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Jefferson's Revenge म्हणाले...

Well the Derby was unexpected. That race was why I love the track. A couple guys from Ohio at the last minute with a horse from nowhere and a great trip with 10 seconds of mind blowing acceleration. I hope Nai did well. Most did not, including me but I am happy to see the result nonetheless.

farmgirl म्हणाले...

That’s amazing.

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

Twice Att Gen William Barr wants the Supremes leaker in jail.

Report: Barr called the leak a serious breach of the judicial process that demands just as serious consequences.

"Well, confidentiality is critical to the functioning of the judiciary," Barr said on "The Guy Benson Show" Friday. "They need to be able to have, you know, discourse within the court in deciding the case and make sure that it’s kept confidential until an opinion comes out. And so this was an obstruction of the judicial process. It was an interference in the due administration of justice.

"So I think that it’s a crime that was done. It appears to have been done," he continued. "And I think eventually it will be shown to have been done in order to derail the opinion and upset the deliberations of the court. And so I think ultimately it belongs in the criminal justice side of things. And the person who did this should go to jail. Now, there could be some preliminary review of this thing to see if they can figure out quickly who it is and then turn it over to the Department of Justice for prosecution."


The White House is yet to even condemn the... "crime".

Our country is broken right now.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

I was taught at school that certain forms of argument are "logical fallacies"; inherently faulty modes of reason. One of these was the "slippery slope" fallacy. It seemed to me at the time, that this was not so much a fallacy, as a dubious argument. Some slopes are slippery. Some are not.

But that was 50 years ago, and I have come to realize that, far from being a fallacy, it is actually a postulate. All slopes are slippery.

Jaq म्हणाले...

Weird that they won’t build a switch into your phone to turn off the microphone and camera that was out of the control of the software. I have a little switch to silence the phone. It’s almost like they make money off of them and you when you don’t realize.

Sprezzatura म्हणाले...

These Althouse images make me think of being at that location onsite and seeing what’s what v seeing the image later.

And then because my mind wanders I think about onsite v on sight.

Then I think of Kanye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU9Fe-WXew4

Jaq म्हणाले...

So the FBI released 900 pages regarding Seth Rich and nearly every paragraph was redacted? I hope I read that wrong.

Bender म्हणाले...

Comcast has had a free Watchathon week. I've started watching lots of those free shows and movies. Several of them I've bailed out of due to boredom or stupidity, etc.

I'm a half-hour into Dune and about to switch to something else.

Death on the Nile was just LOUD.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

Comcast has had a free Watchathon week.

It's Jimmy Carter's 1970's all over again. 500 hundred channels, and there's nothing on!!!

gilbar म्हणाले...

tim in vermont said...
Weird that they won’t build a switch into your phone to turn off the microphone and camera that was out of the control of the software. I have a little switch to silence the phone. It’s almost like they make money off of them and you when you don’t realize.

ISN'T IT? There's Not a phone you can buy, that allows you to turn off the microphone
It'd be a real money maker, i'd personally pay $100 for such a switch.. Makes you wonder why they don't

Mason G म्हणाले...

"Our country is broken right now."

This isn't new. It's been broken for some time.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

I just finished watching 2000 Mules. It demonstrates conclusively, using cell phone location data and dropbox surveillance video, that if only legal votes had been counted, Donald Trump would have won the Electoral College in 2020 by 50 points. $20 to rent it for 72 hours.

Original Mike म्हणाले...

"So the FBI released 900 pages regarding Seth Rich and nearly every paragraph was redacted? I hope I read that wrong."

Where did you read it?

What's emanating from your penumbra म्हणाले...

I don't express appreciation for this forum frequently enough. And I do appreciate it (even though I'm fighting the urge to quip that Ann Didn't Build This). A little click love for the Althouse portal is probably warranted.

narciso म्हणाले...

I thought it flowed better than the original without all that much narration

StephenFearby म्हणाले...

Express UK, linked to today by Hot Air:

Putin faces army mutiny as Russian soldiers turn guns on Chechens - morale in tatters

'...The Kadyrovites have a fearsome reputation and, in the past, have faced repeated allegations of abusing human rights.

Part of their role is to prevent Russian soldiers from fleeing battle by threatening to shoot them if they try to desert.

However, this has enraged Russian soldiers who have now taken matters into their own hands and decided to turn the tables on their Chechen oppressors.

Victor Kovalenko, a former Ukrainian army veteran, said Buriat soldiers in the Russian army had turned their guns on Kadyrov’s militias.

He tweeted: “In the occupied Kiselivka village (near the famous Chornobaivka Russian arms storage) in Kherson province, about 50 Russian soldiers of Buriat nationality opened fire at night at fellow Kadyrovites Chechens.

"There are dead & wounded. Source: Intelligence Dept of Ukraine MoD.

"Allegedly, the Buriat soldiers of the Russian military were angry and frustrated that Kadyrovites Chechens didn't fight along with them, but threatened to kill Buriats in case they retreat from the battlefield.

"Moreover, the Buryat of the Russian military soldiers fired at fellow Kadyrovites because they appropriate most of the stuff Buryat soldiers robbed from the locals and stole from abandoned houses of Ukrainians."'

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1603542/vladimir-putin-news-russia-ukraine-war-soldiers-mutiny-shoot-chechens

No explanation of exactly who these "Buryats" are.

Turns out they're from Buryatia! According to Wikipedia:

"Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been a part of the Russian Far East since 2018 and indigenous Buryat Mongolians' historical native land."

"...In 1923, the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formed and included Baikal province (Pribaykalskaya guberniya) with Russian population. The Buryats rebelled against the communist rule and collectivization of their herds in 1929. The rebellion was quickly crushed by the Red Army with loss of 35,000 Buryats."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryatia

So, it seems the Buryat soldiers [possibly descendants of Genghis Kahn] were highly pissed off that the Chechens appropriated the loot they were able to steal fair and square from Ukrainians...that they wanted to send or take back to Buryatia.

"...Honor among thieves is the sentiment that even criminals have a code of conduct among themselves. Some aspects of this code of conduct may be to not steal from each other or to not testify against a fellow criminal to the police. The idea of the proverb honor among thieves dates back at least to Cicero, an orator and politician in ancient Rome.

No honor among thieves is the sentiment that thieves are criminals, and are untrustworthy. This proverb is a direct disputation of the original proverb, honor among thieves, and first appeared in the early 1800s."

https://grammarist.com/proverb/honor-among-thieves-and-no-honor-among-thieves/

In this case, the second proverb applies.

Scott Patton म्हणाले...

Jupiter at 7:16 ...Slippery slopes
James Madison said it best:
"Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it."

gadfly म्हणाले...

On Oct. 17, 2020, influential GOP donor Steven F. Hotze made an urgent request during a phone call with a top federal prosecutor in Texas, according to a court filing Friday by the Houston district attorney’s office.

Hotze claimed that private investigators funded by his nonprofit group had been trailing a mysterious white van as it shuttled phony ballots around the city in an effort to rig the upcoming election. He asked if federal authorities would help stop the van and apprehend its driver, but he added that one of his hard-nosed investigators was prepared to do the job himself, according to the filing by prosecutors in Harris County that included a transcript of the exchange.

“In fact, he told me last night, 'hell … the guy’s gonna have a wreck tomorrow night. I’m going to run into him and I’m gonna make a citizen’s arrest,'” Hotze told the U.S. attorney for the SDTX, Ryan Patrick, a Trump appointee, who recorded the conversation.

Two days after the call, the private investigator Hotze had named ran a white van driven by an air-conditioning repairman off the road in Houston and held the driver at gunpoint during a futile search for forged ballots, county prosecutors allege.

Police have said the man was innocent. His truck contained repair parts.

The filing Friday illuminates one of the most extreme tactics that far-right groups have employed in an effort to substantiate former president Donald Trump’s unproven allegations of voting fraud.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

Mason G said...
"Our country is broken right now."

This isn't new. It's been broken for some time.
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as Lincoln pointed out 'House Broken cannot stand' and he used some duct-tape.

so far you have not found worthy repairman yet for more permanent rebuild

Lucien म्हणाले...

Regarding “content moderation” on platforms like Twitter, it seems there are at least three major sets of communications at issue:
1) communications directed at particular individuals with Twitter accounts (sometimes called harassment); 2) communications directed to the Twitter public at large (e.g., “Hunter’s laptop is genuine”); and 3) communications by specific individuals (the President is banned from Twitter).
People seeking to defend censorship against calls for free speech seem to focus on the evils of the first category (although it seems like harassed users can block people in general); people decrying censorship focus on the second category (I have no particular interest in whether someone is calling someone else bad names on Twitter, but am interested in information not available elsewhere); and some are upset about banned individuals returning to Twitter — although most banned individuals we hear about are banned based on category 2 communications.
Sensible content moderation ought to pay attention to these categories (and maybe others I haven’t thought of) and vary accordingly.

farmgirl म्हणाले...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_reduction

For Inga.
The nurse.

farmgirl म्हणाले...

https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/357974

This one is illustrated, Inga.
In case words fail…

Rusty म्हणाले...

Let me guess. Gadfly voted for Biden and is happy with his decision. Gadfly has his name and address pinned to all his clothes.

Maynard म्हणाले...

Happy Mother's Day Althouse.

Bob म्हणाले...

I love the image of bare branches silhouetted against an evening or morning sky. In the late 1980's/early 1990's the record label Windham Hill had a series of albums (Winer Solstice) with such imagery.