Sunday, November 1st open thread: ‘I’m Bored’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Iggy Pop performing “I’m Bored” on a television show in 1979, enjoy:
I guess that HIPAA laws are no longer valid. At least not in New York, where visitors are going to be required to show a negative COVID-19 test result before entering the State. Once in the State you must then undergo a mandatory three day house arrest followed by a second negative test before you are allowed to proceed to your business in the State. Or you can simply undergo a fourteen day house arrest upon entering New York if you just happen to have that much time. Here is more:
The newly unveiled quarantine policy will do away with the current Tri-State Travel Advisory list, and now mandates that anyone visiting the state must test negative or quarantine for 14 days with the exception of residents from contiguous states New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
“There will be no quarantine list, there will be no metrics,” Cuomo said. “If you are coming into New York within three days you must have tested negative. Once you arrive in New York, you must quarantine for three days and can take a test on the fourth day.”
Travelers must also have proof that they tested negative upon arrival, and must quarantine for three days.
Is this even feasible? Are they going to set up roadblock on every road which enters New York to pull over travelers with out of State plates?
Show me your papers…
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Second Hunter Biden laptop was seized by the DEA
Things just keep on getting worse and worse for the progeny of the former Vice-President, and for the former Vice-President himself by proxy. We already know the FBI has been looking into Hunter Biden for several months and have had his laptop in custody since December of last year, well now it is being reported that the DEA had seized a second Hunter Biden laptop back in February during a raid. Here is more:
Sources told NBC News that the device belonging to the 50-year-old son of former Vice President Joe Biden, who is now a presidential candidate, was taken into custody by the DEA in February while executing a search warrant in the Massachusetts office of a psychiatrist who was accused of professional misconduct.
That former celebrity psychiatrist, Keith Ablow, saw his license suspended after he faced allegations of sexually exploiting patients and illegally diverting prescription drugs. Ablow has denied the allegations and has not been charged with any crime.
The report from NBC on Friday said Hunter Biden was not a target of the search or the investigation, and his lawyer got the laptop back. It remains unclear why the device was there in the first place.
Okay, so Hunter Biden was not the target of the investigation which led to the seizure of his laptop and he eventually got it back but there has to be more to this story than we are being led to believe. Who leaves their laptop at their psychiatrist’s office and does not go back to get it right away? What was the laptop really doing there? What are the chances that one person has two laptops seized in separate events? Of course it just so happens that the psychiatrist is a little shady and is under investigation himself…
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Joe Biden to mobilize ‘trunalimunumaprzure’
I do not think I am going out on a limb to state that Donald Trump is not the most eloquent speaker in the world. However–with the exception of “covfefe”–he generally does use words. The same cannot always be said about Joe Biden, he has a tendency to lose his train of thought and talk around in circles in front of his campaign “crowds” or to break out into gibberish.
The latter was true earlier today in Pennsylvania when the former Vice-President promised to mobilize “trunalimunumaprzure.” Here it is:
Your guess is as good as mine, I think he starts to say “true” and then something about “international pressure” but I have no idea what he actually was trying to say because he did not bother to slow down and repeat himself in an intelligible manner. Perhaps it made sense to him…
This could also be the sign of a serious medical condition.
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Joe Biden once called for jailing oil executives
Joe Biden is denying that he ever said he wanted to ban fracking and technically he is somewhat right, he said he wanted to eliminate fracking. See the difference? Yeah, neither do I. But anyway, while he is coming under fire for these comments it is about to get worse for the wannabe President because he is on record as saying he would jail fossil fuel executives. Here is more:
“Number two, holding them liable for what they have done,” the former vice president said of fossil fuel executives, “particularly in those cases where your underserved neighborhoods and – you know the deal, okay. And by the way, when they don’t want to deliver, put them in jail. I’m not joking about this.”
Notice he made sure everybody understood he was not using hyperbole when he stated emphatically that he was not joking. And Joe Biden does not really fall outside the mainstream of the Democratic party on this, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders also support this idea.
This is today’s Democratic party, if you hold a contradictory position they would like to see you jailed so that you cannot oppose them. And yet Donald Trump is the tyrant…
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Judge rules South Carolina absentee ballot signatures do not have to match signatures on file
A judge in South Carolina has just ruled that absentee ballots which have signatures which do no match the signatures the State has on record must still be counted when previously they had been disqualified. Here is more:
A federal judge in South Carolina ruled Tuesday that the state can’t reject absentee ballots because of a signature mismatch, and ordered officials to reprocess all ballots previously thrown out because of signature-related issues.
U.S. District Judge Richard Mark Gergel found that the state lacked a consistent process for matching signatures on voters’ ballots and that some South Carolina counties were disqualifying ballots based on signature problems without authorization.
“Here, absentee ballots, which meet all statutory requirements under South Carolina law, may nonetheless be disqualified on the basis of a subjective judgment that the voter’s signature does not match some sample relied upon by county election officials,” Gergel wrote. “Moreover, a number of the counties conducting signature matching procedures have no or ill-defined procedures for providing affected voters timely notice of a signature mismatch determination or a timely procedure for challenging that determination.”
The ruling goes on to say that if counties in the State still wish to verify a ballot is actually signed by the person whose name is on it the county must submit a plan to the court for approval to ensure any ballots in question can be contested by the voter. That is all very well and good of course, however the ruling comes down one week before the election. Which means there will not be time for a county to get its plan approved by the court in time for the election. All ballots will therefor be counted, including those which are should not be counted for being counterfeit.
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Sunday, October 25th open thread: ‘Paranoid Android’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Radiohead performing “Paranoid Android” back in 2003:
When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy
You don’t remember
You don’t remember
Why don’t you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Another day, another Hunter Biden/China revelation. This one involves more than just Joe Biden, this one shows us that several prominent Democrats were involved in a “joint venture” with Hunter Biden and were considered “key contacts” in his Chinese dealings. Here is more:
A list of “key domestic contacts” for a joint venture involving Jim and Hunter Biden and now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co. included former Vice President Joe Biden‘s current running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, among other prominent Democrats, Fox News has learned.
An email exclusively obtained by Fox News, with the subject line “Phase one domestic contacts/ projects” and dated May 15, 2017, Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, shared a list of “key domestic contacts for phase one target projects.”
The email is unrelated to the laptop or hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son.
She is not the only one:
The list, included Harris, D-Calif.; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; former Virginia Gov. Terry McCauliffe, among others.
Now why would so many politicians be “key contacts” in a person’s private business dealings if not for their possible influence? There are lots of interesting names on that list, isn’t there? One name I find particularly intriguing is Dianne Feinstein, you might remember she had a Chinese spy in her employ for 20 years. When this was exposed it was treated as no big deal and the Democrats did not want to investigate. Now we may know why…
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Biden insider confirms email legitimacy and Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter’s business dealings
While the left is trying to discredit Rudy Giuliani by claiming he was working with the Russians to release the emails from Hunter Biden’s computer nobody on the left, including good ole Uncle Joe or Hunter Biden himself, has denied that the emails are legitimate.
Every day it gets worse and worse for Joe and Hunter Biden and today was no exception. Not only is nobody denying the legitimacy of the emails, but now a family insider is admitting the emails are legitimate. Here is more:
Bobulinski, the recipient of one of the emails retrieved from Hunter Biden’s laptop, went public on Wednesday night with a statement saying he confirms its authenticity and detailed how former Vice President Joe Biden — the Democrat nominee for president in this year’s election, which is just over 10 days away — was personally involved in many dealings with his son’s business associates.
But that is just the beginning:
Biden family insider Tony Bobulinski has provided a trove of documents to U.S. Senate investigators from the Senate Homeland Security and Senate Finance Committees, Breitbart News has learned.
In them, text messages, emails, and other documents illustrate a larger picture of concern regarding the Biden family’s operating procedures, and deep connections that Joe Biden himself has to all of this.
text messages reveal details about the negotiations between Chinese officials and the Biden family. In one 2017 text message, Hunter Biden himself says that a Chinese investor intended to become partners with him in order to “be partners with the Bidens.”
But the most damning of all the documents in my mind is the following one in which he mentions not to mention Joe’s name as being in connection with any of this.
“Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face,” Biden family associate James Gilliar—the head of J2cR—says in one WhatsApp text message that Bobulinski provided to the Senate committees. “I know u know that but they are paranoid.”
How funny is it that the proof of Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s business dealing comes from a man who put Joe Biden’s name into writing while telling people not to put Joe’s name into writing? But I digress…
This of course flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he had nothing to do with his son’s business dealings. And we should never forget that the Democrats impeached Donald Trump and tried to have him removed from office because he wanted the Ukraine to look into all of this in the first place.
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The FBI has been investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop since December
This morning we learned that, despite the claims of the left, Hunter Biden’s emails were not part of a Russian disinformation campaign. I asked if that meant the FBI would be opening an investigation into Hunter Biden soon, but apparently they have been investigating him since December, Here is more:
Former Fox News reporter Adam Housley has learned from his FBI sources that an investigation has been ongoing since December of last year:
That is a great question, is it not? But of course I think we know the answer…
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