Scattershots – 25aug24 (updated 28aug24)

George Rebane

62 since ’62.  We’re happy to report that today my sweetie-pie and I celebrate having been married since 25 August 1962.  We were both then undergrads (seniors) at UCLA.  Now it’s two children, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren later after a long and wonderful road with some inevitable miles unpaved.  Gott sei Dank.

Lies, more lies, and blatant lies.  Among other things, these campaigns will be remembered by all as having issue debates with little basis in reality.  The Repubs are still not weaned of their bombast and bravura when describing their own accomplishments, and the Dems are simply over the top.  Not a single one of their characterization of Trump’s and their own administrations comes anywhere near being factual when compared to the historical record published by the several federal agencies.  Voters who care are left to dig out their own takes on reality and the possible promised futures.  To this degree was it ever thus?  Not in my lifetime. (We await the debates.)

[28aug24 update]  Funny business in the polls.  Rasmussen reports (here) that the nation’s pollsters are exposing their leftward tilt by holding back recent polling data that shows Kamala’s convention bounce waning.  Their leftward lurch is such that “people are holding data or not releasing polls to leave Harris-favorable polling alive in the aggregate.  Why put a new poll out if you like the results you got last time?" 

Comments

[scenes]

A headline that doesn't surprise me:

"White Critical Race Theory darling Robin DiAngelo accused of plagiarizing minority authors in her doctoral thesis
Dozens cases of passing off others’ work as her own were discovered."

I just mention it since she is one of those few cases where a writer has caused genuine damage to the world.

It doesn't happen very often, but when it does....

[scenes]

Now here's a nice little story.

"After engineer and data scientist Kim Brooks worked on cleaning the voter rolls in Georgia for a year, she realized she was on a stationary bicycle. She’d clear a name for various reasons, dead, felon, stolen ID, living at a seasonal campground for twenty years, duplicate, moved out of state, 200 years old, etc., and back it would come within a month. At that juncture she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names...."

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-2024-cheat-and-whats-being-done

[Eulogized Hillbilly]

Tutti Frutti, oh 'Rudi'

Giuliani sued over luxury condo by Georgia election workers who won $148 million judgment

https://www.yahoo.com/news/giuliani-sued-georgia-election-workers-151558518.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj059o9OwqY

[Eulogized Hillbilly]

Lies, more lies, and blatant lies

What is Trump's "Lie Count" up to these days.

Last I heard is was up around 40,000

[scenes]

I had a brilliant idea this morning.

I ran into this on X.

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/thousands-of-haitian-immigrants-now-in-springfield-5-takeaways-from-our-reporting/QQFDZR6JAVCBNC6TGZGAEKE2JU/

Where good deedsters, probably some combination of the Biden administration and local good deed Christian groups, is moving something like 20k Haitians to a town of under 60k. It's all good of course.

So...in order to show neighborliness and diversity and the like, I was thinking that Grass Valley should offer to take in 8000 or so. It shouldn't be a problem what with the local non-profits etc. Truckee could do the same thing.

How could we organize this? It must be done.

Paul, could we set up a benefit concert to get the ball rolling?

[George Rebane]

scenes 744am - Careful with such brilliant ideas Mr scenes. There are numerous progressive peabrains in our community who will enthusiastically take you seriously.

[Eulogized Hillbilly]

Speaking of lies, more lies, and blatant lies along with failed conspiracy theories,

how was din-din with Looney Loomer guys and gals?

Full of lies and hypocrisy you all can believe in?

[Gregory]

"Full of lies and hypocrisy you all can believe in?"

That's your specialty, Jeff.