Wendy is due in forty minutes, and my Broncos start playing in 130 minutes, so I’m in a big hurry. I’ll publish after the game is over.
Wendy Left and my Broncos are getting clobbered so bad that they took the game off TV. Oh my POOR butt! 
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:17 (average 5:32). To do it click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (SNL Channel): Paul Manafort’s House Cold Open
With that Airplane Trump, Melania will get the best sex she has had, since before her wedding day. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: Donald Trump is hoping to keep his gross treatment of women out of court. The women who’ve come forward to tell their stories of being groped, kissed, and grabbed by Trump over the years are hoping that a lawsuit brought by one of them, former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos, will at least mean that their experiences are heard and taken as seriously as those of Harvey Weinstein’s victims. Or Bill Cosby’s. Or Kevin Spacey’s. Or Mark Halperin’s.
Not that any of those accusers got justice, even in the court of public opinion, quickly—but they didn’t have to watch their harassers or rapists be inaugurated president, either. The White House press secretary didn’t call them liars on national television. And it’s that response that’s at the center of the lawsuit that Trump’s victims hope will let them be fully heard
There is no excuse not to prosecute Trump. Upchuckabee-Sanders should be sued for defamation. RESIST!!
From Prisoner of the Census: The way the Census Bureau counts people in prison creates significant problems for democracy and for our nation’s future. It leads to a dramatic distortion of representation at local and state levels, and creates an inaccurate picture of community populations for research and planning purposes.
The Bureau counts incarcerated people as residents of the towns where they are confined, though they are barred from voting in 48 states and return to their homes after being released. The practice also defies most state constitutions and statutes, which explicitly state that incarceration does not change a residence.
The Bureau’s approach to counting incarcerated people dates back to the beginning of the census, when it was important only to count the number of people in each state to ensure equal representation in Congress. Congressional apportionment relied on the comparative populations of the states, not where people were relative to each other within each state. Now that Census data are used for redistricting at all levels of government, the specific location of populations is critical. The prison population has risen exponentially in the past couple of decades; counting the people in prison in the wrong place now undermines the Supreme Court’s requirement that political power be apportioned on the basis of population. The process of drawing fair and equal districts fails when the underlying data are flawed.
Click through for more info on this deplorable form of making some districts disproportionately powerful. Prisoners should be counted where they will return after serving their sentences, because those communities will need the resources to help reintegrate the prisoners. RESIST!!
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5:10 It doesn’t look like a slider to me, but then, the background, though white, doesn’t look like a White Castle either.
Well, it looked like defense is even a bigger problem than offense. Sigh.
Oh, lovely (/s). Another genie out of the bottle.
SNL – Great minds. If you hadn’t, I would have. Loved Kate as Jeff again.
DK – Saw this – and of course some people are more fragile to start with, for any number of reasons. I don’t know what the deal is on indicting a sitting President. I am inclined to think it can be done on a non-Federal crime, and these crimes are not Federal. But IANAL.
Census – I didn’t call attention to this because some states do count prisoners at their home addresses whien they became incarcerated (which, not being psychic, is the only fair way to do it – I mean, how do you predict where they will “return” to, especially if circumstances have changed?) But yes, it’s important to get all states onto the same page here, and that it be the RIGHT page. And that applies double to Federal prisoners, who are often sent to prisons far from their homes, apparently from spite. Case in point, Jeffrey Sterling, CIA whistleblower who is incarcerated in Colorado when his family lives in Virginia. At least he now has a January release date. But Kiriakou also was given “diesel therapy” – moved around just to mess with him and his family.
Cartoon – Well, he was betrayed, poor guy. (Pun intended.)
In most states, prisoners are required by law to return to the county where they were convicted, unless another county agrees to take them.
Well, that makes sense for parolees. But if one served one’s full sentence and there were no further legal obligations, it doesn’t. I was actually thinking of a case where a spouse had moved (and I can see a lot of reasons, many financial, why that might happen.)
I can’t speak for other states, but Oregon makes it virtually impossible for a prisoner to get out without a tail.
In cases, where a spouse has moved, counties almost always accept in exchange for another prisoner that wants to locate to that prisoner’s locale.
SNL: I loved the show! I also liked Aidy Bryant playing Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a skit too! Awesome!
DK: I hope this woman gets justice, like the many others he’s molested/abused. dt’s abuses are not okay, and he needs to man up, which he will never do. He deserves prison time! imho
Cartoon: The Gunpowder plot. “A search of the cellar the night of 4 November found the explosives and Fawkes, and he was arrested and tortured; within a few days the other conspirators were either killed or captured. On 31 January he was executed, after being tried and convicted of treason.” *who2
Company still here, my guys went down to the 7 yard line, tried several times, and lost with no time on the board. Ugh! I feel your pain, for sure! Hope that you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Just for posterity:
I am open to correction on this, but I don’t recall Britain being in a shooting war with another country at the time, to which country Mr. Fawkes might have been presumed to be giving aid and comfort. Was this prosecution what the Framers were trying to exclude when they defined treason as they did?
I don’t think UK law requires it being at war to qualify for the charge of treason – it seems to be quite a bit broader than our restrictions.
According to Wikipedia, one of the offenses for high treason, per the Treason Act of 1351 was
Trying to blow up parliament would probably qualify.
SNL rocks!
DK: May Summer triumph!
Census: The recently skyrocketing of the prison population, as far as I am concerned, was to take blacks out of the voting lines…and keep them from procreating; helps the GOP snakes remain in power.
Loved that cold open on SNL! That’s about the only time I can get my husband to watch it. He loves the way that tRump is portrayed by Mr. Baldwin! He gets better every time he does it! LOL!
SNL: Great to have that team back again. “Drumpf” talking in the shower with “Manafort” to make sure he’s not wired, but “Pence” not taking his suit off (because he’s not married to water) and “Sessions” in his home-knit outfit didn’t rattle him? They sure have Drumpf’s stupidity nailed.
DK: Drumpf kept his Trump “university” out of the courts with a big settlement, so that might happen with the women who are taking him to court for sexually assaulting them too. Drumpf’s lawyers must be spreading themselves thin with all these court cases – and many more in the making, we hope – and his coffers must be getting empty. He’s known for not paying people he’s hired, and the (lawyer) pickings must be getting slim. I only hope someone’s keeping a sharp eye on the finances or he’ll make the taxpayers pay the bill for his fun.
Census: Yet another way to keep redistricting in favor of the GOP and people of color (so disproportionally represented in the prison population) out of any loop which may better their rights and their lives. The Republicans have the country (and the Census Bureau apparently) so tightly in their grip that there’s little chance for change unless something very dramatic happens.
Cartoon: The BBC aired a series on the Gunpowder Plot which turned Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators into near-heroes and victims of the dark politics around them, making it quite clear that they had good reason to get rid of the king and his ministers and advisors. Sadly, if they had succeeded and had just blown the king to smithereens nothing much would have changed and they would most likely have died the same gruesome traitor’s death.
Sorry about your Broncos, TomCat. They seem to be doing very badly this season.
Puzzle — 4:08 If you try to eat this little buddy Puddy Tat, he’ll just retreat to his home and you’ll be out of luck!
SNL — I do wish SNL was available in Canada.
Daily Kos — As Drumpf said when his “pussy” comment was revealed, “you can do anything when you are a celebrity”. For all these idiots, it is about power, not sex. I hope that these women can turn that power on its ass. Somebody please, pull the plug on Drumpf and watch the lights go out!
Census — With the highest incarceration rate in the world, and with a census only done every ten years, the census will definitely be skewed, and that dissonance could last up to 20 years depending on prisoner release timing. States and the feds should all have the same policy as each other for consistency. Whether it is the pre incarceration address or the post incarceration address, perhaps some data analysis could shed some light on what prisoners do upon release — head to their old address or go elsewhere.
Cartoon — The US Congress might want to consider their own actions, or lack thereof, and get onside with We the People before the US has its own version of Guy Fawkes.
Well I lost 10 kilos yesterday . . . I finally got a hair cut! I got up Sunday morning and broke the bathroom mirror when I saw myself, bedhead hair and all. A quick text message and I was in. It feels so good, but now I have to buy a new mirror. I am opting for one that only shows me what I want to see.
Thanks all. Tired Hugs!
Counting inmates sounds to me like another suck-up to the totally evil Prison-Industrial Complex. They want more representation so the companies that run prisons can get more filthy lucre to line the pockets of their fat-cat CEOs. (My sincere apologies to cats, especially chubby ones.)
Well, guess this ain’t the Broncos’ year. At least they did win Super Bowl 50. Hang in there, and perhaps within the next 10 years they’ll be hoisting the Lombardi trophy again.