Weekend Open Thread
[guest post by Dana]
Let’s go!
First news item
About that search warrant issued for Mar-a-Lago:
Federal investigators obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month by pointing to a raft of highly classified material they’d already obtained from there, according to a legal affidavit unsealed Friday.
Records the FBI obtained from Trump’s Florida home in advance of the Aug. 8 search bore indications they contained human source intelligence, intercepts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and signals intelligence, as well as other tags indicating high sensitivity. Several of those tightly-controlled documents contained Trump’s “handwritten notes,” the partially-redacted affidavit detailing the Justice Department investigation says.
In those boxes, agents found 184 unique documents, 25 of which were marked “top secret,” 92 of which were marked “secret,” and 67 of which were marked “confidential”–the lowest level of national security classification.
Prosecutors also added in another court filing unsealed Friday that the ongoing criminal probe into government records stashed at Trump’s Florida home has involved “a significant number of civilian witnesses” whose safety could be jeopardized if their identities were revealed.
From the affidavit:
47. From May 16-18, 2022, FBI agents conducted a prelimina1y review of the FIFTEEN BOXES provided to NARA and identified documents with classification markings in fourteen of the FIFTEEN BOXES. A prelin1ina1y triage of the documents with classification markings revealed the following approximate numbers: 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as CONFIDENTIAL, 92 documents marked as SECRET, and 25 documents marked as TOP SECRET. Further, the FBI agents observed markings reflecting the following compartments/dissemination controls: HCS, FISA, ORCON, NOFORN, and SI. Based on my training and experience, I know that documents
classified at these levels typically contain NDI. Several of the documents also contained what
appears to be FPOTUS ‘s handwritten notes.
Thoughts on what the affidavit means with regard to charges:
Of course, *under* the redactions will be the allegations relating to *that* potential criminal violation. And it’s worth stressing that Judge Reinhart knows what’s in them. My own view is that we have much more clarity on two of the charges in the warrant, but not all three.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 26, 2022
Trump responded to the release of the redacted affidavit:
Second news item
More concerns about the lack of security at Mar-a-Lago where classified documents were stored: Woman who passed herself off as an heiress and ingratiated herself with Trump and Republican lawmakers at Mar-a-Lago is now the subject of FBI investigation:
But the 33-year-old woman was not a member of the famous banking family, and is now a subject of a widening FBI investigation that has delved into her past financial activities and the events that led her to the former president’s home.
In addition to the FBI, law enforcement agents in Canada have confirmed that she has been the subject of a major crimes unit investigation in Quebec since February.
A year before the FBI’s spectacular raid of the former president’s seaside home, the woman whose real name is Inna Yashchyshyn, a Russian-speaking immigrant from Ukraine, made several trips into the estate posing as a member of the famous family while making inroads with some of the former president’s key supporters.
The ability of Ms. Yashchyshyn — the daughter of an Illinois truck driver — to bypass the security at Mr. Trump’s club demonstrates the ease with which someone with a fake identity and shadowy background can get into a facility that’s one of America’s power centers and the epicenter of Republican Party politics.
[…]
Her entry — multiple trips in and out of the club grounds — lays bare the vulnerabilities of a facility that serves as both the former president’s residence and a private club, and highlights the gaps in security that can take place.
Third news item
On top of everything else, the timing is off and could hurt Democrats:
When President Joe Biden announced student loan debt relief this week, his allies celebrated.
But a string of Democrats in tight races across the country want little to do with it.
That’s because the president may have just handed Republicans a new line of attack at a moment when Democrats were strengthening their positions in swing states and signs were emerging that the party could stave off what was to have been a GOP sweep in the midterm elections, campaign officials, party members, pollsters and national strategists in both parties say.
[…]
Mike Noble, who has conducted extensive independent polling in Nevada and Arizona, among other states, said the timing of Biden’s announcement was a “head-scratcher,” given that Democrats were just hitting their stride: Gas prices are coming down, the Republican Party is increasingly divided, Donald Trump is dominating headlines again, and abortion rights are fueling fundraising and party enthusiasm.
“It doesn’t make strategic sense. They were in a good position. All the momentum was going in their favor,” Noble said of Democrats…
“Why forgive debt on a group that never turns out to vote in the first place? The people who vote are the ones who paid their loans back or never had loans to begin with.”
Fourth news item
Two and a half years into the pandemic, Washington D.C. Mayor Bowser is mandating Covid vaccine for all student 12 and older will adversely impact the Black community in a big – and likely irreversible – way:
School starts on Monday for District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), which is requiring—per D.C. Council vote—that all students ages 12 and up be vaccinated against COVID-19. In addition to teens providing proof of vaccination, students of all ages must provide proof of a negative COVID test prior to the first day of school.
“We’re not offering remote learning for children, and families will need to comply with what is necessary to come to school,” said Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser in a press briefing.
…Though 87 percent of D.C.’s white teens, between the ages of 12 and 15, are vaccinated, only 53 percent of D.C.’s black teens are. For the next age group up—comprised of 16- and 17-year-olds—89 percent of white teens are fully vaccinated, whereas only 58 percent of black teens are.
Note: There is a 20-day grace period for students to get vaccinated. If, after the 20 day grace period, the student is still not compliant, the school must remove the student from school until the immunization certification is secured by the school. Given that any number of students will no longer be attending school in person, why on earth not keep distance learning intact for those who would avail themselves of it?
Fifth news item
President Zelensky says catastrophe avoided at nuclear power plant:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the world narrowly sidestepped a radiation disaster on Thursday when Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was disconnected from the country’s power grid.
Zelenskyy warned that it was only due to backup electricity kicking in that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia power plant was able to operate safely.
“Every minute the Russian troops stay at the nuclear power plant is a risk of a global radiation disaster,” Zelenskyy said. He called on the international community to help force Russian forces to immediately withdraw from the territory of the power plant.
Russia is burning off vast amounts of natural gas which experts believe would once have been destined for Germany, as Europe struggles with rocketing energy costs exacerbated by Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
This as Putin seeks to increase decreasing troop numbers:
President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree to increase the size of the Russian armed forces by 137,000, assigning whatever budget is necessary to continue funding his war machine.
The decree will go into effect on January 1, 2023. It increases the total personnel of the Russian armed forces, including non-combatants, to 2.03 million people. The Ministry of Defense will have to enlist more than 130,000 new combatants. This will bring the number of military personnel to 1,150,628 soldiers, a 13% increase on the current limit (1,013,628).
Sixth news item
California’s Governor Newsom continues to lay the groundwork for a 2024 bid:
People keep asking why I’m calling out DeSantis and these Republican governors.
The answer is simple: I don’t like bullies. pic.twitter.com/dksyOash8A
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 26, 2022
Seventh news item
Paging the disappearing Mark Meadows:
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis would like to hear from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and attorney Sidney Powell about communications they had with former President Donald Trump in November 2020. Willis is looking into potential election interference in Georgia and filed a brief Thursday to “compel” the two to testify. In the brief, Willis writes she wants testimony from Meadows, Powell, and “other known and unknown individuals involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere.” The prosecutor added, “Finally, the witness’s anticipated testimony is essential in that it is likely to reveal additional sources of information regarding the subject of this investigation.”
Eighth news item
Swatting is always horrible and wrong:
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Thursday that she was the subject of a “swatting” at her home in Rome, Georgia, for the second time in two days…In a statement shared on Twitter by Fox 5 Atlanta reporter Claire Simms, the Rome Police Department said that officers responded to a call at Greene’s home shortly before 3am on Thursday, saying that the call was “received on what appeared to be a suicide crisis line.”
“This is an active investigation and no further information can be released at this time,” read the release…
On Wednesday, Greene was the victim of the first apparent “swatting” — a form of harassment in which someone calls law enforcement to report a false threat in order to summon armed police to their home. The tactic is highly dangerous, as police may respond with aggressive force and have little way of telling whether or not it’s a hoax.
According to the Rome Police Department, officers responded to a call shortly after 1am on Wednesday morning claiming that someone had been “shot multiple times” at Greene’s home. Police also said that in a second call, the suspect used a computer-generated voice to say that they were “upset about Mrs. Greene’s political view on transgender youth rights.”
Ninth news item
Wow, being this afraid of one person doesn’t seem healthy. In fact, it’s ridiculous. Stop embarrasing yourselves:
The world’s largest podcast conference holding an event in Dallas apologized Thursday for the presence of a conservative podcaster who showed up at his company’s booth.
The Podcast Movement conference brings together some of the top and most popular podcast companies and voices every year. In 2022, the conference is being held at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in downtown Dallas.
The Daily Wire, which is a conservative news website and media company, did have a booth near the PM22 expo area, according to Podcast Movement. It’s most known for its podcast, “The Ben Shapiro Show.”
There’s no way around it: We agreed to sell The Daily Wire a first-time booth based on the company’s large presence in podcasting. The weight of that decision is now painfully clear. Shapiro is a co-founder. A drop-in, however unlikely, should have been considered a possibility.
— Podcast Movement at #PM22 (@PodcastMovement) August 25, 2022
Those of you who called this “unacceptable” are right. In 9 wonderful years growing and celebrating this medium, PM has made mistakes. The pain caused by this one will always stick with us. We promise that sponsors will be more carefully considered moving forward.
— Podcast Movement at #PM22 (@PodcastMovement) August 25, 2022
MISCELLANEOUS
The “why” is still unknown, but a puzzling discovery made when restoring Rembrandt’s “Night Watch” painting:
…AkzoNobel research and development manager Gerard van Ewijk has found some interesting details about Rembrandt’s impasto technique, in which the artist’s brushstrokes are clearly visible on the canvas, The Guardian wrote this week.
Rijksmuseum head of science Katrien Keune told the newspaper that researchers had detected egg yolk in one “tiny square of paint, smaller than a crumble.” At first, they figured the artist mixed it with boiled linseed oil and lead oxide to create a thicker paint.
Upon examining the material though, Van Ewijk realized Rembrandt didn’t really need yolk to achieve this texture. “A 30:70 ratio of raw linseed oil and lead white creates the perfect impasto paint, raising a perfectly plausible alternative recipe to that previously assumed to have been used,” the publication wrote.
Petria Noble, head of paintings conservation at the Rijksmuseum, told the Guardian that AkzoNobel’s exploration disproved previous theories that wax or paint scrapings had been used by Rembrandt to create the artist’s signature impasto touches.
“It is still a bit of a mystery why it is there,” Van Ewijk said of the egg.
Have a great weekend!
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (1225fc) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:14 pmAlso in DC:
As far as I understand all Mayor Bowser has been trying to do is protect safe drivers from drunk drivers.
BuDuh (210775) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:25 pmRembrandt in 1640: “Hey, I’m going to mix a little bit of egg yolk into my oil and paint, just because four centuries from now everyone will wonder what the hell I was up to. It will be ‘lit,’ as they will be saying in the distant future.”
JVW (15c733) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:29 pmJVW
I like how your mind works.
EPWJ (650a62) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:33 pm@3. Check his diary.
‘Working over Night Watch canvas all morning. Egg sandwich for lunch.’
DCSCA (66917f) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:39 pmIt was one year ago today that while in the midst of trying to execute the Biden Administration’s bungled plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, a suicide bomber managed to kill thirteen U.S. service members. I wonder if anyone is going to ask Team Brandon about our remaining Afghani allies — some of whom hold dual U.S. citizenship — who are still awaiting the opportunity to escape the Taliban.
JVW (15c733) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:41 pmGas prices up 50 cents/gallon this week.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:41 pm[U.S. District Judge Robert] Jonker repeatedly scolded Gibbons and Blanchard for what he viewed as wasting the jury’s time on “crap” lines of questioning. Before the testimony of government witnesses last Wednesday, Jonker took the unprecedented step of limiting the amount of time for cross examination. Blanchard accused Jonker of openly favoring prosecutors while frequently interjecting and interrupting defense counsel. “Limiting us is unfair and it’s unconstitutional, and it doesn’t aid the jury in the search for the truth,” Blanchard told Jonker on August 17 after the jury had been dismissed for the day. “It’s creating a perception of how this case ends.”
The Justice Department also sought a narrower definition of entrapment, essentially asking Jonker to make it harder for the jury to conclude the defendants were set up by the FBI.
…
Joshua Blanchard, Croft’s public defender, noted the government collected 1,000 hours of recorded conversations between FBI assets and defendants but played less than two hours of clips for the jury; one clip was only four seconds long. “The FBI doesn’t exist, it should not exist, to make people look like terrorists when they aren’t,” Blanchard said during his closing. “This whole thing has been a big FBI charade. This isn’t Russia, this isn’t how our country works.”
The agents and informers they’d assigned to entrap Croft and Fox had failed, so they brought in “Big Dan” Chappel to create a fake militia and then a fake fednapping plot.
And then arrest people for the feds’ own scheme.
The agents and informers they’d assigned to entrap Croft and Fox had failed, so they brought in “Big Dan” Chappel to create a fake militia and then a fake fednapping plot.
And then arrest people for the feds’ own scheme.
The agents and informers they’d assigned to entrap Croft and Fox had failed, so they brought in “Big Dan” Chappel to create a fake militia and then a fake fednapping plot.
And then arrest people for the feds’ own scheme.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/23/two-men-convicted-in-second-whitmer-fednapping-trial/
Colonel Haiku (bec014) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:42 pm@5. Joe killed them.
Check your watch lately, Squinty?? A year closer to lunch with Beau.
DCSCA (66917f) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:43 pm^6.
DCSCA (66917f) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:43 pmMost everyone knows ya gotta break a few eggs to make a Rembrandt.
Colonel Haiku (bec014) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:44 pmRussia is burning off vast amounts of natural gas which experts believe would once have been destined for Germany, as Europe struggles with rocketing energy costs exacerbated by Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Environmentalists are upset. But it could be worse. They could be releasing the methane unburned.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:44 pm7… so buy an electric car, Kevin. Didn’t you get the memo?
Colonel Haiku (bec014) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:46 pmThe “inclusivity” folks, who are anything BUT inclusive are one of the more galling woke movements. They claim they are only excluding those that aren’t inclusive, yet that argument cannot hold itself, let alone convince others.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 12:54 pmMeanwhile, federal judge rules that 2nd Amendment applies to all adults, blocks TX ban on under-21 carry.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:01 pmGasoline prices continued to decline, nationally:
I wouldn’t be surprised if that weekly streak were broken soon, even though we are coming to the end of the summer driving season.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:03 pmCongress implies UFOs have non-human origins
https://thehill.com/opinion/3610916-congress-implies-ufos-have-non-human-origins/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsJhBn0I9U4&t=9s
DCSCA (66917f) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:04 pmExcellent. Constitutional rights shouldn’t be dependent on whether you are 21 or 18.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:05 pmThen why is 18 magical….why can’t a 16yr old carry?
AJ_Liberty (ec7f74) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:33 pm@19: Why can 18yo vote?
Why can 18yo sign contracts?
Why can they die for our country at 18yo?
whembly (b770f8) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:36 pmTalk show host on his talk show said nazis had some good ideas! (DU)
asset (fcbf6a) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:41 pmDennis preager was the talk show host sorry.
asset (fcbf6a) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:42 pmThe criminal information.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:44 pmWhen the 26th Amendment was enacted giving 18-year-olds the right to vote, it pretty much defined that as the beginning of adulthood. The only exceptions are possession of alcohol and certain types of firearms. In California if you are 18 you can buy a rifle, but you must be 21 to purchase a handgun, though this difference is under challenge.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 1:56 pmCH, thank you for sharing the good news that the kidnappers were convicted.
Time123 (af2b49) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:03 pmThe reason for the timing is that the last extension of the student loan payment deferral expired on August 31. Biden didn’t want people to have to resume payment on student loans before Election Day.
Payments had been made voluntary in March,2020. Some people perhaps bet wrong in paying it all off since it wasn’t accumulating interest.
He wanted to extend it. But the question was, when does it end?
So he did a last extension to well past the election (to December 31) and paired it with loan forgiveness.
Some of his advisers had argued that the combination of re-starting loan payments and forgiving some loans would pretty much balance out and so it couldn’t be argued that he was increasing consumer spending power (which supposedly could increase inflation).
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:04 pmRepublicans have to stop obsessing over 2020 election, says …
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:11 pmhttps://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i/
DCSCA (ad566c) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:12 pmThe Fulton County, Georgia grand jury hearing from witnesses is actually only an investigative grand jury. It cannot issue indictments, but only a report.
A second grand jury would be needed to indict.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:15 pmFor kids… of all ages:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/0772_diy_sls_-_artemis_10222020_with_pics.pdf
DCSCA (ad566c) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:20 pmRe the first and second news items:
Do they sell miniature cameras at the Mar-a-Lago gift shop? Room microphones? Rappelling ropes and climbing spikes?
nk (bfe0a8) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:43 pmPrepare for more profit-making infomercials on your local NBC network affilate in prime time:
NBC Plans to Stop Programming Shows In the 10PM Slot
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the broadcaster is currently having discussions to stop programming for the 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST slot and would subsequently give that hour over to local TV stations. The discussions are preliminary and no official decisions have been made. According to one source, it is entirely possible that NBC will continue its programming for 10 p.m. and the matter has not been officially discussed with its affiliate board, ie. the group that represents NBC’s station partners… Foregoing the 10 p.m. slot would be a cost-cutting move for NBC since broadcast ratings have continued to decline as other companies, NBC Universal and parent company Comcast among them, continue to broaden their streaming horizons. This would save nearly seven hours per week for NBC, effectively saving the network tens of millions of dollars. However, since the 2022-2023 schedule is currently set, the earliest this shift could happen would be fall 2023.
at the moment, NBC airs most of its scripted dramas during the 10 p.m. hour, including This potential shift would mean could instead be filled by local news or syndicated programming, and would mean earlier airtimes for late-night shows like The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night With Seth Meyers, and even Saturday Night Live, which typically air around 11:30 p.m. EST.’ -source, WSJ.com
DCSCA (ad566c) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:45 pmSpeaking of Russian spies, Dana, bellingcat has the goods on another one, a gal who inserted herself into Italian high society.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:51 pmI wouldn’t be surprised if that weekly streak were broken soon, even though we are coming to the end of the summer driving season.
Gasoline here went from $3.20 to $3.70 literally yesterday. Gasbuddy prices are bimodal.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:53 pmDow down 1000 points after Fed chair suggests higher interest rates could persist for some time.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 2:56 pmDow down 1000 points after Fed chair suggests higher interest rates could persist for some time.
.. and at the same time, on his way to another Delaware beach weekend:
Biden says U.S. economy is looking good but still a long way to go
‘WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The economy was looking good but has a ways to go, U.S. President Joe Biden said as he touted the economic benefits of his recently announced student debt relief plan. “The economy is looking good, so far we’re hanging in. I feel good about it, but we’ve got a long way to go,” he told reporters before departing the White House.’
Remember last time this imbecile was right? ‘Twas in the 20th century when the idiot withdrew from the 1988 presidential race copping to plagiarism and lying Aabout his credentials.
DCSCA (ad566c) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:02 pmDow down 1000 points after Fed chair suggests higher interest rates could persist for some time.
Meanwhile, on the same day:
Biden says U.S. economy is looking good but still a long way to go
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – The economy was looking good but has a ways to go, U.S. President Joe Biden said as he touted the economic benefits of his recently announced student debt relief plan. “The economy is looking good, so far we’re hanging in. I feel good about it, but we’ve got a long way to go,” he told reporters before departing the White House.’ – yahoonews.com
Remember the last time this guy was right on anything?
A way back in the 20th century, in 1988, when he withdrew from the presidential race for getting caught for plagiarism and lying about his credentials.
DCSCA (ad566c) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:06 pmOops. Web hiccup: double post. Sorry.
DCSCA (ad566c) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:07 pmThanks, Paul, for the link. What an incredible piece of work. I was already impressed by Bellingcat/Eliot Higgins game-changing work re Navalny, and the group continues to impress.
Dana (1225fc) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:25 pm@24 I think you missed Aj’s point. If you’re mature enough at 18 to carry a firearm, then you’re mature enough to purchase alcohol. In most states as far as I know 16 years is mature enough to drive a car. What is the magic that makes one mature enough to drive a car at 16 but not carry a firearm and purchase alcohol. The point is, like the age of consent it’s arbitrary. Also, do constitutional rights depend on whether I’m riding in a car or on a domestic airliner?
Purplehaze (848fb6) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:35 pmDriving a car or purchasing alcohol are privileges, which can be withheld for cause, or even for the convenience of the community. I went to college in a town that banned liquor stores. There are places where driving a car is severely resricted. Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, for example. But if self-defense via firearms is a constitutional right, the reason for withholding it needs to be more than “arbitrary.”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:40 pm25… you’re welcome… glad you made it okay, Phil McCracken.
Colonel Haiku (8b99b0) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:43 pmAlso, do constitutional rights depend on whether I’m riding in a car or on a domestic airliner?
They do if a firearm is unlikely to be of any use in an aircraft, and highly dangerous if used. It is far more likely to cause a catastrophe than provide defense. Matter of fact, I would ban police officers and such from carrying on board, as their doing so makes the case against private carry much weaker.
It might matter if you were riding in MY car.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:44 pmWhat Kevin M said at 41. Drinking and driving (hopefully not at same time😉) are not constitutional rights.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:46 pmDCSCA, Outside of JPL, NASA hasn’t run up a string of successes of late.
But for what it’s worth, I hope Artemis has a great success. Godspeed.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:47 pmJoshua Blanchard, Croft’s public defender, noted the government collected 1,000 hours of recorded conversations between FBI assets and defendants. . .
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. One thousand hours of conversations with FBI assets? Was someone paid to transcribe them, and if so, were they available somewhere for the defense? When you hear that the equivalent of one-half of a working year (by hours, anyway) was spent on these jamokes then it really has to make you wonder about entrapment. Either that, or else the FBI just drags out these investigations to give their agents something to do when they aren’t investigating ropes tied into nooses at NASCAR garages. I mean it’s not as if there is any organized vandalism and arson at pro-life pregnancy centers to look into (as far as I can determine, there have still been exactly zero arrests).
JVW (15c733) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:48 pmI got yer redactions right here! https://twitter.com/MrsFixedIt/status/1563232389433675779?s=20&t=vuNacrNQh0FFtg0Y2DsFDA
Colonel Haiku (96e722) — 8/26/2022 @ 3:49 pmSome of you will be shocked by this story:
(Links omitted.)
Shocked, that is, if you hadn’t noticed that Trump is not that great about paying his bills.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/26/2022 @ 4:01 pmDriving a car or purchasing alcohol are privileges, which can be withheld for cause, or even for the convenience of the community.
The 21st Amendment made America dry by default.
So that’s an easy one.
I’m surprised that the legal fiction that driving is a privilege has lasted for so long in the land of the automobile. Possibly because the governments themselves have treated it as a fiction except in “implied consent” cases, where you have to take an alcohol test or take a six-month drivers license suspension for refusing? And public drunkenness has always been a crime even if you’re walking, anyway?
nk (bfe0a8) — 8/26/2022 @ 4:19 pm“I got yer redactions right here! https://twitter.com/MrsFixedIt/status/1563232389433675779?s=20&t=vuNacrNQh0FFtg0Y2DsFDA”
It’s good, but this classic is still the champion:
https://i.imgur.com/5QybM0J.jpg
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/26/2022 @ 4:36 pm@41 and @44. You guys are completely missing the point. Maturity has nothing to do with whether or not it’s a privilege or a constitutional right.
Purplehaze (848fb6) — 8/26/2022 @ 4:44 pm“30 agents for 9 hours. Not as exciting as faking an assassination attempt on a Governor, but hey, F-L-A baby.”
Colonel Haiku (96e722) — 8/26/2022 @ 4:46 pm@43
Some good guys with guns onboard airplanes could have saved a lot of lives on September 11, 2001. How does allowing police officers to carry onboard weaken the case for private carry?
Purplehaze (848fb6) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:02 pmTrump will get an unredacted affidavit when he’s arraigned.
And the judge will read the indictment to him if he asks, since he doesn’t like to read.
Has he even read “his” books, you think?
nk (de77e3) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:02 pmPowell’s 8-Minute Speech Erases $78 Billion From Richest Americans
(Bloomberg) 8/26/22 — In the span of just eight minutes, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sparked a market rout that slashed the fortunes of America’s richest people by $78 billion.
Same day:
“The economy is looking good, so far we’re hanging in. I feel good about it, but we’ve got a long way to go.” -Squinty McStumblebum, 8/26/22
IDIOT.
DCSCA (a6b450) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:03 pmMaturity has nothing to do with whether or not it’s a privilege or a constitutional right.
Since when? And where?
nk (de77e3) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:05 pmnk asked: “Has he even read “his” books, you think?”
I’ve wondered about that, for years. The loser reminds me of an athlete (Philadelphia?) who, when asked about an incident in a book he had “written” (with a little help), confessed that he hadn’t read that part of the book yet.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:09 pmAnyway, if the Fifth Circuit upholds the District Judge, there will be a split with at least the Seventh*, and it might get to Five Of Nine in a couple or three years. We’ll see.
*It upheld Illinois’s FOID law which requires the signature of a parent or guardian for anyone under age 21, for the purchase or possession of any type of gun or ammunition.
nk (de77e3) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:11 pmNASA hasn’t run up a string of successes of late.
Hmmm. NASA’s success is all around you in your daily life. It remains the among the best ROI for the United States. The ISS has been continuously occupied for nearly successful 22 years, Kev. That few bother to look up and watch $100 billion passing over head says more about the downcast mindset of the weenies below. And it’s easy to find and follow:
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/
But yes, the Artemis1/SLS launch should be as risky- and momentous- as the Apollo/Saturn all up test was in November, 1967 if successful; certainly much longer in duration – w/a flight plan of 26-42 days and as complex in navigation as Apollo 8. Should be a good show; Aretmis is festooned w/cameras for some stellar imagery to look forward to.
DCSCA (a6b450) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:22 pmI’m surprised that the legal fiction that driving is a privilege has lasted for so long in the land of the automobile.
Because they can and do revoke it for misuse. Not just drunk driving. What is a fiction is that 99% of functioning adults are capable of operating heavy machinery that can travel at speeds sufficient to demolish houses. If one out of 10 drivers had their licenses suspended (currently it’s about 2%), the world would be a better place.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:45 pmThe ISS has been continuously occupied for nearly successful 22 years, Kev
Without the Russians, it would have been different. Funny claim to be making.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:46 pmIt’s interesting that the FBI never interviewed Tony Bobulinski, per Mr. Bobulinski.
Other priorities – e.g., cases involving hateful misuse of pronouns – I suppose…
Colonel Haiku (2ed865) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:47 pmBTW, I’m not a fan of “constitutional carry” as I do not believe that basic common sense (i.e. “idiocy”) is a good guide to using a weapon in public. We don’t believe that about cars, which are not quite so immediately dangerous.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:56 pmHere is Footnote 2 on page 22 of the warrant affidavit:
Leaving aside the matter that the boxes aren’t Trump’s personal property but instead belong to The People, classification or declassification of documents is irrelevant when they are “relating to the national defense”. Not irrelevant is Mr. French.
Yes, Hillary also possessed classified information on her home-brewed server, which may help Trump skate in that regard. But she didn’t obstruct justice, and looks like Trump could be on the hook for that, out of his own sheer cussedness.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/26/2022 @ 5:57 pmOne similarity between the Hillary and Trump situations: In both cases, responsible people tried to keep them acting legally. As I recall, some people working for her offered to set up parallel email systems, one personal in her office, and one for government business.
Trump, of course, was warned by many people not to do what he did with the classified documents.
(And there is an older similarity. When Obama came into office, he wanted to keep using his Blackberry. The intelligence people weren’t happy with that, but tried to make it secure. With Trump, they kind of gave up, anad assumed that our enemies (and probably some of our friends) were listening to his cellphone calls.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:16 pmThe only reason Hillary “skated” is that President Trump declined to pursue a prosecution.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:19 pmBut she didn’t obstruct justice
Assumes facts not in evidence. Hillary’s entire life has been about obstructing investigations.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:31 pmHere is a section by section analysis of the affidavit.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:31 pmThe only reason Hillary “skated” is that President Trump declined to pursue a prosecution.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:19 pm
yeah Rip, just like demented joe pushed for the MAL raid and has stonewalled hunter’s prosecution
JF (aebedd) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:32 pmThe only reason Hillary “skated” is that President Trump declined to pursue a prosecution.
Since he wanted his term to be about HIM, not Hillary. Something that Biden may have wished for, too, not that ignoring Trump was ever a possibility.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:33 pmI assume you didn’t go to the provided link when he made that statement.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:41 pmRip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:31 pm
And human intelligence (and to a different degree, signals intelligence) is the type of thing that you want locked up. The identity of human assets in hostile places is so secret that the President does not have the need to know. Technical means of eavesdropping are so ephemeral in effectiveness that they, too, are very closely held.
If any of that was kept in boxes in a closet or basement where there weren’t Marine guards or other security efforts …. one has to assume that they were accessed. Especially with Natasha running around.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:42 pmBorder Patrol rescues baby, toddler left in Arizona desert
no doubt destined for a heartwarming reunion with their cruel and abusive parents at taxpayer expense
JF (aebedd) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:42 pmI’m surprised he declined the opportunity to fulfill a campaign promise.
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:43 pmIn any event, I’ve been studying the evidence and typical DoJ schedules and I see that the indictments against Trump will be issued in ….. late October.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:45 pm2023
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:46 pmRip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:41 pm
Rip, best stick to your usual cut and paste wire service posts
you’re good at that
JF (aebedd) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:48 pmI’ve wondered about that, for years. The loser reminds me of an athlete (Philadelphia?) who, when asked about an incident in a book he had “written” (with a little help), confessed that he hadn’t read that part of the book yet.
Are you thinking of Charles Barkley’s famous claim that he was misquoted in his autobiography? That one is a classic.
JVW (15c733) — 8/26/2022 @ 6:59 pmWithout the Russians, it would have been different.
Not really that much. Just designed differently- [recall Reagan’s Space Station Freedom concepts sans Russia] — and a little more pricey. Skylab was an experience base for NASA as was the 14-day shuttle ops but Russia had tallied up station experience w/Salyut and then Mir. And at the time, the political rationale from the West was to keep ex-Soviet engineers working on space projects as the USSR collapsed rather than selling their engineering skills to bomb-building terrorists. They eat every day, too. So once the Shuttle/Mir test flights were put into motion in the 90’s the die was cast for planning/design on orbit w/Russia as part of the ISS ops; they lofted the first component. So the politics- and economics- overrode the engineering decisions. But the design could have pressed on w/o them.
DCSCA (a6b450) — 8/26/2022 @ 7:02 pmOkay, here’s one just for you:
Comedy gold!
Rip Murdock (ee7171) — 8/26/2022 @ 7:09 pm@80. Rip, best stick to your usual cut and paste wire service posts
LOLOLOOLOLOLOL
The wire services credo: ‘rip and read.’
😉
DCSCA (a6b450) — 8/26/2022 @ 7:12 pmAnd now he’s suing her in private RICO, one of the hardest cases to bring. Past the statute of limitations. All show, no substance, that’s our Donald as they call him in Russia.
nk (de77e3) — 8/26/2022 @ 7:29 pmBut you still like him, right?
nk (de77e3) — 8/26/2022 @ 7:52 pmRepublicans who were staunch right to lifers with no exceptions in the primary. Like pa. gov candidate mastriano and az senate candidate masters say they are now right to choose after looking at their poll numbers!
asset (01fb05) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:44 amA guy with Mastriano’s small-p prejudices isn’t going to give up the 2nd most /3rd most effective “crime-fighting” tool in the ol Craftsman box. Darren Bailey of Illinois even backed down, only because the guy 4 farms down the road said that one of those places this county could get all the business from south of the Nason-Dixon line and east of the Rockies
urbanleftbehind (dbc81b) — 8/27/2022 @ 5:12 amSeveral days late, but somebody reverted to being surnamed Sphincter or Schiester.
urbanleftbehind (dbc81b) — 8/27/2022 @ 5:20 am“Right to choose.” Too little, too late. Telling the world, for nearly fifty years, that abortion was the “pros’ choice” …. They should have known that it just didn’t sound right.
nk (de77e3) — 8/27/2022 @ 5:48 amAnd, yeah, it amazes me, too, that Mastriano and Masters are not campaigning the way the media and the Democrats want them to. It’s like those guys want to win or something.
nk (de77e3) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:44 amRussian Media Watch:
Rip Murdock (3ed059) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:16 amBlake Masters given his pivot to reasonable abortion limits and roots in Right Tech might be the political vanguard of post-Christian or hedonistic Conservatism:
https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/staring-into-the-abyss-with-andrew
urbanleftbehind (0900f9) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:20 amFollow the money:
Rip Murdock (3ed059) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:29 am62: Bobulinski said he was interviewed by the FBI.
DRJ (14d1a3) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:54 amThis is why I don’t read here much.
DRJ (14d1a3) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:55 amSad but true, DRJ.
Always nice to see any comments you make. I look for them.
Simon Jester (4dfd56) — 8/27/2022 @ 9:34 amFollow the Money 2:
Blake Masters hung out to dry in thee desert?
Rip Murdock (3ed059) — 8/27/2022 @ 9:57 amA day or so ago, BuDuh requested more COVID information. And he was right to do so. As in any war, it is rational to try to learn, in real time, how heavy the losses are. It is distressing to see how many Americans try to avoid tha knowledge.
So, here’s the Johns Hopkins site.
And here’s the free COVID section of the Washington Post. There’s some advice there that may be useful to you, personally.
Reminder: Most experts believe that the offical counts of deaths from COVID are underestimates.
Judging by previous experience, COVID is likely to get worse in much of the nation as the weather gets colder, and people spend more time indoors.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/27/2022 @ 9:59 amFile China’s historic heat wave under What Goes Around Comes Around. Lament for the ordinary folks who are suffering, and condemnation for the Xi regime for their massive pollution and direct contribution to climate change.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/27/2022 @ 9:59 amAmerica, divest from these corrupt ChiComs.
There is another way in which the COVID war is like most other wars. It is costly, not just in lives, but in all the things that we have given up to fight it. As a nation we are poorer than we would be otherwise because of COVID, and there is no way to go back in time and prevent our losses. We can only try to minimize future losses.
We are now arguing, though it is seldom discussed this way, which of us will pay, how much, for the costs we have already incurred, and the costs we will incur in future. We have chosen, collectively, to pay some of the costs through inflation. (During total wars, governments often try to avoid inflation by price controls and rationing. If any significant elected official has called for that approach, I’ve missed it.)
And we are passing on much of the costs to our children and grandchildren, in many ways. That’s usual in large wars, like this one, but it is nothing to be proud of.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:18 amWhat is it with the French and their public mimicking of sheep.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:19 amMaybe nk can speak more to the culture that is Illinois, but I think this is pretty cool.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:21 amRetrofire:
In the midst of the Arab oil embargo of 1973, Biden was one of only five U.S. senators to vote against the first Alaskan pipeline bill. That pipeline has since yielded many billions of barrels of oil for the United States.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/bidens-senate-voting-record-policy-positions
He’s a bum.
DCSCA (d7fbc3) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:41 amKathleen Parker told me some things about Senator Tim Scott that I didn’t know:
But he overcame both the teeth and the loss of that dream, and achieved success, first in business, and then in politics.
Here’s Scott’s latest book, which Parker found inspiring.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:42 amRetrofire:
In 2007 Biden voted against a bill permitting the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General “to authorize foreign intelligence acquisition concerning those reasonably believed to be outside of the U.S., provided that written certification is presented that the procedure does not constitute electronic surveillance under existing law, the surveillance is made with the assistance of a communications provider, and the significant purpose of the acquisition is to obtain foreign intelligence information.”
… and Hunter smiled.
DCSCA (d7fbc3) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:45 amRetrofire:
In 1979 Senator Biden shared President Jimmy Carter‘s belief that the fall of the Shah in Iran and the advent of Ayatollah Khomeini’s rule represented progress for human rights in that country. Throughout the ensuing 444-day hostage crisis, during which Khomeini’s extremist acolytes routinely paraded the blindfolded American captives in front of television cameras and threatened them with execution, Biden opposed strong action against the mullahs and called for dialogue.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/bidens-senate-voting-record-policy-positions
DCSCA (d7fbc3) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:53 am92… I misunderstood a timeframe as context for that. The FBI did interview Bobulinski after much pressure. My mistake.
Zuckerberg confirmed that the FBI didn’t put any of these warnings about Russian disinformation propaganda in writing. Of course, they didn’t. Nothing in writing and that makes sense. If you’re the FBI, you wouldn’t want to put that in writing because you were, of course, lying. At the moment, the FBI was warning Facebook about a propaganda dump that obviously would include Hunter Biden’s laptop, they had Hunter Biden’s laptop in their possession. So, they knew perfectly well it was authentic because anyone who looks at it does. We have looked at it and it’s instantly obvious this is real and of course, we now know conclusively it is real.
So, that laptop was not censored because it was propaganda, whatever that means. By the way, the FBI should never be in the information control business anyway. It was censored because it might hurt Joe Biden and the FBI is the government agency that pushed for it to be censored. Has that ever happened in the United States, ever? That is the definition of police state behavior: a government agency independently decides it’s going to determine the outcome of a supposedly democratic election.
So, why is it nearly two years until we learn this? Well, it turns out Facebook is a very political place. The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, paid hundreds of millions of dollars to affect the outcome of the election. Famously, we’ve reported on that and then, of course, there were Democratic Party operatives working within Facebook. So, on October 14, the Facebook communications official and former Democratic Party operative called Andy Stone claimed that Facebook was censoring this story because of Facebook’s “standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation” whatever that means, but that was their initial explanation.
It wasn’t until late October that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of the company, publicly mentioned the FBI’s involvement for the first time and here’s what he said, “We relied heavily on the FBI’s intelligence and alerts, both through their public testimony and private briefings that they gave us.” He testified to that, but at the time, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t mention anything but the FBI warning Facebook about, “Russian propaganda specifically.”
Why didn’t he say anything? That’s odd because in October 2020, right before the election, weeks before a presidential election, every media outlet in the country and then candidate Joe Biden himself were using the very same line, “It’s Russian misinformation, it’s propaganda” and not surprisingly or coincidentally, dozens of former intelligence officials were saying the same thing. We can’t play this enough. Here it is.
PETER STRZOK, 2020: When you look at this computer store owner in Delaware who allegedly received Hunter Biden’s laptop, that is more in line with that when you think about somebody who’s a useful idiot, that’s kind of the entry point that is kind of, again, a classic indicator of the potential presence of disinformation.
KASIE HUNT, 2020: Right-wing media has been focused on Hunter Biden, this laptop that intelligence officials have warned is likely Russian disinformation .
NICOLLE WALLACE, 2020: Law enforcement is actively investigating whether the alleged Hunter Biden emails are linked to any foreign intel ops.
JASON JOHNSON, 2020: The story is preposterous. So, we’re supposed to believe that Hunter Biden, in a drunken stupor, dropped off his laptop in apparently a QAnon repair office.
So, those are the shills who will say whatever they’re told to say. Of course, no sober person would take them seriously and we missed the bigger story, too. We will admit that. At the time we imagined that this lie, that the laptop was Russian misinformation, was being pushed almost exclusively by Democratic partisans, but that’s not true. It was much worse and much more threatening to our democracy, in fact, utterly corrosive of our democracy than that.
Again, our media attributed these claims to former Intel officials who wrote a letter about Russian disinformation, but no, it wasn’t just former Intel officials spreading that lie. It was members of the U.S. government, federal bureaucrats, people who work for federal agencies, senior FBI leaders who are still at the FBI. They lied and they knew they were lying and they never took steps to validate this claim that it was Russian propaganda or Russian disinformation. On this show in October of 2020, we interviewed one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, a man called Tony Bobulinski, and he verified the authenticity of that laptop.
He had firsthand information. He had texts and emails that were on his phone and also on the laptop. So, we reached out to Tony Bobulinski last night and we asked him a very simple question. Did anyone from the FBI ever call you or your lawyer to find out since your name was all over the laptop, if those texts and emails were real? If they wanted to know if this was Russian disinformation, they would, of course, call you, but not one of them ever did. They knew it wasn’t Russian disinformation. They knew it wasn’t propaganda, and they knew it was completely real and they lied about it. Here’s what Bobulinski told us in October of 2020.
TONY BOBULINSKI: On May 13, that email was sent from James Gilliar to me. I didn’t generate that email. James Gilliar generated that email and in that email, James Gilliar goes through intimate detail of what each individual’s requests were from a compensation perspective and how the equity in the enterprise would be divvied up. Very important. May 13. That email was generated by somebody else to me. In that email there’s a statement where they go through the equity. Jim Biden has referenced, as you know, 10%. Doesn’t say Biden. It says Jim and then it has 10% for the big guy held by H. I 1,000% sit here and know that the big guy is referencing Joe Biden. That’s crystal clear to me because I lived it. I met with the former vice president in person multiple times and I had been meeting and talking with Hunter Biden and Jim Biden and Rob Walker and James Gilliar.
So, to note the obvious, that’s not some cable news mouth breather who’s giving you his stupid partisan opinion about Hunter Biden’s laptop. That’s Hunter Biden’s former business partner, who can prove he was Hunter Biden’s former business partner. No one disputes he was Hunter Biden’s former business partner. His name, his emails or texts are all over the laptop and yet somehow the FBI, the agency that sent a dozen agents to investigate a rope in a NASCAR garage, the agency that used hundreds of agents to hunt down grandmothers from the election justice protest on January 6, that same agency couldn’t spare a single agent to make a telephone call to Tony Bobulinski to ask questions about the laptop. You claim it’s propaganda, it’s misinformation. Why don’t you call the guy who’s on it and ask him? They didn’t bother. This is what the FBI has become: an agency that seeks to exert control over the information that you read in the media. What is this? Well, it’s terrifying and again, this isn’t speculation.
We just had it confirmed in public yesterday. These are people whose main goal is to ensure that they never lose power in Washington, interfering with our elections and not simply by hiding information, resorting to force because they know they can get away with it. Joe Biden’s chief political opponent, right now—Biden says he’s going to run again. Trump has indicated he’s running—will be Donald Trump and so they’re targeting them. Is anyone noticing this? John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repair shop owner who first obtained the laptop, says an FBI agent threatened him so he wouldn’t go public with the laptop. In case you’ve forgotten, watch:
JOHN PAUL MAC ISAAC: The FBI met with me at my home and asked me about my concerns. I voiced my concerns and they I then shifted and said, “Hey, can I just want this out of my shop. At this point, just get it out of my shop and give me a phone number I can call should somebody come looking for it or wants to harass me about it” and they’re like, “Yeah, we can’t do that.” When they showed up, instead of bringing in a tech guy with them, they brought a subpoena and they’re like, “Yeah, we’re just going to take everything.” I was a bit uncomfortable, a little nervous, but then excited at the same time, so I kind of cracked a joke. I said, “Don’t worry lads. When I write the book, I’ll leave your names out of this” and that’s when Agent Mike turned around and said, “Oh, it’s in our experience that nothing ever happens to people that talk about these things.”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-fbi-working-behalf-democratic-party.amp
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:53 amPaul Montague @ 100
The fact that it’s suburban Peoria says it better than I could.
nk (567303) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:56 amOpen houses in Washington IL that town might be a bit more snug after this:
https://twitter.com/Jkom91/status/1563367937888894976
urbanleftbehind (3e376d) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:01 am@99, I think both sides will think the sheep drama is a perfect illustration of their opposition, Hilarious! I guess only the French!
@100, even better….I think these moms needed an outlet…loved the last one bouncing off her huge son
@92, it sure would be nice to have more wheat and less chaff
Interesting to see how Putin’s media is spinning document-gate…and how they are monitoring for civil war. Could Putin have picked anyone better to tear at the seams of our system? Seven years in and still not enough awareness of why having Trump serve as their collective middle finger is a problem.
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:01 amRepublicans who were staunch right to lifers with no exceptions in the primary. Like pa. gov candidate mastriano and az senate candidate masters say they are now right to choose after looking at their poll numbers!
I told you so. I’ve been saying for years that there is a compromise position on abortion, and now I expect to see one emerge. Both the no-abortion-ever and the all-abortions-legal-and-free camps are out of touch with the vast (70%) middle which doesn’t much care for abortions after the first trimester, but doesn’t want them banned before that.
A fair press would be asking Democrats if they thought that elective 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions should be legal, along with asking Republicans about abortion bans. But they won’t, because our national press is an arm of the Democrat Party.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:06 amRetrofire:
From Jan 1973 to Jan 2009, Biden missed 1,781 of 14,556 roll call votes, which is 12.2%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2009.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/joseph_biden/300008
DCSCA (d7fbc3) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:32 amRetrofire:
Biden’s populist, blue-collar image is likewise difficult to reconcile with his long-standing proximity to corporate and financial interests and propensity to defend the ultra-rich. In 1979, after receiving donations from Coca-Cola, for example, Biden co-sponsored legislation that helped the soft-drink industry skirt antitrust laws. In the 1990s he voted against several measures aimed at the regulation of credit card companies, one of which (MBNA) just happened to be his largest single donor throughout the decade. Even as issues like corporate power and economic inequality have increasingly entered the mainstream for Democrats, Biden has insisted: “I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason we’re in trouble. The folks at the top aren’t bad guys.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/joe-biden-memes-voting-record-policies-background-2020-election-a8830706.html
DCSCA (d7fbc3) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:35 am@109, it’s just evidence that parties are being pulled by their extremes right now. Polarization does this and distorts our politics. News media are producing what the people want. Is FNC any more balanced and fair than CNN or MSNBC? Is the Washington Times any less ideological than WaPo? Our society has changed how we critically evaluate information…the majority don’t want balance and careful objectivity…they want to hear what they already know. It’s unclear how we get better….
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:39 amRetrofire:
‘Biden first ran for U.S. President in 1987. He was considered a strong contender for the Democratic Party’s nomination, but in April of that year controversy descended on Biden’s campaign when he told several lies about his academic record in law school. In an April 3, 1987 appearance on C-SPAN, a questioner asked Biden about his law school grades. In response, an angry Biden looked at his questioner and said:
“I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my — in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in law school I decided didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class, and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and in fact ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot-court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — I only needed 123 credits. And I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like Frank.”
But each of those claims proved to be untrue. In reality, Biden had: (a) earned only two college degrees — in history and political science — at the University of Delaware in Newark, where he graduated only 506th in a class of 688; (b) attended law school on a half scholarship that was based on financial need; and (c) eventually graduated 76th in a law-school class of 85. “I exaggerate when I’m angry,” Biden would later concede, “but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.” [ROFLMAOPIP. Liar.]
Then, in August 1987 Biden plagiarized significant portions of a speech made by British politician Neil Kinnock. Before long, revelations surfaced that Biden also had plagiarized extensive portions of an article in law school and consequently had received a grade of “F” for the course. (He eventually was permitted to retake the course, and the failure was removed from his transcript.)
As a result of these embarrassing examples of dishonesty, Biden withdrew from the presidential campaign on September 23, 1987 and resumed his duties as a U.S. Senator.’
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/joe-biden
… and Never Trumpers smiled.
DCSCA (d7fbc3) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:43 amIs FNC any more balanced and fair than CNN or MSNBC? Is the Washington Times any less ideological than WaPo?
No. The least biased news programs I’ve seen are on CNBC. Shepard Smith’s new home.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:03 pmIt’s unclear how we get better….
Honest and disruptive leadership? Trump was disruptive. Romney was honest. Some assembly required.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:05 pmFollow the Money 3:
Voters dissatisfied about direction of California but still back Newsom, poll shows
……… (Gov. Gavin) Newsom has the backing of 52% of registered voters, compared with 25% who favor Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, a Northern California conservative who remains a political obscurity among most of the electorate, according to the latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.
Only 19% of voters said they were undecided, making it unlikely that the Republican will have room to close the gap before the November election.
More than half of California voters — 53% — approve of Newsom’s job as governor, the poll found. ……..
………
……… Newsom’s approval numbers are impressive given that the survey showed that 52% of registered voters said California is headed in the wrong direction, versus 40% who said the opposite.
While a clear sign of discontent, the number saying the state is headed in the wrong direction is far less than it was in 2010, the height of the Great Recession, when 80% of voters felt that way.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:10 pm……….
A majority of California voters whose primary concerns are crime, taxes, government regulation and immigration gave Newsom negative marks.
……….
Newsom also enjoys a massive edge in campaign fundraising, with $24 million cash on hand, compared with Dahle’s $300,000, according to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the state.
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@114: If all Trump did was keep something that was government property, it’s not really criminal in people’s eyes and will be viewed through the “I like/hate Trump” filter. Prosecuting an ex-President requires significant, provable criminality or it will lead to civil unrest.
Ask yourself: would we be prosecuting Obama or W for this? If not, then we won’t do that here, either.
OTOH, if there is significant criminality, especially the sort that has harmed national security, Trump will be in the docket just like anyone else.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:11 pmForgot the blockquotes. Sorry.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:11 pm(Gov. Gavin) Newsom has the backing of 52% of registered voters, compared with 25% who favor Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, a Northern California conservative who remains a political obscurity among most of the electorate, according to the latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.
Much like Putin’s foes remain in political obscurity. The media pumps up Democrats, and ignores GOP challengers, at least until they say somethings stupid. The last fairly reported gubernatorial campaign in CA was Brown-Whitman in 2010. Since then it’s all about the coming coronation.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:17 pmRelated:
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:23 pmGiven the Republican minority registration in California (23.9%, nearly the same as no party preference at 22.7%) , and the tendency of Republicans to put forward unknown candidates, it’s not a surprise they get little coverage. Where are the Republican mega donors who can fund a competitive campaign?
Meg Whitman, who would never make it in today’s Republican Party, had the personal wealth to fund a campaign. Recent Republican candidates don’t and don’t attract wealthy California Republicans (see post 91 for examples of some who are more interested in national politics than California).
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:45 pmIf you ask the press and the Democrats (birm) what LA’s problems are, they’ll say homelessness, high housing costs, abortion rights and the need for police reform. If you ask working men and women, they’ll say traffic, high housing costs, homeless encampments, crime and no prosecution of criminals.
In that poll (121) they asked some strange questions. Such as “When considering whom to vote for … is it important that a candidate has progressive politics?” I would answer this “yes, it is very important” but not in the sense that I would be more inclined to vote for them, which is how the question should be asked by a competent and/or honest pollster.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:56 pmGiven the Republican minority registration in California (23.9%, nearly the same as no party preference at 22.7%) , and the tendency of Republicans to put forward unknown candidates, it’s not a surprise they get little coverage. Where are the Republican mega donors who can fund a competitive campaign?
Chicken vs egg.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 12:57 pmThat has been and will continue to be the California Republican Party’s problem for the foreseeable future (being Trumpy doesn’t help).
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:02 pmMeg Whitman lost because she supported abortion rights, plus a late smear. The mg’s of the world sat on their hands. Since then, the state GOP has been more interested in posturing and party-insider perks. Still, the press’s tendency towards hagiography is bothersome.
It will take a force of nature, with a willingness to talk solutions to the state’s problems (e.g. water, transportation, housing) to oppose this. Caruso, it turns out, isn’t that person. For a non-Democrat to win in CA, they have to be able to change the rules of the campaign not just talk louder about the same losing platform.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:04 pmAs for running unknowns … that happens a lot. Who was Pete Buttigieg before 2020? It takes a press willing to cover candidates for them to become known. Pete didn’t get much money up front.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:08 pmI had this dream last night — no kidding — that the news was showing Mar-a-Lago burning down and the last anyone knew, Trump was inside.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:10 pmRomney was honest.
Pfft. So “honest” – he hid under the nom de plume PIERRE DELECTO.
DCSCA (de5a0a) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:11 pmI had this dream last night — no kidding — that the news was showing Mar-a-Lago burning down and the last anyone knew, Trump was inside.
I have this dream daily — no kidding — that the news was showing a bulletin from Brandon Falls, Delaware that a still unidentified bicyclist with an ice cream cone in hand lost control of his Schwinn and rolled off a cliff into the sea… and the last word pedestrians heard was the cry, ‘Hey Jack, I dropped my chocolate chip! No joke! I’m not kiddinggggggg =splash=!’ 😉
DCSCA (de5a0a) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:19 pmWho was Pete Buttigieg before 2020?
We know the team; just not the position played: pitcher or catcher?
DCSCA (de5a0a) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:21 pm@118, Kevin: “if there is significant criminality, especially the sort that has harmed national security, Trump will be in the docket just like anyone else”
I tend to agree. If there is any evidence that Trump monetized national security intelligence or had the potential to monetize the information or blackmail someone, then the calculus changes. Much of this is just bizarro world. I can understand Trump holding onto the Kim love letters out of sentimentality….but why was he holding onto the other items and so clearly evading the requests from the archives? Is it more manufactured drama to create the current flurry of news? Is it just incompetence mixed in with a healthy dose of careless disregard for the classification process? Was there more going on and he thought he could cover it up by taking boxes and boxes of stuff? However, what is the sanction for clear violations of federal law? Normally, the perp would be politically radioactive and be sent off in disgrace to write his memoirs. Here? He’s leading the Republican field and the craziest of the Republicans want to kill FBI agents. You almost HAVE TO charge him and work out any leniency on the back end….as exasperating and destructive to comity as that will be….
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:22 pm@114. Pfft.
Then do it.
Better people than government dweebs have tried for 40 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJYgNqOFBLk
DCSCA (de5a0a) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:24 pmTruth Social can’t catch a break:
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:37 pm………
Prison.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:45 pmTimothy L. O’Brien speculates on Trump’s motives for keeping all that classified material:
Having written a biography of the loser, O’Brien knows more about the Donald than most of us do.
And I can’t say I have seen any better guesses for the loser’s motivations for keeping all that clasified material.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:56 pm#121 – A Bass versus a Caruso (Enrico was, of course, a tenor). Will they make beautiful music together? Probably not.
(Yes, I know Conresswoman Karen Bass is almost certainly an alto or a soprano — but I still get a kick out of the two names.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/27/2022 @ 2:05 pmRathburn was convicted of
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 2:32 pmSource for Rathburn’s convictions.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 2:35 pm@88 blake masters trys to wipe out is anti-abortion social media pages after people are passing out coat hangers at his poorly attended campaign events.
asset (3d7117) — 8/27/2022 @ 2:36 pmHe can’t stand up, for falling down…
https://twitter.com/memejority/status/1563256322052595712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1563256322052595712%7Ctwgr%5Edd9f5a95fcf735921e02bb9e45801457cfc7050a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falthouse.blogspot.com%2F
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/27/2022 @ 2:41 pm“Our government is completely and thoroughly corrupt, as is our media. This is not new. What is new is how open, brazen, and in your face they are with it. They might as well just go up to a podium and just raise their middle finger to us all. They are acting as if they see themselves as a untouchable. And in fact, they may be. May.
They ‘came out’ during the Obama administration and continue to work against the citizens of this country uninhibited. This will go on for exactly as long as the citizens allow it, and not a day longer.”
—- Temujin
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/27/2022 @ 2:49 pmAn interesting take…
“Most everyone by now assumes that the “classified” documents are those showing the malfeasance and perfidy of the FBI and DOJ in the Crossfire Hurricane RussiaGate investigation – that turned out to have been originated, pushed, and funded by Crooked Hillary, her campaign, and the DNC. Trump repeatedly tried to get the incriminating documents declassified throughout 2020, and formally ordered them declassified his last full day in office. Amazingly, despite a formal signed Presidential order, they still aren’t declassified (according to FOIA requests). This means that either the FBI Counterintelligence Division (CD) and DOJ National Security Division (NSD), the two organizations that would had to do the declassification work, ignored a Presidential order, implementing his plenary declassification authority, the FJB Administration reclassified them, or they have been declassified. Note that the search warrant ordered seizure of documents marked classified, and not actually classified documents. This may be a critical admission there. In any case, the claim that Trump illegally removed and stored classified documents verges on frivolous. Moreover, by its very terms, the Espionage Act does not apply to Trump. He was never an officer or employee of the federal government. (Plenty of Supreme Court precedent that the President is not covered by statutes covering officers and employees of the govt – but Crooked Hillary, as Secretary of State obviously was covered). Let me add that the surfacing of Andrew Weissman and Peter Strzok, rearing their slimy heads, as talking heads, is additional indicia that the supposed classified documents involve their RussiaGate perfidy and malfeasance.
This means that indicting Trump under the Espionage Act would be legally frivolous. And note that the magistrate who granted the search warrant could not try the case – since he is not an Article III judge (arguably he didn’t have the authority to issue the search warrant for the same reason).
In any case, this leave the supposed violation of the Presidential Records Act – which is a civil, not a criminal violation.”
—- Bruce Hayden
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/27/2022 @ 3:04 pmGood news: Artemis I is scheduled to lift off Monday morning
Bad news: Launch time is 0530 PDT. Obviously not run past public relations. Those engineers think they run everything!
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 3:15 pmTruth Social’s name is confusingly “similar to the registered marks” of Vero—True Social and the Truth Network, the agency said./em>
What matters is if there is some confusion in the marketplace. I think the most likely confusion would be people thinking that Truth Network was a Trump front. Vero-True Social is no more of a problem than Pepsi-Cola was to Coke.
I’ve always wondered though why the many lawyers of The Federalist Society didn’t come unglued about The Federalist online Trump front.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 3:21 pmwith proper tagging
Truth Social’s name is confusingly “similar to the registered marks” of Vero—True Social and the Truth Network, the agency said.
What matters is if there is some confusion in the marketplace. I think the most likely confusion would be people thinking that Truth Network was a Trump front. Vero-True Social is no more of a problem than Pepsi-Cola was to Coke.
I’ve always wondered though why the many lawyers of The Federalist Society didn’t come unglued about The Federalist online Trump front.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 3:22 pmSource for Rathburn’s convictions.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 3:26 pmSource for Rathburn’s actions.
(Yes, I know Conresswoman Karen Bass is almost certainly an alto or a soprano — but I still get a kick out of the two names.)
At least she’s not up against someone named Sturgeon. Or O’Matic.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 3:29 pmThat “Temujin” is a long-lived fellow, but perhaps not the nicest guy in the world.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/27/2022 @ 3:34 pm149… Yes, you’ve mentioned that before, thx.
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:04 pmIs the border crisis an ‘invasion’?
biden supporters would call it a voter registration drive
JF (3afaa3) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:15 pmThe Biden junta has approximately 200 staffers who are eligible for the tuition bailout.
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:24 pmThe presidency has gone from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1wXEEQBHeQ
To this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pct1uEhAqBQ
Step right up and get your tickets! On with the show!
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:27 pmWe’ll need at least 377 Texas border cops, state and federal, for each illegal alien. 376 are not enough.
Yeah, that was pointless snark.
What is not pointless snark is that, dating back to Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback”, the biggest opposition, overt and covert, to a secure border has come from Texas employers. It’s just that now they’re getting more than they
nk (e87c81) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:37 pmcan enslaveneed at subsistence wages.It will take a force of nature, with a willingness to talk solutions to the state’s problems (e.g. water, transportation, housing) to oppose this. Caruso, it turns out, isn’t that person. For a non-Democrat to win in CA, they have to be able to change the rules of the campaign not just talk louder about the same losing platform.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:04 pm
Maybe, but as far as California is concerned, I doubt it. They are a political monoculture now, dominated by the coastal neoliberals and neomarxists who are basically arguing over to what lengths they should imitate Mao’s China. The same situation is taking place in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New York, and Illinois.
California’s voters are really only concerned with chasing whatever hedonistic fashion they can use as a form of self-medication to distract themselves from the functional rot they enabled. If things are bad there, it’s because the voters want it to be. It’s why their rhetoric about threats to “our democracy” ring so hollow–when they say that, they don’t mean Our Democracy, they mean Their Democracy. And if Their Democracy results in that kind of dysfunction, why should anyone who desires a high-trust society want to be a part of that?
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:39 pmTeam Assessing Lightning Strikes to Towers at Launch Pad
‘As the Artemis I countdown progresses, rain and thunderstorms have continued throughout the afternoon at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Earlier this afternoon, there were three lightning strikes to the lightning protection system towers at Launch Pad 39B – a strike to Tower 1, and two strikes to Tower 2. Initial indications are that the strikes were of low magnitude. A weather team has begun an assessment that includes collecting voltage and current data, as well as imagery. The data will be shared with a team of experts on electromagnetic environment efforts who will determine if any constraints on vehicle or ground systems were violated. Engineers will conduct a walkdown at the pad tonight, and if needed, conduct additional assessments with subsystems experts.
Overnight, engineers also will conduct preparations on the umbilicals, power up the core stage, and begin charging the Orion and Space Launch System core stage batteries. The lightning protection system at the launch pad includes three 600-foot-tall towers and catenary wires positioned to protect the rocket, spacecraft, and mobile launcher. The wires run to the ground almost diagonally, steering the lightning current away from the rocket.’
https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/
“SCE to AUX.” – Paging Walt Kapryan, Gerry Griffin, John Aaron, Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Dick Gordon.
DCSCA (702ad1) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:44 pmTouché!
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:57 pmLest you forget, the Biden/Harris administration had nothing to do with this space project:
Vice President Kamala Harris to attend Artemis moon launch
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to attend the launch of the Artemis I moon rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Monday, according to a release from the White House.
Harris and Second Gentlemen Doug Emhoff will be on hand with Harris delivering remarks ahead of the planned liftoff during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m. Harris is the chair of the National Space Council that helps inform President Biden on space policy.
She will also tour KSC to view some of the hardware on hand for the Artemis II and III missions that expect to return humans to orbit the moon in 2024 and return humans including the first woman in 2025 to the lunar surface for the first since the last Apollo landing nearly 50 years ago.
Two of the Apollo program astronauts are also expected to be on site including one of the last men to walk on the moon, Harrison Schmitt, who flew on Apollo 17 and left the lunar surface on Dec. 14, 1972. [FYI, Schmitt has been a long time proponent for the SLS heavy launch vehicle.] Also on hand will be Apollo 10 astronaut Thomas Stafford.[FYI, Stafford rode his Saturn V to lunar orbit in May, 1969- over 53 years ago- w/Gene Cernan and John Young, both of whom have passed away– from old age.] Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham had planned to attend, but NASA officials said he can no longer make it.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other officials will be at KSC, but names of other celebrities who may actually attend the launch have not been released.
A live broadcast of the launch will be aired on NASA’s social media channels and on NASA TV. It will include celebrity appearances by actors Jack Black, Chris Evans and Keke Palmer as well as performances of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Josh Grobin and Herbie Hancock and “America the Beautiful” by the Philadelphia Orchestra with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. – https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-bz-nasa-artemis-vice-president-kamala-harris-to-attend-launch-20220826-tyv2k4ztgbarhinekmjzotrupm-story.html
How Spiro Agnew of her. Wear that brown pantsuit, dear– so the stains don’t show when the shock wave hits you. Howzabout visiting the Southern border, too, sweetie.
“Awww, Jeez.” – Archie Bunker [Carroll O’Connor] ‘All In The Family’ CBS TV, 1971-79
DCSCA (702ad1) — 8/27/2022 @ 5:38 pm@159. Some weapons could take as long as three years to arrive, defense officials said.
ROFLMAOPIP
… and Putin smiled.
DCSCA (702ad1) — 8/27/2022 @ 5:40 pmhttps://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2021/06/13/former-phoenix-reporter-who-broke-clinton-lynch-tarmac-story-dies/7679503002/
*Cough*
NJRob (eb56c3) — 8/27/2022 @ 5:45 pm‘Gridlock’: Artemis launch spectators, five Port Canaveral cruise ships to snarl traffic Monday
Take your typical Monday morning rush hour in north-central Brevard County, with school buses and workplace commuters backing up at busy intersections. Add roughly 40,000 people boarding and disembarking five large cruise ships that are scheduled to leave Port Canaveral on Monday.
Then throw in a teeming throng of 100,000 to 500,000 spectators, most attempting to maneuver as close as possible to the beach and Indian River Lagoon to watch NASA’s Artemis I historic moon launch soar skyward. It’s the first planned uncrewed test flight in the Artemis program.
“Think safety first. Watch out for pedestrians, because a lot of people will be crossing the roads on foot. And think delays,” Brevard County Communications Director Don Walker said. “If you’re going to be stuck in traffic for two or three hours, you’re going to want to have water. You’re going to want to have some food with you. So think about what you need to be prepared, in case you get stuck in a long line of traffic and you’re not moving,” Walker said. “And it’s August. It’s going to be hot,” he said.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/gridlock-artemis-launch-spectators-five-090009637.html
Planning to attend, Ron– or are you having Tinker Bell arrested for indecent exposure?
DCSCA (702ad1) — 8/27/2022 @ 5:57 pmWill nothing stop Hillary’s unquenchable thirst for blood?
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:15 pm“California’s voters blah blah blah.”
More people voted for Trump in California than any other state.
More people voted for Trump in California than the entire population of 30 different states.
More people voted for Trump in California than the total population of the 6 lowest population states.
Some fun facts for ya.
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:22 pmDeSantis removes elected education officials after Parkland safety report
… mostly from those suspended. There is some indication that the bond money was spent on other things.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:45 pmMore people voted for Trump in California than any other state.
This is something that I tell all the California haters who think that anyone leaving the state is spreading communism. There are 40 million people in CA and a little over a third of them live in Trump-voting households. Most of the people leaving are the ones who are fed up.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:51 pmWill nothing stop Hillary’s unquenchable thirst for blood?
It’s always suicide. They’ve learned that “cerebral hemorrhage” is too suspicious.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:54 pmBiden, Trump, Hillary, …. There’s an AIDS epidemic sweeping America, and it’s not HIV. It’s hearing aids.
Here’s “My Generation” performed by the generation who first heard it.
nk (214faa) — 8/27/2022 @ 7:08 pmDavethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:22 pm
Just because California has the US’s largest population doesn’t mean it isn’t a political monoculture. And if California has a horrible homeless problem, crime problem, and drug addict problem, can’t build their railroad to nowhere, and set their own state on fire because PG&E and SCE can’t keep their power lines clear of vegetation, that’s a direct consequence of their voters.
This is something that I tell all the California haters who think that anyone leaving the state is spreading communism. There are 40 million people in CA and a little over a third of them live in Trump-voting households. Most of the people leaving are the ones who are fed up.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:51 pm
I’d say the evolution of Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Nevada is pretty elegant proof of what California’s migrants have done the last 40 years. Maybe in those early years, they were right-wingers (in Colorado, those first migrants were the Dobson and Douglas Bruce types), but that certainly hasn’t been the case in the last 20.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/27/2022 @ 7:29 pmMore people voted for Trump in California than the total population of the 6 lowest population states.
Some fun facts for ya.
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 6:22 pm
another fun fact:
JF (aad76e) — 8/27/2022 @ 7:51 pmmore people will enter the country illegally under demented joe than voted for Trump in California
Well, 40 years ago, California was electing Republicans and their former governor was President. The problem started when people starting moving in from the east coast and the pick-up line became “where are you from?”
The people leaving now are the ones who cannot stomach what has happened. The ones who stay — at least on the coast — are happy with the situation, or have become convinced that coastal California is “normal” or have too many connections to break.
I was at a convention in Texas and there were people from California who had NO IDEA that gas prices were not normally $6. I said “keep voting as you’re voting, keep getting what you’re getting.” Blank stares. It’s like the Democrats have brought them the weather.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:14 pmanyone want to take a stab at explaining how Grifter Jr. got so rich?
Liz Cheney’s Net Worth Grew as Much as 600% During Her Time in Office
JF (0348bc) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:15 pmmore people will enter the country illegally under demented joe than voted for Trump in California
Not that many will stay; most get arrested. Trump got 6 million votes in California in 2020. Biden got 11 million. Before 6 million illegals stay in this 4 year term, Texas will have the national guard at the border.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:17 pmThe problem started when people starting moving in from the east coast and the pick-up line became “where are you from?”
this is a joke, right?
JF (0348bc) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:22 pmLiz Cheney’s Net Worth Grew as Much as 600% During Her Time in Office
First, 7 to 44 is slightly over 500% increase. But this has been a heady time in the markets.
From 1/1/17 to now,
AMZN went from 27 to 130 (250% gain)
AAPL went from 29 to 170 (480%)
AMD went from 11 to 97 (780%) and has been as high as 150 (1250%)
You don;’t have to be a crook to make money in a bull market, and these are current prices not the peaks..
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:24 pmYou don;’t have to be a crook to make money in a bull market, and these are current prices not the peaks..
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:24 pm
I’d bet it’s something more like cattle futures
JF (0348bc) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:28 pmI was at a convention in Texas and there were people from California who had NO IDEA that gas prices were not normally $6. I said “keep voting as you’re voting, keep getting what you’re getting.” Blank stares. It’s like the Democrats have brought them the weather.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:14 pm
For a demographic that likes to think of themselves as highly cultured and cosmopolitan, coastal Californians (and urban liberals in general) can be more provincial than the small-town residents to whom they enjoy looking down their nose.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:34 pm“I was at a convention in Texas and there were people from California who had NO IDEA that gas prices were not normally $6. I said “keep voting as you’re voting, keep getting what you’re getting.” Blank stares. It’s like the Democrats have brought them the weather.”
Here’s another demographic fun fact: If it were up to native Texans, Beto would have beaten Cruz. Cruz was carried over the finish line by immigrants (from other states). It’s a tribute to his void of personality.
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 8:49 pmThe governor’s election wasn’t as close, but native Texans are noticeably more liberal than their transplanted neighbors.
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 9:14 pmThe governor’s election wasn’t as close, but native Texans are noticeably more liberal than their transplanted neighbors.
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 9:14 pm
many “native” Texans are second generation, making this a fun and ridiculous fact
JF (0348bc) — 8/27/2022 @ 9:24 pm“many “native” Texans are second generation, making this a fun and ridiculous fact”
Texas is more conservative now than it was 30 years ago, when it elected Democrat Ann Richards as governor.
https://www.texastribune.org/2013/03/11/polling-center-californias-conservative-migration/
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:15 pmDavethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:15 pm
all those Texans must’ve moved to California, turning it blue
Texas isn’t more conservative than it was in Richards’ time
it’s Democrats that changed
JF (16a2d8) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:30 pm“Texas isn’t more conservative than it was in Richards’ time”
lol
“it’s Democrats that changed”
lmao
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/27/2022 @ 10:48 pmsorry Davethulhu, but for most people an absence of Antifa nut jobs isn’t indicative of an ultra conservative tilt
JF (16a2d8) — 8/27/2022 @ 11:08 pmAbbot is still under 50% in Texas polling, he is at 46%. When incumbent is under 50% Most of the undecided go for the challenger. Most new voters registering since may are pro choice women ready to vote out every anti-choice republican on the ballot. Same thing happened in Kansas and NY-19.
asset (20d291) — 8/28/2022 @ 12:01 amGreg Abbott could just be stale, like Scott Walker in 2018, and Mario Cuomo in 1994. A Beto bottled up by Dan Patrick, an R cabinet and TX Lege might not be horrible, though the other Dana from KY may vehemently disagree
urbanleftbehind (0900f9) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:28 amColonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/27/2022 @ 4:27 pm
What the Fucik?
felipe (484255) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:42 amULB,
Beto is a lazy socialist. Have you gone so far that that isn’t a big deal to you anymore?
NJRob (6b535b) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:54 amYour 187 played, slayed and filetted, felipe!
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:59 amWouldn’t a workaholic socialist be far worse?
urbanleftbehind (0900f9) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:11 amAu contraire, mon frere, it was your choice of music that “psf’d.” I can imagine a self-important, entitled group choosing this piece from its title, thinking “yeah, we’re gladiators – watch as we take over!” And then the music begins.
I just pointed it out. Thank you for that.
felipe (484255) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:16 amEither damn way, imagine what reducing the minimum take for charges being dropped lower than 950.00 could do, Californians. This brave soul doesn’t give a fig about who’s gov:
https://abc7chicago.com/caught-on-video-erotic-cabaret-boutique-viral-tiktok/12172381/
urbanleftbehind (0900f9) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:31 am#46 JVW asked: “Are you thinking of Charles Barkley’s famous claim that he was misquoted in his autobiography? That one is a classic.”
That is a classic, but I don’t think it’s the one I was remembering. I recall fairly clearly that he said he hadn’t read the book, or part of it.
(Another classic from Michael Hayden’s “Playing to the Edge”: Obama kept asking the intelligence folks for shorter briefs, inspiring one to finally complain that maybe they should provide him haikus.
Like the loser, Obama is lazy. But their laziness may have spared us from even worse problems than what they caused, and, in the loser’s case, is causing.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/28/2022 @ 7:51 amBarry says to b*tch
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:03 am“get yer biscuits in oven
and yer buns in bed!”
gives new meaning to
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:04 am“mmm, mmm, mmm” 0bama chant
this will dog teh Man
if ya don’t know how
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:07 amto do it he’ll show you how
to wok any dog
at dinner table
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:09 amin faraway Jakarta
hungry boy, tough Spot
Re; Trump’s reasons for keeping so much classified material.
First, the classified material was only a small fraction of the items recovered in January (the way the affidavit focuses on that could be misleading if you don’t think) and was mixed up with all sorts of other material, including even newspaper clippings and magazine articles. It would have been all hastily packed in the last few days before January 20,, 2021 but probsbly wasn’t sorted out much before that. Some of the items had Trump’s handwriting on them.
There were duplicates (the affidavit totals “unique” documents) and I would guess a substantial portion of the duplicates would be instructions and warnings about how not to use certain information so as not to give away the source – itself classified secret.
Trump’s overriding reason for keeping the material would be for help in writing a memoir – which he would never get around to. It actually would be most useful for selecting a list of topics to write about.
In the end, the biggest risk would be that Trump would grant access to an untrustworthy person. More likely, nobody could see it for decades.
Trump also had a few mementos he might have liked to use – or display somewhere in the future – like the correspondence with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un and the note left for him by departing President Obama – that one probably of much more of interest to the National Archives than to Donald Trump.
Foreign countries did not know that there was this treasure trove of random and mostly irrelevant to them material and so wouldn’t send spies to look through it – and if there was something in particular they hoped to find, they would have no way of zeroing in on it. The material was nnot digitized, and could not be all stolen at once.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:16 amLiz Cheney could have been the recipient of gifts from her parents, done to avoid estate taxes but I don”t know how much that would amount to. Or investments? Or something was included that wasn’t last time? Or a different division of marital assets?
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:23 amYou do realize that “story” is now history, not news, right? It happened 14 months ago.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:24 amJF @151, If this=is was an “invasion” they could shoot them.
There are not enough migrants dying and being robbed for you? (Because Mexico possibly under U.S. pressure) started requiring visas for people from Venezuela to go to Mexico so now they cross the Darian gap (aided by social media but people from the cartels have joined these groups)
The more enforcement you have the deadlier it gets.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:30 amBruce Hayden:
Maybe possibly some of those taken as a result of the search warrant, but that’s probably not most of them.
\The affidavit notes that \National Defense information and classified matterial are not identical things.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:35 amThat music sounds familiar – something to do with a circus -but Wikipedia does not say ssnything about that here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance_of_the_Gladiators
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:37 amLiz Cheney is married to a high-priced lawyer. If their assets went up because of intelligent investing, I think we should applaud them.
Just as we should applaud them for raising five children, none of whom have been in the news.
(And Donald “six bankruptcies” Trump should beg them for investing advice. Especially since he may be heading for a seventh, with “Truth Social”. His children, with one possible exception, are going to need trust funds.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:40 amArticle IV, Section 4:
Source, footnotes omitted. This section is really concerned with threats and challenges to the legitimacy of state governments. Luther v. Borden concerned what two rival state governments was the legal government in Rhode Island. The Supreme Court said it was not a problem for the courts to decide.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:59 amKevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/27/2022 @ 1:08 pm
The press is heavily influenced by arguments that someone is going to be a serious contender, which can be false.
The classic example is Jimmy Carter, who, in 1975, convinced the media that he was a serious candidate (falsely using false arguments and a misleading Iowa poll – Carter had campaigned in Iowa for a long time, to the point where he was better known there than Senator Henry M (Scoop) Jackson, who had a name recognition of only 10% there.
None of the Democratic candidates for president in 1976 were well known, but the political reporters didn’t understand that. So they bought into Jimmy Carter”s lies about why people were supporting him.
They were supporting him because they would have liked to have met a president.
Jimmy Carter convinced the media that he was a serious candidate, and he did such a good job of it, that he was eventually elected president.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:02 amIt might be Liz Cheney\s husband got better paying clients.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:02 amThis would be almost as a good of a “get” as Liz Hurley being a Brexiteer, and even up things from losing Taylor Swift:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-mom-birthday-party-blue-lives-matter-shirt-political-statement-152920076.html
urbanleftbehind (6bca78) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:24 amIt’s constantly entertaining how you keep trying to guess Trump’s motivations, Sammy, giving him the benefit of the doubt, in this instance his reasons for stealing documents. The actual protocol is this.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:30 amThe more enforcement you have the deadlier it gets.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:30 am
Someone please repeat this to the IRS.
felipe (484255) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:30 amAlthough given the subject evasee of this particular exercise, couldn’t those guys get cross trained and snuck into ICE/CBP in January 2025?
urbanleftbehind (6bca78) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:35 amObama was more organized, and to look at any document, he had to ask for it so specifically, like for the closed stacks of a library. Not that Trump considered precedent.
So, he was just keeping them, unorganized. But they had been things that he’d been careful to save for himself during his tenure.
I don’t think Trump intended to sell any of these documents.
Sammy Finkelman (418659) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:45 amI was deep into right-wing media when Obama was elected, and I recall conservatives being very worried on the day he started getting classified briefings. “He could never have gotten a security clearance!” they fumed.
It all seems extraordinarily ironic now.
Trump, of course, could never have gotten a security clearance either, but conservatives decided that his being “the Duly Elected President” meant he could do whatever he wants with the most sensitive top-secret material, and no mere bureaucrat or any other ordinary mortal has any business telling him otherwise.
Now the (utterly cynical) Trumpite fall-back is: “It’s only a dispute about DOCUMENTS! This is OUTRAGEOUS!”
Radegunda (f698ef) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:47 amSammy, Trump was obligated under the Presidential Records Act to separate his personal materials from government documents. That he made no such separation has to mean that he stole materials that belonged to the American people as they weren’t his personal property. I don’t see how ignorance or sloppiness is an excuse to break the law.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:17 amI can see the reason for appointing a Special Master to determine, after the fact, what materials belong the National Archives and what are “of a purely private or nonpublic character”, but any confidential or classified records, by definition, cannot be in the latter category.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:23 amAlso, there’s no issue with executive privilege because that was already waived.
This comes down to this basic choice: Do you go with the Constitution, due process and the rule of law, or do you take the side of the con man who consistently puts himself above country and who makes up his own rules. It is unsettling that so many so-called conservatives align with the latter.
Sammy: “None of the Democratic candidates for president in 1976 were well known, but the political reporters didn’t understand that. So they bought into Jimmy Carter”s lies about why people were supporting him. They were supporting him because they would have liked to have met a president.”
Yikes
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:44 am“In addition, the FBI believed that the material contained what it calls “national defense information,” or some of the most guarded secrets. (The Washington Post has reported the government feared nuclear secrets were at Mar-a-Lago.)
So all the Post‘s sources — who it nebulously described as “‘people familiar with the investigation” and “experts in classified information” and “former senior intelligence officials” and “a person familiar with the investigation” who said there were nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago — were “the FBI” and the “government.”
Please laugh.
Then vote.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/26/takeaways-redacted-affidavit-trump-search/
Colonel Haiku (49ba6b) — 8/28/2022 @ 11:04 amAs noted above, 18 USC 793(e) doesn’t require possession of classified information, only “ the unlawful retention of “information relating to the national defense” that is “closely held” by the government. The documents retained by former President Trump appear to meet that standard.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 11:19 amTrump’s lawyers better get lawyers.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 12:18 pmLiz Cheney [aka Daughter Darth, the Princess of Halliburton] is married to a high-priced lawyer. If their assets went up because of intelligent investing, I think we should applaud them.
Reaganomics! Yes, the sweet stink of the 1980’s! Let’s all applaud ‘insider trading.’
Storm the castle.
DCSCA (38140d) — 8/28/2022 @ 12:26 pmAt this point, the DOJ now has to go for broke- if only to try to save the midterms for Joey and bat down the fires of support reignited by the Mar-A-Lago Raid. Expect Trump will be indicted 5 or 6 weeks before the midterms. The irony is, his popularity was beginning to wane at the hand of his own mouth. Leave it to AG Barney Fife to stoke embers and relight the fires. But Americans have repeatedly elected liars and crooks– especially entertaining rascals. Remember, the ‘Sock-It-To-Me’ Big Dick was also a snappy piano player. 😉
DCSCA (38140d) — 8/28/2022 @ 12:35 pmhttps://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
NASA Live
(All times Eastern U.S. time, which equates to UTC-4.)
Monday, August 29
12 a.m. – Coverage begins for the fueling of the Space Launch System Moon rocket on the Artemis I mission
DCSCA (38140d) — 8/28/2022 @ 12:40 pm6:30 a.m. – Artemis I launch coverage begins in English. Launch coverage will continue through translunar injection and spacecraft separation, setting Orion on its path to the Moon. (Two-hour launch window opens at 8:33 a.m. EDT)
12 p.m. – Artemis I post-launch news conference (time subject to change)
4 p.m. – Coverage of Orion’s first outbound trajectory correction burn
5:30 p.m. – Coverage of Orion’s first imagery of the Earth following trans lunar injection
If you want a better example of how mainstream media misleads by omission and laziness, the Hunter Biden laptop tale isn’t it because there was no way it was going to be kept down, not with a right-wing wurlitzer pulling out all the stops.
No, the better example is the how our left-leaning media covered the UW study on the application of gender-affirming medical treatments (such as puberty blockers) on troubled gender-confused kids aged 13 to 20. I follow Jesse Singal on Twitter but his piece was tl;dr and the subject has little interest to me but, after reading this Jason Rantz piece (thanks to a heads up from French), this scandal deserves more coverage.
Bottom line, UW researchers reported positive results to their study when there weren’t any measurable positive results, and there were major flaws, including a control group where 80% left the study (compared to only 17% in the study group). They also stopped cooperating with Singal, and they weren’t cooperating with others either because they were from right-leaning outlets.
Instead of correcting their media messaging after being called on it, they quietly changed the website (which was still inaccurate) and stopped promoting the study, but didn’t proactively make a correction. Worse, they policitized the issue. Rantz:
Singal’s reporting is Pulitzer-worthy, IMO, especially for going against the grain of left-wing transgender issues.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/28/2022 @ 1:38 pmOne of our Coast Guard cutters, on fisheries patrol, was recently denied a port visit to the Solomon Islands for refuel and resupply. Not a Navy warship, a cutter.
It seems our international prestige is less than where it needs to be. The Solomons, population about 703,000, are in a strategic spot in the Pacific, and they’ve had to throw in with the ChiComs because the U.S. can no longer be trusted as an ally.
Heckuva job, Biden Junta!
Colonel Haiku (3678f5) — 8/28/2022 @ 1:41 pmWurlitzer! The House Organ!
Colonel Haiku (3678f5) — 8/28/2022 @ 1:42 pmCH, the Solomon situation has less to do with us (and Biden) and more to do with them rejecting Australia and aligning with the Xi regime.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/28/2022 @ 1:50 pmPuhleeeze.
Pull the other one.
Colonel Haiku (3678f5) — 8/28/2022 @ 1:53 pmHere’s another demographic fun fact: If it were up to native Texans, Beto would have beaten Cruz. Cruz was carried over the finish line by immigrants (from other states). It’s a tribute to his void of personality.
and
The governor’s election wasn’t as close, but native Texans are noticeably more liberal than their transplanted neighbors.
It is unlikely that California progressives would choose to move to Texas, but fed-up inland folks might.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 1:56 pmRip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 11:19 am
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
–Yogi Berra
Similarly, in theory all laws are applied as written. In practice, their application has other considerations. You might arrest someone for having unpaid parking tickets, but hauling an ex-President into court for that would not be worth the trouble it would cause. Similarly, you might garnish the salaries of half of Congress for back taxes, but they never do.
Just quoting the law at us is unconvincing. Unless it’s a law that is always enforced to the letter, it won’t be enforced against Donald Trump. Why? Because the fallout is political, and if it is seen as harassment or political axe-grinding, the political result will be negative. And the people making the decisions care about that.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:10 pm@216… and the RINO blows his horn.
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:11 pmThis thread provides good reason why Ukrainians view Putin’s war against them as an existential fight. One example:
Related, this guy has a fair definition of fascism…
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:13 pm@218. Has Nancy Pelosi been indicted yet for ripping up the SOTU speech on live television before the American people and a joint session of Congress?
Asking for Attorney General Barney Fife and National Archivist Otis Campbell.
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:14 pmIs Newsom trying to shape the 2024 race as Bully DeSantis vs. Silver Spooned Dunce Newsom?
steveg (6f8930) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:16 pmShould be an amusing race, If. Anyone. Can. In the moment. Stomach. Newsom’s. Style. of Speaking. Full Stop.
Other crimes, including robbery, burglary, shoplifting and arson, were all flat or down across the state in 2021, he said.
If you don’t charge people for these crimes, the stats will decline. It’s called “juking the stats.”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:18 pmA thought experiment:
Let’s say that the DoJ asserts that the FBI has solid evidence that Trump traded the identities of US agents in Russia to Putin, in exchange for favorable treatment of his businesses. They arrest Trump for espionage.
How do the Trump supporters react?
Since the FBI has been caught with its pants down several times regarding Trump, my guesses range from badly to very badly.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:27 pmA thought experiment:
Let’s say that the DoJ asserts that the FBI has solid evidence that Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., traded the identities of US “assets” in China to Xi as well as anti-Russian “assets” while VPOTUS to the now known pro-Russian, traitorous bureaucrats in Bugs Moran’s Ukraine in exchange for favorable treatment of his son’s businesses– and laundered monies for kickbacks. They arrest Biden for espionage.
How do the Biden supporters react?
Since the FBI has been caught with its pants down several times regarding Biden, your guesses are as good as mine.
… and Hillary Clinton smiled.
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:35 pmDear Diary:
Why did you shower with your daughter, Joe?
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:40 pmKevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:10 pm
I really don’t think Trump will be indicted, let alone convicted of anything. I believe the government will be happy having the documents out of MAL. HE faces a more realistic legal problem in Georgia.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 2:50 pmIt’s nice to see a candidate stick to her guns when things get hot, and not cut and run like Masters or Mastriano.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 3:19 pmWith those 2 why a mere election…take it to Comerica Park or the Big House after a torrential downpour!
urbanleftbehind (0900f9) — 8/28/2022 @ 4:26 pmLike John Bolton, I think that Trump didn’t really have any clear idea of what he was going to do with these documents.
Except that he wanted as much as possible in the Trump Library and Museum, and not in the National Archives. He wanted to get back what he had given in January – he bought the argument that they could store it better, but he wasn’t conceding that all of what he turned over (or any of it?) belonged there.
Sammy Finkelman (418659) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:00 pmRepublicans who were spooked by Democrat Pat Ryan’s surprise win in the NY-19 special election this week
What surprise win? The district was previously held by a Democrat.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:34 pmRetrofire; back to the future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVMS_5lerlo
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:35 pmWhat these abortion losses tell Republicans is that the never-ever policies they’re promoting are unpopular. You can run for office, or you can posture on an issue, but you cannot do both. If you advocate an issue that is not representative of your constituents, you won’t be representing them.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:37 pmPrediction: By 2024 there will be few, if any, never-ever abortion laws standing.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 5:38 pmKevin might like this candidate.
Goerge Will does:
(Link omitted.)
(Oddity: I had trouble find his campaign site searching with Google, but Bing found it immediately.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:05 pmPaul – Thanks to the link to the Singal piece.
On omissions: Here’s one that fascinates me: Today I was talking to a neighbor and mentioned PEPFAR, and the 20 million lives it has saved. He hadn’t heard of it, but was pleased to do so, and agreed with me that it is another reason to be proud of our country.
(I haven’t talked about it often, perhaps to 10 or 20 people — and have yet to meet anyone who has heard of the program. We both know why: The wrong person, George W. Bush, started it, and it says something good about America. The last time I looked at the State department site, by the way, they left out Bush’s name completely, in their description of the program.)
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:13 pmMitch Daniels is considering getting back into state politics as the current GOP governor is term limited. Kinda wish he had higher aspirations. Of course he’s not exactly the clown-car type….
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/17/mitch-daniels-weighs-return-to-politics-00040578
AJ_Liberty (c916b7) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:21 pmThe district boundaries were substantially changed during reapportionment; here the 2020 and 2022 maps. The race was rated a toss-up by The Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and a poll four days before the election showed a statistical tie.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:30 pmThe day George Will beclowned himself and became irrelevant:
Remember when George Will criticized President Obama in a column for images of him wearing blue jeans? You know, the same conservative dweeb who’d quill love letters and let his glasses steam up as images of a blue-jean wearing Ronald Reagan, who wore them all the time, gaced the pages of American media — and had to be told by his campaign staff not to wear his horseback riding britches in front of cameras?
Yeah. Will’s irrelevant in 2022.
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:33 pmWhat’s super relevant in 2022 are F-Troop and Don Knots references.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 8/28/2022 @ 6:54 pm@253. Indeed: funny how the sights and sounds of classic fvck-ups have lasting impact:
“The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.”- Mister Magoo, aka Squinty McStumblebum, 7/8/2021
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 7:07 pmIt’s only been two months since the overruling of Roe v. Wade, comrades. Sure, it’s a lot longer than it usually is for, say, Thanksgiving leftovers, but there was a lot of meat on that turkey. They’ll keep serving it up till November. Both parties. With stuffing and gravy.
nk (c10e6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 7:14 pmElectric Car Joe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTyyYPFuPE
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 7:16 pmAnd I’ll cast the first stone. No, not at Mary Magdalene. At Jason’s dragon’s teeth spawn: With Roe v. Wade overturned, do we really need Republicans anymore?
nk (c10e6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 7:19 pmAnd since politics is the art of persuasion, I’ll qualify that: In the shape they are now? Let’s send them home for a while to put their house in order.
nk (c10e6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 7:31 pm“Since Joe Biden claimed last year that Georgia passing a law that required a social security number to vote by mail was “Jim Crow on steroids,” I look forward to his thoughts on DC denying an education to almost half of the city’s black children for not having the covid vaccine.“
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1563259445756702720?s=21&t=VBtPZcbYZX3P4Zd_xgbHpA
Obudman (929f6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:24 pm@259 I am old enough to remember the polio vaccines salk & sabin. What gives you the right to infect other people with covid? Ever here of typhoid mary? Your rights stop at my nose. This is why the police carry service revolvers to make people do something they don’t want to do.
asset (4a9329) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:37 pm@258 Politics: Poly means many. Tick: blood sucking creature.
asset (4a9329) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:40 pmThis is why the police carry service revolvers to make people do something they don’t want to do.
asset (4a9329) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:37 pm
I believe you about your age, asset. Police stopped carrying revolvers about 30 years ago. 😁
norcal (da5491) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:44 pmThose of you who insist on some kind of anti-Trump litmus test before you would vote for a Republican need to read this article by the excellent Charles Cooke:
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/09/12/a-long-goodbye-to-trump/
Here are a couple of quotes:
[Emphasis mine]
In other words, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Read the whole thing.
norcal (da5491) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:51 pmThat is a good essay, norcal. Thank you.
Just as Biden is Biden’s worst enemy (and the smart move from the DNC is not letting him talk), I think that DJT is a mirror image. He does damage to himself daily, but without the cover JB gets from the press.
Simon Jester (4dfd56) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:29 pmHere’s more about the Solomons, Haiku. The ChiComs bribed their parliament over to their side.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:34 pmBut sure, blame Biden. It’s the hyperpartisan thing to do.
I’m glad you liked it, Simon. I don’t give links to many articles, but occasionally I see one that really resonates.
norcal (da5491) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:35 pmKevin might like this candidate.
He might. He might even send money. I’ll note that the right-to-life people quibble a bit, but recognize that O’Dea supports their gottahaves (and possibly that a total national ban is a fool’s errand).
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:35 pmhttps://www.nasa.gov/content/live-coverage-of-nasas-artemis-i-mission-to-the-moon
For you night owls, the countdown clock is running and ground support is loading propellants into the Artemis/SLS launch vehicle. Echoes of the pre-launch hours of Saturn days. Great stuff- and a plethora of engineering cameras at work as well.
MEMO to NASA PAO:
You need another Jack King. Resonant nasal-toned voice of authority with a classic accent. Unfortunately, Derrol Nail ain’t no Jack King.
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:35 pmand a poll four days before the election showed a statistical tie.
Still does not make it an upset or a surprise.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:37 pmKevin, I liken the anti-abortion extremists to the car-chasing dog that finally caught the car.
Ruh-roh.
norcal (da5491) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:37 pmAnd since politics is the art of persuasion, I’ll qualify that: In the shape they are now? Let’s send them home for a while to put their house in order.
Sure, because ROE was the only thing that mattered. Now that it’s gone, there is no possible mischief the Democrats can get up to. Just look at California for an example of what little they can do with a giant majority. We’re perfectly safe.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:40 pmKevin, I liken the anti-abortion extremists to the car-chasing dog that finally caught the car.
Something like that. They put all these bans and limits into effect as red-meat issues fto raise funds with. Nobody really expected them to take effect (except those lovely check-writers). Now, they have to walk the walk and it’s looking more and more like a plank.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:42 pmHere in NM, there’s a race for governor where the GOP challenger says “12-13 weeks should be the limit” and the governor is forced to defend elective 3rd trimester abortions, although she tries very hard not to actually say that.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:44 pmYou need another Jack King. Resonant nasal-toned voice of authority with a classic accent. Unfortunately, Derrol Nail ain’t no Jack King.
They are also missing Walter Cronkite & Jules Bergman. I wonder if even CNN will hold the cameras on the rocket if they go into a hold.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:47 pmLaunch window opens 0830EDT, 0-dark-30 on the west coast.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:48 pm@255 One party is talking about roe. The democrats. They are passing out coat hangers at republican events. Tonight on faux news when nevada gop candidate for senator was asked about the effect of roe on voters he started talking about inflation and wouldn’t talk about the abortion issue. Since the kansas vote right wing radio wont talk about abortion either. 80% in latest polls support some form of choice up from 70% before supreme court decision. Republican candidates like blake masters have removed their abortion views from social media. For years democrats have lost elections and not just in swing districts over gun control to single issue voters Now pro-choice voters will do the same to republicans like just last tuesday in NY-19.
asset (4a9329) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:49 pmRocket safety tip:
https://xkcd.com/2662/
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:55 pm80% in latest polls support some form of choice up from 70% before supreme court decision
Yes, but when you talk “elective 3rd trimester abortion” (legal in CA, NY, NM, OR, WA, MA, IL, etc) the number drops to 10%. So they don’t talk about it. Few Republicans have the balls to admit to their no-never-ever fringe that there will be a compromise.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/28/2022 @ 10:58 pmFor the night owls; the countdown has some issues w/t cryo hydrogen mating interface between the ground support equipment and the SLS vehicle amidst propellant loading. Similar issues occurred w/t SLS in the spring. If memory serves, a ‘leaky valve’ on the pad w/hydrogen fill was an issue w/Saturn V’s upper S-2 & S-IVB stages for Apollo 10 and 11, too.
Fuel leak interrupts launch countdown of NASA moon rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A fuel leak interrupted NASA’s launch countdown for its new moon rocket early Monday, reappearing in the same place that saw seepage during a dress rehearsal back in the spring. Launch controllers halted the tanking operation, which already was running an hour late because of thunderstorms offshore. They slowly resumed the process to confirm that it was, indeed, a hydrogen fuel leak and not faulty sensors, but alarms forced another temporary pause as precious minutes in the countdown ticked away… The next launch attempt wouldn’t be until Friday at the earliest.
Hydrogen fuel leaks marred NASA’s countdown test back in April, prompting a slew of repairs. The demo was repeated with more success in June, but that, too, experienced some leakage. Managers said they would not know for certain whether the fixes were good until attempting to load the rocket’s tanks with nearly 1 million gallons of super-cold fuel on Monday.’ – source, AP.com
Tricky stuff that hydrogen- w/cold soaked equipment loading… they have a tolerance limit so if there’s a build up past a certain level- they slow fill– or hold—or scrub. Regardless, if it’s the same problem they had in the spring w/ground equipment- somebody’s ass needs kicked.
“Why don’t you fix your little problems and light this candle.” – Alan B. Shepard, May 5, 1961
DCSCA (373c6c) — 8/29/2022 @ 1:49 amThe unmanned launch of t 8: which will go beyond the moon and orbit it for some time and return will be broadcast live at 8:30 am EDT
Sammy Finkelman (418659) — 8/29/2022 @ 3:44 amThe launch window closes in two hours and (I guess by now) 10 minutes or so – they are still holding out hope the storm passes. The next launch windows are on Friday and next Monday.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/29/2022 @ 5:44 amxkcd approximations that won’t help anyone: (humorous)
https://xkcd.com/1047
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/29/2022 @ 5:56 amThis is why the police carry service revolvers to make people do something they don’t want to do.
asset (4a9329) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:37 pm
I believe you about your age, asset. Police stopped carrying revolvers about 30 years ago. 😁
norcal (da5491) — 8/28/2022 @ 9:44 pm
Also the same point in history when the LAPD black tactical uniform style started replacing the powder blues, tans, khakis,and the white good humor man look of Cincinnati and Columbus OH.
urbanleftbehind (0900f9) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:03 amJust some facts, ma’am:
92.7% of abortions were performed at or under ≤13 weeks’ gestation.
A “sensible compromise” will keep the abortion mills in business and in the money. Most of them are neither equipped nor particularly inclined, as it is, to electively perform the late term ones. The doctors and patients that would be most affected would be the emergencies.
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have. Clever, clever Oz.
nk (7ad89a) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:14 am254 The Takiban was not the North Vietnamese army, but the Afghan government and its forces were like the South Vietnamese army . Or the French army in 1940 or the Chinese Nationalist army in 1948-9.
And the Iraqi army in 2014, until Obama set back in U.S. troops.
In Afghanistan Biden withdrew air support, and there was lack of confidence in the government, as there was in all the other cases. Afghanistan and I think the Chinese Nationalists featured surrenders – the oter cases just running away.
Zelensky staying in Kyiv may have prevented that from happening in Ukraine.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:17 am251 Ballotpedia:
But only 6 were included ina debate and the results for only six were reported in the newspaper. It’s like this all the time.
Some primaries were virtually uncontested in practical terms.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:23 amOne of the items removed by the FBI search in Mar-a-Lago was a newspaper page from 1989 from the New York Daily News that was a ad by Donald Trump about crime. (he placed a few of them, from time to time)
Everything was all mixed up.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:27 amMoon launch scrapped:
https://www.newser.com/story/324774/fueling-glitch-threatens-long-awaited-moon-launch.html
The report I heard earlier on the radio about 2 hours and 16 minutes remaining in the launch windowwas probably already out of date.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:33 amThe more enforcement you have the deadlier it gets.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/28/2022 @ 8:30 am
yeah, Sammy, this is great take
if a trespasser gets injured scaling your fence do you feel guilty cuz you locked your gate?
JF (4b7672) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:56 amI’ve been hearing the term “NAFO” buzzing around the last week or two, especially from pro-Russian commenters at places like Instapundit when they get pissy with defenders of Ukrainian freedom fighters. The North Atlantic Fella Organization is a thing, and their reason for being is to counter the army of pro-Putin social media operatives. More here. And here. And here.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/29/2022 @ 7:34 amOh.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1564258626683928578
But, nothing to see here folks…
whembly (b770f8) — 8/29/2022 @ 8:27 amI don’t have a single favorite in last week’s cartoon collection at Politco, but there were four I liked, Ohman’s picture of Dee, Bagley’s Covid virus, Horsey’s circus performer, and Ramirez’s musing.
I should add that I don’t agree with the Horsey cartoon, but it amused me anyway. And the man can draw.
Jim Miller (85fd03) — 8/29/2022 @ 8:34 am“But, nothing to see here folks…”
That’s literally the job of the filter team.
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/29/2022 @ 8:45 amTrump filed his special master word salad motion two weeks too late. It should have been filled within a few days of the search.
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/29/2022 @ 8:58 amOhman’s picture of Dee,
No winner cried “It’s not fair!” ever! — Unspiek, Baron Bodissey
nk (7ad89a) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:14 amDid anyone expect the DOJ to sit around for three weeks waiting for Trump’s motion and do nothing?
Rip Murdock (52e262) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:16 amSpeaking of nothing to see here, this “tweet” from our sore loser ex-president is like driving by a 10-car pile-up. Unhinged.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:22 amThere appears to be a counteroffensive underway to retake Kherson. Godspeed.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:24 amhttps://thepostmillennial.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-swatted-for-a-third-time-in-less-than-a-week
The left tries to murder their political opponents.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:29 amA “sensible compromise” will keep the abortion mills in business and in the money. Most of them are neither equipped nor particularly inclined, as it is, to electively perform the late term ones. The doctors and patients that would be most affected would be the emergencies.
But, while quoting the 92% thing, the Left will not agree to any limits, reasonable or not. They oppose things like protecting the accidentally-born. They make the NRA look like compulsive compromisers.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:39 am“The left tries to murder their political opponents.”
Kiwifarms isn’t “the left”.
Davethulhu (aac330) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:41 amSpeaking of nothing to see here, this “tweet” from our sore loser ex-president is like driving by a 10-car pile-up. Unhinged.
Who does he suggest declares him the winner?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:49 am@302 That isn’t the issue my dude.
The issue is that there’s no constitutional mechanism to “redo” a Presidential election. He’s being absolutely tone-deaf to the real issues of the day.
whembly (b770f8) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:55 amLindell, of course.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:00 am@303: There may be one, but the window ended on January 6th.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:11 amAnd the re-do would be in the House.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:12 amKevin, true. The time to “do it” is in courts and ultimately January 6th. If none of that pans out (thankfully in this case), it’s over. Fin. donedo.
Relitigating 2020 takes the oxygen out of the current issues of the day and gives the Biden administration cover.
whembly (b770f8) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:22 amFor Trump, he is the issue of the day, forever.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:28 amFacing voter backlash, California Republicans recalibrate their antiabortion stance
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:50 amThe day that Dobbs was announced, I said that we would see lots of movement on the issue now that movement was possible.
Unfortunately both parties are locked into their previous positions and it will take an election or three to beat them into reasonableness. It would be good to see an actual debate but the press seems intent on a leftward spin. The Times notes that large majorities favor abortion rights with restrictions, and rightly gives the GOP hell for their “no-none-never” stance. But they neglect to take the Democrats “no restrictions ever” position to task. This is all too common.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:55 am………..
Pruitt was charged with Civil Disorder; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Aiding and Abetting; Destruction of Government Property; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds and the Capitol Building; and Acts of Physical Violence in the Capitol Building.
Statement of Offense
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:57 amFor Trump, he is the issue of the day, forever.
Well, I have a way to keep him there that has nothing to do with the election itself….
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 10:57 amMore from the article:
Cowards. The best defense is a good offense. Republicans need to explain why banning abortion is a good thing. For the most part they are running to the shadows.
My emphasis.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:03 am“I did believe the election was stolen. I still do”
His perfect right. I still believe that the Dodgers won the 2017 World Series, but were cheated out of it.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:04 amCowards. The best defense is a good offense. Republicans need to explain why banning abortion is a good thing. For the most part they are running to the shadows.
Or they should ruin to the most rational position for the GOP: short limits on elective abortions, which is what the public wants. But then they’d offend the anti-abortion fringe like Mr Murdock. “Cowards” is right.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:07 am*run
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:07 amRelated:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:15 am“Ruin” was correct.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:17 amIt matches his hair.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:24 amRelated:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:37 am@288. Not surprised. Whenever they start having hydrogen issues piling up w/systems they usually scrub. But honestly, much of the launch vehicle hardware itself isn’t “new”- like the engines- only the configuration of the stack and the core tanks–and they’ve had similar hardware problems w/this before so it really should have been anticipated when they had the ‘wet’ rehearsals. There may be a management problem lurking there again.
Lest the present day ‘managers’ forget, NASA rolled A/S 501 out and launched it on time w/no major problems – [while A/S 502 did have upper stage J-2 hydrogen-fueled engine problems]. Among the reasons Von Braun’s first stage, the Saturn S-IC, w/F-1 engines, was designed and powered by RP-1 & LOX rather than the then new hydrogen systems was the experience w/it and was considered more reliable propellant then and less problem plagued. The upper stages were powered by hydrogen-fueled J2 engines, then a new design- to save weight, and had several persistent problems – usually w/fuel lines, vibration matters and early shutdowns. Expect the hydrogen system issues may always be lurking w/t SLS system as currently designed, too.
DCSCA (e3aba6) — 8/29/2022 @ 11:52 am@321 percico is a never trumper.
asset (e48b83) — 8/29/2022 @ 2:10 pmRaphael Lemkin, coined the word “genocide” and had been working on outlawing it since before 1933, on lawyers (basically in 1930’s Poland or Eastern Europe outisde the Soviet Union)
This sounds somewhat like chess masters talking about games they played. Lawyers then and there must have been principally single practitioners. Now here’s his general philosophy about lawyers.
– Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin edited by Donna -Lee Frieze (Yale University Press 2013) page 66-67 (probably originally written 1957-1959)
They focused on their brilliance or their importance because lawyers were prepared to argue any side of a case or controversy.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/29/2022 @ 2:33 pmNASA knew about the problems with Artemis months ago.
And they knew it hadn’t been fixed.
Yet they let the countdown proceed until almost the last minute.
Maybe somebody should have allowed the disaster to occur (no people were on board)
It would have saved money in the long run.
Either by cancelling the whole project or by actually fixing the problem – which might mean a delay of a year or two.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/29/2022 @ 2:37 pmArtemis is said to be more than a repeat of Apollo (as if they could do that now) because:
1. They have different people on it. There will be a woman and a person of color. Sort of like thee Mod Squad.
2. They will land at a different place on the moon. The poles. Looking for water.
3. They will stay there longer.
It still won’t make it much easier to safely go to MArs.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/29/2022 @ 2:40 pmCalifornia again demonstrates what happens in a one-party state:
California Fast Food Wages Would Be Set by Government Under Bill Passed by State Senate
And when people complain about the high price of a hamburger, they’ll start an investigation.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 4:48 pmEither by cancelling the whole project or by actually fixing the problem – which might mean a delay of a year or two.
There’s a cynical streak in aerospace where all the money is spent but everyone knows the thing won’t work. Then it gets cancelled and everyone goes on to the next thing.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 5:29 pm“Ruin” was correct.
Rip, does it not bother you that your position on this is hopeless? Do you not see why people don’t want to die on your hill?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/29/2022 @ 5:32 pmVlad Putin thanks Tucker for his latest offering, and I’m sure Tucker’s segment will play prominently across the Russian land.
Putin isn’t winning, he lost months ago. The benefit he’ll get from his invasion will never exceed the cost, IMO.
BTW, the Kherson counteroffensive is underway. With most of the bridges crossing the Dnipro out of operation, means 25k rashist military are stranded on the wrong side.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/29/2022 @ 7:10 pm@330 Tucker was against aiding Ukraine when Russia’s invasion was just beginning. It’s no surprise he claims Russia is winning.
Unfortunately, one of my best friends is a Tucker acolyte. He watches his show religiously, and is in abject thrall as Tucker speaks. Up until recently, we would converse and he would regurgitate all of Tucker’s talking points. I finally had to tell this friend that I did not wish to discuss politics with him.
(What I really wanted to tell him was that I can’t stand people who are spoon-fed their politics via ideological cable TV, that if I wanted to know what Tucker was spewing I would watch him, and that if he ever disagrees with Tucker about anything, I would be willing to talk about THAT.)
norcal (da5491) — 8/29/2022 @ 7:28 pmIt would have saved money in the long run. Either by cancelling the whole project or by actually fixing the problem – which might mean a delay of a year or two.
The ‘disaster’ is the constant redesigns w/directives from Congress, as budget manipulations- cuts and so forth- force slow downs, redesigns and reward/penalties paid to contractors. They’ve had a heavy lift LV project in work for nearly 20 years. Constellation was cancelled; Orion reworked into ‘Orion lite’ and Congress directed NASA to recycle as many shuttle era components as possible in redesign for SLS. It’s less an engineering issue and more a management and budgetary problem. These are long term projects, not easily confined to annual budget changes. As NASA’s Tom Paine once said- and I’m paraphrasing, ‘the way to do it is to define the goal/objective and then find the budget for it and consistently fund it. Instead, we have a budget assigned and annually reviewed and are asked to make the long term engineering fit a budget that keeps changing.’ That Congressional mindset inherently spawns delays- especially w/R&D projects of scale.
DCSCA (137fb9) — 8/29/2022 @ 7:30 pmTucker Carlson biography follows the pattern of Cold War John le Carré moles. Or at least a pastiche of it.
The product of a privileged genealogy, he attended boarding schools, one in Switzerland and one in Rhode Island, where the boys go through a certain “phase”. (With some, it’s not a phase.) He did not manage Trinity College at Oxford, but he did graduate from Trinity College in Hartford. He then tried to join the CIA but he was rejected. Hmm?
Now, whether he went on the Russian payroll, or he self-appointed himself, as a spy, provocateur, and propagandist under journalistic cover, it’s anybody’s guess.
nk (22f08e) — 8/29/2022 @ 9:10 pmThat’s interesting about Tucker, nk.
norcal (da5491) — 8/30/2022 @ 12:40 amWell, now we know why gas prices jumped 50 cents a gallon last Thursday. A huge Midwest refinery had a fire and shut down.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/08/27/energy-emergencies-declared-after-bp-refinery-fire-in-indiana/?sh=4d24df0d5bfa
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/30/2022 @ 10:24 amThey’re kid-gloving it price wise in far northern IL, southern WI… actually saw some sub 4.00 this weekend. That refinery is in the closest part of NWI to my personal homeland (got relatives in the Whiting Oilers HS district).
urbanleftbehind (aa4a0e) — 8/30/2022 @ 10:57 amThere’s bad in everything. There’s lousy cops, lousy senators, lousy presidents.”– Squinty McStumblebum, 8/30/22
You would know.
IDIOT.
DCSCA (9ef72d) — 8/30/2022 @ 12:46 pmMister Magoo goes to Wilkes-Barre; says he supports funding the police- not defunding police; mentions Scranton & Beau.
He has not lived in Scranton in 70 years. Beau Biden has been dead over 7 years.
Funny, he supported defunding the police…
https://amac.us/roll-the-tape-biden-supported-defunding-the-police/
DCSCA (9ef72d) — 8/30/2022 @ 12:56 pmI keep getting spam, and have heard radio ads, about people who drank the water at Camp Lejeune before 1988. (and after 1953) is there a settlement that needs claimants?
Are there some lawyers who need clients?
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/30/2022 @ 1:22 pmR.I.P. Mikhail Gorbachev
‘We will bury you.’ – Nikita Khrushchev
DCSCA (7c89b3) — 8/30/2022 @ 1:46 pmThere’s a dangerous proposed constitution to be voted on in Chile Sunday, September 4, but all signs are that it will be voted down
It would ease the path to a dictatorship.
They caved into a mob into creating this constitutional convention and some of the rules for selecting the members (it was easier to qualify as a “party” for purposes of proportional representation and a few members – representing indigenous people I think – were selected in a non-normal fashion)
But the Socialists have come out against it and it looks like it will lose by 10 points.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/30/2022 @ 3:14 pmGorbachev died!?
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/30/2022 @ 3:15 pmhttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-approval-falls-holding-near-low-end-his-presidency-reutersipsos-finds-2022-08-30/
Rip,
You somehow missed this poll.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 8/31/2022 @ 4:03 amKevin, check on tomatoes and tomato based products: https://www.autoblog.com/2022/08/30/tomato-truck-crash-highway-california/
urbanleftbehind (ca3421) — 8/31/2022 @ 5:59 amSomeone should tell Djokovic the state of Texas is giving unvaccinated athletes free bus rides to New York, no?
Colonel Haiku (030cb5) — 8/31/2022 @ 6:34 amFor me it’s a moral issue. Either killing unborn children is wrong or not. Apparently most people are fine with it. People thought overturning Roe was hopeless, and it turned out in the end they were wrong.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/31/2022 @ 9:03 amMovie coming to streaming September 7(produced by Breitbart)
https://mysonhunter.com/
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 9/1/2022 @ 4:25 pmJF (4b7672) — 8/29/2022 @ 6:56 am yeah, Sammy, this is great take
You mean that sarcastically, but it is correct.
If you set a booby trap for tesspassers, is that right? Not in most cases.\
When you have very many people you otherwise consider decent violating a law, that should tell you something is wrong with the law.
Or should Prohibition never have been repealed? Even if some people got poisonined by methanol?
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 9/9/2022 @ 7:27 am