News Of The Week Roundup: Week 35, 2021

My shoulder/arm/wrist is absolutely killing me today, so not much commentary from me follows. I have no idea why I am throbbing so bad, but it sucks and ibuprofen is not helping.

The two biggest stories of the past week (for me) are the unconstitutional Texas abortion ban that the Supreme Court let stand via shadow docket and the horrific remnants of Hurricane Ida on the east coast.

Justice Sotomayor nails it: Texas is "outsourcing the enforcement of unconstitutional laws to its citizenry." https://t.co/WtBEGzjKVx

— Chris Bury (@ChrisBuryNews) September 2, 2021

New Texas Law Allows Private Citizens To Hold Pregnant Women Hostage Until Birth https://t.co/gIy7iSvGPG pic.twitter.com/9n5UYwyEPW

— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 2, 2021

A 6 week old clump of cells in Texas has more protection than human children get from both an active pandemic and school shootings.

— Red (@Redpainter1) September 2, 2021

Imagine an alternate reality in which the climate change effects we are witnessing from raging wildfires to biblical floods galvanized a national effort to accept the science and lead a fight against global warming collectively and proudly like, say, World War II.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 2, 2021

Center City 👀 https://t.co/o1gZtaR25h pic.twitter.com/kKBTFAOVZc

— Christie Ileto (@Christie_Ileto) September 2, 2021

Also, I'm a weather nerd. The storms up the east coast definitely were forecast. Meteorologists mentioned catastrophic flooding as a possibility. The rain came so fast and swift, infrastructure just could not keep up. Some elected officials, namely New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, keep going on TV saying no one knew the weather was coming. That just is not true.

A lot of social science research needs to go into figuring out how/why people were so caught unaware of the flood risk in NYC area last night, when it was forecast 2 days in advance. https://t.co/aNehflZD66

— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) September 2, 2021

We continue to pray for all those impacted by #HurricaneIda https://t.co/IKRO3Xu7WY

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) September 5, 2021

A massive protection system built around New Orleans helped save it from flooding from the hurricane. Surrounding communities weren’t so lucky.https://t.co/LOV84FHMBh

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 4, 2021

Louisiana nursing homes ordered to close after botched Hurricane Ida evacuation https://t.co/maSpQXnfgt

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 5, 2021

...and some hopeful COVID-19 news for America:

U.S. COVID update: New cases drop week-over-week for second day in a row

- New cases: 69,740
- Average: 160,734 (-4,458)
- In hospital: 101,807 (-464)
- In ICU: 26,290 (+31)
- New deaths: 592

More data: https://t.co/YDZSbYO7l7

— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) September 5, 2021

Comments

[Jack T. Ripper]

The Abortion bill should definitely have exceptions for Rape and Incest . I usually agree with Abbott but he dropped the ball on that. Prayers for New Orleans!

[Jack T. Ripper]

Atleast Abbott hit it out of the park with the Texas Election Reform Bill. 👍🏿

[bkallday]

Anyone who is against mask mandates(because of "freedom") but for outlawing abortion, in any case, is a clueless hypocrite not worth debating with.

[Jack T. Ripper]

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[Him]

Hmmm . . . weather is getting more and more unpredictable? Wonder why? At least you have a choice these days: floods on the East Coast or fires on the West Coast. Not to be outdone, you have droughts in between. So it is kinda' a pick your poison sorta' situation.

On the political front, I will let Ripper and Bkallday have at it. That said, I think someone named Bkallday won that interaction. Just saying. Carry on.

[Jack T. Ripper]

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[Jack T. Ripper]

That was some Speech today by Jihad Joe…… A real American Zero!