Assorted Items of Note - 9 July 2025

[dewline]

1. Meet some more people who believe that, in religion, there must always be compulsion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD

2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding

3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738

4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650

5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770

Comments

[thewayne]

*sigh*

The freedom of religion to force their flavor of Christianity down everyone else's throat. I can't think of anything more disgusting. Going to be amusing when they go after the Catholics and the state of Utah. And then they're going to start eating their own when every little splintered faction of Christianity doesn't align with the 'one true faith'.

[dewline]

Looks to me as if, where Catholic Americans are concerned, they're already in the crosshairs. We've got bishops dispensing with requiring people to show up for services.