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I collect business cards. This is the greatest business card I have ever seen.
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By Sturgeone, a Trail Mix Contributor
I collect business cards. This is the greatest business card I have ever seen.
What do you collect? Besides dust, I mean š
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sturge, does re-collect count?Ā recollections, recycled thoughts or thinking?
politico:
A federal judge has rejected former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s attempt to toss out a money laundering charge stemming from his use of offshore bank accounts funded by a lobbying campaign he masterminded on behalf of political interests in Ukraine.
Manafort’s defense team argued that the tens of millions of dollars he’s accused of laundering didn’t qualify as the proceeds of criminal activity because lobbying for a foreign entity in the U.S. is legal and the only crime Manafort may have committed in that regard is failing to register.
But U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson disagreed.
“It is a crime to ‘act’ [as a foreign agent] ‘unless’ one has registered ā the statute does not simply state that the failure to register is unlawful,” Jackson wrote in a nine-page decision issued Friday. “These laws are not just about paperwork; their object is to ensure that no person acts to advance the interests of a foreign government or principal within the United States unless the public has been properly notified of his or her allegiance.”
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also at politico by jack shafer :
Donald Trump is good at many things, but his greatest gift may be his ability to distract the newshounds by shouting āSquirrel!ā and sending them sniffing for a new story. But this week, the dogs wouldnāt stop gnawing on the presidentās leg, no matter what he said.
His Cabinet secretaries might be grateful. The crying-babies, kids-in-cages news coverage about the U.S.-Mexican border pushed a Forbes story about Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Rossā foreign investments to the inside pages. And as for every reporterās favorite Trump administration piƱata, the border story has been as great for Scott Pruitt as it has been horrible for Donald Trump.
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The border story couldnāt have arrived at a worse time for Trump. After the inspector generalās report on FBI handling of the Clinton email investigation came out on June 14, Trump seized on it with his demagogic tentacles and started to score points with his misguided supporters about how the deep state had attempted to block his election. He falsely claimed that it ātotally exonerates me,ā when it does no such thing, and asserted that it ātotally discreditedā special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIās investigation, which is also a lie. Given that few of his supporters were ever going to fact-check his bluster by reading the 568-page report, Trump profited politically with his early obfuscations and manipulations of his basesā prejudices.
But when the border story took over, two things happened. Just as Cosby, North Korea and the border saved Pruitt by pushing him out of his top news ranking, the border story nullified Trumpās howling about the IG report and the evil James Comey. Nobody wanted to hear about the IG anymore; they wanted to hear Trump justify the border policy. Trump was now facing a story that couldnāt be diluted or contaminated with Twitter truculence.
Oh, he tried. First he blamed family separations on the Democrats, but nobody believed him. Then he tried to pass the buck to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, and that didnāt work at all. As much as he howled, his message about āenforcing the lawā couldnāt find footing. His blather was overwhelmed by the emotional punch carried by the pictures and the stories about families breaking up. (MSNBC pushed the story the hardest, applying almost a Fox News thoroughness to nurturing, advancing, and yes, sensationalizing the story.) Even congressional Republicans peeled off in great numbers. It was all too much for the president. On Wednesday, he waved the white flag by signing an order in a stagy TV performance that was supposed to indicate that he was āsolvingā the problem.
But what he really did was surrender while declaring victory. For all his constant talk about strength, Trump came off weak and depleted. After he went to Capitol Hill to sell his version of the immigration bill, it failed. And his intervention in the furor over Melaniaās jacketāin which he contradicted her officeās explanation of what the jacket slogan meantācame off as doddering and hopeless.
For three years now weāve been told that nothing bad sticks to Trump, that his mind games and double-talk make him invulnerable to the protestations of the righteous. That no matter how tight his detractors tie the knot, heāll always slip out of it. This week we learned differently. Trump can reliably win the battle if itās fought with words. But against images and descriptions of distraught and traumatized children and parents, Trumpās superpowers fail. If you want to beat Trump, hit him in the heart because he doesnāt seem to have one. Heās a man with zero emotional intelligence.
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carl Hiaasen:
Evangelical leaders were too silent for too long
It feels surreal, as our country approaches the 242nd anniversary of its freedom, to be celebrating the fact that our government is no longer pulling crying toddlers and infants away from their parents along the southern border.
Equally strange has been the sluggish response of some evangelical leaders, whose notion of biblical mercy is one that shines less brightly on immigrants. Rev. Franklin Graham, for example, only last week acknowledged that the U.S. policy of separating migrant families was ādisgraceful.ā
That word should have thundered two months ago from his pulpit. And other words, too: Heartbreaking, inhumane, cold-blooded, shameful, un-Christian, un-American, immoral, indefensible.
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The TV prayers and professed dismay of pastors Graham and Jeffress are a weak substitute for action. They should use their political friendship with Trump to help expedite reuniting all these youngsters and families as quickly as possible.
True evangelicals try to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, a man who would be sickened by whatās happened here, and would never have waited so long to speak up.
It is important to keep the humanity story going, even as the SFB cult/mob work to dehumanize everyone except white (lily white) men.Ā The bastard will continue to use techniques which have been honed to perfection by those training troops and others to go into battle and kill the enemy against their natural abhorrence of killing fellow humans.
As he builds his internment camps, gulags, re-education camps or concentration camps, the dictator must be opposed and the fight to dethrone him must continue.
This story will not go away.Ā He is trying to build “tent cities”, BS, torture camps in the deserts.
SFB is wasting billions of dollars to collect brown people into his camps.Ā He must be stopped from this by the Congress and Judical branches.
Government agencies ask āDo WHAT?ā In wake of doughturdās EO surrendering his position on immigration.
Sorry for bandwidth gluttony but utter confusion canāt be quickly or easily explained.
The seven bandwidth sins:
bandwidth gluttony, bandwidth sloth, bandwidth lust, Ā bandwidth greed, Ā bandwidth laziness, bandwidth wrath, bandwidth envy, and bandwidth pride.
In the case of information, however, I’m totally on board with bandwidth gluttony. š
Sturg, ?
I practice the sin of bandwidth stupidity.
pogo, dod might be slow in housing, but they’re sending lawyers in the meantime
the hill:
Senators ‘deeply troubled’ military lawyers being used for immigration cases
Three senators, including one Republican, are asking the Pentagon to rethink its decision to send military lawyers to help prosecute immigration cases.
“For years, Congress has worked with the department on reforming the military justice system and providing the services with the resources to support the critical mission of promoting justice and maintaining good order and discipline within the armed forces,” Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis on Thursday night.
“We are, therefore, deeply troubled by the department’s decision to send twenty-one active and reserve JAGs to the border on temporary orders to prosecute immigration cases,” they added.
News broke Wednesday night that the Pentagon had approved a request from the Justice Department to send 21 Judge Advocate Generals (JAGs) to the U.S.-Mexico border to help clear a backlog of immigration cases.
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billmaher 6h6 hours ago
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Trump signed an executive order that revoked the policy that he started.
He’s the guy who congratulates himself for saving the toddler in the pool that he just pushed in.
#ZeroTolerance@GOP#Christian#FamilyValuesBiD, in case you didn’t see this last night…
Seems to me SFB is focused on lessening the wrong backlog. Repulsives keep yapping about asylum seekers just need to go to ports of entry to avoid separation from their kids. Sorry, I call bullshit. The asylum seekers just walked from Central America across Mexico. So instead of being turned back and directed to go to a port of entry (which could be hundreds of miles away and where they will be greeted with long lines of other asylum seekers and waits of days in some cases to assert their requests) when they attempt to cross elsewhere they are arrested. Seems to me there are at least two backlogs to address (1) a backlog of stupidity among BP personnel and (2) a backlog of immigration judges to hear asylum requests.
FYI from a may 2018 fact sheet at American Immigration Council:
Asylum is a protection granted to foreign nationals already in the United States or at the border who meet the international law definition of a ārefugee.ā The United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol define a refugee as a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her home country, and cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future āon account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.ā Congress incorporated this definition into U.S. immigration law in the Refugee Act of 1980.
As a signatory to the 1967 Protocol, and through U.S. immigration law, the United States has legal obligations to provide protection to those who qualify as refugees. The Refugee Act established two paths to obtain refugee statusāeither from abroad as a resettled refugee or in the United States as an asylum seeker.
[ā¦.page includes what, how & why on asylum process….]
I watched Lawrence and Tom A ……Lawrence was really jerking my chain not letting Tom talk……..
the hill:
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Rogen told CBS late night host Stephen Colbert that he was approached by two of Ryan’s kids after speaking at an event on brain health hosted by Mitt Romney.
Rogen said he took a photo with the kids, assuming they were simply “very nice fans,” until they said their dad wanted to meet him and he saw the Speaker walking toward him.
“My whole body puckered, I tensed up, and I didn’t know what to do,” he said, adding that Ryan came over and “grabbed [his] hand” before asking for a photo together.
“I look over and his kids are standing right there expectantly, clearly fans of mine, and I said, ‘No way, man!'” Rogen said.
“Furthermore, I hate what you’re doing to the country at this moment and I’m counting the days until you no longer have one iota of the power that you currently have,” Rogen said he told Ryan.
“I’m glad I didn’t take a picture with Paul Ryan, I touched him so I don’t know how I feel about that,” he said. “His kids seemed lovely, and very caucasian.”
In the interview with Colbert, Rogen also took the chance to criticize the Trump administration for detaining migrant children at the border, and praised his home country for legalizing recreational marijuana.
“This week Trump made prisons for kids, and Canada legalized recreational marijuana,” Rogen said. I don’t know if there’s an official grading system for the weeks a country has, but that was a good week for Canada.”
Europe’s populists are following the Steve Bannon playbook https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/europe/salvini-bannon-lister-intl/index.html
Typhoid BananaNazi is now infecting the world.
patD – I read about Arnoldās interview last night. Ā Heās just a self-promoting putz, unfortunately. Ā If he comes up with anything useful…weāll see.
from politicususa:
This week the 193 local news channels owned by The Sinclair Broadcasting Corporation informed their viewers that ādishonest liberalsā were trying to fool them into thinking that the Trump administration had been separating migrant children from their families, in a cruel effort to deter migrant refugees from seeking asylum in the United States.
Sinclair stations reach nearly 40% of all American homes and it is owned and operated by right-wing Trump supporters. Recently the company has been heavily criticized for forcing its news anchors to read pre-written Trump propaganda on the air in order to keep their jobs.
And this past week Sinclair has forced all of its stations to provide propaganda in support of Trumpās child separation practices and its zero tolerance immigration policies.
Former Trump spokesman Boris Epshteyn, who now works for Sinclair, prepared and read the following pro-Trump statement that was broadcast on all 193 Sinclair stations:
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Julius became The Dictator, but it took a younger man to become The Augustus…….
wonder if same Sinclair guy also writes for fox and DPRK
Watch: Thereās an uncanny similarity in Fox News and North Korea State TVās coverage
āThe Daily Showā put together the little āpropaganda-offā to highlight the similarity in how they talk about their respective leaders.
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking; everybody knows that the captain lied.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg
I think it’s safe to say that a Nobel Peace Prize is off the table for the narcissist.
I’m sure there are some other good things that have come or will come from this separation debacle, but it’s a bit rude to ruminate on them.
BTW – did you hear that the Nobel Prize for Literature has been cancelled this year?Ā It appears that the committee that awards it has been ruminating on their own internal sex scandal.Ā Geez!
Jack… Ā here’s to Mrs. Jack beating that cancer and to you and her for continuing health.
And speaking of what do I collect… Ā I collect Buddhas. Ā My favorite is a much smaller version of what Jack showed us in the last thread… Ā a laughing Buddha with children climbing all over him.
Pogo… keep taking that bandwidth.
Sturg… Ā on your recommendation I just started reading the last of the Colleen Ā McCullough’s series on Rome “The October Horse”…. Ā about Caesar’s affair with Cleopatra before his death. Ā At almost 800 pages it should make a great summer read!
Back to the DoD lawyers:
Q. Does a soldier need wield an iron weapon to be subject to Posse Comitatus?
M.A. (My Answer) Hell no. The intent of the act is to keep the military out of civil affairs. Get our military out of this trumped-up civil business!
I’m not much of a collector, Sturg, but you did inspire me to go on a search for interesting business cards. Wouldn’t it be fun to present this to an annoying party guest.
Jack, wishing the Mrs. all the best. Re-running your Buddha here for good vibes (and RR’s collection).
As everyone knows, I collect owls but I like this Buddha
Jack, you and your missus have my best good wishes for whipping the the cancer devil. There is no sin in finding strength in the Buddha; you need not abandon your usual religion.
Flatus
I collect pitchers
Lady who defeated Mark Sanford in SC GOP primary was seriously injured in car wreck last night while traveling to Hilton Head, SC with a friend. Ā The driver who veered into their lane was killed in the resulting head-on collision.
wapo
Katie Arrington, GOP lawmaker who defeated Sanford, seriously injured in car accident
Katie Arrington, a Republican legislator who defeated Rep. Mark Sanford in the South Carolina GOP primary earlier this month, was seriously injured in a car accident Friday night.
According to a campaign statement, Arrington and a friend were driving on Highway 17 when their car was struck by another vehicle traveling in the wrong direction.
āKatie sustained a fracture in her back and several broken ribs, as well as injuries that required Katie to undergo major surgery including the removal of a portion of her small intestine and a portion of her colon,ā the campaign spokesman said. āAdditionally, the main artery in her legs has a partial collapse and will require a stent. Additional surgeries will be required including one likely today; and it is likely that Katie will remain hospitalized for the next two weeks.ā
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This picture is of a pitcher Mr Cracker made.Ā We use it for Bloody Marys
the concluding line of op ed in today’sĀ wapo:
Vote against the GOP this November
by George F. Will
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And to those who say, āBut the judges, the judges!ā the answer is: Article III institutions are not more important than those of Articles I and II combined.
KGC – very nice!
I really don’t collect anything (although I should – and now I might consider it).Ā The wife collects dogs – so that’s enough collecting for everyone in the house.
Opinion: Rob Rogers’ firing is a frightening omen https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/opinions/rob-rogers-cartoonists-matter-anderson-opinion/index.html
I’ve long thought there was a Russia/Brexit/Trump connection. And the evidence is mounting:
Britainās Russia Collusion Scandal Looks Just Like Trumpās (New York Magazine)
Another Trumpster run out of a restaurant …
Sarah Sandersā @PressSec
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for
@POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.Replying toĀ @FoxNews
Here is the thing about that odious cretin Mike Huckabee: You KNOW his daughter has told him, in confidence, how awful Trump is and how much he lies. And Mike STILL goes onĀ @FoxNewsĀ every night to talk of Trumpās perfection. He’s a political prostitute.
–Betty Bowers, America’s best Christian
Mike Huckabee is a hilarious example of how the right-wing gimmick called āReligious Freedomā works: āI can use my bigotry not to serve you. I call that āfaithā & ālove.ā But if you refuse to serve me, I call that ‘bigotry’ & āhate.ā”Ā #HypocrisyĀ pic.twitter.com/8wPqFccjvT
—same as above
Oh my god – I can’t remember.
Can anyone recall what we used to talk about when Obama was President?
Sarah’s troops are flaming that restaurant. Web site has been hacked, diverts to pages with some sort of Chinese or Japanese text. And their Yelp comments overwhelmed with haters. It’s deep in SW Virginia Trump country, she might actually do some damage to the place.
I’m an attempted collector……… Ā I used to collect typewriters until the great conflagration at Annex #1. Ā Now I don’t collect those anymore.
. Still have 70 years of postcards though.
dvitale, Michelle’s sleeveless dresses, as I recall. We were so young and innocent then.
Jack, like patd said. I will be sending all of the vibes that i can for your wife…and for you.
There is a lot of information about holistic healing, self, healing, diet for healing( which is the very first thing that needs to change- a raw ver diet along can go a long way to cure any kind of cancer. I know many way that can help….there are many herbs…super foods, plants etc that can make it go away.
Healthy fats that can be eaten that can give one all of th vitamins that one needs…protein included in them.
There is one super food (i use the powder form) that the largest whales in the ocean eat….this is all they eat….an animal that is larger than a football field eats an algae calledĀ “Marine phytoplankton” has everything that one can live on for a long time…
This plant…..and very few people on earth know this…….this algae marine phytoplankton….provides about 93-95% of the world oxygen………most people think it the trees….but not so.
A gradual, steady change of life habits can cure us from any bad food (diet is the cause of almost all sickness) choices…..but if they are not done…poisons will make things much worse.
Chemotherapy does not work….only abut 2-3% of people that take this radiation will survive it.
You have me email…will give you my phone….if i can help, dont hesitate to call me.Ā There are many things that can be done…specially in the early stages….
There are also machines that some drs use…vibration that can destroy the cancer….i have a small one that is call “Spooky” machine……there was a dr. Rife……that cured cancer with these vibrations….like when a voice vibration breaks a glass.Ā The exact vibration and pitch makes the glass cumbust……the same can be applied to cancer causing cells….or anything thatĀ is making us sick……i used it for my prostrate ….it was getting pretty high….now it very low….my va dr. dosent know what to make of it…….it told her that it was a change of diet…but left out the spooky machine……the dr will not even try to understand alternative healing in any shape or form…
There is soĀ much that we can do…..there is meditation, there is mild yoga while sitting….did you know that there is a form of hand yoga that cures…builds up appetite, can help with pain, most anything…….i have books that help heal with “yoga-hand-mudras”Ā they are like acupressure points…hand and foot reflexology…..but the most import ones to start with……are organic raw plants …use a blender for the full benefits…..
Sorry if this is interfering…..buena suerte
ps…just saw a cpl of the other u tubes on the side…the one with the chemotherapy nurse that quit …is a great one……later
CC – Yea – wasn’t there also a ton of complaining about how many vacations Obama took?Ā Also let’s not forget his birth certificate!
Good thoughts to the Whiskey Jacks
“For people being snotty and condescending about the Democratic party -if it were not forĀ Democratic Senator Merkley of Oregon this issue would still be traveling under the radar.Ā The people taking a leadership position are Democrats.e in a while ”
Sen. Merkle deserves these kudo…..but where were the rest of them…..Session announced this zero policy a while back….if they were doing thier jobs….asking the right questions……like What the F do you mean when you say Zero tolerance…and what will become of these children and their parents……they blew it!
The to party system sucks….cant remember much of anything that either party has done to help us all……they fight, campaign, and promise us all of the same things over and over each election cycle….they change/modifyĀ a few words here and there, they take advantage of us is all……A person like trump took advantage of this……putin took care of the rest….why are there no Dems yelling TREASON each and every time that they speak….
Obama did not warn us did he….he knew about most of this….yet he kept quiet………oh thats right….he was the present-president…..
dont know if any dem or any one else has figured out a way to reunite these people…..they say that iit is very difficult………dont know if any one suggested this yet but:
Why dont they take each and every one that is incarcerated now…..and take each and every child that has been taken from their parents…….put them all in the same state……..in the same military base, or farm, or desert….and let them find each other….take the adults for long, long search walk….then…..the dems can help them separate the asylum seekers from the rest….get them to hear their case…..and take them to Florida with the rest of the asylum people are…..
OrĀ take them to Puerto Rico (how is it that the dems wont let them vote for potus,or fight for them to vote) the can assimilate much better there no?
One last thing…..how many dems are talking about…e.everyday…..on how the fbi stole the election from Hilary?Ā Comey addmitted …..we have an illegal president once again……i know….lets get Gore to get this done………Reason that this comment set me off…..is that it doesnt do anyone any good….just like blaming me or anyone that did not vote for Hilary does any good…….she lost it herself……sheĀ and her staff had to know about russia….did she/her staff do anything about it…..ok im done……
On Sarah griping about restaurant refusing to serve her, wouldn’t she be cheering if they had refused to bake a cake for gay customers.
Suckabee is nasty in the press room, and not at all like rosy picture she presented herself as, Ā which is why she is getting this treatment outside of her job site. Ā Like attracts like.
solar – Keep on posting the alternative health stuff, please.
What do Trump, Brexit & Barf-Bart have in common? Ā Steve BananaNazi. Ā Heās now āinfectingā the world with his garbage.
Dems need to go to that restaurant & support the business. Ā This is the world we live in; partisan dining.
How about the dems arresting the employers that hire these illegals…the rs would hate this no…and would get the corps pissed at trump for starting all of this again……i dont recall any one talking about this …..where are the dems pointing out the people…connecting those that profit from these illegal prison…..the rs are just pushing the dems around as if they were nothing at all….
Billions of dollars are being made by someone connected to Trump….which are they, and get them to jail….we need a few pit-bulls…….how is it that the first wanaa-be lady can put on a jacket that read ….i dont care d u…..and thereĀ isnt some dem holding a press conference about it……lets see if what they will say over the weekend……but will it be to little too late….
With everything that trump is throwing out there everyday…..the dems need a strategy or strategist co make sense of it all….the news outlets did a good job this week, but they are overwhelmed…..
they put great pressure on the whole trump regime for a change……now they need to keep it up….but also report on the new happenings like the article that patd linked this am….thanks
The old man collected biz-cards, also- i got them all, now, so i guess i collect them, too.
Also, i have almost every issue of National Lampoon ever printed, except for the āBuy this magazine, or weāll shoot this dogā issue- somebody stole that.
I have many other collections, also, but i need to cull them before i die, because my next-of-kin will likely just throw all my cool stuff in the trash, as next-of-kin are wont to do.
Blue,
Post exactly what is wrong, or that you want to know about and i will try to help.Ā There many things to start doing right away……when you wake up in the am…..drink (i drink 25 ozs hydrogen ) water as soon as i get out of bed…..an hr later have another glass of water with on teaspoon of turmeric, ginger, as tralagus, apple-cider, lemon juice….blk pepper to help absorb all into the system….and an hr later some breakfast….a large banana sliced with the skin left of it…ripe…add some honey, cinnamon ….with each thing that i eat…i take a pinch of pink Himalayan salt…..I do eat meat a cpl times a wk….organic hamburgers, chicken, goat….but only in small quantities…
Make a veggie pizza with goat cheese on top……..eating is never boring to me……….what i cant seem to get right….is baking…sometimes things come out alright….sometime i have to eat what i bake all by my self…..lots of gluten free experiments going on all the t i me…..
dont drink anything while you eat….let the enzymes work on the organs/stomach system….when you drink anything…….its like flushing them out right away….all organic ……..this goes a long way to curing your self…..ok my ride is here….later
Democrats deserve criticism like all politicians of any party. Ā But what I wanna know is… Ā why aren’t Democrats faster than a speeding bullet… Ā why aren’t Democrats more powerful than a locomotive… why aren’t Democrats men/women of steel… Ā Ā and most importantly… Ā why can’t Democrats leap tall buildings with a single bound…
Look up in the sky… Ā it’s a bird… no it’s a plane…. Ā Ā Ā NO… Ā it’s a Democrat! Ā (insert smiley face)
Today’s batch of print magazines just arrived. We’ve all seen the Time cover: but, this one is in more detail. As the little girl wails, begging for recognition, Trump stands with his eyes closed—expressionless as if asleep or…
An alternative caption to the “Welcome to America” Time chose might well be, “Mr President, your coroner should be here in less than an hour. We saw no need for a police escort.”
The Atlantic is back to the urgent matters of public health:
“Your Child Says She’s Trans.
She Wants Hormones and Surgery.
She’s 13.”
And, finally, we have Businessweek. They are totally back to normal. I did find a feature of great interest for B.B.—The Greatest Martinis in the World. The author, Naren Young chooses the Connaught Hotel in London as being the absolute best. Also on the list, in sixth place, is Charles H. in Seoul. And I was there back when.
Atlantaās mayor signed her own EO, refusingto take in any more ICE detainees. (They already have 200, but are now refusing them.)
āBlue,
Post exactly what is wrong,ā
…donāt they already, 25 times a day?
womp womp
(also, lewandowski said āwahh wahhā, as in the sound of someone sobbing, but our incompetent media mistranscribed it and ruined my perfectly good trombone onomatopoeia. Ā Add it to the list of things this administration has ruined.)
I am an eclectic collector, an indiscriminate recycler, aficionado of old things, and dilettante of oddities. Ā Ā my friends have another name for it: hoarder.
solar – Thanks
Hey, take it easy colorada…..
“Democrats deserve criticism like all politicians of any party. Ā But what I wanna know isā¦ Ā why arenāt Democrats faster than a speeding bulletā¦ Ā why arenāt Democrats more powerful than a locomotiveā¦ why arenāt Democrats men/women of steelā¦ Ā Ā and most importantlyā¦ Ā why canāt Democrats leap tall buildings with a single boundā¦
Look up in the skyā¦ Ā itās a birdā¦ no itās a planeā¦. Ā Ā Ā NOā¦ Ā itās a Democrat! Ā (insert smiley face)”
U r right Spiddy gal…..there is not a single super democrat….but maybe if they try to fight in unison like the Rs do….they just might become the league of nations heroes…or like you……wonder-women…..only one question…..how do you find your invisible plane?….anyway i get you….but try having the frustration that an independent has all year round….make that all of the time…..
There is this lady that lives in hydepark…near where the obamas used to live……she is very liberal…..i get shit about not voting for hilary evrytime that i see or talk to her……i just love her so i take it….same with you…you dont have to insert any smilies….we can disagree anytime…..anyway this lady started my path on learning about anthropology….and a cpl of other things…..
I do like s few of these new dems…one of them is from Il….guiterrize….and few others….but mostly….the old ones…..just go along to get along.
are spinelessĀ Ā they get involved only when they know which way the wind is blowing….turned out nice….going for a long walk of a short…..
STurg,Ā do hats count…i have a few baseball hats from all over the state……I have one in very good shape from my first construction company………blk with gold letters and an backhoe on it….it has a C & O on it……i applied for a s corp with that name….they wanted to know what that meant……told them that i got stiffed a cpl of times with checks that did not have any founding on them…….and it st ands for CASH ONLY……….years later i started another one called All States G C….was doing work in a cpl of states….and was going to do a lot of “SolarCrete” home down south and other nearby states…….the the 20008 financial crises visited us big time……..not only did i lose what i had….but the potential of what was going to be………….and I ask this of anyone……why is thereĀ no one that is responsible for this mess in jail……no RS or Dems have put a single person in jail…..but we did bail them out………lots of things that people are pissed of about……i did not or ever thought about voting for Trump….know people that did….good and bad….i dont blame them….they are tired of it all…….the 30-35% of Trump racist haters are the ones that i wont tolerate…..later
Bloomberg:
New Yorkās Trump Foundation Lawsuit May Be a Mueller PreviewĀ āĀ Francis Wilkinson
āFor a more prophetic vision of the future, you should read theĀ complaintĀ against Trump, his children and his foundation by New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood.
āWhy prophetic? Because itās likely a preface to the report or complaint that special counsel Robert Mueller will bring. The alleged crimes described by Underwood are not similar to those being investigated by Mueller. But the behavior is.
āOne stumbling block to public understanding of the Mueller probe, in addition to a steady stream of propaganda and lies designed to undermine it, is that itās hard for even a cynic to accept the premises of what is being investigated.
āU.S. history simply doesnāt offer a lot of reference points for a major-party political candidate who so casually subverts the law and sells out the nationās highest values. How many Richard Nixons are there?
āTo believe the accusations that TrumpĀ colludedĀ with Russia,Ā launderedĀ vast amounts of money and/or put American foreign policy on theĀ auctionĀ block in return for the enrichment of his family requires an awkward leap of faith. You have to believe this leader is both profoundly corrupt ā far more so than Nixon ā and staggeringly sloppy ā again more so than Nixon.
āThis isĀ essentially the portrait that Underwood paints in the detailed accusations against the head of the Trump Foundation: that of a shady huckster who engages in āpersistently illegal conductāĀ and is buffoonishly sloppy along the way.ā
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Solar… Ā don’t you ever change…. Ā EVER… Ā or I’m gonna come after you (insert smiley face… because I goddamn want to!)
the guardian:
A US clothing company is taking a sartorial swipe at Melania Trump, selling jackets bearing the slogan āI really care, donāt you?ā in response to the āI really donāt careā jacket the first lady wore to visit migrant children separated from their parents.
All proceeds from the jackets, selling for $98, will be donated to a Texas-based refugee and immigrant advocacy group, said Emma McIlroy, chief executive of the Wildfang clothing company in Portland, Oregon.
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Wildfang had its version of the jacket, with its slogan on the back, for sale online the same day as the first ladyās visit, McIlroy said.
āI thought, āWhy donāt we make the opposite jacket? Why donāt we make the jacket that does good in the world?āā she said.
The first batch of 100 military-style jackets sold out in an hour and a second batch sold just as quickly. The small, five-year-old clothing company is now taking requests for t-shirts and other emblazoned jackets, McIlroy said.
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With sale of its jackets, Wildfang was more than halfway through its goal of raising $50,000 for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (Raices) in San Antonio, Texas, McIlroy said.
Trumpās version of the jacket was sold by the Spanish fashion chain Zara. A representative of Zara could not be reached immediately for comment.
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Patd,
thanks for your 3:15….thats the main one the i think will bring him down.Ā There is something very evil about starting a 501 c3….getting loads of cash from people and then using it for their own family the Trumps family greed…..think that this will be something that anyone can understand……and the one that every Dem should be yelling about……..been posting a lot today…im outa here before champ sees this one……….
#restaurants4Sarah
Shunney’s
Hats Count
Mike Huckabee accused of bigotry and racism after tweet touting Pelosi’s ‘campaign committee’ https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/mike-huckabee-ms13-pelosi/index.html
While watching W. Kamau Bell’s Shades of AmericaĀ – The Border (S3 E1), I really enjoyed his speaking to the people who actually live on the Border.Ā They were like the ones I’ve always known in Arizona and New Mexico back when it was normal to walk back and forth.Ā The Wall is hurting the US way more than it is hurting Mexico.
If I remember correctly, the folks along the border voted blue
Flatus
Give me a rumor of a great martini and I have to go hunting for the recipe.Ā Unfortunately for the Connaught, it seems to be an in person experience
The Martini Trolley
Hats are consumables- should be, anyway.
Jamie – that looks like one heck of a restaurant.Ā Kind of a once in a lifetime spending spree.
I was hoping Melania wouldnāt do or say anything very contemptible, because she seems relatively benign and it was nice to not have to hate everyone associated with this admin, but nope, sheās as dull and vapid as the rest, it seems. Ā Womp womp.
…and so, remember, in two years, when people like me are being called ābigotsā for trying to point out how dangerous and malicious the āheartlandā voters who got us into this mess really are, the type of people they think fit to lord over us.
Jamie, my favorite was the one I made myself from Panamanian produced Beefeaters. It was on the rocks with a whisper of whatever vermouth was handy. It was stirred gently then finished off with a twist of native lemon. The ice did not drown the gin. I preferred mine in an old-fashion glass. The Panamanian Beefeaters was largely made of local ingredients–a unique product. The finished product fit the climate/ambience quite well.
My surmise on the jacket is that it was intended to keep her ‘meeting’ clothes fresh while getting on whatever airplane they put her on. The charming message? Probably intended as a morale booster for the enlisted ground crew that was put together for the mission. My guess is that she was horrified by it being shared with the world.
Ohboyohboyohboy. I got a campaign solicitation in the mail today from our own SFB, Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, complete with a free bumper sticker- it lets everyone know heās Trump Endorsed. Isnāt that special?
Iām guessing Mrs P has realized summer has arrived. She had me pick up margarita fixings on my way home from out messing about. Iām in!
Anyone have an iPhone and know how to post a pic here taken from it?
Punch choose file, above the comment box……”Take Picture” or “Choose existing” will pop up……choose from photos on your phone or punch “Take Picture” and…..take picture…….then pick “Use” or whatever it says which means about the same thing……but you have to write something in the comment too
A Martini is the cleanest drink to enjoy.Ā Simplicity and ease of creation; you do not want to go too far which ends up being gin and something went wrong.
I have given the collection a little thought.Ā I think I collect boats and booze or booze and boats.
overtime – less and less vermouth and more olives although I don’t really care for the dirty martini
does collecting one’s thoughts count?
“does collecting oneās thoughts count?”
Whisper meĀ the spicy ones….i wont tell a soul.
I have almost every science fiction book I’ve ever read. ForĀ while when I was young I would check them out of the library but then I found the used book store and haven’t been in a library in years. How many? about 120 linear feet worth. I’ve slowed down on the purchases in the last 10 years but still reread my collection. It is kind of interesting how I view a book as a youth, and adultĀ and now as an older adult.
Jack
Industry-manufactured āviralā star or 19 year-old bedroom genius? Ā Whatever- this song gets it done:
Thanks to everyone for the good thoughts.
Jack
I will echo them, jack, if i may.
Jack – all the best from me and the Mrs. to you and your Mrs.Ā Hang in there.Ā have you looked into hemp oil?Ā Wife’s a Dr. and believes in it a lot.Ā Take care!