(March 18, 2025 at 1:29 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:

Quote:Molly Malone statue 'violated' by groping



Dublin's Molly Malone statue should be protected to prevent members of the public from "violating" it by groping the sculpture's breasts, a campaigner has said.

Tilly Cripwell pointed out that the bronze artwork has been groped so many times over the years that its breasts have become discoloured.

The 23-year-old student said she has witnessed "disgusting behaviour" at the statue many times while busking beside it in recent years.

Dublin City Council has said it is considering the campaigner's call to repair the discoloured statue and raise it on to a higher plinth.

The council also confirmed it is in the process of asking tourist companies to deter their customers from touching the statue.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07z2pxejyxo

Hmm, maybe they should make bronze statues of nude women which men are allowed to grope all they want so they won't grope poor Molly. Plus, it could be a tourist attraction.

The Tart With The Cart is already a tourist attraction. People (including your humble narrator) have travelled miles to have a rub for almost 40 years.

It saddens me when people don’t respect our traditions.

Boru

(March 18, 2025 at 1:59 pm)brewer Wrote: Texas midwife arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tex...rcna196810

I read that. Paxton is using the alleged illegal abortions as a pretext to shutdown her network of clinics. Knowing Paxton, this is a sham pretext to eliminate women's reproductive services.

Tesla vehicles hit with 'targeted attack' in Las Vegas, among other acts of vandalism

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tesla-vehicles...=119910817

^Just read that insurance is getting ready to increase on Teslas due to the vandalism that's been going on.

Gee, that sure sucks.

(March 18, 2025 at 6:55 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: ^Just read that insurance is getting ready to increase on Teslas due to the vandalism that's been going on.

Gee, that sure sucks.

Yesterday the wife and I were discussing the 70's bombings and musing if something similar would return.

Hudson's Bay Company Canada's oldest corporation goes out of business after 354 years of existence 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hudon-s...rotection.




Rupert's Land the territory that once belong to the Hudson's Bay Company before the territory was bought absorbed in Canada proper 1869

I'm looking forward to insurance companies cancelling insurance on those cars, based on some claim of "attractive nuisance". I deplore vandalism, but I get that people are angry. If he keeps jacking around with Social Security and such, he's going to piss someone off with the necessary skill set...not me, I've the marksmanship skills, but nothing else.

(March 18, 2025 at 9:30 pm)Fireball Wrote: I'm looking forward to insurance companies cancelling insurance on those cars, based on some claim of "attractive nuisance". I deplore vandalism, but I get that people are angry. If he keeps jacking around with Social Security and such, he's going to piss someone off with the necessary skill set...not me, I've the marksmanship skills, but nothing else.

Obligatory "it ain't gonna be me either".

The social contract is a two way street - if they breach it, no one's under any further obligation to adhere to it.

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-healt...tion-trump

EPA aims to cut pollution rules projected to save nearly 200,000 lives: ‘Real people will be hurt’

Quote:A push by Donald Trump’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead.

Last week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provoked uproar by unveiling a list of 31 regulations it will scale back or eliminate, including rules limiting harmful air pollution from cars and power plants; restrictions on the emission of mercury, a neurotoxin; and clean water protections for rivers and streams.

Lee Zeldin, the EPA’s administrator, called the extraordinary series of rollbacks the “greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen” and declared it a “dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion”. One of the most consequential actions will see the EPA reconsider a landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harm human health, which has been used to underpin laws aimed at addressing the climate crisis.

But the rules targeted by Zeldin have immediate, measurable benefits to Americans’ health even without considering the longer-term impacts of the climate crisis. In total, the regulations on the hit list will prevent nearly 200,000 deaths over the next 25 years, by helping avoid an array of heart, respiratory and other health problems worsened by air and water pollution, according to assessments conducted by the EPA itself.

Trump’s EPA has said its immolation of environmental protections will “roll back trillions in regulatory costs and hidden ‘taxes’ on US families”. However, the agency’s own analyses shows that the regulations save the US economy far more money than it costs businesses to implement new pollution controls, by a factor of around six to one.

[emphasis mine]