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The family wedding I'm attending in the Pacific Northwest is in a little less than two hours. So far today, my husband and I have taken the young kids of the groom's family on an outing, tidied, done dishes, done laundry, and I've tied the brother-in-law officiant's bow tie and done the flower girl's hair. The real family members all just left our Airbnb and we're relaxing before getting to the wedding venue half an hour early to field any last minute emergencies.
Being folded into this lovely family has been one of the greatest gifts of our lives.
Hope you have an enjoyable, memorable time, Jamie!
Couple of big if true stories I heard about today:
A school system is alleged to be paying for children to have abortions without their parent’s rudimentary notification.
A widely used computer application, among some top major companies, called Workday, is alleged to have discriminated against upwards of 90% of white males over 40 job applicants. The application screens job applicants. The application is said to have taken off after the Gorge Floyd debacle.
What's the address of that school? You know, for reasons.
the school is in fairfax county, a very prog redoubt, a student was on ingraham's show,
the problem with the bounty on Maduro, is one he's just a figurehead for the likes of Cabello, and Padrino made members of the Sun Cartel, who operate in conjunction,
with Sebin, their security service, that TdA, liase with
What’s going to happen to the voting rights act case at the Supreme Court? Are they really going to say the constitution bans racial discrimination in drawing congressional seats?
Oh, I see ... then it's black Democrats murdering black infants, so nobody cares. I guess this is why nobody burnt down that school yet.
... the problem with the bounty on Maduro, is one he's just a figurehead.
I like that Donald Trump has re-instituted Letters of Marque.
There is a lot of value in executing the figureheads. Let's the underlings know what the stakes are.
well black progressives, and future stalinist like we dubois, were fine with that, it's a curious thing,
Jamie- sounds like a nice affair, and I'm sure the whole family appreciates you and husband helping hands.
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/08/08/mark-halperin-interviews-former-fact-checker-glenn-kessler-n2416949
The Black "Burden". Selective-child.
Yellow Females, too. One-child.
A wicked solution.
Lem Vibe Bandit said...
Couple of big if true stories I heard about today:
A school system is alleged to be paying for children to have abortions without their parent’s rudimentary notification.
The school is Centerville HS in Fairfax County, VA. Fairfax is populated wall to wall by denizens of the Deep State, and the voting population is about as hardcore Democrat as they come. According to Laura Ingraham one of the two girls wanted to keep her baby but was browbeaten into acquiescing in the abortion. My wife saw the Principal of Centerville on TV and reports that the principal comes across as a lefty extremist. (“Extremely extremist.”)
Carville calls on Democrats to 'unilaterally' pack Supreme Court, create new blue states 'to save democracy'
"James Carville urged adding Puerto Rico and District of Columbia as states, expanding SCOTUS
Democratic strategist James Carville urged on Wednesday that Democrats open "Pandora’s Box" and execute multiple controversial power grabs to "save democracy," including establishing a permanent electoral majority the next time they gain power.
"The Democrats talk about democracy – the importance of democracy and preserving democracy and saving democracy," Carville said. "Well, the truth of the matter is, people are right when they say this democracy is really imperfect."
Carville listed several perceived imbalances in the current system, including Texas attempting to redraw its congressional districts. He argued that if Democrats can pull off a resounding victory in 2028 – winning the presidency, the Senate, and the House – they should use it to enshrine their power in unprecedented ways.
"They are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and District of Columbia states," Carville said.
"They're going to have to do it. They're just going to have to do it. And they may have to expand the [Supreme Court] to 13 members," he said.
While he once would have viewed such actions as politically risky, Carville argued that the Democrats have no other choice in this era of President Donald Trump.
"Any of those things in isolation I would be skeptical about. I would be cautious about. I would say, 'Well, I don't know if that's the greatest idea in the world, you're opening Pandora's Box,’" he said. "If you want to save democracy, I think you got to do all of those things because we just are moving further and further away from being anything close to democracy."
Carville said he was unsure if "it's something that they should talk about during the campaign," but argued it should be a day one priority once Democrats are elected. "
Shorter Carville: 'We have to destroy democracy in order to save it. But we just can't come right out and say it.'
Today Morning Schmo made up for yesterday’s kid-glove treatment of the SecTreas. They interviewed Cong. Mike Lawler (R-NY17), whom they often have on the show. His district is in Westchester County and went for Harris, so he is a very careful R. Normally they have quite civil discussions with him.
Today for whatever reason, Joe and Claire McKaskill just dumped on him. Interruptions, talking over him, etc. And it was about Medicaid cuts of all things. Lawler was showing how Obamacare forced the consolidation and integration of the healthcare industry and caused many of the price problems these guys are blaming Trump for not fixing. Guess they couldn’t let that go out in complete sentences.
I think it’s more they had so much pent up rage from not being able to do it to Bessent.
RR
JSM
https://www.thecollegefix.com/another-upenn-megadonor-yanked-support-over-antisemitism-concerns/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/mit-professor-says-she-spends-a-third-of-working-hours-fighting-trump-terrorism/ how is this different than bir zeit or al azhar,
“Oh, I see ... then it's black Democrats murdering black infants, so nobody cares. I guess this is why nobody burnt down that school yet.”
I suspect that someone is worried that the price of oil for tiki torches is going up.
The latest conspiracy theory is that Bobby Kennedy Jr. is banning MRNA vaccines to spread skepticism about all vaccines. The theory comes from people who spent a lot of energy "debunking conspiracy theories" about COVID coming from a lab leak, COVID not being the Apocalypse, lockdowns not being necessary, paper masks not working, COVID vaccines not preventing people from getting or spreading the disease, COVID vaccines having serious side effects, and Joe Biden being in the pocket of MBNA. But I guess we can trust them this time.
is that t the evil dwarf peter hotez, among them
https://eternallyradicalidea.com/p/these-free-speech-sayings-are-falling
M-5 hallucinating on H&I now.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/greasy-friday-august-8-2025-c-and oh much worse,
Bill Barr, Swamp Thing.
Ai's who are bereft of ethical boundaries seem to be a thing,
Daestrom's prodigious ego, had bad results
Far left judge Boasberg just got his contempt of court circus cancelled the DC Appeals court. Incredibly, the decision was not 3-0, but 2-1, with an Obama Judge asserting Boasberg had the right to hold the Trump administration in contempt for violating an oral order that the Supreme Court found invalid.
Boasberg had no jurisidiction but wanted to punish DoJ officials for not following his Emperor like pronouncements. Reading the dissenting opinion upholding Boasberg makes it clear Obama/Biden judges wish to use naked judicial power without any restraint to enforce their will and politics.
Judge PIllard is married to Cole, who is legal director of the ACLU. So you have ACLU officals suing the trump administration, and their wives are Judges on the Appeals Court hearing the cases!
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
one thinks of Barr somewhat like Dr Yueh, who made the acquaintance of duke leto, then betrayed him, he wasn't as noble as dr yueh,
Trump completed his seventh peace deal today.
Why didn’t Biden get any peace deals? I thought he was a foreign policy expert. What was his Secretary of State doing?
Astronaut and US Navy Captain Jim Lovell passed away, aged 97. He flew to the moon on Apollo 8, and again as the commander of “successful failure” Apollo 13.
Reading the dissenting opinion upholding Boasberg makes it clear Obama/Biden judges wish to use naked judicial power without any restraint to enforce their will and politics.
Straight up Authoritarianism.
Colorado, one of the seven great western mining states, (full disclosure, I worked underground at Climax and was hired away for a small cut and fill silver mine near Leadville, my Leadville.) before moving on east.
Colorado, from placer gold in Cherry creek to Idaho Springs, to Durango Ouray Telluride (with it’s refractory ore), California gulch, Leadville, and the Cripple Creek bonanza that strained the fixed $35 per ounce price of gold. The government lost.
And there is still gold laying around that only the wise can see. Pick up a pan.
And my poor deluded Colorado is a state full of people whose idea of wealth is buying a Chinese solar panel to reap government subsidy.
as the Captain in Bridges of Toko Ri, said 'where do we find such men' they have not been valued of late,
Narciso, thanks for that link at 5:59.
Here's the interview.
It's kind of a no-brainer for active journalists to brandish their street cred by distancing themselves from the very bad journalists who covered up Biden's cognitive decline. Many of the latter are out of work now.
Halperin is interesting because he was an MSNBC host who said on Morning Joe that Obama "was kind of a dick" at a press conference. He was suspended for 30 days for that comment.
He also suggested in 2016 that there was a way for Trump to win 270 electoral votes. He was derided for that argument, right before the election.
Then he got a me-too pile on, and lost his very lucrative gig. Tried to worm his way in with an anti-Trump book (How To Beat Trump: American's Top Political Strategists On What It Will Take). CNN and NBC refused to promote it.
Now he's rebranded himself as an independent journalist. And he's joined MK Media, a new podcast and video network founded by Megyn Kelly.
There are any number of independent journalists who ought to be doing the Halperin move. Attack the horrible media figures who failed to tell the truth about Biden's incapacity. Although at a certain point, I expect all the journalists who are losing their jobs now will soon realize that a "friendly interview" is not going to happen.
Blood is in the water. WaPo blood.
the elder son of lefty apparatchik Mort Halperin, who did occasionally give the game away, but more often then not, he relayed anonymous slander in two books, both serving to aggrandize the thread bare record of Obama,
kessler, by comparison, is a lower level tove, like some type of annelid worm
The Barr story about arranging visas rings true to me. I don’t know about the rest of it but that part does.
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
Democrats tortured President Trump for eight long years. Now that they’re running in circles like chickens with their heads cut off, it’s a joy without equal. When they complain, and whine and screech, we smile and look at them with compassion in our hearts, and say,
“TOUGH SHIT”.
Here's the article where Kessler and the WaPo gave the NY Post four pinocchios for producing "cheapfake" videos.
That's reserved for the biggest of all lies.
Interestingly, Kessler attacked the Telegraph as well, while noting "Robert Winnett, a deputy editor of the Telegraph, will become editor of The Washington Post in November."
It doesn't surprise me that Kessler lost his job. He's still got a bad case of TDS, constantly trying to bring up Trump during the interview. A more honest journalist might realize that it would have been 1000% better for the Democrats to have an unbiased media that went after Biden hard for his mental decline. If you pushed him out earlier -- as you should have done -- the Democrats would have had an actual primary, and you would have had a far stronger candidate in 2024.
Deriding conservative media for clipping video frames while 60 Minutes re-edits an interview to make Kamala seem coherent! But of course the really big lie was the pretense that conservatives had to fake videos to show Biden's mental decline.
Kessler's attempt to defend his paper and his own column is kind of horrible. Does he even know why he lost his job?
The other interesting that is that the WaPo usually hides its stuff under a paywall. But that Kessler column where he blows up his reputation? That's a freebie.
Jim Lovell just died, at 97.
Apollo 13 is a fantastic movie. Holds up very well. Way better than The Right Stuff, for instance. Dramatic, fun, informative. I love it.
RIP, astronaut man. You rock.
Thanks Big Mike @ 6:11 pm 👆🏽
No way is that better than “The Right Stuff”.
RIP, Jim Lovell.
Joseph - It's worse than that. Colorado's leftist fascist regulatory state is killing our state... and our fraud gov McFeeMee - removed our rights as tax payers.
The Washington Free Beacon piles on Glenn Kessler.
RIP, Democracy.
I had a bit where Glenn Kessler has his nose firmly planted up Joe Biden's ass. And Joe says, "Tell a lie. Tell another lie. Tell another lie! One more lie!."
Norm MacDonald has a very funny bit about astronauts walking on the moon.
I was just reminded of Bill Barr’s comments regarding the Mar-a-Lago documents case:
“In a 2023 CBS News interview, Bill Barr described the classified documents case against Donald Trump as a grave wrongdoing because it involved Trump allegedly mishandling highly sensitive national security documents after leaving office. Barr emphasized that storing classified materials at Mar-a-Lago, including top-secret files, and reportedly obstructing efforts to retrieve them-like moving documents or misleading investigators-posed a serious threat to national security and was a clear legal violation. He argued the case was straightforward: Trump had no right to keep those documents, and his actions suggested intent to conceal them, which Barr saw as reckless and damaging.”
Also:
“In a 2023 Fox News interview, he downplayed Biden’s case, saying it seemed like an innocent mistake or sloppy record-keeping from his vice presidency, not intentional misconduct.”
Disney decided to settle the Gina Carano lawsuit. Good for her!
Norm 😆
I spent a bunch of time today reading recent economics papers on tariffs. Every single one assumes retaliatory tariffs. None—not a single one—correctly models what happened, …
Same papers Kaka cuts and pastes.
Jim Lovell was a steely-eyed missile man.
Why would anyone be opposed to a census in order to determine how many people are living in the country illegally? Would it be for the same reason one would be opposed to auditing an election in order to determine if there was any fraud in the voting/counting?
"Why would anyone be opposed to a census in order to determine how many people are living in the country illegally?"
The Republicans should be highlighting this; 'Why don't they want you to know?'
President Donald Trump began “yelling” at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a private phone call between the pair late last month, as the president angrily rejected the foreign leader’s claims that reports of starvation in Gaza were fabricated. Well so do all the MAGAS up in here believe Bibi as per their previous comments. (look at em all got cell phones) Going against their King may leave a mark or a quick mea culpa from them MAGA indoctrinated. Watch out for Bondi and DOJ looking for anyone who goes against the King. :(
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