The above ranger at Kiva Dunes Golf Course in Gulf Shores does not tolerate slow play. He especially discourages looking for balls that go into the ponds.
The New York Times is reporting tonight that the U.S Justice Department has seized $3.6 billion of Bitcoin, which was previously stolen. It begs the question, how does one steal something that does not physically exist? I hope someone will explain this to me.
The Republican National Committee is getting criticized from an unexpected source. On Friday in its efforts to censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the RNC referred to the January 6 insurrection as “legitimate political discourse”. Today Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel criticized the RNY saying, “We saw it happen. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. That’s what it was.”
One more skate and Nathan Chen can put the 2018 Winter Olympics in his review mirror, never to be seen or heard of again. Chen has performed flawlessly so far in the 2022 Olympics. Last night Chen had the highest score ever in the Men’s singles short program. If he can perform well in the Men’s singles long program, he will go down as the greatest men’s skater in history.
Finally, the date is set for Lou Whitaker’s jersey number to be retired. The Detroit Tigers will retire Whitaker’s No. 1 jersey on Aug. 6, in a pregame ceremony before facing the Tampa Bay Rays at Comerica Park, the team announced Tuesday. Retiring Whitaker’s number was originally announced in December 2019. A ceremony was slated for the 2020 season, but the Tigers postponed the ceremony because fans were not allowed in the ballpark due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There was a great article in the NY Times about the ambiguity of the Electoral Count Act. Here are excerpts from the article.
| Few have studied the Electoral Count Act more obsessively than Matthew Seligman, a fellow at Yale Law School. In an exhaustive 100-page paper, he walked through nearly every combination of scenarios for how the law could be abused by partisans bent on stretching its boundaries to the max. And what he discovered shocked him. “Its underexplored weaknesses are so profound that they could result in an even more explosive conflict in 2024 and beyond, fueled by increasingly vitriolic political polarization and constitutional hardball,” Seligman warns. He found, for instance, that in nine of the 34 presidential elections since 1887, “the losing party could have reversed the results of the presidential election and the party that won legitimately would have been powerless to stop it.” Seligman refrained from publishing his paper for more than five years, out of fear that it could be used for malicious ends. He worries especially about what he calls the “governor’s tiebreaker,” a loophole in the existing law that, if abused, could cause a constitutional crisis. Suppose that on Jan. 6, 2025 — the next time the Electoral Count Act will come into play — Republicans control the House of Representatives and the governorship of Georgia. Seligman conjures a hypothetical yet plausible scenario: The secretary of state declares that President Biden won the popular vote in the state. But Gov. David Perdue, who has said he believes the 2020 election was stolen, declares there was “fraud” and submits a slate of Trump electors to Congress instead. Then the House, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, certifies Trump as the winner. Even if Democrats controlled the Senate and rejected Perdue’s electoral slate, it wouldn’t matter, Seligman said. Because of the quirks of the Electoral Count Act, Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes would go for Trump. |
What are you doing to stop the violence? Get vaccinated and get your booster.
Orchid of the Day: Nathan Chen, see above story
Onion of the Day: No onion today.
Quotes of the Day: “When you’re in this era of pervasive distrust, you start running through all these rabbit holes. We haven’t had to chase down so many rabbit holes before.” Richard H. Pildes, a professor at New York University’s School of Law talking about the loopholes in the Electoral Count Act