Feb 012024
 

Yesterday, the weather was less spicy – at least here. We are expecting a day or two witn some snow, but starting Saturday, it could easily be back to sunny with highs in the fifties.

Wonkette ran a guest article today, written by another substack person, Marcie Jones. I’m not going to say something like “you won’t believe it,” because, if you are paying attention, there really shouldn’t be anything you wouldn’t believe about Republicans, and especially MAGA gun-toting book-burning Republicans (Oops, i left out hard-drinking).

You all have probably seen this story … I thought that Law and Crime might actually be asking some of the right questions, though it doesn’t look much like it. It doesn’t actually take long for a video to get 5,000 views – especially if viewers are mass-forwarding the link and everyone is watching it at the same time. At least Pennsylvania has a clue what actually constitutes “Abuse of a Corpse,” as opposed to Ohio (no insult intended to Democratic Ohians who do know very well.)  Young Justin had better be grateful that no state or country today still uses the Imperial Roman punshment for the crime of patricide. It was epic.


Taxes are probably the least of our worries just now – but I did think this cartoon made its point.

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Sep 272023
 

Thing is, he is entitled to Secret Service protection (until and unlessCongess legislates otherwise.) The Secret Service has a legitimate interest in setting terms for his detention. You can talk 24/7/365 about why he should be locked up. But unless those discussions include the Secret Service, it ain’t gonna happen.

Glenn Kirschner – Trump threatens witness Gen. Milley; Trump should be revoked on release & detained pending trial

Farron Balanced – Trump Tells Republicans To Obstruct His Prosecutions Or Shut Down The Government

Robert Reich – Say Goodbye to Lousy, Low-Paying Jobs: The Benefits of a Jobs Guarantee

Armageddon Update – “Family Values”

Street dog starts living indoors. Guess the first thing he did.

Beau – Let’s talk about Missouri, change, and elections….

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Sep 252023
 

I looked for Glenn, Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, and Harry Litman. Everyone seems to be taking a breather. So here’s this, to piss off all the LGBTQIA haters.
Look to the Rainbow (Petula Clark) from the 1968 movie with Fred Astaire (4 years after the Civil Right Act – pretty good time to release it, don’t you think?
1. On the day I was born,/Said my father, said he./I’ve an an elegant legacy/Waitin’ for ye,/’Tis a rhyme for your lips/And a song for your heart,/To sing it whenever/he world falls apart.
Look, look/(Chorus):Look to the rainbow./Follow it over the hill/And the stream./Look, look/Look to the rainbow./Follow the fellow/Who follows a dream./Follow the fellow,/Follow the fellow,/Follow the fellow/Who follows a dream.
2. So I bundled my heart/And I roamed the world free;/To the East with the lark/To the West with the sea./And I searched all the earth/And I scanned all the skies,/And I found it at last,/In my own true love’s eyes. (Chorus)

The Lincoln Project – Strong

MSNBC – Lawrence: Tuberville is the most disgraceful senator of the year

Armageddon Update – 2 Tiered Justice System

Woman Rescues 10 Tiny Puppies From A Rock Cave

Beau – Let’s talk about McCarthy’s missed moment coming back around….

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Sep 232023
 

Glenn Kirschner – Jim Jordan, who criminally defied a congressional subpoena, is now chairman of judiciary committee?

The Lincoln Project – Trump’s Instincts

MSNBC – Simply couldn’t be part of it’: Fmr. prosecutor breaks silence on quitting Trump-Russia probe

Farron Balanced – 2 Librarians Fired After Republicans Mistake Autism Symbol For Pride Display

Mystery dog kept showing up at nursing home. So naturally they did this.

Beau – Let’s talk about McCarthy math….

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Sep 202023
 

The title is not exactly accurate – but the information is interesting
Talking Feds – Trump Watches TOTAL COLLAPSE of co-defendant in federal court

The Lincoln Project – OK Coupid (if you don’t know, just google either name in “News”

Thom Hartmann – Why UAW Strike Is Bigger Than You Think

Robert Reich – Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas

Dad Brings in a Tiny Kitten to Keep His ‘Clingy Cat’ Company

Beau – Let’s talk about Trump and severed cases….

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Sep 052023
 

Yesterday, The New Yorker’s “Name Drop” was most appropriate for Labor Day. The first two clues were news to me, but I did get it on the third one. Also, Steve Schmidt quoted a big chunk of Theodore Roosevelt’s Labor Day speech given in 1903. I’ll spare you the need to look for “continue reading” and just link to the speech in the Educational Video inc.’s Speech Vault. It contains the quote “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us,” which was worked into a rug placed in the oval office in 2010 (yes, during the Obama Administration.) I don’t know whether it is still there (or possibly there again.) The speech is remarkable – and should be trotted out more often by Democrats, if only to emphasize that we are the ones who have preserved this orignally Republican platform.

Cartoon – 05 great fire of london

Short Takes –

Wonkette – Matt Schlapp’s CPAC Team-Building Exercises Sound Fun, If You’re Into Exorcisms
Quote – Oh. My. Lord. They have been on Twitter posting pictures of their favorite saints and begging those saints to rain down hell on the Daily Beast. It’s so deranged. “Our Lady of Guadalupe, strike down the BEAST,” tweeted Schlmatt. “St Michael the Archangel take down the beast,” tweeted Schlmercy, with a bit less flair and punctuation. We guess all this has put people in the mood to spill more Schlapp Schlecrets to (natch) the Beast. Now Roger Sollenberger is bringing us the story of that time last year when Matt Schlapp got a priest to come in and do exorcisms to get all the demons out of the CPAC offices.
Click through for details. Remember it is Substack now. If Matt Schlapp could exorcise himself, he would disappear in a puff of smoke.

Liberals Are Cool (on tumblr)
Quote – To remind everyone, January 6th wasn’t Trump’s Plan A. It wasn’t even Plan B. Plan A was to steal the 2020 election with Putin’s help, just as he’d done in 2016. Blackmailing Ukraine for dirt on Biden was part of that effort. But it didn’t work twice.
Click through. This is a Twitter thread, rolled on a thread reader, reposted on Tumblr, which was shared on Democratic Underground. It’s not long and it’s all important.

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Nov 262022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Mike Pence utters 7 words that should disqualify him from ever holding public office again

Ojeda Live- What Are The 10 Republican Commandments!?!

Ring of Fire – Polls Show Incoming Republican Majority In Congress Is Already DOOMED

Liberal Redneck – The Results of Rhetoric

Cop Kindly Walks Duck Family All The Way Home (no words)

Beau – Let’s talk about Colorado, stats, and speculation….

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Apr 262022
 

Yesterday, I got a phone call from Virgil, which means he has been fully checked in (I was told that could take up to 2 weeks, but it only took 6 days.) He says the staff are very good people – I was surely glad to hear that. Anyway, I went to the DOC site to download and print the forms I will need (or may need) including the disability accommodation form. I have never needed to request accommodation at any of the other three places I have visited him, because they all are on one level or have ramps, and I can walk far enough to go therough the metal detector, and I can collapse the wheelchair so that it also goes through (not at the same time that I do.) But getting onto a shuttle bus is a shuttle bus of a different color. So I want to get that done in advance. I had no trouble finding the forms on line and only slight annoyance “printing” the pages I needed to a PDF. Next is to print to paper and fill them out.

Cartoon –

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Crooks and Liars – Cawthorn Wasn’t In DRAG-Drag, He Was In NORMAL PERSON Drag
Quote – I’ve witnessed this kind of thing firsthand. At my high school every year, there was an assembly in honor of the football team — attendance mandatory. It ended with several players onstage dressed in drag. The message was that these kids were the embodiment of masculinity, so it was funny, get it? Not even remotely gay or transsexual or connected to transvestism!
Click through for details. I could wish this wasn’t correct and that it would hurt Maddy – but I fear that would be incorrect.

The Daily Beast – U.S. Is Now Aiming to Degrade the Russian Military, Says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
Quote – Austin, speaking bluntly Monday after a tour of Kyiv on Sunday, said Russia had “already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.” Austin was accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his trip, which was shrouded in secrecy until President Volodymyr Zelensky blurted out the secret at a Saturday afternoon news conference.
Click through – their source is the New York Times but I’m paywalled out. That trip to Ukraine must have been one impressive trip.

Media Matters – With attack on Twitter, the right shows it has institutionalized Trump’s corrupt use of government power
Quote – “Nice company you’ve got there; be a shame if something happened to it. Maybe you should save yourself some trouble and sell it to our buddy.” That’s the message 18 House Republicans, led by Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH), sent on Friday with a letter demanding Twitter’s board of directors preserve all records related to the bid by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to purchase the company.
Click through for article. This certainly sounds like RICO to me. Can we give DOJ enough money to hire 200 prosecutors, please? It looks like they are going to need more than 130 new ones.

Food For Thought

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