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Hinderaker Is Vexed That She Helped Raise Bail Money In 2020…?

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These guys… are so clueless!

So, four years ago, she helped raise bail money for ACCUSED (not convicted!) protestors. Let’s stipulate that perhaps $40 million was raised nationwide — but lots of it from Hollywood stars. They all gave willingly. Direct action, as the Honorable John Lewis would call it.

And John is vexed by it.

Wow. Just a few months ago, Tangerine had to post $135 million in POST-CONVICTION appeal bonds… for his own felonies and fraud judgments.

His GUILT, in a word. $135 million on well over $500 million in court adjudicated liabilities.

But Kamala was a reprobate for bailing out OTHERS (many falsely accused, it turned out)?!?

These guys are trying their best — to lose the election for old Kumquat Pol Pot.

Sheesh.

Hayward Is Belching Nonsense — Again. YAWN.

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The level of banal burping — out of the Powerline boys — ever since Tangerine realized JD Vance (not his birth name, BTW — but only MAGA ppl care about such things!) is a boat anchor he’ll have to drag around, if he wants to find new votes… is utterly fascinating.

This afternoon, Hayward tries to tell us that Democrats have a “men” problem (I guess because he personally has never, and will never vote for a woman of color for 1600 Penn.). Or something. [It’s unclear why he’s belly-aching, in truth.]

He seems confused by the notion that Vance is suggesting unmarried women — and those married women without children… ought not be allowed to vote. Uh-huh.

To place it in a perhaps too-charitable frame, Vance’s remarks strike me as akin to the 2012 cycle, when Mitt Romney openly said that he was “not seeking” the vote of 47% of the nation. [Romney meant anyone who was receiving government benefits; JD Vance means to say they shouldn’t be allowed to vote at all.]

In any event, Hayward feels it’s his job to tell us that Republicans report (in self governed polls, no less!) being happier on average, in the last few decades than Democrats.

He attributes this to so many of them being married. My understanding is that he is not married. Divorced — is my understanding. [What a surprise! His pseudoscience is utterly gob-smacking.]

To be sure, this entire line of discussion isn’t worthy of the pixels he wastes on it. But I do want it — for the record, that Republicans like Steve, and Vance… feel women shouldn’t vote. I guess they missed the Susan B. Anthony memo.

Oh well. Good luck with that boys…

Out.

Mirengoff Thinks A Long-EXPUNGED Domestic Incident Offense Is… Disqualifying — But 34 CURRENT Felony Convictions… Are NOT?!

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I just find all of this cluck-clucking… utterly… precious.

This morning, as though it were some national emergency, Paul bleats about a lower level DoJ official who — although all the facts were known when the Senate confirmed her — is being crucified-in-absentia by the MAGA crowd… because the claim is she lied in saying she’d never been “arrested”.

The incident in question was a marital fight, at the home — and her part in it was expunged from her criminal record, long ago. Her now ex-husband said specifically that she was NOT abusive; in writing.

Yet to “MirenGOOF” this not only means she must step down, but that she ought to be disbarred as well. [Gosh — do these boys ever love their… fainting couches.]

Meanwhile Mirengoff supports the GOP’s election of a convicted felon — and a man who has welshed on judgment debts totalling over $500 million. Most of those debts involve tax fraud, against his fellow New Yorkers, and bank fraud.

And he wants to be the leader of the free world — after stealing top secret documents, and leaving them in open cardboard boxes in a public sh!tter — in his country club in Florida (and likely charging foreign agents by the hour, to “use” that room). [This latter set of offenses… draws… crickets, from all the Powerline boys and alumni.]

I. CANNOT. EVEN.

Sit down Paul, you are showing your… a$$.

[U] We Should Hear Much More, About A Time-Line, For Suni’s And Butch’s Departure/Return — Aboard That Starliner — Docked At ISS, At 11:30 AM EDT Today…

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UPDATED @ 11:35 am EDT — per the video conference, no date set for return yet — but this weekend Butch and Suni will hot fire all but one thruster on the capsule at the ISS. Assuming that goes as planned (minimal helium leaks), then a depart date will be set. End updated portion.

Regular readers will recall that Butch and Suni have extended what was to be a five day visit at ISS, now into multiple months — while ground teams assess the duplicate capsule here at Houston… to determine whether the leaks seen on the ride uphill to the ISS would be a mission limiting variable, for a return / de-orbit ride.

Today, at about midday Eastern… we should hear how the “hot firing” tests turned out. Do stop back for updates, after:

…Engineering teams with NASA and Boeing recently completed ground hot fire testing of a Starliner reaction control system thruster at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The test series involved firing the engine through similar in-flight conditions the spacecraft experienced during its approach to the space station, as well as various stress-case firings for what is expected during Starliner’s undocking and the deorbit burn that will position the spacecraft for a landing in the southwestern United States. Teams are analyzing the data from these tests, and leadership plans to discuss initial findings during the briefing….

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the orbiting laboratory on June 6, after lifting off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on June 5. Since their arrival, the duo has been integrated with the Expedition 71 crew, performing scientific research and maintenance activities as needed.

As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the mission is an end-to-end test of the Starliner system….

Now you know — and, onward — to a shrimp and lobster-tailed, solidly Caribbean spiced, grill-out tonight! Grin….

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As Predicted, The Texas AG [Paxton] Has Been Asked To Read Some VERY Elementary Fed. Civ. Pro. Rulebooks. Priceless!

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We told you this was coming, as we approach trial on the merits in the floating Rio Grande razor wire barrier case in USDC Judge Ezra’s courtroom in West Texas. And it arrived, with a vengeance, this very afternoon. Heh — like a derecho.

Mr. Paxton is shown in this order to be a complete buffoon, when it comes to understanding very simple principles of federal law, and how the same interacts with his state’s exceedingly limited rights — to interfere in matters left exclusively to the US government, under our shared federal Constitution. Do read it all — the snark almost drips off the page. Flawless:

…Texas… argues that the United States’ demand for an injunction pursuant to the RHA is akin to an ejection action at common law, transforming a suit in equity to a legal action….

[T]he United States is not trying its title to the Rio Grande River, attempting to recover possession of real property, or bringing a claim as a wrongfully ejected lessee. Nor is Texas positioned as a party claiming ownership of the Rio Grande River. A common law ejectment action bears no resemblance to the current suit, except that the equitable remedy requested would see Texas’s buoy barrier removed from the Rio Grande River, but on entirely different grounds: a Congressional mandate to keep navigable waterways accessible to all, not a right to possession of real property…. Finding the current suit is not analogous to common law ejectment, the Court denies Texas’s request for a jury trial.

[Footnote:] Texas would not need to introduce evidence on a question this Court cannot constitutionally answer, making the State’s dual argument that the question of an invasion is non-justiciable, and that the State can overcome prior rulings with evidence of paramilitary invasions… [quite perplexingly-] interesting [/snark]….

That is one fine 16-page piece of… old school, but high-borne polite-courtly-language… wood-shedding. Smile.

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If You Want The Rest Of This Australian Surfer / Surgical Story, Highlight The Text With Your Cursor. | Trigger Warning…

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We encourage you — if you are squeamish — not to highlight the text below. It goes on for several paragraphs, but is of a surgical nature. Now you’ve been warned. If you like, do read on:

There — now that that’s taken care of — I will be shocked if the young surfer regains any function in his missing… leg. But the story is truly… amazing, just the same. A ten foot Great White bit it clean off, and a beach goer found it under an hour after the attack, washed ashore. Wow. Here is the full story, from the BBC:

…The severed leg of a surfer who was attacked by a shark has washed up on an Australian beach, with doctors now racing to see if it can be reattached.

Kai McKenzie, 23, was surfing near Port Macquarie in New South Wales (NSW) on Tuesday, when a 3m (9.8ft) great white shark bit him.

He managed to catch a wave into shore, where an off-duty police officer used a makeshift tourniquet to stem his bleeding, according to authorities.

His leg washed up a short time later and was put on ice by locals before being taken to hospital, where a medical team is now assessing surgery options.

Mr. McKenzie — who is a sponsored surfer — remains in a serious but stable condition, according to emergency services, who have thanked the off-duty officer for his rapid response to the incident….

Now you know — and just three decades ago, this wouldn’t even have been attempted. Onward… simply… agog. What a world; what a time to be alive — in the age of wild advancement — of med / tech.

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All This “Sturm & Drang” Over An LBJ-Style-’68 Exit…? But Silence — On Nominating An Adjudged ~$500 Million Fraudster, And Felon?

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Forgive me, but methinks the “lady [Scott Johnson]… both protest too greatly“.

I think this is Scott’s fifth column (heh) on all the crazy conspiracies he wants to pretend exist, as to Mr. Biden’s passing of the torch. Funny — he’s never mentioned LBJ… in this way.

And while the pieces themselves are absolutely unworthy of serious consideration… I must note that his bleating on this utterly trivial, banal topic only serves to shine a spotlight on his, and the rest of the Powerliner boys (and alums!) complete silence on the “never before in US History seen” NOMINATION by the GOP of a convicted felon — and ~$500 million adjudged fraudster. To. Be. The. Commander?!

What would Ike, say, boys?!

What would Saint Ronnie — or even Poppy Bush… say?

You chumps should probably sit this one out.

Cheers.

The End Draws Nigh, For Merck’s Legacy Cherokee Plant, On The Susquehanna, In PA — 300 Jobs Ending At Year-End.

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We have reported on this for 14 years, now minimum. The ups and downs, the sale to a minority-owned vendor, the repurchase of the same by Merck. All of it — at least 20 stories. [Just search “Cherokee” in the box.]

Well, it seems that the storied over 400 acre complex for processing APIs / making antibiotics… has finally taken its last lap, as a life-science facility. Here’s the latest from The Daily Item, a local newspaper’s overnight online edition:

…In 2011, seven months after Merck bought back the plant it sold just a few years earlier, company officials announced plans to sell off one product line and outsource others by the end of 2013 in an attempt to cut costs.

Merck’s 433 employees at the time were informed of the pending sale of its fermentation operations and decision to outsource the manufacturing of two products.

Merck Sharp & Dohme Co. reacquired the plant in September 2010 when the new owner, PRWT Services Inc., determined it could not meet the “challenging business environment in the pharmaceutical industry.”

Merck sold the Cherokee Plant to PRWT 2 1/2 years earlier.

The number of employees decreased to the current total of about 300 by 2013, according to newspaper archives….

We will keep all these families in our morning meditations. Onward — be excellent to one another. Out — crossing my fingers for no rain today, as a picnic dinner — and Beethoven’s Fifth, is on tap, under the stars — at Grant Park Music Festival / the CSO. Smile….

[We ought to see Martin Shkreli’s answer to the civil allegations of a Wu- theft tonight, in Brooklyn, as well.]

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DeChambeau’s… Just Brown Nosing (Literally!), John.

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I should not bother to post on this at all, but I want to rerun my favorite Tangerine golfing image. Heh. See at right.

In my estimation, probably the only relevance of anyone’s golf scores — to their fitness for the privilege to lead our nation from 1600 Penn… would be reliable information — on whether they cheat at golf.

And… Trump cheats. That’s a documented fact, for over a decade of multiple examples.

So it’s a test of character — and he’s failed it. [I’d bet a real Buffalo Nickel that the 50 minutes were “creatively edited”; and that the PGA pro intentionally shanked a few drives to “make” Tangerine’s the “best” ball.]

Of course, Hinderaker is too senile himself to figure this out… and already Kamala Harris is polling nationwide at 44%, to Trump’s 42%.

Stay out on the links, everyday Tangerine. We are all safer when you just waste your days cheating by kicking your ball out from under trees (thinking no video is rolling).

Out.

The City Of Evanston Has Moved To Dismiss Fitton’s Nonsense On Jurisdictional Grounds, In Chicago. It Will Prevail, After A Short Discovery Period.

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As we said, none of the recruited “plaintiffs” ever applied for a grant. None of them even own property or live, in Evanston. The program required that, as a point of eligibility. And the statute of limitations has long run, on any § 1983 action — since the application process closed in November of 2021.

This depraved, tired and bitter attempt to create a supposed 2024 election wedge issue will now be dumped out of federal court in Chicago (also as we predicted). Here’s the well-pled motion — and here is the affidavit that supports it. There is zero chance Fitton or Svenson can come up with any showing to get around a dismissal (and the assessment of opposing atttorneys fee awards, in favor of Jenner & Block!), now. Let’s listen in, shall we?

…Dismissal under Rule 12(b)(1) is proper because Plaintiffs lack standing to sue. The Complaint contains insufficient, conclusory allegations of injury. For example, Plaintiffs assert they are “able and ready” to apply to participate in Evanston’s Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program (the “Program”), but they did not apply to participate in the Program and the application period closed in November 2021. Plaintiffs also do not allege they have property in Evanston. As a result, they are not eligible to participate. This means the Plaintiffs have not suffered a concrete and particularized injury and this Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction….

As established above, the Court can resolve this case through dismissal based on jurisdictional and timeliness issues alone before the Court gets to the constitutional merits of the Program. And, if there are constitutional and non-constitutional grounds to resolve a case, a court should resolve the case on non-constitutional grounds. See Stern v. U.S. Gypsum, Inc., 547 F.2d 1329, 1342 (7th Cir. 1977) (taking note of the “well-established rule that the federal courts ‘will not pass upon a constitutional question although properly presented by the record, if there is also present some other ground upon which the case may be disposed of.’”) (quoting Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288, 347 (1936)).

However, the Program is an appropriate remedy to address the past racial discrimination that Evanston acknowledges it perpetuated against its Black residents. See ECF No. 1 at ¶ 10. And, Evanston stands ready to support the Program if the case moves past the jurisdictional and timeliness hurdles here. Indeed, remedying past intentional discrimination is a recognized compelling state interest. See Parents Involved in Cmty. Schs. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1, 551 U.S. 701, 720 (2007) (stating that “our prior cases… have recognized…. the compelling interest of remedying the effects of past intentional discrimination”). Furthermore, the Program is narrowly tailored to provide modest relief to those who (1) directly suffered from this acknowledged intentional discrimination, (2) are the direct descendants thereof, or (3) have evidence they suffered other housing discrimination after 1969.

Accordingly, the Program is constitutionally sound. Should this case proceed beyond the issues raised in this Motion, Evanston will address the constitutionality of its Program in future motion practice….

Onward — grinning, ear to ear. Now you know.

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