Althouse: Sunrise

October 16, 2024

Sunrise — 7:15.

20 comments:

Drago said...: FBI stealthily adjusts crime statistics to reflect that indeed, as we all knew, violent crime in the US increased by over 4% and not "decreased" by 2.1%...as the New Soviet Democraticals have been lying about for several years.

Just like the job numbers....just like the inflation numbers....just like the illegal immigrant numbers....

See a pattern?

There is zero difference between the Old Soviets and the New Soviet Democratical Party.; 10/16/24, 8:46 PM
Original Mike said...: Traveled west of Madison this evening to observe the comet. Unfortunately, there were high clouds and a full moon, but still quite the sight. Just barely visible naked eye, but is a beauty in binoculars. Bright nucleus and about a 5-degree long, fat tail.; 10/16/24, 9:33 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Was that Kamalamadingbat's campaign crashing into the lake?; 10/16/24, 10:15 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Former President Donald Trump was reminded of his advanced age on Tuesday after arguing that "only stupid people" appoint older judges to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump, 78, made the remarks while touting his three Supreme Court picks—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett—during an interview with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago.
It's amazing, because I got three in four years," Trump said. "Most people get none. Because, you know, you put them in, they're young. You tend to put them in young."
"Only stupid people put old," he continued. "You know, you don't put old in, because they're there for two years or three years, right?"
Micklethwait then interjected by telling the former president, "You're a 78-year-old man running for president." STUPID PEOPLE PUT IN OLD PEOPLE MIC DROP the orange perp is too old and definitely senile(see his last show where he stood looking like "Weekend at Bernies" FOR 39 minutes supposed to be a question and answer format. YMCA ....the fella dont even know what the song is about.; 10/17/24, 12:08 AM
wendybar said...: End Wokeness
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Kamala Harris to black men in Detroit:

"You may not know this, but you would appreciate this. I grow chili peppers."

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1846591433098297789; 10/17/24, 1:55 AM
wendybar said...: "Funny how the first releases that need revising are always there to politically boost Democrats."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/fbi_sneaks_in_revision_to_its_2022_crime_statistics_to_show_that_actually_violent_crime_is_up_4_5_not_down_3_5.html; 10/17/24, 2:48 AM
Political Junkie said...: What does everybody think about the "Jimmy Carter voted early" story? IMO, it is proof of his incapacity to vote. This is an example of how D's work mail in voting and elderly home voting. I propose one day national election holiday. Eliminate early voting and all must be done in person. And of course, only one person in a voting booth.; 10/17/24, 3:28 AM
Political Junkie said...: Drago referenced Dinah Shore in another post. Lots of similarities between Dinah and Kamala, if you know what I mean about Dinah. But, Dinah was very smart and genuinely warm and kind. Burt messed up by not staying with Dinah. Burt needed to be with an older warm woman, not Sally Field or Loni Anderson.; 10/17/24, 3:32 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: X Video: Oops; 10/17/24, 4:16 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Federal Judge Blocks Alabama Effort to Remove Noncitizens From Voter Rolls

"The Justice Department had sued the state, alleging that it violated a federal law prohibiting systematic changes 90 days before an election.

A federal judge on Oct. 16 ordered Alabama’s secretary of state to halt its effort to inactivate and move toward removing noncitizens from its voter rolls because doing so violated a federal prohibition on systematic changes 90 days prior to an election.

“For decades, federal law has given states a hard deadline to complete systematic purges of ineligible persons from voter rolls: no later than ninety days before a federal election,” Judge Anna Manasco of the Northern District of Alabama wrote in her preliminary injunction.
“This year, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen ... blew the deadline when he announced a purge program to begin eighty-four days before the 2024 general election.”

Her order also requires Allen to issue guidance to each of the state’s 67 counties for them to restore the status of individuals inactivated as part of the program as well as provide a remedial mailing to those individuals.

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) sued Alabama in September, alleging that the state violated the 90-day Quiet Period Provision included in the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
Allen had announced on Aug. 13 that the state had “identified 3,251 individuals who are registered to vote in Alabama who have been issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security.” He would direct counties to “inactivate and initiate steps necessary to remove all individuals who are not United States citizens.”

In her order, Manasco said Allen “later admitted that his purge list included thousands of United States citizens.”

The district court had consolidated the Justice Department’s case with another lawsuit filed by a group of organizations that included the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, League of Women Voters, and others.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a motion to dismiss, claiming on Oct. 2 that the organizations lacked standing, the legal concept that a party is sufficiently harmed to bring a complaint under Article III of the Constitution.
It also argued that both groups of plaintiffs misinterpreted the NVRA.

Passed in 1993, the NVRA reads in part: “A state shall complete, not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general election for federal office, any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters.”
Marshall’s motion argued, among other things, that removal was a “term of art,” which only occurs after eligible voters no longer appear on the official lists of eligible voters.

Allen’s letters, Marshall said, merely directed inactivation and that inactive status didn’t constitute removal under state or federal law. “Secretary Allen’s noncitizen letter process does not call for administrative removal of anyone from the voter rolls before the 2024 General Election,” the motion reads.
The DOJ responded on Oct. 9 by telling the court that Alabama was ignoring the plain text of the NVRA, which encompassed programs whose purpose was systemic removal—regardless of whether that removal would occur 90 days prior to an election.
In its complaint against Alabama, the DOJ alleged that voters within the state faced potential disenfranchisement."; 10/17/24, 5:55 AM
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Aggie said...: I guess my only question about all of these efforts being thwarted by the DOJ is, 'why did they wait until now to do it?' maybe there's a good reason. I've read other stories about voter rolls being purged, only to see evidence that they are being re-populated internally, by bad actors within the state. I really dislike it when I see reporting like this, because it gins up outrage without providing resolution and accuracy to know where the story presently sits, in factual context.; 10/17/24, 8:34 AM
Aggie said...: You are blessed, as I'm sure you are aware.; 10/17/24, 8:36 AM
Creola Soul said...: Ann, I’ve lived in the Deep South now for the last six years after living in Northern Virginia for thirty years. I miss the change of seasons, the fall colors and the snow. Since I’ve moved I’ve been living the seasons vicariously through your posts of pictures of trails, meadows and forests. Please post more! Thank you!; 10/17/24, 8:48 AM
tim maguire said...: Nonsense. Trump is running for a 4-year position. Judges are lifetime appointments. Totally different situations and priorities.; 10/17/24, 10:15 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: This perp just never learns ,he has to go, Donald Trump has tried to strike yet another hush money deal with adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a report.
The former president’s attorneys allegedly sent Daniels an offer where the amount she owed him over a defamation suit would be lowered if she agreed not to make “defamatory or disparaging statements” about him.
“Twenty days before this election, it is reported that he is once again trying to pay Stormy Daniels to be quiet.
In 2016, Trump’s then-attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen paid Daniels a separate $130,000 hush money payment, in order to silence her about an alleged affair 10 years earlier, when Trump was first running for the White House.There is a file with al the real lurid details sealed that trump and his lawyers are said to be afraid Stormy will get unsealed through the courts and spread the news.Another bribe by the already indicted and convicted perp ,yes the guy the Right wants to be president again. WTF.. Beaucoup Dinky Dau ,dan don 45 :(; 10/17/24, 10:17 AM
MadTownGuy said...: On X:
Nearly 100 current and former Labour Party staff are going to battleground states in the US election to campaign for Kamala Harris, with the party offering to ‘sort your housing’

Foreign election manipulation?; 10/17/24, 11:41 AM
Mason G said...: "Foreign election manipulation?"

Of course not. They're not Russians and it's not Trump.; 10/17/24, 5:14 PM