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

I'll start posting pics at some point.

We flew into Bogotá last night, got the rental car today and split town pronto. Now just the sound of frogs and rain on the roof.

Meadmaker, have you ever read Justice John Paul Stevens dissent to the SCOTUS ruling on Citizen's United?

I recommend it, though it is long it is quite interesting.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/08-205P.ZX

Where I grew up was very pretty rural Wisconsin, all farmland and old woods where we could go looking for imaginary abandoned German prison camps. Scouting wasn't anywhere on the radar screen.

Things are getting strange...

Not too hard to guess what's being indicated here. Oh, the blond woman is Stormy Daniels.

A (mostly) Southern Hemisphere country has about eighteen times the times the number of Scouts the US has according to this map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerakan_Pramuka_Indonesia The Pramuka Movement incorporates both boys and girls. It is an educational movement through Scouting activities, t...

Murdered by a police officer for opening his door...

https://youtu.be/CKLxdAnhXSM?si=zy5mzjZWiTsvsrtL&t=186

Any big storms in the stankerosa yesterday?

Every free society will have some element of plutocracy, after all. No shit. NZ is held up as a close-to-perfect democracy, where every vote counts, but even when a left government is voted in we end up with the same old shit. Rich people got richer faster under Labour than they did under the prior...

hmmm... does the Press Clause of the First Amendment give the institutional press any freedoms from government restraint not enjoyed by everybody else? Not really. Exactly. It gives them exactly the same amount of freedom. There have been attempts to impose restraints on the press, usually in the n...