By Jace, A Trail Mix Contributor
Something seasonal and different. A few quiet moments for a Sunday morning. Beautiful singing and nice visuals. Enjoy the music and enjoy your day!
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wapo editorial board:
…it is crucial that the “lessons learned” in the administration’s review be imparted not just in classified briefings but also to the world — and that the Kremlin suffer some consequences for its actions. Those in Russia who conducted the election hacks should be named, banned from travel and targeted for asset freezes. If possible, they should be prosecuted. A public disclosure of U.S. intelligence about Mr. Putin’s regime — evidence of corruption, for example — would be appropriate.
It’s encouraging that congressional leaders from both parties are seeking to hold Russia accountable. Seven Democratic senators on the intelligence committee sent Mr. Obama a letter last month calling for the declassification and release of “additional information concerning the Russian Government and the U.S. election” and noting that a more detailed request had been conveyed through classified channels. Republican Sens. Lindsay O. Graham (S.C.), Bob Corker (Tenn.) and John McCain (Ariz.) say they are planning hearings on various aspects of Russian cyber-activity, including attempted incursions into U.S. weapons systems.
It is Mr. Obama, however, who has the means and the obligation to act before he leaves office. If Mr. Trump is inaugurated without disclosure of the role Moscow played in his election, the meddling is likely to remain undisclosed and unpunished. Mr. Obama should ensure that it is, at least, undeniable.
lest we forget what it was like when the shoe was on the other foot and the foot not in our mouth
from dailykos in 2009 Respect The Office, Not The Man
South Carolina Republican Congressperson Joe Wilson screamed “you lie” in the middle of President Obama’s nationally televised address to Congress. In one sense, this is a shocking lack of civility and decorum. In another sense, it is just another example of how Republicans are fundamentally unable to accept the results of the November election. It is also indicative of either their inability or unwillingness to engage in civil debate.
There are rules that have always governed the decorum that is expected when addressing the President of the United States. As a democracy that has seen seamless transitions of power every 4 or 8 years, it has always been essential that regardless of the person in the Office of the President, the office always deserves our respect. Respecting the office, if not the office-holder is what has always set our Democracy apart.
however, it is fun one must admit to indulge in calling the emperor-elect naked, big furball, the floater and other colorful names.
enjoy the 1st amendment while you can, fellow travelers.
on this day in history:
1620 Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the “First Encounter”
[after which this motto was born: assimilate now, resistance is futile]
jace, thank you and here’s another one to light your 3rd candle to
Jace… I so look forward to whatever music you bring here every Sunday morning. It’s a nice way to start the day. BTW…. lovely front yard. It’d be even better with a bird feeder or two.
Mrdoodlesdog…. welcome to the blog! I’ll gladly listen to your dog stories if you listen to my cat ones.
Thank you Jace for always providing our moments of beauty every Sunday
Patd
After January 20, I will “respect the office” and save my fire for the actions and issues. Until then the lying Cheeto is fair game. Given the toll the Presidency takes on the person who holds the office, how long before Donald Trump is shopping for a floppy toupee?
Romney was played like a fiddle too. Criticize the floater and he will pay you back when you try to make nice again. Each and everyone who has gone against the POS and then gone back has been publicly humiliated. I am waiting to see what happens when the low intelligence of the floater actually meets the intelligence agencies for real. Right now he blowing them off and it is not going to be pretty in the Kremlin East.
Patd,
Thanks for the Introits. Absolutely perfect, dare I say sublime.
Jace and Pat, okay you two, you started it:
And then there were three.
Flatus,
Thank you!
jace, what with all those nutcrackers you must live amidst a lot of nut trees. what’s the story behind the collection? a ballerina in the family?
BB, he’s being played like a violin. I would be very selective as to what I included in the briefing books heading to TT. All electronic traffic, in and out, should be monitored and analyzed by our most competent agencies.
flatus, and what about the briefings to the new sos? more fops (friends of putin) than just the drumpf to worry about
politico: McCain: Tillerson relationship with Putin a ‘matter of concern’
In an interview with Fox News, the former GOP nominee and chairman of the Senate armed services committee said, “I don’t know what Mr. Tillerson’s relationship with Vladimir Putin was, but I’ll tell you it is a matter of concern to me. You want to give the president of the United States the benefit of the doubt because the people have spoken. But Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully and a murderer, and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying.”
Patd,
No ballerinas in the family. The first one was a gift the year Cheryl and I were married. We have gotten a different one every year since. Tradition I guess. One of the few constants in an ever changing world. They always make me smile. Perhaps that’s reason enough.
https://youtu.be/fBvEUd8A5JE
Pat, I worry about all the cronies. There’s an implied et alia following each of their names that brings the entire cabal into any non-personal characterization that I might make. No one is ‘entitled’ to classified information by virtue anything other than need to know. As an example, Mr Truman had no need to know about atomic weapons until he became President. Simply having a security clearance does not imply a need to know for any type of information. In exigent situations where an individual must be given access to information to which she may not be formally cleared, telling her that if she discloses the existence of this information, I will shoot you, has the desired effect.
politicususa
Conservative CNN contributor and senior editor at The Atlantic David Frum reminded Trump and his supporters that actually, in spite of their claims to have a mandate, the people “didn’t speak” because “Donald Trump won 0.35 points more of the popular vote than Michael Dukakis in 1988.”
It has become even more clear that the people didn’t speak as we learned that the votes in Detroit, where we were told “Democrats just didn’t turn out” in spite of the reports of busy polling places from long time Motor City voters, couldn’t be counted due to inaccuracies with the ballot boxes.
The Michigan recount is dead now anyway, courtesy of the Republican hold over the state- the same state where Republican activist Brandon Hall was convicted of 10 counts of election law fraud for forging signatures on a 2012 petition effort. Hall He also worked on President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign in Michigan, according to the Grand Haven Tribune.
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The people did not speak for Trump, he does not have a mandate. The only mandate it appears he has is a Russian-tinged mandate
salon:
Alexander Hamilton explains the Electoral College: A way of opposing “cabal, intrigue, and corruption”
Foreign powers, Hamilton warned, might seek to a raise “a creature of their own” to the presidency
Key GOP senators join call for bipartisan Russia election probe, even as their leaders remain mum
“Recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American,” the four senators said in a statement on Sunday morning. “Democrats and Republicans must work together, and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress, to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyber-attacks.”
“This cannot become a partisan issue. The stakes are too high for our country. We are committed to working in this bipartisan manner, and we will seek to unify our colleagues around the goal of investigating and stopping the grave threats that cyberattacks conducted by foreign governments pose to our national security,” they added.
flatus, not to worry about those briefings…. he doesn’t want them.
according to slate:
President-Elect Donald Trump dismissed concerns that he is rejecting the presidential intelligence briefings every day, saying he really doesn’t think they’re necessary. “You know, I’m, like, a smart person. I don’t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. Could be eight years—but eight years. I don’t need that,” Trump told Fox News’ Chris Wallace in an interview that was taped Saturday. “But I do say, ‘If something should change, let us know’.”
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“In the meantime, my generals are great—are being briefed. And Mike Pence is being briefed, who is, by the way, one of my very good decisions,” Trump said. “And they’re being briefed. And I’m being briefed also. But if they’re going to come in and tell me the exact same thing that they tell me—you know, it doesn’t change, necessarily.”
And yet, Hillary won the popular vote. So what exactly did the Russians do to push Trump’s EC win?
I do see his cabinet picks as being increasingly troublesome. How does this thing get hamstringed before we are all undone?
patD – Trump sounds like a really dangerous version of Huck Finn. The Delegator In Chief.
I have never been a fan of eggnog but Mr Cracker is and now he has found eggnog nirvana.
Katherine Graham Cracker,
There is good eggnog; there is bad eggnog; there is very bad eggnog. I salute Mr Cracker for his appreciation of a good ‘nog. My favorite is delicate, like a fine English custard with a whisper of nutmeg. Will tell that any leftovers make a splendid bread pudding, if you are so inclined. This is not a beverage for the faint of heart.
Although of little interest to most, I do have to let you know that today is my 45th wedding anniversary. We are separated so congratulations are not necessary. We have no reason to divorce, the negatives out weigh the stay married. But, we have agreed that if either of us do find someone and do want to marry we will do it. We are now friends.
Oh. She remembered before I did. Time to send her an email in reply to hers.
Thanks to all for the welcomes. Was it patd who asked about the blueberry pie with the terrier in it? Yep, that’s from my old dog blog (est 2003 and on hiatus).
With all the Russian drama worthy of Chekhov, last night I sought the familiar on Netflix. “Quiz Show,” with a Congressional subcommittee, Ralph Fiennes and television history. Ralph Fiennes has always been good for my soul.
So there it was, all the cheating and mendacity and good names being trashed: the birth of television and scandal. At one point the President of NBC allows that no network can be touched by scandal.
Imagine that world. Get into the Wayback Machine. Now television thrives on scandal. Now we have a PEOTUS who is stuffed to the gills with scandal and lies and intrigue. And will we as a nation connect the dots? Will we care?
“Quiz Show” was made in 1994 and was set in the late 1950s. How far away that all seems. That an elitist academic would cheat on a televised game show, lie about it, confess, and that his admission to deceit of receiving game show questions in advance tarnished his name for decades.
And now Trump and Putin and American democracy itself seems on the line. So much for my evening of comfort from Netflix.
Every now and then I accidentally hear the “news” and some statement from the floater. He sounds so much like a bully who I had the unfortunate circumstance to be attacked by in grade school. He had the same speech pattern as the floater. He was not a 100 IQ person. He could not pronounce his words. The floater sounds the same. His words were clipped, stuttered and of poor sound. Just like the floater. Not to suggest inference or equivalence that the floater is of low IQ and rather stupid. Just comparing.
Starting to place antennae in preparation of dropping cable tv and staying with internet only.
Blue Bronc, why “the floater”? How did you come up with that one?
Blue
The Assange/Putin/Wikileaks combination produced a constant flood of negative Hillary info that was expanded upon and twisted out of context in such a way as to create the impression that she didn’t have the welfare of those in the rust belt. No amount of positive (i.e. the Flint water system etc) could prevail against the Twitterati and Bernie Bros (who tended to be right wing trolls).
In addition despite the CIA maintaining that the same Assange/Putin/Wikileaks cabal had info on the GOP side of the ledger. Add in an FBI slant from a percentage of the agency and the Comey statement against her that no last minute correction could help and you have a defeat.
There were lots of additional causes for her defeat, but the last two months of non stop garbage pretty well cost her the swing states and the EC and she still beat the ignorant/arrogant ass by 2.8 million votes.
The floater is that turd so full of gas it will not sink in the golden commode. It just floats around and may not go away with a single flush.
Something to watch is that the floater is
callingimplying the CIA a Democratic (political) organization. This may be his way of avoiding knowing what is happening with his BFF KGB Putin.wonder what the price tag now is on those life-sized naked statues that popped up and instantly removed (to safe keeping in some areas)? will we see them again during this reign of terror?