My SCOTUS fantasy. Roberts has lost control, realizes only way to preserve Court's integrity is to resign and let Biden pick a chief plus his replacement, reduce nut jobs to a 5-4 majority
— Craig Crawford (@craig_crawford) October 3, 2022
Meanwhile…
Why not raise this money for established charities instead of his own? Looks fishy.
— Craig Crawford (@craig_crawford) October 4, 2022
DeSantis new Florida Disaster Fund raises more than $20 million in 48 hours after launchhttps://t.co/0pEx0bZlhI
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in the meantime john being all-powerful chief could wrest the reins from clarence who, due to seniority protocol (even though chief is senior to all no matter how short the time in office) precedent has been allowed certain pick and choose power. [see wiki: The chief justice has significant influence in the selection of cases for review, presides when oral arguments are held, and leads the discussion of cases among the justices. Additionally, when the court renders an opinion, the chief justice, if in the majority, chooses who writes the court’s opinion; ] roberts, unlike the other conservative, is more incrementalistic and tends toward not rocking the boat when it comes to big societal issues. therefore, i’d rather see clarence based on his conflicts of interest resign, be impeached or at least not let pick and choose cases and opinion writers.
as to ron and his charity, how ’bout returning to the coffers the thousands of FL taxpayer dollars he misspent to send migrants in TX to MA… perhaps throw in ethics complaints against him for good measure to the bar and another to the state ethics commission.
colbert last night
Republicans did their best to avoid labeling the former president a racist after his comment about Elaine Chao, and Ukraine’s army took back parts of the country Russia announced it had annexed.
As much as the Florida gov wants to be like SFB he never will be. Born to a family of Naziis and grifters, SFB was trained to be the criminal he is. Florida gov can never match it. I, unfortunately, saw the presser of the Florida grifter telling the world to trust his wife and send in the dollars. Yeah, right. That will not be a trustworthy thing.
Roberts court. What a disaster for America and the world. My thinking is everything is working just as he wants, the big problem for him is we know what is going on.
also on colbert last night
“We Will Hold The House” – Speaker Pelosi’s Prediction For The Midterm Elections – YouTube
back to SCOTUS, onion asks “why can’t you take a joke?”
The Onion defends right to parody in very real supreme court brief supporting local satirist | US supreme court | The Guardian
Well, quantum mechanics is back in the news. WaPo
Not sure (don’t have a clue) what that means, but it sounds important.
pogo, neither do i and i wonder how many of the nobel judges do. any way here’s what wiki says:
still don’t know but as you said “it sounds important”
from the ignorance is bliss and the we don’t know what we don’t know files
A guess is that a percentage of Americans will say it is fake because they cannot see anything moving. (that’s a physics joke)
My favorite 2 headlines.
First
Russia Says Annexed Zones’ Borders Not Set
right after I read
Ukraine Advances in South After Hammering Russians in Northeast
Ha!
Who sez Bloomberg doesn’t have sense of humor.
Jack
Instantaneous transfer of information, So when you get down to it the human body is just a big blob of genetic information. So when do we get to teleport some of our favorite politicians, ummm, maybe to the back side of the moon?
Along with their favorite Russian, of course.
Jack
It probably has something to do with Schrodinger’s Cat
https://mobile.twitter.com/amarch4ourlives/status/1577028295870205953
March For Our Lives “Burn Book” ad
Well, now I know as little about quantum mechanics and teleportation as I knew yesterday, or maybe a little less since I can add a bit of confusion to the mix. I had a friend back in my grad school days who worked for the National Geodetic Survey facility at UofAlabama who was a research assistant, had a BA in some science (Chemistry I think) who liked to say he was good with electricity but he never understood alternating current so he didn’t think it existed.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
The folks over at the Institute for the Study of War, the go to site for what is happening in Ukraine
So Ukraine is kicking some serious butt on some of Russia’s best.
The folks over at ISW, also talk about Putin shuffling Generals and pointing fingers.
Jack
Pogo, on the quantum stuff, I have long suspected the authors of the “Marvels of quantum computing” stories, are as well informed on the subject as you are. But they are well versed in that form of entertainment called “journalistic BS”
Jack
A private democratic pac is putting 1mllion into the Fetterman race with ads pointing out that Oz sells patent medicines is kind of a quack
So long Loretta
Loretta Lynn died https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/arts/music/loretta-lynn-dead.amp.html
Loretta Young has passed away at 90
Loretta Lynn, Country Music Star and Symbol of Rural Resilience, Dies at 90 – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
She started quite a storm with The Pill
Jack – the Ukraine military has had a big hand in shuffling the orchs generals with a bang. And, the best has been a KGB agent dictating military strategy and tactics from his hole in the ground a thousand miles away. A guarantee for success no matter who is wearing the shoulder boards.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/media/marina-ovsyannikova-missing-russia-intl/index.html
“…a Russian journalist who staged a daring protest live on state-run television, has been declared a fugitive after going on the run…”
“Her detention was supposed to last until Sunday.”
“Ovsyannikova’s ex-husband said that she had escaped house arrest with her daughter on Saturday…”
Because what happens after house arrest in Rusher, is deadly.
“double-slit experiment”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/04/texas-national-guard-suicide-operation-lone-star/
“A service member assigned to the Texas National Guard’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, died by a self-inflicted gunshot Tuesday morning in Eagle Pass…”
“According to the document, the soldier shot himself with his duty weapon around 8:20 a.m.”
“Beto O’Rourke, Abbott’s Democratic challenger who has been critical of Operation Lone Star, lamented the death on social media and decried the treatment of soldiers on the mission…”
“I’m so sorry to hear that a tenth Texas National Guard member has lost their life while deployed under Operation Lone Star,” O’Rourke said.
“The soldier is also the 10th-known Texas Guard member linked to the mission to die since its rapid expansion began in September 2021.”
“The deaths began that month when four troops died by suicide in an eight-week span.”
“By February, two more had died in accidental shootings.”
“In April, then-Spc. Bishop Evans died when he tried to save two drowning migrants in Eagle Pass. Evans was not equipped with a flotation device due to the mission’s long-standing problems with purchasing and fielding critical equipment, a joint Army Times/Texas Tribune investigation found.”
“Then another soldier died of a blood clot after a long security shift in July amid a record heat wave.”
“When the first suicides linked to Operation Lone Star occurred last year, troops on the mission were struggling through pay problems and poor living conditions. Many were also dissatisfied with the large-scale involuntary activations that were required to meet Gov. Greg Abbott’s troop quotas…”
“large-scale, involuntary activations” – Abutt sounds like Pootin
https://www.businessinsider.com/matt-gaetz-ask-aid-vote-no-hurricane-ian-2022-10
“Matt Gaetz is asking the government to fund Hurricane Ian disaster relief in Florida days after he voted against FEMA aid”
“Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling for the US to send aid to Floridians in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian — but he also voted “no” to a bill that carved out cash for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to do just that.”
“Dear Congress: On behalf of my fellow Florida Man in grave need of assistance…. Just send us like half of what you sent Ukraine…”
“Gaetz’s appeal for funding came two days after he — and 200 other Republicans — voted against a stopgap measure that sought to fund the government through December. Among other provisions, the bill also gave $18.8 billion to FEMA’s disaster relief fund, $12 billion in aid for Ukraine, and $112 million to beef up security at federal courts.”
Those on Twitter might like to follow Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC. His tweets on Presidential history are fascinating.
After Ukrainian advances in the southern Kherson region reportedly pushed Russian forces into a retreat in recent days, a Russian war reporter appeared to be left speechless by the setbacks.
“Friends, I know that you expect me to comment on the situation. However, I really don’t know what to tell you,” Roman Saponkov wrote in a Telegram post on Tuesday for his more than 61,000 followers, according to a translation. “The retreat from the north of the right bank of the Kherson region is a disaster.”
Saponkov listed several areas in the region that he said had been “abundantly watered with the blood of our soldiers.”
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-reporter-roman-saponkov-kherson-retreat-comments-1748944
Loretta…….To the Miner Born.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/middleeast/iran-protests-sharif-university-crackdown-intl/index.html
“It was the first day of school, but many students had refused to join class. Instead, they were protesting against the regime, in a nationwide movement triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who passed away last month in a hospital after being apprehended by Iran’s morality police and sent to a “re-education center” for not abiding by the state’s hijab laws.”
“They told them that ‘if you go near the subway station, we will start shooting, go back to the university.’ And then after half of the students got back into the university, they let the others into the parking lot. And after that, they started shooting them with paint balls and taking them into custody in a very, very savage way,” he added.”
“This is far from over. We are not scared. We are outraged. We are furious. You know, these people think that we are the previous generation – that if they do this, we’re gonna just stop. We are not going to stop,” he said.
“These kids are our future,” Farid added. “We’re not going to stand for this.”
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