Not Yet Ready For The Weekend Open Thread

Away we go. Jonathan Turley is very interesting on the Supreme Court's recent display of collegiality:

In the latest decision, Borden v. United States, the lineup of justices was strikingly non-ideological. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the opinion for Justices Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch, with a concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas — three liberal justices and two conservatives agreeing to limit the meaning of a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Last week, the decision in Van Buren v. United States was a majority of three liberals and three conservatives. In that case, the most senior justice was Breyer; he assigned it to his conservative colleague, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote for Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, Gorsuch, Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh. Although he was on the other side in Van Buren, Justice Thomas joined his liberal colleagues in Borden.

These decisions follow a litany of unanimous decisions from the court, which seems to be sending a message in the timing of the release of their opinions: The justices do not rule on cases to send messages to Congress, but they do control what cases are accepted and when those decisions are released. It is hard not to view the last few weeks as a type of judicial “harrumph” to the continuing calls for court-packing. While we expect more ideological splits in a few upcoming cases, these cases reaffirm that they are not so rigid or “hopelessly divided,” as Democratic leaders and other critics have suggested. .

I suspect its not just Roberts who is worried about the court's current public perception as hopelessly partisan and divided.

Comments

[Narciso]

This shows enemy action

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/06/pulitzers-ignore-nursing-home-patient-deaths-favor-daniel-greenfield/

[Narciso]

Does evidence matter anymore

https://spectator.org/chauvin-floyd-evidence/

My fiahwrap had a segment why you had to dosmiss eye witness testimony shirley

[Narciso]

Sharp as a tack

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1404102430124654594

[Narciso]

Never mind

https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/11/tracy-stone-manning-tree-spiking-bureau-land-management/

[Jane]

Clarice,

Great Chauvin article. Of course my faith in the judicial system to do the right thing Is gone. No Pieces today?

[Narciso]

This is what bezos sees fit to pront
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/13/maren-altman-tiktok-astrology-bitcoin/

[Narciso]

Fool me once nod...

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlirezaNader/status/1404096091235172359

[GUS]

Collegiality is not part of being a JUSTICE.

[clarice]

No pieces today--too hard on a travel week over such a time zone difference. I'm old and stiff as a board and working on an old Mac air. I hope I'll be able to do next week. Cashill notes several things I wrote about earlier..The prosecution is corrupt and self-seeking. I wish I could put out of mind how awful the treatment of Chauvin has been, but I cannot.

[Narciso]

Its like those row of dominoes in cornwall gus not a clear thinker among them

[Narciso]

Whats the weather like over there, very humid or a little breezy.

[Narciso]

Not so much

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1403862264420110339

[Narciso]

More than likely

https://mobile.twitter.com/patpautler/status/1404003110264229889

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://rumble.com/vif4xn-johnson-and-kelly-on-tonights-life-liberty-and-levin.html

[Davod]

Clarice. I found it galling that the judge agreed to include the special circumstances provision in sentencing,

[Narciso]

Chauvin is an example for the rest of cops like the j6 gulags it cant be understood otherwise.

[Davod]

Re. Israel's patchwork government. The Prime Minister's own party comprises six Mks.

[Jane]

I can’t either Clarice. And I’m absolutely bayshit about all those people being held in solitary since Jan 6th. And no one says a word!

Stretch and have fun!

[Narciso]

The rest of the story going on

https://mobile.twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1404077287042072576

[Jim Eagle]

I love Cornwalll, all the way down to Oldtown on the Isle of Scilly. The night Diana die in Paris, I was staying in Bedford having just played in a tournament at Royal North Devon. Then I drove all the way down to Penzance and took the ferry over to Hughtown/Oldtown.

A highly recommended trip

[Narciso]

You ask for a miracle:

https://tinyurl.com/zua3nww6

[clarice]

narciso, it's a bit humid and rather breezy.

[GUS]

Who does not recognize what a piece of shit STONE-MANNING is???? Seriously. How do COMMIE PIECES OF SHIT like this ugly broad advance???

Because those who aid them are themselves PIECES OF SHIT.

[Len]

Week in Pictures

https://www.powerlineblog.com

[matt - deplore me if you must]

More inflationary pressure:

"Transporting a 40-foot steel container of cargo by sea from Shanghai to Rotterdam now costs a record $10,522, a whopping 547% higher than the seasonal average over the last five years, according to Drewry Shipping. With upwards of 80% of all goods trade transported by sea, freight-cost surges are threatening to boost the price of everything from toys, furniture and car parts to coffee, sugar and anchovies, compounding concerns in global markets already bracing for accelerating inflation."

[GUS]

Matt your post was RIDICULOUS and UN-POSSIBLE.
SLOPPY JOE said their would be nobody making less than $400,000 that would pay MOAR taxes.

[bubarooni]

I am smoking a 6 lb Boston Butt today, started about 7 AM. I am officially in 'the stall' and can't get past 167 degrees internal temp on the meat. Guests arrive at 6 PM. I am getting nervous...

[Melinda]

@HansMahncke
Here's something strange.

Daszak heads something called "Lancet COVID-19 Commission". Lancet published Daszak's fraudulent op-ed in Feb 2020. The Commission uses a United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network email address.

What's going on?

https://twitter.com/hansmahncke/status/1404196217161191425?s=21

[Davod]

Levin, on what really happened in Israel:

"...This is not a unity government. It is a government of has-beens, wannabes, reprobates and malcontents. Incidentally, Netanyahu is and has been the leader of Israel’s largest political party, Likud; all of its voters will be disenfranchised. But who cares, right? Just another bunch of deplorables, but this time apparently Israeli deplorables. And the Israelis could never have dreamed that Bennett would wind up as prime minister.

This is a historic betrayal of the State of Israel and the Jewish people, including by its ideologically radical and self-aggrandizing media..."

https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-coup-against-benjamin-netanyahu/

[GUS]

Davod. Israel has embarked on a capitulation, that will not end well.

[Narciso]

Like in the time of jereniah before the babylonian captovity.

[Narciso]

Jeremiah and captivity.

[Jane]

Hope it worked out bubarooni!

[Jane]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/biden-insults-queen-elizabeth-awkward-exchange-reporters-reminded-mother-video/

Unbelievable!

[GUS]

Not unbelievable at all. Biden is and always has been a LOW LIFE LOSER. And his "wife" likewise.

[GUS]

And my dear Jane. I am half British.

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

He is just SO embarrassing!!!

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/Wizard_Predicts/status/1404105388375556097

[Davod]

"Contagious Parasite Forces NBC Show to Shut Down Over “Explosive Diarrhea” Outbreak On Set
People were collapsing on the ground while running to the porta-potties By Missy Crane
June 12, 2021"

[Not a news show]

https://www.waynedupree.com/2021/06/nbc-show-shut-down/

[bubarooni]

Thanks Jane.

I panicked, threw a ton of fuel in the smoker hit 400 plus degrees in the smoker. Not exactly the low and slow method

I did hit 190 on the meat so I called it a day.

Everybody liked the pulled pork so everything turned out OK in the end

[Davod]

Revolver← Front page / Exclusive
How An Army of Pissed-Off Moms Are Single-Handedly Destroying The Left’s Marxist Plot
June 12, 2021 (1d ago)

"The one thing you don’t want to do is mess with a mother and her children.

There’s something that happens inside a woman when she senses that her children are in danger. It’s hard to explain how this type of protective nature works, but it’s very primal, instinctual, and powerful.

And that’s precisely what’s happening right now to scores of mothers across the country, as they watch in horror as their children’s educations are poisoned by an anti-American, anti-white, communist curriculum called “Critical Race Theory...”

https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/angry-moms-storm-school-boards-to-destroy-critical-race-theory/

[Narciso]

I thought that was just the programming

https://dossier.substack.com/p/at-the-g7-global-elite-clown-show

[GUS]

Davod. I agree. My wife would kill any one and anything that tried to harm our son. Unfortunately, she would be pushed aside, as I gouged the eye's ears nose throat and balls of anyone FIRST.
MY US AIR FORCE ACADEMY grad niece's MOM, my BROTHERS WIFE, would eviscerate anything that came near to her kids. One of the things that I love about her.

[Dave (in MA)]

They showed this ad at the end of the Sox game today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IBqI7G-VQg Not sure that promoting the home town of the Yankees with a drag queen at is going to pull in a lot of baseball fans, though A-Rod recently game out with a line of makeup for "men".

[Narciso]

Seriously
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2021/06/13/fox-news-calls-out-medias-doting-praise-biden-russia-nothing

[MissMarple2]

I am not feeling my best yet, so am caling it a night.

However, I am proud to report that my granddaughter is now up for Marion County Fair Queen!

[Dave (in MA)]

And he croaked 3 years after Lurch promised him he'd release his military records, which we haven't seen.

13 years ago today we lost my dad. We miss him. We miss Gwen too. MTP Heaven Edition! pic.twitter.com/Z632QPviNN

— Luke Russert (@LukeRussert) June 13, 2021

[Narciso]

Congrats miss marple

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1404188181331955741

[Jane]

Why won’t they release his records?

[Narciso]

Lurch hes a traitor always has been even aat in on the winter soldier assasinTion plot

[Narciso]

The only one challenging china to any degree

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/13/scott-morrison-and-joe-biden-focus-on-indo-pacific-in-first-face-to-face-meeting

[Melinda]

If Lurch let that document public, his entire construct of lies crumbles. He can’t release it, ever.

Even in death, he’ll try and take it with him.

[Narciso]

I dont think thats right

https://mobile.twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1404245258515406852

[Narciso]

Captain oveur is on team doha.

[Narciso]

Sure whatever

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/iran%E2%80%99s-torture-mastermind-set-become-next-president-187558

[Jane]

Oh you are talking about Lurch’s records, not Tim’s! Boy am I a moron!

[Narciso]

I mean tim probably lied about the whole plame matter but how are you going to prove that.

[Narciso]

Well that settles the matter, not

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1404188984176226319

[jim nj]

Interesting yet cryptic.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/index.html

Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility

Worth reading as it raises some interesting questions.

[Narciso]

Framatome was one of the two companies that seemed the iranian nuclear prpgram about 45 years ago.

[Narciso]

Actually thats when paul erdman so its closer to 50 years ago

[jim nj]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-judge-tosses-hospital-workers-covid-19-vaccine-requirement-lawsuit

Texas judge tosses hospital workers' COVID-19 vaccine requirement lawsuit, says they can 'work somewhere else'

That seems a little cavalier and poorly reasoned.

[Narciso]

The other company was siemens who sold their nuclear division to framatome in 2001

[Narciso]

Yes the same company that runs the mines in northwestern niger.

[MissMarple2]

https://apnews.com/article/japan-trials-entertainment-business-5c4f172598fc8cb67540455ae18a39e0?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

Americans stand trial in Japan, accused in Ghosn’s escape

TOKYO (AP) — Two Americans who are charged with helping former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan while facing accusations of financial misconduct agreed Monday they took part in a scheme in which Ghosn hid in luggage and was flown out of the country.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
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19m
Israel's new government begins, Netanyahu era ends http://reut.rs/3woX9EG
Image

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9681943/YouTube-suspends-Republican-senator-promoting-controversial-alternative-COVID-treatments.html

YouTube suspends Republican senator's account for promoting hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as cheaper alternative to treat COVID

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson was suspended by YouTube for sharing videos of him promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to treat COVID-19

YouTube said Johnson's comments were not 'in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies'

YouTube 'doesn't allow content about COVID-19 that poses a serious risk of egregious harm' or content that contradicts local health authorities' or WHO

Johnson said this was another example of 'Big Tech's' censorship

YouTube has 'decided there is only one medical viewpoint allowed and it is the viewpoint dictated by government agencies,' Johnson said

Ivermectin is being used in a handful of other countries, but medical experts have warned available data does not support their use

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/13/exclusive-fmr-tory-leader-says-g7-must-abandon-greedy-rush-to-china/

[MissMarple2]

http://www.dailyjournal.net/2021/06/14/school_leaders_hope_for_return_to_normalcy_this_fall-2/

This is the county just south of Indianapolis, where I used to live.

This struck me as total government interference:

“At this point, we are anticipating masks will be optional,” Arkanoff said. “The school board will make that decision in July, and it depends on guidance from the (Indiana) Department of Health and Johnson County. Masks would be optional except on (school buses). That’s a federal mandate, unless that changes.”

The federal order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requires masks on all forms of shared transportation, including school buses.

Apparently Fauci has been issuing edicts on school bus masks, which I didn't know.

[MissMarple2]

Climate Realists
@ClimateRealists
·
1h
CDC KNEW the coronavirus hospitalization rate had fallen among teens but chose to 'cynically exploit the fears of parents in cover-up to boost vaccination rate' https://mol.im/a/9683233 via @MailOnline

[MissMarple2]

Reuters
@Reuters
·
1h
Toshiba’s chairman of the board pushed back against investor calls for him to resign, blaming its former chief executive for a ‘confrontational stance’ towards shareholders that helped pitch the Japanese company into crisis https://reut.rs/35i1Zrv by @maki_yamaz

[MissMarple2]

Back to bed for me.

[henry]

Would the Chinese leadership rather hide radiation poisoning than admit a leak? Look what they did with the bio lab leak. Or all the pollution. If Maocould kill off 30 (?) million, so can Xi. This “saving face” culture is toxic.

[henry]

This will end up man made and require government to fix. They’ll blame globull warmening or something.

https://www.livescience.com/earth-inner-core-lopsided-crystal-growth.html

[Jack Lillywhite]

Greedy oil men, Henry.

[Jim Eagle]

These Portland Antifa/BLM punks are getting off too easy.

https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMrAndyNgo%2Fstatus%2F1404188984176226319&widget=Tweet

[Old Lurker]

"These Portland Antifa/BLM punks are getting off too easy."

What??? Aren't they still in solitary confinement and denied bail months after being arrested for public mayhem?

Oh.

Wait...

[Narciso]

Look how close the reactor is two hong kong this was the concern over the vver 40 models the russians wanted to put in juragua.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Texas judge tosses hospital workers' COVID-19 vaccine requirement lawsuit, says they can 'work somewhere else'--

So can judges. Past time they learned that.

[Narciso]

They might want to heat the core up with a nuke, man that movie blows chunkd

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ivermectin is being used in a handful of other countries, but medical experts have warned available data does not support their use--

This is a lie. Not that "medical experts" have said this. They have. But it's a lie that available data does not support their use. It does. And it has from virtually the very beginning. The only substantial negative study on HCQ was withdrawn from the Lancet or Nature where it was published and other smaller studies used HCQ alone which its advocates never advocated.
There may have been negative studies on Ivermectin but every one I have seen has demonstrated its efficacy.
How many dead people do Sergei and Larry have on their hands?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/day-reckoning-syrias-idlib

After frequent ceasefire violations by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other terrorist groups of the so-called “moderate opposition”, the cup seems to be spilling over. On June 10th, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian support began a heavy shelling operation on various HTS positions throughout Greater Idlib.Significantly, a pinpoint strike claimed the lives of HTS’ military spokesman, Abu Khalid al-Shami, media coordinator, Abu Musab al-Homsi, and Mu’ataz al-Nasir, commander of the group’s internal security forces.

[MissMarple2]

The Daily Wire
@realDailyWire
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5h
Palestinian Liberation Organization Threatens ‘Explosion’ If Twice-Postponed Jerusalem Day Celebration Takes Place http://dlvr.it/S1gfXR

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/betraying-america-john-perazzo-mark-tapson-and-david-horowitz-0/

[Jane]

Henry,

THat’s really interesting.

OL, is Nantucket still disgustingly blue?

[Narciso]

Hts is al queda, thats who were the beneficiaries of those missile striked

[Narciso]

Theresa may be readimg the writing on the wall.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yrrm5qccig

Jordan Peterson and a long interview of Rex Murphy, a long-time Canadian journalist, about journalism, universities, Canadian politics and Trudeau, the stupidity of the American press. Been listening to this for a couple of hours.

[Narciso]

Lol

https://mobile.twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1404416273010741253

[Narciso]

A three year old spits out less pablum

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-gnawing-at-the-foundations-of-americas-free-and-fair-elections/2021/06/13/3f40ffa0-cacd-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.html

[Narciso]

So the lead researcher on gain of function at unc of course was trying to profit off coronaviruses hes the one who suggested all the obscura of the nature of the outbreak

[Narciso]

This guy

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/wuhan-lab-partner-scheming-on-pandemic-profits/

[Narciso]

So they bar effective therapeutics they mandate lockdowns then vaccines which have long lasting impacts on young people this is nothing but a medical cartel

[MissMarple2]

Regarding CRT and the 1619 Project BS and the crap they are pushing on the military, I cannot think that it not only makes no sense but is positively evil.

[MissMarple2]

whenever I read about "humanized mice" I always think about the children's book "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH".

[Narciso]

Yes thats all matter of wrong.

[Narciso]

This clear statement angered the snowflakes

https://mobile.twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1403683501451403266

[Narciso]

Its a tough competitio
N

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/mayor-london-breed-worst-and-most-overpaid-mayor-daniel-greenfield/

[rse]

MM--

Whenever you get this much publicity across sources over a relatively short period of time, it's a coordinated effort generally so that the proposed remedy will be actively sought and its actual effects will be disregarded. In this case, we end up getting history and civics transformed into what ought to be in the future as a political theory coming in instead of what is or has been in the past. It's why all these statutes at the state levels make reference to Ideals and Founding Principles.

That's Philosophy, not history and every single one of the terms that would be considered 'abstract' principles and Ideals has been systematically redefined in ways that are all about midwifing the Human Development Society via education at every level. My sources even say so.

This interview, which had written answers to written questions still has Professor Jacobson https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/06/university-world-news-interviews-cornell-professor-william-jacobson-about-critical-race-theory/ give a stunningly poor response to why CRT is Marxism and why referring to it as Neomarxism is a factual description, not hyperbole. It's as if he has started this initiative on crt with a Cliff's Notes understanding of Marxism, the history of legal crit theory, the Frankfurt School, and Marx's early philosophic writings that are quite close to the Frankfurt School's emphasis on consciousness and subjectivity.