America the beautiful.

Well, a high court in India has certainly shut that down. The judges, in denying a high school student the accommodation, note that none of the school’s other Muslim students wear hijabs.

“Wherever this issue has arisen, the high courts have been unanimous in opinion that wearing a headscarf is not an essential part of the Islamic faith for a woman to don in the absence of which faith would be jeopardised,”[said the judges].

The big fight against the hijab, of course, rages in Iran.

The gun biz is scummy, as we all know; more important, for the hapless citizens of Goleta CA, who only recently found out their town has no power to stop gun stores from moving next to day care centers, Goodland Guns now beetles o’er their babes.

Wyoming has the highest rate of suicides in the nation, but even when some local officials declare a Suicide Prevention month, the local press covers it like this.

Note the photograph. Ninety percent of the suicides are men. Why does the story feature an image of a woman?

And a young one! Average age of the suicides is 60 – 80.

Most of the suicides are with a gun. At least put a gun in her hand…

God has given this nation 500 million guns, and has scattered them abroad in such a way that every moment of every day one is found unattended.

In Goleta California, a gun shop is about to open right next door to Here We Grow Early Learning Center, a preschool.

Fraudster Christine Hunsicker, sentenced to five years for stealing millions from her investors, said it wasn’t her fault and she shouldn’t go to jail because in 2017 “ a 30-pound mirror fell on her head, causing physical and mental effects that helped trigger the crime.”

‘[First Minister] John Swinney has defended the use of more than £45,000 of public funds on business-class flights … to the World Cup.

… Justice Secretary Neil Gray defended the business class flights as a means of ensuring ministers “arrive fresh” when they travel overseas…  “[I]t is right that they are able to arrive fresh, they’re able to arrive in a way that means that they’re able to participate and do their work immediately.”

… Economy Secretary Stephen Flynn … also defended Swinney.

… “If we want our politicians to go and sit in row 46 beside the toilets and then land in Boston and then go and engage with US government officials having done so we’ll get exactly what we deserve as politicians.”’

No one wants cranky girls who smell of shit going up against US gov’t officials.

[O]fficers were dispatched to the 1600 block of Rosedale Street NE for a report of a man down.

But when they arrived, police found that it was instead a boy suffering from a gunshot wound on the sidewalk. First responders declared the boy dead, later announcing his identity as 13-year-old Ahmad Mims.

A 12 year old has been arrested in the case.

AWKward. As mayor, you are of course bound to repeat the mantra crimedeclinecrimedecline til you’re blue (red?) in the face.

You are also, cognitive-dissonantly, in charge of admitting that, whatever the stats, your city’s still an abattoir, with beaucoup bloodletting even on Tuesdays. Time was people respected the Friday night to Saturday night special shooter time.

See the deal is if you’re Georgia —

Georgia has some of the weakest gun laws in the country. The legislature passed a law requiring colleges and universities to allow guns on campus in 2017, and in 2022, Georgia repealed its last foundational policy by passing permitless carry legislation. Though Georgia repealed its Citizen’s Arrest law in 2021, the state still has a dangerous Shoot First law that allows a person to kill another in a public area, even when they can safely walk away from the danger.

— your Wow look how much gunplay has declined! thing takes place in a special context. There’s so much powpow and so absolutely no legal constraint that even an eighty percent decline will still mean you can open your window and hear people going at it.

‘KENNEDY TARP TO STAY UP INDEFINITELY, SAY LAWYERS’

Sing it.

O tarp of my country! in darkness lies Kennedy
The vile name of DT hath hung o’er thee long;
When proudly, beloved land’s tarp, we unbind thee
Then all will return to light, freedom and song!

The warm lay of love and the light tone of gladness
Will waken thy fondest, thy liveliest thrill;
Forgotten will be today’s deep sigh of sadness,
Our great hymn of liberty will sound through the hills.

The Minnesota Dept of Human Services has had serious second thoughts about their OUTSTANDING REFUGEE AWARD program. It is backpedaling to beat the band, if UD may mix metaphors.

The program, that is, has passed on. It is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. Its metabolic processes are now history. It’s off the twig. It’s kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, rung down the curtain, and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible. THIS IS AN EX-PROGRAM.

No one pulled out a gun, even though there were lots of serious fights with injuries and arrests.

No one pulled out a gun! There was no mass slaughter.

State officials have already been invited to several other cities around the country to advise law enforcement on how they did it, and on how other police forces can do it too. Good on ya, Milwaukee!

THEORY.

and……

PRACTICE.

Can you really be surprised that a group of Palo Alto parents who revile the thought of their daughters as docile submissives are suing?

A group of Jewish, Hindu, and Zoroastrian parents share the sentiment of millions of Iranian women that for them the hijab is unacceptable, and they wonder why their daughters were offered them (some sources say ‘encouraged’) for a field trip to a mosque. Details here.

They’re not saying that women who are into submission shouldn’t wear hijabs; but veiling your head and draping your body (this latter I guess wasn’t included in the excursion, but it’s the rare hijabi who doesn’t veil her provocative body too) is just, you know, not us. I mean, in a big way. In a big lawsuit way.