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Open thread 10/25/2024

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There are very few apples left on the trees at the orchard, and even those are way past their prime. Nevertheless quite beautiful, I think:

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Open thread 10/25/2024 — 26 Comments

  1. 11,183 active eligible voters in Dixie county, Florida, tho that may be up as of 10/25/24 – w/ 2,214 DEM, 7,040 REP, and 1,964 Others. As a NPA voter I fall under Other. Moved here in 2009 and there is a big shift in parties since then – had lots of “Blue Dog” DEMs back then.

    If Trump allows Russia to take Ukraine then I’ll be voting against the Republican party—and their candidates in the future.

    Early voted this morning – having decided to vote against the Democratic party candidates. Just filled in the REP oval area.

    Had six Amendments – voted for #3 to “Legalizes recreational marijuana”.

    May vote by mail next time…

  2. How on earth did we get to a point where people like this have power?

    https://archive.md/Q0dV5

    Ms. Thorndike was a legislative assistant to Bernie Sanders and policy director for the leftwing Rewiring America. “To electrify everything, you’ll need to replace any machine that currently burns fossil fuels—your gas-powered car, furnace, water heater, kitchen stove and dryer,” the outfit explains.

  3. So another one has come out of the woodwork, accusing Trump of groping her at a beauty pagent. Are we going to get one a day now?

  4. Technofog has the receipts its about a clean energy grift (no such animal) the timeline doesnt make any sense

  5. This:
    https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1849081097113702607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849081097113702607%7Ctwgr%5E4d0e8aa4ce8f65ee1e81ddbaa5b84498d62ae1f8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delawarenewshub.com%2F2024%2F10%2F25%2Fthursdays-final-word-politics-7%2F

    Is brutal!

    Well worth 2 minutes and 7 seconds of your time. It’s a black, mostly female audience in Philadelphia on MSNBC and they accurately and devastatingly outline Harris’ flaws.

    Trump might get 538 electoral college votes.

  7. Our friends in the mountains had a whole-house generator running on natural gas for a week and a half before the power came back on. It kept the fridge and freezer going, and more importantly, it kept the sump pump going. They had no damage. No thanks, I don’t want all-electric.

  9. It seems like VA ought to say fine, we’ll leave them on the rolls as provisional voters and hold their ballots until their eligibility can be individually determined. So let ’em vote, but don’t count the vote until election authorities are convinced they’re eligible to vote.

  12. crasey: I would say let ’em vote, but only count their vote if their eligibility is demonstrated BEFORE 7:00 pm Nov. 5. Even if they are demonstrably eligible, but that information arrives after the close of the polls, their vote should not count.

  13. The budget of the CIA and NSA total $89 billion annually– which is more than the defense budgets of every country sans two– the US and China. But is that the actual budget? We don’t know and have no way of knowing, along with an additional 150 agencies of the federal government with the implementation of Standard 56 of the FASAB in 2019. These agencies can move money from one line item to another in the public accounting, as long as it is for “national security”.

    This also applies to private companies, as long as it is for “national security”.

    From a story by Matt Taibi in 2019:

    …FASAB issued a news release about SFFAS 56. The text of the new rule strongly resembled the original proposal. The money quote:

    This Statement permits the following

    – an entity to modify information required by other standards if the effect of the modification does not change the net results of operations or net position;

    – a component reporting entity to be excluded from one reporting entity and consolidated into another reporting entity

    In plain English, the new guidance allowed federal agencies to “modify” public financial statements, with essentially a two-book system. Public statements would at best be unreliable, while the real books would be audited in “classified environment[s]” by certain designated officials.

    When I asked FASAB who would be doing the auditing in “classified environment[s],” they answered:

    “Please contact the federal entity’s Office of the Inspector General for questions pertaining to who does the auditing in a classified environment.”

    This new rule is not confined to a few spy agencies. It appears to allow a stunningly long list of federal agencies to make use of new authority to “modify” public financial statements.

    The Treasury Department’s definition of a “component reporting entity” includes 154 different agencies and bodies, from the Smithsonian Foundation to the CIA to the SEC to the Farm Credit Administration to the Railroad Retirement Board. The notion that any of these agencies could now submit altered public financial reports under the rubric of national security is mind-boggling.

    Given how dishonest the DHS has been about border crossings for the last nearly 4 years, the fact the Labor department had been exaggerating employment numbers and had to significantly downgrade them, why would be trust anything coming from the federal government.

    There has been little reporting about this change in accounting practices by the federal government, and it’s been going on for several years.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/secret-government-spending-779959/

    https://missingmoney.solari.com/fasab-standard-56-and-the-authority-of-the-director-of-national-intelligence-to-waive-sec-financial-reporting/

  14. This is why JD Vance is the vice-president candidate!

    Kind of a sneaky way to potentially interject tension in the interview, Cuomo has President Trump call in and ask a question. It’s obvious Vance wasn’t part of the setup.

    Vance’s answer is brilliant.

    Trump asks Vance in town hall: ‘How brilliant is Donald J. Trump?’ | Vance Town Hall

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jUVxAwzw1Q

  15. Some kind of 28 year old “OnlyFans model” & “influencer” just retired with $67million in the bank!?! Who said ‘Blondes are dumb’?!

    She revealed on her friend David Dobrik’s YouTube channel that she made ‘a little over’ $1 million within 48 hours of launching her profile.

  16. Re: Travel guitar

    Nonapod:

    My Yamaha FS830 acoustic guitar arrived and it’s great and it’s beautiful. Quite light too — a little over 4 lbs. I tuned it easily and it doesn’t seem to need any other setup. And well, it’s Yamaha, a brand which has yet to disappoint me.

    It’s a small body guitar, so it doesn’t have a great booming sound like the dreadnought sizes. But that’s just fine. I don’t plan to perform with it. For me it will be a guitar for practicing while on the road.

    Its small body size also means its scale length is within 1/4″ as that of my electric Les Paul, so the finger positions on the fretboard are close to identical.

    From learning French I’ve learned to think in terms of daily practice. Keep it interesting, keep it fun and keep it up. The journey is the reward.

  17. Look, I’m not supposed to say it… But we are leading by so much.

    –President Donald J. Trump
    https://youtu.be/GaVEdnEary4?t=158

    So it seems to me. I’m voting early tomorrow in the UNM Student Union. Many Republicans have been voting early too.

    Even New Mexico may be in play. Maybe. I’m sure the polls underestimate Trump as usual for whatever reasons.

    If one considers where Trump was a year ago and all the lies, lawfare, and even assassination attempts thrown at him, this is the most epic battle for the presidency I’ve seen in my lifetime.

    Good thing too. I’m an optimistic fellow but four years of Kamala & Cabal would be perilous.

  20. sdferr:

    Thanks for the news. If Israel is attacking Tehran, that means Game On!

    Since I’m an inveterate dot-connector, I’ve got to wonder if this relates to the improving odds of a Trump victory.

  21. huxley, I came here to ask you if New Mexico could actually be in play.

    Kate:

    I think it’s a heavy lift, but if current Trump momentum continues, it’s possible.

    Kamala is such an unbelievably bad candidate. Democrats have brought this on themselves.

    Preference cascade ho!

  22. Simone Ledeen:

    As things become more clear it does look as though Israel may be setting up air corridors and aiming to control the skies for a longer, multi-wave campaign.

    https://x.com/SimoneLedeen/status/1849992820133679382

    No reports as yet to follow three waves of Israeli strikes, but that could change, depending on how Iran reacts. Taking down Iranian air defenses first may simply be a preparatory step anticipating Iranian retaliations, which then invite further Israeli action. We’ll wait to see.

  24. IDF:

    The Full English Statement by the Spokesman for the Israel Defense Force, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari following tonight’s Strike Operation against Military Targets inside Iran, “The IDF fulfilled its Mission. If the Regime in Iran were to make the Mistake, of beginning of New Round of Escalation, we will be obligated to Respond.”

    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1850017430485061686

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