The voters have made yet another colossal error in judgment, but NBC doesn't really want to tell you how big

New research published this month, involving millions of people worldwide over decades, is adding to worries that heavy use of high-potency cannabis and legalization of recreational weed in many U.S. states could exacerbate the nation's mental health crisis in young adults. “There is a big sense of urgency not just because more people are smoking marijuana, but because more people are using it in ways that are harmful, with higher and higher concentration of THC,” Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said in an interview. ... The magnitude of the connection between cannabis and schizophrenia for young men surprised study author Volkow, who was expecting the number to be closer to 10%. “This is worrisome,” she said.

 
But NBC doesn't tell you the number:

Among 16–20-year-old males, no clear pattern over time is observed, with PARFs generally fluctuating between 10% and 20%. In older males, the PARFs show a clearly increasing pattern, ending up around 20–30% until the age of 31–40 when PARFs fluctuate between <1% and nearly 20%.

 

 

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Let's see how long G$$GLE leaves this up before censoring me like last time.

 

 

 

Inflation remains stuck, year over year in April 2023 at 4.7%, meaning at minimum that interest rates will remain higher for longer

The Fed can't do it alone.

Congress needs to rein-in spending.
 

Supremes slap down EPA meddling in property owners' wetlands under Clean Water Act, reversing yet another pestilent view of former justice Anthony Kennedy

A majority in Rapanos (2006) couldn’t agree on how to limit EPA’s authority over wetlands. Four Justices said the Clean Water Act’s scope extended to “only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water” such as oceans, rivers and lakes, and wetlands that were directly adjacent and “indistinguishable” from those waters.

However, the agencies and lower courts have adopted Justice Anthony Kennedy’s lone opinion that federal jurisdiction extends to land that has a “significant nexus” to a waterway. This test is as clear as a swamp.

While all nine Justices ruled for the Sacketts, they disagreed on the scope of federal power. The majority strips away the “significant nexus” ambiguity from Justice Kennedy’s Rapanos opinion, but reaffirms the conservative plurality’s view that a “wetland” must “be indistinguishably part of a body of water that itself constitutes ‘waters’ under the CWA.”

Ronald Reagan's worst appointment.

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Kim Strassel: Republicans should claw back $80 billion IRS infusion in wake of IRS targeting of Taibbi and Shapley

 IRS Needs a Cage, Not More Cash

The cases of the whistleblower Gary Shapley and journalist Matt Taibbi show why the GOP should claw back that $80 billion infusion.

As House Republicans and the White House wrangle over a debt-ceiling deal, one GOP demand ought to be nonnegotiable. A politicized Internal Revenue Service has no business keeping its untrustworthy fingers on last year’s $80 billion cash infusion.

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This is lol great

 

“On day one, I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases, who people are victims of weaponization or political targeting and we will be aggressive at issuing pardons,” DeSantis said in his response. ...

DeSantis replied, “I would say any example of disfavored treatment based on politics or weaponization would be included in that review, no matter how small or how big.”

The Justice Department said this month more than 1,033 defendants have been arrested as part of its probe of the Capitol riot. ...

DeSantis said he planned to use the pardon power “at the front end” instead of waiting until the end of his term in the White House.

“We’re going to find examples where the government’s been weaponized against disfavored groups, and we will apply relief as appropriate. But it will be done on a case-by-case basis,” he said.

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Excellent News: Insurgent "Eight-Year Alliance" forms from 100 former Trump administration officials who now back Ron DeSantis

 

According to multiple sources within the group, officially known as "The Eight-Year Alliance," DeSantis is "a proven winner," a contender with a depth of policy proven by what he's accomplished at the state level, and a leader who "does what he says."

The primary motivation of the group, the sources said, is to promote a candidate they feel would be a viable contender for two presidential terms, something they see in DeSantis. They also want to prevent former President Donald Trump "immediately becoming a lame-duck president" should he win back the White House, considering the polarizing affect his persona has had on American politics.

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Key point: depth of proven policy in Florida sustainable nationally over two presidential terms is a better choice than another drama-plagued and by definition ineffectual presidency under the best of conditions.

The salient feature of the coming Draco will not be to enslave but to kill, to purge

Yes, he will be busy.

 

 

Good morning

 

UFO spotted on dark side of moon in broad daylight

  VIDEO: UFO spotted in broad daylight on moon...

Mystery emerges as ‘UFO is spotted’ on the other side of the moon in wild video recorded in broad daylight

From this stupid story we're supposed to believe that the man who graduated Yale and Harvard with honors doesn't have a thought in his head but for his wife

 The Casey DeSantis Problem: His Greatest Asset -- and Liability...

Never trust a story which features Roger Stone and Rick Wilson as sources.

They're so afraid this guy will win

 

French Revolution, here we come

 

No One Participates in Politics More than Atheists

Ryan Burge, Graphs About Religion 

 

 

Bud Light is the official beer of Forg's Gay Raptor pick 'em up truck owners

Found. On. Road. Gay. 

LOL, New Hampshire Democrats to hold primary first because it's state law, Biden faces losing there because he can't be on their ballot and honor his choice of South Carolina going first at the same time

 Too funny.

Politico reports here.

Want the job much lol?

 

Megyn Kelly: Hannity Is Not The Answer At 8pm, He Hasn't Been The Answer At 9pm Since Tucker Left

Democrats who rammed Obamacare down our throats 13-years ago say it's totally broken

 

Sen. Bernie Sanders renews push for Medicare for All to end ‘totally broken’ health-care system

Mean annual snowfall: 81 inches lol

Duluth becomes 'climate' haven...

Planet of the Apes, here we come

 NYC sinking under weight of its buildings...

 

Tech executive Bob Lee who was stabbed to death was most definitely a libertarian

 Before His Killing, Tech Executive Bob Lee Led an Underground Life of Sex and Drugs:

Mr. Lee remained close to his wife, Krista Lee, even though they were separated. He recently moved to Miami with his father, a widower, but regularly returned to San Francisco to visit his two teenage children, Dagny and Scout, named after characters in “Atlas Shrugged” and “To Kill A Mockingbird.” The family had planned a trip together to Japan in August.

Anti-Trump lunatics Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, and Glenn Simpson of FUSION GPS, all go back together to 2010 to an Expert Working Group on International Organized Crime

 

In the 1990s, she taught Russian history at Vassar. According to an online profile, she went on to work as an "independent contractor doing research and translation projects on topics in Russian science and technology," dates unknown. There is not much more public information about her career until she pops up in 2010 as a CIA analyst in an Expert Working Group (including her DOJ husband and future Fusion boss Simpson) on international organized crime; then, finally, in 2016, at the center of the Fusion GPS/DOJ/FBI anti-Trump web.

 

All part of The Red Thread. 

See here for the EWG.

 

See here for Nellie Ohr's self-identified employer, Open Source Works, an in-house CIA operation:

 

Open Source Works, which is the CIA’s in-house open source analysis component, is devoted to intelligence analysis of unclassified, open source information.  Oddly, however, the directive that established Open Source Works is classified, as is the charter of the organization.  In fact, CIA says the very existence of any such records is a classified fact.

Expert Working Group Report, 2010