Once again proving “The law is an ass.” But better an ass than a lynch mob.
well we had to trade him for the five taliban who negotiated the deal, that enabled the fall of kabul
hes a judge from the plame shamarama
hes a defector to the taliban, whose recovery exercise wasted lives because of his temper tantrum, they should have just found his tent and droned him, you can draw a line between this step and the thirteen dead at the Bastion gate,
I heard a terrific live saxophone piece recently and was trying to find recording of one like it. I only knew that it was a Billy Strayhorn song. The song Lush Life is one of his most famous.
Interesting article in Politico about how college towns are providing the margins for Democrat wins: ‘This Is a Really Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP. It doesn’t go into questions of ballot harvesting and outright fraud, but does make clear that Democrats are doing all they can to get votes from college students. Efforts in Madison, Wisconsin did a lot to swing that state to Biden.
A group of South Korean researches has claimed to have discovered the first room temperature ambient pressure superconductor. A paper has been uploaded to arXiv but doesn’t look like it’s passed through peer review yet, but if it does it’d be a pretty big deal. I like how “Room temperature” is sort of relative since 267 degrees F seems like a pretty hot room to me. And ambient pressure means roughly atmospheric pressure at sea level I guess.
Abraxas,
My central coast CA community used to be a blueish shade of purple, but then they installed a new Cal-State campus that just happens to be very left-wing oriented. Now the community’s color is closer to ultraviolet, at least come election time. Though I’m frequently surprised at the number of “closet conservative” people and attitudes within the reflexive Democrat groups.
Well, as I predicted yesterday, Thune and a lot of others in the Senate already throwing cold water on any attempt to impeach Biden. Guess they are perfectly happy with the Bidens taking bribes from foreigners. Guess their definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors” a bit different from the rest of us. What a useless bunch!
… but if it does it’d be a pretty big deal. I like how “Room temperature” is sort of relative since 267 degrees F seems like a pretty hot room to me. — Nonapod
Yeah, that’s a huge, revolutionary deal, if true. The point behind “room temperature” and 267 deg. F, is that applications for many devices might be inside a box full of warm or hot electronics or cars or aircraft that get hot, etc.
@Nonapod:And ambient pressure means roughly atmospheric pressure at sea level I guess.
Usually they mean “not GPa pressures requiring a diamond anvil cell”. If it’s something that can be achieved by screws or clamps or such it’s probably good enough.
As for 261F, easy to get near a car engine, on a stovetop, etc.
The last prominent room-temperature superconductor announcement has occasioned… ,questions. Doesn’t mean room-temperature superconductors aren’t real or worth looking for, but it does mean that the kind of rewards for discovering or creating one might tempt some to ethical lapses.
Last few days saw a lot of comments about fraud etc in science. To me most of these criticisms are along the lines of when Dems twit Republicans for having affairs or whatever: the people who have a standard of behavior are being blamed for not living up to it by people who don’t have a similarly rigorous standard.
The formal error- and fraud-detection and correction methods in science are far from perfect, and highly variable by discipline. That said, very few other human disciplines have anything comparable. The worst that can be said about science is that it is carried out by fallible humans who in general try way harder to guarantee the integrity of their discipline than most, and don’t always succeed.
Nonapod…thanks that link! I hadn’t seen news of that paper. I read the entire paper…very interesting. BTW, they are talking temps in Kelvin which room temp is about 300 degrees.
First of all, I’m not a condensed matter person and my knowledge of SCs is limited to the old BCS theory of electron pairing into Cooper pairs. It appears the research has taken a new direction in terms of creating within the substance what they call “superconducting quantum wells”. From what I can glean one can then get SC by the electrons tunneling between wells. The paper seems to claim that their new substance LK-99 works by substituting in various places appropriate Pb and Cu atoms which then cause the SQWs to form and stabilize. Apparently, the SQWs would disappear with other substances at higher temps and lower pressures.
Hopefully some of the other physics types here with better condensed matter knowledge than myself can chime in and correct me, and better inform.
Of course all their results have to be independently reproduced. Looks promising to me.
@Abraxas:“This is a really big deal,” said Mark Graul, a Republican strategist who ran George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign in Wisconsin. “What Democrats are doing in Dane County is truly making it impossible for Republicans to win a statewide race.”
This is what I’ve been talking about for months for 2024. They just need to harvest ballots in a few districts that they control in order to win a statewide contest, such as Electoral College votes.
“This is a really big deal,” said Mark Graul, a Republican strategist who ran George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign in Wisconsin. “What Democrats are doing in Dane County is truly making it impossible for Republicans to win a statewide race.”
To my knowledge, Republicans have not succeeded in fixing this in any state that went for Biden in 2020. And so I get frustrated by arguments over what Republican is the best nominee for 2024 like it’s still 1980 and it matters if you impress undecided voters. Voters are completely moot until this situation gets fixed. If it can’t be fixed we need to focus on building up the power bases we have and can control, since we’ll have to write off the Presidency and the Senate if this keeps up. That means school districts and other local governments, the state legislatures, and the Republican House needs to start using the veto it has over spending and legislation.
Just another open-thread comment about something I read.
Yesterday, “Reason” magazine published a good, brief article about problems with state digital IDs (https://tinyurl.com/3hcerv7y). Examples from Colorado are cited.
Digital wallets created by Apple and Google have made it easier for people to accept state-sponsored digital IDs, but the surveillance and looming social credit implications have been largely ignored. I’m seriously thinking about minimizing my credit card purchases and going back to cash when I can.
RE: UFO Hearing
As I had anticipated, very little new information was presented by the three witnesses at this Hearing.
What was new was Congressman Matt Gaetz telling about what he was only very reluctantly shown and told at Eglin AFB–about a large diamond-shaped UFO formation of four craft which was sighted and, when approached by our aircraft, turned off many of these aircraft’s sensor systems.
It kept being said during the Hearing that to get any real and specific information the members needed to talk to their only acknowledged source for this material, whistleblower David Grusch, in a SCIF.
Members told how–after they were invited down to Eglin to supposedly be given a classified briefing on UFO information–they were apparently denied the use of a SCIF, and were never given the information on UFOs that they had been promised.
And here I had thought that there was civilian control over our Military!
I had thought, and it only made sense, that Congress—which, after all, had created the classification system–had it’s own SCIFs, but from what members seemed to be saying in this Hearing, that that is not the case, so that members of Congress have to rely on the SCIFS that are located in places controlled by our military and intelligence services and, thus, these supposedly subordinate Departments and Agencies apparently control access to classified information.
Thus, if members are denied the use of a SCIF for a classified briefing, they are effectively denied access to that classified information.
If members of Congress don’t have their own SCIFs–which they can control–they need to immediately get some.
Hunter deal blew up. So he pleaded not guilty. Guess there will be a trial now. My guess, not guilty on all counts, then drinks all around.
According to FoxNews analysts when I was listening in the car, the DOJ tried to slide through a highly unusual deal which would have immunized him to any other charges, and the judge didn’t buy it.
Imagine if Joe ended up having to actually pardon Hunter. I’d be fascinated with how the media would spin that.
}}} Once again proving “The law is an ass.” But better an ass than a lynch mob.
Not to be a grammar nazi, but a quote nazi…
“The law is a ass” (“… — a idiot.”, to be complete)
😉
Brandon to announce that he has cured crime and all corruption, or at least “as we know it.”
}}} has claimed to have discovered the first room temperature ambient pressure superconductor.
Well, we’ve long known Gallium Arsenide is a room-temperature “room temperature” superconductor.
Problem is, Gallium and Arsenic are immiscible — like oil and water, they don’t mix. So actually making it in any quantity is very difficult, as they separate out during cooling.
This is one of those things potentially possible in microgravity that is expected to be a possible benefit of Space Industry.
Re: Lady Gaga / “Lush Life”
TommyJay:
Wow! I had no idea. She’s got chops. Thanks.
Aucune idée, as we say in French.
Lady Gaga looks totally Cher there.
Abraxas…
Concerning the school problems, I found this interesting:
For my money both Summer and Jones are underrated.
BTW, the Lady Gaga version was from her collaboration with Tony Bennett!
As expected, the Israel Supreme Court will have a hearing on the reasonableness of the law stopping them from using that criterion. If it were not for the danger to Israel, this would be funny.
A couple of interesting articles by Andrea Widburg.
Who is the real Mike Pence?
“Jordan Schachtal, having had access to a preview copy of the book [Tucker Carlson’s official biography], reports that Tucker intensely dislikes Pence and views him as a turncoat:”
In discussing his tenure at CNN, Carlson recalled that Mike Pence was one of the most frequent guests booked on his program. Pence, who was a young, ambitious congressman at the time, was “creepy as hell” even then, Carlson says.
“I’ve been around him a lot, and always felt that he was a totally sinister figure, craven and dishonest,” he tells author Chadwick Moore. “Everything about Pence is false.”
Mitch McConnell appears to have had a transient ischemic attack (TIA) earlier this afternoon, with some news outlets calling it a stroke: “McConnell, 81, was giving a typical weekly briefing when he suddenly froze and went silent, then walked away, as seen in video footage from MSBC and other news outlets. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., approached McConnell and exchanged a couple words with him before the pair walked away with Barrasso’s hands gripping McConnell’s arms.”
It’s not that long ago that the War Turtle suffered a concussion. Barrasso is an MD, so it’s not surprising that he stepped up to take care of today’s situation.
Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) has been used for decades as a high frequency semiconductor (not superconductor of course).
Depressive symptoms among 8th-12th graders seem to have shown a sharp increase, starting in 2012. Why?
“I’d be fascinated with how the media would spin that.”
OK, let’s try this:
What an amazing, caring, concerned, loving father!
Decent Joe continues to earn his name, and this time with interest.
Why can’t every American father be like this? Etc., etc., etc….
(We’ve already seen several versions of this dreck…and so can be absolutely certain that the Corrupt Media, primed and ready, has already written the story, should it ever be needed.)
RE: UFOs, control of classified information, and SCIF’s
Yep, from the remarks of Rep. Luna last night–incredible as it seems to me–it does seem that the Congress does not have it’s own, very secure, classified briefing facility, otherwise known as a SCIF.
That gives the Executive Branch a choke hold on classified information–all well and good if the Executive Branch is trustworthy and cooperative, however, in today’s hyper-partisan political atmosphere, not so good.
From what I gather the Executive Branch has SCIFs in places like the White House and in some Executive Agencies.
I’d imagine that, for instance, the State Department probably has a SCIF.
The Pentagon building may have more than one SCIF.
Why no SCIF for Congressional use and located somewhere on Capitol Hill?
One possibility for a building location on Capitol Hill is in the extensive underground tunnel system which connects House and Senate office buildings, which contains several kinds of offices.
Why couldn’t a SCIF have been built somewhere down there?
“Debanking”.
They did it to Nigel Farrage in the UK.
Now, Chase just did it to Dr. Frank Mercola—and family and some staff…
…for wrong-think, wrong-write, wrong-explain, wrong-effort, wrong-everything.
“Chase Shuts Down Bank Accounts of Mercola and Key Employees”— https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/07/27/chase-shuts-down-bank-accounts-at-mercola.aspx
The future has arrived.
(They wrote books and made movies about this, didn’t they?)
In any event, a dark and chilling trend, to Justin Trudeau (for his shot over the bow against the Canadian truckers protesting COVID regulations last year).
extraordinary claims require similar proof, show me the bodies, the wreckage or go home, none of this carp from the danchenko dossier, the afghan bounties et al
PA+Cat–
It sure looked like McConnell had a TIA to me.
Its long past time to retire a lot of these ancient, doddering politicians and so called “leaders,” but they just can’t let go of power.
What kind of mental acuity do you imagine they have remaining and who is really running their offices, plotting strategy, and perhaps, telling them how to vote?
Oops. Should be “…trend, thanks to Justin Trudeau…”
PA+Cat–
Senator Feinstein is even more of a wreck, and Congressman Fetterman is not much better.
What are their current mental capacities, their ability to analyze issues, to coherently frame and voice questions, and to debate?
Do these members of Congress really seem capable of performing the whole range of the duties of their respective offices?
Both the Democratic and the Republican parties just keep them in office–and in Feinstein’s case now will apparently have to wheel her around.
These members now just placeholders, staying in office so they can vote the way their parties want them to vote, but it’s quite probably someone in their respective office staffs who is actually running things, and calling the shots.
Congress has SCIF space. Remember when Obama’s CIA was spying on them? Yesterday was smoke and mirrors. Every claim made tracks with the claims Bob Lazar and others made years ago. The details get more specific and yet more vague simultaneously. Always enough to get attention. Never enough to figure it out. The members who make the most noise about no access aren’t members of the Intel or Armed Services Committees where they would have a need to know and therefore access. The most conspiratorial claims came from a Reservist who says he’s experiencing administrative torture and also that the Pentagon approved his appearance and remarks. With multiple advanced technology programs racing to completion and public reports of how far we’ve fallen behind in EW, hypersonics, etc. it’s not surprising that there are more observations of weird stuff appearing to do things normal stuff doesn’t. If that stuff crashes somewhere it needs to be investigated and recovered. The two questions that arise are 1) is it ours and 2) if it’s not, how much money does DoD and/or the IC community want in the black budget to catch up?
Yesterday they let a little steam out of the kettle while keeping the black stuff where it belongs. The Speaker kept his deal with the members who wanted this hearing. He just didn’t have the hearing in the committee(s) of jurisdiction. What does that tell you?
Snow on Pine:
You write: “Both the Democratic and the Republican parties just keep them in office.” But Fetterman and Feinstein are Democrat senators, and the GOP has no say in the matter as to whether they stay or leave. The person’s party can threaten and pressure a person to retire, but as far as I know they have no power to force that person to leave.
As far as McConnell goes, there is no indication his mental acuity is a problem. The incident the other day is not necessarily a TIA, nor is a TIA necessarily something that leads to something else, although it is certainly a warning sign. His problem that day might have been any number of things: migraine, dehydration, drop in blood pressure (if he takes medication for that, he might be over-medicated) – etc. etc..
neo–Here is Senator Feinstein being coached to vote “aye” on a major bill.
I’m aware of Feinstein’s debility. But the Democrats have reasons to keep her in there. And don’t most Democrat members of Congress these days just vote as they’re told – even if they are in full possession of their faculties?
neo–But if they have all of their faculties, isn’t there some chance–admittedly small though it might be–that they might decide to vote against the wishes of their party?
However, in the case of someone of diminished capacity–and perhaps of severely diminished capacity–isn’t it likely that there is very little–if any–chance they would go against the grain, especially if they are surrounded by aides who are telling that person which way they should vote–the way they habitually vote–and that person has such diminished incapacity and/or is so befuddled, that they cannot deviate, and will automatically do what their aides tell them to do?
In essence, such a person of diminished capacity could be considered a puppet, who may have no real volition, and some hand somewhere is pulling their strings.
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Andy Williams should be taking up more rent-free space in your head.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnB0JZmVqo
Azalea?
Nice photo.
Day lily, om. You can see tomorrow’s buds behind the ones blooming.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/judge-vacates-bowe-bergdahl-desertion-conviction-rcna96350
Orangemanbad.
Once again proving “The law is an ass.” But better an ass than a lynch mob.
well we had to trade him for the five taliban who negotiated the deal, that enabled the fall of kabul
hes a judge from the plame shamarama
hes a defector to the taliban, whose recovery exercise wasted lives because of his temper tantrum, they should have just found his tent and droned him, you can draw a line between this step and the thirteen dead at the Bastion gate,
in other news
https://twitter.com/UAPJames/status/1684207899092963329
Re om, speaking of lynching — Will the far Left’s “Popular Constitutionalism” be our tipping point!
Consider the odds.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/what-happens-when-democrats-start-ignoring-u-s-supreme-court-rulings-they-dont-like/
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1684166051079094274
I heard a terrific live saxophone piece recently and was trying to find recording of one like it. I only knew that it was a Billy Strayhorn song. The song Lush Life is one of his most famous.
I stumbled upon this rendition of Lush Life by Lady Gaga. Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7B_TdmFHc
Interesting article in Politico about how college towns are providing the margins for Democrat wins: ‘This Is a Really Big Deal’: How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP. It doesn’t go into questions of ballot harvesting and outright fraud, but does make clear that Democrats are doing all they can to get votes from college students. Efforts in Madison, Wisconsin did a lot to swing that state to Biden.
A group of South Korean researches has claimed to have discovered the first room temperature ambient pressure superconductor. A paper has been uploaded to arXiv but doesn’t look like it’s passed through peer review yet, but if it does it’d be a pretty big deal. I like how “Room temperature” is sort of relative since 267 degrees F seems like a pretty hot room to me. And ambient pressure means roughly atmospheric pressure at sea level I guess.
Abraxas,
My central coast CA community used to be a blueish shade of purple, but then they installed a new Cal-State campus that just happens to be very left-wing oriented. Now the community’s color is closer to ultraviolet, at least come election time. Though I’m frequently surprised at the number of “closet conservative” people and attitudes within the reflexive Democrat groups.
Well, as I predicted yesterday, Thune and a lot of others in the Senate already throwing cold water on any attempt to impeach Biden. Guess they are perfectly happy with the Bidens taking bribes from foreigners. Guess their definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors” a bit different from the rest of us. What a useless bunch!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/impeach-biden-skeptical-gop-senators-warn-mimicking-dems-cheapened-process
… but if it does it’d be a pretty big deal. I like how “Room temperature” is sort of relative since 267 degrees F seems like a pretty hot room to me. — Nonapod
Yeah, that’s a huge, revolutionary deal, if true. The point behind “room temperature” and 267 deg. F, is that applications for many devices might be inside a box full of warm or hot electronics or cars or aircraft that get hot, etc.
@Nonapod:And ambient pressure means roughly atmospheric pressure at sea level I guess.
Usually they mean “not GPa pressures requiring a diamond anvil cell”. If it’s something that can be achieved by screws or clamps or such it’s probably good enough.
As for 261F, easy to get near a car engine, on a stovetop, etc.
The last prominent room-temperature superconductor announcement has occasioned… ,questions. Doesn’t mean room-temperature superconductors aren’t real or worth looking for, but it does mean that the kind of rewards for discovering or creating one might tempt some to ethical lapses.
Last few days saw a lot of comments about fraud etc in science. To me most of these criticisms are along the lines of when Dems twit Republicans for having affairs or whatever: the people who have a standard of behavior are being blamed for not living up to it by people who don’t have a similarly rigorous standard.
The formal error- and fraud-detection and correction methods in science are far from perfect, and highly variable by discipline. That said, very few other human disciplines have anything comparable. The worst that can be said about science is that it is carried out by fallible humans who in general try way harder to guarantee the integrity of their discipline than most, and don’t always succeed.
Nonapod…thanks that link! I hadn’t seen news of that paper. I read the entire paper…very interesting. BTW, they are talking temps in Kelvin which room temp is about 300 degrees.
First of all, I’m not a condensed matter person and my knowledge of SCs is limited to the old BCS theory of electron pairing into Cooper pairs. It appears the research has taken a new direction in terms of creating within the substance what they call “superconducting quantum wells”. From what I can glean one can then get SC by the electrons tunneling between wells. The paper seems to claim that their new substance LK-99 works by substituting in various places appropriate Pb and Cu atoms which then cause the SQWs to form and stabilize. Apparently, the SQWs would disappear with other substances at higher temps and lower pressures.
Hopefully some of the other physics types here with better condensed matter knowledge than myself can chime in and correct me, and better inform.
Of course all their results have to be independently reproduced. Looks promising to me.
@Abraxas:“This is a really big deal,” said Mark Graul, a Republican strategist who ran George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign in Wisconsin. “What Democrats are doing in Dane County is truly making it impossible for Republicans to win a statewide race.”
This is what I’ve been talking about for months for 2024. They just need to harvest ballots in a few districts that they control in order to win a statewide contest, such as Electoral College votes.
“This is a really big deal,” said Mark Graul, a Republican strategist who ran George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign in Wisconsin. “What Democrats are doing in Dane County is truly making it impossible for Republicans to win a statewide race.”
To my knowledge, Republicans have not succeeded in fixing this in any state that went for Biden in 2020. And so I get frustrated by arguments over what Republican is the best nominee for 2024 like it’s still 1980 and it matters if you impress undecided voters. Voters are completely moot until this situation gets fixed. If it can’t be fixed we need to focus on building up the power bases we have and can control, since we’ll have to write off the Presidency and the Senate if this keeps up. That means school districts and other local governments, the state legislatures, and the Republican House needs to start using the veto it has over spending and legislation.
Here is the abstract for that superconductor paper,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008
They specifically state, Tc >= 127 Celsius.
In other science news, Joe Biden (surely one of the world’s most gifted oncological researches)announced that he has cured cancer today.
Well if Brandon would only stick to his curing of senile dementia and pathological lying the media wouldn’t treat him so badly.
(sarc)
nothing to see here
https://twitter.com/PeterRQuinones/status/1683894608491675649
Just another open-thread comment about something I read.
Yesterday, “Reason” magazine published a good, brief article about problems with state digital IDs (https://tinyurl.com/3hcerv7y). Examples from Colorado are cited.
Digital wallets created by Apple and Google have made it easier for people to accept state-sponsored digital IDs, but the surveillance and looming social credit implications have been largely ignored. I’m seriously thinking about minimizing my credit card purchases and going back to cash when I can.
RE: UFO Hearing
As I had anticipated, very little new information was presented by the three witnesses at this Hearing.
What was new was Congressman Matt Gaetz telling about what he was only very reluctantly shown and told at Eglin AFB–about a large diamond-shaped UFO formation of four craft which was sighted and, when approached by our aircraft, turned off many of these aircraft’s sensor systems.
It kept being said during the Hearing that to get any real and specific information the members needed to talk to their only acknowledged source for this material, whistleblower David Grusch, in a SCIF.
Members told how–after they were invited down to Eglin to supposedly be given a classified briefing on UFO information–they were apparently denied the use of a SCIF, and were never given the information on UFOs that they had been promised.
And here I had thought that there was civilian control over our Military!
I had thought, and it only made sense, that Congress—which, after all, had created the classification system–had it’s own SCIFs, but from what members seemed to be saying in this Hearing, that that is not the case, so that members of Congress have to rely on the SCIFS that are located in places controlled by our military and intelligence services and, thus, these supposedly subordinate Departments and Agencies apparently control access to classified information.
Thus, if members are denied the use of a SCIF for a classified briefing, they are effectively denied access to that classified information.
If members of Congress don’t have their own SCIFs–which they can control–they need to immediately get some.
Hunter deal blew up. So he pleaded not guilty. Guess there will be a trial now. My guess, not guilty on all counts, then drinks all around.
On the Hunter deal: https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/07/26/breaking-hunter-biden-pleads-not-guilty-after-judge-rejects-sweetheart-plea-deal-that-included-global-immunity-n782361
According to FoxNews analysts when I was listening in the car, the DOJ tried to slide through a highly unusual deal which would have immunized him to any other charges, and the judge didn’t buy it.
Imagine if Joe ended up having to actually pardon Hunter. I’d be fascinated with how the media would spin that.
}}} Once again proving “The law is an ass.” But better an ass than a lynch mob.
Not to be a grammar nazi, but a quote nazi…
“The law is a ass” (“… — a idiot.”, to be complete)
😉
Brandon to announce that he has cured crime and all corruption, or at least “as we know it.”
}}} has claimed to have discovered the first room temperature ambient pressure superconductor.
Well, we’ve long known Gallium Arsenide is a room-temperature “room temperature” superconductor.
Problem is, Gallium and Arsenic are immiscible — like oil and water, they don’t mix. So actually making it in any quantity is very difficult, as they separate out during cooling.
This is one of those things potentially possible in microgravity that is expected to be a possible benefit of Space Industry.
Re: Lady Gaga / “Lush Life”
TommyJay:
Wow! I had no idea. She’s got chops. Thanks.
Aucune idée, as we say in French.
Lady Gaga looks totally Cher there.
Abraxas…
Concerning the school problems, I found this interesting:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/alarming-evidence-links-chinas-communist-party-american-k-12-schools-anti-indoctrination-group-claims
There are some pretty amazing covers of “Lush Life.” That’s when you know a song’s a classic.
Here are two 80s singers who went outside their genres to cover this failed romance song:
–Donna Summer, “Lush Life” (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWOu-nchObQ
–Rickie Lee Jones, “Lush Life” (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JA2QFcu894
For my money both Summer and Jones are underrated.
BTW, the Lady Gaga version was from her collaboration with Tony Bennett!
As expected, the Israel Supreme Court will have a hearing on the reasonableness of the law stopping them from using that criterion. If it were not for the danger to Israel, this would be funny.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-supreme-court-review-challenges-law-weakens-its-power/
A couple of interesting articles by Andrea Widburg.
Who is the real Mike Pence?
“Jordan Schachtal, having had access to a preview copy of the book [Tucker Carlson’s official biography], reports that Tucker intensely dislikes Pence and views him as a turncoat:”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/was_mike_pence_a_fifth_columnist_in_the_white_house.html
________
A superPAC or similar gets busy:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/rinos_fear_this_brilliant_video_about_the_deep_state_.html
Mitch McConnell appears to have had a transient ischemic attack (TIA) earlier this afternoon, with some news outlets calling it a stroke: “McConnell, 81, was giving a typical weekly briefing when he suddenly froze and went silent, then walked away, as seen in video footage from MSBC and other news outlets. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., approached McConnell and exchanged a couple words with him before the pair walked away with Barrasso’s hands gripping McConnell’s arms.”
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/26/mitch-mcconnell-fine-apparent-medica-incident/6381690401220/
It’s not that long ago that the War Turtle suffered a concussion. Barrasso is an MD, so it’s not surprising that he stepped up to take care of today’s situation.
Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) has been used for decades as a high frequency semiconductor (not superconductor of course).
Depressive symptoms among 8th-12th graders seem to have shown a sharp increase, starting in 2012. Why?
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/69819.html
“I’d be fascinated with how the media would spin that.”
OK, let’s try this:
What an amazing, caring, concerned, loving father!
Decent Joe continues to earn his name, and this time with interest.
Why can’t every American father be like this? Etc., etc., etc….
(We’ve already seen several versions of this dreck…and so can be absolutely certain that the Corrupt Media, primed and ready, has already written the story, should it ever be needed.)
RE: UFOs, control of classified information, and SCIF’s
Yep, from the remarks of Rep. Luna last night–incredible as it seems to me–it does seem that the Congress does not have it’s own, very secure, classified briefing facility, otherwise known as a SCIF.
That gives the Executive Branch a choke hold on classified information–all well and good if the Executive Branch is trustworthy and cooperative, however, in today’s hyper-partisan political atmosphere, not so good.
From what I gather the Executive Branch has SCIFs in places like the White House and in some Executive Agencies.
I’d imagine that, for instance, the State Department probably has a SCIF.
The Pentagon building may have more than one SCIF.
Why no SCIF for Congressional use and located somewhere on Capitol Hill?
One possibility for a building location on Capitol Hill is in the extensive underground tunnel system which connects House and Senate office buildings, which contains several kinds of offices.
Why couldn’t a SCIF have been built somewhere down there?
“Debanking”.
They did it to Nigel Farrage in the UK.
Now, Chase just did it to Dr. Frank Mercola—and family and some staff…
…for wrong-think, wrong-write, wrong-explain, wrong-effort, wrong-everything.
“Chase Shuts Down Bank Accounts of Mercola and Key Employees”—
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/07/27/chase-shuts-down-bank-accounts-at-mercola.aspx
The future has arrived.
(They wrote books and made movies about this, didn’t they?)
In any event, a dark and chilling trend, to Justin Trudeau (for his shot over the bow against the Canadian truckers protesting COVID regulations last year).
extraordinary claims require similar proof, show me the bodies, the wreckage or go home, none of this carp from the danchenko dossier, the afghan bounties et al
PA+Cat–
It sure looked like McConnell had a TIA to me.
Its long past time to retire a lot of these ancient, doddering politicians and so called “leaders,” but they just can’t let go of power.
What kind of mental acuity do you imagine they have remaining and who is really running their offices, plotting strategy, and perhaps, telling them how to vote?
Oops. Should be “…trend, thanks to Justin Trudeau…”
PA+Cat–
Senator Feinstein is even more of a wreck, and Congressman Fetterman is not much better.
What are their current mental capacities, their ability to analyze issues, to coherently frame and voice questions, and to debate?
Do these members of Congress really seem capable of performing the whole range of the duties of their respective offices?
Both the Democratic and the Republican parties just keep them in office–and in Feinstein’s case now will apparently have to wheel her around.
These members now just placeholders, staying in office so they can vote the way their parties want them to vote, but it’s quite probably someone in their respective office staffs who is actually running things, and calling the shots.
Congress has SCIF space. Remember when Obama’s CIA was spying on them? Yesterday was smoke and mirrors. Every claim made tracks with the claims Bob Lazar and others made years ago. The details get more specific and yet more vague simultaneously. Always enough to get attention. Never enough to figure it out. The members who make the most noise about no access aren’t members of the Intel or Armed Services Committees where they would have a need to know and therefore access. The most conspiratorial claims came from a Reservist who says he’s experiencing administrative torture and also that the Pentagon approved his appearance and remarks. With multiple advanced technology programs racing to completion and public reports of how far we’ve fallen behind in EW, hypersonics, etc. it’s not surprising that there are more observations of weird stuff appearing to do things normal stuff doesn’t. If that stuff crashes somewhere it needs to be investigated and recovered. The two questions that arise are 1) is it ours and 2) if it’s not, how much money does DoD and/or the IC community want in the black budget to catch up?
Yesterday they let a little steam out of the kettle while keeping the black stuff where it belongs. The Speaker kept his deal with the members who wanted this hearing. He just didn’t have the hearing in the committee(s) of jurisdiction. What does that tell you?
Snow on Pine:
You write: “Both the Democratic and the Republican parties just keep them in office.” But Fetterman and Feinstein are Democrat senators, and the GOP has no say in the matter as to whether they stay or leave. The person’s party can threaten and pressure a person to retire, but as far as I know they have no power to force that person to leave.
As far as McConnell goes, there is no indication his mental acuity is a problem. The incident the other day is not necessarily a TIA, nor is a TIA necessarily something that leads to something else, although it is certainly a warning sign. His problem that day might have been any number of things: migraine, dehydration, drop in blood pressure (if he takes medication for that, he might be over-medicated) – etc. etc..
neo–Here is Senator Feinstein being coached to vote “aye” on a major bill.
See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/just-say-aye-confused-dianne-feinstein-tries-give/
Snow on Pine:
I’m aware of Feinstein’s debility. But the Democrats have reasons to keep her in there. And don’t most Democrat members of Congress these days just vote as they’re told – even if they are in full possession of their faculties?
neo–But if they have all of their faculties, isn’t there some chance–admittedly small though it might be–that they might decide to vote against the wishes of their party?
However, in the case of someone of diminished capacity–and perhaps of severely diminished capacity–isn’t it likely that there is very little–if any–chance they would go against the grain, especially if they are surrounded by aides who are telling that person which way they should vote–the way they habitually vote–and that person has such diminished incapacity and/or is so befuddled, that they cannot deviate, and will automatically do what their aides tell them to do?
In essence, such a person of diminished capacity could be considered a puppet, who may have no real volition, and some hand somewhere is pulling their strings.