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August 8, 2023

At the Goldenrod Café...

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33 comments:

rehajm said...: Finally got the Limit watch running ‘good enough’ today. The little thing I paid six pounds for has cost me about $85 in parts and a donor movement but tonight it is running strong if 25 seconds too fast to adjust. Something isn’t prefect but like I said, good enough…; 8/8/23, 8:09 PM
Scott Patton said...: Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?; 8/8/23, 8:38 PM
Inga said...: Women in Ohio came out in droves to vote against Issue 1.

Women will make sure Trump will never sees the inside of the White House again.; 8/8/23, 8:46 PM
Narr said...: I'll write about HRE Charles V, who said "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse."

All fluently, no doubt.; 8/8/23, 8:47 PM
rhhardin said...: Ancient Pompeii had the directions to brothels indicated by penises carved in the sidewalk. Mike Munger speculates that that was easier to depict than the female genitals actually being sold and importantly had a directional function.; 8/8/23, 9:01 PM
rhhardin said...: Good news about Ohio. 58% in OHio support reasonable abortion time limits, so the repubs thought to change the percentage referendum to change the constitution ought to be raised from 50% to 60%, thus thwarting that effort in the fall.

60% is fine but not as changing the rules for a particular issue.

It will wind up saving the republicans' asses, though, by shutting down the dogmatists.; 8/8/23, 9:04 PM
gilbar said...: Tiffany Gomas
as a single man.. i would say that:
i would CERTAINLY date her..
she does NOT seem krazier than many of the women i HAVE dated.

Also.. from what i've researched, she IS correct.. “that motherf**ker back there is not real.”; 8/8/23, 9:42 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: There's no such thing as a "Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV)." These vehicles are better described as "Emission Elsewhere Vehicles (EEV)", since the electric power will come from either a gas/coal-power plant or from wind/solar installations which required beaucoup diesel/Nat Gas/coal/gasoline to produce.

New York is hell bent in forcing its people out of ICE vehicles into EEVs. No matter that the people don't want EEVs, since they're impractical rolling fire traps. But, hey, what do drivers know about what they want in a car? The fascists in NY government know best!; 8/8/23, 9:42 PM
gilbar said...: Inga said...
Women in Ohio came out in droves to vote against Issue 1.

it looks like Igna thinks something that (apparently) got 57% of voters to vote against it means
Women in Ohio came out in droves to vote against Issue 1.

How LARGE, were these "droves".. How many men voted For it?; 8/8/23, 9:46 PM
Gahrie said...: Women will make sure Trump will never sees the inside of the White House again.

We know.

Repeal the 19th.; 8/8/23, 10:33 PM
gadfly said...: Remember when Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson said he wasn't involved in the fake elector's scheme dreamed up by lawyer Kenneth Chesebro.

Mr. Chesebro, who is described as Co-Conspirator 5 in the [latest Trump] indictment but has not been charged by the special counsel, addressed the . . . memo to James R. Troupis, a lawyer who was assisting the Trump campaign’s efforts to challenge Mr. Biden’s victory in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Republican has been under scrutiny as an alleged co-conspirator in former President Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election. During its fourth session, the Jan 6 committee revealed that Johnson and his aides were involved in an attempt to deliver lists of fake electors to Vice President Mike Pence shortly before Congress was scheduled to certify the Electoral College results.; 8/8/23, 11:20 PM
Jaq said...: "Women will make sure Trump will never sees the inside of the White House again."

Well, you better dump the corrupt old crone, the one who raped Tara Reade, but according to the same rules by which the rapes Bill Clinton committed, we are supposed to think that she is a liar, even as she had contemporaneous evidence she was telling the truth. You better dump him because he is trailing Trump by 4 points, and is in the thirties.; 8/9/23, 5:11 AM
Jaq said...: It's amazing to me how gadfly seems to think that Bush v Gore never happened, and that the idea that state legislatures were supreme and had the final say when an election has been compromised is some kind of new idea that had never been given any approbation by the SCOTUS.

I seriously doubt that the Electoral Count Act, passed *after* the election, would pass Constitutional muster, should a state legislature send a different slate to the House, and should the House vote to accept it. It is a seizure of the powers of the states by Congress, but plainly it was not "illegal" before the act was passed, or Pelosi would not have felt compelled to pass it in the first place.; 8/9/23, 5:17 AM
Dave Begley said...: The Nebraska state flower!; 8/9/23, 5:44 AM
Mark said...: AP Psych effectively banned by Florida who made illegal discussions about gender and sexuality in the course HS students take for college credit.

DeSantis' ideological war against the left just backfired again, this time involving 30k HS kids.

Wonder if he would the primary in Florida at this point.; 8/9/23, 6:04 AM
Jaq said...: If the House previously had the right to vote on which slate of electors from a state was to be accepted, doesn't the Electoral Count Act remove this prerogative from the House, and thus didn't the last Congress write a law that binds future Congresses as well as extra-Constitutionally grab power from the state legislatures?

Plain text of the Constitution: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections... The first power granted to the House by the US Constitution.

Maybe gadfly or "Rich" can explain to me how slates of electors sent by state legislatures, and to be "judged" by the House, are illegal. Maybe they can find the part of the Constitution which constrains state legislatures from choosing electors.

It is interesting that when you google the US Constitution, on a particular issue, you get pages of spin, rather than the plain text.; 8/9/23, 6:09 AM
Jaq said...: The "Electoral Count Act," like the Twelfth Amendment, which was passed after an Electoral College controversy, should have been a Constitutional Amendment, but it wasn't, because Democrats didn't have the votes, and had no interest whatsoever in making it obvious that what Trump was doing was not in any way outside of the rules laid out for Presidential elections in our Constitution.; 8/9/23, 6:12 AM
wendybar said...: Inga said...
Women in Ohio came out in droves to vote against Issue 1.

Excellent. That many fewer Progressive births. Genocide yourselves. No big loss then.; 8/9/23, 6:18 AM
boatbuilder said...: So Jack Smith is using "novel applications" of criminal law, in the novel context of the President of the United States prosecuting his primary political opponent, by charging said political opponent with attempting to challenge a disputed election through the creative and untested (but not "novel") means of presenting alternative slates of electors for states in which the validity of the election process was in dispute, for the consideration of the members of the House of Representatives--who were free to accept or reject the proposed alternative slates of electors.

And the Constitution is less than clear as to what should happen in the event of a dispute as to the validity of a slate of electors put forth by any state, except that it seems to suggest that the final say lies with the legislators of the states involved, subject to a vote in the the House of Representatives as to whether to accept or reject the electors put forth by the legislature.

Have I got that right?

Is it criminal for prosecutors to act on "novel" applications of law to charge political opponents?

Shouldn't it be?; 8/9/23, 7:19 AM
tim maguire said...: Inga said...Women in Ohio came out in droves to vote against Issue 1.

Yet another issue hopelessly corrupted by abortion politics. Constitutions should be hard to change. They are not mere rules or laws, but a reflection of society's idea of how its government should be run. It should be created and updated only on careful reflection and with broad support.

It's a scandal that in Ohio it can be changed by a simple majority. Issue 1 should have passed with 100% acclimation. But thanks to abortion politics, it will continue to be beholden to special interests and outside money.; 8/9/23, 7:21 AM
Rocco said...: Inga said...
"Women in Ohio came out in droves to vote against Issue 1.

Women will make sure Trump will never sees the inside of the White House again. (emphasis added)"

If you start inserting Trump into every topic, Inga, Chuck will complain that you're working his side of the street.; 8/9/23, 7:29 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Wowzer...
https://amgreatness.com/2023/08/09/meet-the-company-trying-to-control-your-mind/; 8/9/23, 7:40 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Again...
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/08/breaking-ohio-voters-unable-to-scan-ballots-told-to-come-back-later/; 8/9/23, 7:58 AM
Rusty said...: rehajm said...
"Finally got the Limit watch running ‘good enough’ today. "
Whazzat?
Today is my skin cancer checkup day. Such is the wages of spending every waking moment outdoors in an attempt to fool the trouts.; 8/9/23, 8:03 AM
Original Mike said...: "Yet another issue hopelessly corrupted by abortion politics. Constitutions should be hard to change."

Yep.; 8/9/23, 10:04 AM
Original Mike said...: Good luck, Rusty.; 8/9/23, 10:04 AM
farmgirl said...: Rusty- good luck 2you.; 8/9/23, 11:22 AM
Saint Croix said...: Is It Ethical For Facebook To Use AI To Defraud Its Friends?; 8/9/23, 12:09 PM
Rusty said...: I'm good.
Thank you guys.; 8/9/23, 12:47 PM
Big Mike said...: @Rusty, good luck and may you tie yourself a fly that no trout can resist.; 8/9/23, 2:17 PM
Saint Croix said...: God bless you, Rusty. My father is having similar issues. They have to hack off little bits of his skin every now and then. And he avoids the sun now. But from what I understand, it's pretty manageable. Won't be skin cancer that gets my father, is my impression.; 8/9/23, 3:29 PM
Saint Croix said...: Doctors no longer call babies "boy" or "girl"

it's "binary"

non-binary is the agenda

I'm still amazed at how insane this is

reminds me so much of using language (and censorship) to hide the humanity of unborn children

ideology vs reality

narrative vs truth

I will vote for reality -- truth -- every time.; 8/9/23, 3:36 PM
Saint Croix said...: Tiffany Gomas

It's interesting but in the Ivy League, all the hostility is on "white males."

But now we've seen a remarkable shift, and much of the media hostility seems to be against "white women" (a.k.a. "Karens")

Bill Burr has a hilarious skit on this subject.

(His wife is black, if you're wondering why he's not worried about being cut off sexually).; 8/9/23, 3:44 PM