20 thoughts on “Bar None”

  1. Lady Justice made a good start with his first one disbarred, Roy Cohn. so little time, so many to go.
    giuliani, powell, habba …

    Image result for cartoon lawyer roy cohn disbarred

  2. in other news

    President Biden may get some credit for the 2.9% increase in America’s GDP last quarter, Meta announced some guardrails around the former president’s return to Facebook and Instagram but said they won’t be fact-checking his posts, and Rep. George Santos has some fishy receipts on his campaign expense reports.

  3. It takes a lot to be sanctioned and a lot more to be disbarred. A key, if not essential, component of a defense to sanctions and ethical charges is contrition. You just don’t see any of that from the lawyers associated with Dumbass. Arrogance is more the attitude they exhibit. Neither judges nor bar association ethics officers respond well to arrogance. They may just get what they deserve. I hope so. 

  7. lawyers breaking bad or at least the appearance thereof

    Andrew Weissmann, former FBI general counsel and senior member of of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, talks with Alex Wagner about revelations in new reporting by the New York Times into how Bill Barr used his position as attorney general to provide political cover for Donald Trump through the John Durham special counsel investigation of the Russia investigation.

  10. Was that at the Young Republican Convention or something? Ties on the guys, almost everyone sitting while they played and the audience was clearly moved – at least 3 young ladies in the audience are bobbing their heads.

  11. Slap me upside the head and call me s – oops forget that.  Now that I am accepting my age, or something close to it, I am looking at my cohort in age and our place in history.  Much has been written, talked about, lied about, and generally creating a living history for us born right after WWII, early Boomers.  And, those born right before WWII, beginning somewhere around 1938ish.  Some are too young to remember WWII and some too young to remember Korea.
     
    I do not remember reading any articles or such about this particular group of American people.  We grew up with people who had fought in wars, and many of us ended up the same.  We grew up with people who did not fight, but supported the wars, more limited for the Korea war.  We were raised very similar because home technology was much the same from the late 1930’s to the very early 1950’s.  We all had television and cars changing at the same time in the mid-1950’s.  A huge change we experienced was the housing boom, the modern era of education (in urban areas primarily), and unions creating a big middle class.
     
    What I thought of today, International Holocaust Day of Remembrance, was that we are now the people who knew survivors, and family of those killed in those horrible places.  I had a teacher in high school who often had his sleeves rolled up so his tattoo was visible for all to see.  There are a few survivors our age, and they carry the horror with them.  As we go away memories go away.  It is difficult for some to understand why we care so much about it.  We can only tell them it happened.

  13. Let’s hope they don’t throw us into a recession by raising interest rates, again. It’s like they’re trying to drive us into the ditch on the other side of the road.  

  14. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/27/texas-dan-patrick-senate-legislature-steve-toth-chris-paddie/
     

    Lt. Turd, Dan Patrick, is every bit as despicable as Ted Cruz, but wields more power. Patrick is every bit as mob-bossy as Orange Adolf, but has more finesse.

    “Patrick, who has presided over the Senate for eight years, has used his power as lieutenant governor to push Texas politics in a more socially conservative direction.”

    “Easily the most outspoken of the Big Three state officials — the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker — Patrick has made no qualms in the past about bending arms or using public pressure to get other state officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott, to go along with his plans. In the past, he has stripped Republican senators of leadership positions for refusing to go along with his priorities, contributing to an environment where he wields tremendous control of legislation passing the Senate and rarely faces dissent.”

  15. It has been twenty years since Challenger failed and all the astronauts onboard died.  Much happened as a result of those deaths.  I was in a meeting discussing a future mission involving Challenger when we received the news the mission was in failure.  We were in shock as several of us were deeply involved in the Space Transport System with our program.  I can only say the rest of the afternoon and evening were very sad.  And, my career changed in an instant.
     
    To those who leave this earth a salute.

  16. BB

    So many of our memories of the period are identical.  I was born in March of 1944.  My aunt’s kitchen was a spitting image of those of 1950.  My aunt’s car (later mine for HS) was a 1952 Desoto.  The home had been built in the early LA suburbs near the airport in 1949.  As moved in in 1950.  We had one of the earliest TVs.   As an adult I knew a couple with tattoos on their arms.  

  17. As a mid boomer I remember my parents having an early 50s Plymouth just like my grandparents. One was black, one very dark blue. We had a b/w Philco tv (rectangular screen) and I remember dad mounting a Sears Kenmore 18500 btu a/c window unit in the wall in our Lr/Dr. That was the distinguishing feature between our and my grandparents’ basic homesteads and lifestyles. GPS had no a/c. Of course my grandparents had older heating systems (coal fired steam radiators and open gas floor furnaces versus gas forced air) but otherwise, comparable. Then came the late 50s and the 60s and all bets were off. 

  18. My grandparents raised me.  No hot water or indoor toilet until I was 17.   We had a gas, heating stove in the dining room, but no heat in the bedroom (singular) or front room.  There was a one-room cabin with a gas stove; Grandpa retreated there permanently when I was born.  

    The first TV was a big, metal thing on legs; the metal was painted to look like pickled/blonde wood.  The screen was tiny and the tube had to warm up.

    Grandma never drove.  Grandpa had a chalk-green, 1949 Plymouth and an old pickup truck held together by rust.  Five or six times a year, on Sundays, we would drive around a section of farmland and stop for ice cream cones when we got back to town.  

    Once a year, we would drive to a farm to buy giant sacks of potatoes to be stored for winter use in the storm cellar.  The cellar was full of crickets and spiders, but it was still fun to go down there when there was a tornado.

    Today, I discovered that late boomers/early Xers are called “generation Jones.”
    I’m a Joneser.

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