News you probably haven't heard. Mormons? Amish? Catholics? tis a mystery.

Dozens of parents and children protest outside a second primary school over lessons on gay relationships – handing out leaflets declaring: 'We DO NOT believe in homosexuality'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6854329/Dozens-parents-children-protest-outside-second-Birmingham-primary-school.html

Some members of the media unsure about free speech.

“Of course, ‘lock her up’ was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign,” Amanpour said. “Do you in retrospect wish that people like yourself, the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language — that it was dangerous potentially, that it could’ve created violence, that it’s kind of hate speech. Should that have been allowed?”

Comey explained the First Amendment to Amanpour, replying, “That’s not the role for government to play. The beauty of this country is people can say what they want, even if it’s misleading and it’s demagoguery.”

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/02/cnn-christine-amanpour-fbi-james-comey-lock-her-up/

On the other hand, he was an FBI director who was unsure of the Espionage Act.

As it happens, Machiavelli's 550th anniversary will be on May 3rd. Wonder how they're going to make note of that, in Italy. (I can't find anything about that particular anniversary - yet.)

Favorite Mach line:

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”

These two tweets came into my life within 12 hours of each other.

Twitter is playful. Dada serendipity, Exquisite Corpse everywhere you look.

Are you sure you want to cede your health care to the government?

https://reason.com/blog/2019/04/02/government-agrees-to-stop-feeding-resear

Carlsen (white) realizes he's left himself vulnerable at :11 in this clip. At 1:05 he sees that he's survived. At 1:15 he collapses with relief.

Shoe on the other foot.

Why women live longer lives than men:

Police said Ferris then admitted to wearing the bulletproof vest and asking Hicks to shoot him with a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle. The vest stopped the bullet -- but it also hurt and left a mark on Ferris’ chest.

Ferris allegedly said he got angry and “unloaded the clip into Christopher’s back.” Hicks only suffered bruising from the gunshots, police said.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-men-shoot-at-each-other-while-wearing-bulletproof-vests-police

“unloaded the clip into Christopher’s back.”

Forget it, Jake. It's Arkansas.

The 54-year-old says he got divorced last fall and had been a stay-at-home husband for years while his wife worked. He said he'd been looking for work for about a year and hadn't gotten any calls for interviews — until Wednesday, by which time work had ceased to be a priority.

He told a room full of reporters his ex-wife has already reached out to him.

"She just called me today and told me she's taking me back to court."

https://wset.com/news/nation-world/man-wins-273m-jackpot-gets-call-from-ex-wife-03-08-2019

This isn't Twin Peaks, Agent Cooper.

The owls are EXACTLY what they seem.

The epilogue of a love story:

https://twitter.com/MsMollyRachael/status/1112783022636531713

The owls are EXACTLY what they seem.

I'm surprised at the number of cats in my neighborhood, since we have plenty of owls. Maybe cats aren't tasty?

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/id

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/id

And plenty of red-tailed hawks during the day, and the occasional bald eagle or osprey passing thru.

It's different this time!

"New York’s budget for the Special Olympics decreased from $200,000 in 2018 to $150,000 for this year," The Daily Caller reported. "Meanwhile, every one of the state’s 213 lawmakers will ultimately receive a raise that is almost the same amount cut from the games for disabled athletes."

https://www.dailywire.com/news/45411/new-york-state-cuts-special-olympics-funding-gives-ryan-saavedra

Never forget: Liberals tsk-tsking Joe Biden mocked Mike Pence's marital rules

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/never-forget-liberals-tsk-tsking-joe-biden-mocked-mike-pences-marital-rules

owls

Nice set of owls you got there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8OL0e_GLs

This looks an awful lot like collusion and obstruction of justice. I'm looking forward to the proggies either excusing Biden's lack of respect for personal space, or eating him alive but this is far worse IMO.

This video cannot be played because of a technical error. (Error Code: 200001) Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.

In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived

Rutgers University’s Brittney Cooper is a master at this. The associated professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies...said that the way we “position ourselves in relationship to time comes out of histories of European and Western thought”; in other words, “white people own time.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-professor-even-the-concept-of-time-is-racist/

Layla Moran was wrong to hit her partner. But domestic violence by women is not the same as domestic violence by men

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/layla-moran-lib-dems-domestic-violence/

This is a metaphor on why you shouldn't put out on the first date:

https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1113233409478938632

Have you guys been reading or hearing about Modern Monetary Theory or MMT lately?

You should do your own homework.

Have you guys been reading or hearing about Modern Monetary Theory or MMT lately? ~ Ben at April 3, 2019 5:42 PM

It's vapid fantasy and utter nonsense.

Boys are icky-poo.

Mother Blessed With Quadruplets Plans on “Choosing” to Only Have the Girls

I agree Conan. It's also obviously been tried over and over again to disastrous results. It follows that quote you had the other day about going bankrupt. There are no problems until you hit the tipping point and at that time you pretty much need to throw your government away and build a new one.

I mainly brought it up because it clearly isn't confined to the AOCs of the world. There are a depressing number of Republicans who are embracing the concept.

Crid, I've done my homework. How about you work on a new insult you troll.

"Boys are icky-poo"

At the link, the line 'it still serves to highlight the heartbreaking reality that the vast majority of abortions are elective and for selfish reasons like family size preference' tells me I can completely ignore this histrionic church lady.

> a new insult

You're bad at punctuation when your feelings are hurt.

No. I'm always bad at punctuation. Spelling too. Effin lazy english teachers who taught by 'Just put it where it feels right' bullshit. But kudos for trying Crid. It is at least different from your usual junk.