(0629) Cunning plan, chaps and chapesses, was to do 1 to 10 plus a short feature before 0800, then finish up for the day. The difference between last week’s medical doings and today’s is that this one today might get nasty later … maybe not. So, let’s just say unsettled. Hoping you’re holding up where you are … wall to wall poisoned cloud cover and light rain day. (0655)

 

5. The Alberta “unfairness”, illegitimacy of govt

4. Steve at 1387

• South Carolina House Passes New 7-0 Republican Map as GOP Moves to Wipe Out Democrats’ Last Congressional Foothold
• House Hearing Explored Compatibility of Sharia Law with US Constitution Amid Rising Concerns
• Trump Moves to Squeeze Illegal Aliens Out of the US Financial System with New Executive Order Targeting Banking Loopholes
• Teacher Beheaded in Nigeria as Widespread Moose Limb Violence Against Christians Escalates Horrifyingly
• The US Military Mission To Retrieve Uranium In Iran Is Legitimately Insane
• Ukrainian and Iranian situations
• mRNA injections must be banned to halt the turbo cancer plague
• Peer-Reviewed Paper Says Genetically Engineering Ticks to Spread Meat Allergies Is “Morally Obligatory”
• Multiple States Begin Ejecting Illegal Immigrants From Subsidized Healthcare
• Much more.

3. The whole tacky Merkel affair

2. DAD at 1387

a) The French minister for education, Édouard Geffray, has made headlines following a sensational statement: putting an end to decades of laxity in this area, he has announced that spelling, grammar, and syntax will henceforth be fully taken into account when marking papers for the final-year exams, the Brevet and the Baccalaureate, taken by all young French people aged 15–18.

b) France has the European Union’s most overcrowded prisons. Foreign nationals account for about a quarter of inmates — around three times their share of the country’s population.

c) UK Eases Sanctions Regime on Russia, [but] allowing Jet Fuel Imports, while bannning domestic drilling.

d) Is Europe Ending Up as One Big No-Go Zone? Given the enormity of the problem, the authors of the report had to limit their focus to “seven EU countries where no-go zones are most reported….

e) Critics, led especially by the Patriots group in the European Parliament, dismissed it (the Merkel award) as “a distinction Brussels invented to decorate itself….”

(JH: There’s also a DAD brought “Sam” across at 1387:1.)