vxbush 3/20/2025 5:35:21 AM

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vxbush 3/20/2025 5:42:25 AM

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Stephen Kruiser does a nice job reminding us about Robert Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, specifically for reminding us how Bork already saw the actions of liberal justices as putting America at great risk. If he could see what is happening now, I'm sure he would say, "I told you so." 

Unfortunately, Lincoln Brown's article on Judge James Boasberg doesn't really get at the heart of the issue, I fear. It doesn't acknowledge all the work that Sundance has done relating to Boasberg and the FISC courts, so the article is missing the serious meat that would help add some context. 

But to understand Boasberg, you need to go back and read every article Sundance has written about him, and that takes time. And even if I tried to summarize it, I would do a poor job. 

I fear there are a lot of tentacles between the Deep State and the judiciary. The only question is how many, how thick, and if there's any way to cut them off. 

vxbush 3/20/2025 5:45:23 AM

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Quoting from a PJMedia article: 

The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that the Biden administration "deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas." 

Moreover, according to sources at the Department of Energy, "The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze." 

Biden lied? Don't color me shocked. That was his native color.

vxbush 3/20/2025 5:47:01 AM

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Oh, Noes! DOGE Audits Aren't up to Government Snuff!

I've gone through audits, and I've *always* had to make a change or implement how we would address a finding. But never, not once, have I ever seen or heard a government audit requiring any change of action on the part of the administration workers who were found liable for items in an audit. So please, no more government audits. 

vxbush 3/20/2025 5:53:50 AM

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vxbush 3/20/2025 5:57:11 AM

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I've only seen a few stories bout the JFK files release, and PJ Media has one, too. But I think El Gato Malo has probably the best take on the entire thing: 

"there will be so many fake reports and so much tinsel in this massive pile of mess that there will simply be no way to arrive at any sort of ground state truth."

vxbush 3/20/2025 6:03:37 AM

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Illinois governor JB Pritzker is apparently trying to become the nominee for president for the 2028 election. 

Democrats, run screaming for the hills. Although, apparently Democrats like have things in complete disarray with insufficient funding for required government duties and money wasted left, right, and center on every outrageous idea. 

vxbush 3/20/2025 6:05:45 AM

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vxbush 3/20/2025 6:10:18 AM

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"DOGE IS HORRIBLE! YOU CAN'T LAY OFF ALL THOSE PEOPLE! YAAAAAA!" --Democrats about cleaning up waste in the federal government

"You have to focus on cost-cutting measures, including a potential reduction in the size of the workforce to balance the budget." --Democrats in LA, looking at next year's budget shortfall of close to $1 billion. 

vxbush 3/20/2025 6:20:46 AM

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And for basketball fans (including the entire state of Indiana): if you need AI help filling out your NCAA tournament bracket,  You.com has a basketball bracket AI that can help (for a price, of course). 

vxbush 3/20/2025 6:25:03 AM

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Couldn't get X to create the embed code for this, so a graphic must do: 

JCM 3/20/2025 7:04:41 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Government audit, $1 Trillion annual deficit.

How is government supposed to operate without waste and fraud?

JCM 3/20/2025 8:28:43 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 8:

Dems will fight tooth and nail to keep the ministry of indoctrination open.

JCM 3/20/2025 8:53:48 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 3/20/2025 3:01:10 PM

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In #1 vxbush said: Thank you for posting that information on copyright when photographs were first being used. That was context I didn't have, but I thought you would. 

Glad you found it of interest.  Consider that the view of photography as "representing/depicting reality" is part of the reason for the emergence of intentionally-stylized---"non-realistic," if you will---painting styles, such as Expressionism and, later, Cubism and Surrealism, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.  They were efforts to keep painting "relevant" in the face of the threat supposedly posed by photography.  By the end of the first third of the 20th century, however, the denizens of the art world had worked things out, more or less; photography encompassed not only "reality,"  but the pornographic Grecian fantasies of Baron von Gloeden and the highly-stylized "reality" of the staged photos of workers and tradesmen by August Sander, and painting included both the aforementioed abstraction movements and both stylized and unstylized realism.