[Malcolm Armsteen]

WTAF?

[Cyclist]

That was my thought.

The USA. The world's greatest democracy. The land of the free. In the 21st century!

[Boiler]

An American once had a pop at me over Britain's record on race, but didn't like my reply of suggesting that I'll not be lectured by someone from a country that actively pursued apartheid..

[davidjay]

An American once had a pop at me over Britain's record on race, but didn't like my reply of suggesting that I'll not be lectured by someone from a country that actively pursued apartheid..

I don't think we've ever had black people murdered because they wanted to be on the electoral roll.

[Bones McCoy]

An American once had a pop at me over Britain's record on race, but didn't like my reply of suggesting that I'll not be lectured by someone from a country that actively pursued apartheid..

I don't think we've ever had black people murdered because they wanted to be on the electoral roll.

Nor laws prohibiting marriage between different races.

Nor is our modern housing "zoned" into racially profiled types.

And I cannot remember an instance of the British army campaigning in Europe (even WW2) where minorities deliberately crossed into British camps to request protection, work and release form local slave masters.

[The Weeping Angel]

I think it's fair to say that both Britain and America have race problems it's just their both different.

[Bones McCoy]

I think it's fair to say that both Britain and America have race problems it's just their both different.

Nobody in their right mind would claim that Britain doesn't have race problems.
(Consider here whether the Tory government has ever been in its right mind).

Both nations problems have people who wish things go back to like they wuz.
The British ones are mostly queuing up at the post office on pension day, or shouting the odds on Question Time.
The American ones are organised into heavily armed paramilitaries, or calling the cops on peaceful families at the park.

[The Weeping Angel]

I think it's fair to say that both Britain and America have race problems it's just their both different.

Nobody in their right mind would claim that Britain doesn't have race problems.
(Consider here whether the Tory government has ever been in its right mind).

Both nations problems have people who wish things go back to like they wuz.
The British ones are mostly queuing up at the post office on pension day, or shouting the odds on Question Time.
The American ones are organised into heavily armed paramilitaries, or calling the cops on peaceful families at the park.

Or racially abusing pub doormen

https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/24/birmingh ... -14634074/

[davidjay]

I think it's fair to say that both Britain and America have race problems it's just their both different.

Nobody in their right mind would claim that Britain doesn't have race problems.
(Consider here whether the Tory government has ever been in its right mind).

Both nations problems have people who wish things go back to like they wuz.
The British ones are mostly queuing up at the post office on pension day, or shouting the odds on Question Time.
The American ones are organised into heavily armed paramilitaries, or calling the cops on peaceful families at the park.

Or are the cops.

[Boiler]

Hey, Californians! Now you too can blow each other away with assault rifles after a 30-year ban...

Federal Judge Overturns California’s 3-Decade-Old Assault Weapons Ban https://nyti.ms/3cgX7He

[Bones McCoy]

Hey, Californians! Now you too can blow each other away with assault rifles after a 30-year ban...

Federal Judge Overturns California’s 3-Decade-Old Assault Weapons Ban https://nyti.ms/3cgX7He

I, for one, welcome the new levels of safety this will bring to LA and San Jose.

[Cyclist]

Texas Republican asks: can we fix the moon’s orbit to fight climate change?

The Texas Republican congressman Louie Gohmert has asked a senior US government official if changing the moon’s orbit around the Earth, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun, might be a solution for climate change.

Bizarrely, the question was not posed to anyone from Nasa or even the Pentagon. Instead it was asked of a senior forestry service official during a House natural resources committee hearing on Tuesday.

Speaking with Jennifer Eberlien, associate deputy chief of the National Forest Service, Gohmert asked if it was possible to alter the orbits of the moon, or the Earth, as a way of combating climate change...


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ate-change

We Realy, *really*, need that facepalm smiley.

[Andy McDandy]

Randall Munroe (xkcd guy) was once asked if by setting off every nuclear weapon on Earth we could alter the planet's orbit. His reply, after "Why the hell would you want to do that?", was that no, there would be no appreciable effect on the planet's orbit, and by the way we would all die.

[Cyclist]

Are you telling me the scenario behind the most excellent film "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" (Leo McKern & Janet Munro, 1961) is wrong?

[RedSparrows]

Changing the orbit of whatever to fix climate change wouldn't so much be breaking a butterfly on a wheel, but nuking the butterfly and yourself in a rather injust suicide 'pact'.

^ That was tortured...

[Bones McCoy]

Texas: Fuck Yeah

[MisterMuncher]

Changing the orbit of whatever to fix climate change wouldn't so much be breaking a butterfly on a wheel, but nuking the butterfly and yourself in a rather injust suicide 'pact'.

^ That was tortured...

I wouldn't trust planetary orbital mechanics to a nation that can't manage roundabouts

[Arrowhead]

Some actual good news for a change: it looks like the Dem-controlled Senate is finally starting to confirm some of Biden's judicial nominations (see link below).

It'll be a reassuring sight to see these confirmations start to build up over the coming months and years; under Mitch McConnell's baleful gaze, the previously GOP-led Senate allowed Trump to appoint an extraordinary number of judges at all levels within just four years. There's probably not enough vacancies left open for Biden to completely address that discrepancy, but every little helps right now.

List of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... _Joe_Biden

[Youngian]

Appointing judges is a peculiar power for an executive president to have especially in the US with its reverence for checks and balances. Like the UK unwritten constitution, it relies on ladies and gentlemen being honourable.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Some actual good news for a change: it looks like the Dem-controlled Senate is finally starting to confirm some of Biden's judicial nominations (see link below).

It'll be a reassuring sight to see these confirmations start to build up over the coming months and years; under Mitch McConnell's baleful gaze, the previously GOP-led Senate allowed Trump to appoint an extraordinary number of judges at all levels within just four years. There's probably not enough vacancies left open for Biden to completely address that discrepancy, but every little helps right now.

List of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... _Joe_Biden

Interesting to look at the roll call on the votes there. Lindsay Graham (along with Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski) is voting to confirm judges. Wonder if he's thinking he can be more sane (he's not a stupid man) now Trump is gone?