I’m running quite late today, because I’m working on ways to compensate for the my poor vision slows down my ability to work at the computer. I’ve scheduled many of the appointments I will need to prepare for my eye surgery. Tomorrow I have an appointment to with Sarah to get George his new ankle, so I may post no more than a Personal Update.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:26 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?.
Short Takes:
From FAIR.org: Ruth Marcus used her Washington Post column today (5/11/16) to present the speech that House Speaker Paul Ryan should give to Republicans in order to disassociate himself from Donald Trump. She has Paul Ryan being somewhat less than honest.
Most notably, she wants Ryan to say:
I have spent my life believing in, and fighting for, the ideals of the Republican Party: limited government, fiscal responsibility, free trade and free markets, the United States’ role as the world’s most important force for peace and liberty. It is not clear to me which, if any, of those convictions Mr. Trump shares.
Ryan doesn’t want limited government; he actually wants pretty much no government. He has repeatedly introduced budgets that call for eliminating all of the federal government except Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the military by 2050. His budgets provide zero funding for the Justice Department, the State Department, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Education Department, the National Park Service and everything else we think of as the federal government.
As a big supporter of stronger and longer patent and copyright protection, it is hard to see how Ryan can claim to be a supporter of free trade and free markets. As far as fiscal responsibility goes, Ryan has proposed huge tax cuts that would go disproportionately to the wealthy, which he claims will be offset by ending deductions which he has never named.
I fully agree with FAIR, except for the following. Lyin’ Ryan wants big intrusive government to control everything that happens between women’s and LGBT people’s legs. As for Rump Dump Trump, he’s for what the Republican party has supported for years, but they want to keep that support a secret.
From The New Yorker: In what is being hailed as a productive closed-door meeting between two leaders of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump promised House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday that he would try to sound slightly less like the former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
Speaking to reporters at the U.S. Capitol after the meeting, the presumptive G.O.P. nominee said that Ryan had expressed concern that so many of the billionaire’s public utterances were reminiscent of the Third Reich.
“Paul basically said, ‘Can you help me out here? Can you not sound like Hitler all the time?’” Trump said. “And I was like, ‘Paul, I can absolutely do that for you.’”
As an example, Trump said, “Instead of saying I am going to round up people based on their religion, I’ll say that’s just a suggestion. Just like that, I’m fifty per cent less Hitlerish.”
Andy is reporting straight news again. Ryan’s concern is based only on how trump sounds, and that her not moderate his actual policies.
From NY Times: The director of the F.B.I. reignited the factious debate over a so-called “Ferguson effect” on Wednesday, saying that he believed less aggressive policing was driving an alarming spike in murders in many cities.
James Comey, the director, said that while he could offer no statistical proof, he believed after speaking with a number of police officials that a “viral video effect” — with officers wary of confronting suspects for fear of ending up on a video — “could well be at the heart” of a spike in violent crime in some cities.
“There’s a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime — the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, ‘Hey, what are you doing here?’” he told reporters.
Mr. Comey was wading back into a dispute from last fall that pitted him against some of his bosses at the White House and the Justice Department and one that roiled racial tensions over confrontations between police officers and minorities.
What a load of hogwash! If cops are doing their job, as required by law, they have nothing to fear from videotaping. Such fear is an issue, only if they abuse their power. Comey is a Republican, a former GW Bush appointee, with a history of holocaust denial, that Obama appointed to show bipartisanship early in his Presidency. OOPS!!
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(Originally posted in 2012)
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6:29 (5:54) Who will be eating whom here?
FAIR.org – And now Ryan has said – how did he word it? – that he and Trump are in close cooperation? Something like that. So he won't be giving Ruth's speech, or anything close, true ot not.
New Yorker – Oh, yeah, that's probably exactly how it went.
NY Times – The only people who are experiencing a spike in fear are minority members and non-minoriy members who have enough compasssion to empathize with minorities. I personally am terrified of law enforement at this point, and I am certainly white. I grant having a disability, and that that is another groups which is endangered, of course.
Cartoon – Way too big to exist. And not alone in that.
NYer: Shhh…lyin' Ryan is giving Dump high fives behind everyone's back. Only thing is, we all know where he stands. It's all for show..ugh!
NYT: If the cops are doing their job, then any video would show them doing their best, and it shouldn't bother them. It's the lying and deceiving that concerns me, when I read of abuse of power.
Did anyone read this?? He's a vile man.
'Zimmerman offers gun used to kill Martin on new auction site: report.'
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-zimmerman-idUSKCN0Y318Z
Try not to overdo your chores or posting…maybe several breaks would help? You sound pretty busy, I do hope that you rest. Your health is important to all of us, first and foremost. Relax, and enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
I saw this reported on the news tonight, Pat. Zimmer should be in prison.
Pat: I heard on the radio that the site removed the gun auction from their site.
Zooming the pages or setting your default font sizes can offset many vision issues TC.
Ruth seems to be a dreamer trying to avoid seeing the nightmare.
AB is on target yet again.
Has the FBI ever stopped being a rogue agency?
Can we chase Chase so much that they lose so much weight and bulk that they are no longer too big to fail?
Good advise, JL.
If you're working under Windows, there's a special item in the settings/control panel called accessibility where you can change contrast, access a magnifier and such. There may be something there to help you too.
I checked those out, and jist changed the whole zoom to 125%. Thanks!
Fair.org: Anyone expecting Ryan to do something, anything , right, had better not hold his/her breath. The man is a jackal!
NYer: Remember, Dumpy is the man who can "… change myself into anything " he wishes to be…at "this" or any moment…as convenient. POS!
I hope things go well with you and George!
I hope George gets along well with his new ankle.
Fair.org: Ryan will eventually endorse Trump and sing his praises, hoping to get a Republican in the White House. He is starting to make Boehner look good.
The New Yorker: Andy is getting closer and closer to reporting straight news instead of satire. I shared a meme on Facebook showing Trump in a Nazi uniform, and comparing his ideas to HItler. Boy did I get slammed. I fail to understand why so many people don't see the similarities!
NY Times: That is a load of hogwash indeed! The body cams protect the cop as well as the perpetrator. Ferguson brought to light some of the abuses that were going on all over the country, and no doubt still are. There are plenty of honest police officers who do their jobs right. Those who don't give the rest a bad rep.
Cartoon: Still true in 2016!
Puzzle — 4:17
Fair.org — Since the House and Senate are part of government, I guess Lyin' Ryan will be abolishing those too? That would be the day!
The New Yorker — Asking Drumpf to be less Hitlerish and more presidential is MISSION IMPOSSIBLE! I think Ryan has been hit with a dose of fairy dust if he thinks it will ever happen.
NY Times — OOPS! indeed. I'd say it is time to clean house but that will happen in January with the next POTUS.
Cartoon — . . . and yet it still exists!
I'm on a very limited time schedule today, TomCat, so I need to be brief. I might not make it here at all tomorrow, so I hope getting George's new ankle will go without a (Friday the 13th) hitch this time. Then take a well deserved rest before getting everything in order for your operations.
FAIR: What do you get when you leave Paul Ryan's speeches up to Ruth Marcus: more lies, only better put.
TNY: Andy's dislike of Drumpf comes right off the screen and is no longer satire but pure, biting sarcasm.
NYT: James Comey is sticking to his guns and reiterates that " while he could offer no statistical proof, he believed" that "less aggressive policing was driving an alarming spike in murders in many cities." If you have no statistical proof, you're just playing the old Republican trick again of repeating a lie so often people will come to think it's true. First show us the statistical proof of " an alarming spike in murders in many cities" to begin with, Comey. If you have no proof then shut it.
Cartoon: After four years still the same problem and well worth repeating the cartoon.
Thanks all! Hugs!!
I bet that "mine Kamph" has a place on Trumph,s Bookshelf.