Saturday, as everyone knows by now, the United States invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president (and, although not many are stressing that, the first lady.) This is way too big a story to deal with definitively here, and the (roughly 40 minute) video to which I link covers what this is going to look like in American courts. Our regime has obtained a superseding indictment which means that which judge it will go to first is probably already determined – I say probably because (as the video ends with) “there’s no box that squid can’t get out of.” I just sent a letter to my Senators – not that this Senate will do anything – but in it I pointed out that any form of immunity a criminal may enjoy in his own nation is not applicable to a defendant before the International Criminal Court. If the regime comes to get me, it’s up to you, Nameless. Also, thankfully, Trinette came by and made the afternoon a whole lot better. And I got a little knitting done also.
Referred by Daily Dose of Democracy from Yahoo News, this information should surprise no one. The key word, IMO, is “branded.” Every script I use is generic except for one, and that one isn’t covered by Medicare anyway, so I get that reimbursed through my HRA. My part D premium actually goes down tis year – only about $5 a month, but down is still down.
When I saw this article, I thought it might, through sheer numbers, address Nameless’s wondering why some people travel so far to adopt a pet. But it doesn’t. Adams County is shaped like a silhouette of the long side of a shoe box, assuming a dog or cat has been chewing at the southwestern third and taken a chunk out. That western third (less the chunk) is part of greater metro Denver, and the eastern two thirds is farmland. The population of Adams County is oevr a half million – right around 575 hundred thou. I would expect there to be enough interest in pet ownership among that many people to absorb up to 8,000 (or even 9,000) in any given year, so that some people looking for a pet would have to go elsewhere. And I would be wrong. The shelter has a fairly consistent population of 350-400 exclusive of farm animals )which they have just acquired a barn to house and don’t have stats yet.) From the videos we see, though, people who adopt a pet from elsewhere than home territory seem to be mostly people who were away from home when an animal adopted them, not the other way around. One can’t really predict or control that.
Joyce Vance reports on something I didn’t know existed – the Chief Justice’s annual report on the state of the Judiciary. She is not impressed.
This cartoon is from a collection called “What our allies are saying.” I am providing the link to it because it was impossible to pick just one.
