Babylon Bee's guide too good grammar

Ed. here. You know that Walt and I are sticklers for the proper use of the language of Shakespeare... and modern English too, "modern" being the English spoken by the Queen... Victoria, that is. ("American English" is an oxymoron.)

For us, it's a constant struggle to find and correct grammatical and orthographical errors. We have been forced to throw in the towel on the Apostrophe Error, because even professional communicator's seem compelled to insert an apostrophe before all terminal s's. Its a sin and a shame, isnt it?

And (said he, beginning not just a sentence but a paragraph with a conjuntion) let us not even begin to discuss "pause words", such as "basically", "like" and the dreaded "so", with which persons of a certain age and gender begin every sentence. So what?

We are happy today to find that we are not fighting the battle on our own. One of Walt's favourite blogs, the Babylon Bee, has entered the fray with "A Handy Guide Too Using Good Grammar", a compendium of tips for avoiding common errors of grammar and speling. 

Read it and learn, and know that you will always have our well wishes.

UPDATED: Emergency debate on holding another election

A week ago, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked the Supreme Court to hear an emergency appeal challenging the election results in Pennsylvania, contending that hearing the appeal "would be an important step in helping rebuild confidence in the integrity of our democratic system." 

"Today, an emergency appeal was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the election results in Pennsylvania," said Sen. Cruz. "This appeal raises serious legal issues, and I believe the Court should hear the case on an expedited basis." On Monday, he volunteered to argue the case for the appellants, if they wished. 

Not waiting to see if SCOTUS would "grant cert" (certiorari) in that case, the State of Texas last night filed a lawsuit directly with the Supreme Court challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the grounds that they violate the Constitution. 

Texas argues that these states violated the Electors Clause of the Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions, but not through the state legislatures.

Additionally, Texas argues that there were differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties within the states, violating the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. 

Finally, Texas argues that, as a result of the illegal changes to voting procedures, there were "voting irregularities" -- putting it mildly -- in those states. 

So it would seem that, one way or another, the Supreme Court is going to have to examine the results of the deeply flawed 2020 election, whether the Democrats and their sycophants in the controlled media like it or not. 

The prospect of a redo looms sufficiently large to provoke a debate at an emergency meeting of the Mudge Country Current Affairs and Historical Society, of which Walt happens to be Recording Secretary. Here are the minutes of last night's meeting, held in the Naughty Pine Room of the Paris Hilton. [The Paris in America, not the French one. Ed.]

The special general meeting of the MCCAHS was convened on December 7th, 2020 (the 79th anniversary of Pearl Harbour), with Ms Cordelia Weatherbee in the chair. 

Mr Whiteman read the minutes of the previous meeting at which it was decided that the situation created by the recent elections demanded that every citizen bend his thoughts to the question of how the parties should conduct themselves in the next critical few months, after which coffee and sandwiches were served. 

Moved by Mrs Chodinecki, seconded by Dr McInerney, that the minutes be accepted as read. Carried. Mrs Chodinecki said she would also like to say a special word of thanks to the ladies of the CWL (of which she is President) for the coffee and sandwiches. Carried. 

Wilson Huang moved, seconded by our local Rep. Algonquin J. Calhoun, that a telegram be sent to Joe Biden urging him to take all precautions, between now and January 20th, to avoid tripping over his dog again or otherwise imminentizing his demise, which would lead to a constitutional crisis over whether a Vice-President could be sworn in to replace a President who had not been sworn in.

As President of the VU (Vizmins United) of Mudge County, Mr Huang said he felt sure the people weren't psychologically or financially ready for another election. In his own case, Mr Huang continued, he had been called upon during the recent electoral activity by the representatives of both parties and (looking at Mr Calhoun) one Independent, for donations of fortune cookies to be served at coffee parties (of not more than 10). As a result, he expected his fortune-cookie account to be in a deficit position for at least six months.

Johnny Crapaud rose -- just barely -- on a point of order, calling the motion gratuitous, ill-considered, insulting, inflammatory, irrelevant, immaterial and ridiculous, not to mention uncalled for an unnecessary. That being the case, he said, copies should be sent to both Mr Biden and President Trump. Mr Crapaud was ruled out of order, as indeed he was, in all respects.

Mr Calhoun said he craved the indulgence of the chair to say a few words in behalf of the proposition to which he, along with Mr Huang, the distinguished restauranteur, had lent their names and for which they were desirous of the widest expression of support. (Not for nothing is Mr Calhoun known as "the golden-voiced tribune of the prairie".) 

Mr Calhoun said that he, as a responsible statesman, was keen to see the electoral impasse cleared away so that a great nation might not be impeded in any way in its inexorable march toward the sunny uplands of a brighter tomorrow. Nevertheless, he recognized it as his bounden duty, having offered himself for yet another two years, not to stop one day short of the contract period.

Irving Greenslade, speaking for the Downtown Businesspersons Association, said that no man or woman or other was more desirous than he of seeing the nation achieve the sunny uplands of a brighter tomorrow -- in fact he already had in stock a number of fine summer-weight fabrics which the well-dressed gentleman would wear when we got there -- but that he believed the situation needed to be resolved decisively at the earliest possible moment.

Consequently, Mr Greenslade suggested, a petition should be sent to both President Trump and "President-elect" Biden calling on them to take office together, in a Government of National Unity (GNU), turning the White House into a condominium and occupying the Oval Office on alternate days. That would result in a virtual deadlock, which would have the salubrious effect of preventing the federal government from doing anything more to for the nation in this time of crisis. 

Dr McInerney said that as far as he was concerned, no GNUs is good GNUs, and he therefore moved that preceding motions and suggestions be tabled, for further consideration at a date to be fixed by the President (of the MCCAHS). Carried. God save the United States of America!

UPDATE ADDED AT 1830. Seven (count `em, 7) states -- Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and South Dakota -- have now joined Texas lawsuit, arguing that the Equal Protection Clause has been violated in this election. 

This is important, because this case is not about voter fraud -- not to say that there hasn't been any! -- but about the constitutionality of decisions taken in Pennsylvania, Georgia and other states to allow mail-in ballots and/or extend the time in which ballots could be received. That's the issue that could well upset the Democrats' cart of poisoned apples!

Don't worry folks, the vaccine is coming... sometime...

Civil liberties matter, even in a pandemic... especially in a pandemic!

Meme scraped from  Blazing Cat Fur.

More evidence of massive fraud in Pennsylvania election count

Today's post is going to be longer than usual, because it's necessary to provide some detailed examples to refute the claims of the Dumbocrats and the sycophantic controlled media that Still-President's Trump's allegations of massive voter fraud in the 2020 elections are baseless.

The lamestream media have been protesting (too much!) that Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell et al. have not given any examples of "major irregularities" in the counting of ballots in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and other closely contested states. In his speech this week, POTUS gave many examples, but even as he spoke, still more evidence of massive fraud was coming to light.

At a news conference on Tuesday, the Amistad Project (1) released bombshell new evidence of voter fraud, including an eyewitness report that up to 280,000 ballots "disappeared" from a trailer in Pennsylvania. 

Accounts from USPS workers and others, they said, reveal multi-state illegal efforts to influence the election in at least three of six swing states. "Evidence from these whistleblowers in the form of affidavits and video interviews are being used in litigation by the Amistad Project to ensure election integrity and to uphold election laws in key battleground states."

Details include potentially hundreds of thousands of completed absentee ballots being transported across three state lines, and a trailer filled with ballots disappearing in Pennsylvania. "Experts retained by the Amistad Project in sworn declarations state that over 300,000 ballots are at issue in Arizona (2), 548,000 in Michigan, 204,000 in Georgia, and over 121,000 in Pennsylvania."

Among the reports cited by the Amistad Project was the eyewitness account of Jesse Morgan, a driver for a USPS subcontractor, whose route runs through the Pennsylvanian cities of Lancaster and Harrisburg. On October 21st, Mr Morgan said, he was instructed to deliver 24 bulk mail containers holding approximately 144,000-288,000 ballots from New York to Pennsylvania. He observed written addresses and at least one postmark on some of the ballots, indicating that they already had been filled out by voters. 

When Mr Morgan reached Harrisburg, "a self- identified 'transportation supervisor'" told him "to drive the whole load to Lancaster without unloading the portion intended for Harrisburg." When he arrived at Lancaster, he parked his truck in the normal place, only to find the next morning that the truck and the ballot containers had disappeared!

The Amistad Project stated that the ballots had traveled across three state lines. "Mr. Morgan experienced several odd behaviors by a select group of USPS personnel which postal experts in sworn statements indicate grossly deviate from normal procedure and behavior." 

Mr Morgan's account isn't the first example of mass ballot "loss" in Pennsylvania. Days before the election, officials in Butler County announced that 1000s of mail-in ballots from the predominately Republican county simply disappeared in the mail. As of October 29th, nearly 75% of the 40,000 mail-in ballots requested by voters in the county remained unreturned. The county blamed USPS, which has denied responsibility.

Sweeps of USPS facilities after the election led to the apparent discovery of 1700 supposedly "lost" ballots from Pennsylvania.  More than 30,000 ballots from that state either have no return dates or ones earlier than their send dates. An independent analysis of ballot return dates found that USPS may have "mismanaged" at least 100,000 Pennsylvania mail-in ballots altogether.

The Amistad Project revealed additional reports by "postal workers in Pennsylvania who were instructed to place Trump mail – including campaign literature – in undeliverable bins while making sure that Biden mail was delivered in a timely fashion."

Pennsylvania was not the only state where the in-person vote count favouring Still-President Trump, was overturned by mail-in ballots, absentee ballots and provisional ballots. According to Amistad, USPS whistleblowers in Michigan and Wisconsin swore to first-hand knowledge of systematic ballot backdating. 

Their news conference featured the testimony of Gregory Stenstrom, a forensic computer expert and Delaware County poll watcher, who, in an affidavit alleging widespread fraud, said he "witnessed unsupervised access by a vendor representing Dominion during which the vendor apparently violated election system certification protocols and inserted jump drives to download and update the aggregation machines counting the vote."

Mr Stenstrom detailed these charges at the voter fraud hearing held by the Pennsylvania State Senate last Friday. He said it is "impossible to verify the validity of about 100,000 to 120,000 votes" from Delaware County. "I personally observed USB cards being uploaded to voting machines by the voting machine warehouse supervisor on multiple occasions."

The supervisor, who was "not being observed" and was "not part of the process," inserted unidentified USBs into voting machines two dozen times, according to Mr Strenstrom's affidavit. "We have multiple other witnesses who saw it, including Democrat poll watchers," 

Voting machines from Toronto-based Dominion Voting Systems have been linked to a rash of election day glitches that affected over 80,000 ballots in Georgia alone. Several Pennsylvania counties reported Dominion machine breakdowns and other issues, like voters losing their votes after failing to handle Dominion ballot printouts properly. The Trump campaign says they have testimony of several Dominion workers "admitting that they were trained how to dispose of Trump votes and add to Biden votes." 

Gregory Stenstrom also attested that he and a fellow poll watcher observed between 60,000-70,000 ballots kept in a back room and never counted. "We have a picture in here of a large number of boxes that I took that were filled with what appeared to be ballots sitting by the BlueCrest machine," his affidavit says. "They were there for about three hours and then they disappeared." 

Mr Stenstrom added that "we just learned two days ago that virtually all chain of custody logs, records, yellow sheets, everything, from Delaware County are gone. So we have a situation in where we have 100,000 to 120,000 ballots, both mail-in and USB, that are in question."

On November 17th, Steven J. Miller, a mathematics professor at Williams College, submitted yet another affidavit putting into question 90,000-100,000 absentee ballots from Pennsylvania. 

Dr Miller analyzed data from surveys and phone interviews with registered Republicans conducted by Voter Integrity Project, a group retained by Amistad. According to his affidavit, of the 1706 Republicans who said they did not request a ballot, 556 nevertheless had ballots requested in their name. 

463 of 1150 who said they had requested a ballot and sent it back said that their ballots had not been counted. Based on these ratios, Dr Miller wrote, "I estimate that the number of ballots that were either requested by someone other than the registered Republican or requested and returned but not counted range from 89,397 to 98,801." 

"Almost surely, the number of ballots requested by someone other than the registered Republican is between 37,001 and 58,914," the professor stated. "Almost surely the number of ballots requested by registered Republicans and returned but not counted is in the range from 38,910 to 56,483." 

Federal Election Commission Chairman James Trainor noted that Dr Miller "would be qualified in almost any court in the country" and said that his analysis "adds to the conclusions that some level of voter fraud took place in this year's election. The rush to certify results that are this suspicious from places with known election violations would nullify millions of votes that were legally cast by individual voters."

Footnotes:

(1) Curiously, you'll have difficulty finding any reference to "Amistad Project" on Google. The Amistad Project is an initiative of the Thomas More Society , a not-for-profit, national public interest law firm dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty. Walt's sometime colleague Christopher Ferrara is a Special Counsel to the Society.

(2) For details of the Arizona fraud, see "Amistad Project Files Election Litigation Challenging 300,000+ Ballots in Arizona", Prescottenews.com, 4/12/20.

(3) This post is adapted from an article by Raymond Wolfe in Lifesite News, 4/12/20.

Only a month ago...

Seems like an eternity, doesn't it? A month ago this morning, Americans woke up to find that President Trump, who appeared on the night of November 3rd to be on the path to re-election, had, while they slept, somehow been "unre-elected". 

So said the anti-Trump lamestream media, led by Associated Press, ABC, and even (gasp!) Fox News. During the night, they asked us to believe, crates of mail-in ballots, absentee ballots and provisional ballots had appeared in places like DeKalb Co. GA, Maricopa Co. AZ, Detroit and (of course) Philthydelphia. And... strangely believe it... those votes favoured Sleepy Joe Biden by margins of roughly 99 to 1!

Whoda thunk it? Around 0230 EST, Mr Biden emerged from his basement to say that he was about to get into the getaway car. President Trump issued a statement saying that he had won the election, but the political pundits (read: propagandists) immediately said "Don't believe him! All the votes haven't been counted yet! Wait until we've printed some more ballots!"

The month since then has been characterized by further counts, recounts and rerecounts, umpteen lawsuits and bitter acrimony. Earlier this week Still-President Trump spoke from the White House to update the nation on what's been happening. Here, in case you missed it, is what he called "the most important speech I ever gave."

   

The controlled media buried this speech, and reports of the latest developments in the contest over who really won, "below the fold". And now they've gone silent. So has "President-elect" Biden. Apart from announcing a few appointments (including the composition of his all-girl communications team), Sleepy Joe hasn't said anything, nor has he appeared in public. 

Why have they all gone quiet, all of a sudden? Could it be that they're afraid they didn't make a clean getaway? New evidence of fraud emerges every day. The election ain't over yet!

This Christmas, whether the Democrats and  their hangers-on like it or not, Donald J. Trump will still be President of the United Statese of America. If you'd like to show your support by sending him and the First Lady a Merry Christmas (not "Happy Holidays"!) greeting, click here to go the RNCC website and sign the card.

Strangely believe it Dept: What's wrong with this ad?

This public service advertisement was published by the government of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan to remind the public that AIDS is still a "thing" worthy of having its own Day.

"So?" I hear you ask, "What's wrong with that?" My dear, didn't you get the memo? The ad gives the impression that HIV/AIDS is a "gay disease", to which homosexuals are more susceptible than others, and that's a myth -- a myth -- according to the Dictionary of Political Correctness. [Isn't a myth a female moth? Ed.]

The ink was barely dry on the print version of the ad when the lamestream press and some social media users [Not us! Ed.] condemned the government's use of a same-sex couple to promote World AIDS Day.

In a display of wokeness stunning even by Canadian standards, the government withdrew the ad and issued this statement: "Yesterday in marking World AIDS Day, Government of Saskatchewan social media pages used a photo that stigmatized HIV/AIDS and those that live with the disease. The photo has been deleted, and we unreservedly apologize."

Welcome Biden's all-girl White House communications team!

 Every man who's ever been married gets this.

Scraped from the Babylon Bee, 30/11/20.

Note from Ed.: You have to admire Walt's restraint in not making any cheap jokes about Sleepy Joe's touchy-feely-smelly proclivities. It wouldn't be fair, after all, to make fun of someone who's already a lame duck "president-elect".