Er, good trickle

Agreed, Bashi.

While Don isn't smart enough to be anywhere as annoying as Michale got, he is getting especially churlish here. I wonder if CW is monitoring this. CW has been bapping out tons of content so he likely doesn't have the time.

Don is monotonous, yes, but he simply never engages with anyone's concerns and criticisms of OD. Instead, he proceeds to get all pissy when no one buys in. So, alas, he is of no damned use to Weigantia...

"Why on God's green earth would I discuss how to get One Dumbman off the ground when it's "leader" can't even tell the truth about being a registered NP."

OFF WITH HIS HEAD, I SAY!

Once again you are changing what I said to something else and arguing against that.(see 65 where it is explained again)

If I am changing YOUR words then it should be easy for you to point out what exactly I am changing. ( and again your entire 65 ignores the point that in 34 states that allow write in voting you must be registered as a write in candidate. It is not my problem that you are completely ignorant of this).

You are purposely doing this and that makes it trolling. Go away.

Don Qui you obviously have no concept of what got you a time out.

Am I shocked that once again you trot out the trolling line in an epic dodge to avoid answering a serious and hard question designed to test the seriousness of your planning and research? In short no. It is the standard tactic of a 10th grader.

Further to your brilliance in 65:

The votes that you claim are not counted for a candidate are still counted as a vote cast.

In a majority of the 34 states that allow regulated writ-ins they have regulations that explicitly state your vote shall not be counted. Here is California'
s:

15341. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no name written
upon a ballot in any election shall be counted for an office or
nomination unless the candidate whose name has been written on the
ballot has complied with Part 3 (commencing with Section 8600) of
Division 8.

Got that? Don Qui... the law is quite clear your vote is not counted...it is not counted as a vote not cast (which on a valid ballot is considered an undervote) it is just not counted.

Which, when I pointed this out, you asserted that you would get those votes "counted for the purpose for which they were cast" even if you had to FOIA them. Needless to say this caused my Detecoris taurus excretus 5000 alarm to go off.

Now if asking you hard questions designed to force you to admit to your BS is trolling. then I guess I am guilty... I however tend to look at it as a public service of calling out flawed bullshit that can't withstand scrutiny.

So Don Qui... much like your lie about being a non profit ( we both know you were lying, since anyone who has actually registered a NP would never "think" they were registered.) I don't expect you to come up with the proper answer about how you are goin g to get something counted that isn't counted, because you haven't got a clue and it would also require you to acknowledge that there is a flaw in your grand vision. Which all of us know you can't do.

Once again you are purposely just making stuff up.

Then it should be easy for you to point out what I made up. Or were you just talking out your ass?

It starts in places where people can use a write in vote- including places like California where the state constitution guarantees the right to cast a write in vote.

California does have write-in votes, but like many write-in states it has a certification process that requires paperwork and a certain amount of signatures to qualify. You can't just write in anyone and have them be counted.

If the number of votes cast but not counted for candidates is in the vaccinity of the number of people registered on the website that this is how they intend to vote it verifies why the vast majority of those votes were cast.

Oh, we remembered we have a website now. Convenient how that goes in and out of importance...

As to the rest: fishing for your red card? All I can say is Bravo. Keep up the good work. Don't let the man keep you down...

But, you don't care for music, do ya ... :(

I got more but, it just ain't no fun doin' this all alone.

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Queeen, the Movie along side the real deal

I shall be going to see Queen: It's A Kind Of Magic at Kitchener's Centre in the Square next May, postponed from last April. Can't wait!

Rocket Norton of PRiSM fame went from accordian to drums shortly thereafter and one day ran into Ringo Starr! He tells this story among many others in his book, Rocket Norton: Lost In Space ("Despite the booze and the drugs and the sex, or possibly because of them, this is a great true-life rock and roll story.") Indeed it is ALL of that!

The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand

Elton John - Pinball Wizard

Well, this is one of my all-time favourites from a rock opera ...

The Who - Pinball Wizard

Caddy made a couple of great recommendations for us to focus on for our little shindig tonight - songs from rock operas and the British invasion. I say we can handle both!

Who shall go first?

You betcha, Stuck.

It's kind of like all the criminal defendants in the January 6th Insurrection believed that the only way that Trump didn't win reelection was because the election was "rigged."

Ignorance, like Covid, knows no national borders.

I'm totally ignorant of the teachings of the Muslim holy writ (Koran or whatever), also of any theological interpretations of respected scriptorians of the faith, but I definitely have heard on multiple occasions that the 15 hijackers were promised by somebody whose opinions they valued, the benefits of martyrdom, in the form of specifically, "six dozen virgins" in the hereafter.

Doesnn't matter if the Imam was lying, matters only that the 15 hijackers believed it enough to kill themselves.

The total number of votes cast for candidates subtracted from the total votes cast provides the number of votes not counted which gives a count of the write in votes not counted which serves the purpose of the write in vote which was not to elect a candidate in this election.

No matter how many times you keep saying this it is still incorrect. One would think that the "leader" of a "movement" would know these things. Unfortunately for you Don Qui not everyone reports election results like they do in New Jersey,(in a statistically significant 84 percent of the country) most states/counties/ precincts simply present registered voters, ballots cast and who the ballots were cast for. In more information free and transparent states they will also report over and under votes. They simply do not count write in ballots that are cast for non-registered write in candidates.

While you may think that I am just making it up, unfortunately it is the law of what constitutes a valid ballot that is eligible to be counted in 34 states ( again a statistically significant number, not "some").

Freedom of Information requests go the agencies that have the information that the people seeking the information want. Vote totals are not personal information.

Thank you for the lesson Pointdexter... I had no idea.

Let's try this again... in a previous alternate reality you had stated that YOU were going to get the uncounted ballots counted for One Dumbman even if you had to FOIA them to get the ballots so you could get them "counted" for the purpose for which they were cast. Again your words not mine.

Considering that states do not track why a ballot is invalid to be counted nor do they have a statistic on rejected ballots (like they do in NJ) presumably the physical ballots would have to be FOIA'd to enable you to "count" them.

Since I am the one spreading "disinformation" one would think you would jump at the chance to enlighten us with your superior knowledge of election law.

So again I am asking what exactly the process is going to be to get the ballots? Who are you going to FOIA? What then are you going to do with said information? How are you going to keep it safe? How then does all of this translate into "counted" votes exactly? You know the kind of things a "leader" of a serious election advocacy group has planned out.

Going for the word salad defense?

Anyway, what goode trickle is trying to get through your thick skull, evidently unsuccessfully, is that voting mechanics and the cost of recounts (or FOIA requests for manually counting ballots which would likely be the same) is heavily not in your favor. First off, states that don't allow write in candidates might not even have a place to even fake a write in. A touch screen voting system might only have the option for candidate A, Candidate B, Candidate C and Next. A scantron like ballot may only have fill in dots or punch spots for real candidates. How do you write in votes? How would you count them if the computer only differentiates between a vote for a candidate, no vote or multiple vote? The other problem is the cost. For Trump to recount Wisconsin it would have cost him $3 million if the result was not changed. Does OD have $3 mil per state ready for the next election? Ya, thought not...

The number of votes vs invalid votes does not support you either. How do you differentiate between the OD candidate and Jo Bob who wrote in his dog? Back to the $3 Million per state to figure that out manually...

Not sure about that Lavin relationship but, it is possible. Because, Tom is from Chicago but moved to Vancouver early in his career.

Has anyone been following what happened surrounding the last strike by the US military in Afghanistan on August 29, killing a supposed ISIS facilitator in which this man and many children were killed?

The New York Times and Washington Post forensic investigations have revealed that this drone strike was a tragic mistake, coming as the US military ends its presence there.

What do you all think about this? What do we know about the US military drone program and does it finally need more congressional oversight?

is tom lavin related to folk singer christine lavin?

really?

i mean... clausthaler at the very least.

how very modern of them! i mean, what the heck would anybody think heaven would be like? :D

JL

Rock n Roll is based on this so called "Blues Progression." For example, the Rolling Stones started out as a bunch of British blokes packed in a flat and stone in love with the Blues. Likewise Led Zeppelin is Blues based.

Jazz is way more complicated than Rock. My late Mother was a classical music snob and I regrettably never got her far enough into the Progressive Rock/Jazz scene to "represent," to show her that you don't need to rely upon dead white men to hear good music.

Best that I can tell ya is that Jazz is halfway between pop music and musically super complicated classical muaic.

Our own Colin James is doing a big show tonight, as we speak, at the Big Blues Bender in Las Vegas!

I'll play some more.

And, I posted a few weeks ago the full concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival, featuring Canada's own Powder Blues Band.

So, tell me, what is the difference between jazz and the blues?

You agree to British Invasion no Canuck nor Murican music and the next Sunday we do all Canadian Artists.

This way I'll get turned on to some of your British faves and thence flesh out my Canuck Hall of Fame library.

Win-win, Baby

So let us "drive on" as they say in the U.S Army, in which I served for 2 years 5 months and a wakeup.

I really appreciate that you chose to post ur songs with the title. It wasn't THAT bad and it helps me to build my library.

In that case, to quote John Blutarsky,

My advice to you is to
Start drinking heavily.

We need new blood, I tell you!

I've only invited one person ever to this blog and he hasn't showed up ... yet. But, I know he'd be lots of fun on Sunday nights ... if he wasn't singing somewhere ...

Another quote from this same article.

Modern apologists of Islam try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and Al-Ash'ari (died 935 CE) have "admitted sensual pleasures into paradise". The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-Suyuti (died 1505 ), Koranic commentator and polymath. He wrote: "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas."

For the record, Islam is very much against suicide. What's also interesting is how Christianity is far more uptight about sensuality in heaven.

Another quote from this same article. FYI Islam is very much aga

Modern apologists of Islam try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and Al-Ash'ari (died 935 CE) have "admitted sensual pleasures into paradise". The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-Suyuti (died 1505 ), Koranic commentator and polymath. He wrote: "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetising vaginas."

Damned mic crapped out in SoCal once again.

Yesterday, Rachel Maddow revealed that dogs are being deployed at Miami International Airport to detect Covid in incoming passengers. They can even be trained to detect specific variants of Covid (e.g. the Delta variant, the Mu varient.)

Fast forward to 14:00 and it lasts 6 minutes.

Never have more incorrect and uninformed words polluted the pixels of the comments section.

Don Qui no matter how many times you want the reality of elections to be different they will not change.

You can have an election with 5,000,002 votes and have 5,000,000 of the voters following the One Dumbman sham of writing themselves in and one guy gets two votes guess what? They guy who received two valid votes wins. It is how elections work.

While you try to think of a way around the reality of elections, perhaps you can regale us with real details about how you are going to get all of those invalid ballots "counted" for One Dumbman. You know things like who exactly are you going to FOIA, what information you are going to ask for, what you are going to do with that personal information once you get it (if they will give it to you in the first place). We want the kind of details that the devil likes.

Since our Blogmaster is giving himself next Friday off why don't WE do our own FTPs?

For instance, who among us would ever have even imagined, much less believed, that young men living in a polygamous society could ever get so sex-starved horny as to buy into the promise by some bearded Imam that those who are willing to commit mass murder of innocent civilians followed by committing suicide would be rewarded in an afterlife with six dozen virgins.

First off, we don't know that these jihadists ain't getting any. I think ideology rather than "incel" status is the main motivator.

Second, from the Virgins? What Virgins? POLITICO article,

First, there is no mention anywhere in the Koran of the actual number of virgins available in paradise, and second, the dark-eyed damsels are available for all Muslims, not just martyrs.

I would have thought that today some Weigantian might editorialize on the subject "What are the takeaways to be gleaned from the 9-11-01 experience?

One that occurs to me would be...

AND one that would occur to me is that our reaction to 9-11 fits with the interning of our fellow citizen Japanese-Americans after Peatl Harbor and blacklisting/career busting in the McCarthy days.

BOTTOM LINE IS that America is perfectly willing to act unconstitutionally against perceived threats once something scares them enough.

So pie is like O'Douls... tastes good but doesn't get one in trouble?

What's not to like?

I'm not kidding. The force is strong in me, Elizabeth!

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I don't have a damned thing against Canuck music, nor Murican music. I greatly like Weigantia's kind spirited BOARD MOTHER, and I want to plumb her favorite non- North American music.

IF it's a little scary not getting to indoctrinate us in the untold wonders of all things Canadia, think of it as a personal growth opportunity. A gift from a Yankee who will someday sip Coffee with Ellisville Miller at an outdoor Cafe that has a fab view, in Vancouver. Bring your SigOth if'n you have one!

Signed --

Decidedly NOT hitting on Elizabeth-- just want to meet the face behind the words. Any excuse to visit Vancouver for the first time, in other words.

You wanna do BOTH ideas this Sunday?

Um, for once I'm feeling like today is Saturday -- and I'm right!

When one lives in the "socialist dystopia" that Countri-Cali is purported to be, one lives in blissful sloth (with world class weed to boot) barely knowing what day of the week it is.

That the CIA has forgotten that a pawn becomes much more powerful when it reaches the end of the board...

One that occurs to me would be that thanks to that experience, we should realize that under the proper circumstances, things that we Americans once considered incomprehensible are now totally comprehensible.

For instance, who among us would ever have even imagined, much less believed, that young men living in a polygamous society could ever get so sex-starved horny as to buy into the promise by some bearded Imam that those who are willing to commit mass murder of innocent civilians followed by committing suicide would be rewarded in an afterlife with six dozen virgins???

Hearts and Bones.

The Late Great Johnny Ace a tribute to John Lennon.

PAUL SIMON

Bertha.

K, Elizabeth. I have a couple ideas for Sunday Night Canadian* Music Appreciation Festival and Dance Party.
*and other countries

I love rock operas (e.g. Tommy, Jesus Crist Superstar) so whaddaya think about "fave songs from rock operas?"

Or, British Invasion -- with no 'Murican nor Canuck songs, period. You can do this, Elizabeth!

Have fun on your vacation day ... and, on Sunday Night!