All Quarked Up

Responding to this: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=5328064934398201987&page=1&token=1651949795408 <I>"Some Republican leaders are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women. How dare they? How dare they tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her own body? How dare they try to stop her from determining her own future? How dare they try to deny women their rights and their freedoms?" </I> Biden Administration Covid mandates forcing military and health care workers to be fired if they refuse to follow a government order to have a potentially dangerous substance injected into their bodies against their wills State "vaccine passport" requirements blocking people from going out and having a life unless they do the same. "My body, my choice" is dead.  It was killed by Democrat gov't officials at the State and Federal level, and by a US Supreme Court where the 3 solid Roe and Casey supporters wer...

A response to this: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=1295844844726123216&page=1&token=1651949387841 <I>Thomas worried about the "different attitude of the young" and how they bully the Court when they don't get the outcome they want, but how deferential to authority should young people be? </I> It's not about being deferential to authority. It's about thinking, rather than emoting and bullying. <I>When you impugn stare decisis as a "mantra," you call for more analysis and criticism and less passive obeisance to authority. I would say that's inconsistent with a demand that we accept the outcomes handed down by the Court from on high. That too is obeisance.</I> That's not what he's doing.  he's saying "stop throwing temper tantrums when you don't get your way, and engage rationally with the opposition." So, You've got the Alito draft.  Have you engaged with it as a...

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/05/06/cnn-scotus-draft-decision-hasnt-changed-the-midterm-landscape-n467616 Has numbers from an AP poll earlier this year (as a graphic, no link to the poll :-( ) Trimester Legal in all cases Legal in most cases Illegal in most cases Illegal in all cases 1st 38% 23% 22% 16% 2nd 15% 19% 30% 35% 3rd 8% 11% 26% 54% Trimester Mostly legal Mostly illegal 1st 61% 38% 2nd 34% 65% 3rd 19% 80% That's not Roe, that's not Casey, and by the time November rolls around 60%+ of American voters will find that repealing Roe left them either where they want the law to be, or the law still TOO pro abortion

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abortion-quandary/ You have to go down a long way to get to the important numbers When, exactly, during a pregnancy should abortion be legal, and at what point should it become illegal? To help answer this question, the survey posed follow-up queries about three periods: six weeks (when cardiac activity – sometimes called a fetal heartbeat – can be detected), 14 weeks (roughly the end of the first trimester), and 24 weeks (near the end of the second trimester). The survey data shows that as pregnancy progresses, opposition to legal abortion grows and support for legal abortion declines. Americans are about twice as likely to say abortion should be legal at six weeks than to say it should be illegal at this stage of a pregnancy: 44% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal at six weeks (including those who say it should be legal in all cases without exception), 21% say it should be illegal at six weeks (including those wh...

https://draft.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=6714197015890663710 <I>"Leaks can serve a really important role in helping to correct government malfeasance</I> 5 SCOTUS justices voting in a way you don't like is not "government malfeasance" <I>to encourage government to be careful about what it does in secret</I> The end result of this is a public release, the diametric opposite of "what [the government] does in secret" <I> to preserve democratic processes</I>." Roe and Casey were assaults on the democratic process, whereas this is a restoration of them So none of these apply to the leak <I>“ This was a document whose final version was intended to be public within a couple months. This isn’t revealing any type of internal secret or misbehavior.” Do you think the leaker agrees? I would guess that the leaker thinks either: 1. The destruction of a treasured right is misbehavior, or 2. Throwing away ...

  Really? How about all the power CA brings in from out of State? https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2020-total-system-electric-generation Net imports increased by about 6 percent (4,435 GWh) in 2020 to 81,663 GWh. Total renewable energy reached 33 percent, 90,2080 GWh in 2020, up 2.5 percent from 2019 levels.

 <I>At USA Today, there's "People of color, the poor and other marginalized people to bear the brunt if Roe v. Wade is overturned" by Nada Hassanein.</I> So, we would honestly rewrite that as "fewer black and brown babies will be aborted if Dobbs goes through"? Or do they really want to avoid being honest about the situation? Besides, who thinks DC is going to outlaw abortion? Seriously, the decision says "we are returning this to the States and the political process", not "abortion is now illegal everywhere".  How is it that these people keep on claiming that the decision will block people in DC from getting abortions?