With Ohio’s election in the books

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I have a prediction, made election night. The winners will regret this within five years.

Also:

Top Democratic Operatives Were Quietly Pulling the Strings at a Voting Rights Group. Lawyers Say They May Have Broken the Law. “The shady scheme implicates the Left’s largest dark money network, Arabella Advisors.” We haven’t heard the last of Arabella. It WAS Captain Peter Blood’s ship, after all.

THEY CLEANED THEIR ELECTIONS: How The Battleground State Of Iowa Turned Red. It’s kind of funny, you know? Whenever elections are cleaned up, the state goes red. Whenever you get crazy stuff like all vote by male, it goes blue. it’s almost like all the left has is fraud. But then again, it has it abundantly, right?

DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: Flashback: Video of Democrats Denying the 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2018 Elections.

Keep this 24 solid minutes of Democrats denying election results in your back pocket for every time someone brings up Trump

AND WE CAN GUESS WHY: January 6th committee didn’t turn over its records to the House.

OH, YOU KNOW…. TOTALLY PROVED WRONG:  NOW WE HAVE PROOF! TGP EXCLUSIVE: Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered in Michigan – Police Find: TENS OF THOUSANDS of Fake Registrations, Bags of Pre-Paid Gift Cards, Guns with Silencers, Burner Phones, and a Democrat-Funded Organization with Multiple Temporary Facilities in Several States.

QUESTIONING ELECTION RESULTS IS UNAMERICAN! The last time the Democrats admitted that a Republican had legitimately been elected president was in 1988.

A lengthy quote that I’ll likely post again:

If you suffer from TDS, you are diseased.  If you think Trump is the cause of the chaos and decline that is the real pandemic around us, you are part of the problem, not the solution.  You are not well-intentioned, but misguided, morally bankrupt, and politically illiterate. Likewise, if you think more government is the answer to any question you are an idiot.  If you think Canada and the US are systemically racist and the worst of what the world has to offer, you are irredeemable.  If you think the mainstream media is fair and balanced, you are adrift from reality.  If you think we have until 2012, 2015, 2018, 2022, 2030 to save the world from climate change, you belong to an apocalyptic cult and need deprogramming.  If you think public education is a safe place for children, you are a danger to common sense.  If you think there are more than two genders and that I care about your preferred pronouns you are delusional.  I don’t question your right to believe these things.  I just think that if you do you are beyond reason and of little interest to me.  I have grown weary of the upside-down.  I have listened to it all and found it wanting.  I’m done.  Go away.  That is precisely how TDS zombies respond to people who disagree with them, so they have invited exactly this kind of rejection upon themselves.

OK. I SAY I’m ready but I’m REALLY not sure.

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HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA: ‘I am a Black woman in America. I am always in the right.’

How The Left Recruits Teenage Footsoldiers With The ‘School-To-Radicalism’ Pipeline

Some of us get it

and two more on the gig economy.

A New York City carjacker who stabbed the wrong Lyft driver tried to escape his would-be victim by jumping off a bridge. It didn’t end well.

New Rhode Island law nothing but a “screw you” to freelancers.

and we’ll finish up with the weather, since President Biden likes to talk about it so much.

Mainstream Media Pushes Bogus Claim Last Week Had “Hottest Days on Record”.

We’re pretty much through the season here, but still … Alarming deterioration of US National Weather Service tornado warnings.

WEIRDLY NOT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN SOLD:  What the IPCC Actually Says About Extreme Weather.

“A HOAX”: Steve Milloy Exposes Climate Fearmongering About Hot Weather.

  What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave.

Hot and Bothered About Heat Waves.

Climate and the Media: II

Enjoy the end of your long hot summer

Back on track

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After last spring’s <ahem> missteps I got back at it and this summer’s running has been pretty good. Mentally I was hungry to get started AND the ease of this summer (test run for retirement) rewired my head a bit. Less reluctance to take a day or two … or three off as needed.

I didn’t do a winter or spring update because, well, winter is rarely good and this past spring was a train wreck. But here’s an update as of early August. First the bio-metrics. Weight down to 215. Down from spring, up from last year but well within reason. Body fat in the 20-21 range. Good but not great. A hot August/September could take me below 20. BMI just under 27. Was in the low to mid 26s last year, so… fair. VO2 in the mid 30’s. Not bad but not where it needs to be. Need to take a full minute off my 1.5. It can happen. Distance work to continue. Not ready for speed yet. But I DID do some time-trial work this weekend. Hips are not a problem this season. Pretty much everything from 600m down is back where it was last June or July. LAST August was my fastest month is quite a while. Don’t think I’ll be able to duplicate it but hopefully by autumn I’ll be there again. Not many races this season in C-bus and I’m not fast enough to go much more than a couple hours away. Dayton. The Cincy burbs. Wheeling. Mansfield. Gotta start keeping my eye on NEXT season’s meet schedule!

My favorite Marx was Groucho

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THE COLUMN: Tent, Meet Camel | The Pipeline

Which if these two has XY chromosomes and which just won Ms. Netherlands?

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Not the Cabinet VIP’s in the Biden administration filling the National Institutes for Health (NIH) bureaucracy with government loyalists. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) appears to have just plain ignored a law passed by Congress and signed by President Barack that required 14 NIH Director slots, including the now-formerly occupied by Anthony Fauci, by a date certain in 2021.

Paying the Slacker Tax

Another Christian tried “allying” with the LGBT religion. It didn’t go well (it never will).

“There is little reason to believe that this socialism will mean the advent of the civilization of which orthodox socialists dream. It is much more likely to present fascist features. That would be a strange answer to Marx’s prayer. But history sometimes indulges in jokes of questionable taste.”  Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942).

#JOURNALISM: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1685818608205631489

and I’ll likely be reposting this one:

NYT COLUMNIST ASKS, ‘WHAT IF WE’RE THE BAD GUYS HERE?’

Mitchell and Webb could not be reached for comment.

Did not drive much at ALL this summer (with about three weeks to go.)

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Just was not worth it. I drove when Lyfy offered streak bonuses. Uber didn’t offer much all summer. $10 for 10 rides? Nope. Not really worth it. Too many drivers chasing too few Px. Markets work. Meanwhile, in the news:

Not really Ride-share or gig economy topic but it fits as well here as most other places: Report: Electric vehicles damage roads twice as much as their gas counterparts

And the same for this. Fun nonetheless: GOODER AND HARDER, SAN FRAN: Driverless Cars Hit By ‘Coning’ Incidents As San Francisco Group Rebels

Ever hear of the Law of Unintended Consequences? Why the NYC congestion pricing plan is bad

More to the point: Brickbat: The Rising Cost of Getting By

What’s up wit’ da Supremes

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It’ll be quiet until 10/2 but this month’s fireworks should keep the chattering classes busy until then.

Let’s start with this: ‘The meaning of peace,” Karl Marx said, “is the absence of opposition to socialism.” And the Left’s definition of “Democracy” is the same.

‘Pow Wow Chow’ author has thoughts on affirmative action. …… which leads to this (language warning) … and we’re not letting it go

THIS wasn’t pointed out NEARLY enough: “Progressive Supreme Court Court justices can’t do basic math, peddle bogus statistic about black babies survival rate.” Isn’t that misinformation? Shouldn’t they be censored?? I’ll be posting this again NEXT week: HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA: ‘I am a Black woman in America. I am always in the right.’

The problem, as always, depends on HOW you look at it and WHOSE ox is being gored: Asians and Orientals and Easterners, Oh My!

Justice Sotomayor and the Manipulation of “Race”

Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA: “Hispanic” Is an “Arbitrary or Undefined” Classification

SPEAKING OF ERRORS

IN RECENT SUPREME COURT OPINIONS: Justice Sotomayor wrote that during the Jim Crow era, University of North Carolina excluded “all people of color.” In fact, only black Americans were excluded.

FWIW, the majority referred to the facts in 303 seventeen times. The dissent? None

Edit to add, an hour later:

The Big Story of the Supreme Court’s Next Term

How ’bout some old “news?”

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Let’s revisit the Lab Leak Theory, shall we? Especially since there are a half-dozen former “friends” who no longer speak to me because of it.

Lab Leak Theory: 1, Misinformation Cops: 0

Scientists, pundits, and the origin of Covid-19

COVERUP: Senior advisor to Fauci improperly used private email to evade scrutiny. But it’s OK because Hillary.

ON THE OFF CHANCE YOU WEREN’T ALREADY CONVINCED: Fresh Evidence of Fauci-directed COVID Origin Coverup Emerges.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: CDC Altered Death Certificates to Remove ‘COVID Vaccine’ as Cause.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine – Study is Removed Within 24 Hours. 

DOES THIS MEAN THE FATALITY RATE WAS LOWER THAN WE THOUGHT? CDC: COVID-19 infected more than 75% of Americans 16 and older.

“FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” — EXCEPT WHEN IT’S EMBARRASSING OR INCONVENIENT. Scientists Agreed To Downplay Chinese Lab Leak Theory For Fear Of ‘S*** Show’, Messages Indicate.

WHY? AFRAID BEFEHL IST BEFEHL WON’T WORK? NIH Scientists Struggle to Explain Emails on “Disproving” and “Refuting” Lab Leak Theory.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: In Newly Released Docs, Scientists Seemingly Admit Covid Origins Paper Was Meant to Cover for China, Play Politics.

Related:

You know the truckers won, right? 330 Canadian soldiers have filed a $500 million lawsuit against the military for forcing them to get the experimental Covid vaccine

Back to “church”

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INDEED NOT: Universities Shouldn’t Be Ideological Churches

SETTLED SCIENCE ISN’T SCIENCE. IT’S RELIGION:  Gad Saad on the dangers of believing in “settled” science.

‘The meaning of peace,” Karl Marx said, “is the absence of opposition to socialism.” This is the same as the Democrat Party’s definition of Democracy.

JEFFREY CARTER ON The Supreme Court and the Left’s Religious Cult.

A short one today because, why not!

It ain’t over until it’s over …

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usually.

I did a short political post the other day and I’m gonna follow it up since there’s a special election here in Ohio next month.

Police Investigating Discovery Of 2020 Absentee Ballots In Michigan Storage Locker.

Stunning ‘Halderman Report’ Reveals ‘Critical Vulnerabilities’ in Dominion Machines. Also Dominion Voting Machines, Insecure by Design – by Francis Turner.

Unless, of course, it’s all a “Wrestling” show with dramatic falls for the cameras.

Just stay OFF the machines: Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices.

AND THERE ARE TAPES: AP did a story in March on LBJ’s “stolen” election? I thought EVERYBODY knew about this!

Speaking of things I thought everybody knew: Reuters discovers every single living U.S. president is descended from slaveholders … except for one bad orange man

Chicken Little’s are at it again

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By some counts the Ohio Constitution has been amended roughly once a year since its inception. That’s actually kinda alot. And we’re out to do it again in August. THIS one is a tad different. It would require a supermajority of 60% to amend it in the future (as opposed to the 50% +1 currently required.) Also the signature requirements will expand from 44 to all 88 counties.

Obviously this will make it harder to amend. I’m OK with that.

The problem is that it’s been reduced to an abortion/choice left/right. My first contact was with the left side – ads showing scissors cutting the OC to ribbons shrieking (yes, I’m showing my bias) that some are trying to do away with one person/one vote and majority rule. I’ll go wit hte obvious “no” on 1p/1v” issue but the majority rule thang has a slight point. But NEITHER side will be able to mobilize their forces to pass an issue against an unsuspecting uninformed public. BOTH sides will/can/do take advantage of this. Issue 1 will make this harder. You’ll have to mobilize more than just your side.

That being said I DO see the issue of needing a 60% vote to undo something that was added with a 50% vote. My point might be that just because YOUR team is on one side currently does NOT mean it will ALWAYS be on this side.