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Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

Open thread in the comments.

rehajm म्हणाले...

John Cochrane on the communists latest proposal- Wealth Tax 2.0

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ म्हणाले...

After the yen debacle one is entitled to doubt the ability of Bessent's Treasury to manage its $40 trillion debt. Particularly when the deficit is addressed with more printed money rather than fiscal responsibility.

The market can keep selling a lot longer than Bessent's Treasury can keep buying. The market knows that; Bessent should. A weak hand is being revealed.

Quayle म्हणाले...

A weak hand made by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 passed by Biden and the Democrats. What was the GDP ROI on that debacle, We know what the effect was on prices: inflation went through the roof. Double digit when using the metrics and calculation of the Carter era.

Original Mike म्हणाले...

Yesterday, we were lectured that the States take their responsibility to election integrity seriously. They are careful to send ballots only to those on a carefully maintained and updated roll of verified voters.

California Admits It Doesn’t Track Noncitizens On Voter Rolls As Federal Law Requires

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

I was digging through some long-stored stuff in my house and came across a letter my mother had written in 2014, a few months before she passed. I had never seen it before and don't know why she never showed it to me. It's seven pages longhand chronicling her life in a very brief way organized from her first marriage through her fourth and the four children the first three produced. She buried all her husbands.
It tells a tale of falling in love four times and having good times and bad. After marrying her first husband at 16, she had two children in two years and that husband once beat her and held her hostage with a gun in a standoff with police which eventually ended with no violence, but she took her kids and ran away the next day. The rest of her marriages were good, but they kept dying on her. I'm very glad I found this letter, especially for how it ends speaking of me: "He has made me very happy, love him dearly."
It helps because in her final hours at home, heavily sedated and delirious, she looked me in the eyes and said, "Why didn't you love me?" I know it was the delirium, but it still hurt, even though I know she never really thought that. My whole life I doted on her like a suiter pursuing a princess. She is still my role model in every way, except her fondness for marriage.

Mr. T. म्हणाले...

Looney leftist Loudon County Public Schools has marked-blizted it's start of he school year with ::checks notes:: a whopping seven-percent enrollment decline with projected estimates to double that in the next five years.

Meanwhile, nationwide public schools have faced a twenty percent- drop in market share as more and more families flee the corrupt grip of the teacher unions, and the race, gender drifters and sex predators that they protect. This is evidenced by the highest exodus occurring in heavy Blue urban areas where teacher union- organized bribery has its strongest holds.

Aggie म्हणाले...

@bagoh20, I like that story. Life hands us many blessings, and some of us pass them on. Today you received one back - it's a good day, or since we're all blessed in this country, maybe a good day made better.

Iman म्हणाले...

“The rest of her marriages were good, but they kept dying on her.”

Thank goodness for insurance in cases like these.

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

Dems in CO - set up non-profits - and then funnel tax payer dollars to family members.
Then they use tax payer dollars to get tax hikes on the ballot

https://completecolorado.com/2026/08/18/colorado-lawmakers-nonprofit-bankrolling-progressive-tax-push/

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

Bagoh - glad you found that letter.

Leland म्हणाले...

Great story bagoh.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

Another Mom story:
She was a very independent girl, but a couple of years before she passed, I convinced her to move from Florida to Los Angeles to live with me for her final years. She was very mobile and spry till the end, but in her 80s, with cancer, and she was having some pain that her meds were not helping with, so we suggested she try some cannabis gummies. She took a very small amount, but you know how your first high can be. She was convinced she was dying right there, right now, and nobody was telling her otherwise, though we tried. She insisted we take her to the emergency room, so we did. The Docs checked her out and said everything was normal and she was fine. That gave her permission to be high like a pro and she was in very good spirits on the way home, insisting on listening to music the rest of the night.

Narr म्हणाले...

Sounds like a remarkable lady, bagoh2o.

After my mother died in 2018 I brought some papers here from her house. Among them were some letters she had exchanged with my father in 1947 IIRC, before they married and while she was on a road trip out west with some if her buddies.

I haven't read them (yet). but will eventually. I was never reluctant in my work or research to read strangers' mail but this feels different.

(Amen to life insurance--if my father hadn't been well insured
so ma could pay off the mortgage we'd have been in the projects probably.)

Eva Marie म्हणाले...

Chess match between Magnus Carlson (one of the best ever) and Denis Lazavik (rising star)
Magnus sacrifices his queen
Very good commentary.
Their heart rates are posted.
Fun match (via CFP)
https://youtu.be/cKWZnPWiQtk?is=7pmbLN0EPUIiOAMX

Caroline म्हणाले...

Marvelous memories, @bagho20. I just finished watching Volver, a pedro almodovar film from 2006, starring Penelope Cruz…about the secrets kept by the women in one family, how they reverberate through the generations, and the power of forgiveness. It might be very cathartic.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

"Eva Marie said...
Chess match between Magnus Carlson (one of the best ever) and Denis Lazavik (rising star)"

Accidentally paused half way through, took me 10 minutes to realize. Reminded of old days all nighters when one of us would lose track and have to be reminded after a while, "Your Move"

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ म्हणाले...

Doctors say that sunscreen can reduce your chances of getting skin cancer. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his car says it can give you autism. For busy beachgoers, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Aggie म्हणाले...

But it's a pretty easy job to see whose gibberish not to trust - amirite?

Marcus Bressler म्हणाले...

Baggie, thanks for sharing.

john mosby म्हणाले...

I wonder how much of the Loudon school drop is from people pulling their kids out of the system, and how much is just demographic change.

Loudon was a blue-collar DC exurb. People with more kids, earlier. For many years, it has been turning into a white-collar community: fewer kids, later. Also a lot of data centers being built. I don't think they're directly displacing houses, but they might be raising land prices and creating daytime nuisances - both bad for young families, but no problem for DC professionals who don't have anyone at home during the day.

Of course there have got to be some people saying to hell with this school system, but I wonder if it's the dispositive factor. CC, JSM

john mosby म्हणाले...

The discussion on another post veered over to Vindman. It finally occurred to me after all these years that he looks uncannily like John Hodgman, the PC Guy from the Apple ads.

I am apparently the last one to notice this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WalmartCelebrities/comments/dyr14s/alexander_vindmanjohn_hodgman/

CC, JSM

Breezy म्हणाले...

School pop reduction might be partly due to DOGE.

rehajm म्हणाले...

…some article on California’s declining grade school population floated to the top of my scraper this week…

Howard म्हणाले...

From the DOJ:

**According to the indictment, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, Co-Conspirator 2, and others conspired during the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud and commit several offenses against the United States after NIH terminated Co-Conspirator 1’s grant. NIH terminated the grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence (bat coronavirus grant), based on allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China. NIAID awarded the grant to Company #1 and Co-Conspirator 1, who made a subaward to the WIV.

Following the termination, Morens and Co-Conspirator 2 pledged to help Co-Conspirator 1 restore the termination of the bat coronavirus grant and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab. In anticipation that their communications would be requested through a FOIA Request, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, and Co-Conspirator 2 agreed in writing to intentionally hide from public view their communications by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account.**

Howard म्हणाले...

Bago: Glad you got a positive message from your Mom. That's got to feel great. It's a reminder to all of us parents to tell our kids how much we love and respect them.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

Elementary schools have had dropping enrollment for years. Consolidation of primary and secondary schools has also increased over the last 25 years. I haven’t taught (except for some brief guest instruction at UC Davis twice) for 20 years and I recall administrators fretting about future enrollment drops. At least part of the Democrats explicit open borders policy was intended to help teachers unions by filling classroom seats with immigrant children. Gotta keep the Government classroom-to-NGO pipeline going strong!

Humperdink म्हणाले...

Mark Steyn was my favorite Rush Limbaugh guest host. A quick wit. Sad to read his health has deteriorated. Unfortunately I can’t find a current update.

wendybar म्हणाले...


Xenocosmography
@xenocosmography
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15h
Chauvin case is an extreme litmus test. Everyone knows his imprisonment was a flagrant injustice, but most continue with "Yes, but it was a flagrant injustice of great emotional importance to people."

https://x.com/xenocosmography/status/2090164736633503849?s=20

wendybar म्हणाले...

Spitfire
@RealSpitfire
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10h
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are self deporting.

Who says there’s never any good news!?

Good riddance!👋🏼

https://x.com/RealSpitfire/status/2090249464904638913?s=20

Jaq म्हणाले...

Israel just attacked a NATO ally, but non US NATO has either figured out that the come way behind the little genocidal country of ten million, that spends hundreds of millions interfering in our primaries, or they are the complete idiots that they look like.

William म्हणाले...

Some thoughts about COVID: Perhaps they deliberately downplayed the lab leak theory because they didn't want us to get all red-assed about China. The 9/11 incident sparked Afghanistan and Iraq. Maybe they didn't want something similar to occur with China. It was certainly a more damaging event than 9/11.........They shut down a lot of nuclear plants because they were afraid of something untoward happening. Pity that they didn't have the same level of concern for a gain-of-function mishap. At any event, people worldwide seem to be giving China only a fractional portion of the blame they deserve.......On the plus side, perhaps it's a good thing that they're building coal plants instead of nuclear power facilities.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

Jaq is whack. Syria is not a US nor NATO ally and the Turkish air force had already left Abu al-Duhur Air Base in Idlib province "hours before" the IDF strike. So weird to see commenters here so invested in Iranian propaganda but then joooohaters will believe literally any report that slanders our actual helpful ally Israel, and will do excitedly if they can assist the Islamic resistance and cast doubt on Trump's leadership.

It's a tired act. The haters have 5000 years' experience refining their act and it's just the same old easily debunked shitpile. Every time.

Humperdink म्हणाले...

Jaq: “ the little genocidal country of ten million, that spends hundreds of millions interfering in our primaries”

> Looking out for their very own survival. They would prefer a congress not filled with al-Sayed types.

More Jaq: “ they are the complete idiots that they look like”

Makes me laugh. Complete idiots? They have survived numerous wars since 1948. Being outnumbered and outgunned in a few of those. Complete idiots? Tell that to the terrorists who received their very own gift beepers in the mail.

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

Jaq has Tuq'r brain. tired and pathetic.

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

Florida does not allow the counting of ballots that show up after election day.
Florida is the 3rd largest state - and they count all the votes in a few hours.

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

The Democrat party is the worlds largest crime syndicate

Jersey Fled म्हणाले...

India just counted more than 600,000 ballots in less time than it takes LA. And every voter showed ID.

I guess women in India are smarter about things like that.

Jersey Fled म्हणाले...

Sorry, 600 million votes.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ म्हणाले...

Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes on a private server or Donald Trump spending 24 hours a day with a mentally unstable aide who has no security clearance, both candidates presented grave national security risks.

Humperdink म्हणाले...

From Power Line: “In the column Victor (Davis Hanson) rounds up the usual suspects and deconstructs the shibboleths they peddle to ignorant, gullible, and mean-spirited followers. He concludes: “Hating Israel while championing Hamas and its thousands of terrorist killers is a referendum not on Israel and its supporters, but a window into the mind of a sick, sick West—and an even sicker Middle East.”

Hanson’s full column:
https://victorhanson.com/hating-israel-fatigue/

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

Local Nag-bot should be eating paste, sniffing glue, whilst drinking BS NOW koolaide.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ म्हणाले...

(Reuters) - Walmart missed quarterly comparable sales expectations for the first time in at least five years on Thursday as shoppers pulled back on spending in the face of rising gas prices, sending its shares down 6% in premarket trading.

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

9:30 - Humperdink - THAT.

Dr Weevil म्हणाले...

Did Walmart miss sales expectations because of high gas prices, or because sweet and salty snacks and sodas are no longer covered by SNAP (previously food stamps)? I've read that Frito-Lay has had a massive drop in sales, now that people have to pay for their products with their own money.

john mosby म्हणाले...

Wendy, ref Chauvin, I am hoping that the US Attorney has quiet, private meetings with Walz and Ellison where he shows them their yet-to-be-presented indictments. For what? Doesn't matter. Aggravated mopery. The process is the punishment. And then says no one else will ever see these indictments if they just pardon Chauvin & co, or file to vacate their convictions, or whatever you do in MN state law. CC, JSM

john mosby म्हणाले...

Speaking again of Loudon County, Will Cain on Fox News was praising them this afternoon for welcoming data centers. They apparently are taxing the tech companies (just enough so they won't go somewhere else) and passing the savings on to their regular citizens, lowering residential property tax by something like 40%.

One would think this would help keep families with school-aged kids in the county, but it's not the only variable. CC, JSM

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