Tuesday night after I finished posting I attempted to play an older game on my desktop.PC. Many of the older games, being designed for a lower resolution, make my desktop look as though icons are missing, but when one exits the game they are actually all there Not this one – When I exited the game many of the icons in the bottom half of my desktop were still MIA. I recovered a few key ones then, and when I got up yesterday installed the offending game (and its sequel) on my Win7 laptop prior to uninstalling them on the Win8, so that won’t happen again. I tend to over-accumulate text documents and shortcuts which I really don’t need to keep, so this will be a good excuse to clean house … but it won’t happen all at once. And, for architectural reasons, the room the laptop is in stays cooler than the one the desktop is in … .
Cartoon –
Short Takes –
CNN – Indonesian Covid-positive man disguises himself as wife on Citilink flight in order to fly
Quote – After that, “the airport immediately contacted the Ternate City Covid-19 Handling Task Force team to evacuate the man while wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), and then taking him in an ambulance to his house (in Ternate City) to self-isolate, where he will be supervised by Task Force officers,” Ternate Covid-19 Task Force Operational Head Muhammad Arif Gani told reporters Once his self-isolation period is complete, local police have stated they intend to prosecute “DW.”
Click through for background. I used to thnk that “American Exceptionalism” applied only to insanity. Well, I was wrong. It doesn’t even apply to that.
Raw Story – Nancy Pelosi Rejects 2 GOP Picks For The Jan. 6 Committee
Quote – “With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee,” Pelosi said in a statement. “The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.”
Click through fpr names and sequence of events (of which I predicted what Pelosi would do. I failed to predict McCarthy’s response, though I probably should have been able to.)
Common Dreams – ‘Tremendous News for Workers and Consumers’: Biden Picks Kanter as DOJ Antitrust Chief
Quote – Progressive groups including MoveOn had urged Biden to tap Kanter to be assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the DOJ, Politico reported Tuesday, “because of his work over the past decade representing companies, including Microsoft, that lodged antitrust complaints about Google.”
Click through for more. Now we just need to get him through the Senate.
Food for Thought:
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‘Toon: We need a piper to lead the rats from congress,and their stateside brethren.
CNN: There are jackasses everywhere.
RS: I had been upset that Nancy had not done this sooner. McCarthy, and Jordan, et al. are lying bags of excrement!
CD: Sounds good to me.
FFT: Goddamned Commies!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck w/ your puter housecleaning.
Indonesian Covid-positive man disguises himself as wife in order to fly
Kudos to that sharp-eyed flight attendant.
[NOTE: Your links don’t go to the Pelosi removing Jordan & Banks story.]
Republicans have unleashed a new crime wave on America
Whether it’s poverty or inequality, we could make major progress in solving the problem if we could just get republicans to ACT like the Christians they claim to be.
If I go to my directories, everything is still there. It’s just that the icons don’t show on the desktop. If I try to move them with the mouse, I’m told it’s already there. But I have found a couple of ways to make it happen.
Sorry about the link. In hindsight I know how it happened, which will help keep me from repeating the error, but doesn’t get you to the story. Try this one if you haven’t already read it half a dozen times elsewhere.
Cartoon: The Pied Piper should clean house/town every week, imho. Get ’em (rats) outta there!
CNN: That flight attendant should get a pay raise for her quick actions to reporting this man and his dangerous contagious scam.
RS: YAY!!! and Finally!
CD: Great news!
FFT: Oh! my goodness! Get the smelling salts out, Martha…!!!
I’ve gotten lazy about cleaning. Whether it’s the computer or the house or outside, I do take my time, getting around to it. It does get done though. Yesterday was a blast…a delightful day with family. It’s about an hour’s drive, by interstate.. but it’s all good.
Thank you, Joanne for post.
This just in: “It’s outrageous that they (Dems) obstructed voting on our bill designed to obstruct Dems voting.”
~ Texas GOP ~
2. “Biden breaks record for most votes in history for any presidential candidate. The previous record holder was Barack Obama.” ~ Graig Graziosi ~
3. “Now…Fox News is encouraging folks to get the covid19 vaccine, where were they months ago? It was a “hoax” until the stock market sank 700 points on (last) Monday due to fear that the Delta variant would send the economy spiraling down. “Coincidentally”, the very next day McConnell made a plea for vaccinations. The GOP (and its propaganda arm, Fox News) didn’t give a dam about vaccinations (except to say the virus is a hoax) until their donors lost billions in the market on Monday. With Republicans, always follow the money.
~ David Anthony Neal ~
4. “Donald Trump is a domestic terrorist who must be arrested for inciting the January 6th insurrection. #ArrestTrumpNow. ~ @Meidas Touch ~
5. “Democrats want to expand #Medicare insurance to include money for dental, vision and hearing coverage. Pass it on.” ~ Jon Cooper
TJI #1 – LOL! Did someone actualy say that? Or is it an “interpretation”?
TJI #2 – Nice.
TJI #3 – I’m actually a little surprised. I thought they wanted to tank the economy to make us look ba. Have some of their voters figured out that the stock market is not the same thing as the economy?
TJI #4 – A little side note – I found out why they spell it “Meidas.” It was founded by three brothers of Greek-American heritage whose last name begind with “Mei-“. When you watch the videos taken from poscasts, you are seeing them.
TJI #5 – Sadly, anyone who doesn’t already know this will likely not believe it.
Spending “a delightful day with family” is just wonderful. Great to hear it!
But sadly, given our country’s worsening polarization, probably going to become rarer and rarer.
TJI#1: Insane
TJI#2: Doesn’t surprise me. They both deserved every since one of them too.
TJI#3: I thought it was because their ratings were going down, loss of viewers.
TJI#4: So true. I’m hoping it happens soon.
TJI#5: They deserve every bit of it. Now lets see it pass.
TJI#1: Live with it, bozo!
TJI#2: What a pair! Wonderful!
TJI#3: Always one manipulation or another.
TJI#4: Amen!
TJI#5: Damned Commies!
Cartoon: Wish the Pied Piper would work a bit harder to get rid all the rotten rats.
CNN: What a flipping idiot. Glad the flight attendant was so observant.
RS: Good for her. Both worthless, don’t deserve to be in the senate, don’t do a damn thing for the people or our country.
CD: Great news.
Food for Thought: Agree with Mitch.
Hope you were able to get your computer/laptop taken care of. What bothers me is the way programs work so differently on each one of Microsoft versions, 7, 8 and 10. I have 10 on my laptop, and 7 on my desktop computer. Even Microsoft 10 won’t work with the earlier version of Office 2016, so that’s why I don’t send email from my laptop, except when I’m on the server email site.
Hope you had a nice day.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
TJI #2 – Yeah, well Donnie has ALSO set some pretty impressive records:
ONLY president to lose the popular vote – TWICE and …
ONLY president to be impeached – TWICE and …
ONLY president to then serve just ONE term
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-venn-diagram/
Good luck with your computer cleaning, Joanne. I’ve been telling myself for ages I need to do that, but I never get around to it and meanwhile the amount to clean keeps on growing…
Cartoon: When will the American Pied Piper (DOJ) start lading the rats from the Capitol?
CNN: Here the nutcases are risking their lives by escaping from their quarantine-hotel balconies with sheets knotted together. Exceptionalism apparently rules.
RS: Good on ya, Nancy. Now you can pick your own Republicans, though the GQP will argue that this committee is handpicked partisan. It doesn’t matter. The GQP would have argued that no matter what.
CD: Good news but it’s a little doubtful whether the GQP will give free passage.
I saw something about the guy with the sheets. Didn’t they catch him too? I’ll bet he found out it’s a lot harder to do that than it looks in video games, incidentally.