Pat @Pat@qoto.org

- - -
If Trump wore a jumpsuit, what color would it be?

#germany #nordstream2 #russia #ukraine #oil #food #hunger #fuel #gas #energy
#nato #eu #europe #driving #electriccar #global

Here’s a good overview on the Russo-Ukranian War and NATO...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?521360-3/washington-journal-dalibor-rohac-discusses-nato-summit-russia-ukraine-conflict&event=521360&playEvent&auto

Purple #haze all in my brain
Lately, things just don't seem the same
Acting funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky…

#Hendrix
#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry
#music

Plunge

It had been so long
since I’d done this,
but they were egging me on…

Peers are motivating, sometimes helpful
they give you courage
but mostly it’s good times and playful.

Okay, ok, I’ll do it, I’ll do it
Take a breath, take a plunge, let go
Exhilaration, motion, ouch!… Now pain go away.

Well, that’s the last time I’ll listen
to you peers of wisdom. No, no.
Why make a playground slide out of wood anyway?

#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#Poetry
#splintered

Tilt

I’m on top of the world
where the sun never sets
in the summer, all the time it gets.

I see the #sunrise everyday
but it never ever goes away
it just bounces, round and round.

But come the fall
it will touch the ground
and stop its round and round.

Then the cold and dark
the pitch, the stark
long winter, forever night.

#MastoPrompt
#SmallPoems
#poetry

This was supposed to be labeled as a #TruthBeTold, but I'm sure you've already figured that out.

- - -
#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

Okay, a little more comment...

It's a documentary about a huge traditional music festival or choral festival or something like that in Estonia.

To Breathe As One (2009)

Found this documentary - it was made about a decade before the pandemic, but...

No further comment.

(Video: 35 second, fair-use clip, no audio)

#scotus #roe #dobbs #SexStrike

Prostitutes will no longer provide services to Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland after abortion opinion...

Alyssa Milano and others call for a sex strike...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCu4iJWTI3U

#SCOTUS says it made a mistake with Roe and it is fixing its mistake.

If a court takes 50 years to correct a mistake, that court probably shouldn't exist.

#covid19 #mask #elastomeric #respirator #vax #vaccine #masks #respirators #covid #pandemic #prep

A properly worn respirator is the most effective way to prevent infection and spread of COVID-19 disease.

The most effective respirator at a reasonable price is an elastomeric respirator with detachable filters. The best filter is N100 or P100. These filters are at least 99.97% efficient at filtering out the tiny particles that carry the virus.

Respirators are effective against all variants of the virus. They are also effective against other respiratory viruses and pollen.

The respirator should be NIOSH-approved.

Make sure you do a seal check each time you wear the respirator so that no air leaks around the mask.

Make sure the filter material doesn’t get wet because it won't work as well when it is wet.

(Image: Mediawiki Commons, Danielle Blue, CC-BY-SA-1.0)

#covid19 #mask #respirator #vax #vaccine #masks #respirators #covid #pandemic #prep

A properly worn respirator is the most effective way to prevent infection and spread of COVID-19 disease.

An N95 filtering facepiece respirator is at least 95% efficient at filtering out the tiny particles that carry the virus.

The respirator should be NIOSH-approved and have straps that go all the way around your head. (Or the similar European standard FFP2)

Never ever wear a mask with earloops – they are not reliable.

The respirator should fit tightly to the face and not allow any air to flow around the mask.

You should probably also get vaccinated. The vaccine is about 44-50% effective at preventing infection at its peak effectiveness and it helps to prevent hospitalization and death, however, vaccinated people who become infected can still spread the virus.

An elastomeric respirator is even more effective.

(Image: Mediawiki Commons, Martin von Creytz, cc-by-sa-2.0, modified with PD image)

#TruthBeTold #unintended #consequences

The holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health says that the states have plenary power over abortions.

So the Vermont legislature just introduced a bill to allow abortions without restriction up to the 48th week of pregnancy.

In a separate bill, they define the moment of birth as when the umbilical cord is cut. (Nothing in US Constitution about umbilical cords, either.)

- - -
#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(public domain image per mediawiki commons)

#law #scotus #USpol #constitution #supremecourt #stare #decisis #roe #casey #quill #wayfair #dobbs #marbury #madison

Anyone who has ever seen sperm wiggling around under a microscope knows that life begins at ejaculation.

You need to understand what Marbury v. Madison did, in order to get this joke.

HINT:

Either the court was violating the law for 50 years, or they are violating the law now.

In either case, what SCOTUS says and what the law says are not the same.

#law #scotus #USpol #constitution #supremecourt #stare #decisis #roe #casey #quill #wayfair #dobbs #marbury #madison

My opinion:

Marbury v. Madison was incorrectly decided and is therefore overturned.

(my opinions take precedent over SCOTUS’s opinions)

#scotus #dobbs #jacksonwomanshealth #noroe #roe

If I read the court’s opinion correctly in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health,

1. If there is no specific enumerated or implied right mentioned in the US Constitution, then a state can make a law to prohibit the exercise of that right.

and

2. There is no explicit or implied right to bodily integrity in the US Constitution.

Therefore, according to the ruling, a state can make a law that requires everyone to have a barcode tattooed to their forehead.

That sucks.

#law #scotus #USpol #constitution #supremecourt #stare #decisis #roe #casey #quill #wayfair #dobbs #marbury #madison

one more time...

Is it more important to follow the law, or to follow what the Supreme Court says?

#bluetoot

Nothing to say. Just want to be the first to use this hashtag...