Well, the morning is off to a roaring start…
- I discovered that I had completely missed the intent of the incident discussed in this post, and had to humble myself before readers of greater perception and dirtier minds.
- I got two emergency calls from clients, one of whom made me realize that a major state bar association is clinically insane.
- I confirmed that the Democrats really and truly are going to try to win the election by presenting Harris as a generic Democrat and making the only issue whether you hate and fear Donald Trump, or as Glenn Beck put it in a tweet,
They need you to hate Donald Trump more than inflation. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than open borders. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than fentanyl and drugs on our streets. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than our children being killed by illegals. They need to you hate Donald Trump more than the homelessness epidemic. They need you to hate Donald Trump more than the abortion cult of death. They need you to hate Donald Trump more than the possibility of nuclear war. That’s what a vote for Kamala Harris is actually about.
(I would have added “They need to you to hate Donald Trump more than single party rule by a cabal that embraces totalitarian values, Big Lies, unaccountable leadership, state-allied journalism, and public education centered on ideological indoctrination,” but Beck’s list is good enough to start with.)
- THIS (Pointer: JutGory)
- And I discovered that the credit monitoring company I pay for every month has been over-stating my credit score by 70 points, and makes it impossible to cancel a membership by phone or online.
Oh yeah, this is going to be a great day…
We have clearance, Clarence. Over to you…
Ethics Alarms 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-michigan-teen-sues-judge-012401763.html
I’ve been following this story for a few days. It seems like a straightforward abuse of authority. No one likes a sleeping audience, for sure, but jailing a tired teenager who committed no crime is disproportionate punishment.
There seems to be a lot more to the story. I am not sure what the truth is but they have a gofundme account with a current balance of $12014.00. Crime does, in fact, pay.
jvb
This on is a big one to follow regarding judicial immunity. People like to get upset about qualified immunity, but judges have what is normally considered absolute immunity. Having that pierced just doesn’t happen.
I’ve messaged Jack several times about the progress of a case out of West Virginia.
https://ij.org/press-release/victory-appeals-court-unanimously-denies-judicial-immunity-to-west-virginia-judge-who-personally-searched-home-ordered-items-removed/
That case is VERY rare. In this case, the judge went on a “field trip” to the plaintiff’s house. That made her acting as an agent of the state, not a judge and got her immunity stripped.
If the family succeeds, this will be a second case that pierces judicial immunity.
Perhaps Rep. Mace would have better luck pronouncing the VP’s name if she wrote this way: “Kámala.”
jvb
Re: the pizza scam in Miami. Ah, Miami. And Florida. These stories are so common and sound like Dave Barry columns, as in his, “and I am not making this up.” And … Diversity! When the Cuban refugees and all the other Caribbeans and South Americans arrived in Miami, they brought with them their iron bars on windows and doors and high walls and fences, none of which Anglos felt necessary pre-Castro. I’ve never found third world stuff charming.
If she weren’t gay, would the press COVER THIS?
WESconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin’s shacking up with one Maria Brisbane. Shouldn’t be a problem; it’s the 2020s after all, am I right?
However, Brisbane’s a private wealth manager affiliated with Morgan Stanley and Baldwin serves on the Commerce Committee and related subcommittees; small matter of the Appearance of Impropriety ?
It gets worse.
Because they’re not married, they’re able to skip the financial disclosures required of EVIL hetero Senators.
And worse yet.
For some explicable reason, the Lefty Press has treated this like a syphilitic leper, only WisPolitics and the über Lefty(/sarc) New York Post have weighed in.
MONEY QUOTE: “Hard-working middle-class families CAN’T AFFORD TO HAVE THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT CREATING COZY RELATIONSHIP THAT ALLOW WALL STREET TO WRITE ITS OWN RULES,” Senator Tammy Baldwin in 2015. (bolds/caps/italics mine)
PWS
Not a new topic but a tip for other commenters:
I get a overlay pop up offering to subscribe to the comments after I click post. I have unfortunately discovered that the post isn’t actually submitted until I click elsewhere on the screen to make the pop-up go away. If I just close the page, the comment is eaten.
Ditto.
I’ve been experiencing that for awhile. As long as I remember to click outside the Subscribe prompt, I don’t have an issue.
I don’t know about any of this, and have no control over it, apparently.
Forgive me if this was covered and I missed it.
General Motors was selling data to insurance companies tied to individual driver’s and their driving habits. Including things like driving after midnight, driving over 80 MPH (Even though that’s legal in some places) and braking hard. People had their insurance rates raised based on the driving information.
GM “disclosed” this in deceptive wording buried deeply in their end user licensing agreement, and their salespeople were paid bonuses for selling it. Of course, that led salespeople to do what the rest of us consider lying to sell the service.
Now Texas is suing for 2 Billion.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-general-motors-unlawfully-collecting-drivers-private-data-and
Democrats really and truly are going to try to win the election by presenting Harris as a generic Democrat and making the only issue whether you hate and fear Donald Trump, or as Glenn Beck put it in a tweet,
To be fair, there are more issues than whether you hate or fear Trump. Abortion is a major one, taxes cuts for the middle class, affordable housing, maintaining social security, etc.
To be fair, abortion IS a generic Democratic issue, as is “tax cuts for the Middle Class.” Cutting anyone’s taxes now is irresponsible, as were both the Trump and Bush cuts, which latter of which Democrats had the opportunity to repeal, and didn’t. “Maintaining social security” is a Big Lie: Trump has never endorsed reducing Social Security, but it is absurd not to raise the retirement age and SS kick-in to at least 70. “Affordable housing” is related to inflation and interest rates—it’s another generic Democrat issue.
You said “and making the only issue” about Trump so I was just correcting that error since there are many other issues Harris is running on other than fear or hating Trump.
But if you watched the convention, it was, what, 75% Trump hysteria? Everything else is secondary.
I don’t agree and also different topic. There’s definitely some of that though.
You can disagree all you want, but “TRUMP IS EVIL AND WILL END DEMOCRACY!!!! ARGGH!!!” is clearly the entire thrust of the Presidential campaign, under Biden and under Harris. Abortion isn’t even a matter that the President has any control over, other than vetoing a national pro-abortion law that will never be passed. It’s a state issue, and the Supreme Court has never double-reversed itself, and won’t with Dobbs. All of the other “issues” are generic. They have been the same for decades. Anything to avoid focusing on inflation.
It’s definitely part of it but I don’t agree it’s the entire thrust.
I wasn’t addressing your “generic” comments at all since I find it to be an odd and irrelevant descriptor to my point.
I won’t bicker if you want to substitute “substantial” for “entire.” Nonetheless, if the Democrats can’t make a large proportion of the electorate fear and hate Trump, they lose in a landslide of ’72 or ’84 proportions.
Again, I dont really agree with your analysis and I feel we’re getting off topic.
Hating Trump is definitely part of it (no different than Trump hating Harris) but there’s way more to it that that. That’s too myopic of a view.
The Democrats are running a campaign shifting away from Clintonian politics, away from wokeness, and towards diversity, positivity, freedom, and yes away from the exhausting negativity of Trumpism.
Moving forward versus back.
Well, you’re clearly in the target audience for this delusion. No different from Trump hating Harris is an astounding thing to write. The Democrats’ hate and fear campaign against Trump has been ongoing since 2015. Trump doesn’t “hate” Harris–its not hateful rhetoric. It’s fairly standard “you dont want this extremist as President” rhetoric. How do they “shift away from wokeness” and toward “diversity”? DEI is pure wokeness. Freedom? You can’t be serious. Harris has advocated censorship, price controls, and oppressive laws against Second Amendment rights.
OK, now I know you’re here as partisan advocate and facts don’t matter. Thanks. Now…Keep your next—let’s see—THREE comments to non-political content, and I’ll lift your probation, at least provisionally. Otherwise, you’ll be banned.
“shift away from wokeness” and toward “diversity”—Wow. Best laugh I’ve had all day.
Notice: In record time, “Gene” is banned.
I let him on the site giving him the benefit of the doubt. He revealed himself quickly as not being interested in ethics or facts, just progressive advocacy. His amazing line that the Democrats want to “shift away from wokeness” and toward “diversity” almost justified banning on its own: proof of gaslighting-level dishonesty or disqualifying stupidity. I gave him a chance by limiting him to non-political comments to see if hecould do it. He couldn’t, and decided to argue instead.
Do not engage if and when he tried to do a “A Friend.” Your post will disappear with his.
We are going to get more of these as November nears. I will be quicker on the trigger as a result.
Yes, like declaring housing and health care are fundamental, guaranteed constitutional rights.
jvb
Gene:
If abortion is a big issue why are all states not running hard to implement protections in their state Constitutions. That would only require a majority in a referendum vote as opposed to having to get 2/3 of the states to ratify a US Constitutional amendment.
If democracy is on the line and election integrity is paramount to ensure fair elections why do those against voter id spend so much to preserve no voter id when the cost to help those few without id get one so they can participate fully in our society?
Affordable housing is a function of demand for housing and costs of production. Adding millions of migrants to the demand for housing puts upward pressure on prices for homes and food. In addition government code requirements such as requiring sprinklers in new homes add cost. Every area has code administers who inspect ever increasing requirements which increase permit fees. Giving people money to help by homes increases demand and prices.
I would be interested in getting an answer why social security and Medicare will run out of money but other transfer payments never run out. It seems that the social security issue is simply a cudgel to scare the elderly who have no choice but to vote based on their expected fear. Is scaring people ethical when you have no plan to make changes to the current system
Sorry but I do not know.
I’ll answer that: no. The system itself is unstable, the responsible thing is to make reforms before the wolf is at the door, and the Democratic line has been, for as long as I can remember, any advocacy for reforms are GOP efforts to take their checks away. The argument is that fixing a system that is heading for a crash is sinister.
The NYT really and truly thinks this is an accurate headline:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-kamala-harris-centrism-working-122424217.html
Harris is no centrist and they know it. The Democratic Party and its allies in the news media are hiding the real Harris from us.
VP Harris is simply doing what Biden, Obama, and Clinton have done: pretend to be more centrist and campaign and pander to a few token conservative ideas, then govern as far to the left as the people will tolerate.
And the NYT simply plays along.
Regarding the credit score, I’d bet the problem isn’t that they are over-reporting your score. There are a variety of different scoring models. There are different models for different types of credit you are applying for, (mortgage vs. credit card, for example), and even within categories there are several different models a lender can choose from. Scores can vary widely depending on the specific model. They’re probably just reporting a different model than the one your lender wants to use.
Some of the monitoring services make it easy to see your score on several of the different models. I can’t check right now, but I think it’s Experian that makes it pretty easy.
They are misrepresenting my credit, then.70 points is huge. I have to put up with ten “great work, your credit score is soaring!” posts every day. Screw that. I’ll be posting on this soon.
This is Jack: Somehow, while banning a commenter on another thread, this comment was lost. My fault. See all the trouble trolls cause?
I’m sorry, Diego.
I watched the withdrawal press conference from Kennedy today. I simply had to turn it off when he started in on the Ukraine war. He recited every trope of Russian propaganda that was spouted by the likes of Tucker Carlson. It isn’t too shocking since Kennedy is also anti-vaccine.
To this day I don’t get why so many of the right actually buy this bullshit. All of it is so far out there that I can’t wrap my mind around it.