Thursday, December 23, 2021

[The Washington Post] Trump asks Supreme Court to keep records from House Jan. 6 committee

FTA:

"Absent judicial intervention, President Trump will suffer irreparable harm"

Hmmmm… Oh Sure.  Let's protect the Former President over protecting our Democracy. Great argument there. /sarcasm


Trump wants the justices to reverse a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which rejected his assertions of executive privilege and request to keep secret roughly 800 pages of Trump's papers. President Biden determined the material could be released to the committee.

By Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-supreme-court-january-6-subpoena/2021/12/23/fef60036-63ff-11ec-8ce3-9454d0b46d42_story.html

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Former Georgia district attorney Jackie Johnson booked on charges of obstructing Ahmaud Arbery case - CBS News

A former Georgia district attorney has been booked on charges linked to her alleged mishandling of the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was pursued and gunned down as he jogged through a Brunswick neighborhood last year.


Monday, October 25, 2021

Youngkin banishes Trump, but he can’t clean the stench of Trumpism

Opinions | Youngkin banishes Trump, but he can't clean the stench of Trumpism


Underneath his fleece vest, the Virginia gubernatorial candidate is all Trump. Opinion by Dana Milbank


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/24/youngkin-rally-trump-virginia-governor/


Race-baiting:

"What we won't do is teach our children to view everything through the lens of race," Youngkin vowed, adding that "on Day 1, I will ban critical race theory." It was perhaps the biggest applause line of the night.
Preceding Youngkin onstage, the Republican attorney general candidate, Jason Miyares, argued that "you cannot survive as a nation if you're raising an entire generation of children to hate their country, and that is exactly what critical race theory is."


Critical race theory isn't taught in Virginia schools. It's a phantom menace, whipped up by Fox News to fill White people with racial terror. Youngkin urged his supporters to fear a "20-year high murder rate," even though overall violent crime decreased in 2020 in Virginia, among the safest states in the country.


Fabrication:

Youngkin complained that "Virginia ranks 50th in the nation in standards for kids to progress in math, reading," but Virginia kids' actual proficiency exceeds the national average.
He suggested that Virginia "children cannot pass an 8th-grade math equivalency test" because of pandemic school closures — "so we will proclaim that Virginia's schools will never be closed again to five-day-a-week, in-person education." In reality, Virginia's 38 percent proficiency in 8th grade math topped the national 33 percent. And the test results to which Youngkin referred were from before the pandemic-related closures.
Youngkin claimed that McAuliffe "said there's no place for parents in their kids' education" (a line that prompted boos and shouts of "communist"). But McAuliffe didn't say there's "no place" for parents. He spoke out against vigilantism in which "parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions. I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach" and "running down teachers."


Why does Youngkin traffic in Trumpism? 

Because it's the only way he can win.

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Taylor Swift fans are getting caught up in the Virginia gubernatorial race - The Verge


https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22710848/taylor-swift-scooter-braun-masters-glenn-youngkin-virginia-mcauliffe

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

NYTimes: Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept. Over Election

Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept. Over Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/politics/report-new-details-trump-pressure-justice-dept-election-fraud-claims.html


Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Steve Blank The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free

Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers.



Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Every US citizen should read this. President Trump has totally lost it...

The Post has published Trump's full phone call with Georgia election officials. Listen to the audio and read the transcript.

In the hour-long conversation on Dec. 2, President Trump repeatedly tried to get Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to alter the outcome of the presidential vote.

By Amy Gardner and Paulina Firozi


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html

Chris McVeigh - building guides - technology

Feeling nostalgic? You'll find building guides for my latest Lego® retro-tech models on this page. Just click the desired model to download the building guide as PDF. The guides are typically 15-40MB in size and may take a little while to download; also, depending on your configuration, the building guide may load in your browser rather than downloading to your computer.