Let’s try to be upbeat today!
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Ethics Alarms 
Any comment on this.
http://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/06/29/leftist-legal-hit-team-targets-2020-trump-election-lawyers-for-career-assassination-n1707186
I suspect these same people feel that Kevin Clinesmith is a hero who lied on a FISA warrant application to save democracy.
The US is a corrupt, lawless failed state. I would expect to see a lot more of this type of thing. When “laws” only apply to some people, it is easy to persecute the people who they apply to and protect the people they don’t apply to. They aren’t laws anymore, just roadmaps for oppression of everyone the ruling class doesn’t like. The corruption will only escalate.
From 6/23/2023 – Null Pointer wrote:
“The US is a corrupt, lawless, failed state. You pay your taxes because if you don’t the government will burn down your house and your business, lock you in jail, and throw your family out into the streets to starve to death. They are like the local gang bangers running a protection racket, only with far less concern for the people they are shaking down and a lot more fire power.”
The same thoughts cross my mind more and more for quite some time now.
The government has lost or given up control of the borders. The government has lost control of the rule of law. States and cities regularly announce they won’t follow federal law for things like immigration enforcement and illegal drugs. Elected officials are too busy having their political opponents arrested on flimsy excuses to notice the looting, crime and anarchy occurring in major cities. Elected officials have now developed a pattern of calling any laws they don’t agree with illegitimate and denouncing the Supreme Court as illegitimate. Law professors announce they will ignore laws and do what they want while encouraging students to do the same. Anarcho-terrorists set up their own countries inside major cities and the government does nothing for months. 3/5ths of the population or more think the elections are rigged. The President just got busted for influence peddling and bribery by hostile foreign powers and the media tries to cover it up or excuse it, while the justice department does nothing. The government is 32 trillion dollars in debt, inflation is out of control, and most of the official economic numbers the government produces are bald faced lies. Equal protection under the law is gone.
Which part of the government is still functioning? The country is just coasting along on normalcy bias from what I can tell, and that isn’t going to last long.
Not exactly uplifting, but laughably bizarre: A resurgence (probably because of current “trans” issues) of a 2020 Cervical Cancer Trust suggestion that vaginas be referred to as “bonus holes”.
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/06/29/cervical-cancer-trust-wants-vaginas-to-be-called-bonus-holes-n2384965
I’m not sure that they really thought this one out. How long before some crude jokester notes that this term has the obvious homophone of “Bone-us Holes”? That should sit well with some groups 😉
Penises are now technically referred to as joy sticks in all the literature.
Since you asked to keep it light and I know there’s baseball fans in here I have Babe Ruth Baseball ethics for you. (This is kids Age 13-15 by May 1). There was a team that was assembled from the previous years All Star team to play all season. Many didn’t think that was fair. I feel if the parents wanted to do it, more power to them. There was another team who had 6 high school varsity baseball players on the team which means they have been playing together since March. My question is should high school varsity players be allowed to play against 13 year olds? It hardly felt sportsman like, even if it was within the rules. It also feels unfair to not let them play Babe Ruth just because they played in high school especially since they might not have had enough players for the team without them.
Well, I’ll admit to knowing virtually nothing about Babe Ruth baseball before you posted this.
Doing some research it appears that Babe Ruth 13-15 also offers a 13 year old only league for those who don’t feel ready to face the more experienced 14 an 15 year olds. Assuming there was enough interest to field a league, that would seem to solve the problem of 13 yo having to compete against high school players.
How many 13-15 year old players are in high school? That seems young to me, although I admit to being conditioned by high schools only encompassing 10-12 grades when I was in school.
Again I will admit my ignorance — how much of a gap is there between 13 and 15 year old people? If they are on the high school team, does that leave enough time available to compete in a Babe Ruth league as well, i.e. are the schedules different enough to allow it? This part boils down to the question are 13 year olds so overmatched by 15 year olds that they cannot benefit from competing in this league? That I don’t know.
The All Star team feels wrong to me. I think for somewhat similar reasons that I dislike the idea of NBA players being able to select their own teams. Due to that and other factors, the NBA playoffs seem to be mostly preordained before the season as to who will make the championships. Why watch if the game is more or less rigged?
@Diego where I live we’re lucky to pull enough kids together to have a team of 13-15 year olds at all. This fact that it’s possible, even likely to have multiple teams in the cities with lots of kids becomes impossible in small rural areas. There’s simply not enough kids who want to play. On the plus side, it’s cheaper and any kids who want to play can. The High School baseball goes from March to May with the final game at state in early June. The first babe Ruth game is in June. With practices beginning mid May so there’s a bit of an overlap, but nothing serious. I’m mixed on it because there’s rules on when you can begin practicing, and so the High School players will have had lots more practices, and there’s physically a big difference in 13 year olds vs 15, nearly 16 year olds.
THIS, however, is uplifting. Apparently, not all of Sweden being entranced by Greta Thunberg, they have decided to ramp up nuclear as a clean, stable, primary energy source.
It has never made sense to me that climate change activists would shun nuclear power. It seems to me that it is a lot cleaner and better for the environment than all the crap you have to build and pollution you have to create to do solar power and electric vehicles. Wind power, as far as I am aware, doesn’t generate the same level of environmental damage as solar but, you know, the wind doesn’t always blow.
Fusion power, the holy grail of power generation, has been 10-30 years away for just about all of my life. Doubtless we will eventually get there, but it’s still a decade or three away.
Solar power — well, it is true that the sun doesn’t always shine. But with sufficiently advanced technology perhaps we could build another star to put on the other side of Earth’s orbit so that the sun, in fact, would always shine. What could possibly go wrong?
By the way, I loved that phrase “The bitter climate gnome, Greta Thunberg”