Saturday, August 8, 2026

Michigan sets turnout record in 2026 primary elections

 
Turnout map and headline:  mlive, 8/76/2026
Election results map:  New York Times

According to an unofficial count from the Secretary of State’s Office, 2,571,933 Michiganders voted in the 2026 primary. The total is subject to change until the results are certified. 
That’s about 2% more votes than the previous record of 2,520,850 set in the 2020 August primary, a presidential election year. Michigan’s August primaries are separate from the presidential primaries.

Related post:
Journalistic malpractice by omission @nytimes (Third Way edition).  (8/7/2026)

Show of hands: How many of you out there miss Kristi Noem?

 
Just as I thought!!

AI-generated image requested from Manus 1.6 Lite

But now, as a consolation prize, she has this statue in her honor.

Photo and headline:  South Dakota Searchlight, 8/7/2026


Related reading:
The Trumpification of Kristi Noem.  New York Times, 3/20/2024

Related posts:
2026
July-December  2025

January-June 2025
The Melanias leave behind a sketchy legacy in South Dakota.  (6/24)
Feeling snookered yet, South Dakota?  Maybe your ex-governor, Melania wannabe Kristi Noem, will come to your rescue.  (3/15)

2024
Dear Maggie Haberman:  Maybe Kristi Noem can go as Melania's alternate.  Who would know the difference?  Best, Retiring Guy, (11/13)
Meet MAGA Makeover Queen Misti Kristi, America's latest laughingstock.  (5/25)

2023

Make America Gooey Again: Black lung disease on the rise in Appalachia

 
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Coal" is a killer.

Graphs and headline:  NPR, 8/5/2026

Howard Berkes and Justin Hicks report:


According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'gooey', as in soft, wet and sticky, occured in 1901

  1. breath of fresh air
  2. bucket loader
  3. carbon cycle
  4. clickety-clank
  5. pay stub
  6. suboptimal

Climate crisis: Extreme weather drying up Europe's rivers

 
Map and headline:  CNN, 8/5/2026

Laura Paddison reports:
Relentless heat and a dearth of rain are having a punishing effect on some of Europe’s most vital rivers. The waterways have tumbled to record lows in places, in a crisis so severe it can be seen from space. 
Stark satellite images reveal dramatically shrunken waterways weaving through parched landscapes. Low water levels have exposed vast stretches of riverbanks, as well as long sandbars usually hidden deep beneath the surface. 
Comparisons with 2023, when European river flows were generally around average, show just how diminished some of these key waterways are. 
Europe is the planet’s fastest-warming continent, and its summers are becoming ever more extreme as the human-caused climate crisis drives unprecedented high temperatures. Successive, brutal heat waves have sucked moisture from soils and waterways and continued drought has meant little relief.  [emphasis added]

Related posts:
August 2026
July 2026

May-June 2026
Climate change turned up the heat on Planet Earth (May 2026 worldwide edition).  (6/11)

April 2026
If right-wing parties gain control, then Europe will only get hotter (b/w Looney Tunes at the Heartland Institute).  (4/30)

March 2026

February 2026

January 2026
Climate change as a matter of fact:  That's why it's called "extreme weather".  (1/29)

Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. still can’t find his spine

 
Headline:  Slate, 8/7/2026

Cassidy opened with an attempt to reframe the debate. “Mr. Blanche has become a referendum on how people feel about President Trump,” he said. “I have not approached it that way.” Instead, Cassidy continued, the vote should hinge on how Blanche “will go forward in a difficult job.” 
But there’s a reason people see Blanche’s nomination that way, even if Cassidy prefers not to. Before elevating Blanche, Trump fired the previous attorney general, Pam Bondi, in part because she failed to prosecute his political opponents fast enough. Trump seems to view Blanche as someone he can more easily control, which makes Cassidy’s choice to confirm him inextricable from the president’s efforts to bend the department to his will.

Related posts:
Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. misplaces his spine again/  (7/11)

May 2026
What happens when a physician does harm (Spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. BIll Cassidy M.D. edition).  (5/12)

April 2026

March 2026
It's likely that spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. will cower and cave when it comes to a vote on Casey Means For Surgeon General.  (3/16)

February 2026

January 2026

November-December 2025

August--October 2025

June-July 2025

But wait, there's more!!
March 2025
Chapter 1.  (3/10)   Censored
Chapter 2.  (3/10)
Chapter 3.  (3/10)
Chapter 4.  (3/11)
Chapter 5.  (3/12)
Chapter 6.  (3/12)
Chapter 7.  (3/13)
Chapter 8.  (3/14)
Chapter 9.  (3/14)
Chapter 10.  (3/14)
Chapter 11.  (3/14)
Chapter 12.  (3/14)
Chapter 13.  (3/15)
Chapter 14.  (3/18)
Chapter 15.  (3/19)
Chapter 16.  (3/19)
Chapter 17.  (3/21)
Chapter 18.  (3/22)
Chapter 19.  (3/26)
Chapter 20.  (3/28)
Chapter 21.  (3/29)
Chapter 22.  (3/30)

April 2025
Chapter 23.  (4/1/)
Chapter 24.  (4/2)

May 2025

June 2025
RFK Jr. Is systematically undermining vaccine science and endangering health while spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. dithers.  (6/27)

July 2025

MISCREANT PREACHERS: Forgery in the Name of the Lord (#365 in a series)

 
Mugshot:  Facebook
Headline:  WDRB Louisville, 8/6/2026
According to court documents, 79-year-old Melvin James Cuff was arrested in June and charged with second-degree forgery. Police said the victim contacted the Louisville Metro 
Police after discovering a forged deed had been processed through the Jefferson County Clerk's Office. She told investigators she never sold her home to anyone. 
According to the arrest citation, Cuff was listed as the buyer on the deed, while the victim was listed as the seller. Police said Cuff and the victim knew each other.

"Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel."  (Proverbs 20:17)


Other miscreant preacher posts (which cover a multitude of sins):
August 2026

July 2026 (19)
Marcus Owens.  (7/30)
Ryan McCandless.  (7/23)
Joel Leiniz.  (7/22)
Tracy Hamilton.  (7/19)
Kevin Jones.  (7/16)
David Mercer.  (7/12)
Eddy Noelsaint.  (7/11)
Jeffrey Nowak.  (7/10)
Noel Walker.  (7/9)
Daniel Rabon.  (7/5)
George Finney.  (7/3)

June 2026 (23)
Tony Spell.  (6/24)
C. J. Johnson.  (6/21)
Reggie Joiner.  (6/18)
Jose Briseno.  (6/18)
Nicholas Rains.  (6/17)
David Ritchie.  (6/16)
Jose Seez.  (6/13)
Derek Nelson.  (6/9)
Alan Chambers.  (6/9)
Elie Dorcius.  (6/6)

May 2026 (10)
Robert Byrnes.  (5/19)
Terry Reed.  (5/8)

April 2026 (19)
Leslie Williams.  (4/29)
Joshua Trent.  (4/28)
Emilio Alberto Esperanza-Pacheco. (4/27)
Philip Vaught.  (4/23)
Kevin Jbon.  (4/18)
Ryan Pena.  (4/7)

March 2026 (29, a new monthly record)
February 2026 (23, a new monthly record)
Caleb Flynn.  (2/26)
Tyrell Brown.  (2/24)
Jonathan Elwing.  (2/22)
Garrett Harmon.  (2/21)
Elco Vallier.  (2/19)
David Rodgers. (2/17)
Rod Loy.  (2/15)
William Robbins.  (2/13)
Robert Whipley.  (2/12)
Isaiah Teague.  (2/5)

January 2026 (14)
Michael Mohr.  (1/30)
Wesley Brobeck.  (1/19)
Korey Lavergne.  (1/17)
Michael Howard.  (1/16)
Joshua Price.  (1/10)
Bruce Neal.  (1/8)

December 2025 (15)
Enrique Molina.  (12/30)
John Paul.  (12/19)
James Watford.  (12/17)
Doug Overmyer.  (12/13)
Joseph Herzing.  (12/10)
Robert Sullivan.  (12/8)
Danny Varnadore.  (12/7)
Roger Scalice.  (12/6)
James Stockton.  (12/3)
Michael Martin.  (12/2)

November 2025 (16):
Mark Vega.  (11/28)
Stephen Santeli Castro.  (11/26)
Yersson Solarte.  (11/23)
Jason Allen.  (11/21)
Glenn Rosenbaum.  (11/17)
Adolfo Castillo.  (11/16)
Quintilo Segrero.  (11/14)
Matthew McGinley.  (11/11)
Eli Regalado.  (11/7)
Andrew Ervin.  (11/6)

October 2025 (15)
Robert L Carter.  (10/23)
Xamie Reyes.  (10/20)
Luis Sosa.  (10/19)
Silas Shelton.  (10/17)
Adrian David.  (10/9)
Virgil Mozee.  (10/7)
Robert Morris.  (10/3)
Ryan McElrath.  (10/2)

September 2025 (10)
Macario Garcia.  (9/26)
John McKinzie.  (9/20)
Isaac Tilden.  (9/19)
Diego Fuller.  (9/17)

August 2025 (7)
Neal Creecy.  (8/22)
Shelton Burkart.  (8/15)

July 2025 (11)
Eli Regalado.  (7/23)
Kenneth Flowers.  (7/18)
John Gibson.  (7/15)
Roy Andrews.  (7/3)

June 2025 (11)
Justin Rhodes.  (6/26)
Dominic Foor.  (6/14)
Ryan McElrath.  (6/10)
Jim Mustain.  (6/7)
Nathan Roach.  (6/3)

May 2025 (11)
Daniel Lamppin.  (5/30)
Alan Buresh.  (5/29)
Daniel Champ.  (5/13)
Paul Dyal. (5/11)
Leo Parker.  (5/8)

April 2025 (7)
Brad Swink.  (4/12)
Jaime Arriaga.  (4/10)
Darren Day.  (4/8)

March 2025 (17)
Joshua Lucero.  (3/26)
Jeffrey Summers.  (3/24)
Sergio Guardia.  (3/22)
Marvin Upton.  (3/21)
Rodger Strong.  (3/20)
Britt Taylor.  (3/19)
Daniel Menelaou.  (3/15)
Robert Morris.  (3/14)
Jose Saez Jr.  (3/12)
Waymon Jordan.  (3/8)

February 2025 (9)
Jesse Santos.  (2/26)
Ruel Barbee.  (2/16)
Lee B. Patrick.  (2/14)
Timothy Nall.  (2/7)

January 2025 (14)
John Fiedler.  (1/26)
James McMillan.  (1/25)
Jeffrey Merrow.  (1/18)
Johel LaFaurie.  (1/17)
Jeff Taylor.  (1/16)
Dallas Majewski.  (1/15)
Bruce Hollen.  (1/14)
Timothy Nall.  (1/9)
 
December 2024 (14)
Edward Monk.  (12/23)
Joshua Lough.  (12/22)
Ignazio Medina.  (12/20)
Anthony Odiong.  (12/19)
Vincent Bishop.  (12/9)
Arturo Alarcon.  (12/8)
Hunter Eubanks.  (12/7)
Roy Shoop.  (12/5)

November 2024 (19)
James McMillan.  (11/30)
Charles Sulivant.  (11/24)
Geoffrey Carter.  (11/22)
John Radcliff.  (11/21)
Garrett Harmon.  (11/20)
Edward R. Monk.  (11/16)
George Bell.  (11/14)
Jose Mora.  (11/13)
William Pounds.  (11/12)
Charles Randall.  (11/9)
Jackson Gatlin.  (11/7)
Charles Goff.  (11/1)

October 2024 (25)
Stephen Johnson.  (10/27)
Josh Howerton.  (10/26)
Craig Stone.  (10/26/2024)
Steven Lawson. (10/25).  
Scott Crenshaw.  (10/25)
Byron Copeland.  (10/25)
Josiah Anthony.  (10/25)
Ronald Goines.  (10/24)
Tony Cammarota.  (10/24)
Robert Morris.  (10/24)
Mike Buster.  (10/23)
Tony Evans.  (10/23)
Terren Dames.  (10/23)
James Randolph.  (10/23)
Matt Queen.  (10/18)
Roy Shoop.  (10/12)
Gabriel Mills.  (10/3)

September 2024 (16)
John Raymond.  (9/27)
Juan Barrios.  (9/23)
Demiro Johnson.  (9/22)
Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22)
James Swanson.  (9/21)
William Dunfee.  (9/21)
Steven Lawson.  (9/20)
Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19)
William Johnson.  (9/17)
Tim Ballard.  (9/13)