Month: June 2024

Trump classified documents judge is target of more than 1,000 complaints, appeals court reveals

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/trump-classified-documents-aileen-cannon-complaints.html

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KEY POINTS
  • Judge Aileen Cannon has been criticized for her handling of the criminal case in Florida federal court against former President Donald Trump, who appointed her to the bench.
  • Trump is charged in the case with crimes related to retaining classified government documents after he left the White House, and with obstructing the recovery of those records.
  • The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was found guilty Thursday in New York state court of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Aileen M. Cannon, United States District Judge, Southern District of Florida
Aileen M. Cannon, United States District Judge, Southern District of Florida
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The Florida federal judge overseeing the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has been the target of more than 1,000 complaints in just one week this month raising allegations of her handling of the case, a top appeals court judge revealed in an order.

The complaints against Judge Aileen Cannon have come to light amid renewed criticism by some legal observers and Trump opponents that she is slow-walking the criminal case against the former president to ensure it does not go to trial before the presidential election.

 

“Many of the complaints” against Cannon filed with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals “request that the Chief Circuit Judge remove her from the classified-documents case and reassign the case to a different judge,” Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in a May 22 order posted on the appeal court’s website.

And “many of the complaints against Judge Cannon also question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings in the case,” Pryor wrote.

Those complaints filed since May 16 “appear to be part of an orchestrated campaign,” according to Pryor, whose appellate court reviews cases arising from federal district courts in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.

Public critics of Cannon have noted her delays in ruling on multiple pending motions, granting hearings to Trump’s lawyers on legal issues that might otherwise be easily addressed through court filings, and criticizing filings by special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors.

Trump, who appointed Cannon to the bench, is charged in the case with crimes related to withholding classified government records at his Mar-a-Lago club residence in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left the White House, and trying to hide them from officials who sought their recovery.

 

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has pleaded not guilty in that case, on Thursday was convicted by a state court jury in New York of 34 felony counts related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Pryor, in his May 22 order about the complaints, wrote that he “has considered and dismissed four of those orchestrated complaints as merits-related and as based on allegations lacking sufficient evidence to raise an inference that misconduct has occurred.”

He also wrote that neither he nor the appeals court’s Judicial Council has the authority to remove Cannon from the case under the Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability Proceedings.

“Although many of the complaints allege an improper motive in delaying the case, the allegations are speculative and unsupported by any evidence,” Pryor wrote.

“The Complaints also do not establish that Judge Cannon was required to recuse herself from the case because she was appointed by then-President Trump.”

The chief judge also wrote that before May 16, “multiple Complaints of Judicial Misconduct or Disability” were filed against Cannon, who sits in Fort Pierce, Florida, federal court, “raising allegations in connection” with Trump’s criminal case.

“Some of those complaints have been acted upon, and others will be acted upon in due course,” Pryor wrote, without revealing the nature of those actions.

Pryor said that he recommended that the Judicial Council order the appeals court’s clerk not to accept complaints against Cannon received after May 16 “to the extent they are similar to previously filed complaints.” The council followed that recommendation, according to the order.

Pryor also wrote, that while the judicial-complaint process “is not the appropriate way to seek review of Judge Cannon’s orders, her orders are nevertheless subject to appellate review in normal course.”

CNBC has requested comment from Cannon through the office of the chief judge of the U.S. Southern District Court of Florida.

Glenn Kirschner, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor, on his podcast Justice Matters earlier this week did an episode on Cannon titled “Judge Aileen Cannon Grinds Trump’s Classified Documents/Obstruction/Espionage Case to a Halt.”

The episode’s description on Apple Podcasts says, “Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon should not be presiding over Trump’s federal prosecution in Florida.”

“She has brought the case to a screeching halt by declining to resolve motions in a timely manner and by refusing to even set a trial date. Judge Cannon is NOT an honest broker of the law, and the federal law requires a judge to be removed when his/her ‘impartially might reasonably be questioned.’ ”

The episode links to a YouTube video featuring Kirschner explaining how to file a complaint against Cannon by mailing one to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

“A lot of people took advantage of that step-by-step video, and they submitted those judicial complaint forms,” Kirschner said on the podcast.

CNBC has requested comment from Kirschner on Pryor’s order.

Pryor was on a three-judge panel of the appeals court that issued a scathing ruling in December 2022 overturning Cannon’s appointment of an outside watchdog to determine whether documents seized from Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents could be used in the ongoing criminal probe of Trump.

“This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation,” the panel wrote. “The answer is no.”

“The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant,” the panel written statement continued. “Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”

“The district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction in this case.”

 

Let’s talk about stereotypes and accepting you….

Letting Go Of Control And Hatred; Persevering With Love

I love when he is talking about just loving others as I loved you, he then adds some example.  One was don’t try to force your morality on others, just love them like I love you.  He adds quite a few examples of the don’t just love as I love you.   I think it is worth listening to even if you are not religious or not Christian.  Hugs.  Scottie

One Tin Soldier

This song was recently posted by Angela on her blog post of the same name.  Link below as if I put it here WordPress wipes out all I have written and removes the classic bock. 

This song was one I sang to myself in my worst time growing up, wishing my abusers and the fighting dysfunctional family I had been adopted into would listen and understand it.  They would kill each to win an argument, to gain more money or power.  This was the version I learned, I guess there are several others.  Hugs.  Scottie

One Tin Soldier

Climate change increases risk of preterm babies

https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/climate-change-increases-preterm-babies/

Ali also sent me this link on March 1st, and while it is more something Ten Bears would post at his blog (link will be below, one of the new ways that WordPress is messing up blogging in classic is that if I include a link it wipes the entire classic part out and changes it to a block) I will post it here to clear my tabs.  Hugs.  Scottie

https://homelessonthehighdesert.com

(Photo by Wendy Maeda/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
 
February 29, 2024
 

Increased numbers of preterm babies, higher incidence of respiratory disease and death, and more children in hospitals are some of the health outcomes the world is facing from the impacts of extreme climate change according to a comprehensive assessment of climate change and children’s health.

A new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment identified which particular climate-driven extremes are linked to certain detrimental health impacts for future generations.

The study led by Dr Lewis Weeda, a researcher with The University of Western Australia and the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre at Telethon Kids Institute, and Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology, Corey Bradshaw, from Flinders University shows that the risk of a preterm birth will increase by 60% on average from exposure to extreme temperatures.

The researchers reviewed the results of 163 health studies from around the world to inform planning by governments that could mitigate and improve health outcomes for future generations against the impacts of climate change.

Bradshaw says the global data revealed a worrying increase in preterm birth rates that could cause lifelong complications for millions of children around the world.

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Corey Bradshaw

“We identified many direct links between climate change and child health, the strongest of which was a 60% increased risk on average of preterm birth from exposure to temperature extremes,” he says. “Respiratory diseases, mortality, and morbidity, among others, were also made worse by climate change.

“The effects of different air pollutants on children’s health outcomes were smaller compared to temperature effects, but most pollutants still had an effect of some type, so the news is concerning. The children’s health issues we identified depend on weather extremes — cold extremes give rise to respiratory diseases, while drought and extreme rainfall can result in stunted growth for a population.”

Climate babies: weighing up when it’s time to go

Most of the analysed studies were in high-income nations, despite the fact that children in lower-income countries are most likely to go without adequate access to healthcare, infrastructure, and stable food supply.

The researchers warn that health risks vary across continents and depend on socio-economic circumstances. The research revealed that even advanced economies would not avoid the impacts of climate change on children’s health.

 

“Given that climate influences childhood disease, social and financial costs will continue to rise as climate change progresses, placing increasing pressure on families and health services. For example, asthma has been estimated to cost as much as US$1.5 billion due to a single fire season in the future,” Professor Bradshaw says.

Geography also dictated the health impacts of climate change. For example, in Australia, extreme temperatures have led to an increase in premature births on the East Coast, Northern Territory, and Western Australia and enhanced respiratory issues in Queensland, while similar temperatures have caused higher mortality rates in South Africa.

Dr Weeda said action is required to protect children from climate-related disease.

“The development of public health policies to counter these climate-related diseases, alongside efforts to reduce anthropogenic climate change, must be addressed if we are to protect current and future children.”

“Finding solutions and implementing climate adaptation and mitigation policies would positively impact multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Climate change is universal and adversely affecting all countries and people, and we must prepare societies for mounting threats to child health.”

The Science of the Total Environment paper is titled ‘How climate change degrades child health: A systematic review and meta-analysis.’

This article first appeared in Flinders University News

Gay, lesbian and intersex whales: our queer sea has much to teach us

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/01/documented-sex-male-humpback-whales-gay-lesbian-nonbinary-queer-cetaceans-sexuality?CMP=GTUS_email

Ali sent me this link on March 1st.  Told you I have a lot of very old tabs just hang on because I want so badly to read them plus all the new ones I can’t keep up with.   Thank you Ali.  Hugs.  Scottie 

The first documented sex between two male humpback whales is just the latest challenge to our presumptions about sexualitya male humpback whale penetrating another male

  • The sighting near Hawaii in 2022 of a male humpback whale penetrating another male has been confirmed in a new study.
    Photograph: Lyle Krannichfeld and Brandi Romano/SWNS
    A male humpback whale penetrating another maleA humpback whale’s penis entering another male. Same-sex behaviour has often been observed in cetaceans.
    Photograph: Lyle Krannichfeld and Brandi Romano/Marine Mammal Science
     

Whales are extraordinarily sensuous creatures. Those blubbery bodies are highly sensitive, and sensitised. At social meetings, pods of sperm, humpback and right whales will roll around one another’s bodies for hours at a time. I’ve seen a group of right whales engaged in foreplay and penetration lasting an entire morning

I have also watched a male-female couple so blissfully conjoined that they appeared unbothered by our little fishing boat as they passed underneath it. And in what may sound like a career of cetacean voyeurism, I have also been caught up in a fast-moving superpod of dusky dolphins continually penetrating each other at speed, regardless of the gender of their partner.

 

That’s why this week’s report of the first scientifically documented male-to-male sexual interactions between two humpback whales off the coast of Hawaii is not surprising.

The remarkable image of a two-metre whale penis entering another male “leaves little room for discussion that there is a sexual component to such behaviour”, as one whale scientist, Jeroen Hoekendijk at the Wageningen Marine Research institute in the Netherlands, notes drily.

In fact, one of the whales was ailing and there has been speculation that the encounter may not have been consensual or that the healthy whale was actually giving comfort to the other. Whatever the truth, such “flagrant” acts also expose many of our human presumptions about sexuality, gender and identity.

Off the north-west Pacific coast of the US, male orcas often leave family pods to rub their erections against each other’s bellies. But females have also reportedly been seen engaging in sexual contact with one another, too.

Indeed, the graphic accounts of male-to-male behaviour may mask many “unseen” female-to-female sexual interactions.

Dr Conor Ryan, an honorary research fellow at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, notes: “It’s easy to visibly identify male ‘homosexual’ sex when an extruded penis can be two metres long.” It is less easy to diagnose when female sperm whales are seen “cuddling”, as Hoekendijk observes.

A humpback whale’s penis entering another male. Same-sex behaviour has often been observed in cetaceans. Photograph: Lyle Krannichfeld and Brandi Romano/Marine Mammal Science

Ryan has often witnessed same-sex behaviour between whales and dolphins. “I am interested in the things that we miss,” he says. He has recorded competitive behaviour by humpback whales in groups that seemed to be typically male, such as pursuing other whales.

But they proved, from DNA samples, to be genetically female. He speculates that humpback females may even use whale song – hitherto thought to be the province of mating males.

“If I were a female being harassed by horny males, maybe I would sing too,” says Ryan. “To attract more females, to take attention off me, while masquerading as a male.”

These observations throw up new ideas about the way these animals behave. Whale society is almost overwhelmingly matriarchal. Female sperm whales, for example, travel in large groups – sometimes thousands strong – in which males are only “useful” for their sperm, visiting the groups briefly, then leaving the females to their own society.

Male-oriented science has in the past made various judgments regarding sexual behaviour. But the idea of lesbian whales should not be surprising. Ryan even cites the case of a “non-binary” beaked whale, which was discovered to have both male and female genitalia.

Even identifying as a species can be fluid for cetaceans. In 2022, near Caithness in Scotland, a bottlenose dolphin was found to be identifying as a porpoise, swimming with a pod of porpoises and using their vocalisations. In one of the great queer pairings of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf referred to her lover, Vita Sackville-West, as “my porpoise”.

We cannot know how whales and dolphins themselves regard genital interactions. But in most cases they appear to enjoy them – without, perhaps, the preconceptions we humans as a species have historically projected upon such behaviour. They may make great clickbait on social media, but they have an important relevance for us, too.

When the Canadian biologist Bruce Bagemihl published his book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity – listing 450 species exhibiting such behaviour, including whales and dolphins – it was used in evidence in a US supreme court case in 2003 that struck down, as unconstitutional, homophobic “sodomy” laws being used in Texas.

It is telling, too, that the best-known work of literary fiction written about whales, Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick, is a decidedly queer book. Melville conflates the queerness and diversity of his characters – his narrator, Ishmael, is declared married to his shipmate, the multi-tattooed Queequeg, based on a Māori warrior – with the mysterious sensuality of the whales he is describing. He even spends an entire chapter describing a whale’s foreskin, with joyful innuendo.

The sea itself seems to be a queer place, where gender is at best a slippery notion at times. Slipper shells stuck together on the beach, which you might find when beachcombing, are in fact changing sex, from female at the bottom to male at the top. Cetaceans’ genitals are concealed, in any case, in genital slits. Sleek and streamlined, it is as if bothersome sexual definitions were overtaken by the sheer beauty of wondrous hydrodynamics.

So much of what we project on to whales and dolphins is about our own complexes. They seem to lead a free and easy life. They may not possess hands to manipulate, but they have the biggest brains on the planet, and highly sensual bodies to match. Having been around for millions of years, it is tempting to imagine their long-evolved existence as one that is beyond all the things that seem to hold us humans back.

 Philip Hoare is the author of several books, including Leviathan, The Sea Inside, and Albert and the Whale

Over the last few days I have been busy trying to read news and set up new browsers. Here are some links to Joe My God stories that stood out for their pushing Christian hate on everyone. Plus some other hates from the tRump cult.

Anti-Drag RI Neo-Nazi Arrested On Child Porn Charges
Texas To Teach “Bible Stories” To Elementary Students
Christian Lifeguard Sues Over Pride Flags At Gay Beach
Little claims he’s been targeted for harassment and retaliation over his lawsuit. He’s being represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Thomas More Society, who claims that Little has a First Amendment right not to have the flag within his sight.

Per reports, Little’s salary is more than $200,000. In 2021, a Long Beach lifeguard tower decked out for Pride was destroyed in arson, much to the delight of commenters on the YouTube clip below.
Catholic Men’s Group To Protest Small LA Town’s First Pride Event: We Will Respond Appropriately To Threats
Last year the group’s founder claimed to The Federalist that his foie gras business was boycotted by local restaurants after he posted an anti-LGBTQ screed on Instagram, putting his family in a “dire financial situation.” In the clip below, he talks about that supposed betrayal and rants about “sexual degeneracy.”

Cultists Rage After Walmart Unveils Pride Month Merch
Cultists are also raging in the comments of Walmart’s Instagram post. Sample reply: “Walmart and Pride whatever it is, I hate all this because you glorify everything in this world except what God has created to be from the beginning, which is a family, man married to a woman and their children!! Why don’t you give a true family unit a special month??? This evil agenda to shove all that’s unnatural down our throat will be your downfall one day!! God will not be mocked!! Yes, everyone has a right to choose how you live but why does it have to be glorified for a month??? Just wrong!!!”


Hate Group: We Made Pride Month “Toxic” For Brands
If the goal was to make “Pride” toxic for brands, as conservative Matt Walsh urged, then mission accomplished. Now, thanks to Bud Light and so many other casualties of excessive Pride, Americans have started to realize how much power they have to change the corporate landscape.








And now for the tRump cult out cries about that guilty verdict. 

I love how every accusation they make about Biden and the democrats / left turns out to be a confession by the republicans.  For example they claim that Biden has weaponized the Department Of Justice and is controlling the AG Merrick Garland.  But the republicans and trump have been calling for the locking up of his pollical opponent since his first run in 2016.  He and his supporters have long called for locking up Biden.  These people don’t want to run a country, they want to rule the country and everyone in it.  They want to raid the treasury and hammer anyone who tries to stop them.  Simply put they wrongly claim no one has ever been charged with this same crime, but it has been charged over 9,000 times.  But they are now a cult and if the dear leader says it it must be so, reality be damned.   Hugs.  Scottie

Cultist Sites See Calls For Riots And Violent Revenge
Newsmax Guest Warns Trump Jurors: “Be Very Careful”
Megyn Kelly Calls For “Reviving Laws On Dead Crimes” To Prosecute Obama, Hillary Clinton, And The Bidens
JMG: Regarding Kelly’s lie about E. Jean Carroll, New York’s 2022 Adult Survivors Act was certainly not passed with her in mind and in fact resulted in lawsuits against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and rapper Sean Combs. In total, nearly 3000 suits were filed before the law expired in 2023.
NBC: Cultists Are Trying To Dox Trump’s NYC Jurors
Courthouse Cultists Scream Abuse At British Tourists
believe that the woman in the back shouting “fuck the king and the queen” is the same one seen below bouncing her enormous bare tits earlier today.

Fox Lies Spawn New Death Threats Against Judge
Bolling: Trump’s Judge “Should Be Tried For Treason”

The Washington Post has a fact check:

Trump called it ridiculous, unconstitutional and un-American “that the highly Conflicted, Radical Left Judge is not requiring a unanimous decision on the fake charges against me.” At first glance, it might appear that the former president doesn’t understand one of the basic tenets of the legal system: that guilty verdicts in criminal cases have to be unanimous.

The jury must be unanimous when it comes to determining whether Trump is guilty or not guilty of each specific falsifying business records count, and whether he did so in an effort to unlawfully impact an election, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said.

He added, however, that the panel did not have to be unanimous about which of those three types of crimes could serve as the underlying violation that brings the state election charge into play. In Trump’s case, prosecutors have offered three types of crimes that would make the state election-meddling charge come into play: federal election law crimes, tax crimes or false business records.

 
Trump Spox Vows “Revenge” On His Critics [VIDEO]
Leavitt went on to claim that President Joe Biden has targeted “innocent” Americans such as the Jan. 6 rioters charged for their roles in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. “They’ve thrown [them] in the gulag in Washington, D.C.,” said Leavitt, who added that Trump said he’d pardon the rioters on “day one” of a second term.

And now for a few just off the wall … weird world.  Hugs.  Scottie

Coney Barrett’s Husband Represents Fox In Lawsuit
He heads the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court.
Man Appears For Suspended Driver’s License Hearing On Zoom While Driving Car, Judge Orders Him To Jail
FAA Clears Amazon To Expand Deliveries By Drone
Apprentice Exec: Tape Exists Of Trump Using N-Word
Rumors of Trump using the N-word during production of The Apprentice have swirled for years. Executive producer Mark Burnett has long refused to release any outtakes from the show. In 2018, Trump tweeted that the N-word “does not exist in my vocabulary and never has” and that Burnett backs him on this “fake news.”

SCOTUS Sides With NRA Against New York Official
Read the full article. Per Reuters, Yullo acted in response to the Parkland mass shooting. Yullo also fined insurers $13 million for providing the NRA’s “Carry Guard” coverage for members accused of wrongful death shootings.

True Facts: Not-Dead Opossums and Their Weird Defenses

Something on my mind…

So for the third day …

As many of my readers will know I have been trying to move from my long time browser to something less invasive.  I tried Firefox and took an entire day to move everything to there.  That took forever.  But I did not like the way it worked with the websites I like to visit.  

While several wonderful readers told me of their browsers either used them or my security settings wouldn’t let them download.   Lucky for me Barry, a frequent reader and commenter read of my struggles and suggest one I have not heard of before.  I am trying it and so far like it.  The issue will be the history.  Will it save my open tabs so I can reopen them if the window closes.  I did see and turned on auto sessions saving which is supposed to save and allow to be reopened another time.  I hope it works.   Hugs.  Scottie