Just Morons

If you take your mdical recommendations from a dementia case and a brain-damaged drug addict, then I feel sorry for your kids.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

Next up will, no doubt, be an executive order that declares that the Earth is flat and the Sun orbits the Earth.

Dear Mr. President:

Lake Mead Level.

It's at 1,040'. That's 189' below "full pool" and 145' above "dead pool". That's below the level of one of Las Vegas's intakes. Their deepest one, built ten years ago, is 20' below dead pool.

Make of that what you will.

ETA: What happens if Lakes Powell and Mead fail. (H/T to Stewart Dean)

American Oligarchs Are Assholes.

"What, go help a plebian? Excuse me, you must be joking."

That's pretty much Zuck's attitude.

A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour on Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau.

Michael Love, a software developer from New York City, was a passenger aboard the cruise ship and described the event on social media.

What got his attention the most wasn’t the rescue itself — it was when the captain announced that the yacht of billionaire Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg was closer and hadn’t answered the radio call for help.

“There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this,” he said in a post on the social media network Bluesky.

Vessel tracking services in the area back up that account — they show the $300 million, 387-foot yacht Launchpad slowing to a halt outside Farragut Bay as the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy steams around and past the Launchpad, stops at the apparent site of the skiff, then tows it into sheltered Farragut Bay.

I'm sure Zucky-Boy and his minions have a lot of excuses to justify their blatant assholery. Whenever you're in trouble, you can be sure that a member of the American Oligarchy will be there to yawn and watch you die.

Your Sunday Morning Airplane Noise

Warbirds from Oshkosh

I've heard rumors that a number of airports in the Midwest ran out of fuel, which has stranded a lot of would-be attendees.

Caturday

Chip is in one of his favorite hidey spots.

Twin Falls Shooting

I've kept quiet about those who responded to the Twin Falls shooting. Those who responded, both to help the victims and take on the shooter, are heros. You can read about a couple of them here.

I didn't plan to comment on their actions, except for this:

Once wounded, Mr. James said he drew his gun and tried to fire, but his gun was without a round in the chamber. He said he was trying to chamber a round when his wife and her friend — both emergency room nurses — found him and pulled him back to the car, where they began to treat his wounds.

Pistols are handguns, not handsguns. They are tools of defense, not offense. They should not be carried in a condition that requires the use of two hands to bring to bear.

Because It's Friday

A steam meet in Germany.

Fuck Flock, Uber and Lyft

Flock wants to use Uber and Lyft vehicles to create a roving surveillance network.

Flock is evil. Full stop. It has been abused by snooping cops and thugs in Texas seeking to enforce their abortion ban nationwide.

Arresting These Down, Here

Bet Consumers Won't See a Dime

The Trump administration has refunded about $100bn from the tariffs it collected before the US supreme court ruled them illegal, according to reports.

The $100bn (£74bn) figure, which represents 60% of the total $165bn collected from Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, was reported by customs officials to the US court of international trade (CIT) on Tuesday, according to the Financial Times.

Consumers who paid increased prices because of Tariff Bpy's snit aren't going to see a nickel. But the middlemen and importers will make a bundle.