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Bitsy Would Tell Us “Jack” (He — Of Departed, And Now… Mostly Destroyed, Twitter) Is An “Impressive” Endorsement. Hah!

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This lunchtime, old Bitsy is back to shilling for a supposed dark horse spoiler at the ’24 DNC. His name is omitted, because… he’s a clown. A pure… loon.

But sure, Bits — you keep on pushin’ him.

I suppose he has about the same chance that Tangerine has… in a general.

And I suppose he won’t likely by in jail awaiting trial, as Tangerine is likely to be… by then.

And — he won’t be facing indictments for kidnapping would be asylum seekers, and depriving them of their federal rights to hearings — as Gov. Ron DeSantis may well be, by then.

So… I guess he’s got ALL THAT(!) — over your main leading candidates, Betsy.

Cheers, chucklehead.

Do you ever even pre-read aloud / hear yourself (edit even a syllable), in connection with the illogical garbage you spew daily, over at Powerline?! It seems it’s all just whatever sludge spills from your keyboard, on any given morning, there. Strictly first draft stuff, for any competent writer… but I guess we know why that would be so.

Yours. Is. Lunacy.

[Tangent: The Onion] “O.M.Gurd — She’s Solved It!”

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The Onion really blew the bars off the doors, with this one:

…BRYAN, TX — Jumping up and down and shouting when the answer she’d spent years searching for finally came into focus, prison inmate Elizabeth Holmes reportedly discovered how to make the Theranos blood analyzer work last week at the exact moment the cell door closed on her for the first time. “Oh my God, that’s it—that’s it,” said the former biotech entrepreneur, who then gasped, grabbed her new cellmate, and screamed that she’d “finally done it,” only to have cell bars immediately slammed in her face. “Finally, I understand. It was right in front of me the whole time. I’m going to save humanity! Soon, everyone in the world will be able to analyze their health information from a single drop of blood using my genius portable device. You have to believe me! Please!” At press time, Holmes could be seen carving a new blueprint for the device into the wall of her prison cell, pricking her finger, and asking any prison guard who would listen for $700 million….

F L A W L E S S.

That is all I’ve got. Be excellent to one another. Out.

Psyche Mission Clears IRB Process — Will Launch Oct. ‘23…

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The metal rich asteroid visiting mission is now back on a launch schedule. It should arrive at the target in later 2029, now. For reference, here’s our prior backgrounder, on the mission objectives and status. And yes, we should celebrate it — as this is a robust, independent error correction protocol, in action.

That’s all very good news — with green lights across the board, from NASA’s review process documentation set:

…The IRB assessment celebrated the Psyche team’s exceptional efforts to develop a credible plan and implement corrective actions to achieve the later October 2023 launch. We are thrilled that the IRB has concluded that the overall probability of mission success is high. We concur with the IRB’s assessment that a significant amount of work remains in operations planning, and that continued emphasis is needed in areas such as the line management’s technical oversight, and improvements to programmatic plans, assessment approaches, and metrics…

Now you know… off to snooze, grinning….

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[U: Irony, From Betsy!] We’ve Been Over This Before: Intentionally Taking An Asylee 1,000 Miles Away From A Hearing… Is A Felony.

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A ten year felony, in fact. Even if you fly the potential asylee by private jet, and even if you pay all expenses — the intentional removal of a person due a federal hearing on “credible fear” — if refouled — is the interference with a federal statutory right, under color of state law, and is thus not materially different (at criminal law) than… kidnapping.

And make no mistake: with probably only ten flights on private jets in and out of Sacramento in the last few days, from Texas by way of New Mexico… these apparently rich idiots will be found.

This is functionally the same (albeit at a higher per-head price point!) as the mule transporters regularly caught and sent to prison outside Brownsville, Texas… and San Diego.

These morons [the pilots and the miscreant(s) who hired them] are… going to jail.

The asylees will be well cared for, and provided with new hearing dates, in the Bay Area, and will face no additional penalties. They are the victims here, clearly.

And just as DeSantis was implicated last year — in flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, under eerily similar circumstances… don’t be shocked if he or Abbott in Texas directly authorized these kidnappings.

That is what they are.

Elizabeth Stauffer would perhaps like to be an accessory, after the fact, in a forthcoming felony indictment — by helping these apparently high-net-worth pigglies hide their identities — the ones that bought and paid for, and scheduled and engineered… these flights.

Charming, Bits.

Updated: 2 pm EDT I just translated the words on the Malay graphic she used to “illustrate her story.” I’ve shown the graphic, enlarged as proof. [I suspect she filched it — being wholly unable to read that language over the door.]

In any event, it offers a comment on the rich Texans or Floridians or New Mexicans who paid to fly these would-be asylees to Sacramento by private jet. Probably not the comment she intends though.

Clearly in the original artist’s telling, the guy with the clip-board, putting the blind-folded asylees on a flight… to nowhere… is the predator.

Welp, that is exactly right, Bits… even though I am sure you didn’t mean it that way — maybe you are “Baby Spicy / Che Guevara“… after all!
Cheers!

Out.

Bill Otis: “Scaredy Cat Is… As Scaredy Cat… DOES!”

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This is just truly… baffling. At least baffling if one believes in even a moderate dose of symbolic logic — in one’s rhetoric.

Bill Otis at Ringside/Reckoning this morning would tell us that “the left” uses false scare-tactics, to force good, if frothy, hard right GOP-ers… to surrender “muh freedums”.

Hilarious. His second highest list item is the “debt ceiling fight”.

Then — in under four paragraphs later, at the back half of the things Bill thinks the frother MAGAts should TRULY be afraid about… he lists… the approaching $30 trillion in national debt (over 40% of which was driven up just under Trump’s four year watch, BTW!).

Precious. So… when Mr. Biden acts reasonably to avoid a US debt default/liquidity crunch, it is false scare-mongering, solely by Democratic operatives, Mr. Oris? But now, as the debt continues (due primarily to tax giveaways to billionaires from Trump, and wild “Space Force” and Defense spending authorized by Tangerine graft) to grow, he wants the GOP-ers to run another armed revolution against the same government that they voted for, to bulk up the national debt.

Erh… good luck with all that, there… son.

Out.

Hinderaker: Yep — He’s Indeed “Chosen A Weird Hill To Die On…”

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John thinks himself a master of rhetorical misdirection. But he only so imagines.

This evening, he falsely claims that liberal progressives have chosen child gender care surgeries as their “hill to die on” (his words).

What he is trying (impotently) to avoid saying is… that he and his frothy hard right… are the ones making two human cases — in a decade — in Florida… their “litmus test” / their OWN hill to die on.

So as is often the case, John tells one giant lie, in order to hide a hideous truth — under his own cloak. [He’s a bigot.]

John and Bitsy and Steve have repeatedly lied about the facts related to these cases, the studies (all on vanishingly small sample sizes), and about… what resides below the surface for these loons: open hatred of all things that are different than they (or so they imagine).

I will leave him, and them, to their hateful lies — they are unworthy of detailed replies.

But the Powerline crew is deluding themselves if they think any set of lies on these topics will sway the 2024 election cycle.

The facts will win out. This is less than 0.7% of the population; and America knows it. Voting America that is.

Bub-bye John. Update: in similar fashion, later this evening, he has mis-stated the Democratic positions on reparations. Y A W N.

Dumb (and losing, for the GOP) gambit, Hinderaker. Out.

Well — This Is… Preposterous! The Tenn. AG Johnathan Skrmetti Just Claimed On Air, That All Federal Court Jurisdiction Is Limited To Shelby County, In The State.

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Just a dose of reality, here: that is a federal court order, entered after midnight last night.

F E D E R A L.

These are not-not-not… mere county courts — of limited jurisdiction, as to county borders. The AEA “law” was held unconstitutional on its face, by a federal judge. It happens he’s a Tangerine appointee, too — but his ruling applies, per force, statewide.

The AEA is unenforceable, anywhere inside the Volunteer State (that is the limit of the state legislature’s prior reach), all as the AG will find out Monday morning — if not before, when he tries to appeal. But don’t be conned by these would-be brown-shirts. [We all now know the doors of all the Alabama public universities were opened — state wide, not just in Tuscaloosa, folks — despite what Geo. Wallace said. Same here.]

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Decrepit Old John Hinderaker (Preciously!) Says… He’s “Saving” Minnesota, From Itself. Hah!

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He makes some rather grandiose claims this Saturday afternoon — so much so, that I suspect he’s more than three whiskeys in already — at three pm Central.

He tells us that since 2015, he’s “devoted his life”… to saving Minnesota from the godless liberals. Or something.

And (wait for it!) he’s ACTUALLY selling… tee shirts, to prove it.

If I were to write this all up as a parody… it would write itself.

Sadly, it is not.

And equally sadly — about the only thing Hinderaker actually pushes for, is dis-union, and a return to the days when the Minnesota KKK regularly hung people from rural bridges in the prairie land.

John is an impotent, embittered, old whyte racist.

Nuthin’ more. What a… loser — but soon enough, he and his fellow travelers will be dead — of old age.

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How The NLRB Staff Lawyers See Amazon Lawyers’ Foot Dragging, And Condoning Unfair Labor Practices… At DYY6/JFK8: Post Hearing Briefs.

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Time for our once a month check-in, on all the bone-headed things Amazon’s HR lawyers regularly do and say. [The below pull-quote is just a tip of the iceberg — do go read the full filing, here.]

Here’s the full document, filed at the end of last month — and a bit:

…Palmer testified that shortly after Wojhan confiscated literature from him in the breakroom, after Palmer had returned to his workstation, Operations Manager Ariana Ovadia asked to meet with him alone in a satellite breakroom. During this one-on-one meeting, Ovadia reiterated the message just given by Wojahn — that Palmer could not distribute Union literature in the breakroom. In this regard, after telling Palmer that she was aware of the confiscation by Wojahn, Palmer told Ovadia that he went to the HR office to find out who had instructed Wojahn to take the literature.

Instead of responding directly to this comment, Ovadia told Palmer that she had “many lawyer friends” and that “they all said” that Respondent was allowed to remove Union literature. Ovadia followed this commentary with an unsolicited question to Palmer regarding why he “hated Amazon?” Palmer testified that by connecting the confiscation of his Union literature with Palmer allegedly “hating” Amazon, it made it seem as if Ovadia believed Palmer disliked his employer because he was distributing Union literature.

As discussed above, it is a violation of Section 8(a)(1) to prohibit employees from distributing union literature on non-work time in non-work areas. See e.g. Stoddard-Quirk Manufacturing Co., 138 NLRB 615 (1962); Republic Aviation Corp. v. NLRB, 324 U.S. 793 (1954)….

Amazon is going to lose here — without a reasonable doubt. Out, now — for a toasty, sunny mountain bike ride by the lake, and then some hand turned ice cream with cherries! Woot!

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[U X2] The Formal End — Of Tennessee’s Lawless Ban On Only Males Dancing In Makeup… Arrived Overnight.

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Updated @ 3 pm CDT: Seems the Tennessee AG, one Johnathan Skrmetti, thinks he’s some form of a latter day Geo. Wallace. He isn’t. He’s just an impotent old… loon. End update.

As expected, Tennessee cannot so restrict freedoms of speech and expression. So says this 70 page legal opinion.

This is an able federal court judge doing his level best to explain to hard right supposed “X-tians” in plain English why what they attempted is… deeply Un-American.

…Freedom of speech is not just about speech. It is also about the right to debate with fellow citizens on self-government, to discover the truth in the marketplace of ideas, to express one’s identity, and to realize self-fulfillment in a free society.

That freedom is of first importance to many Americans such that the United States Supreme Court has relaxed procedural requirements for citizens to vindicate their right to freedom of speech, while making it harder for the government to regulate it [footnotes omitted]….

…“It is… well established that speech may not be prohibited because it concerns subjects affecting our sensibilities….”; Reno v. A.C.L.U., 521 U.S. 844, 874 (1997) (reaffirming that the First Amendment protects sexual expression which is indecent but not obscene)….

After considering the briefs and evidence presented at trial, the Court finds that — despite Tennessee’s compelling interest in protecting the psychological and physical wellbeing of children — the Adult Entertainment Act (“AEA”) is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL restriction on the freedom of speech and PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendant Steven Mulroy from enforcing the unconstitutional statute….

Exactly. Onward, grinning into the sunshine. People are again freed, here in this fragile experiment with ordered liberty, to dance in any costume they please, regardless of the largely accidental shape of their genitalia at birth.

Updated: In an ironic footnote, the Powerline boys are actively promoting and supporting (as is their right, in my America) a media project from DailyWire that pushes the agenda that there are only two genders, and the same are immutably assigned at birth by some “god”. This, they say, is a vital issue of free speech — to have a platform for this supposed divinely ordained message. Yet these same chuckleheads will never rise to oppose laws that purport to restrict very much the same sort of discussions on the other side of the question (like the now dead TN AEA). I might ask: What are they so deathly afraid of? That people might express themselves in ways that make these old geezers… sexually excited — even though they are… dudes, underneath?! Is that all, boys? How is that… dangerous, to you?

In any event… Color me… unsurprised.

Smile….

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