Undercover Blues

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Today is Dennis Quaid’s birthday! He was born in 1954 and he is one of my favorite actors.  This movie, Undercover Blues, is my all-time favorite Dennis Quaid movie.  This is a synopsis:

A wise-cracking husband and wife (Jeff and Jane Blue) team of ex-Spies arrive in New Orleans on maternity leave with their baby girl. There they are hassled by muggers, the police and their FBI boss, who wants them to do just-one-more job. —Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>

From the IMBD website:

Jane Blue: Let me see if I understand this correctly. You took our child into a knife fight?

Jeff Blue: It was a fair fight – two of them, two of us…

And one of their posted reviews:

This is one fun movie!

Not many movies keep you wanting to watch, like this one does. The plot is very simple; 2 spies on a vacation are asked to do a job while in New Orleans. The outcome…? One hilarious movie! Dennis Quaid & Kathleen Turner are great as Mr. & Mrs. Blue, the title roles. During the movie while they are fighting the bad guys, they’re either bickering over their vacation or what they want to name their daughter. The standout of this movie is Stanley Tucci, who plays street thug Muerte. After a botched mugging of Mr. Blue, which leads to Muerte getting beat up with a stroller, Muerte constantly is following the Blues in the movie to get revenge. You won’t be disappointed with this movie!

Happy Birthday Dennis!

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  2. Just The News: “The stock market surged on Wednesday afternoon, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing with a 2,900-point gain, after President Donald Trump announced he was suspending tariffs on international trade for 90 days.

    The president announced he was pausing tariffs on dozens of countries, except for China, which will see a 125% tariff. Trump says he made the decision to pause tariffs after more than 75 countries have called to “negotiate a solution.”

    The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a steep increase of 2,962.86 points (7.87%) after the announcement, while the S&P 500 saw its largest single-day boost since 2008, with a 9.5% gain. The Nasdaq also reported its largest gain since 2001, closing with a 12.16% increase, according to CNBC. 

    The numbers come after the stock market dropped drastically last week, after Trump initially announced the tariffs.”

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    1. “The post (a transcript of her remarks) continues:

      “You tried to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China, when in fact, we’ve seen the opposite effect. The entire world is calling the United States of America, not China, because they need our markets, they need our consumers, and they need this president in the Oval Office to talk to them.” 

      “That’s exactly why more than 75 countries have called, because the United States of America is the best place in the world to do business. And the president has shown great courage, as the Secretary just said, in choosing to retaliate against China even higher!”

      In short: It’s working. Here at RedState, we’ve been covering all the ins and outs of this tariff/trade barrier controversy, and whatever one thinks of tariffs as a concept, it sure is beginning to look like this is all going President Trump’s way.”

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  5. Red State: “If you thought the Supreme Court’s weighing in on Judge James Boasberg’s jurisdiction in the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) case was the end of the inquiry, you’d be mistaken. As I’m often compelled to remind folks, procedural rulings aren’t rulings on the merits. And all that Monday’s SCOTUS decision did was say that Boasberg’s wasn’t the court in which the plaintiffs in that case could bring their claims. 

    In fact, three of the plaintiffs are located at the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas, and have now petitioned the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas for relief, seeking a writ of habeas corpus. (Two others somehow were transported to New York and have filed a similar suit there.) 

    On Wednesday morning, Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. (a Trump appointee) issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) in that case, placing a temporary hold on the removal of the plaintiffs under the AEA. 

    Now, there are a couple of important things to bear in mind here. First and foremost, while the SCOTUS decision on Monday was a 5-4 split on the overall ruling, all nine of the justices were in agreement that even under the AEA, individuals facing removal are entitled to some due process — i.e., notice and the chance to be heard before being bounced. Which is what is going on here. 

    Second, the TRO is temporary — a momentary pause to make sure all the ducks are in a row before someone who isn’t properly subject to removal under Trump’s AEA proclamation gets removed and then has no recourse. 

    Third, the Trump administration hasn’t even had a chance to respond to this yet – it was just filed this morning. There’s a hearing set for Friday at 1:30 p.m., and we’ll know more about what the court intends to do after that. 

    Fourth, the TRO isn’t a ruling on the merits. It’s a procedural pause — that’s it. 

    Lastly, the AEA isn’t the only method via which the administration is able to and has been removing illegal aliens from the country. It’s one tool in the toolkit and it’s being tested in these cases. 

    As always, we’ll continue to follow the case and report on any updates.”

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  6. Hmmmmm……wonder what’s going on….?

    “Donald Trump Makes Big Change at ATF as Patel Exits Agency”

    Bearing Arms, By Cam Edwards  | 3:31 PM | April 09, 2025  

    AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “When Donald Trump named FBI Director Kash Patel as Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the presumption was that Patel was taking on those additional job duties on a temporary basis. Still, I don’t think many folks were expecting Patel to step away from doing double duty after just a couple of months on the job. 

    That’s exactly what’s happened, however, with Trump naming Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll as the ATF’s new Acting Director, effective today. 

    If Patel’s absence from ATF HQ and his workload at the FBI were the primary reasons for his departure, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to appoint someone else who already has a full-time gig in the administration as the new (and temporary) head of the agency, which makes me wonder how long Driscoll himself will stick around… and who Trump might name (if anyone) as his choice for a permanent ATF Director. 

    It’s also unclear whether other personnel moves may be in the making. On Tuesday’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co, retired deputy assistant director Pete Forcelli said he expects that Assistant ATF Director Marvin Richardson, who’s been handling much of the day-to-day duties of the director, will also soon be replaced. Richardson appears to still have a job, at least for now, and albeit with a new boss. 

    The National Shooting Sports Foundation was quick to praise Driscoll’s appointment in a press release issued shortly after the news broke. 

    “President Trump’s decision to appoint Acting Director Driscoll is indicative of his resolve to bring reform to the ATF and protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and the industry that makes it possible to exercise those rights,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “NSSF is deeply appreciative of FBI Director Kash Patel’s service to lead the ATF as Acting Director for nearly two months in his interim role and the recognition, along with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, that the ATF was weaponized by the previous administration to carry out a radical gun control agenda. The firearm industry is confident that President Trump’s appointment of Acting Director Driscoll to lead the ATF will return the bureau to its proper role as a law enforcement agency laser focused on combatting violent crime and illegal firearms trafficking, and to act as a non-partisan regulator of the firearm industry.”

    NSSF is confident Acting Director Driscoll will view members of the firearm industry, including licensed retailers, as ATF’s partners on the front lines of keeping firearms out of the wrong hands, combatting illegal firearms trafficking and preventing violent crime involving the misuse of firearms.

    Driscoll is an Army veteran and Yale Law School grad who previously interned with former Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, who was one of the most libertarian members of the liberal-dominated appellate court. Driscoll doesn’t really have a record on Second Amendment issues, and the White House hasn’t yet offered a rationale for naming him Acting Director or how long they expect him to remain in the position, but I don’t expect him to turn into the second coming of Steve Dettelbach or David Chipman now that he’s in charge of the agency. 

    What this means for the ATF in the long or even medium term remains to be seen, but let’s hope that the NSSF is right that with Driscoll at the helm, the agency will be focused on going after violent crime and illegal gun trafficking instead of trying to turn lawful gun owners into criminals.” 

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  7. Just The News: “The House GOP on Wednesday afternoon voted to advance the Senate’s budget resolution to a final vote, despite serious concerns from a few Republican hardliners.

    The House voted to end debate on the legislation and advance it to a final vote in a 216-215 split that was primarily along party lines. Three Republicans voted with all the Democrats. The final vote is currently expected to take place at 5:30 p.m., according to The Hill.“

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  11. EXCERPT: “An 8-year-old West Texas child died April 3 of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to hospital-acquired pneumonia, according to Dr. Pierre Kory, who analyzed the child’s medical records. Daisy Hildebrand died at University Medical Center (UMC) Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, at 1:50 a.m., according to Brian Hooker, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense (CHD) chief scientific officer, who also reviewed the records.

    On April 6, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) issued a news release calling her death the “second death in [the West Texas] measles outbreak” and attributing the death to “measles pulmonary failure.”

    Kory — who has extensive experience in pulmonary and critical care medicine — told The Defender that the child’s medical records showed she died from “ARDS secondary to hospital-acquired pneumonia,” which he said she likely developed during a previous hospital stay.

    Kory said: “The causative organism was a highly antibiotic-resistant E. coli (‘superbug’), which she contracted during the first hospital ICU [intensive care unit] stay.

    “This went largely unrecognized and poorly treated during the second hospital stay because they began to ‘tunnel in’ by blaming measles for her worsening pneumonia and repeatedly writing in the chart that she was unvaccinated.

    “Of the eight days she spent in the second hospital [visit], the child was given antibiotics for only four days. Not until two days before her death did the thought of a ‘possible hospital-acquired infection’ creep into the records. The bug was utterly resistant to the antibiotics they put her on.”

    If the hospital staff had followed the adult hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) guidelines, the child “would have been placed on the correct antibiotic,” Kory said. “She had numerous risk factors for HAP, including previous antibiotics, previous ICU stay, being immunosuppressed and really sick.”

    In an email, Kory explained: “In their [the doctors’] defense, and I was shocked to learn this, THERE ARE NO PEDIATRIC HAP GUIDELINES, so antibiotic choices are not established; thus, technically, they did not veer from any guidelines because there are none for kids.

    “The American Academy of Pediatrics should be scolded for this. The first adult guidelines came out in 2005. Here we are 20 years later, and there are no pediatric ones?”

    UMC medical records shed light on child’s illness and death……”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/8-year-old-west-texas-death-hospital-acquired-pneumonia/

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  14. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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