Francis’ death sets off a weekslong process of allowing the faithful to pay
their final respects, first for Vatican officials in the Santa Marta chapel and
then in St. Peter’s for the general public, followed by a funeral and a
conclave to elect a new pope.

As the sun was setting on Monday evening, the Vatican held a Rosary
prayer in St. Peter’s Square in its first public commemoration.

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-dead-01ca7d73c3c48d25fd1504ba076e2e2a

Spoiler alert!  Trans-women can not legally call themselves "women". 

A group placed orders with Yeti many times in the past for items having the words "Center for Conservative Women" engraved on them.

Last week the group placed an order that was accepted but then quickly canceled by Yeti.  The reason given was that the engraving was political in nature, and Yeti's policy is to not create custom items that contain a political message.

To test that policy, the same group ordered another mug which arrived this week.  The engraving this time said, "Proud Texas Progressive."

You be the judge.

I wonder if Yeti's policy can be grounds for a civil suit.  The Colorado baker was free to not make cakes for gay weddings due to the artistic, creative nature of baking and decorating cakes.  However, I don't think using a machine to etch letters and images the customer created or selected from a gallery of available images constitutes artistic creativity.

As a test, i went to the Yeti site and walked through the custom order process.  Based on the "Conservative Women" order, it appears the entire design was likely uploaded.  Yeti charges an additional setup fee for designs you either create on their site or upload yourself, but neither method involves Yeti doing anything "artistic" or "creative".  It's a "monkey see, monkey do" process.  Whatever YOU decide to have engraved, they will feed that into their computer and engrave it for you -- unless it contains words or images they don't like.  They won't permit known trademarked images to be used, for example, unless the trademark owner makes the order.

Seems like another case of selectively applying a policy that only hurts one side of the political spectrum. One guess as to which side that is.


https://youtube.com/shorts/LW_Dz6MX1tw

It's déjà vu all over again!

It's like the same writers worked on both the movie Speed and the series 24, or at least the first season.

Main Characters:

Speed - Keanu Reeves as Jack Traven
24 - Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer

I'll see your pair of Jacks and raise you a villain:

Speed - Dennis Hopper as Howard Payne (bomber):
Payne takes Jack's partner, Harry, hostage.  Jack shoots Harry in the leg which was decided during a discussion they had earlier.

24 - Dennis Hopper as Victor Drazen (Serbian war criminal):
Jack takes the daughter of Drazen's friend hostage to try and escape from being held hostage himself.  Drazen (Hopper) shoots the daughter in the head.

The fact that Dennis Hopper was in both "shoot the hostage" scenes made me smile.   

President Trump signed an executive order requiring proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections.

Non-U.S. citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal elections.
But under the order, the national mail voter registration form will require
that applicants provide either a U.S. passport, a REAL ID driver's
license or state-issued card compliant with REAL standards, or a "valid
Federal or State government-issued photo identification."

The order directs states and local election officials to record and verify the
documents proving U.S. citizenship and threatens to withhold federal
election-related funds from states that do not comply.

The directive also takes aim at mail-in voting ‒ a practice Trump has long
criticized ‒ by instructing his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to "take all
necessary steps" to ensure states don't count absentee ballots that arrive
after Election Day.

Trump also ordered Bondi to enter into "information-sharing agreements"
with state election officials to target individuals who have committed
election fraud, registered to vote despite being ineligible, provided false
information on voter registration forms and intimidated or threatened
election officials or voters.

In addition, the order updates federal election standards for voting
systems by requiring all ballots to produce a voter-verifiable paper
record to prevent fraud or mistakes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/25/trump-executive-order-voter-id/82657485007/

The numbers are applicable to areas that are NOT gun free zones, since those zones disarm legal gun owners -- hence no chance of stopping shootings without breaking the law.

Legal gun owners are also less likely to shoot/kill bystanders than Cops.

There have been zero reports of legal gun owners interfering with Cops or being mistakenly shot themselves by law enforcement as some love to argue will happen after Cops arrive and see a good guy with a gun.

The stats in the study were taken directly from FBI reports of mass shootings or what would have been a mass shooting had someone not stopped it.

Examining gender-specific mental health risks after
gender-affirming surgery: a national database study

Results: From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that
those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression,
anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without
surgery. Males with surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression
(25.4% vs. 11.5%, RR 2.203, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (12.8% vs. 2.6%,
RR 4.882, P < 0.0001). Females exhibited similar trends, with elevated
depression (22.9% vs. 14.6%, RR 1.563, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (10.5%
vs. 7.1%, RR 1.478, P < 0.0001). Feminizing individuals demonstrated
particularly high risk for depression (RR 1.783, P = 0.0298) and substance
use disorders (RR 1.284, P < 0.0001).

Lewis JE, Patterson AR, Effirim MA, Patel MM, Lim SE, Cuello VA, Phan MH, Lee WC.
Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national
database study. J Sex Med. 2025 Feb 25:qdaf026. doi: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdaf026.
Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39996623.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39996623/
https://academic.oup.com/jsm/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jsxmed/qdaf026/8042063?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Watching some TV series with forensics.  i understand the reality vs. fiction portions, but when they locate a projectile in a body and state, "Looks like a .38, but ballistics will confirm," it makes me wonder.

Isn't a .38 projectile nearly identical to a 9mm?  Would it be more accurate to state it's probably a .38 OR 9mm before ballistics identifies it?

Is there a way to see if a projectile was from a revolver vs. a semi-auto?  Without the weapon and/or casing, i wouldn't think so.  The ME didn't doing any weighing or measuring -- just made the statement upon visual discovery.

Things that make me go, 'Hmmmmm."

 

Colorado police arrest trans suspect
accused of vandalizing, placing incendiary devices
at Tesla dealership

A trans-identified male has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing a Tesla
dealership in Loveland, Colorado. Lucy Grace Nelson, 40, was taken into
custody on Monday. Nelson has been accused of placing incendiary devices
at the dealership and vandalizing property, according to a press release
from the Loveland Police Department.

Nelson, a man who identifies as a woman and was born Justin Thomas Nelson,
was arrested on probable cause following an "extensive investigation" that
began on January 29, when the first criminal incident occurred at the dealership,
police said. A second incident occurred on February 2 and another on
February 7, which is under investigation as an attempted arson. In each of
these cases, police reported that explosives were left at the scene.

https://thepostmillennial.com/colorado-police-arrest-trans-suspect-accused-of-vandalizing-placing-incendiary-devices-at-tesla-dealership

Tulsi Gabbard went on the Jesse Watters Show on FOX to discuss the deep state use of NSA computers and other devices to participate in sex chat topics.

She's fired and revoked security clearances of 100 Intelligence employees.