Remember when Elvis claimed he was a federal agent?

Meanwhile…

Last night’s Ohio Senate debate got feisty.

Ryan got in a zinger: “You keep talking about Nancy Pelosi. If you want to run against Nancy Pelosi, move back to San Francisco and run against Nancy Pelosi. You’re running against me.”

Another: “You called Trump America’s Hitler. Now you kiss his ass.”

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  2. in addition to addressing the badge story, trevor updates us on the news

    Truth Social co-founder reveals that Trump pushed to give company shares to Melania, the FDA announces that there’s an Adderall shortage, Herschel Walker flashes questionable police badge at a debate, BTS reports for mandatory military service, a judge dismisses a juror for flirting with defendant at Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s kidnapping trial, Kanye announces that he is going to buy right wing social media platform Parler, and Elon Musk says SpaceX will indeed continue to fund Satellite services to Ukraine.

  3. in case you missed it on the video, as daily beast reported, trevor also noted:

    The “saddest part” of the story, he continued, is that “there are people who are going to believe that Herschel Walker was in law enforcement because he pulled out this badge.” During his time in America, the South African comedian explained, he has learned that if “people see it, they believe it.”
    “But it’s honorary!” Noah added, comparing the badge to Taylor Swift’s honorary doctorate from NYU. “But you don’t see her in the operating room like, ‘Well, killed another one!’”
    If there is an “upside” to this controversy, he said finally, it’s that Georgia voters don’t need to actually elect Walker to the U.S. Senate. “They can just give him a certificate that says ‘honorary senator,’” Noah joked. “He won’t know the difference!”

  6. the hill on another debate and another prop:

    Independent Utah Senate hopeful Evan McMullin knocked his Republican opponent, Sen. Mike Lee, during a debate on Monday after Lee held up a pocket Constitution.
    “This document written by the hands of wise men raised up by God to that very purpose — I followed it, I studied it and I defended it to a T,” Lee said as he held up the pocket Constitution. “For you to suggest otherwise looks right in the face of truth and in the face of the Constitution. How dare you, sir.”
    “Look, Senator Lee has been doing this thing with his pocket Constitution for the last several years,” McMullin responded. “Senator Lee, it is not a prop, it is not a prop. Senator Lee, the Constitution is not a prop for you to wave about and then when it’s convenient for your pursuit of power to abandon without a thought.” 
    The two candidates met on Monday evening for a televised debate at Utah Valley University just over three weeks before the midterm elections. A recent Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows Lee leading McMullin 41 percent to 37 percent. 
    [continues]

  7. putin’s prop and/or puppet

    Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’ – POLITICO

    […]
    Now, despite the setbacks Russia has suffered on the battlefield, Hill thinks Putin is undaunted. She sees him adapting to new conditions, not giving up. And she sees him trying to get the West to accede to his aims by using messengers like billionaire Elon Musk to propose arrangements that would end the conflict on his terms.
    “Putin plays the egos of big men, gives them a sense that they can play a role. But in reality, they’re just direct transmitters of messages from Vladimir Putin,” Hill says.
    […]
    Reynolds: We’ve recently had Elon Musk step into this conflict trying to promote discussion of peace settlements. What do you make of the role that he’s playing?
    Hill: It’s very clear that Elon Musk is transmitting a message for Putin. There was a conference in Aspen in late September when Musk offered a version of what was in his tweet — including the recognition of Crimea as Russian because it’s been mostly Russian since the 1780s — and the suggestion that the Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia should be up for negotiation, because there should be guaranteed water supplies to Crimea. He made this suggestion before Putin’s annexation of those two territories on September 30. It was a very specific reference. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia essentially control all the water supplies to Crimea. Crimea is a dry peninsula. It has aquifers, but it doesn’t have rivers. It’s dependent on water from the Dnipro River that flows through a canal from Kherson. It’s unlikely Elon Musk knows about this himself. The reference to water is so specific that this clearly is a message from Putin.
    Now, there are several reasons why Musk’s intervention is interesting and significant. First of all, Putin does this frequently. He uses prominent people as intermediaries to feel out the general political environment, to basically test how people are going to react to ideas. Henry Kissinger, for example, has had interactions with Putin directly and relayed messages. Putin often uses various trusted intermediaries including all kinds of businesspeople. I had intermediaries sent to discuss things with me while I was in government.
    This is a classic Putin play. It’s just fascinating, of course, that it’s Elon Musk in this instance, because obviously Elon Musk has a huge Twitter following. He’s got a longstanding reputation in Russia through Tesla, the SpaceX space programs and also through Starlink. He’s one of the most popular men in opinion polls in Russia. At the same time, he’s played a very important part in supporting Ukraine by providing Starlink internet systems to Ukraine, and kept telecommunications going in Ukraine, paid for in part by the U.S. government. Elon Musk has enormous leverage as well as incredible prominence. Putin plays the egos of big men, gives them a sense that they can play a role. But in reality, they’re just direct transmitters of messages from Vladimir Putin.
    [continues]

  8. Trump Finally Gets Served With NY’s $250 Million Fraud Suit (businessinsider.com)

    Donald Trump has lost the first legal skirmish in his battle against New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and her $250 million fraud case against him: After three weeks and a court order, he’s been officially served with the 220-page lawsuit.
    Trump was finally served through his attorney, Alina Habba, “by sending in electronic mail a message containing a secure cloud link to pdf attachments of all the documents,” James said in a court filing Thursday.
    The lawsuit accuses the Trump Organization of a decadelong pattern of fraudulently exaggerating the company’s worth; it seeks a quarter-billion dollars in penalties and to bar the Trumps from doing business in New York. 
    Representatives for Trump and his son Eric, an executive vice president at his father’s company, had evaded service of the lawsuit ever since it was filed three weeks ago, on September 21.
    […]
    The Manhattan judge handling the case quickly agreed, ruling Thursday that emailing the papers to the two lawyers would suffice as service to both Trumps. James fired off those emails the same day, their Monday filing said.
    Habba and Robert have not responded to Insider’s requests for comment on the delay in service of the lawsuit.
    The judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, set October 31 as the date for oral arguments in the lawsuit’s next dispute.
    […]
    Another early dispute is simmering concerning Engoron himself, the same judge who in April found Trump in contempt of court for not fully complying with the attorney general’s subpoenas in the two-year run-up to her filing suit.
    Habba has asked that the lawsuit be transferred out of Engoron’s courtroom to be handled instead by any judge in Manhattan’s commercial division, which is tasked with complex business disputes.

  9. Postal Reform Act Passes in Senate

    Key provisions of this bipartisan legislationrepealthe mandate to pre-fund retiree health care benefits decades in advance and codify a minimum ofsix-day deliveryof mail and packagesintofederal law. This will eliminate the need to renew the six-day requirement every year through the congressional appropriations process. The bill also maximizes the integration of future postal annuitants into Medicare.

     

  16. blueINdallassays:
    October 17, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/tech/kanye-west-ye-parler/index.html

    “Kanye West is acquiring Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by many conservatives.”
    “The acquisition comes after West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, had his account temporarily locked by Twitter this month over an antisemitic tweet.”

    “It also highlights how a small group of wealthy men, some of whom were banned or suspended themselves for incendiary remarks, are looking to own social media platforms in an effort to bolster what they call “free speech.”

    “In the weeks following the Jan. 6 riots, Parler was removed from both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for what the companies said was a failure to adequately moderate violent rhetoric on the platform. Documents provided to the House committee investigating the Capitol riots have shown how the Secret Service was aware of posts on Parler that suggested the possibility of violence surrounding that day.”

    Boo, Ye! 

    “Musk’s move to buy Twitter, if the deal goes through, also has the potential to upend Parler and similar services. Musk has repeatedly called for eliminating permanent bans and rethinking Twitter’s approach to content moderation, which could once again make the much larger platform a home for some of the users who jumped to small services like Parler.”

  17. Is there a better way to knock Iranian-made, Russian-controlled “kamikaze” drones out of Ukrainian skies? An electrified net, but projected like a long-range taser? A baseball bat?

    My ex flew radio-controlled airplanes. You had to make sure nobody else at the airfield was in the same channel. Are these drones in channels that can be interfered with and flown back into the unsuspecting faces from whence the came?

  18. Breaking:  Rich rapper buys lousy ultra-onservatuve twitter-type platform and seems to expect it to not go belly-up.

    You reckon there’s some parler owners jumping around splashing champagne and high-fiving all over the place? Rapper apparently a few french fries short of happy meal….but then, rapper is billionaire.
    lol

  19. BiD
    On the drones, it depends one way of stopping them is to jam the signal, but then some are preprogramed to certain co-ordinates by gps. Then you need control of the gps satellite system, that would require a high level of hacking ability, I would guess.
    Jack

  20. Kanye West, aka, Ye, mostly described as “stupid f*ck” is an extreme attention seeker, Any news article about anything he says or is doing needs to be viewed with that in mind. Is he buying that money suck called “Parler” my money says no. But he is getting the attention he so desperately seeks.
    Jack

  21. Bid
    yesterday I was reading a story that the Russians have a rifle that fire “electronic impulse blasts”(*) that will knock an ordinary over the counter drone out of the sky. It sounded a little scifi to me, but it was a credible news source, or as credible as they get these days.
    *or something like that, we are working from memory here
    Jack

  22. Sturgeone

    Even the lovers of Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons are for the most part to young to remember Time for Beany and Thunderbolt the Wondercolt when they were puppets on live LA tv stations.

     

     

  25. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/18/politics/joe-biden-abortion-speech/index.html

    “…50% of registered voters in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey said the Supreme Court’s decision has made them more motivated to vote next month – up 7 percentage points from July, when the same question was asked just a few weeks after the ruling came down. About half of voters in states with full abortion bans also said their states’ abortion laws have made them more motivated to vote.”

  26. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/18/sport/iranian-climber-elnaz-rekabi-hijab-intl-spt/index.html

    “A female Iranian climber, who did not wear a hijab at an international competition in South Korea, left for Iran on Tuesday as Iranian groups based abroad raised alarms over her fate back home.”

    “Elnaz Rekabi, 33, competed without a hijab…”

    And, the Iranian propaganda team has taken over her Insta.

    “In a story posted on Rekabi’s Instagram page on Tuesday, the athlete said she was called to climb the wall “unexpectedly” which “unintentionally” created a problem with her hair covering.

    “Due to bad timing and unexpectedly being called to climb the wall, I inadvertently created a problem with my head covering,” she wrote.

  27. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/10/18/new-lab-made-covid-19-coronavirus-at-boston-university-raises-questions/

    “On October 14, a team of researchers posted on bioRxiv a preprint that described how they had created a new hybrid version of the Covid-19 coronavirus in their lab at Boston University and used this lab-created virus to infect mice, which ended up killing 80% of the mice.”

    “This research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplify the Washington state SARS-COV-2 virus strain (original virus from 2020) or make it more dangerous.” The BU statement also added that “In fact, this research made the virus replicate less dangerous.” Presumably, they meant “less dangerous” or “in a less dangerous manner,” since you don’t tend to say things like “I shower less dangerous because the toaster was no longer in the tub.”

    “So what’s the truth? Was this truly gain-of-function research where an even more deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was created? Or was this perhaps loss-of-function research that was indeed of public benefit that could lead to better therapeutic interventions? Or was it something in between?”

    “So if adding the Omicron spike protein to the original SARS-CoV-2 made it kill 20% fewer mice, was creating the hybrid virus technically gain-of-function research? The phrase gain-of-function research does include the word “gain” rather than “loss” or “no change.” This implies that the organism that’s being genetically altered has to actually gain in ability as a result.”

    “When you conduct research that can be interpreted and misinterpreted in all kinds of ways, it’s better to communicate the potential implications of the research in advance, perhaps even before the experiments are conducted. In his tweet thread, Krammer added that the group got in trouble “because they did not ask for permission” and not because of the experiment itself per se…”

    “Remember a preprint is not the same thing as a peer-reviewed publication in respectable scientific journal. Anyone who has Internet access and opposable thumbs can in theory readily post a preprint on the Internet. The Covid-19 pandemic has made it even more common for researchers to do such a thing.”

  30. Trump knew Kim letters were classified, according to new Woodward audiobook – The Washington Post

    In December 2019, after then-President Donald Trump had shared with journalist Bob Woodward the fawning letters that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had written to him, the U.S. leader seems to acknowledge he should not be showing them around.
    After urging Woodward to “treat them with respect,” Trump warns in an interview, “and don’t say I gave them to you, okay?”
    “But I’ll let you see them,” Trump adds. “I don’t want you to have them all.”
    A month later, in January 2020, Woodward pressed Trump in a phone call to let him also see the letters that Trump wrote to Kim. “Oh, those are so top secret,” Trump says, according to notes of the call taken by Woodward and highlighted in a new audiobook: “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Trump.”
    In hindsight, the comments by Trump show he was well aware that the 27 letters exchanged between himself and Kim were classified, despite his repeated claims that none of the documents he improperly took from the White House when leaving office, including the Kim letters, were in that category. ….
    […]
    The audiobook, which comes out next Tuesday, contains 19 raw and lengthy interviews Woodward conducted with Trump between fall of 2019 through August 2020 for his book, “Rage,” as well as one interview he conducted with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa in 2016. The interviews, Woodward says in his introduction, were edited only for clarity.
    During the December 2019 interview, Trump asks Woodward what he did with the letters he had provided him at that point, asking if he made “a Photostat of them or something” — apparently referring to a photocopy.
    “No, I dictated them into a tape recorder,” Woodward replies, to Trump’s amusement.
    In an interview with The Post ahead of the audiobook’s release, Woodward said Trump helped set him up with an aide in the West Wing, who supervised as Woodward — who had been given both the English translations and original Korean versions of Kim’s letters to Trump — handled the documents and dictated them all into his tape recorder.
    Later, after Trump agreed to share his letters to Kim, Woodward said he returned to a West Wing office, where an aide again watched as he read the new set of letters into his tape recorder.
    In the interview, Woodward also said he observed no classified markings on any of the letters he was given, though U.S. officials have indicated that they were classified documents.
    In an aside in the audio book, Woodward describes “the casual, dangerous way that Trump treats the most classified programs and information, as we’ve seen now in 2022 in Mar-a-Lago, where he had 184 classified documents, including 25 marked ‘Top Secret.’”
    [continues]

  31. Blue –
    Jack is right about the Lawn Mower  drones . As drones go they ain’t very bright .  2 stroke engine, no control  after launch , just enough brains to hit the GPS numbers. 
    That’s why they’re so cheap, $20,000  each. 
    The Russians are gonna shut off the water , and power with them , if they can. 
    The counter measures will be interesting . I mean it’s a flying chain saw.  An AK-47  can kill it. 
    This may be another “tell”  for the Russians , they’re out of chips .  They have to save the smart stuff . 

  40. OM – a percentage I heard is that the Ukraine military knocked three quarters of the launched soviet/iranian/russian drones down.  I do not doubt the number considering how slow those go, or the source.  What I have not heard is the number shot down from the air.  That is probably a close held number by the Ukraine military.

  41. Bronc  –
    You can hear them coming , they don’t fly very high.  It’s like shooting really fast ducks. 
    I have yet to see a number on their range , and that’s the key . These things aren’t flying long distances , and killing the launchers  is the thing. 
    A lot of brain horse power on this problem .

  42. Another “tell” , if this is the state of the art in Iran .  The women will win. 
    And roll that gum ball around your head.  Women, and girls are leading revolt in Iran !
    As history goes there is nothing like it .  EVER !
    The full bankruptcy , the are killing   mothers, sisters, wives , daughters . 
    As big deals go , this is hard to measure.  These women are not going to quit. 
    The age of old men running things  is collapsing  

  44. 30 % of Ukraine is  off line. 
    Big grids are an invention of the 19th  century . All those dams, coal plants , gas turbines ,reactors,  power poles , all that wire is as dead as a boot. 
     
    Every  place  we live is it’s own power plant. 

     
     

  45. I never forgot that line  ……
    You have the world at your finger tips
     
    So many changes to the rain, and the  sun
     
    Wake Up 

  47. If the GQP doesn’t think that medical bills and another mouth to feed won’t impact personal economies, well, they may not want folks to think about it, but they will. 

    I think the defiance of women in Iran feeds the desire to vote blue, too, because we can see the chicken-fried Taliban dragging us down that totalitarian road. 

    BETO is having another big rally. Greg must be crapping his pants.  

    No pro-Abutt ads except how he was crushed by a tree and survived, adopted a child with his wife, and, has a niece who calls him “Tio Greg.” Nothing about his record.

    So far, the nastiest ads have been for lower offices and it’s all fear-mongering and lies.   Unfortunately,  folks will probably believe some of them.

  49. Lin Manuel Miranda is in Houston, campaigning with BETO tonight. 

    This week, Orange Adolf is holding a nazi rally in Corpus Christi. Greg won’t be there.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/greg-abbott-to-skip-donald-trumps-rally-in-texas-for-out-of-state-fundraiser

    “I welcome President Trump back to Texas, though I won’t be able to welcome him personally since I will be out-of-state for a pre-planned fundraising trip to Florida,” Abbott said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

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