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Tuesday, September 22. 2020

Tuesday morning links

 Then They Came for Beethoven


The Nemeses of Cities - Urban flourishing requires overcoming perennial threats, from pandemics to economic barriers to public disorder.


 DIRTY MONEY POURS INTO THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL BANKS.


 10 most extreme 'Critical Race Theory' classes & trainings at US colleges


 Down The Memory Hole: Black Lives Matter Deletes “What We Believe” Page


 "End School To Prison Pipeline" - New Kim Klacik Ad Highlights How Liberals Destroyed Baltimore 


 Orchestrated Election Chaos in Pennsylvania


 Clinton Adviser: Any Trump Supreme Court Pick Will Be “Fundamentally Illegitimate”


It’s basically unconstitutional to wait until after the election to try to fill a vacancy.


 Obama In 2016: The Constitution Says That I Nominate Candidates For SCOTUS When There’s a Vacancy…


 Democrats Endorsing Election-Year SCOTUS Confirmation … In 2016, Natch


Reynolds:  Ginsburg flap shows Supreme Court, justices are too important. SCOTUS fight reveals something is wrong with our judicial system and the state of our nation.


 Joe Biden Promises To Make US Taxpayers Pay For Gender Reassignment Surgery Under His Healthcare Plan


 Amateur Jared Kushner vs. Pro John Kerry

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There’s always reason for hope. Sometimes circumstances spiral uncontrollably, like how the marxist group BLM gained popularity so quickly. But then the marxists did their thing: Burn, Loot and Murder. Their popularity took a nose dive. Now they are trying to hide who they really are. It is what the left always does, they lie. As I heard Dennis Prager say, the truth can be found in many things, but the left never pursues the truth, they pursue lies. Stay filled with hope! God loves each of us.
#1 B. Hammer on 2020-09-22 09:17 (Reply)
Re: Amateur Kushner v Pro Kerry
This is Trump's great sin, as much as he is rude, crude, vulgar, gross, unpresidential, a moron, a blowhard, a conman, and all the other epithets thrown at him, he's done just as good as or better than all the so-called experts and elites in our political class. So why do we need the political class? This is the thought you aren't allowed to think, that the political class is in fact useless and we could do just fine without them. It's why Trump isn't fighting just the Democrats but half the members of his own party - they had nice little sinecures carved out for themselves and Trump's screwing up their sweet gig.
#2 Jerryskids on 2020-09-22 09:26 (Reply)
The KKK was the first "critical race theory". The only difference between that and the current effort is the target.
#3 Anon on 2020-09-22 10:12 (Reply)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-bans-u-s-from-doing-business-with-those-who-promote-harmful-far-left-critical-race-theory?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
#3.1 Anon on 2020-09-22 21:28 (Reply)
Re: Democrats Endorsing Election-Year SCOTUS Confirmation

The ad should include the genesis of the controversy - 1992 when Joe Biden floated the idea that the Senate should not consider a Bush the senior's SCOTUS nomination during election season for his potential second term (none was needed). Of course when the shoe was on the other foot in 2016, Biden changed his mind.

But what about McConnell? Didn't he employ the "Biden Rule" to deny a vote on Obama's SCOTUS nominee near the end of his presidency? It did look like it, but the Senate is supposed to provide "advice and consent" about such nominees. Regardless what any senator said about the process, I would say that not holding a vote is pretty definitive advice that Obama should pick somebody else. Does anybody think that if Obama had nominated someone they approved of, they wouldn't have confirmed him?
#4 mudbug on 2020-09-22 10:59 (Reply)
One distinction is, that Obama at this point was a lame duck - he had served two terms and was not up for re-election, so there was no voter endorsement function.

Part of the Senate's rule-making has to do with acknowledging that the public also has a say in these matters indirectly, via the ballot box - as we saw in 2016, when the Republicans increased their number in the Senate. Part of this increase can be seen as reaction: Public approval of sitting so many new Federal judges, as well as outrage at the treatment of Kavanaugh. Not directly provable, but evident in the polling.

What McConnell did was exercise his powers. The outrage wasn't because he did something illegal or unethical - it was because his opposition didn't like it, and they reacted with professional-grade moaning. Roles reversed, they would have done exactly the same - as we saw with Bush.
#4.1 Aggie on 2020-09-22 11:30 (Reply)
...meant to say 2018, not 2016.
#4.1.1 Aggie on 2020-09-22 11:32 (Reply)
While I agree with most of your points, but I demur a bit from your initial that it makes a difference that Obama was a lame duck. One could just as easily say that in 2012, the public elected Obama for another term - an entire term - which still had several months to run. Garland was nominated in March so there was plenty of time before the Obama's term ran out.

Another "quasi-point" is that the results from a president nominating a SCOTUS justice near the end of his term almost always runs the way it happened in 2016 and hopefully will play out in 2020 - that is if the president and Senate are of the same party, the nomination gets a vote and generally (always?) confirmed, whereas if they are of opposing parties, in almost all cases nothing happens till the next election. This seems like an obvious and easily understood political reality (for good or evil) to me.
#4.1.1.1 mudbug on 2020-09-22 12:52 (Reply)
Then they came for Beethoven.
Thanks for the link. A long time ago I was teaching a computer technology class and CD data and music storage was a new thing. I used to tell my students this story, "the size of a CD was decided by a international group of top computer scientists who agreed on a standard that they all thought was the best. Then everyone went home and a Japanese scientist put on a recording of Beethoven's 9th. He check the LP to see then time length of the recording and did some mental arithmetic with the newly agreed digital standard. He immediately called everyone that attended the conference and they all agreed that you don't cut off a Beethoven recording."
#5 Harmon Ward on 2020-09-22 15:12 (Reply)
As alluded to in the article, anyone who thinks that Beethoven is the soundtrack of white supremacy has never heard of Wagner.
#5.1 Another Guy named Dan on 2020-09-22 15:37 (Reply)
In a way "Beethoven is the soundtrack of white supremacy". Genius and hard work produces amazing results. Those who resent the success of the Northern European "whites" should try it. Imagine the results of taking all that effort and negative energy the race baiters use to express their hate of Whites and putting it all instead into building something, inventing something, learning something. IMHO it is the hard work and focus that results in what the haters call "white privilege". It took me 16 years to bet my BS and another 3 years to get my MBA while working full time, but it all paid off in better jobs and better pay.
#5.1.1 OneGuy on 2020-09-22 20:58 (Reply)

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