[The Hill] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiated a wedding outdoors over the weekend for a family friend, a spokesperson for the court confirmed Monday.
A photo of Ginsburg officiating the wedding was tweeted Monday by the bride, National Alliance on Mental Illness director of marketing and communications Barb Solish.
"2020 has been rough, but yesterday was Supreme," she tweeted, along with the photo.
"And don't worry, we tested negative!," she added, seemingly referring to COVID-19.
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Yeah, Clem, she is one tough old bird. I may seldom agree with her, but she is consistent and generally logical - the kind of person one likes to see 'on the back bench' to keep the rest on their toes.
[NYP] Two St. Louis police officers were shot in the line of duty Saturday, with one of them dying from his wounds Sunday, the department said.
The fallen officer, identified as Tamarris Bohannon, 29, served with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for over three years.
Bohannon was struck in the head after responding to a shooting in the South Grand neighborhood near Tower Grove Park, police said.
Another officer, who is 30, was struck in the leg, treated and released from the hospital.
The officers were shot while searching for a reported gunshot victim.
The 43-year-old suspected gunman was taken into custody at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday after barricading himself inside a home for nearly 12 hours, authorities said.
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson said she was "heartbroken" over Bohannon’s death.
"This is a horrific reminder of the dangers our brave men and women willingly face everyday to keep us safe," Krewson said in a Sunday statement. "This is a terrible, senseless tragedy."
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Chief John Hayden said eight of his officers have been shot in the line of duty since June 1.
"We’re trying to cope through a very trying summer, and it’s very difficult. It’s very difficult," he said.
What's the BLM/Burn-Loot-Murder death toll up to now?
About 22 killed by BurnLootMurder since Floyd killed himself with his fentanyl-meth cocktail? How many of the 22 murder victims were black?
This whole thing is a stalking horse for Dem politicians.
Expose this scam. Find out who's funding it and bring the RICO hammer down on them.
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Will the NFL players put his name on their uniforms?
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Will the NFL players put his name on their uniforms?
Nah, he was Uncle Tom...
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Blackness is a very unique thing.
You can be black even if you are not black, Talcum X for example.
Being a wigger is the one form of "cultural appropriation" you just don't hear much kvetching about.
You can cease to be black if you don't vote for Biden, actually pay attention in school, or enter certain professions such as, in this instance, law enforcement.
If you are a white person in an interracial marriage, with interracial children, you are still a rayciss, according to the high priests of race.
Of course you can think of many more examples you have probably seen with your own eyes.
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RIP, Officer Bohannon
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I don't know the details, but sad. Just a guy doing his job.
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St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson said she was "heartbroken" over Bohannon’s death.
Words mean nothing, Lyda. When are you going to do something about it? You are, after all, the mayor, the chief executive officer of the city of St. Louis.
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[Townhall] A Barista that works at a Starbucks inside a Target in Indianapolis posted a TikTok video of a poisonous concoction he created for law enforcement officers. The Starbucks cup has the words "Blue Lives Matter" written on the side of the cup. The recipe includes more than a cup of bleach.
According to The Police Tribune, the video — which has since been deleted — had a caption on the video that said "All I want for Christmas is more dead cops."
The Barista, identified as Van Greyson Hart, went through a step-by-step process to make the so-called drink.
"Hi guys, I updated my recipe for the Blue Lives Matter drinks," the voice behind the camera said.
"First we’re gonna start with bleach, all the way to the third line," he said, pouring bleach into the Starbucks cup. "Then we’re gonna add ice because, you know, cops love ice."
He poured ice into the cup and then moved towards a blender where he poured bleach, ice, a red substance and a blue mixture.
"We add more bleach, a little blood of innocent black men. And then we add this special blue ingredient that Starbucks has," he said. "We do have it and yes, we are holding out on you."
He blended the concoction up and then poured it on top of the iced bleach that was sitting in the cup.
"Ahh, that beautiful blue color," he said, clearly proud of himself.
A Starbucks spokesperson explained to Townhall that all Starbucks locations inside grocery stores, like Target, are part of the coffee company's licensee. The employee, in this case, is actually a Target employee.
Target provided the following statement to Townhall:
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Track him down and make him drink it. Provide no medical aid. If he dies or doesn't, toss him in the trash. Oh and brand his forehead with the letters "MORON".
American Experiment via Instapundit
Most people seem to believe that wind and solar panels produce no waste and have no negative environmental impacts. Unfortunately, these people are wrong.
...By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life, and that the world will be generating about 6 million metric tons of new solar e-waste annually.
This is an enormous amount of waste. For context, the amount of nuclear waste created from generating electricity in the United States for the last five decades is about 90,000 metric tons. During this time, nuclear power has provided nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity.
This means that solar panels are expected to generate 866 times more waste in the next 30 years than nuclear power has generated in the last 50. And unlike nuclear waste, which is safely stored on site, nobody knows what will happen to these solar panels at the end of their useful lifetime because solar panels are not easily recycled.
..."Solar panels are composed of photovoltaic (PV) cells that convert sunlight to electricity. When these panels enter landfills, valuable resources go to waste. And because solar panels contain toxic materials like lead that can leach out as they break down, landfilling also creates new environmental hazards."
...One reason so few solar panels are recycled is because it isn’t cost effective. According to Grist:
"Tao and his colleagues estimate that a recycler taking apart a standard, 60-cell silicon panel can get about $3 for the recovered aluminum, copper, and glass. Vanderhoof, meanwhile, says that the cost of recycling that panel in the U.S. is anywhere between $12 and $25 — after transportation costs, which "oftentimes equal the cost to recycle." At the same time, in states that allow it, it typically costs less than a dollar to dump a solar panel in a solid waste landfill."
"We believe the big blind spot in the U.S. for recycling is that the cost far exceeds the revenue," Meng said. "It’s on the order of a 10-to-1 ratio."
h/t Instapundit
[UPI] - Before the coronavirus pandemic arrived this year, clean energy was one of fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. economy. But since moderate stages of recovery began, experts say the industry has struggled to find footing.
Just 3,200 jobs returned to the clean energy sector in July, Labor Department data shows.
That 0.1% employment growth has left more than 500,000 workers in fields including energy efficiency, solar and wind energy and clean vehicles without a job, an industry-sponsored analysis by the BW Research Partnership shows.
The last few months have seen a major reversal of fortune for a sector that grew 70% faster than the entire economy between 2015 and 2019 and had been employing three times as many workers as real estate, banking or agriculture.
..."Out of the 3.2 million people who work in the clean energy field -- or did up until this year -- the vast majority are in the energy efficiency field," Bob Keefe, executive director of the non-partisan advocacy group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), told UPI.
"Those are people who go into buildings and do everything from installing insulation in the walls and ceilings to swapping out incandescent lighting for LED lighting.
American Thinker
One would think, in these days of COVID-19, that America’s doctors and patients are as reliant on our hospitals as they’ve ever been, and that they’re going to stay that way.
Guess again.
Today, even as the health care system and the economy face strains from the coronavirus and its complications, scores of doctors and patients are avoiding large bureaucratic hospitals and instead flocking toward leaner and meaner models of health care.
Professional providers of all types -- from surgeons to drugstore owners -- are focusing on innovation. Even better, they’re now treating patients as consumers who value quality care at reasonable prices they can know in advance.
Walgreens and VillageMD, for instance, have partnered to open primary-care centers in 500 to 700 drugstores over a five-year period. These centers will provide annual check-ups, walk-in appointments, and many other services. Physician-led teams of four people will treat up to 120 patients per day at these mostly 3,300-square-foot locations.
This model is the latest iteration of a trend called decentralized care, in which patients obtain treatment through telehealth services and outpatient surgery centers and clinics -- rather than by visiting hospitals. For two decades, the late Harvard Business professor Clayton Christensen predicted that decentralization in health care would follow other industries on this path, such as travel, retail, and financial services. It was only a matter of time, said Christensen, before health care innovators improved access to services and reduced costs.
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It might work for Primary care, and non-acute or minor illnesses and conditions, as well as non-complex elective surgeries that can be done at the "day surgery" centers that have popped up over the past few years.
The key is cash payment (or private payment arrangements) at a lower rate in exchange for not having to deal with insurance or government paperwork. This has been going on for years, and a lot of Docs are going to this model. Its called Direct Primary Care, where you make arrangements with a local practice and pay them a retainer, and they give you fixed rate or heavily discounted services.
Some folks combine this with an inexpensive high-deductible catastrophic coverage insurance plan to cover the worst case.
They get their prescriptions via GoodRx or the $4 generic plan at Walmart and Kroger.
Its surprising what you can do if there is no middle man insurance company between you and your doctor. And it eliminates a ton of admin and executives siphoning cash, and getting bonuses for "cost cutting".
[Rush] Breaking news that was inevitable, meaning it was gonna happen no matter what. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Michael Flynn’s effort to force a judge to immediately dismiss charges against him. This is the case, Emmet Sullivan, the judge, refuses to follow through on the Department of Justice attempt to drop the charges, drop the case against Flynn. The judge says screw that. I want this guy going to jail. He pled guilty before me and I want this guy going to jail.
The DOJ says we’re not gonna pursue it, and the judge said, well, I’m gonna make you pursue it. So he appealed and lost to a three-judge panel at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Then Sullivan asked for an en banc hearing, meaning all of the judges. And this is what was inevitable. All the judges have ruled that Flynn cannot have the charges dismissed. In other words, they found for the judge, they found for Emmet Sullivan in a 61-page opinion.
Now, the reason I say this is inevitable, because there’s no way 25 or 30 judges or 21, whatever it is, were going to find against a fellow judge. It’s a fraternity. What about the rule of law? Rule of law, folks, we know there’s at least a two-tier system of justice in Washington for people in the system, for people in the establishment and people who are not. This has been established.
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Of course they did. They exist for power. They've always sought more purview and power. What Judge Sullivan did had no precedent. Who needs precedent? You can not have a republic with one third of the government beyond accountability of the people. You have a caste of self promoting, self selection, aristocrats.
In 1800, anyone who could be a representative, senator or President could be a federal judge. Today you have to have the right credentials, from the right schools, be known to the right people to get a life time job with little or no accountability.
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So much for justice for Flynn. The only good that could come out of this is to expose the corruption of the Federal judicial system.
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Systems and Institutions I thought were mostly dependable are showing deep rot, far beyond what I imagined. In each case, once trust is gone, how long before that ends American life as we knew it and ushers in something far more tribal and fractious? I hold Obama as the root cause of this, his salting of the bureaucracy and race industry rhetoric reversed 40 years of progress. George Wallace must be laughing his ass off somewhere, god God’s sake, backs are demanding segregation now!
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I think what you have is a lot of leftist judges who want Sullivan to drop the case against Flynn himself so they won't have to take Sullivan off the case.
At the end of the opinion they wrote that they expected quick action by the District Court on this case.
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Iranian 'Skunk Works' test.
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Well, Israel doesn't have planes that can go Mach 10 & turn invisible. And even if Israel had such machines - they wouldn't be equipped with ray projectors that make Muslim men dicks shrink.
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All of these UFO stories with indistinct blobs doing amazing speeds & maneuvers make me wonder if someone has invented a "super laser pointer" for humans, just as we tease cats.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Hill] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiated a wedding outdoors over the weekend for a family friend, a spokesperson for the court confirmed Monday. 
[NYP] Two St. Louis police officers were shot in the line of duty Saturday, with one of them dying from his wounds Sunday, the department said.
[Townhall] A Barista that works at a Starbucks inside a Target in Indianapolis posted a TikTok video of a poisonous concoction he created for law enforcement officers. The Starbucks cup has the words "Blue Lives Matter" written on the side of the cup. The recipe includes more than a cup of bleach.
[Rush] Breaking news that was inevitable, meaning it was gonna happen no matter what. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Michael Flynn’s effort to force a judge to immediately dismiss charges against him. This is the case, Emmet Sullivan, the judge, refuses to follow through on the Department of Justice attempt to drop the charges, drop the case against Flynn. The judge says screw that. I want this guy going to jail. He pled guilty before me and I want this guy going to jail.
