OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge in Oklahoma on Tuesday ruled against the state in its lawsuit challenging the vaccine mandates for members of the Oklahoma National Guard in a dispute that is the first critical test of the military’s authority to require National Guard troops to get the shot.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot denied Oklahoma’s request for a preliminary injunction, saying the claims by Gov. Kevin Stitt, Attorney General John O’Connor and 16 anonymous Oklahoma National Guard members were without merit.
“The vaccine mandate to which the governor objects is the one — in addition to the nine that already apply to all service members — intended to protect service members from the virus which has, in less than two years, killed more Americans than have been killed in action in all of the wars the United States has ever fought,” Friot wrote. “The court is required to decide the case on the basis of federal law, not common sense. But, either way, the result would be the same.”
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McFadden refused Judd’s request on Tuesday, explaining that the Portland riots didn’t have the same severe consequences as the attempted coup on January 6.
“Although both Portland and January 6 rioters attacked federal buildings, the Portland defendants primarily attacked at night, meaning that they raged against a largely vacant courthouse,” McFadden wrote. “In contrast, the January 6 rioters attacked the Capitol in broad daylight. And many entered it. … Their actions endangered hundreds of federal officials in the Capitol complex. Members of Congress cowered under chairs while staffers blockaded themselves in offices, fearing physical attacks from the rioters.”
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Nichols, weighing the case against another January 6 defendant, Garrett Miller, said on December 21 that the unrest in the two cities had “obvious differences” and the disruptions put hundreds of government officials at risk.
“The Portland rioters’ conduct, while obviously serious, did not target a proceeding prescribed by the Constitution and established to ensure a peaceful transition of power,” Nichols wrote. “Nor did the Portland rioters, unlike those who assailed America’s Capitol in 2021, make it past the buildings’ outer defenses.”
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Two good days in court for the republic, all in a day, the Oklahoma case having the most impact IMHO. Title of any article reporting it should be Federal Judge with Ability to Read Brushes Aside Vacuous Argument of Republican Governor.
Ha! Let’s go Darwin! Love it!
meanwhile life goes on in the pet world
Innocent. Obviously, it's another case where a cat breaks in & frames the dog. You see it all the time when it comes to eyewear. pic.twitter.com/KWuKCAEsgL
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden took their new German Shepherd puppy, Commander, out for a stroll on the beach.
Joe and Jill certainly like their military-related names for their dogs. Of course spot or Fluffy don’t really work for GSs. Now, why is Joe wearing a KN95 on the beach?
Pogo… I bet Biden knew they’d be filmed and he wanted to set an example.
yeah… cats may not be as friendly as dogs… but they definitely are smarter… 🙂
Oof, Maddow was trying to be funny and exposed herself as an inattentive dog-owner that didn’t crate-train, whoops, gotta be careful on that Twitter!
Cats are not smarter than dogs, name one that was trained to do a job.
aah Bink… you said the magic word…. “trained”…
no self respecting cat is stupid enough to allow itself to be “trained”…
just had to share…
My dogs are so smart, they often times know what i’m going to do before i know.
Or, maybe i’m dumb, but so is my useless cat
The Trump emails are getting positively panicky. They have gone from a couple of times a day to at least once every hour all begging for donations before the filing date. Don, Jr. and Ms. Gillycuddy are the silliest with pitches for calendars, dinners, honorary certificates blah blah blah. It’s obvious the cash just isn’t rolling in like it once did.
Jamie – Cocaine isn’t cheap.
Haven’t the feds tried to track their supplier?
Renee- a classic song from the late 20s?
Jamie, pity, isn’t it? I figure a healthy percentage of the fundraising appeals from Dumbass the Former and his family and “friends” get caught up in spam filters.
Pogo… my favorite version…
Renee, mine, too. Much better than Fred’s version.
I give up trying to understand CDC guidelines. Credit Card fine print makes more sense.
Yo do me an Xmas favor and ban me from this trash-receptacle of a forum you don’t even bother to read, thanks in advance, Happy New Year 🥳
Poobah, CDC guidelines are simple and straightforward. Ok, maybe not. Something about 5 days following symptoms and/or positive test (although I’m a little foggy on what to do for 5 days), masks for 10 and you shouldn’t worry about flying. Me, I wear my mask indoors except at home or in the office, get tested if I have any cold/flu symptoms and will isolate if I test positive. I hope that keeps me and those around me relatively well and safe from serious disease. So far it seems to have worked.
must be something dreadfully wrong with me but i think the CDC guidelines make perfect sense. even if they don’t, just wait for a couple of days and they’ll have new ones to parse and grump about.
bink, i assume you feed the cat, wait on it hand and foot, take it to the vet annually etc etc etc (aka being a faithful loyal servant) and do not require “useless” to do work like guard the house or follow commands or do stupid tricks. sooo who’s the dumb one here?
by the way there are a lot of working cats in the cinema world. there are even house cats who’ve been trained to happily use a toilet/commode thus not budening their human slaves with litter duty.
There’s nothing quite like YouTube videos of cats shitting in their humans’ toilets to change one’s perspective on an otherwise crappy day.
RR –
There aren’t any bomb sniffing cats.
Well once again the courts held up.
John Madden –
“He boinked it. ”
Describing the sound when a field goal kicker hits the upright.
CBob…. yup… only butt sniffing ones… or is that what dogs do 🙂
Hey… it was a joke that was taken waaaaay too seriously…
ms maxwell guilty on 5 outa 6 counters
Will Maxwell now flip against Clinton, the Prince et al for a lighter sentence?
The James Webb Space Telescope has started unfurling its giant sunshield
This thing is so beautiful , and completely amazing .
The James Webb Space Telescope, on a long and winding journey to its job site a million miles from Earth, has begun the key task of unfurling a giant umbrella-like shield to protect its delicate instruments from the intense radiation of the sun. The deployment of the shade — one of numerous maneuvers that must be performed flawlessly for the $10 billion telescope to function properly — began Tuesday with the successful lowering of two arms known as Unitized Pallet Structures.
RR-
You’re right , I’d rather have a cat sitting on my face, than a dog . Always loved them both.
CC –
In a heart beat.
They house five ultrathin membranes made of a shiny material called Kapton packed inside, along with the cables and pulleys needed to fully deploy. NASA expects the slow and deliberate process of unfolding the tennis-court-sized shield to continue at least through the weekend. …………………….
The successful deployment of the sunshield will keep the temperature of its instruments just above absolute zero, which in turn will minimize infrared background “noise” in the form of heat from the sun.
The Webb offers a great lesson on “greenhouse gases”.
It’s a few degrees above Absolute Zero on the telescope side of those 5 sheets of Kapton , it’ll be over 600 F degrees on the sun side of them. Just a few feet apart. But there are no gases to move the heat around .
CC, I’m not aware of what testimony might be sufficient to charge Clinton, Dumbass or Randy Andy with a crime. Just embarrassing them won’t do to lessen the time she spends in the pokey. If that was the case Epstein could have done that.
Human Error.
Good on CNN’s Jim Acosta for asking the pertinent question tonight about Maxwell: “What are the prospects she could potentially help federal prosecutors land a bigger fish… for a lighter sentence?”
Pogo, Epstein staff have testified Clinton was a regular at Epstein’s sex island
“Bound for a star firey ocean”
Light gets old , as the Webb looks back at the infrared shift it’s been getting stretched , the older it is, the faster it’s moving away from us. The light is being pulled apart , that’s why the Webb only sees the long waves.
Still have doubts about Clinton. The youngest public affair we know for a fact was Lewinsky and she was 23.
Lake Tahoe sees 16 feet of snow in December, crushing records
This record snow came after a year of extreme heat and drought.
The coldest US state of Alaska has recorded its hottest-ever December day, amid an unusual winter warm spell.
Temperatures soared to a record 19.4C (67F) on the island of Kodiak on Sunday – almost seven degrees warmer than the state’s previous high.
But elsewhere in Alaska temperatures have been plunging to record lows.
In the south-eastern town of Ketchikan, temperatures dropped to -18C (-0.4F) on 25 December – one of the town’s coldest Christmas Days in the past century.
The weather extremes have prompted warnings of an “Icemageddon” from authorities, as torrents of rain and snow have left ice as hard as cement coating the roads.
………………………… “When all the pieces come together in a warming world we’re going to get these unprecedented events, that’s what we expect,” he said.
The cold is set to return – temperatures in Fairbanks are forecast to drop to below -29C (-20F) this weekend.
But warm, soggy episodes are likely to be more common in the future, Mr Thoman predicted.
“2021 really seems to be the year these extreme precipitation events have really come to the fore,” he told the BBC.
CC –
We live in the “Age of Ten Thousand Reckonings” .
Donald Trump’s Scotland Golf Resorts Lost More Than $8 Million in 2020
My current court case is Liz and Theranos.
That woman during her rise was amazing , her eyes, pitch. and smooth . And above all her promise.
At some point this is a good thing , I have yet to see it.
I always felt she would eat my liver with lima beans , and Italian wine.
Now looking back, she’s about 3 degrees from Bill.
Nite all , off to watch Nature –
Poobah, don’t doubt that- I did not follow the Epstein trial at all. It was a foregone conclusion. Just didn’t hear any report of implicating testimony in the Maxwell trial. Even that doesn’t suggest it wasn’t there, but I suspect if it had been we’d be well aware of it. That said, when was that trial? Where is the grand jury? Where is the indictment? Or to take a turn toward cynicism, is the prosecutor afraid of the career ending indictment for a democrat?
“With some of the crops, I’ll try to irrigate every 15 days, which is really stretching the level of what they can handle,” Parker says. “There are different benefits in intentionally restricting water. In certain crops, I’m seeing a different root morphology…”
“Keeping seed diversity available to small growers is a supply chain imperative, says Haga of Seed Savers Exchange. “Independent seed producers have the ability to steward a wider selection of crops and varieties that don’t necessarily have [the] traits [that the global seed trade breeds for like uniformity and shelf life]…”
…or our own survival?
in the same vein as “eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we shall die” is the runner-up cartoon of choice for today’s thread:
a little song for those party-ing
AFtimes:
and on the survival of democracy front
Two Trump-appointed judges reject comparisons between January 6 and Portland political unrest – CNNPolitics
Two good days in court for the republic, all in a day, the Oklahoma case having the most impact IMHO. Title of any article reporting it should be Federal Judge with Ability to Read Brushes Aside Vacuous Argument of Republican Governor.
Ha! Let’s go Darwin! Love it!
meanwhile life goes on in the pet world
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden took their new German Shepherd puppy, Commander, out for a stroll on the beach.
Joe and Jill certainly like their military-related names for their dogs. Of course spot or Fluffy don’t really work for GSs. Now, why is Joe wearing a KN95 on the beach?
Pogo… I bet Biden knew they’d be filmed and he wanted to set an example.
yeah… cats may not be as friendly as dogs… but they definitely are smarter… 🙂
Oof, Maddow was trying to be funny and exposed herself as an inattentive dog-owner that didn’t crate-train, whoops, gotta be careful on that Twitter!
Cats are not smarter than dogs, name one that was trained to do a job.
aah Bink… you said the magic word…. “trained”…
no self respecting cat is stupid enough to allow itself to be “trained”…
just had to share…
My dogs are so smart, they often times know what i’m going to do before i know.
Or, maybe i’m dumb, but so is my useless cat
The Trump emails are getting positively panicky. They have gone from a couple of times a day to at least once every hour all begging for donations before the filing date. Don, Jr. and Ms. Gillycuddy are the silliest with pitches for calendars, dinners, honorary certificates blah blah blah. It’s obvious the cash just isn’t rolling in like it once did.
Jamie – Cocaine isn’t cheap.
Haven’t the feds tried to track their supplier?
Renee- a classic song from the late 20s?
Jamie, pity, isn’t it? I figure a healthy percentage of the fundraising appeals from Dumbass the Former and his family and “friends” get caught up in spam filters.
Pogo… my favorite version…
Renee, mine, too. Much better than Fred’s version.
I give up trying to understand CDC guidelines. Credit Card fine print makes more sense.
Yo do me an Xmas favor and ban me from this trash-receptacle of a forum you don’t even bother to read, thanks in advance, Happy New Year 🥳
Poobah, CDC guidelines are simple and straightforward. Ok, maybe not. Something about 5 days following symptoms and/or positive test (although I’m a little foggy on what to do for 5 days), masks for 10 and you shouldn’t worry about flying. Me, I wear my mask indoors except at home or in the office, get tested if I have any cold/flu symptoms and will isolate if I test positive. I hope that keeps me and those around me relatively well and safe from serious disease. So far it seems to have worked.
must be something dreadfully wrong with me but i think the CDC guidelines make perfect sense. even if they don’t, just wait for a couple of days and they’ll have new ones to parse and grump about.
bink, i assume you feed the cat, wait on it hand and foot, take it to the vet annually etc etc etc (aka being a faithful loyal servant) and do not require “useless” to do work like guard the house or follow commands or do stupid tricks. sooo who’s the dumb one here?
by the way there are a lot of working cats in the cinema world. there are even house cats who’ve been trained to happily use a toilet/commode thus not budening their human slaves with litter duty.
There’s nothing quite like YouTube videos of cats shitting in their humans’ toilets to change one’s perspective on an otherwise crappy day.
RR –
There aren’t any bomb sniffing cats.
Well once again the courts held up.
John Madden –
“He boinked it. ”
Describing the sound when a field goal kicker hits the upright.
CBob…. yup… only butt sniffing ones… or is that what dogs do 🙂
Hey… it was a joke that was taken waaaaay too seriously…
ms maxwell guilty on 5 outa 6 counters
Will Maxwell now flip against Clinton, the Prince et al for a lighter sentence?
The James Webb Space Telescope has started unfurling its giant sunshield
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068727334/the-james-webb-space-telescope-has-started-unfurling-its-giant-sunshield
This thing is so beautiful , and completely amazing .
The James Webb Space Telescope, on a long and winding journey to its job site a million miles from Earth, has begun the key task of unfurling a giant umbrella-like shield to protect its delicate instruments from the intense radiation of the sun.
The deployment of the shade — one of numerous maneuvers that must be performed flawlessly for the $10 billion telescope to function properly — began Tuesday with the successful lowering of two arms known as Unitized Pallet Structures.
RR-
You’re right , I’d rather have a cat sitting on my face, than a dog . Always loved them both.
CC –
In a heart beat.
The Webb offers a great lesson on “greenhouse gases”.
It’s a few degrees above Absolute Zero on the telescope side of those 5 sheets of Kapton , it’ll be over 600 F degrees on the sun side of them. Just a few feet apart. But there are no gases to move the heat around .
CC, I’m not aware of what testimony might be sufficient to charge Clinton, Dumbass or Randy Andy with a crime. Just embarrassing them won’t do to lessen the time she spends in the pokey. If that was the case Epstein could have done that.
Human Error.
Good on CNN’s Jim Acosta for asking the pertinent question tonight about Maxwell: “What are the prospects she could potentially help federal prosecutors land a bigger fish… for a lighter sentence?”
Pogo, Epstein staff have testified Clinton was a regular at Epstein’s sex island
“Bound for a star firey ocean”
Light gets old , as the Webb looks back at the infrared shift it’s been getting stretched , the older it is, the faster it’s moving away from us. The light is being pulled apart , that’s why the Webb only sees the long waves.
Still have doubts about Clinton. The youngest public affair we know for a fact was Lewinsky and she was 23.
Lake Tahoe sees 16 feet of snow in December, crushing records
This record snow came after a year of extreme heat and drought.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lake-tahoe-sees-16-feet-snow-december-crushing/story?id=81986675
Alaska ‘Icemageddon’ warning follows heat record
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59820999
The coldest US state of Alaska has recorded its hottest-ever December day, amid an unusual winter warm spell.
Temperatures soared to a record 19.4C (67F) on the island of Kodiak on Sunday – almost seven degrees warmer than the state’s previous high.
But elsewhere in Alaska temperatures have been plunging to record lows.
In the south-eastern town of Ketchikan, temperatures dropped to -18C (-0.4F) on 25 December – one of the town’s coldest Christmas Days in the past century.
The weather extremes have prompted warnings of an “Icemageddon” from authorities, as torrents of rain and snow have left ice as hard as cement coating the roads.
………………………… “When all the pieces come together in a warming world we’re going to get these unprecedented events, that’s what we expect,” he said.
The cold is set to return – temperatures in Fairbanks are forecast to drop to below -29C (-20F) this weekend.
But warm, soggy episodes are likely to be more common in the future, Mr Thoman predicted.
“2021 really seems to be the year these extreme precipitation events have really come to the fore,” he told the BBC.
CC –
We live in the “Age of Ten Thousand Reckonings” .
Donald Trump’s Scotland Golf Resorts Lost More Than $8 Million in 2020
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-scotland-golf-resorts-lost-8-million-2020-1663185
Trump’s UK Golf Resorts Claimed Millions in COVID Aid While He Was President
My current court case is Liz and Theranos.
That woman during her rise was amazing , her eyes, pitch. and smooth . And above all her promise.
At some point this is a good thing , I have yet to see it.
I always felt she would eat my liver with lima beans , and Italian wine.
Now looking back, she’s about 3 degrees from Bill.
Nite all , off to watch Nature –
Poobah, don’t doubt that- I did not follow the Epstein trial at all. It was a foregone conclusion. Just didn’t hear any report of implicating testimony in the Maxwell trial. Even that doesn’t suggest it wasn’t there, but I suspect if it had been we’d be well aware of it. That said, when was that trial? Where is the grand jury? Where is the indictment? Or to take a turn toward cynicism, is the prosecutor afraid of the career ending indictment for a democrat?
Yep, Epstein could’ve done that…but he’s dead.
“With some of the crops, I’ll try to irrigate every 15 days, which is really stretching the level of what they can handle,” Parker says. “There are different benefits in intentionally restricting water. In certain crops, I’m seeing a different root morphology…”
“Keeping seed diversity available to small growers is a supply chain imperative, says Haga of Seed Savers Exchange. “Independent seed producers have the ability to steward a wider selection of crops and varieties that don’t necessarily have [the] traits [that the global seed trade breeds for like uniformity and shelf life]…”
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