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Calling creative kids: Coffs Coast Cartoon Competition launches

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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 04:13

THE Coffs Coast Cartoon Competition is a local initiative to recognise and celebrate creative kids who love to draw from age six and up. “After the success of the multimedia Cartoon Chef Drawing Workshops and interactive kiosk spaces at the National Cartoon Gallery over the last two months, we discovered that kids love and want...

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Aboriginal artists celebrate North Coast songlines to connect with road travellers

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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 04:08

TRADITIONAL songlines of the North Coast are celebrated through Aboriginal artworks featured on the Pacific Motorway on nine overpasses between Woolgoolga and Ballina. For Gumbaynggirr Country the art is featured on four bridges: Arrawarra interchange on the Solitary Islands Way overpass bridge, at Arrawarra Rest Area, at Dirty Creek Range interchange on the Range Rd/Solitary...

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Urgent action needed on affordable housing on the Coffs Coast

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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 03:55

AFFORDABLE housing, for purchase or rental, is an issue on the Coffs Coast that is not going away any time soon. Last week, Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh released a statement criticising the State Government for “scrapping” the previous government’s Argyll Street redevelopment plans. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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Το ΜέΡΑ25 επέστρεψε με την ΔΕΘ 2023. Η ανάλυση κι οι θέσεις μας για το σήμερα και για το αύριο

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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 03:47

Η ΔΕΘ αφορά πρωτίστως την οικονομία. Δικαιούμαστε να μιλάμε για οικονομία μέσα στην καταστροφή, μέσα στον θρήνο των ανθρώπων; Ναι, έχουμε υποχρέωση να το κάνουμε όταν η καταστροφή οφείλεται στην υφαρπαγή της οικονομίας από την ολιγαρχία την οποία εκπροσωπεί ένας Πρωθυπουργός που δεν ήρθε στην ΔΕΘ μόνο και μόνο για να κρυφτεί για όσο χρόνο […]

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DeSantis Meddling

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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 03:30
I’m not sure what DeSantis thinks he’s getting out of this but it’s so on brand I just have to mention it. If there’s anything offensive and destructive going on in Republican politics he wants to be in the middle of it: In the high-stakes fight that is threatening to shut down the federal government next month — and tear House Republicans apart — Ron DeSantis is taking sides. The Florida governor spent about 30 minutes on the phone Wednesday with conservative Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Bob Good of Virginia — leaders of the cadre that is pushing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to embrace a shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to hard-right policy demands. DeSantis’ message, according to a person familiar with the call: “I got your back. Keep fighting.” The call is the latest signal that DeSantis is working to insert himself into the spending fight on the Hill in a bid to elevate his standing among Republican primary voters.

Israel’s Puzzling Trio: Ben Gvir, Pardo, and Abu-Mazen—Agents or Accomplices?

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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 03:12

Miko Peled delves into the intricate web of Israeli power politics as he explores how Itamar Ben Gvir, Tamir Pardo, and Abu-Mazen, despite their starkly different backgrounds, serve a common entity: Israel.

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I Am the Lord Your God, and I Want You to Know That I Invented Boners

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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 03:00

Hear ye, My disciples, for I speak upon you a great truth: It has come to My understanding that many of you who would love Me do not understand My true and fearsome nature. And so I say to you thusly: I, your God, the one true God, invented boners.

Verily, I speak it unto you. Every great big massive hard-on to the tiniest little tinge of horniness is My doing. I have created your bodies such that they be beautiful, such that they may live and let live, and it is for such that I did create the boner.

And to this, I say to you: May you live in peace, as the boner joke is also My will. And to this end, butt squeezes between consenting adults, fellatio, and every type of foot stuff, was given to you by Me so that you may be happy and live your best lives, as is the will of your God.

When you made fun of that Jesus statue in your church for having a six-pack, I, the Lord your God, did smile upon you. And every time you masturbate, I am like, “Good for you.”

Reading slutty fanfic is also the will of the Lord. Particularly Twilight fanfic—the Lord likes that especially, though I am firmly Team Jacob.

What would you think if you saw this headline?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/09/14/what-would-you-think-if-you-saw-this-headline/
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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 02:30
It sure looks like the left is going after the prosecutors and FBI doesn’t it? Au contraire: Federal prosecutor Lesley Wolf, who had been part of U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ team investigating Hunter Biden, got such a barrage of credible threats that she sought security help from the U.S. Marshals Service, according to previously unreleased testimony from an FBI official to the House Judiciary Committee last week. Two IRS agents on the case have accused Wolf of making decisions that appeared favorable to Biden. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. Special counsel Jack Smith and his team have long been protected by an armed security detail, as is Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed to investigate classified documents found at President Joe Biden’s home and office. I’d guess the threats against Hur are coming from the right as well. We have right wing terrorists threatening law enforcement to such an extent they have had to create a special unit to deal with them. And apparently, almost half the country is ok with this because they are going after those who are prosecuting Donald Trump.

The chrome alloy wheel$ of justice

https://digbysblog.net/2023/09/14/the-chrome-alloy-wheel-of-jutice/
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Fri, 15/09/2023 - 00:30
Turn slowly and can be pricey Remember Kim Davis? The Guardian: A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued the former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Davis, the former Rowan county clerk, drew international attention when she was briefly jailed in 2015 over her refusal, which she based on her belief that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. A jury in Ashland, Kentucky, awarded David Ermold and David Moore each $50,000 after deliberating on Wednesday, according to lawyers for Davis. A second couple who sued, James Yates and Will Smith, were awarded no damages on Wednesday by Judge David Bunning. Bunning sent Davis to jail for five days in 2015 after holding her in contempt of court. She was parodied on Saturday Night Live and embraced by conservative politicians who traveled to Kentucky to support her. Here’s a novel idea: Bunning ruled last year that Davis violated the constitutional rights of the two couples.

The ultimate methodological issue in economics

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Thu, 14/09/2023 - 23:45
If scientific progress in economics — as Robert Lucas and other latter-day followers of Milton Friedman seem to think — lies in our ability to tell ‘better and better stories’ one would of course expect economics journals to be filled with articles supporting the stories with empirical evidence. However, the journals still show a striking […]

A Future Generation Shows Up Ahead of Schedule

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Thu, 14/09/2023 - 23:14

The wording in Article IX, Section 1, of Montana’s constitution couldn’t be clearer: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” Accordingly, in April, a district court judge in Yellowstone County voided a permit for a natural-gas-fired power plant under construction there. Over its lifetime, it would have released an estimated 23 million tons of planet-roasting carbon dioxide and that, ruled the judge, was incompatible with a “clean and healthful environment” in Montana or, for that matter, anywhere else. Within a week, the state legislature had voted to reinforce a 2011 law barring the consideration of climate change in policymaking and so allowing the construction of the... Read more