I think people are underestimating the depravity of a religious government. They are just waiting until they feel they've got adequate control over the media (cell phones and such) and then the genocide will occur.

We are not dealing with a government that has one iota of decency.

I think Xi is way more upset over the failure of the Russian invasion then he is over the fact Putin did it. Because that failure makes it harder now for Xi to invade Taiwan.

So $50 for Whitewater that found nothing beyond a blue dress, and $40 million on this.

$90 million dollars wasted. And that doesn't include the millions spent by Faux and other right wing groups.

I'd like to make a point here on the Dobbs decision that I think remains vastly overlooked. SCOTUS absolutely DID NOT ban abortion in the Dobbs decision. What they did was rule that women only have bodily authority over their own bodies if the local state legislature decides that it is OK for them to have that bodily control.

Now that decision did say that not all rights that Americans enjoy must be spelled out in law or in the constitution. But that they are only entitled to such rights if those rights were traditionally there at the start of our nation. They then went on to point out that because women didn't have those rights at the beginning of this nation*, that they cannot argue that they get it today automatically.

They only can get it today if their local government says they can get it.

This is so much worse a conclusion than what I see written in the media.

* - mainly because it was in the hands of their husbands back then.

So what demographic was Oz going after with this statement?

The religious freedom to let people die.

When I worked on an infections disease unit that had a large number of substance abusers but also quite a few Aides patients. Most had no insurance so were treated by state programs. While we never formally investigated it, an informal study amongst the other Nurse Practitioner's and Physician Assistants and the consensus was that they over the years we had almost never admitted a substance abuser who was insulin dependent with the diagnosis of HIV. Because no doubt they all had a steady and reliable supply of needles and syringes.

I can only imagine the money that those needles and syringes for those diabetic patients saved the state in Aides treatments.

Because if there's one thing that is certain it's that a 12 year old rape victim will act logically and fastidiously after rape. /snark

He's a Republican so this doesn't matter. Literally, this doesn't matter. He won't lose more than 12 votes for this.

As the sanctions continue, Russia will more and more become a 3rd rate nation and will not be able to provide anything of substance for the space station anyway. If we pass Build Back Better in the next congressional cycle, we will significantly lower the value of oil by expanding wind and solar and battery technology. Russia will be left with a whole lot less.

I suspect as we speak, more and more Russian scientists are figuring out how to permanently and safely leave Russia, without endangering their families.

I saw a great post recently about Biden's dog having bitten a Secret Service agent. He apparently knew what was going on way back then.