That's a good find. Unfortunately for that chief, he seems to have a talent for lighting his problems on fire instead of burying them. What could have been a quiet little small town scandal blew up to become national news. Good work, chief!
And the greatest irony to me is that the newspaper reported on NONE of this. OK, they did cover the story where Karin went off the rails and aired her own dirty laundry at the town council meeting, but it's not like that was any sort of secret.
I've seen this argument elsewhere and it seems (pardon me) like patent horseshit.
Why is this a state's right? What makes a uterus in Delaware different than an uterus in Nebraska? I'm a woman and an American citizen. Everyone keeps telling me that I live in a first-world nation. This makes no sense. "Oh sorry. You live in a first world nation, but you picked the neighborhood of Ohio."
And let's be realistic - I can afford to travel to anywhere that local, precious state laws where I live are irrelevant.
The idea of state autonomy made sense in some way in the America that existed before telephones. Emergency decisions might need to be made and horses are slow. But let's be honest for just a moment. The whole idea of federation was a hard sell to the slave states and invested powers. These were a mixture of landowners and merchant classes who had been running things locally in their colonies. They didn't want to give up control, and who could blame them? Meanwhile, the young country needed to have everyone on board for some sort of federation if post-colonial America was going to survive. States rights were a compromise. We've been choking on it for 200+ years.
As a country we should have evolved past this many years ago. But we haven't. The biggest disruption to our American system was the Civil War. States rights again. Yeah, so we have that to look back upon but never really seem to reckon with it. The last time I heard anyone significantly whine about infringement of "states rights" was with regard to chattel slavery.
In addition to getting onto the top of the fridge, mine learned to get into kitchen cabinets. I'd come downstairs in the morning and find her just casually oozing out of the cabinet we keep cups and plates in. "my butt was maybe on all your stuff just now. oh hai. got catfood?"
I love them. Some still have secret hiding spots in our house.
Oh shit. Well that re-ignites my conspiracy mindedness. When I saw that it was an isolated road near a quarry I thought that maybe carelessness could have explained the blocked road. ("meh - fix the mess later. no one will be bothered")
But if the quarry owner almost certainly blocked the road and is also the new owner? Yikes.
I had one who could jump to the top of the fridge from a dead standstill. (About 6 feet [2m] vertical). First time I saw her up there I assumed she used the counter as an intermediate step. Nope. It was like she just turned off gravity for a moment.
When we found her she was a kitten who had gotten trapped in our garage. Half feral and scared. I swear she was doing 9 foot parkour jumps along the walls when she saw us.
She's 14 now so she's slowed down a bit, but she has no issues with a human-chest-high jump.
Cats are neat.
The idea that Jews collectively killed Jesus is nothing new.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/who-killed-jesus/
And it's still around. Survey from 2004 linked below shows that about a quarter of Americans held that belief and that it had increased since the late nineties. Hell, I think it was a theme in Jesus Christ Superstar.
I guess someone could be ignorant of all this, but whenever someone brings up who "killed Jesus" they're usually not trying to make some vague point via an innocent analogy. In other words, if someone comes out talking about one of the foundational ideas behind European/American anti-Semitism, I'm going to make some assumptions.
But who knows. Maybe those hoofbeats mean I'm about to be overrun by a herd of zebras.
Haha thanks! I was wondering if I was missing that handy x-post button on kbin. I can wait for features, but it's frustrating to not know if they're there or not.
I do miss the ancient coins sub from Reddit, but I assume they're riding out the storm and haven't lost most of their core contributors. The placeholder magazine in kbin seems to have been staked by one of their regulars, but no one has committed to it. Early days.
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/record-wheat-prices-prompt-more-ohio-farmers-plant-wheat-year
This article is a year old, but even in the US farmers are taking advantage of the shortages caused by the war.
Local (Ohio) farmers near us have planted wheat for the first time in at least 20 years instead of the usually soy/corn yearly summer rotation. It's weird enough to see wheat in the fields that something must be driving it.
These are really interesting coins and I'm curious to know more. This looks like a provincial (Gaul?) issue of Augustus/Agrippa with a Nile alligator on the reverse. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/augustus-agrippa-with-crocodile-tied-to-palm-tree.269239/
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coin-profiles-roman-provincial-bronze-dupondius-augustus-agrippa-crocodile/
The countermark (circle with cross inside) makes it doubly interesting. I've heard that these control marks were a way to validate the acceptability of foreign currency and allow it to be traded locally. For example, if I were a merchant from Gaul travelling to a city in Iberia, I'd let the local inspector check my cash for weight and metal content and they'd mark it with a local symbol to assure everyone that it could be traded as legal tender.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=countermark
There are alternate explanations for the countermarks! It's interesting that the mark is applied to the face of Augustus on both coins. Maybe this was a political statement? Maybe the locals liked him better than Augustus? It might be telling if all of the coins with this mark were found on the same guy's face.
You might consider cross posting this to https://kbin.social/m/AncientCoins
It's not an active community, but it never will be without content to use as a starting point.
Is this a reference to something that makes no sense in reality?
Yes, and I do fault them for that, but only to an extent. Wedge issues are a valuable commodity, aren't they? Republicans certainly kept banging on that pro-life drum (which supposedly no one really wanted and y'all were just yelling about to keep the rubes on board?) The flip side of that was that you all looked like extremists. (But Roe is dead and buried, so I guess you're doing Nazis now. We all sort of hope that's cosplay as well, but... look at Roe. Someone might start to suspect you're serious.)
I guess there is such a thing as a slippery slope.
In any case, "you had 50 years to make a law about it" seems like a silly argument if the right in question is protected by the constitution. Every SC nominee in recent memory has testified to that specific question under oath.
And what sort of law are we talking about here? It's far easier to restrict a right than it is to affirm it. It honestly makes no sense practically or politically. The only way to attack that right was through a challenge to Roe, so that was how things went down. They had to overturn Roe. Took half a century. I guess that's something.