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May 13, 2024
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remember stare decisis ? me neither! stare decisis is ONLY for rulings made FOR democrats
Wisconsin Supreme Court to re-examine ruling that limited use of ballot drop boxes
The state’s high court is set to start oral arguments in the case Monday. The court now has a 4-3 liberal majority, meaning that there is the potential for the 2022 ruling — when the court had a 4-3 conservative majority — to be overturned ahead of the November election.
Jay Heck, the executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin, said that more drop boxes would make voting accessible for more people in the Badger State..
The fact IS, democracy REQUIRES that we allow unverified, unsigned ballots be counted as legitimate votes. Imagine where we would be, if we only counted actual citizen's votes!
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/05/13/jen-psaki-attacked-misinformation-about-biden-in-her-new-book-but-her-account-was-misinformation-n3788314
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1790006871945773382
https://scitechdaily.com/balloon-theory-in-obesity-fat-cell-size-predicts-if-you-will-gain-or-lose-weight/
https://www.theblaze.com/news/the-economist-beclowns-itself-recommending-against-adoption-of-el-salvadors-successful-anti-crime-policies
I have a relative whose high school graduation was shut down by Covid/CDC and his college graduation by craven Columbia University leaders. I suggested he try for the Triple Crown by going to graduate school. My secret plan is to keep track and find out his PhD award date and invest in the stock market appropriately as I can be certain of a disturbance at that time.
I laugh but really most of these young people worked hard for their degrees. They should be allowed their moment in the sun. Why pay educational administrators if they can't handle a crisis? Why not let ChatGPT 4 run the system by the systems rules?
Recently shared an article with a relatively new acquaintance of mine, a 40ish lawyer only Six years out of law school. He is an Iraq war vet, was injured by an ied, and suffered strong pts. Also sent it two a couple of older friends of mine. So this fellow had an audience.
In any event, the point of the article was that spheres of influence in global affairs should be understood as a given as nation states will always seek a protective zone of influence around their own borders.
I had hoped for a substantive discussion The response I got was a series of flaming ad hominem attacks by this fellow, first on the author and then on me. I'm am a little uncertain as to what to attribute this to. He went to a second tier law school so maybe my expectations were too high. But I worry a little that his generation - which is certainly one or two removed from the current crop of college students - never learned how to debate, or perhaps they have escaped learning any history. Or perhaps I inadvertently triggered his pts.
I still remember when the better colleges, such as Stanford, dropped Western Civ as a requirement. I thought it a mistake then, now we see the consequences.
Lots of bugs. Climate change, or Trump responsible?
So the Race Warriors on the left are mad at Vivek because he didn’t make ad hominem attacks on Ann Coulter. Instead, he pursued a broad discussion on the issue of nationalism, in which (IMHO) he had the better of things.
Shocking!
We saw four turtles in the yard today and a couple of spots in the gravel paths where it looked like they dug and dropped eggs. Raccoons will be busy tonight….
Insects? What kind? May Flies already?
Via X : Bartiromo goes ballistic on Congresswoman Dingell.
Great jazz saxophonist David Sanborn passed today.
As I read the news it seems to be saying that US has all along had the capacity to say where the Israeli hostages are and where the Hamas leaders are. Isn't it likely that if Israel had had this information in October of last year, it would have ended the war in November? Or is there some aspect of geostrategy I'm not getting? Some set of facts I missed picking up on? Something I've forgotten? Or did Biden just forget we knew all this and his pro-Palestine staff didn't remind him. Prolonging a war unnecessarily seems like a very wrong thing to do; did the US just do that? Those pitiful Gaza civilians; those hostages; did we do our best for them? Please don't tell me Dearborn Michigan had anything to do with this.
I think Michael Cohen had some sort of affair with Stormy Daniels. He seemed unreasonably concerned about what his wife thought of all the shenanigans going on.
rehajm said...
We saw four turtles in the yard today and a couple of spots in the gravel paths where it looked like they dug and dropped eggs. Raccoons will be busy tonight….
Raccoons are busy every night searching for food. And since they are omnivores, they can digest anything including insects, frogs, rodents, fruit, and crops in the field. At my house, they chomp on leftover cat food.
It's black fly season in Northern New England. Got the s*** bit out of me climbing up Mount Monadnock a week ago. Apparently the rule of thumb is it runs from Mother's Day to Father's Day.
Skeptology 101
@Skeptologist
Replying to @Maddie_Rowley_
Our goverment is one big laundromat.
3:24 PM · May 13, 2024
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/05/13/journalist-looks-into-the-ngos-that-are-funding-the-border-crisis-n2396193
This ignorant asshole wants to grow up- to be as miserable as her idol, Nasty Nancy Pelosi!! Hopefully, any employer is smart enough NOT to hire this heathen. Let her run to Gaza and fight for Hamas there where she thinks she belongs.
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
Columbia University graduate rips up her diploma on stage in protest of Columbia University’s alleged “complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/05/13/columbia-grad-rips-up-degree-in-protesr-n2396164
This ignorant asshole wants to grow up- to be as miserable as her idol, Nasty Nancy Pelosi!! Hopefully, any employer is smart enough NOT to hire this heathen. Let her run to Gaza and fight for Hamas there where she thinks she belongs.
And to think.....WE PROBABLY WILL BE FORCED TO PAY OFF HER FUCKING LOANS!!!
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
Columbia University graduate rips up her diploma on stage in protest of Columbia University’s alleged “complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/05/13/columbia-grad-rips-up-degree-in-protesr-n2396164
Since you won't hear their names on the MSM at all...they never even mention there are American hostages at all.....
SAY THEIR NAMES...LOUD AND CLEAR SO THE IDIOTS FIGHTING FOR HAMAS IN AMERICAN COLLEGE TOWNS CAN HEAR!!!
Aviva Klompas
@AvivaKlompas
Who are the five Americans still being held by terrorists in Gaza?
🇺🇸 Keith Siegel is a father of four and described as a very sensitive person.
🇺🇸 Sagui Dekel-Chen has a wife and three daughters, one of whom was born after he was taken hostage.
🇺🇸 Omer Neutra is a native of NYC and was born one month after 9/11.
🇺🇸 Edan Alexander grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, the oldest of three siblings and a student at the local public school.
🇺🇸 Hersh Goldberg-Polin "was always teased for being a lover of peace, a crunchy granola dreamer," said his mom.
Read more about each of them in the article linked below.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-features/2995502/hamass-hostages-who-are-the-five-remaining-americans-still-held-by-the-terror-group/#google_vignette
So the secret sub of Lake Mendota releases a plague of bugs on the populace ...
Gilbar, I remember Stare Decisis.
That's the thing the right threw out to get rid of Roe, right?
How are ballot drop boxes any less secure than post office drop boxes? Both receive ballots that have to be validated before they are counted. Americans have been dropping their ballots into secure boxes located on pubic streets throughout the country for decades without a problem. They're called "mail boxes"
"It's black fly season in Northern New England. Got the s*** bit out of me climbing up Mount Monadnock a week ago...."
I don't know what the insects I'm seeing are, but they don't bite. They rise up at a particular point in the sunrise and they're soon gone. I don't know what they think they are doing — feeding the fish and birds?
They're quite small and they're either in a swarm or gone entirely.
I've been going out in this area at sunrise for 5 years, and it's always the same and only at this time of the year.
Interesting speech about 2020 "elections".
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/2-6-13/
Speaker John Eastman, “Lawfare in America and the War on Election Integrity. Stand Now or Forever Bow,”
Insects? Any of them look at all like Jeff Goldblum?
Should have posted this hours earlier, but if you want to see the future, see the gpt-4o demo now. Computers just phase shifted.
Energy demands will go through the roof, tho low power chips for neural nets are coming. One of my clients has one.
My question is about the mechanics behind the scene. Since comments generally must be allowed after review by the House does approval of one comment also automatically allow a duplicate to post?
I also recall stare decisis. None was used as the basis of the original Roe ruling, was it Mark?
🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸
@Travis_4_Trump
Remember when Jeff Sessions slapped Joe Biden’s hand away from his grand daughter?
He knew. They all knew what he was and still is
https://twitter.com/i/status/1789999686830395817
They are lying also this regime is honeycombed with iranian agents
"TickTock said...
Should have posted this hours earlier, but if you want to see the future, see the gpt-4o demo now. Computers just phase shifted."
The demos are impressive.
I've had an idea for years of an "Ad Patch". Instead of an ad blocker for the browser, have a simple program that opens a window that is "always on top" by default. That window can be moved and resized as necessary to cover offensive and or annoying ads. Earwax, nasty toes and feet, distracting animations, etc. Especially handy when trying to read a longer article without being distracted by animations.
MS Power toys has the ability to make any active window always on top using a keyboard shortcut (I would do that to a notepad window to use as the patch), but I still wanted to actually write the code.
Anyway, I already had python installed and asked chatGPT: "how do i code a blank always on top window for windows 11".
It spit out the code (2 tries, first code suggestion didn't work. the window opened but wasn't always on top). It took about 4 minutes to log in, ask the question, paste and save the code, then test, follow up, test again.
"He seemed unreasonably concerned about what his wife thought of all the shenanigans going on."
Maybe he is more concerned about the shenanigans a cellmate named Bubba or LeJuan would cause.
Both receive ballots that have to be validated before they are counted.
In the best of all possible worlds.
Americans have been dropping their ballots into secure boxes located on pubic streets throughout the country for decades without a problem. They're called "mail boxes"
And to:
* break into one of these
* use one of these to commit fraud
* post mail into one of these using counterfeit postage
* open the contents of what goes into these (whether or not it's correctly delivered) if it's not addressed to you
... are federal crimes. Now, I'm a Second Amendment proponent, so I don't buy into the idea that simply having laws is enough to prevent crime... but I do think that having and enforcing laws constitutes a deterrent to at least casual crime. A ballot dropbox is just a box. It's not a federal crime to commit fraud using one, as far as I'm aware. It might be a crime at the state level, depending on how seriously your state takes ballots and voting - but it is not the same as a mailbox.
And what's the need for them, if there are already mailboxes - and an entire infrastructure supporting them - anyway? Yes, you can say that everything in Dropbox X here can be bundled up and go directly to Counting Location Y rather than having to be postmarked, cataloged, and delivered there - but unlike a mailbox, if the worker who opens and empties the dropbox decides (or is instructed such that) this neighborhood might not go for the correct candidate, or even that the names on these 20 envelopes sound too - let's say - black, what's to stop that worker from "losing" those ballots? With ballots in the regular mail, the postal worker would have to do a LOT more sorting to achieve that end.
Surely you can see, Rich, that dropboxes introduce more opportunity for fraud, while not demonstrating any clear benefit for getting those people who would vote by mail anyway to vote in greater numbers?
Giving everybody the benefit of the doubt here, let's say we're talking about Washington state, where universal mail-in balloting has been in place for years, rather than a state where mail-in ballots pre-COVID were only for people who physically couldn't get to a polling place. Are those people who are too busy to vote in person also so intimated by the symbolic patriarchy or whatever that a USPS mailbox represents, to drop their ballot into one?
“ Americans have been dropping their ballots into secure boxes located on pubic streets throughout the country for decades without a problem.”
By the thousands. Now it’s by the millions.
Thought for the day:
Isn’t natural gas natural?
Rich said...
"How are ballot drop boxes any less secure than post office drop boxes? Both receive ballots that have to be validated before they are counted. Americans have been dropping their ballots into secure boxes located on pubic streets throughout the country for decades without a problem. They're called "mail boxes""
Chain of custody.
Even mail-in voting is not without its issues. Here is a study published by MIT, originally in 2020, updated a few times since then, outlining the benefits and issues:
"Another question surrounding VBM is whether it increases voter fraud. Two major features of VBM raise these concerns. First, the ballot is cast outside the public eye, and thus the opportunities for coercion and voter impersonation are greater. Second, the transmission path for VBM ballots is not as secure as traditional in-person ballots. These security concerns relate both to ballots being intercepted and ballots being requested without the voter’s permission.
As with all forms of voter fraud, documented instances of fraud related to VBM are rare. However, even many scholars who argue that fraud is generally rare agree that fraud with VBM voting seems to be more frequent than with in-person voting. Two of the best-known cases of voter fraud involving absentee voting occurred in 1997 in Georgia and Miami. More recently, a political campaign manager within North Carolina’s ninth Congressional district defrauded voters by collecting unfilled ballots and then filling in the rest of it to favor the campaign’s candidate, leading to a new election."
Much more at the link.
Bonus: WSJ - Heed Jimmy Carter on the danger of mail-in voting.
And yes, I know Politifact has tried to rebut the WSJ editorial. Caveat lector.
Althouse at 6:08
Either a type of caddisa fly or a mayfly. They come off the water, mate and die. Fish will gorge themselves on them.
Rich said...
"How are ballot drop boxes any less secure than post office drop boxes? " Neither of them are. Once you've dropped it in the box you have no idea where it goes or in what manner it's collected. It's called ,"the chain of custody", and it's a Democrats dream.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
My question is about the mechanics behind the scene. Since comments generally must be allowed after review by the House does approval of one comment also automatically allow a duplicate to post?
My educated guess would be that each comment is approved individually regardless of content, and it would be up to the approver to recognize duplication and not approve the duplicate. WordPress commenting has a function that automatically questions an exact duplicate comment if you hit submit twice. Complicating the issue for our host is, I suspect, that the comments are likely presented in order of entry without regard to what post they come from, and that there could be any number of spam comments in the stream.
Thank you Christopher
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