Month: December 2022

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Sen. Kennedy on the omnibus spending bill…

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Stupid incompetence or willful trickery?

Game-changer? Huge Revelation in Kari Lake’s Election Challenge Trial

“…It was, perhaps, a small miracle that Kari Lake’s election challenge was allowed to go to trial, but the tough part still lies ahead: proving beyond a reasonable doubt (Count II) that ballot printer problems on Election Day were intentional, designed to affect the results of the election—and that they, in fact, did—and (Count IV) that additional votes were allowed to be counted in violation of the County Election Manual.

On Wednesday, Lake’s team took a huge step toward doing that.

When asked by Lake’s attorney Bryan Blehm if the county knew on Election Day how many ballots had been submitted by the voters, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer testified that they did not. According to Richer, individual polling places did not tally the number of votes cast — an apparent violation of state law.

This is significant because Lake’s lawsuit claims, among other things, that between Nov. 9 (the day after Election Day) and Nov. 11, the number of votes the county reported having counted in the election increased by nearly 25,000 — which exceeds Katie Hobbs’ alleged 17,000-vote victory.

“Highlighting the chain of custody failures … is the fact that two days after Election Day was completed, Maricopa County found more than 25,000 additional ballots, whereas properly followed chain of custody procedures would require Maricopa County election officials to know the exact number of ballots submitted by the day after Election, November 9, 2022,” Kari Lake’s attorney explained in their legal brief.

“On Election Day, it would’ve been easy for you to figure out how many ballots you received,” Blehm told Richer.

“Well, we had to get them all in and it was quite a process throughout the night,” Richer claimed.

“You can look at the forms and add the numbers. Correct?” Blehm asked.

“They’re not counted at the individual loading locations,” Richer explained. “They are counted when they get back to MCTEC [the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center] and then they are recounted at Runbeck.”

“Does anybody know, when those ballots leave the voting centers, how many are in the bins?” asked Blehm.

“When the early ballots leave the voting centers, no, they are not counted at the voting centers,” Richer admitted

“Nobody knows how many [ballots] are in the bins when they arrive at MCTEC. Correct?” Blehm asked.

“Correct,” Richer said.

According to the state election procedures manual, each voting location is required by law to record the number of votes cast there and record them in an official ballot report. This ensures that the total number of ballots they record matches the number of people who claim to have voted.

Former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett told The Western Journal that Maricopa County should have known the total number of ballots on Election Day, or at the very least by the next day.

It appears that Maricopa County did violate the law; they didn’t have a tally of the votes cast before they were counted. Why would there be such a blatant violation of the law, unless it was to ensure there was no official tally of votes cast to compare to the number of votes counted?…”

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There are responsible Republicans, their number is dwindling.

Congress is a dysfunctional mess.

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Chip Roy is emerging as a strong new Republican leader. It is time for a new and younger leadership.

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A common sense victory for freedom of religion and beliefs…

Court strikes down Biden’s transgender mandate

“…The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis Dec. 9 permanently blocked a transgender mandate the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had implemented as a revision to the Affordable Care Act.

The mandate forces doctors and hospitals to perform gender-transition procedures on their patients even if this violates their conscience and best medical judgment. The 8th Circuit concluded the mandate violates a key federal law protecting religious liberty — the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Biden administration has 45 days from the date of the ruling to ask the 8th Circuit to rehear the case, Sisters of Mercy v. Becerra, or 90 days to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. “Becerra” is HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

“The federal government has no business forcing doctors to violate their consciences or perform controversial procedures that could permanently harm their patients,” said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, a Washington-based religious liberty law firm representing the plaintiffs.

“This is a common-sense ruling that protects patients, aligns with best medical practice, and ensures doctors can follow their Hippocratic oath to ‘do no harm.’ ” …”

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The vaccines are not all they are cracked up to be…

https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1605526658743554048

Results Among 51011 employees, 20689 (41%) had had a previous documented episode of COVID-19, and 42064 (83%) had received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 occurred in 2452 (5%) during the study. Risk of COVID-19 increased with time since the most recent prior COVID-19 episode and with the number of vaccine doses previously received. In multivariable analysis, the bivalent vaccinated state was independently associated with lower risk of COVID-19 (HR, .70; 95% C.I., .61-.80), leading to an estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) of 30% (95% CI, 20-39%). Compared to last exposure to SARS-CoV-2 within 90 days, last exposure 6-9 months previously was associated with twice the risk of COVID-19, and last exposure 9-12 months previously with 3.5 times the risk.

Conclusions The bivalent COVID-19 vaccine given to working-aged adults afforded modest protection overall against COVID-19, while the virus strains dominant in the community were those represented in the vaccine.

Summary Among 51011 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster was 30% effective in preventing infection, during the time when the virus strains dominant in the community were represented in the vaccine.

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Life among Democrats – insanity as public policy

 Polis, legislature shut off the gas

“…obscure new state rules complicate and potentially confound the installation of new natural gas supply lines and the extension of existing ones. The rules likely will limit expanded use of gas by raising the cost of installing gas lines in new construction, as state officials more or less admit. The idea is to price natural gas out of use…”

Related and equally insane:

Marine Corps may drop ‘ma’am’ and ‘sir’ over gender-neutral concerns for drill instructors

Related and including paleo-Republican buy-in:

The Spending Bill Funds Abortions to Preserve ‘Biodiversity.’

Mindless stupidity.

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Democrats have politicized and weaponized all aspects of the government. Many American have lost trust.

PROMISE OF CONFIDENTIALITY

Related:

House Committee Votes to Release Trump’s Tax Returns

Democrats destroy the institutions of government for any momentary political advantage.

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WHEN TRUST IS SQUANDERED

“…Could the Bureau of Labor Statistics be a politicized agency, faking numbers to help the Democratic Party? Twenty years ago I wouldn’t have believed it, but given what we know about the FBI and the CIA, it is easy to believe that the BLS, which I suspect is staffed overwhelmingly by Democrats, may be corruptible…”

Related:

Oops: Biden BLS overstated jobs numbers by more than 1 million, raising manipulation concerns

If you believe government nonsense, especially in the months before an election, I’ve got a #MeToo to sell you.

Doug Santo