As we've learned over the years watching tight presidential races, each state holds its own election and has its own set of rules as to how it is administered. This makes for some stark differences in, for instance, deadlines set by states for accepting absentee or mail-in ballots. Mississippi allows ballot receipt up to five days after Election Day.

Until now, that is. On Friday afternoon, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision holding that ballots must be both cast and received by Election Day and that Mississippi's law is preempted by federal law. //

The State’s problem is that it thinks a ballot can be “cast” before it is received. What if a State changes its law to allow voters to mark their ballots and place them in a drawer? Or what if a State allowed a voter to mark a ballot and then post a picture on social media? The hypotheticals are obviously absurd. But it should be equally obvious that a ballot is “cast” when the State takes custody of it. //

That is not to say all the ballots must be counted on Election Day. Even if the ballots have not been counted, the result is fixed when all of the ballots are received and the proverbial ballot box is closed. The selections are done and final. By contrast, while election officials are still receiving ballots, the election is ongoing: The result is not yet fixed, because live ballots are still being received. Although a single voter has made his final selection upon marking his ballot, the entire polity must do so for the overall election to conclude. So the election concludes when the final ballots are received and the electorate, not the individual selector, has chosen. //

In January 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 14 States and the District of Columbia accepted ballots postmarked by Election Day—with the other 36 requiring receipt on or before that date. //

As Justice Kavanaugh recently emphasized: “To state the obvious, a State cannot conduct an election without deadlines . . . A deadline is not unconstitutional merely because of voters' own failures to take timely steps to ensure their franchise.” //

Federal law requires voters to take timely steps to vote by Election Day. And federal law does not permit the State of Mississippi to extend the period for voting by one day, five days, or 100 days. The State’s contrary law is preempted. //

Tech in RL
3 hours ago edited
If this is such a Constitutional question, why did the Fifth Circuit limit its ruling to just the states under its jurisdiction when we know a single judge can make a ruling that covers the entire country? I’m rather surprised the RNC didn’t push the Fifth Circuit court to apply its ruling nationally since that ruling isn’t all that useful when not applied uniformly across the nation.

If the Democrats were wise, they wouldn’t appeal this ruling since it only really applies to one deep red state. If this goes to the Supreme Court and the High Court affirms the Fifth Circuit ruling, then it would apply nationally.

Pennsylvania is thought by many to be the key to the race. One of the seven swing states, the Keystone State's 19 electoral votes are critical, and the presidential candidates are scrapping and clawing for them. Not only is voter turnout key, but so is voter registration. And so we've witnessed an amazing amount of effort being put into the registration ground game this election cycle — with some positive results for the GOP. In 2020, there were 4,228,888 registered Democrats and 3,543,070 registered Republicans for the November election. As of October 21, 2024 (the last day for registering in Pennsylvania), there were 3,971,607 registered Democrats and 3,673,783 registered Republicans. Thus, Democrats have lost ground while Republicans have gained it. //

Late Friday morning, news broke that election officials in Lancaster County had discovered potential voter registration fraud implicating as many as 2,500 registrations.

QTTabBar is a Shell-Extension to add Tab functionality to Windows Explorer - folder window.
Besides, QTTabBar provides various features that certainly help you deal with files and folders.

What can it do?

Most of the functionalities are activated when you enable the toolbars offered by QTTabBar in a folder window.

Tab Bar realizes ... the tabbed browsing of folders. Command Bars offer various command buttons including ones added by Plug-Ins. Extra Views show extra folder view in a folder window.

Once you enable them, QTTabBar installs some kind of hooks into the folder window and change the behavior of the Explorer to suit the need of advanced users.

For example, a new tab will be opened by middle-clicking on a folder icon. Preview tooltip is displayed when you point image, text, and movie file by mouse cursor. Do you want to mark an important file? Change the color of the name of it. When you move mouse cursor over folder icons, you'll see a square with blue arrow. Click and access to contents of the folder instantly!

The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”

No, it’s not true.

This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article, which wasn’t bad but was taken widely out of proportion.

Cryptography is safe, and will be for a long time

Joe Swyers
12 hours ago
The following was written by Robert Teesdale decades ago.
I've not found it again on the net, yet. Maybe others here more adept at internet sleuthing
So I post it in full here. Please pass it along.
Maybe the censors got to it -- and you will see why when you read it.

Coming Trials
There are moments when one is chilled... when one feels the truth of a spoken word, or a gesture - or when one hears with the heart, and not merely with the imperfection of the ears.
Such a moment came to pass in my own life, many years ago.
It was a lingering summer in southern Ohio, hot and dusty and lazy in the dying afternoon. I sat in a small-town barbershop, having my hair cut and trading quiet conversation with the locals.
The conversation turned to hunting, and then to guns - and as always, to the inherent rights of our people which have always been held as a bulwark against the natural tyranny of Men.
We discussed the latest gun-control laws, and how they infringed upon those same rights. We spoke of the anger we each felt. Of the simple wrongness of it, and of the consequences of this progression.
Our words were carefully chosen - for even then, before the ascension of William Clinton to the presidency and the disgusting abrogations of freedom that followed - we were aware that such talk amongst the People was not approved of.
It was dangerous, we knew. Seditious. Militias ran amok, and the force of the law waited with eager anticipation to intervene.
Young and old, we sat there. Talking. Sharing our thoughts quietly... and asking each other where it was leading.
Someone said with a shake of the head, "I don't like where this is headed." We all nodded agreement... and then I sat in sorrowed fear as I heard the next words spoken.
An old man, sitting in a leather-and-steel chair by the entrance, leaned over and spat grimly into the dust of the Midwest that blew gently along the road outside. His words were cold, and contained a sad and unmistakable finality.
"It's coming," he said.
We all fell silent.
....

Our people are marching in the streets, demanding justice - and demanding that our rights be respected, lest they be defended by more than merely passionate arguments.
Men are no longer afraid to speak their minds. The power of fear that was held over those who dared to give voice to their patriotism has subsided... and now it is openly asked in our homes, in our shops and in our places of work.
What will happen when that line is crossed?
For there is no longer any question that it has been drawn... and no longer a question of whether to draw it was right.
In this day, when I speak to people and hear their words... when I look into their eyes and take their hands in my own - the question is no longer if revolution is possible, or if it could be done.
The questions now are how...
...and who will lead.
I fear for our nation.
For we stand at the brink. And those who bring us there, with a blind faith in their own special privilege and a dismissive contempt for the rights of the People - ignore the fearful resolve that burns within the breasts of millions of souls that will not acquiesce.
Our nation is not immune to civil war. It is not immune to the deadly and horrific strife of citizen against citizen... of brother against brother, of fathers leading sons against cousins.
There are ninety million firearm owners in America. Such a serpent should bear respecting... rather than used as a convenient scapegoat for the hypocritical lashes of those who seek to rule this nation.
And how close are we?
I see leaders arising. And rather than exhorting men to action, I see them working desperately to pacify.
I do not see them urging the loading of rifles... but rather a waiting, and a pleading for more patience and faith in the power of the vote to preserve our freedom.
I see them working to prevent bloodshed, not to instigate it. And this ominous sight fills me with foreboding.
We are not trying to create a revolution.
We are trying to stop one.
I hope that old man was wrong.
But in my heart, a sorrowed chill lingers.

There are ninety million firearm owners in America. Such a serpent should bear respecting... rather than used as a convenient scapegoat for the hypocritical lashes of those who seek to rule this nation.
And how close are we?
I see leaders arising. And rather than exhorting men to action, I see them working desperately to pacify.
I do not see them urging the loading of rifles... but rather a waiting, and a pleading for more patience and faith in the power of the vote to preserve our freedom.
I see them working to prevent bloodshed, not to instigate it. And this ominous sight fills me with foreboding.
We are not trying to create a revolution.
We are trying to stop one.
I hope that old man was wrong.
But in my heart, a sorrowed chill lingers.

Black Magic
10 hours ago
America is being confronted with a harsh reality and it upsets all of the normal standards when we are being faced with a choice between good and evil. And there is no greater example of evil and good than the woke left and the make America great again movement, i.e. Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is no saint, and I don't think he would EVER claim to be, but he is a patriot that loves his country and wants to serve it to better it, in return for all it has given him.

Kamala Harris is an empty pantsuit, with nothing to offer other than her desire to get as much as she can before the ride ends. She was GIVEN her position based on nothing but her skin color and her perceived lack of a threat to a weak candidate that was reaching for any lifeline. He made a major mistake, he trusted the movers and shakers of the woke, leftist democratic/marxist party since he had been a participant in their greediness and corruption for so long, he stupidly thought he had their respect. He was wrong.

Let us hope the American electorate has learned what happens when you elect (or supposedly elect) an incompetent taker that has never contributed to or built anything in America. Cackling camela fell for the msm propaganda as surely as did pos joe, and she will find how quickly they turn on her as they did on him.

Politics is a dirty business, and Donald Trump is a rare find in a politician, he actually does care about America and Americans. Up until he challenged the woke, leftist democrats, they loved him and always had their hand out to him, for whatever they could get out of him. He has learned a hard lesson at great cost to himself and his family, because he committed the cardinal sin to the woke, leftist democratic/marxist party - he actually liked the middle class and working people, and they didn't need a college degree to get his respect.

Their insane hatred of him since he declared for Republican nominee for President truly knows no bounds and he surely must be aware that they will not stop until he stops them. I think he learned a lot from his last four years in office and I look forward to him proving it.

I have had comments from those that thought my respect for him and the fact that I actually believe in him, shows some defect in my character or worse. As anyone that has ever reached for the brass ring knows, losers always try to drag you down rather than best you, and failing that, will not hesitate to resort to violence.

Losers usually also find out, winners are winners because they know how to deal with losers.

And Donald Trump is definitely a winner.

He made it a point to stop and highlight that you aren't the weird ones, they are. Their behavior is atrocious, and their aims are just evil. "Reality has flipped," he said, stating that normal people aren't supporting the Democrat machine.

"It's the party of weirdos, of envy, of hate, of resentment, of bitterness, of weakness, of a total lack of creativity," Carlson said. "It's a part of conformity, it's a party of the machine where it doesn't matter who the candidate is, because individuals are immaterial. All that matters is the collective. That's the Soviet model." //

"Every person in this room needs to understand you are not in a despised minority," said Carlson. "You are in an incredibly gentle and tolerant majority who put up with this crap for way too long as they're insulting, not only you, but the memory of your ancestors who died for this country. They tore down statues to their memory. People who've never built anything in their lives. They went out of their way to humiliate you and spit on you, and the graves of your ancestors, and that's not an exaggeration. They did that."

"And this country is so nice," Carlson continued. "It's so polite. It's so thoughtful and empathetic and sweet. It's the kind of country that loves dogs and gives directions to strangers, that we put up with it for four years, but we can't anymore." //

The weird ones are the people who hate this country. It's the people who don masks and attack their fellow citizens in the streets over political disagreements. It's the ones who burn down their own neighborhoods and murder over falsehoods and exaggerations.

It's the ones who force divides between men and women, preaching that unhappiness and adherence to a corporate system is good, and that a loving home with a stable marriage and children is slavery.
... //

These people cannot win. The corporate media cannot succeed, and the Democrats cannot be given the power to continue driving us down this path of destruction born out of a prejudice for all things good.

You are the moral majority with the power to change things faster than you think. They don't want you to know that. They want you to think you're alone and powerless. They want you to think the world is theirs and there's nothing you can do about it.

It's time to prove them wrong. Get out there and vote.

And once we win, it will just be the beginning. We the people will destroy the machine they built and restore goodness and sanity to the madness. Things will change because they have to. They hope we'll go back to sleep, thinking we won the war. We won't. This isn't over. The war is just heating up. America has arrived at the battlefield.

Get ready.

Ben Shapiro is never one to shy away from a debate, but his latest foray into the arena may take the cake. In a scene that I don't think has ever played out in politics, the podcast host and owner of The Daily Wire faced off against 25 Kamala Harris supporters, and the results were incredible.

If you thought leftists were vapid and unable to articulate basic defenses of their positions before, just wait until you hear some of this. //

tamkae
5 hours ago
i read somewhere that giving birth to a baby ends a pregnancy, but having an abortion ends a life. //

anon-duge
7 hours ago
Medical science has long established that if you are born with "XX" sex chromosomes, you are female and if you are born with "XY" sex chromosomes, you are male. Until you change those sex chromosomes, all you are doing is changing your plumbing.

Slick 312 anon-duge
7 hours ago
Destroying the sexual functionality which you had. //

KNUCKLES
9 hours ago
Ben Shapiro against 25 idiots. Not a fair fight. //

Anonynonsense
6 hours ago
The problem with most of the types who were trying to one up Ben Shapiro is that most of them have never had to defend their positions. They're just used to spouting the liberal talking point du jour.
They, like their nasally pant-suited candidate just verbally malfunction when confronted. //

American by Nature anon-c85i
8 hours ago
All of Ben's opponents did the following:

1. They stated something stupid as if it were fact.
2. They demanded that Ben explain the something stupid.
3. They judged Ben stupid because he could not explain stupid.

Conclusion:

All of Ben's opponents were lunatic asylum inmates. //

anon-diq5 It wasnt me
7 hours ago
1860 Election was about Slavery. Democrats did not see blacks as human (similar to the Nazis) just as they do not see a preborn baby as a human in 2024. Democrats will do anything to justify evil.

Trump denies ever saying he wanted generals like Hitler's or that the Nazi leader 'did some good things'

The Atlantic reported this week that the former president wanted "the kind of generals Hitler had," and his former chief of staff said he made positive remarks about Hitler.

I know how hard I worked to be a good trial attorney, and I know what it took out of me. And I look at Kamala Harris pretending to be this fierce prosecutor to sell people that she's qualified to hold the most powerful job in the land, and I know it's complete and utter hogwash.

She is, in every sense, an empty suit. //

azright
3 hours ago
Complete fraud. Pretty much sums it up. Her incompetence is obvious to anyone, like me, who is not an attorney and has never seen the inside of a courtroom except for jury duty (never been on one) or a traffic ticket. There is simply no way she could have gotten to where she is without the path being paved by players with the pull to keep getting her "promoted". There are plenty of rumors about what "favors" she returned. There has to be something. Power brokers don't do what they do for nothing.

The bottom line is that she is lazy and incompetent and had to be a complete failure as an attorney. It's simply impossible to think anything else when one watches her performance as a candidate. She doesn't put in any effort. She doesn't prepare. She can't think on her feet when presented with pretty much any situation. The reason is... she's never had to do that. She's "entitled" and expects the presidency to be handed to her, just like everything else has been.

Tabatabai's move to a role where she won't have access to classified information about special programs, the current location of U.S. special forces, intelligence assessments, and much more, is considered by some observers as essentially a demotion and a tacit admission that she was, in fact, the leaker, and they are working to contain the damage while the investigation continues. //

According to counterterrorism analysts who spoke to RedState in October 2023, Tabatabai's been a subversive force at the Pentagon since she arrived from the State Department in 2022:

"[C]ounterterrorism analysts speaking to RedState on condition of anonymity, whose reports would have crossed Tabatabai's desk, say that for at least the past year their product has been watered down, misquoted, or outright quashed. Tabatabai had the opportunity to shape the intelligence to meet her needs, the analysts say, and they say it's likely that the overt intel collected during that period went to Iran."

Tabatabai's position at State was as a policy adviser to disgraced Iran envoy Robert Malley, who's accused of mishandling classified information himself. As the Washington Free Beacon reported, Tabatabai has been a frequent guest at the White House courtesy of Phil Gordon, who's Kamala Harris' national security advisor and who's collaborated with Tabatabai on multiple opinion pieces "argu[ing] against sanctions on the Iranian regime": //

Anyone who would be appointed as DoD's chief learning officer at this point is undoubtedly woke and likely not extremely helpful in terms of readiness and quality training, but having Tabatabai there is an insult. She should be nowhere near the Pentagon due to her relationship with the Iranian regime, but this is a very slight move in the right direction.

Half Moon Doodle Game

The second trap was a comment that General (ret.) John Kelly attributed to Trump, in which Kelly alleged Trump yearned to have a personal cadre of military staffers like German dictator Adolf Hitler.

And on Wednesday afternoon, it wasn't just the media that hoped to make Americans, many of whom are already voting across the country, turn away in disgust from Trump--Vice President Kamala Harris used the opportunity of her first press conference as the Democrat Party presidential nominee to sling the dirt Kelly threw out as wide as possible: //

Now, high-ranking members of the Trump administration are denouncing not only Gen. Kelly and his vicious falsehood against former Pres. Trump, but VP Harris for taking part in the charade. Nick Ayers, who served as former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, shared in a post on X that he had up to this point held off on responding to "intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies," but this was the final straw:

Nick Ayers
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I’ve avoided commenting on intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies as it relates to my time at the White House but General Kelly’s comments regarding President Trump are too egregious to ignore. I was with each of them more than most, and his commentary is patently false.
2:32 PM · Oct 23, 2024

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Vice President Harris is a fraud. I was in the White House at a senior level much longer than General Kelly. He is complicit in this fraud and has lied to the American people. His lies, as well as John Bolton's, are a disservice to Nation at this critical time. So are the VP's.
Kamala HQ
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Vice President Harris: “Trump said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had. He wants a military that is not loyal to the Constitution, but loyal to him... This is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best”
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It probably will shock Kamala Harris and the rest of her campaign staff to learn that there are incumbent Democrat US Senators in this country right now running television ads touting all their work with this "modern-day Hitler."

I wonder if Kamala Harris tonight in our town hall meeting will call for them to take these ads off the air touting their work with this "Hitler"?

I mean, if he were really "Hitler," if he were really "a threat to democracy," not a single Democrat in this country would be running ads touting their work with Donald Trump.

If these people had succeeded and the restaurant had to lay off some employees or even shut down altogether, it would have had a negative impact on the workers they claim to care about. Once again, Democrats are putting their hypocrisy on full display. If I didn’t know any better, I might be tempted to believe they don’t care at all about the people they claim to fight for and are just exploiting them as political tools.

Tuberculosis used to be a global plague. Many contracted TB, and many died from it, from Britain's Henry VII to America's John Henry "Doc" Holliday. It's also a fairly simple disease, caused by an agile little bug, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which has the unfortunate propensity to develop into antibiotic-resistant strains. And what's more, it's a bug that's contagious, can be spread by aerosol, and is a prime subject for use as a biological agent.

On Wednesday, a report surfaced that Lousiana's Governor, Jeff Landry, and the state's attorney general, are suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the case of an illegal immigrant, from China, who was discovered to be carrying a rare, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis: //

The very notion of biological warfare should scare the ever-loving kapok out of anyone who understands it, and if one was going to introduce a biological agent into another country, this is one way you'd do it - but you wouldn't send just one carrier. You'd send hundreds or thousands.

Like the tens of thousands of Chinese nationals who have entered the country illegally since January of 2021, through our wide-open southern border. //

Mongoose
an hour ago
TB (also known as consumption or "the white plague" or in Spanish, "La Miseria, which sort of captures the essence of the TB experience...) is easily the greatest killer in world history. TB death rates at times were as high as one in every five or six people who shuffled off the mortal coil each year. It still kills over a million people each year worldwide and it's been doing that or much, much more for at least 4,000 years, so do the math. Drug resistant TB is a national security threat. If antibiotics start failing against TB, we're in real trouble. It should scare everybody.
Unfortunately, I don't believe Alejandro Mayorkas gives a hoot in hell about this threat.

Concerto de l'adieu du film "Diên Biên Phú"
Georges Delerue

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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🚨Kamala Harris says that she does not believe in religious exemptions when it comes to abortion.

Christians, remember this when you go to Embedded video

5:45 PM · Oct 22, 2024 //

What is concerning is Harris' comments about not providing any religious exemptions for abortion, which proves that she will place the destruction of human life over the religious freedom protections provided in the Constitution. We've been down this road before, with leftists continuously pushing the boundaries on abortion, taking it from "safe, legal and rare" to murdering full-term babies at will, even if the baby is just days from birth.

Were she to be elected president, Kamala Harris would would take an oath promising to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Based on her own words, she would take that oath knowing that she had no intention of honoring it, and would charge forward with pursuing the most radical pro-abort agenda the United States has ever seen. //

Musicman
2 hours ago
She is so incredibly stupid. Even if abortion was an actual right—let’s assume that it was just added to the Bill of Rights—it would be a lesser right. There is a reason the freedoms of speech and religion come first, followed by the right to bear arms.

Furthermore, she continues to misstate the issue. It’s not about a woman’s body, it’s about her child’s. It just so happens that body happens to be inside hers. You can’t keep slaves in your home and claim the State has no right to tell you what to do in the privacy of your own home, and you can’t morally kill another human being just because it currently resides inside your own body. //

anon-201n
an hour ago
Several points need to be made about abortion and religion.

1. The foetus is not the mother's body. At most it is 1/2 genetically similar to the mother. After 6 weeks, it has a brain, feels pain, and is beginning to look like a little human.
2. The vast majority of abortions are for convenience (don't want another child, financial considerations, etc). Instances of rape or incest are very small (about 1%). Medical difficulties (life of mother, abnormalities of baby) are also very small. Pregnancy is the result of sex, not an additive in the drinking water.
3. Religion is a belief system ascribed to by an individual which governs his/her world view, from private actions to public actions. Everyone has some sort of religion, whether it's mainstream or not. Atheism is a religion in that it is a worldview which negates any god.
4. One could estimate that since Roe v Wade in 1973, some 80 million persons are missing from the U.S. population. A healthy growing young population supports the middle age and seniors, both socially and economically. A country with a declining population will begin to suffer economically.
5. The Dem obsession with abortion reminds me of the party's clinging to slavery in the 1850's. And we know where that went.
6. Choose life!

Nowhere in the Times' "fact-check" did they mention that Wanda Kagan was not a detached bystander vouching for something she saw first-hand, though that was the impression they sought to give. Instead, Kagan is a surrogate for the Harris campaign and is very close to the vice president. In other words, there is zero reason to believe her story, which just so happens to be unverifiable because she claims a dead woman told her.

This is journalistic malpractice. If someone is tied that closely to a presidential campaign, they should never be used as a source in a fact-check about the candidate in question. Not only did the Times do that, but they hid those key details from their readers to make it seem as if Kagan was more disconnected than she was. This is a person who has appeared on stage with Harris at rallies. //

bintexas
33 minutes ago
If she knew Kamala in HS and this supposed summer job was the summer after she graduated, why would this “longtime friend” need to rely upon hearsay?

I have heard that this Kamala chick has a rather prominent posisition within the US government. Even if it is in name only. Surely, a VP could get the IRS to pull up her tax returns from 1983. If they didnt digitize them, perhaps social security has some records based on those reports they send out every year. //

TheAmerican1
13 minutes ago
I have a hunch: Kamala Harris did work at McDonald's...for a day or two, hated it, and quit. Never got a paycheck. There's no record. No one remembers her.

But...

She mentions her very brief fast-food employment to her campaign staff a few months ago, and some dolt pipes up. "You should tell people you worked at McDonald's. It'll make you seem relatable."

She stupidly follows this advice, and now, if she tells the truth, she'll look even more ridiculous than she does perpetuating the original "I worked at McDonald's" story. //

Chelan Jim
27 minutes ago
The fact that the media is spending so much energy on this is comical.

Trump says: "She never worked at McDonalds."
At stake for the world as we know it: This is no big deal to anyone.
The media reaction: The media simply must try to put it to rest and destroy the narrative.

Harris and Biden say: "Trump wants to suspend the constitution and use the government power to go after his political opponents."
At stake for the world as we know it: This is BIG! Could have ramifications for the world.
The media reaction: The mainstream media neither confirms nor denies the validity. They simply allow the words be spoken without questioning its validity.