I don't understand how all of that harassment at abortion clinics, of abortion providers and their families is legal??? They have no legal recourse???

I'd like to ask those abortion clinic protesters what other things they are doing to prevent abortion. Are they trying to counsel women and girls on ways to avoid unwanted pregnancy, or help find adoption possibilities? Or have they chosen to ignore prevention and focus their energies only on the abortion clinics and doctors?

Seems like it would qualify as stalking. I guess that relies on a cooperative local police. I remember what it was like be Roe v Wade. Awful.

Thanks for the tunes. Love it.

Denial of abortion to women is as egregious a civil rights violation as "segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever". It's time to send in the National Guard, except that I have another solution, one which will send a message to everyone who thinks his state should secede from the Union. I propose a blockade of Mississippi. Remember blockades--we used to use them all the time to avoid shooting wars. We should (1) pull all Federal employees out of MS, including air controllers and TSA personnel; (2) close all roads into MS--people can leave, after inspection and confiscation of weapons and other contraband, but nobody can enter; (3) send no more Federal checks into MS, for any reason--people can get their Social Security or Medicare checks only if they leave MS; and (4) prohibit banks and other companies (including media and utility companies) operating out of state to also operate in MS (a 200% fine if found out). The blockade should be enforced until (A) every healthcare plan in the state, with no exception for churches (or thousands would join church plans), offers abortion services as a standard feature, and (B) all known abortion provider harassers are either locked up or confined to their homes, with no access to communications that would allow further harassment--no phones, faxes, or anything connected to the internet other than GPS trackers.

Who gives a sh!t about the unborn.. RIP [Reduction-In-Population] them, leaves more for us!

Regarding the question in Mississippi to create rules which the state's last abortion provider cannot meet and force its closure: It appears to me that this is de facto discrimination, attempting to subvert the legally stated intention of Roe v. Wade. The State of Mississippi is overstepping the US Constitutional foundation of the Supremacy Clause by this abhorrent attempt. The US Supreme Court, acting in a judicious manner, should stop these attempts to undermine Federal authority.

On Wall Street as an economic indicator; the VIX is to the economy as a groundhog is to meteorology.

Wall Street has two types of investors; Sharks and Chum. Sharks are patient, love instability in the market, and will go into a feeding frenzy when the Chum panics and dumps their holdings.

When investors are nervous abut the economy, they tend to worry that their holdings will lose value so they tend to liquidate them to preserve current value. The ACTUAL value of the investment vehicle has not changed, just the price that a nervous investor is willing to sell them at. The savvy investor looks for this instability and buys the under-priced stock or bond KNOWING that the price will rebound.

A good analogy is the used car market; the actual value of a vehicle is how useful it is as a vehicle. When a person has a desire to divest themselves of that asset, their motivation in selling sets the price, not the value of the asset itself; low motivation to sell results in holding out for the highest price possible, high motivation results in fire-sale prices for quick sale.

In the Crash of '29, the use of buying on margin (borrowing to purchase stock using the stock for collateral) triggered forced sales (margin calls) when the official stock price fell below a level that could sustain the collateral obligation and the borrower could not cover the difference from cash on hand. Nervous investors panicked sending the price plummeting forcing margin calls making investors nervous leading to panic sales, and so it went. The smart investors of the day did NOT buy on margin, or did so only when they could cover the full price of the stock, and took advantage of the panic to increase their holdings. The companies that the stock represented had not changed in value or production capacity. The stock itself still represented the same percentage of "ownership" in the company. Yet the price fell, investors surrendered their wealth to others who were less panicky, and finances for most became difficult if not impossible.

When the VIX rises, the economy is not less stable. When it falls the economy is not MORE stable. It only has to do with how nervous investors are. Wall Street elites LOVE nervous investors because they "earn" their "bread and butter" on churning the stocks.