Scathing Online Schoolmarm says: Especially if you’re a journalist, and especially if you’re referencing a very well-known legal principle, LOOK IT UP. Sheesh.
As to the particular subject matter of this typically INSANE story out of Texas, the state is invited to welcome a brand new city, established by the crazies who live there so they can be free to set their own demento rules. One thinks of the hare krishna cults establishing domains in places like Oregon back in the ‘nineties, until the lunatic excesses of their leaders drew the attention of the police.
The group currently in question is bible-thumping, gun-humping Torch of Freedom – pious shooters blasting their love of the lord 24/7.
Neighbors are seriously pissed (“We hear constant shooting. And when I say shooting, I’m not talking about a pistol or a shotgun. It’s a professional military-type shooting range and they were shooting high-powered rifles, essentially non-stop every day,” said Jim Schaefer, Gillespie County resident. “We cannot sit on our porch and enjoy the evening when they shoot. Sometimes they’ll shoot throughout the weekend.”), and, even though it’s absolutely berserko Texas, it looks as though local authorities also find Spewing for the Savior a bridge too far.
Yeah but meanwhile there’s an easy $150,000 to make by lying… er… testifying about a Tylenol/autism link. Headline, Harvard Crimson:
Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism
Really disgusting. Surprising this behavior comes not only from Harvard, but Harvard’s dean of public health!
Greedy little dude refuses to talk to the Crimson about it, which is NOT surprising. If the Crimson keeps at the story, its reporters stand a chance of earning a journalism prize or two. And meanwhile, the greedy little dude gets to enjoy his time in the Trump sun.
Talk about trading on Harvard’s name!
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Shades of Dipak Panigrahy. Monetizing your Harvard connection in exchange for lying/plagiarizing/whatever ain’t exactly unpredecented. Remember another of Harvard’s finest, Ben Edelman? Andrei Shleiffer?
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Whaddya want me to say? Just tell me what to say in order for me to get paid or to save my ass:
In a statement on Monday night, Dr. Baccarelli slightly distanced himself from [the Trump administration’s claim of a causal relationship,] saying, “Further research is needed to confirm the association and determine causality, but based on existing evidence, I believe that caution about acetaminophen use during pregnancy — especially heavy or prolonged use — is warranted.”
In his 2023 expert report for the lawsuit, however, Dr. Baccarelli wrote that “substantial evidence supports a strong, positive, causal association between acetaminophen” and neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism and A.D.H.D.
Will he be fired? Stay tuned. Will a congressional inquiry happen? Stay tuned.
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“THE RIGHT DEAN AT THE RIGHT MOMENT”
Uh. Okay.
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Headline, Wall Street Journal:
Trump’s Favorite Harvard Professor
Big gun shop moving right next door to two day cares! What could go wrong?
… when all the kids in your town died from viruses for which we now have vaccines.
For many ultraorthodox, the old unvaccinated ways remain the best, which is why a bunch of their kids are currently suffering and dying from the measles. Well done!
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Let’s hear from the rabbis.
[S]ome ultra-Orthodox believe that there is a connection between vaccines and autism, despite the fact that the CDC says there is none. A major Orthodox rabbi has called vaccines a “hoax.” He and two other rabbis who sit on the rabbinnical board that guides Agudath Israel of America, the leading Haredi umbrella group, have cast doubt on the efficacy of vaccines.
On the efficacy of measles at killing children I assume these rabbis are in agreement.
That can’t be true, and it’s one sign among a few others (the article is generally fair) that Macleans – Canada’s leading magazine – reflects non-Quebec social attitudes. Plenty of non-deists are spiritual; we’re talking about religion here.
A large majority of Quebecers indeed opposes hijabs and other religious garb in the public sphere (schools, courts), and restrictions on this garb are currently in place there. As one supreme court decision put it:
[C]itizens should not be able to perceive any religious influence in state services, and … when a government representative is exercising their function, they are no longer a private citizen. Their first duty is to state neutrality, not their private beliefs.
In a few months, the supreme court will revisit Quebec’s secularity bill, and the notwithstanding clause that enables it; and it should be interesting. Issues going to the degree of Quebec’s autonomy are in play here; but more than that, opposition to face covering, for instance, is 76% in Quebec and not far behind (65%) in Canada overall; and though I can’t find federal numbers on the hijab, it looks as though at least half the country would probably follow Quebec.
… and then trades them in at a local vendor, and then immediately buys them back from the vendor at a significant discount (sale price $5,693.32), and then sells them on Facebook Marketplace for $14,700, how much profit does he make?
… for the likes of Carlos Alcaraz and Yuja Wang.
… is not an appropriate patron.
In a different era, the yucky Yorks would long since have been shipped to Australia (or Bermuda), enabling the crown to survive and the Yorks to gorge and cavort along the Gold Coast.
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Five other charities have now done the same.
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Why doesn’t the crown toss these people? UD figures it’s because Andrew in particular simply knows too much dirt on the royal family, and is blackmailing them by threatening to reveal it.
Hoowhee Texas! You think YOU love guns! You ain’t been to Texas!! Gunshots morning afternoon and night; and in Katy in particular they put a shooting range across the street from a kids’ baseball complex.
Here’s a typical game:
“We started at 8 a.m. and the gunshots have been going off since then,” said [one parent].
“We had a game at 8 and could hear rifles and shotguns going off at times throughout the whole game. Even leaving the park after the game, shots were going off,” another parent added.
But don’t nobody say nuthin cuz it’s the fuckin sound of freedom. Smell of napalm in the morning blast of gunfire all day kinda thing. Heartbeat of America. Baseball and bullets. Don’t get better than that.
Sure, they hit the coach. Fine, the coach was airlifted out. BFD. “There was bullets flying everywhere. It wasn’t one shot. There’s bullets flying everywhere off the poles, onto the field. It’s just unbelievable.” You expect a little carnage in Texas, and, you know, at least it wasn’t one of the kids and at least no one was killed.
UD‘s having a hell of a good time reading this thread about leftwing gunnies.
“Was [Kirk’s assassin] on the left? I don’t know … It is a fool’s errand to try to say that these nuts who do these things are [on] any team… This kid doesn’t belong in either party. He belongs in a straitjacket. He’s an outpatient who should not be out.”
Which reminds UD of something else she’s been thinking about. The missing link in these kills done by people 16-25 is their parents. Many of the killers are still living at home, and in many cases their parents know perfectly well that their kid is nuts. Their response to this dawning horror is denial plus hiding: They don’t want it to be true; and they don’t want anyone outside the home to know it’s true.
Many of these homes are already really gunny, with dad deciding it’d make the kid better if they went to the ranges together… You’d be amazed how many parents of violent demented children decide more guns and more shooting is the answer.
Or maybe the parent enjoys his own rage against society being acted out by the kid. Things get squirrely here.
The larger theme of moronic negligence resounds throughout the land, as in the husband who took a business trip, leaving his spectacularly insane wife alone in the house with her four little daughters. She slaughtered all of them with one of many guns her husband decided were fine to keep unlocked with a maniac in the house. One of the girls survived long enough to suffer great pain for a few days.
A country club in New Hampshire! A departure from hookah lounges in Louisiana.
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‘At least half a dozen people were taken to Nashua area hospitals with injuries that were not gunshot-related, sources told News 9 Investigates. Many were injured in the chaos of the shooting.‘
That’s one thing UD‘s been thinking about lately. In toting up our daily American shootings, we concentrate on the kill rate; we don’t focus much at all on the physically and emotionally injured that lie scattered about these scenes.
Oh, the nut in Nashua (he seems to have been another armed psychotic, but we’ll see) only managed to blow one person away; forget it; move on to today‘s bloody mess… We forget the maimed for life, the traumatized, the old people who snapped their legs trying to run, the children crushed by adults. We never bother thinking at all about, say, the owners and staff of businesses – like country clubs! – that labor every day to sustain an environment of calm, beauty, and sociality… sure, even of snobbery… and the whole point of the enterprise is its non-chaos, its safety from the shooting gallery out there. Regard them this morning, after one hundred people ran screaming from a killer on their trim verdant lawn: Glass everywhere, bright red blood on the bright green grass, Adirondacks upended and pulled apart, yellow police markers and tape, abandoned phones and games… It’s the last scene of the Great Gatsby, except that this is a group scene; it’s not just some rich guy gunned down in his magnificent pool on his magnificent estate. It’s a whole raft of wealthy suddenly wrenched from a subdued and beautiful setting into the savage insanity that is Anytown USA.
Watch for these would-be safety zones to look more and more like (ha) armed camps.
It’s 24/7 guns in Chambers, AL, where “half time” in high school baseball games means the moment when ambient shooting becomes unignorable.
