All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
Since this space doesn’t seem to be contested, I guess Photog won’t mind if I use it to show shots of cars that I’ve encountered over the past decade or so.
This was from a house at sea level abandoned after hurricane damage.
Below: wide angle photography in my driveway
The overruling of Chevron could also apply to the BATFE, as it also is an executive branch not a legislative branch function. This is a refreshing pushback against the unelected beurocrats who make up new ways to advance personal or ideological policies without the power of legislation.
I am happy to see a beginning of unraveling the fiat state that has been created by BATFE, EOA, NOAA, and other over reaching government functionairies believing themselves to be the originator of power, and authority not truly granted them or their offices.
It is a small start, but truly appears to be headed in the right direction when viewed with the pushback against geotabbing cattle by the EPA, while disregarding illegal and unvetted, or unvaccinated invaders over our borders. Hopefully it results in less overreach, but that will be seen in the future.
The post-debate euphoria has finally worn off. I’ve watched the various media and political operatives screech and croak in horror at the spectacle of Joe Biden’s cognitive flat lining. And it was immensely gratifying. I haven’t had this much fun since Election Night 2016. Wonderful. But now it’s time to put down the toys and look out into the cold, hard light of Saturday and move on.
It doesn’t appear that the Democrat elite has decided to pull the plug on Dementia Joe. At least not yet. Obama and Clinton have texted that Biden’s performance is just one of those things and everything will be status quo on the way toward glorious victory in November. Well, good. Leaving Joe in is the best thing that could happen for Trump. There will be a small subset of voters who don’t care for Trump but are horrified by the prospect of a man as obviously cognitively damaged as Biden, in charge of the US military and other critical agencies of the government. It’s got to give them pause wondering who is actually running the government instead of Biden right now. So, this revelation has to boost Trump somewhat. How much is the big question. We should have some polls in a week or two.
I saw that the Supreme Court came out with a couple of rulings. One is relevant to President Trump and other January 6th defendants. It overrules charging them with obstruction of a government proceeding. This will help a number of the defendants because this serious charge was the only felony for a number of the defendants.
The other decision is much more important for the country at large. It overturned the so-called “Chevron deference.” According to this 1984 ruling courts were forced to show deference to federal agencies when interpreting ambiguities in the law within their area of expertise.
“”Chevron is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision.
The court’s conservative justices were in the majority, with the liberal justices dissenting. The ruling will make it easier for judges to second-guess actions by regulators, empowering challengers to regulations across federal agencies.
Business, conservative and libertarian groups cheered the decision, saying it eliminates a rule that requires courts to favor the government in all manner of challenges to regulation. The litigation was part of what has been termed the “war on the administrative state,” an effort to weaken the federal agency bureaucracy that interprets laws, crafts federal rules and implements executive action.”
Now this is brilliant. With the right courts and executive branch oversight many overreaches by agencies like EPA and the IRS can be challenged in court and reversed. This is a wonderful result.
So that is the world today. A mixture of progress and regress. In one direction we see the Supreme Court correcting past mistakes. In another rogue judges and prosecutors serve up lawfare against the enemies of a demented president of the United States.
Well, it’s not as if we’re all not used to the spectacle. The encouraging sign is that more of it is happening out in the open and more and more normies are getting an eyeful.
Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?
Michel de Montaigne
I defy you to get through this compilation. I’m trying to imagine the debate between Kamala and Trump. I can’t imagine what could be. I’m too burdened by what has been.
Wow! I guess politically, I’m not an average American. So, I can’t say what the rest of America thought of that performance. But by my reckoning Joe Biden got his clock cleaned good and thorough.
Now this may have no effect either on opinion polls or election results. After all, those things can be arranged independent of what actual people think. But, wow.
Now obviously Joe was doped to the gills and he had been coached on all the questions that CNN was going to ask. But it didn’t matter. He still looked and sounded like a re-animated corpse. He even managed to have the brain freeze moment we were waiting for. He was stumbling through one of his rehearsed set speeches when he lost the thread of what he was trying to say. He stopped for five or ten seconds and then just made some non sequitur to fill the dead air.
I’ll give him credit. He didn’t fall down or befoul himself. But it couldn’t have been much worse if he had.
So, the other side. Trump hammered him the whole time. The border, inflation, crime. Over and over again especially with the crime caused by illegal aliens. He was relentless. And he was disciplined. No matter what the question from the moderator, Trump concentrated on whichever topics were scoring the most points. He was like a boxer who has opened up a cut on his opponent. He kept after that weak spot and peppered it with jabs. Eventually he settled on illegal aliens murdering Americans and displacing Americans from their rightful benefits; social security, Medicaid, housing for veterans, jobs.
By the end of the debate Biden actually got a little more lucid. But by then it was too late. Every Democrat big wig had gone into full panic mode and was calling up the FBI and the CIA demanding that they blackmail Biden into dropping out of the race “voluntarily.”
So, this was really, really bad for Joe.
Well, will he drop out? I hope not. With a performance this shockingly bad he might be able to make the election fraud-proof. If all of a sudden Trump wins New Jersey and Virginia it doesn’t matter anymore if he loses Pennsylvania. So, I’m hoping that Joe hangs in there.
But will there be a second debate? At this point I kind of doubt it. I don’t think Joe’s handlers want to risk another fiasco like tonight. So maybe they claim some beef about Trump saying mean things and refuse the September meeting.
And I’ll have to at this point thank Donald Trump for giving me one of the best laughs I’ve had in months. Trump was disciplined and for him, moderate. He didn’t go over on his time and he didn’t shout while his microphone was muted. He just methodically undermined Joe Biden’s whole term as president. And most enjoyably he called Joe Biden an habitual liar. And that is the most effective attack that you can end with when attacking Biden. Because it’s true and it’s common knowledge. And because inevitably you can point to a lie, he’s making right there at the time you’re talking to him. He’s that constant.
So, by tomorrow morning polls will be circulating and it should be a crap-fest for Scranton Joe. Not even Uncle Bosie can save him now. Even Corn Pop would tell him it’s time to hang up the cap and bells. But please Joe hang in there.
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
Michel de Montaigne
