Speaking of SCOTUS 9-0 decisions, they also did the same for this:

Major Unanimous Supreme Court Victory for Property Rights in Tyler v. Hennepin County

This morning, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County, an important Takings Clause property rights case addressing the issue of "home equity theft," a legal regime under which local governments can seize the entire value of a property in order to pay off a much smaller delinquent property tax debt. Geraldine Tyler, the plaintiff in the case, is a 94-year-old widow whose home, valued at $40,000, was seized by Hennepin County  after she was unable to pay off $15,000 in property taxes, penalties, interest, and fees. The County then kept the entire $40,000 for itself, as Minnesota law allows.

Today the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that such practices qualify as takings requiring the payment of "just compensation" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Importantly, it also concluded that state law is not the sole source of the definition of property rights under the Takings Clause, and therefore state governments cannot seize private property without compensation simply by redefining it as the state's property.

An old man and a woman had spent their entire lives together.

They were childhood sweethearts first, and had now actually been married now for more than 60 years.

They had hardly known a life without the other in it.

Over all the years that they had been together, the elderly couple shared everything, keeping no secrets from each other…

Except for one thing…

The little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had made her husband promise never to open it until the day she fell deathly ill.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box - keeping his promise.

One day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.

Despite being devastated by the news, the couple needed to settle important matters before they ran out of time, and the woman decided she would finally tell her husband what the contents of the shoebox was.

The elderly man then took it out from her closet and brought it to her wife’s bedside.

Upon opening, the man was shocked to find two crocheted dolls, and piles & piles of money that had to be $250,000..!!

The wife then explained about the contents.

"When we were to be married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue.”

“She said that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll."

The old man looked at the box again.

The old man was so touched he had to hold himself back from crying, as there were only two dolls in the shoebox.

Presumably, his wife had only been mad at him twice over the span of almost 70 years in their married life.

He scooped his wife up out of happiness, and gave her a kiss. After a moment, he looked lovingly into her eyes and asked:

"Honey," he said "that explains the dolls, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?"

"Oh, that?" she said.
"𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬.

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2023/05/19

We are living under a authoritarian regime.   Our media is state controlled.  We have lost our borders, and our economy is tanking.

And every bit of this lies at the feet of the republican party.   They REFUSED to put a stop to all the hoaxes inflicted during the Trump Administration.  They worked hand in hand with the democrats to perpetuate the nonsense.  They REFUSED to back their president during the two impeachment fiascos.   And they REFUSED to acknowledge or fight against a blatantly stolen election of 2020 and 2022.

 And now these sorry bastards are trying to convince everyone what we need is an ESTABLISHMENT backed candidate.

 Fuck 'em all.

Near the end of the song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, it goes:

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Mariner's church in Detroit rang it 30 times last week.  One for Gorgon Lightfoot.

I thought that was cool.

I loved his music. All his songs were written by himself, I believe. I had all his albums at one time, and the first one I owned was on an eight-track tape. My first date/boyfriend loved Gordon Lightfoot music and we played it on eight-tracks in his classic Mustang fastback. Had to park it on a hill so we could easily push it to get it started. Good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMrECBrvpB0

A Mom is driving her little girl to her friend's house for a play date.

"Mommy," the little girl asks, "How old are you?"

"Honey, you are not supposed to ask a lady her age," the mother warns.

"It is not polite."

"OK," the little girl says, "How much do you weigh?"

"Now really," the mother says, "These are personal questions and are really none of your business."

Undaunted, the little girl asks, "Why did you and daddy get a divorce?"

"Those are enough questions, honestly!"

The exasperated mother walks away as the two friends begin to play.

"My Mom wouldn't tell me anything," the little girl says to her friend.

"Well," said the friend, "All you need to do is look at her driver's license.

It's like a report card; it has everything on it."

Later that night the little girl says to her mother, "I know how old you are, you are 32."

The mother is surprised and asks, "How did you find that out?"

"I also know that you weigh 140 pounds."

The mother is past surprised and shocked now.

"How in heaven's name did you find that out?"

"And," the little girl says triumphantly, "I know why you and daddy got a divorce."

"Oh really?" the mother asks.

"Why?"

"Because you got an F in sex.“

I got this email.  Hahahahahaha!!!   Buh -bye.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

RUSH, you seem really broken up about this. I’m sure there are some self-help groups available to help you through this rough phase of your life.

My self help groups reside at places called “airports” and “ranges.”  I’m sure you can find some helpful activities to relieve you of this grief.

I've got a dollar that says you'll receive at least one more "final" offer.