Apparently Kamala Harris filled out an ACLU questionaire back in 2019 that revealed some pretty radical, but unsurprising (doubtless to everyone around here anyway) positions.
– End private prisons and illegal alien detention facilities;
– “Support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use”;
– Slash detention in illegal alien detention facilities by at least 50% and halt funding for the construction of new facilities;
– End the use of ICE detainers;
– “Pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million-plus people living in our communities”;
– Seek a federal moratorium on the death penalty;
– “Fight” to make Washington, D.C., a state;
– “Require states with a history of unconstitutionally restricting access to abortion to pre-clear any new law or practice with the Justice Department before it can be enacted”;
– Repeal the Hyde Amendment and “ensure that all insurers are required to provide full reproductive healthcare services”; and
Ensure that “federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained.”
I guess when CNN asked the Harris campaign about whether or not she still supports some or all of these positions, they got back what amounts to a non-answer:
the Harris campaign told KFile (CNN), “The vice president’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris administration.” The campaign added, “As president, she will take that same pragmatic approach, focusing on common-sense solutions for the sake of progress.”
Open thread: An article I found very interesting on whether the (British) common law is making a recovery in American legal jurisprudence:
I loved hearing the trumpet player’s story. George Martin said that Paul asked Mason to give it another try, and George had to tell Paul that Mason had just nailed it fine. If Paul weren’t a perfectionist, he wouldn’t be so great.
I was playing the B-flat cornet as a kid when the recording came out. We had the 45rpm single which we played often. I was enthralled with idea of a piccolo trumpet.
I’d seen the B-flat cornet and trumpet and the occasional C trumpet, but it wasn’t until later on a road trip with the band that someone was displaying a wide array of wind instruments, and they had a piccolo trumpet. If I recall correctly, someone played it too. Which I’m sure never would have happened but for that Beatles song.
I met David Mason on a music course in London almost 50 years ago. He conducted sectional rehearsals for the brass players and was clearly a fine musician and a nice guy. I asked him about his experience of recording the Penny Lane piccolo trumpet theme, and he was very blasé about it.
Get a letter from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in regards to Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS)?
On July 8, 2024 health info, Medicare claims data, personal ID info, etc. were “compromised in a cybersecurity incident involving MOVEit.”
Can enroll free for a year in Experian Identity Protection Monitoring Service.
If Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) is affected then they will send a new Medicare Card. That might be just for a Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) not regular Medicare users…I dunno.
Anyway, my bank does some kind of ID theft monitoring, so now I have two—at least for another year.
JD Vance sat for an interview with the guys from All in Podcast during their annual summit.
This is the best opportunity to understand why President Trump chose Vance as his running mate, IMO.
Couple this conversation with the Trump speech at the NY Economic Club as two of the best examples of what a Trump-Vance administration could do to unleash the American economy. Here is a shorter video where Trump answers questions following his speech.
Growing the economy is the only way out of our economic miasma of decline.
Smart Phones. Smart TVs. Except for computers—I probably run about 40-100 Tads behind. Would like to get more proficient with my Smart Phone – close to My Computers without building the phone. Still, no rush on the phone since it rarely gets used: Data > 0.02 Gigabytes. Messages > 68. Calls > 98 minutes. That was July and had a lot of calls with Doctors and their staff. June was probably normal @ 0.01 data – 40 messages – 24 minutes in calls. Looks like I’m using it more than I realized…still, not bad for $40 a month 5-G, new phone is included (2 years) plus tax.
Cut the Cable some years ago, and just watched DVDs & Blue-rays. Had recently used Plex, thru a computer hooked to TV, and the browser but Plex stuff didn’t seem sharp—almost blurry, but not quite. Free stuff…lots of it.
Did a search for Free TV the other day and came across all kinds of Free stuff. Tubi & Pluto TV for starters, but only Tubi so far. Apparently I am now “streaming” movies—WOW! Tubi is a lot sharper than Plex. There are “breaks” but they are very short and less noisy than the old TV commercials. Yes, this free streaming stuff is most excellent!
It seems that a great many people know of the financial trouble the US is facing with its debt, and yet virtually everyone feels it is an untouchable issue. I think the transition to that mode of thinking started with the Gingrich/Kasich failure to hold firm on the debt way back in the late 90’s.
The modus operandi of the Democrat party, when in power, is always to loot the treasury and raise taxes. However, it almost always happens that the spending legislation and implementation spins out of control and the actual amounts spent greatly exceed the amount budgeted.
So here is Elon Musk yesterday:
“If Trump wins – and obviously, I suspect there are people with mixed feelings about whether that should happen – we do have an opportunity to do kind of a once-in-a-lifetime deregulation and reduction in the size of government,” Musk said. “Because the other thing besides the regulations, America is also going bankrupt extremely quickly, and… everyone seems to be sort of whistling past the graveyard on this one.”
Musk made those comments during the All-In Summit.
He talked about a wide range of topics.
(0:00) Besties intro Elon Musk!
(4:01) The Battle of Free Speech
(13:03) Potential government efficiency agency
(30:23) SpaceX updates, overreaching regulations
(38:48) Thoughts on Boeing’s culture
(41:05) The 80/20 AI Future
(56:41) Elon and Jason share unaired SNL skits
A portion of the statement, see the link for the rest:
NEWS: @SpaceX has released a long new blog post criticizing how long it takes to get approval for Starship test flights, adding that they recently received a launch license date estimate of late November from the FAA, a more than two-month delay to the previously communicated date of mid-September.
SpaceX: “Unfortunately, we continue to be stuck in a reality where it takes longer to do the government paperwork to license a rocket launch than it does to design and build the actual hardware. This should never happen and directly threatens America’s position as the leader in space.
The Starship and Super Heavy vehicles for Flight 5 have been ready to launch since the first week of August. The flight test will include our most ambitious objective yet: attempt to return the Super Heavy booster to the launch site and catch it in mid-air.
This will be a singularly novel operation in the history of rocketry. SpaceX engineers have spent years preparing and months testing for the booster catch attempt, with technicians pouring tens of thousands of hours into building the infrastructure to maximize our chances for success. Every test comes with risk, especially those seeking to do something for the first time. SpaceX goes to the maximum extent possible on every flight to ensure that while we are accepting risk to our own hardware, we accept no compromises when it comes to ensuring public safety.
@ sdferr — perhaps the government is concerned about SpaceX continually upstaging NASA, and this is petty obstruction in return.
These objectives are crucial for CEO Elon Musk’s goal of sending unmanned vehicles to Mars within 2 years and manned crews in 4 years. This makes SpaceX, a private company, the only competitor to China, which is planning a Mars mission in 2028.
…
NASA, meanwhile, remains focused on the Artemis program started under President Trump in 2017 with plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, with the first lunar landing in late 2026. The program aims to establish a moon base for support in sending humans to Mars.
Or maybe the licensing bodies are just inept.
Or DEI hires, which is apparently the same thing now.
Or sand-bagging Musk because he (mostly?) supports Trump and (somewhat?) vice-versa.
Long, detailed responses to her candidate-era policy positions, pointing out how they contradict her previous statements, won’t work, attempt to blame Trump for the Democrats’ own disasters, and so forth.
Very well done.
Can anyone find any evidence of this happening[?]-
Here is an article on- possible, accidental, cannibalism:
”This makes SpaceX, a private company, the only competitor to China, which is planning a Mars mission in 2028.”
This is very misleading. China has no public plans to send a manned mission to Mars. The recently announced 2028 Mars mission is for an unmanned rover.
”NASA, meanwhile, remains focused on the Artemis program started under President Trump in 2017 with plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, with the first lunar landing in late 2026.”
The first manned landing was originally scheduled for late 2024 but has been delayed to at least 2027 because the lander being built by SpaceX is running 3-4 years behind schedule.
”…they recently received a launch license date estimate of late November from the FAA, a more than two-month delay to the previously communicated date of mid-September.”
That is because SpaceX recently changed its license request from a “landing” at sea to a request to catch the rocket midair using the launch tower. Had SpaceX instead gone with the landing mode they already had approval for they most likely would have had a license in hand by mid August, if not earlier.
This is not a trivial change. The Starship / Superheavy combo packs as much energy as a small tactical nuke, and SpaceX is attempting to perform this unprecedented catch landing only a few miles away from South Padre Island, an island inhabited by people and vacation resorts, and Boca Chica Village, a subdivision of single-family homes. SpaceX has never had a successful Starship flight, and they almost killed people with the first Superheavy flight. The FAA has every reason to be cautious.
SpaceX does some good work, but the FAA is tasked with protecting the public from flying objects. Objects with the energy of a small tactical nuke deserve special scrutiny.
@ mkent > thanks for the added context; I’m a “headline gleaner” these days, no time to do in-depth checking, so I appreciate the additional information.
Catch and release would be a bad thing.
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Apparently Kamala Harris filled out an ACLU questionaire back in 2019 that revealed some pretty radical, but unsurprising (doubtless to everyone around here anyway) positions.
I guess when CNN asked the Harris campaign about whether or not she still supports some or all of these positions, they got back what amounts to a non-answer:
Open thread: An article I found very interesting on whether the (British) common law is making a recovery in American legal jurisprudence:
https://lawliberty.org/the-return-of-the-common-law/
I loved hearing the trumpet player’s story. George Martin said that Paul asked Mason to give it another try, and George had to tell Paul that Mason had just nailed it fine. If Paul weren’t a perfectionist, he wouldn’t be so great.
I was playing the B-flat cornet as a kid when the recording came out. We had the 45rpm single which we played often. I was enthralled with idea of a piccolo trumpet.
I’d seen the B-flat cornet and trumpet and the occasional C trumpet, but it wasn’t until later on a road trip with the band that someone was displaying a wide array of wind instruments, and they had a piccolo trumpet. If I recall correctly, someone played it too. Which I’m sure never would have happened but for that Beatles song.
I met David Mason on a music course in London almost 50 years ago. He conducted sectional rehearsals for the brass players and was clearly a fine musician and a nice guy. I asked him about his experience of recording the Penny Lane piccolo trumpet theme, and he was very blasé about it.
Get a letter from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in regards to Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS)?
On July 8, 2024 health info, Medicare claims data, personal ID info, etc. were “compromised in a cybersecurity incident involving MOVEit.”
Can enroll free for a year in Experian Identity Protection Monitoring Service.
If Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) is affected then they will send a new Medicare Card. That might be just for a Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) not regular Medicare users…I dunno.
Anyway, my bank does some kind of ID theft monitoring, so now I have two—at least for another year.
JD Vance sat for an interview with the guys from All in Podcast during their annual summit.
This is the best opportunity to understand why President Trump chose Vance as his running mate, IMO.
Couple this conversation with the Trump speech at the NY Economic Club as two of the best examples of what a Trump-Vance administration could do to unleash the American economy. Here is a shorter video where Trump answers questions following his speech.
Growing the economy is the only way out of our economic miasma of decline.
In conversation with JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMxcM3ZcVmM
BREAKING NEWS: Trump Takes Question After Question About The Economy, National Security, And More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f92WNzXoabg
Smart Phones. Smart TVs. Except for computers—I probably run about 40-100 Tads behind. Would like to get more proficient with my Smart Phone – close to My Computers without building the phone. Still, no rush on the phone since it rarely gets used: Data > 0.02 Gigabytes. Messages > 68. Calls > 98 minutes. That was July and had a lot of calls with Doctors and their staff. June was probably normal @ 0.01 data – 40 messages – 24 minutes in calls. Looks like I’m using it more than I realized…still, not bad for $40 a month 5-G, new phone is included (2 years) plus tax.
Cut the Cable some years ago, and just watched DVDs & Blue-rays. Had recently used Plex, thru a computer hooked to TV, and the browser but Plex stuff didn’t seem sharp—almost blurry, but not quite. Free stuff…lots of it.
Did a search for Free TV the other day and came across all kinds of Free stuff. Tubi & Pluto TV for starters, but only Tubi so far. Apparently I am now “streaming” movies—WOW! Tubi is a lot sharper than Plex. There are “breaks” but they are very short and less noisy than the old TV commercials. Yes, this free streaming stuff is most excellent!
It seems that a great many people know of the financial trouble the US is facing with its debt, and yet virtually everyone feels it is an untouchable issue. I think the transition to that mode of thinking started with the Gingrich/Kasich failure to hold firm on the debt way back in the late 90’s.
The modus operandi of the Democrat party, when in power, is always to loot the treasury and raise taxes. However, it almost always happens that the spending legislation and implementation spins out of control and the actual amounts spent greatly exceed the amount budgeted.
So here is Elon Musk yesterday:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-says-america-going-bankrupt-extremely-quickly
Musk made those comments during the All-In Summit.
He talked about a wide range of topics.
(0:00) Besties intro Elon Musk!
(4:01) The Battle of Free Speech
(13:03) Potential government efficiency agency
(30:23) SpaceX updates, overreaching regulations
(38:48) Thoughts on Boeing’s culture
(41:05) The 80/20 AI Future
(56:41) Elon and Jason share unaired SNL skits
In conversation with Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSFvOUswFwA
More important even, IMO, was the JD Vance interview.
This is the sort of return Musk gets for his troubles: https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1833528847838437584
A portion of the statement, see the link for the rest:
@ sdferr — perhaps the government is concerned about SpaceX continually upstaging NASA, and this is petty obstruction in return.
https://notthebee.com/article/four-spacex-astronauts-are-currently-on-their-way-into-higher-orbit-than-any-human-has-been-in-decades-
Or maybe the licensing bodies are just inept.
Or DEI hires, which is apparently the same thing now.
Or sand-bagging Musk because he (mostly?) supports Trump and (somewhat?) vice-versa.
https://notthebee.com/article/the-worlds-richest-man-hosted-trump-for-a-candid-talk-that-everyone-could-listen-to-freely-and-this-is-how-usa-today-framed-it
https://notthebee.com/article/watch-trump-says-he-will-appoint-elon-musk-to-head-government-efficiency-commission-to-wipe-out-government-waste—this-will-save-trillions-of-dollars
Vance is looking good in this fisking of the Harris “platform” —
https://notthebee.com/article/kamala-harris-finally-put-some-policy-positions-on-her-website
Long, detailed responses to her candidate-era policy positions, pointing out how they contradict her previous statements, won’t work, attempt to blame Trump for the Democrats’ own disasters, and so forth.
Very well done.
Can anyone find any evidence of this happening[?]-
Here is an article on- possible, accidental, cannibalism:
https://conservativefiringline.com/dead-humans-liquefied-then-fed-back-to-the-population-via-fertilizer-on-crops/
”This makes SpaceX, a private company, the only competitor to China, which is planning a Mars mission in 2028.”
This is very misleading. China has no public plans to send a manned mission to Mars. The recently announced 2028 Mars mission is for an unmanned rover.
”NASA, meanwhile, remains focused on the Artemis program started under President Trump in 2017 with plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, with the first lunar landing in late 2026.”
The first manned landing was originally scheduled for late 2024 but has been delayed to at least 2027 because the lander being built by SpaceX is running 3-4 years behind schedule.
”…they recently received a launch license date estimate of late November from the FAA, a more than two-month delay to the previously communicated date of mid-September.”
That is because SpaceX recently changed its license request from a “landing” at sea to a request to catch the rocket midair using the launch tower. Had SpaceX instead gone with the landing mode they already had approval for they most likely would have had a license in hand by mid August, if not earlier.
This is not a trivial change. The Starship / Superheavy combo packs as much energy as a small tactical nuke, and SpaceX is attempting to perform this unprecedented catch landing only a few miles away from South Padre Island, an island inhabited by people and vacation resorts, and Boca Chica Village, a subdivision of single-family homes. SpaceX has never had a successful Starship flight, and they almost killed people with the first Superheavy flight. The FAA has every reason to be cautious.
SpaceX does some good work, but the FAA is tasked with protecting the public from flying objects. Objects with the energy of a small tactical nuke deserve special scrutiny.
@ mkent > thanks for the added context; I’m a “headline gleaner” these days, no time to do in-depth checking, so I appreciate the additional information.
Catch and release would be a bad thing.