A Texas doctor reveals he performed an abortion in violation of the state’s new law that bans most abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy, arguing he “had a duty of care to this patient” and she had a “fundamental right” to an abortion. https://t.co/kbnbwnJZfp
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 20, 2021
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that could be THE case that goes all the way to the top. hope her condition was such that no doctor nor court (even the scotus hard core anti-s) would have come to a different conclusion than he did.
reposting this from last thread because there’s a certain deliciousness about the thought of a toothless tiger – take your pick whether it be mitch or the enfant terrible:
reported in the hill earlier today, that bigly loser former guy
“is vetting possible candidates to remove Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his leadership position, according to The Wall Street Journal.”
what are the odds? are we about to witness someone’s last hurrah? and which one would you like to see win the show of power?
what a classy acceptance speech. nicely done, john.
from hollywood reporter:
no, this isn’t script from a classic ’70s sci-fi movie. it’s real and right now:
Pfizer Says Vaccine Trials For Kids Show Its Shots Are Safe : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
So, will charges against this brave doctor bring about the lawsuit that takes this to the SC?
BiD, I’d be surprised if someone didn’t file suit against Dr. Braid to try and collect their $10K. Charges are a different matter – what I’ve read about the law says it prohibits state officials from enforcing the ban, but I haven’t read anything about how broad that provision is. Dr. Braid’s medical group is among the plaintiffs challenging the law, so we’ll see how this plays out. The article at MSNBC from Poobah’s post is fairly informative.
And following up on Dr. Braid, WaPo printed an Op-ed by him about the decision.
We need more Dr. Braids.
Yup… brave doctor! I bet he knows he setting things up for a SC fight.
Thank you repubs…. you’ve given a really great reason for women to show up and vote come next November.
BTW… Pogo… we watched the Alabama vs Florida game this past Saturday.
Phew that was a close one… but roll tide!
that LP ad was supposed to run during the texas-rice football game.
Longhorn Network pulled ad slamming Greg Abbott, according to Lincoln Project (chron.com)
yeah sure.
Allen Weisselberg, Trump Org. ex-CFO, expects more indictments, his lawyer says – CNNPolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-speak-us-focus-intensive-diplomacy-un-official-2021-09-20/
Lots of traffic controls and security all over the city for the UN general assembly this week.
So I made 72 today , found 50 bucks working on my dome connector invention , and began writing the patent application .
Little sister is helping with research .
She found an outline of how to write one. Using one that is also a PVC connector system.
Going to repair my working model , found all the parts.
The system lets you build all of these.
Cheap , and very strong.
I made the working model 11 years ago. And knew the next steps were a tall order. Patent, Molds etc.
I was in a “makers” frenzy then , and moved on to a wind powered compost digester for my green house .
The Tornado boys at 19th , and Buddy Holly had a great shop , and I made everything I could there. I had a key they gave me , I made the most of it.
One of the most difficult to hear screams is from an old, from the beginning of computers old, programmer and computer systems person. What is shiny and wonderfully misunderstood? Why “artificial intelligence” of course. It is not intelligence, I will give it might be artificial. What it is could be, at my most beneficent, is a lot of hype and a lot of computer power. Facial recognition? Sort of, but it is also biased against racial minorities in the U.S.. Intelligence sniffer? Sure, but it takes a lot of training, and a lot of computer power, but it fails to identify spies putting U.S. secrets on the dark web. Chess master? Please, it runs through a lot of moves, and a lot of computer power. Get the trend?
If the writer of the wonders of A.I. stuff does get to the key part of it all you will read about “training”. Training is feeding the big and complex algorithm (the plan for the software to follow to achieve results hoped for) a lot of data so it has its tables full of data to run against. If you read about software types attempts to make their personal A.I. machine work you can sometimes read the bloopers. Fed it all sorts of data to identify three legged crocodiles and it identifies chocolate cream pies instead. The idea is the A.I. program starts with a pre-staged concept of what it is supposed to find, and it narrows and creates more stringent data to do that.
We used to attempt this back in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s but did not have the computer power to do much more than laugh. Some of the best laughs were after we had been in a bar for lunch and then returned to watch our failures.
Now there are a lot of very powerful computers and memory, which are very fast, allowing programs to zip through all sorts of software and matching with hearing and visual devices to feed those programs with data. The result is as expected. Yes, some very specialized A.I. functions okay, sorry to the poor souls who are identified as criminals after filling up at a gas station and then shot and killed because the authorities believed the A.I. outputs. For the most part if you have a specialized project, say identifying luggage on a conveyor belt to sort to various jet ports for delivery to a aeroplane, it can work. The rest are works in progress.
This article presents what I write about above into something to enjoy while sipping something nice.
That volcano on La Plama , watch it very closely .
That island has a huge fissure across it . Being made form volcanos , its just a pile of ash, and stones.
Several trillion tons of that island could slide into the Atlantic to night. And it would go deep , displacing a mind boggling amout of water.
The wave could be 100 feet high when it hits the Americas.
There is a PBS story about this very thing.
And it has happened before , Part of the Big Island did the same thing , they found the proof in Australia.
OK, so, elephant in the room, since this is a small community:
i don’t feel i deserved to be attacked, personally, last night, and none of you deserved to be exposed my tactless response to it. Since i lack the capability to restrain my anger in such contexts, the only way i can prevent it from happening, again, is to avoid both participation and frankly, reading the blog, at all, because it’s just too easy to log-in should the conversation compel me to do so. That’s a fault of mine and nobody else. i had been trying to extricate myself from this sphere, gracefully, and gosh darn it if i didn’t stumble in the home-stretch. Fie!
i’ll miss chatting with you all, but life’s too short to let a piece of glass ruin my mood, so a pleasant autumn to you.
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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.
OM- Happy 72
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