Boy - Where do I start

 Tom Fitton was on Washington Journal on CSPAN.  I had never seen him before, but after 1/2 hour of listening to him I want to ask -"Do you believe in a Flat Earth?"

Here is one of his answers: (some are from closed caption which may not be 100% perfect - check the actual video for every word)

"ALL OF THAT HAD BEEN SAID BY DEMOCRATS WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE 2020 ELECTION. THAT CHANGES DEPENDING ON THE A OUTCOME. PEOPLE VOTING IN THE AREA DO NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF INTERNET VOTING. THEY NEVER LIKED IT AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS NOT SECURE ENOUGH. AND THE ISSUES THAT YOU POTENTIALLY FACE WITH THE INTERNET ARE MORE EASILY ASSESSABLE TO PULL OUTSIDE OF THE INTERNET. PEOPLE DEALING WITH IT DIRECTLY RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW SECURE OUR ELECTION SHOULD BE. AND I RAISED SPECIFICALLY WHAT MY ISSUES ARE. THERE WERE COUNTING VOTES AFTER THE ELECTION THAT CHANGE THE RESULT."

1. "PEOPLE VOTING IN THE AREA DO NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF INTERNET VOTING."

There never was Internet voting

"AND I RAISED SPECIFICALLY WHAT MY ISSUES ARE. THERE WERE COUNTING VOTES AFTER THE ELECTION THAT CHANGE THE RESULT. .......... FEDEARL LAW REQUIRES THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE ELECTORS BE CHOSEN ON ELECTION DAY, NOT 6 DAYS LATER.  (22:24)

2. "(1) “election day” means the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President held in each State, except, in the case of a State that appoints electors by popular vote, if the State modifies the period of voting, as necessitated by force majeure events that are extraordinary and catastrophic, as provided under laws of the State enacted prior to such day, “election day” shall include the modified period of voting.

Cornell Law

By his logic there is no early voting - probably no absentee voting.  You cannot count votes after midnight (which time zone?) or even do a recount.  

I thought the idea is everyone has the right to vote.

He is the head of Judicial Watch - an oxymoron as the only reason they exist is as a shill for the Republican Party.

He talks like he has blinders on and when caught not telling the truth, he start spouting "alternative facts"

Re Trump and the records:

I TOLD THE GRAND JURY WHAT MY VIEWS ARE. THE FACT IS HE COOPERATED WITH THE INVESTIGATION, HE TURNED OVER THE NEEDED RECORDS. THERE IS AN ARGUMENT ABOUT IS HE TURNED OVER ALL OF THE RECORDS OR IF THERE WAS OBSTRUCTION THERE BUT I DID NOT SEE EVIDENCE OF IT. THE FACT THAT HE WAS HARASSED AND ABUSED OVER THIS IS AN ABUSE OF POWER BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN MY OPINION. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED HE CANNOT FIGHT HARD ENOUGH TO EXERT HIS RIGHTS THERE.

Even Bill Barr has said that Trump played games and now got caught.

While defenders of former President Donald J. Trump have denounced the federal indictment against him, his former chief law enforcement officer sees it differently.

"I think he got into trouble because he defied the subpoena," said William Barr, former U.S. Attorney General during an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep for Morning Edition.

Barr said Trump brought the indictment on himself through his "egregious" refusal to return U.S. government documents.

During the interview, Barr switched between legal terms and colloquial phrases in his effort to describe Trump's long refusal to return the documents. He characterized Trump's behavior as "contumacious," which he defined as "a willful violation that was effectively flipping the bird at the government."

"He was going to show them that no one was going to push him around, and that he was, in effect, still the president and could do what he want and get away with it," Barr said.

I have a headache.

 

They still cannot count

 In the post "Lies, damn lies, and statistics", David Strom attacks those on the assumed left for promoting climate change fears.

"What percent of conversations regarding a contested issue are actually focused on assessing the evidence and determining the truth?

It’s not large. In fact, such discussions are rare as hen’s teeth."

He uses this statistic:

To claim that 2023 is below 2022.  Comparing 1/2 a year to a previous year.

And he compares days over 100, without differentiating a 100 degree day with a 119 degree day.

"But John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times? He is clearly trying to lie to you. He is a data analyst. He knows that he is lying with statistics."

Well David, you do not back your argument up with statistics, just that other's statistics are wrong and their methodology defective.

The problem with this argument, is that without doing proper research, your argument is just as flawed as you claim the other side.  

"That’s why it is vital to keep bringing up these failures in truth-telling made by these journalists who are really advocates. If people don’t change their minds right away, and they almost never do, it is our job to undermine the credibility of the “amen chorus” and propagandists. People will have their own “Aha!” moments.

We all get red-pilled at different moments."

Pot meet Kettle.

All this does is feed polarization - but maybe that is what your purpose is.

Update.

We are not at the end of the year, but for a year that was Ranked 113 when he did this post, it has jumped up to #3

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/phoenix/yearly-days-of-100-degrees

I wonder if he will take down or edit his post.....

Murder by numbers

The police had a song off Synchronicity called "Murder by Numbers".  On the surface it seems to be taken right from a Hitchcock movie, but maybe the meaning is more subtle.  

At a  concert in Oakland CA  (Sept 10, 1983) he says "this song is about the cynical manipulation of large numbers of people".

While the song could be taken at face value - a serial killer, the later lyrics mention:

Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious

In history's great dark hall of fame

All our greatest killers were industrious

At least the ones that we all know by name

But you can reach the top of your profession

If you become the leader of the land

For murder is the sport of the elected

And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand.

Now while this can refer to the leaders of countries that caused mass death and genocide, Sting also mentioned Jimmy Swaggart, the TV evangelist, said it was written by the devil, but did not get the irony.

Maybe the murder is of truth.  It starts with small lies, then progresses to bigger ones, then finally becomes the apparent reality where you can no longer tell the truth from lies.

Hmmm - wonder how that fits in today's world.