Reader Tom sent me this:
To test the integrity of the Dominion Voting System, a forensic analysis was done on the machines in Antrim County, Michigan, covering the recent election. A judge just allowed the results to be released. The allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission guidelines is 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%) (sic). On these machines, the forensics team observed an error rate of 68.05%!!!  My Democrat friends have been demanding FACTS regarding voter fraud. Don’t look here, you might stumble on one.

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All the talk about the Republican-leaning states’ seceding from the United States gets one thinking:

Some say that Lincoln should have simply let the Confederate States of America leave the union, allowing them to wither and die, as the CSA would have been so repulsive to the north and the rest of the world that it would have been completely isolated, not to mention devoid of technological innovation. After a few years the CSA would have been so debilitated that the Civil War, were there to be one, would have been over in a month with very few casualties, cities burned, etc. (more…)

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Not only is vegetable gardening good for the environment, it’s an extremely rewarding experience, something in which one tends to take great pride in one’s accomplishments; I certainly did.

Yet my gardens didn’t resemble this one….in the slightest.

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Yes, these lawsuits are “tearing at the heart of American democracy,” and the whole situation is going to get worse before it gets better.   The longer this drags out and the more venues, governors, senators, state courts and Supreme Court justices are involved along the way, the more furor will arise, the more violence will come as a result, the further the nation will be divided, and the greater the number of Americans will walk away convinced that the entirety of  U.S. election processes are fraudulent.

Trump is quite aware of this, but he couldn’t care less.  The disgrace of getting clobbered pales in comparison to the criminal prosecution that is about to ensue.  Even if the stakes weren’t so high, the idea that Trump has any loyalty to or affinity for anyone but himself is a cruel joke.

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From the MIT Technology Review:

Then earlier this year Jagdeep Singh, the chief executive of QuantumScape, claimed in an interview with The Mobilist that the heavily funded, stealth Silicon Valley company had cracked the key technical challenges. He added that VW expects to have the batteries in its cars and trucks by 2025, promising to slash the cost and boost the range of its electric vehicles. (more…)

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As shown here, Trump has been fairly consistent in inciting his supporters to violence.  Yet as crude and vulgar as these suggestions have been, until now, they really hadn’t taken on any real meaning.

At this point, of course, the Proud Boys and the rest are no longer “standing back.”  It’s hard to imagine what will happen when Trump is formally removed from office, and tens of millions of hateful and heavily armed morons take to the streets to avenge their loss.

On the lighter side, we have to laugh about what Trump actually said here.  “I promise you I will  pay (your) legal fees??”  He doesn’t pay his own bills, but he’s going to pay yours?

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We all like to think that we’re objective and rational in our thinking, and that, if we were presented with sufficient evidence, we’d change even our most entrenched beliefs and admit that we’d been buffaloed.  We like to think that we would put truth above our pride, regardless of how publicly humiliated we’d be in such a case.

All that said, I will say here and now that it would be very hard for me to acknowledge that I was wrong about the president and his administration, and admit that: (more…)

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Our new world, one that features mass adoption of conspiracy theories, forces us to consider many things for the first time.  Perhaps the single most important of these is law enforcement in a society in which tens of millions of people are being called to violence by people they trust.  Sure, there is the U.S. president encouraging the Proud Boys, but there also thugs in lesser positions, e.g., the white supremacist/terrorist shown here.

Where does free speech end and criminal incitement begin?  It’s a question for people with a higher pay-grade than mine, i.e., prosecuting attorneys who specialize in this area of the law.  I don’t envy them; this seems to be a very tight line to walk.

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As shown here, when formerly state-run television network Fox News began to report that Trump lost the 2020 election, they were demoted to the “corrupt news” side of the ledger.  (more…)

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Here’s a cool piece for those of us who concern ourselves with English grammar, along with my comments, for what they’re worth:

1. Don’t end sentences with prepositions.

This was never really a rule in the first place; the rule is don’t end a sentence with an unnecessary preposition.  Winston Churchill mocked those who don’t really understand this when he said, “This is something up with which I will not put!” And yes, “This is something I won’t put up with” is fine.  “Where’s the library at?” on the other hand, is not at all fine.  “Where will this road take me to?” should be simply, “Where will this road take me?” (more…)

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