Roundup
(1) Colorado enacts an extreme anti-gun law.
(2) We’ve got our high-flow showerheads back – for now:
Trump changed the definition back to what it used to be. The Times brands this some kind of activist invasion into people’s right to have low water pressure in their showers.
California has stringent low-flow rules for showerheads, and I remember – now it can be told? – that Gerard circumvented that by installing some sort of black-market showerhead in his rented house in Paradise. I wonder whether the showerhead survived the fire; I don’t recall seeing it in the ashes, although I saw the twisted satellite dish and the metal legs of the ironing board.
(3) Kamala Harris is talking about establishing a policy institute.
(4) Another day, another illegal alien sex offender busted:
… Immigrations & Customs Enforcement has just picked up an illegal alien and convicted child sex offender in Fairfax County, Virginia – after a county judge suspended his sentence and set him back out on the street. ICE detainers for this goblin have been ignored by county authorities.
I can’t imagine that Virginia’s position is highly popular.
(5) German freedom of speech – an oxymoron? See this:
In Germany, a newspaper editor has been fined and sentenced to seven months in prison for posting a meme:
“The Bamberg district court in Bavaria sentenced Deutschland-Kurier editor David Bendels this week to seven months in prison on probation and a fine of nearly sixty per cent of his annual income, or 210 ‘daily rates’, for posting an image on social media of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding an altered sign.”
And what did the altered sign say? Why, “I hate freedom of speech”.
I guess truth is not a defense in Germany.
Europe heading down that totalitarian road.
Colorado will get crushed in court and they know it. They don’t care about cost. It’s just tax payer dollars.
RE: low-flow shower heads (and faucets of all kinds). My husband simply takes the thing apart a bit and drills out the restrictor and voila, we have regular flow again! He’s been doing this for years. We’ve lived in the west coast, so of course all the crazies have been messing with our water flow for years. I have a TON of long, very thick hair, and it takes a year to get it rinsed with those low-flow things.
California has stringent low-flow rules for showerheads, and I remember – now it can be told? – that Gerard circumvented that by installing some sort of black-market showerhead in his rented house in Paradise.
Obligatory.
“I just took a bath, Jerry…a bath.”
I thought Trump was Hitler. He’ll never beat the originals.
Kamala Harris is talking about establishing a policy institute
Kamala Harris would be as good a policy expert as she would be a potential NBA player. 🙂
Colorado will not get crushed in court. SCOTUS is a bunch of cowardly and or corrupt clowns. Any challenge will after appropriate delay be denied. Then comes the higher courts two-step, curly-shuffle rope-a-dope for years.
The only hope is Trump declaring by EO only the feds by under the militia clauses can regulate the types of arms and any training required to purchase arms. States may not be more restrictive.
Trump’s authority to call out the militia is meaningless if the militia has no arms.
Growing up in Colorado, water is a huge issue and has been for decades. California way back sued a western slope rancher for building a retention pond for his cattle as the small stream eventually fed into the Colorado River. Things have gotten worse in the Denver metro due to unrestricted growth with no new reservoirs in the mountains to accommodate the demand.
My brother reports that the ever expanding developments are claiming to try and use wells…but it’s not the Florida aquafer out there. He also told me there’s fine print for the homebuyer saying there’s no guarantee of continuous water supply.
Low flow shower heads MAY make some sense out there but it’s a matter of scale compared to lawn watering etc. Living in the east I never understood flow restrictions on showers and faucets when there’s abundant water. My solution was the same as gwynmir’s husband.
I think Kamala is emulating the Clintons, who turned their “charitable organization” into the greatest grift in recorded history. Six figure speaking engagements, world travel to exotic locales, the finest hotels and restaurants, all while being praised for “doing good.” It’s good to be the king, or in this case, the queen.
The Supreme Court has become a political organization, they lost me years ago that they will stand behind the US Constitution
This nonsense with low flow this-or-that started 40 years with the 3.6 LPF toilets. I imagine they used the metric flow value to try to dupe gullible consumers into thinking they were not being sold a product with lesser functionality. Anyway, I remember being at trade shows back then and all the executives and sales people just shrugged their shoulders and said that people will just flush as many times as they think they need to in order to move the waste along.
As for water issues, I am sure the technology exists to build pipelines to move water from other parts of the country, treat it, and distribute it. I’m not so sure that cost is even the issue so much as the leftist environmental lobby would be sure to tie up any pipeline construction in court for years while they looked desperately for some endangered species to permanently halt the project.
Chases Eagles
We’ll see. If the the Supreme Court is like you say there is only one step left…..
yes, it’s like a game of magic eightball, tim gill another tech mogul, helped turn Colorado blue, in the 00s, and it seems to getting worse, in the last 20 years,
“We’ve got our high-flow showerheads back”
Now for gas cans, light bulbs, and toilets.
I can’t imagine that Virginia’s position is highly popular.
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It’s not ‘Viriginia’s position’. This asininity is the work of a Democratic operative in robes in Fairfax County. “Northern Virginia” is a component of greater Washington, and out of sync with the rest of Virginia.
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Oh, and another example buttressing the thesis that statutory law should allow judges no discretion over sentences.
As always, the name of the judge responsible (and that person’s home address) goes unstated. Ditto the sheriff responsible.
yes, it’s like a game of magic eightball, tim gill another tech mogul, helped turn Colorado blue, in the 00s, and it seems to getting worse, in the last 20 years,
miguel cervantes:
I met Tim Gill in the 90s. My tech company was collaborating with his tech company (Quark) and I was the programmer in the middle.
Gill was a very sharp guy … and gay. That was his motive for becoming a power in Democrat politics.
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Gill sold his fifty percent stake in the company in 1999 for a reported $500 million. Following the sale of his stake in Quark, Inc., Gill set aside sixty percent of his assets – more than $300 million – to fight for LGBTQ rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gill
What Inflation? PPI falls 0.4% in March!! – CNBC Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-inflation-ppi-falls-04-in-march.html
We bought a new shower head last month. The installation instructions explained how to remove the flow restrictor “ in places where the water pressure is unusually low “ or some such. All it took was to wedge a flat head screwdriver into the appropriate position and pop it out. I am enjoying showers for the first time in years.
Regarding 5). I’ll be in my home town next week. I’ll swing by the cemetery where all of my ancestors are buried – the ones who came over from Europe. I’ll visit their graves, say a little prayer, and thank them all for getting the hell out of there!
@SD:What Inflation? PPI falls 0.4% in March!!
If that trend continues, we’ll recover January 2020 prices in only 54 months, so September 2030 ish?
The inflation rate is practically zero, but we still have all the inflation from 2020 onward built into our prices, so they are still inflated… just got slightly smaller, apparently.
Physicsguy, actually there is a new one in the Mountains west of me. Not sure just where.
Not sure where your Brother is talking about,
but wells are a big no. Housing developments couldn’t have big enough wells. Some Farmers along the Front Range are selling their water rights to towns and developers. Happing here between Loveland and Longmont.
Comments on gun laws – we are screwed, and the SC will do nothing.
Did your brother say anything about the assult on Tabor? We will be screwed again.
DEI – State Board of Ed and School Districts are digging in. And again the SC will not support Trump.
Shirehome,
My brother lives in SW metro Denver, technically Morrison just inside the C470. He was talking about the developments out on the plains: Parker, Castle Rock, even out as far as Elizabeth and Kiowa…the growth is out of hand.
“Happing here between Loveland and Longmont.” There’s still a “between” between Loveland and Longmont???? 🙂
Do we need another policy institute?
Ridiculous..