Category: Uncategorized

[U: Paul M. Agrees… With Me.] This Isn’t News — At All. That’s The Truth, John.

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

UPDATED — 08.14.2020 @ 9 PM EDT: Ever the careful student of all matters Israel, John’s fellow blogger, Paul M., agrees with me — by saying tonight essentially that the “Boy Kushner” has delivered… a big zero here. Hilarious. End, updated portion.

Hinderaker laments that the press is not genuflecting deeply enough, before Trump — about the day’s UAE news (in which Trump played almost no role, according to people who know, inside Israel)….

Precious.

In truth, it is devoid of any commitments on either side.

It is… once again… a red herring.

A nothing. Wake up John.

Out.

So… Trump Admits He Is Now Directly Resisting Funding The Post Office — To Suppress Mail-In Voting. That’s A 10-Year Felony Under 18 USC §§ 241 and 242.

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

I will make this short — and direct.

Maybe he –and/or his chuckle-headed handlers — will thus understand it: That’s an on-video-tape admission, by the sitting president, of a… felony. 18 USC §§ 241 and 242 provide, as relevant here, that using state action — including willful funding with-holdings, from the USPS, for the purpose of preventing qualified voters from voting (see pages 52-55 here) is a crime:

…Section 241 makes it a ten-year felony to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” any person in the free exercise of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States” – including the right to vote. The statute, which is discussed in detail above, has potential application in two forms of voter intimidation: a conspiracy to prevent persons whom the subjects knew were qualified voters from entering or getting to the polls to vote in an election when a federal candidate is on the ballot, and a conspiracy to misuse state authority to prevent qualified voters from voting for any candidate in any election….

[For example, courts have found Section 241 was violated when the conduct included] intentionally jamming telephone lines to disrupt a political party’s get-out-the-vote or ride-to-the-polls efforts, and schemes to vandalize motor vehicles that a political faction or party intended to use to get voters to the polls…. In re Coy, 127 U.S. 731 (1888)….

That’s from an official DoJ — at doj.gov — primer on “how to” prosecute election fraud — that’s why I linked to it on the web, not my server. This man is a straight up moronic… crook.

[Of course, no one on Powerline blog will mention it — least of all, John because he is too busy… complaining childishly — about what Hinderaker wrongly perceives as “permissive” British asylum rules. Funny thing, though: both the US, and the UK, have signed the same Protocol on Protection of Refugees. It’s just that the UK has been actually honoring its treaties — and the US, under Trump… has not been. Just shut it, Hinderaker.]

Onward — grinning, just the same — after a bike ride by the lake, with my grown baby girl. Same as it ever was….

नमस्ते

Sad Update, In Our Night-Sky Studies: Arecibo Is Offline. Damaged. We Re-Run One — On The Chinese Successor To It — From A Few Septembers Ago.

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

This is particularly tough news — given that significant new funds were needed, just to keep it running, before the accident. NPR reports that it is uncertain when — or whether — the repairs will get underway. Thus:

“…A broken cable at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory has torn a gaping 100-foot hole in the dish of one of the largest radio telescopes in the world, taking the instrument offline until repairs can be made.

Arecibo’s massive reflector dish, which is built inside a sinkhole in northern Puerto Rico, was damaged when a 3-inch diameter support cable unexpectedly snapped before dawn on Monday, according to the University of Central Florida, which manages the observatory….”

This may well mean that the below dish, on the opposite side of the planet, becomes the default world standard source — as rebuilding will be daunting now, on the island of Puerto Rico. Sad — but true. See below.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My prior post may be viewed, here.

[U: Rep. Omar wins.] John Shows A Photo Of Only White People… To Blame BLM Chicago — For A Sign… YAWN.

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

Updated, after midnight: Also no surprise, but John, Paul, Scott and Steve are to a man mum — about the fact that despite their bigotry-tinged attacks, it is now a near certainty Rep. Omar will keep her seat in the US House, and represent Hinderaker, there. Poetic. End — updated portion.

Again, more of the same from Hinderaker, tonight. Racism, on the hoof.

His headline falsely claims this is an official BLM sign. If you click on the image at right you will see the exact way he uploaded it to his “opinion” tonight.

I’ve just taken the liberty of highlighting what would be obvious — to any casual observer: the only people holding the sign… are white. His agitprop is missing… people of color.

Y A W N….

Yet Hinderaker represents it as an official photo of BLM Chicago. It is not.

I was there, that night. I know, from my own eyes and ears — this was not endorsed.

[Of course I do not condone looting, or violence. I know the better way. The “good trouble” way.]

So… once again, John proves that he needs to lie — about race — to advance his supposed narrative.

He really is a sad… sack. And his time will soon come to a welcome… end; he will die an embittered old man — eating lukewarm oatmeal in a dilapidated senior center — outside Minneapolis.

Karma….

The News Had Broken Less Than 20 Minutes Earlier, When Hinderaker Showed His Desire To Advance Race-Tinged Libel Against The VP Nominee.

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

Not at all… surprising.

True to form. And so… John, of him. “The older he gets, the more it brings out the… John, in him….”

See here:

“…JOHN adds: I just did a bit on the Howie Carr show, and Howie closed by noting that in his upcoming column he is going to write that Harris got her start working under Willie Brown. Happy days are here again!….”

This is the dis-information fog the hard (of hearing!), frothy right hopes to create… surrounding the future Veep. [Trump today said her selection is “an insult” to all American… men.]

Charming.

Just… Imagine how chapped their flat lil’ white hinnies are going to be… when she’s their… 47th President, in a few years. Already grinning, ear to ear, about that.

Onward.

“Um, Sir… This Is A Taco Bell.” That Is –This Is A THIRD-PARTY Criminal Subpoena.

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

It is… endlessly puzzling that Trump’s lawyers think that he may interminably question and litigate an issue that has been decided against him, in every court to consider it — all the way up to and through… the Supremes. [Now sent back down, into the Manhattan US District court, for enforcement.]

But it is… beyond the pale, that his lawyers think they can prevent the state government of New York, from gathering evidence from third parties, including accountants and banks, by regular, garden-variety processes — ones that all us private citizens live under. Even so, once again overnight, Trump argues that he can prevent his personal accountants and bankers from complying with a lawfully issued grand jury subpoena — related to a felony bank and tax fraud investigation… of him and his business entities, in their personal — not presidential, capacities.

To be sure, Trump (preposterously) thinks everything he does, or ever did, from birth onward should literally glisten with the “pixie dust“, of some magical, but wholly imaginary executive privilege.

Thus my line about it being a Taco Bell window. It is a dead question — one he seeks to endlessly relitigate (an old issue, that Nixon and Clinton both lost on — in what were clearly much closer questions). Without any new evidence, he simply says the state of New York looking to enforce its bank fraud laws (against him as a private citizen)… is “harassment.” How very… Alphonse Capone-esque, of him. [He says they are perfect — and he is innocent — but these are not the moves of an innocent man.]

I won’t quote it — as it is… like the client it was authored for — a… loser.

Onward… smiling, but sadly so, at all the overnight violence here.

नमस्ते

Or, John… “You Can Fool MOST Of The People — Some Of The Time…”

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

Hinderaker crows about Fox‘s viewership, of this summer (of no sports) — in the 8 pm-to-11 pm slot. It is not news.

It is opinion. And illogical — opinion, almost without exception. [“Fox lies — get eyes“, as they say….]

But take your sad little victory lap, John — come November, “most of the people” will make true, that old bon mot, widely attributed to… Mr. Lincoln. They can’t be fooled all of the time.

And, they won’t be fooled, again, any time soon — to quote The Who.

Of equal moment, then — your time, such as it was… will be at an end.

Onward.

“All Sound & Fury… Signifying NOTHING” — Part II: Resist Trump’s Lawless End Runs Around “Checks And Balances” Edition

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

The Speaker of the House called it all “an illusion” — and “inconsequential… absurdly unconstitutional… slop“. She is spot-on. [And John Hinderaker has been immensely taciturn — even as he wants to tout recovery measures, generally — since he clearly knows it is lawless. Paul M. has called it “good politics” — which is code for… it is lawless. If President Obama had tried any such thing, there would have been howls and cries, replete with claims of a red scare — and a socialist takeover, from these pearl clutchers.]

Trump’s actions are… pure theater — and even he (a “bear of very little brain“) well knows it. [BTW, I do love that Hinderaker accepts advertising to “Thank President Obama for Standing Up To Trump” — on his own website — see my updated masthead graphic far right margin, for proof of that! The boys must be positively desparate — for ad revenue.]

But back on topic, now: McConnell is the road block — not the House Democrats — don’t be hoodwinked. We, the people, need a comprehensive set of safety net measures — not just a band-aid until November. This will be a multi-year road to return to fuller employment for most workers without advanced degrees. And, if accepted, Trump’s lawless “paper dictates” would permanently gut Social Security. It is in fact a take-away, disguised as a “hand-out“.

It. Must. Be. Opposed.

In the courts, if need be — but McConnell may well gamble and lose his seat over this, if he doesn’t agree to more fulsome, and longer term relief — in line with the Democratic suggestions. Resist — onward.

नमस्ते

Sarah Fabian Has Now Filed TWO Appeals — In Flores — To The Ninth Circuit…

~ condor ~ Leave a comment

It is highly unlikely that an appeals court is going to invalidate post-judgment enforcement orders, in 35 year old civil federal class action litigation, especially one settled by the acgreement of the government — by reforming the government’s practices.

The notion here is that the government was in the wrong, back when Ronald Reagan was President, and committed abuses against asylum seekers, among others.

Thus, the settlement agreement is to be given “remediative” effect, by the reviewing courts. Puzzlingly, Ms. Fabian appeals as though the trial court is not allowed to shape the relief, when she, Barr, and Trump commit all new violations of the law. In sum, “this is not her first rodeo” — she ought to know… better.

That’s just… silly — and as was also noted Friday, by the court — it is… “disingenuous“. Here is a link to the later arriving of the appeals, as a four page PDF, and a bit of it, as an image:

Now you know — this is mostly just to keep a complete record, here. Onward.

नमस्ते