers interfere with healthcare and set a standard for legislation overriding healthcare,” Hutchinson said in a Monday news conference. "The state should not presume to jump into every ethical health decision.”
Hutchinson left the door open for the bill to be changed, "If this was just to ban gender reassignment then I would support it, but those who are taking treatment are not grandfathered in, this is not the right path to put them on.”
Trans people are forever threatening to kill themselves if they don't get their way. This means that we have to let ideological-zealot transgender doctors cut off little boys' penises?
Hutchinson says the bill was overbroad, restricted people’s decisions, and <b>sent a message about Arkansas that he did not want to send.
As far as any economic impacts to the state if he had signed the bill, Hutchinson said there was very little expressed.</b>
Bullshit. The "message" he didn't want to send is that sometimes the people of Arkansas may choose different policies than the Chamber of Commerce, AEI, Facebook and Google desire.
And neocons can't have that.
Sohrab Ahmarimoronic veto, sounding the death knell of "limited-government" conservatism: If "conservatism" can't defend kids against mutilation, it needs to die. And it will die.
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Good morning, kids. Monday and fingers crossed this is working. A fire in Utah knocking us out sounds almost as wacky as a toilet backing up in Atlanta flooding six states on Election Night. Almost. Unfortunately there will be no editorial this morning. It took me about two hours to completely reformat everything for this site (feh). That said, everything is pretty much self-explanatory so talk amongst yourselves. Hopefully this will be fixed by tonight or tomorrow. You can always go over to my site as well in case this thing is a total FUBAR. I will repost there shortly.
Fingers crossed
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- Roger Kimball: "It’s easy to understand and reject the horrors of totalitarianism. It is much less easy to grasp its inexorable logic or its seemingly implacable attractions." The Appeal of the New Totalitarians
- "A landmark report on race deals a major blow to woke fever dreams. But progressives want progress only when progress progresses their power." White Privilege Doesn’t Exist
- "Even if we take the vaccine, we must fight for the rights of those Americans who do not want to take it." Vaccine Passports to Hell
- "An NIH grant that involved the modification of bat-based coronaviruses and the transfer of $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the pandemic bypassed P3CO review because the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, led by Anthony Fauci, didn’t flag the project for review." US Grant to Wuhan Lab to Enhance Bat-Based Chinese Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized by HHS Review Board, NIH Says
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April 04, 2021
— Ace Sorry to interrupt your Easter like this folks.
There was a power outage at our hosting company. They switched over to generator power, but then one of the generators had a problem and now they have to check their electrical systems before they can bring things back online.
I had this site already built for testing so I'm pointing over to it until we can get the main site back online.
Update: I have more details from our (regular) hosting provider.
They had a power outage in their Utah datacenter where we live. They switched to generator backup.
Then one of the generators caught fire.
The fire was put out immediately, but power has been cut to the entire building until a safety inspection has been completed. They also note that some servers might have water damage and could need a rebuild.
We might be here a couple of days, so pour yourself a drink and get comfortable.
Side note: Buzzion was playing with a blog feature that lets you automatically insert the reader's name into a post or comment. He didn't actually stop by and insult everyone individually.
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