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"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
" Abraham Lincoln

#28 | Posted by donnerboy

glad you mentioned Lincoln.....HABEAS CORPUS ANYONE ???

again.......read the constitution concerning the following.....wad it up....and shove it up your butz...

Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816): This case affirmed the Supreme Court's authority to review state court decisions that involve federal law. It established the principle that federal courts have the final say on the meaning and interpretation of federal law, even if a state court's decision conflicts.

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): In this landmark case, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Second Bank of the United States and ruled that states cannot tax a federal entity. This case solidified the supremacy of federal laws over state laws.

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824): The Court held that the power to regulate interstate commerce belongs to Congress, not the states. This case expanded federal power under the Commerce Clause and reinforced the supremacy of federal law in matters of interstate commerce.

Cohens v. Virginia (1821): This case reaffirmed the Supreme Court's jurisdiction to review state court decisions involving federal questions. It emphasized the authority of federal law and the supremacy of the Constitution over state laws.

Cooper v. Aaron (1958): In response to efforts to resist desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education, the Court held that states are bound by the Court's decisions and must enforce them. This case underscored the supremacy of federal court decisions interpreting the Constitution.

Another view ...

South Carolina tops Texas measles outbreak record"with no end in sight
arstechnica.com

... The explosive measles outbreak in South Carolina has now reached 789 cases, breaking Texas's outbreak record last year of 762 cases, which at the time was the largest outbreak in the US since measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. The country is at grave risk of losing its elimination status in the coming months due to continuous spread.

With Texas' outbreak last year -- which spanned January to August and spread to additional states -- the US saw the largest measles case total since 1991, with 2,255 confirmed cases. Now, with South Carolina's unbridled outbreak, 2026 is already looking like it will be another record year.

Though South Carolina's outbreak began in October, the spread of the disease has dramatically accelerated this month, with cases jumping from 218 on December 28 to 789 on January 27. ...

In addition to South Carolina, measles cases for 2026 have been reported in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. A large outbreak of the highly infectious virus is ongoing at the border of Utah and Arizona. Collectively, the states have reported 457 cases amid the outbreak, including 66 reported in 2026. ...

In its latest update, South Carolina's Public Health Department reported data indicating that its large case jumps will continue. In recent weeks, officials have identified 23 schools where measles has been unleashed. In 20 of the schools, unvaccinated and exposed students have been identified and quarantined, with individual schools' quarantine totals spanning 13 to 59 students. For the remaining three schools with exposures, officials are still determining how many students need to be quarantined.

State officials have also identified eight public places where measles exposures have occurred recently, including grocery stores, a US Post Office, and a skating center.

For now, 557 students are quarantined, but additional susceptible people have likely been exposed. ...


What's the "Best" Month for New Movies and Music? A Statistical Analysis
www.statsignificant.com

... In 1992, The Silence of the Lambs swept the Academy Awards' most prestigious categories, winning Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Actress. Somehow, a movie about a well-educated cannibal who speaks in riddles became a commercial smash and a critical darling. The Silence of the Lambs is one of just three films to have acheived the "Big Four" Oscar sweep. It's also the only Best Picture winner in the past seven decades to have been released in January.

If that last sentence reads like a typo, I promise it isn't. In 100 years of this glorified popularity contest, January"a month with a perfectly normal number of days"has been bizarrely underrepresented.

In fact, anyone who follows the movie release calendar knows that January has its own nickname within the film industry: Dump-uary. Traditionally, movies perceived as having lesser theatrical appeal are unceremoniously "dumped" into the first few weeks of the year, a convenient way for studios to unload low-confidence bets from their balance sheets. ...



@#3 ... a new name for the NFL since "Football" doesn't make sense ...

Americans may love football, but did you know its origins are in medieval England?
www.npr.org

... Today, the word "football" is used to refer to different games: American football, the game played at the Super Bowl, where a foot is rarely used to direct the ball. And elsewhere in the world, football refers to what Americans call "soccer."

The origins of the word "football" is probably pretty obvious: It combines the words "foot" and "ball." Historical evidence indicates it was used to refer to any game that was played standing (instead of on horseback) or with a ball (usually an inflated animal bladder or made from woven reed) to be kicked, according to the FIFA Museum.

Regardless of the type of football game you are referring to today, experts say they have their origins in the simple and unregulated versions played in medieval Britain, according to Doug Harper, who created the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Scott Stempson, a history lecturer at the University of Nebraska, says the reference to "football" as a game or sport pops up in the 14th century in a royal proclamation from King Edward.

In it, Edward writes of how dangerous the game has become and how it has distracted young men in the middle of wartime, Stempson explains. He's found nearly two dozen other royal proclamations over the following 300 years, essentially warning of the game's violence.

And it was very violent. ...


I've never liked his music. He's abviously very talented, I just don't like his sound. I feel the same way about the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-28 05:44 PM

OMG, are you joking? Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl

Thanks for posting, Corky.
One test of a song is if the lyrics can stand by itself as a poem.
This one does.
Too bad Clarence Clemons left us 20 years ago, he might have played that instrumental solo.
But the harmonica is the poor man's instrument and harkens us to resistance, prisoners keeping up their morale or hoboes sitting around campfires struggling to survive the Great Depression.
The Superbowl is a week away and someone performing this would be perfect there.
#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-28 03:00 PMFlag: | Newsworthy 1

Ron Burgundy for ICE? I'm down with the sickness.

THAT would be news "Jazz flute terrorizes ICE with Aqualung."

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