Yesterday, I tripped over many interesting articles … so many I may have Wednesday finished and be into Thursday, though I can always delay something for breaking news. Videos were a bit sparser, but I managed. I’ll have two posts tomorrow. I got my next appointment to see Virgil confirmed for October 17 (a Sunday.)
Cartoon –
Short Takes –
DOJ Accuses ‘Subversive’ Texas Legislature of Passing ‘Terrifying’ Anti-Abortion Law to ‘Outflank’ Supremacy of U.S. Constitution
Quote – U.S. Department of Justice attorney Brian Netter argued in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas that the state had enabled a regime of “vigilante justice” in direct contravention of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of the right to a pre-viability abortion. He said the DOJ considered the state’s “ploy” to be an “open threat to the rule of law.” Netter later said Texas was “appointing vigilante bounty hunters” to enforce an anti-abortion measure that state actors would be immediately be blocked by a federal judge from enforcing on their own under the color of law.
Click through for story. We knew they were going to file this suit, but we didn’t – at least I didn’t – know they were going to use such inflammatory lahgiage in it.
The Guardian – ‘There’s tar everywhere’: large California oil spill fouls beaches and kills wildlife
Quote – The oil created a miles-wide sheen in the ocean and washed ashore in sticky, black globules along with dead birds and fish. Crews led by the US Coast Guard deployed skimmers and floating barriers known as booms to try to stop further incursion into the wetlands and the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve.
Click through for the scope of the problem, Of course this is Orange County. Plus Californi still has fires as well as CoViD.
Vox – When the world actually solved an environmental crisis
Quote – “Projections suggested that the ozone layer would collapse by 2050,” the Future of Life Institute’s Georgiana Gilgallon told me. “We’d have collapsing ecosystems, agriculture, genetic defects.” The sudden plunge in atmospheric ozone heralded a coming disaster. But the world responded. With consumer boycotts, political action, a major international treaty called the Montreal Protocol, and a huge investment in new technologies to replace CFCs in all their commercial and industrial uses, new CFC production was brought effectively to a halt over the 1990s and early 2000s. It took a while to phase out existing devices that used CFCs, but CFC emissions have been steadily falling since the protocol went into effect.
Click through for details. Of course that was then. This is now. And to solve a problem one really needs to admit that it exists.
Food for Thought –
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Sounding busy, busy. Glad that you got your date w/your Virgil. Good news!!
Cartoon: Going on for years.
L&C: Pretty scary for women in Tx., no rights, nor privileges. Sad.
Guardian: Aww…so very sad.
FFT: LOL
This just in: “We join our friends in India and around the world to celebrate the 152nd birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. @POTUS said, “We’re all reminded that his message of non-violence, respect, [and] tolerance matterstoday, maybe more than it ever has.” ~ Secretary Antony Blinken ~
2. “THANK YOU to everyone who marched today for every woman’s right to control her own health and decide her own future! It’s going to take each and every one of us to put an end to this chaos and cruelty and elect pro-choice, pro-women’s health care leaders in 2022.” ~ Beto O’Rourke ~
3. “Happy 97th birthday to a leader who personifies goodness and grace: President Jimmy Carter. America, and indeed the entire world, are so grateful for your lifetime of hard work building a better future for our children. Wishing you and Rosalynn the very best on your special day! (10/01/21) ~ Nancy Pelosi ~
4. “Sen. Sinema tried to slam the delay of the infrastructure bill as “inexcusable.” But nobody could hear her all the way from her spa in Arizona, where she’s meeting with her corporate donors.” ~George Takei ~
5. “UPDATE .. “Looks like I’m getting sprung from ICU today!! heading to regular room, and if all goes well, Home tomorrow!! Thanks! for all the continued kind words, prayers, and positive thoughts! So grateful!!!”
re: John Pavlovitz –
TJI #1 – Probably my favorite Gandhi quote:
That has always been a problem with Christians, and mixing church with state just exacerbates it.
Mine too!
TJI #1 and #3 -The fact that the birthdays of Mohandas K. Gandhi and James Earl Cartoer are so close in the calendar makes one want to believe in astrology.
TJI #2 – AMEN!
TJI #4 – Sulu says it all – nothing to add.
TJI #5 – Good news!
TJI – Latest on John P:
“Made it to my regular hospital room. Beginning to realize how tired I am. Feels good to be off so many tethers. 4 days out from brain surgery I can walk around, think (somewhat) coherently, and feel basically like I have a sinus infection. Pretty astounding.I know full recovery is going to be long and slow but I’m going to listen to my doctors and be wise, so I can stay and fight alongside the lovers of humanity for a long time.
Goodnight, friends. See you tomorrow.”
Wonderful. Tired, oh, yeah. Gotta respect that and not try to overdo. Gos bless him!
DOJ Accuses ‘Subversive’ Texas Legislature of Passing ‘Terrifying’ Anti-Abortion Law to ‘Outflank’ Supremacy of U.S. Constitution
While the GQP cries crocodile tears over what’s happening to women in Afghanistan under the Taliban, they cheer what Texas republicans are doing to women right here in the good ol’ USA.
‘There’s tar everywhere’: large California oil spill fouls beaches and kills wildlife
*sigh*
When the world actually solved an environmental crisis
Good news – rather large or small – is ALWAYS welcome!
Cartoon: Women have and will continue to march for their rights.
L & C: Shameful what Texas legislature is doing to women.
The Guardian: Awful what’s happened in California. Praying that they can get some sort of handle on it soon.
Food for Thought: It’s frustrating that they go by other rules, why not this important one?
Happy you have your next visit date with Virgil planned.
Hope you have a nice day.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
C&L: Thirteen attorneys from the U.S. government, the State of Texas, and a group of intervening parties on Friday argued strongly and without mincing words. Let’s hope Judge Pitman is open-minded enough to listen to their arguments and come out with an abortion-positive judgement.
TG: As long as offshore drilling continues, these ecological disasters will continue to happen. Another reason why we should abandon fossil fuels altogether.
Vox: The world acknowledged the environmental crisis when it was still solvable, joined forces and implemented a comparatively simple solution. None of the circumstances is replicated for Climate Change: we’re far too late in reacting (we already missed the point of no return to keep temperature rise below 1 degree), there isn’t one, relatively simple solution and there is no world unity.
FFT: The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be going much thought into it with some.
Yes. And the other thing with the ozone layer was that it was something people could (with phoros) see the hole could be seen growingng. People who had never heard of an ozone layer and had no idea what it is could be shown it and get on board. But people whi think they know about climate can havr climate change before their very eyes, in their own backyards, and not see it for what it is. That touches on more than one of your points – notably the problem being simple – but I think expands on it.