It was my first visit to them.  I've had some trouble finding a vet I liked and trusted.

Regulations may be promulgated to enable this obligation including examples such as for sanitation--- the anchor to the ruling in that her interpretation of sanitation is based on a definition found in an old dictionary.  However, sanitation, in the public health sense, includes the process of filtration...the purpose of masking.

Moreover, the ruling vacates the mask ruling across the nation.  Not just for the plaintiffs or the region.  "A limited remedy would be no remedy at all" the judge unconvincingly posits. Of course, she could have issued an order for just the plaintiffs who claimed masks presented an issue, had a card laminated for thirr presentation to the airline personnel.  After all, this was not a class action suit!   The ruling is as if the young, inexperienced judge accepted some notes from the Federalist Society.

The CDC mask mandate was to expire May 3 unless renewed., so the ruling is likely not to be appealed.  And, generally, federal district rulings are not binding precedents. But, this ruling is a harbinger, I believe, of the fascist goal of dismantling regulations.

 The DOJ may appeal if the CDC finds an extension necessary beyond the May expiration, but the mask policy has become unpopular. Americans are over diseases.

He was otherwise intelligent and describing a dispute in a calm, logical manner.  He said the other side would be difficult because of their "race."  He continued that the employees of the other side did not speak English but were "Mexican or Asian."  And, I should not expect a reasonable response from the owner of the other company because she was "Chinese" and would chase money relentlessly.

In another recent incident, I also found a flyer on our doorstep a month ago for "European" housekeepers.   I guess Spanish-speaking maids are just too overwhelming for some people.  

I guess I am surprised.  I believe Trump gave these people permission to say out loud what they always believed.

I am so totally bewildered by the anti-Latino crap I hear quite frequently.  It comes up often with people becoming very threatened by hearing Spanish being spoken.

My frame of reference is so different.  I grew up as a kid in El Paso, which at that time was I think about 50-50 Latino (and now is over 80%) Latino. I am totally Anglo, but once upon a time, I could pass for Latino, and always got a kick out of that.

 I could speak Spanish without an Anglo accent, but had an accent of some sort.  And when I had a moustache and wore a white straw Stetson, I had Latino written all over me. True Mexicans thought I was from Argentina--I guess the European still shone through in some way.

And, while a kid in El Paso I always wondered what it would be like to be around "minorities," it never occurring to me that Latinos were "different" or a minority.

Today, even with my atrophied language skills, when I throw off a Spanish phrase or two to native Spanish speakers, it still makes me smile a little when I see their reaction:  they start to naturally converse with me in Spanish, and then a look of surprise comes over their faces, when they realize that it was me, Mr. Anglo, they are talking to.

People will also say how they can't stand Mexico.  I don't get that, either.  I love Mexico.  It can be such a warm, wonderful place to be, with great food, and wonderful land and people.  True, recent times and drug violence have ruined much, but that is not the part that many Anglos don't like.

The Washington Post's role in Nixon's 1975 resignation is indisputable, yet the Starz miniseries Gaslit provides a surprisingly engrossing counter to the established narrative by mostly ignoring it

They did a helluva job

making Sean Penn look like John Mitchell

Madison Cawthorn Photos Show Him Wearing Lingerie
April 22, 2022 at 5:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 251 Comments

Photographs obtained by Politico "appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting."

"Cawthorn was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity."

The orange crime boss groveling is cringeworthy.

Supreme Court Has Voted to Overturn Abortion Rights
May 2, 2022 at 8:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 112 Comments

"The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision," according to an initial draft majority opinion circulated inside the court and obtained by Politico.

"The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision - Planned Parenthood v. Casey - that largely maintained the right."

Writes Justice Samuel Alito, for the majority: "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start."

He adds: "We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."

A draft Supreme Court opinion leaking is extremely rare. In fact, I cannot remember it ever happening.

Chad Mizelle, who held for periods of a year or two, positions as Acing General Counsel for the Dept. of HHS in TFG's Administration, Associate Counsel and Deputy AG for TFG.

Chad is reported to be a close ally of Stephen Miller, assisting with the violent crackdown on racial justice protestors. And, of course, a stint (as with his wife) with Jones Day where he focused on helping clients"navigate complex regulatory regimes". Regulations, those pesky things.

Chad is a graduate of the University of Florida and Cornell Law (magna cum laude). He was a clerk for Appellate Court Judge David Sentelle, the pal of the wingnut late Republican Senator, Jesse Helms.

Sentelle may be remembered for his replacement of Robert Fiske with Ken Starr to investigate allegations against President Clinton regarding "Whitewater." And, being a party of a panel to overturn convictions of Ollie North and John Poindexter of the Iran Contra scandal during the Reagan/Bush administrations. Neil Gorsuch also clerked for Judge Sentelle.

Chad Mizelle now works at Jared Kushner's new investment firm--the one that just received $2 billion from Jared's dear friend, the Bone Saw Prince. An investment made against all the recommendations of the Prince's investment advisors.

And the wife.  A graduate of Lakeland Christian School, Covenant College AB (motto: All things Christ Preeminent), and University of Florida, JD.
A member of the Federalist Society, Jones Day, Clerk for Clarence Thomas. Judgeship confirmed, at age 33,  after Trump's loss in November 2020. Received praise from Republican Senator Mike Lee (R.Ut) who, apparently, took time out from his ongoing efforts to overthrow the government. It would be unsurprising if Ginni and Best Friend had a big hand in her nomination to the federal bench.

 Epidemiologists, Al-Aly and Yan Xie, using a method used to show that Covid increases the risk of kidney disease, heart failure and stroke, found that those who had Covid were about 40% more likely to develop diabetes up to a year later than those in control groups.

Almost all cases detected were type 2 diabetes, in which the body becomes resistant to or does not produce insulin.

The chances of developing diabetes rose with increasing severity. However, even people who had mild infections and no previous risk factors for diabetes had increased odds of developing the disease.  Those with a high body-mass index had more than double the risk

While more than 180,000 medical records were used in the study, the Veterans Administration groups deployed were mostly older white males and the findings may not translate well  to other groups of people.

The New Right
April 20, 2022 at 6:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments

Vanity Fair looks at the reshaping of the Republican Party by profiling Curtis Yarvin, a 48-year-old ex-programmer who "has done more than anyone to articulate the world historical critique and popularize the key terms of the New Right."

"Political reporters, at least the ones who have bothered to write about Yarvin, have often dismissed him as a kook with a readership made up mostly of lonely internet weirdos, fascists, or both. But to ignore him is to underestimate how Yarvin's ideas, or at least ideas in conversation with his, have become foundational to a whole political and cultural scene that goes much deeper than anything you'd learn from the panels and speeches at an event like NatCon. Or how those ideas are going to shape the future of the American right."

Familiar tragedy where someone is detained/questioned by police, he tries to talk his way of it.  When that doesn't work he runs.  When the cop catches him he struggles with him and tries to grab the taser.  Cop shoots and kills.  

As with most of these police shootings the media downplays or ignores the grabbing the taser part.  I think most, unbiased use of force experts will say it was justified.  

Unofficially, it appears as though at least 40 sailors died and more than 100 others were wounded when the Moskva was struck broadside by Ukrainian missiles while on patrol off the Ukrainian port city of Odessa.

And therein lies the conundrum of Moscow's propaganda campaign as it collides head-on with the stark reality of Russia's increasingly disastrous war with Ukraine, and desperate family members plead with Putin's government regarding the fate of their missing sons and brothers who were on the Moskva when it was attacked.

And further, that's not the only problem confronting Vladimir Putin's regime. Per these maps prepared by Australian military analyst Nathan Ruper:

• This was the situation on March 22; and
  
• Here is the situation as of today, April 21.

Several times today, I heard the newsreaders and cable hosts on CNN and MSNBC refer to "the continued Russian advance in eastern Ukraine." But again, the stark reality is that the Russian advance for the most part stalled out a month ago, and its gains in eastern Ukraine have since been incremental at best.

What we've instead seen over the past month was the Russian army's rout at the Battle of Kyiv and its subsequent chaotic withdrawal from northern Ukraine, the Ukrainian army's relief of the besieged cities of Chernehiv and Sumy and now, Ukrainian people's growing confidence in their own military's ability to eventually assert its will over a poorly motivated, relatively disorganized and increasingly demoralized enemy.

Through his own hubris and recklessness, Putin now finds himself in a potentially serious debacle of his own making. A Russian military defeat in Ukraine could undermine his own once-seemingly impregnable political position, particularly as angry parents and families of dead and missing Russian military personnel demand accountability for what happened. and that could embolden potential domestic rivals, including some in his own inner circle, to make a play for power themselves at his ultimate expense.

It therefore concerns all of us to pay close attention to forthcoming events as they play out in Ukraine over the coming weeks, because a destabilized Putin regime can also result in an unpredictable Russia. If Putin falls, we literally have no idea what might arise in Moscow to take his place, nor do we have any real say in such an outcome. All we can do is be on guard.

Researchers analyzed the ten most shared posts on Facebook mentioning Bucha in 20 countries and found 55 posts that disputed evidence of Russian atrocities against that town's civilian population.

Those particular posts were shared 208,000 times in a single week, compared with 172,000 shares of posts during that same period that that did not question the veracity of images emerging from Bucha.

Fortunately there seems to be an "offering place" for his gifts.  The middle of the living room floor.  Wouldn't want me to miss them.

But the dog door is totally worth watching where I walk barefoot.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday granted a stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, halting her execution scheduled for Wednesday and sending her case back to the trial court to review new evidence...

...Lucio, her family, advocates and attorneys say she was wrongfully convicted of capital murder in the 2007 death of her toddler Mariah...

...At trial, prosecutors argued Lucio was an abusive mother who likely caused the injuries that brought about her daughter's death. But Lucio and her attorneys said Mariah's injuries stemmed not from abuse but from a fall down a staircase outside the family's second-floor apartment two days prior to her death.

I'm liking Gaslit which has a new one today.