This effort to enact the Equal Rights Amendment by fiat is evidently not just a Biden senior moment. Jonathan Turley details extensive Democrat efforts to make this happen. The whole Democrat party is in dementia (supported by allegedly Republican senators Murkowski and Collins). (Posted on yesterday’s open thread, late.)
12 degrees and 6 inches of snow. Staying in for a while before maybe going out to snowblow the drive. Going to get below zero this weekend.
This effort to enact the Equal Rights Amendment by fiat is evidently not just a Biden senior moment.
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The culture of the Democratic Party is suffused with mendacity.
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Mr. Turley’s comment boards usually have at least one blockhead palaeolibertarian. You can see the comments of two of them maintaining that the 16th and 17th Amendments were never ratified.
A voice teacher years ago, in the only voice class open to non-music majors at my school (Voice For Musical Theater), wouldn’t let us close our eyes while singing because it disconnects the singer from the audience. I wonder whether she would have given the same counsel to non-theater voice students – I suspect so. I have to say it has bugged me ever since; she made me see it, forevermore, as weirdly inward, when what you’re trying to do in performance is entirely outward.
(Not in performance – in the car, in the shower, whatever – maybe that’s different!)
Jamie:
Yes, I also found closing of her eyes took me out of her singing, away from her lovely voice.
8-11 years old attended school in England – not on the military bases, but in two different English schools. Great people…teachers and students. Well, one woman teacher seemed to love caning humble sometimes rowdy young me. Maybe I’ve mentioned here before. I could jerk the hand back, drop it, quickly curl the fingers, etc., but she never missed the tips of my fingers—durn…that cane sure hurts those tips. Even the tips she didn’t hit seemed to hurt afterwards…!?
Don’t know if it was a singing class, but we were singing (later learned the English were into singing), and ‘Miss Master Caner’ – oh she who administered corporal punishment so effortlessly – sent me to the Headmaster (school had ‘Miss Master Caner’ and a Headmaster) for singing lessons.
After 30-minutes or so – Headmaster said I was “hopeless” and sent me back to ‘Miss Master Caner’. Didn’t know what hopeless meant back then—figured it meant not to bad until I got home that day and told mom. She laughed and explained it to me.
A guest post by Grok, with editorial supervision by David Foster
We hit the debt ceiling in three days.
Jamie, please please do not close your eyes while your are singing (and driving) in the car. In the shower is OK if it helps.
I sometimes find it comforting to just close my eyes for a short while. Block out the extra information or stimulus from visual inputs.
I have a theory/hypothesis that introverts such as myself (who make up 25 to 50% of the population depending on who you read) are more sensitive to environmental stimuli and thus are uncomfortable in large and noisey parties, etc. In contrast, extroverts, such as Bill Clinton or Trump, are less sensitive to these inputs and thus need and want more stimuli to engage with their envrionment.
Not a hard and fast result for all people in all situtations, but a somewhat general response.
Art Deco on January 18, 2025 at 4:59 pm said:
“We hit the debt ceiling in three days.”
The real issue is just when is it going to hit back?
DAVID FOSTER on January 18, 2025 at 1:15 pm said:
“Retrotech: An automated flour mill in 1785.”
Thinking about the issues that inventor had with patent violators, etc., and not achieving the level of reward justly due to him:
1) considering the role that innovation and IP plays and will play in our future
2) the tort abuses that are still all too common
3) that sometimes some innovators do what they can to keep their ideas underwraps as much as possible but don’t bother with the patent route as they expect to advance beyond their current invention by then:
I was wondering if having purchasers sign an NDA, and contracturally requiring them to have their employees or other viewers of their “private invention” sign an NDA, too, would that provide better legal and financial protections for some situations than going the patent route??
Just another open-thread comment about something I read.
Perplexity AI is trying to work out a deal to merge with TikTok. I have no idea what the resulting product would look like, or whether it would have any ties with the CCP.
Is this good news or bad news? Should we welcome an addictive, massively popular, Chinese Communist, artificial intelligence espionage system? Sounds like fun for the youths.
Mike Huckabee, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel, stated that the responsibility of rebuilding Gaza is “the responsibility of the people who messed this up, and that was Hamas, funded by the Iranians.” And argued that if Iran and Hamas have enough money to build weapons and tunnels, they should have some money to rebuild and aid civilians.
America should not spend 1-cent in the rebuilding of Gaza!!! Trump would get one in the Trump Tally list’s Strong column for that!
Have an X account – X was called something else before Musk stole it from the Progressives – and I find it interesting to see what posts of mine that people seem to like most. Russia’s reinvasion of Ukraine usually gets 100 or more views. Hamas and Israel’s war gets close to 200 quite often. The LA fire got a 100 or so on some and closer to 50 on others—bashing mayor Bass got 127 views and a like. Don’t get many likes, and I have comments shut off for my posts.
Post ‘Remember Oct 7 – ‘Families Melted Together’ after being tied together with wire and burned alive got 96 views. Post ‘Rebuilding Gaza Is Responsibility of Hamas, Iran’ from a Breitbart article on what Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel—Mike Huckabee said about Gaza getting rebuilt got 197 views.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to sign more than 200 executive orders on Monday – his first day back in office after four years.
Fox News reported Sunday that the executive orders will focus on border security, energy, cost of living reductions and ending DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – programs throughout the federal government.
Trump will start his ‘retribution’ tour by attempting to yank the security clearances from the 51 intelligence officials who said in 2020 that Hunter Biden’s laptop was likely a Russian disinformation campaign.
The incoming president will also try to rename the Gulf of Mexico – to the Gulf of America – and establish biological sex definitions, after Republicans went after transgender Americans during the 2024 campaign cycle.
Karmi:
That quote from the Daily Mail is a good example of how the media distorts things – and that paper isn’t even a leftist one. “Went after transgender Americans?” Hardly. The GOP “went after” biological post-pubescent men competing in women’s sports, and “went after” the medical transition of children.
“attempting to yank the security clearances from the 51 intelligence officials”
That fight should be entertaining. Clearances and access to classified information are held to be exclusively in the purview of the Executive Branch. An administrative termination of a clearance is a simple matter, and is generally not subject to appeal.
It will be interesting to see if through legal maneuvering, a court somewhere holds that one of these 51 individuals has a right to access national security information and that such a right eclipses the Government’s national security interest.
Imagine the doors that such a ruling would open. Why wouldn’t you or I have the same right?
neo: Yeah, I had highlighted “establish biological sex definitions” in that paragraph – thinking that the “Republicans went after transgender Americans” addition was poorly expressed/written. Didn’t see it as a distortion tho. Know what you mean, but just didn’t see it that way following “establish biological sex definitions”.
We look at written communication differently—probably. Am a terrible reader compared to you, but I do pretty good at deciphering short news articles and most blog posts. Writers make mistakes all the time—even the best of them, IMHO. Still, like you suggest, many are written to distort, mislead, out right lie, etc. Readers need to be able to decipher such – or else they are probably ill-informed.
Not sure where written communication falls on the Communication Scale, but just discovered last year that Verbal Communication only ‘Accounts for about 7% of the total communication in face-to-face interactions‘.
Vocal Communication ‘(Tone, Pitch, and Volume): Makes up about 38% of communication.’
Nonverbal Communication ‘(Body Language): Accounts for about 55% of communication.‘
Those stats surprised me…
In a sane security world, no one would retain a security clearance after leaving govt service except a few folks with specific “need to know”, perhaps for a few months of consultation on what they were involved with prior to termination. Maybe forever for past presidents and VP’s, and for several years for a selected group of Congressional committee heads?
Or if they gained employment with a defense or intelligence contractor with real contracts and not just lobbying equivalence.
But we also might want/need to restrict any form of lobbying or regulatory response role for a few years (2 to 6?) after retirement, etc., depending on the rank and position of the more senior people. Public service should mean public service, not with a goal of eventual private gain beyond the experience itself.
New year — new dreams!!
Just remembered – so a slight correction or update to 9:52 pm:
Those stats surprised me…
They shouldn’t have surprised me. Have always hated to talk personal over the phone – especially with chicks I was interested in. Why? Apparently I needed to hear/see their “Tone, Pitch, and Volume” better, and to also see their “Body Language” (accounts for 55% of communication).
Open Thread Sunday: Russian War on Ukraine
Ukrainian Equipment Reserves (2025) – Production, Aid & Equipment Attrition – Perun
00:00:00 — Opening Words
00:00:53 — What Am I Talking About?
00:03:06 — the Ukrainian Equipment Model
00:05:55 — Assumptions and Adjustments
00:08:41 — IFVs
00:18:18 — Reconciling Losses
00:29:44 — MBTs
00:40:29 — APCs, IMVs & MRAPs
00:44:55 — Aircraft
00:54:18 — Notes and Trends
01:02:02 — Channel Update
Neo,
Thanks for calling out the Daily Mail’s leftist slanted language.
Also, The incoming president will also try to…establish biological sex definitions
Huh? First World/21st Century Problems? How about reverting to what has been common knowledge since Adam and Eve, and stop defining deviancy down?
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R2L wrote
In a sane security world, no one would retain a security clearance after leaving govt service except a few folks with specific “need to know”, perhaps for a few months of consultation on what they were involved with prior to termination. Maybe forever for past presidents and VP’s, and for several years for a selected group of Congressional committee heads?
I would oppose this for Presidents and VPs, since Clinton, Obama and Biden and many in Congress are arguably traitors.
So, on his way out the door, Biden has also just issued pardons to Dr. Fauci, to Gen. Milley, and to the members of Congress on the January 6th committee—Cheyney and Kinzinger –as well as staff members who also participated in this witch hunt.
Biden’s signing statement says that none of these pardons mean that those pardoned are guilty of anything, but why pardon someone before any charges are laid against them if they are innocent, and can prove so in a court of law?
This is a gross abuse of the pardon power, and measures will have to be taken to see that this power will not be abused in the future. *
P.S. Biden even pardoned the Capitol police who testified in front of the Committee.
As I understand it, such pardons strip away the 5th Amendment rights of those pardoned, so they cannot refuse to testify if called before Congress.
The pardon includes now-Sen. Adam Schiff, who can now be as destructive as possible for him in the Senate without fear of paying the price for his years of lies.
The blanket pardons are nauseating.
Limiting the abuse of this power would require a constitutional amendment. When we elect a chief executive who entirely lacks ethics, we pay the price as a nation.
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This effort to enact the Equal Rights Amendment by fiat is evidently not just a Biden senior moment. Jonathan Turley details extensive Democrat efforts to make this happen. The whole Democrat party is in dementia (supported by allegedly Republican senators Murkowski and Collins). (Posted on yesterday’s open thread, late.)
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/11/amendments-by-acclamation-democrats-move-to-simply-declare-the-equal-rights-amendment-as-ratified/
12 degrees and 6 inches of snow. Staying in for a while before maybe going out to snowblow the drive. Going to get below zero this weekend.
This effort to enact the Equal Rights Amendment by fiat is evidently not just a Biden senior moment.
==
The culture of the Democratic Party is suffused with mendacity.
==
Mr. Turley’s comment boards usually have at least one blockhead palaeolibertarian. You can see the comments of two of them maintaining that the 16th and 17th Amendments were never ratified.
A voice teacher years ago, in the only voice class open to non-music majors at my school (Voice For Musical Theater), wouldn’t let us close our eyes while singing because it disconnects the singer from the audience. I wonder whether she would have given the same counsel to non-theater voice students – I suspect so. I have to say it has bugged me ever since; she made me see it, forevermore, as weirdly inward, when what you’re trying to do in performance is entirely outward.
(Not in performance – in the car, in the shower, whatever – maybe that’s different!)
Jamie:
Yes, I also found closing of her eyes took me out of her singing, away from her lovely voice.
8-11 years old attended school in England – not on the military bases, but in two different English schools. Great people…teachers and students. Well, one woman teacher seemed to love caning humble sometimes rowdy young me. Maybe I’ve mentioned here before. I could jerk the hand back, drop it, quickly curl the fingers, etc., but she never missed the tips of my fingers—durn…that cane sure hurts those tips. Even the tips she didn’t hit seemed to hurt afterwards…!?
Don’t know if it was a singing class, but we were singing (later learned the English were into singing), and ‘Miss Master Caner’ – oh she who administered corporal punishment so effortlessly – sent me to the Headmaster (school had ‘Miss Master Caner’ and a Headmaster) for singing lessons.
After 30-minutes or so – Headmaster said I was “hopeless” and sent me back to ‘Miss Master Caner’. Didn’t know what hopeless meant back then—figured it meant not to bad until I got home that day and told mom. She laughed and explained it to me.
Retrotech: An automated flour mill in 1785.
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72922.html
A guest post by Grok, with editorial supervision by David Foster
We hit the debt ceiling in three days.
Jamie, please please do not close your eyes while your are singing (and driving) in the car. In the shower is OK if it helps.
I sometimes find it comforting to just close my eyes for a short while. Block out the extra information or stimulus from visual inputs.
I have a theory/hypothesis that introverts such as myself (who make up 25 to 50% of the population depending on who you read) are more sensitive to environmental stimuli and thus are uncomfortable in large and noisey parties, etc. In contrast, extroverts, such as Bill Clinton or Trump, are less sensitive to these inputs and thus need and want more stimuli to engage with their envrionment.
Not a hard and fast result for all people in all situtations, but a somewhat general response.
Art Deco on January 18, 2025 at 4:59 pm said:
“We hit the debt ceiling in three days.”
The real issue is just when is it going to hit back?
DAVID FOSTER on January 18, 2025 at 1:15 pm said:
“Retrotech: An automated flour mill in 1785.”
Thinking about the issues that inventor had with patent violators, etc., and not achieving the level of reward justly due to him:
1) considering the role that innovation and IP plays and will play in our future
2) the tort abuses that are still all too common
3) that sometimes some innovators do what they can to keep their ideas underwraps as much as possible but don’t bother with the patent route as they expect to advance beyond their current invention by then:
I was wondering if having purchasers sign an NDA, and contracturally requiring them to have their employees or other viewers of their “private invention” sign an NDA, too, would that provide better legal and financial protections for some situations than going the patent route??
Just another open-thread comment about something I read.
Link: https://archive.ph/CWfA9
Perplexity AI is trying to work out a deal to merge with TikTok. I have no idea what the resulting product would look like, or whether it would have any ties with the CCP.
Is this good news or bad news? Should we welcome an addictive, massively popular, Chinese Communist, artificial intelligence espionage system? Sounds like fun for the youths.
Rebuilding Gaza Is Responsibility of Hamas, Iran
America should not spend 1-cent in the rebuilding of Gaza!!! Trump would get one in the Trump Tally list’s Strong column for that!
Have an X account – X was called something else before Musk stole it from the Progressives – and I find it interesting to see what posts of mine that people seem to like most. Russia’s reinvasion of Ukraine usually gets 100 or more views. Hamas and Israel’s war gets close to 200 quite often. The LA fire got a 100 or so on some and closer to 50 on others—bashing mayor Bass got 127 views and a like. Don’t get many likes, and I have comments shut off for my posts.
Post ‘Remember Oct 7 – ‘Families Melted Together’ after being tied together with wire and burned alive got 96 views. Post ‘Rebuilding Gaza Is Responsibility of Hamas, Iran’ from a Breitbart article on what Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel—Mike Huckabee said about Gaza getting rebuilt got 197 views.
Thought a post by Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) – “funny, they never sent me one of these for contributing to democrats…” – might get 50-100 views, but it only got 29. 29 ain’t really bad for one of my America political posts…some on The Swamp typically get less than 10.
Wars seem more popular…
Trump expected to sign more than 200 executive orders on Monday @ 17:38
Karmi:
That quote from the Daily Mail is a good example of how the media distorts things – and that paper isn’t even a leftist one. “Went after transgender Americans?” Hardly. The GOP “went after” biological post-pubescent men competing in women’s sports, and “went after” the medical transition of children.
“attempting to yank the security clearances from the 51 intelligence officials”
That fight should be entertaining. Clearances and access to classified information are held to be exclusively in the purview of the Executive Branch. An administrative termination of a clearance is a simple matter, and is generally not subject to appeal.
It will be interesting to see if through legal maneuvering, a court somewhere holds that one of these 51 individuals has a right to access national security information and that such a right eclipses the Government’s national security interest.
Imagine the doors that such a ruling would open. Why wouldn’t you or I have the same right?
neo: Yeah, I had highlighted “establish biological sex definitions” in that paragraph – thinking that the “Republicans went after transgender Americans” addition was poorly expressed/written. Didn’t see it as a distortion tho. Know what you mean, but just didn’t see it that way following “establish biological sex definitions”.
We look at written communication differently—probably. Am a terrible reader compared to you, but I do pretty good at deciphering short news articles and most blog posts. Writers make mistakes all the time—even the best of them, IMHO. Still, like you suggest, many are written to distort, mislead, out right lie, etc. Readers need to be able to decipher such – or else they are probably ill-informed.
Not sure where written communication falls on the Communication Scale, but just discovered last year that Verbal Communication only ‘Accounts for about 7% of the total communication in face-to-face interactions‘.
Vocal Communication ‘(Tone, Pitch, and Volume): Makes up about 38% of communication.’
Nonverbal Communication ‘(Body Language): Accounts for about 55% of communication.‘
Those stats surprised me…
In a sane security world, no one would retain a security clearance after leaving govt service except a few folks with specific “need to know”, perhaps for a few months of consultation on what they were involved with prior to termination. Maybe forever for past presidents and VP’s, and for several years for a selected group of Congressional committee heads?
Or if they gained employment with a defense or intelligence contractor with real contracts and not just lobbying equivalence.
But we also might want/need to restrict any form of lobbying or regulatory response role for a few years (2 to 6?) after retirement, etc., depending on the rank and position of the more senior people. Public service should mean public service, not with a goal of eventual private gain beyond the experience itself.
New year — new dreams!!
Just remembered – so a slight correction or update to 9:52 pm:
They shouldn’t have surprised me. Have always hated to talk personal over the phone – especially with chicks I was interested in. Why? Apparently I needed to hear/see their “Tone, Pitch, and Volume” better, and to also see their “Body Language” (accounts for 55% of communication).
Open Thread Sunday: Russian War on Ukraine
Ukrainian Equipment Reserves (2025) – Production, Aid & Equipment Attrition – Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHUQmJCa3aY
Neo,
Thanks for calling out the Daily Mail’s leftist slanted language.
Also, The incoming president will also try to…establish biological sex definitions
Huh? First World/21st Century Problems? How about reverting to what has been common knowledge since Adam and Eve, and stop defining deviancy down?
————————————————————-
R2L wrote
I would oppose this for Presidents and VPs, since Clinton, Obama and Biden and many in Congress are arguably traitors.
So, on his way out the door, Biden has also just issued pardons to Dr. Fauci, to Gen. Milley, and to the members of Congress on the January 6th committee—Cheyney and Kinzinger –as well as staff members who also participated in this witch hunt.
Biden’s signing statement says that none of these pardons mean that those pardoned are guilty of anything, but why pardon someone before any charges are laid against them if they are innocent, and can prove so in a court of law?
This is a gross abuse of the pardon power, and measures will have to be taken to see that this power will not be abused in the future. *
* See https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2025/01/20/breaking-biden-pardons-fauci-milley-and-j6-committee-members-n4936154
P.S. Biden even pardoned the Capitol police who testified in front of the Committee.
As I understand it, such pardons strip away the 5th Amendment rights of those pardoned, so they cannot refuse to testify if called before Congress.
The pardon includes now-Sen. Adam Schiff, who can now be as destructive as possible for him in the Senate without fear of paying the price for his years of lies.
The blanket pardons are nauseating.
Limiting the abuse of this power would require a constitutional amendment. When we elect a chief executive who entirely lacks ethics, we pay the price as a nation.