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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

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  1. capital gazette:
    President Donald Trump has declined a request from Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley to lower American flags in honor of the fatal shooting of five employees of The Capital newspaper last week.
    “Obviously, I’m disappointed, you know? … Is there a cutoff for tragedy?” Buckley said Monday afternoon. “This was an attack on the press. It was an attack on freedom of speech. It’s just as important as any other tragedy.”
    Gov. Larry Hogan ordered Maryland state flags to be lowered to half-staff from Friday through sunset on Monday.
    Through Maryland’s congressional delegation, Buckley put in a request to the White House over the weekend to lower the American flags.
    Buckley had said he hoped having the American flags lowered, too, would help keep national attention on the attack.

    Trump has ordered flags lowered for previous mass shootings, including in May after the deaths of 10 people at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, and the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February that left 17 dead.
    While Buckley had previously thought he might lower the city’s American flags regardless of the president’s decision, the mayor said his wife talked him out of that.
    “At this point in time, it would start to polarize people and I don’t want to make people angry,” he said.
    The White House did not immediately respond Monday to a request for comment.
     

  2. ny times Michael Cohen Hints at Cooperating With Federal Investigators. Or Does He?

    [….]
    “If he really wanted to send a signal that he was looking to cooperate, he could just pick up the phone and call the prosecutors,” said Matthew Miller, who served as director of public affairs for the Justice Department under President Barack Obama. “He wouldn’t have to do this complicated dance in the media.”
    Mr. Miller offered a different theory on Twitter on Monday: Mr. Cohen’s interview was likely directed at the president as a “not-so subtle request for a pardon.”

    “One of the best ways to get to Trump is through television,” Mr. Miller said, adding that a televised appeal for a pardon might not carry the same legal risks of requesting one directly. “All Cohen has to do is send a signal through the press saying, ‘Mr. President, I’m at the end of my rope. I can’t take much more of this. I’m going to have to make a deal.’”

    […discusses other arguments…]
    Those developments, in combination with Monday’s interview, suggested to Samuel W. Buell, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at Duke Law School, that Mr. Cohen was at least “positioning himself to make cooperation a serious and available option.”
    But as Mr. Buell added: “The puzzle in all of this is why do you go on ABC News to talk about it?”
    Mr. Buell said that Mr. Cohen may be angling not just for leniency against potential charges, but for full immunity against them, and is trying to recast himself in public as a principled person with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s conduct.
    “I know that’s not how it normally works, but this is not a normal case,” Mr. Buell explained. “If Cohen is looking for immunity, then it makes sense to go on TV and create momentum that he is an important witness who has principles and facts. Then people might say, ‘What’s wrong with the government that it won’t cut a deal with this guy?’ He is putting pressure on the prosecutors to do it.”
     

  4. If the newspaper were a right-leaning mouthpiece for him,  or if the attack had been carried out by a terrorist group, he  would’ve lowered the flag to half staff.

    As the paper does not carry his overflowing bedpan, and, as the attack was carried out by a loner creep, Twit has no interest in doing anything showing respect for the press in any way…because it doesn’t serve his personal interests.

     

     

  6. If you listened to his speech at the rally in ND last week, you’d see how entranced these folks are by him.  It was creepy.

    At one point, he was bashing the “elites.”  Then he told the audience that they were the real elites.  Then he disparaged elites as being idiots…so he actually called the crowd idiots and they cheered.  Sad.

  7. At noon tomorrow, let’s all burn our diplomas and certificates of academic achievement. Then, finally, we might belong in this new sub-American population. I feel so much like puking.

  9. Alright, Trail Mix legal scholars, can we make the leap that the Government’s new step to deny release on bond to the children who crossed our borders is a violation of their Constitutional rights? Can we make the following despicable leap that the Trump administration intends to orphan the youngest of these children offering them up to good American homes, i.e., those of his affluent supporters? Can SFB be summarily jailed?

  10. They are not denying bond for the kids – they are denying it for the parents and they can do it — they do it all the time in local police districts.  The money bail issue is just another point in the fu criminal justice system  ( something that deserves a lot of f–ks)

  11. The Democrats are the sponsors of any decent legislation that has passed in the last 50 years

    Republicans may “win” more but the impact is less — less for most

    I am sick of people blaming the Democrats for Republican malfeasance  -blame yourself asshole you let it happen because you were too busy blaming everyone but yourself

  12. If you call needed potential allies “asshole,” I think it makes recruiting them as activists more difficult.

  13. Flatus,

    Bail hearing, what bail hearing?

    Back on February 27 –

    NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: The court ruled that immigrants held in detention for months and even years are not entitled to a bail hearing. Although such detentions number in the tens of thousands, they’re not the usual deportation cases where the facts are cut-and-dry and the people are deported within a month or two of their detention. Rather, these cases involve people who are legal permanent residents in the U.S. and are subject to potential deportation because they’ve committed some relatively minor crime or people who’ve come to the U.S. to seek asylum and have passed the first level of screening.
     
    When their cases are ultimately decided, 70 percent of the asylum-seekers and 40 percent of the legal U.S. residents win. But the average period of their detention is 13 months, according to the government, and some remain in detention for far longer. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that under a federal law, people in these circumstances are entitled to a bail hearing every six months, and that if they can persuade a neutral judge that they’re not a safety or a flight risk, they’re entitled to temporary release if they post a money bond or agree to electronic monitoring or both.
     
    But today the Supreme Court overturned that decision as an implausible reading of the federal statute.

    Under thie latest hearing about not detaining kids after 20 days I’m not sure how this will all interact. The accompanied kids aren’t under arrest. Not sure about the unaccompanied ones.

    Nah, voting to ensure a Dem got the next SCOTUS appointments wasn’t important.

  14. they might be right

    the wrap:
    Mika Brzezinski said she knew the cause of President Trump frenetic morning on Twitter — Michael Cohen.
     
    On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe,” Brzezinski suggested that the stress of the president’s former lawyer’s possible cooperation with prosecutors was getting to Trump.
     
    “The president is all over the place, ricocheting wildly,” she said. “This is because of Michael Cohen. Cohen is driving him nuts. So he must deflect in any way he can, but of course not talk about Stormy Daniels or Michael Cohen.”
    “Or Vladimir Putin,” said Scarborough in concurrence.

    It certainly was a busy morning for Trump on Twitter, with the president tweeting in all sorts of things. As the show noted, Trump hit out at Rep. Maxine Waters, MS-13, Democrats, the fake news, President Obama and many others.
    [….continues…]
     

  15. Anyone still blaming democrats isn’t going to help and I for one like Maxine Waters think that calling out people and showing them for who they are is now what  is important

    People need to be responsible for their choices and they need to understand what they do or don’t do has impact.

    There are plenty of non assholes are already working hard

    we don’t need the naysayers  we just need the people who are on board to get out and vote (and we need to make sure they can vote and their votes are counted)

    Trump told people he was their last chance to preserve white America do you really think anyone who voted for him is a decent human being I don’t and I have yet to meet a Trump voter who is

  16. Damned McConnell. He got us last time, we must not let him do it this time. I am contributing in races where I have a sense of the dem candidate as a human being.

  17. Flatus: “Can SFB be summarily jailed?”

    Well, not while in office I suppose — BUT Mueller might be able to obtain a sealed indictment on money laundering charges, or whatever, for enforcement the minute a new president takes office. Imagine that, instead of helicoptering away he’s carted off in handcuffs.

  19. Just say no to Joe Biden (and saying you would have Obama has your vp is just dumb)

  20. Interesting math shaping up for 2020 Dem primaries. If the likes of Harris, Gillibrand and Booker split the left and stay in, Biden could win with the center vote. Kinda like what Romney did in 2012 against a bunch of right wingers, won nomination without winning a majority of primary votes. Could he neutralize the age issue saying ‘Give me one term to fix Trump’s mess and I’ll pick the runner up as VP/my successor’.

  24. yes I will be voting for whomever the Democrats nominate (I would take a lot of seasick stuff)

  25. just like old times…  dems uphold their tradition of knifing each other in the back and then shooting themselves in their own foot.

    remember teddy doing in jimmy?

    gary weakening walter?

    gore and kerry had to contend with dem nader-ites taking the final blow?

    and most recently the temporary dem Bernie?

  26. Even though it is not Festivus  I have some other grievances I’d like to air.

    I am tired of people pining for the past as if it were really a better time.  Historically that is inaccurate.   People were not more civil particularly not in political discourse.  Most people were excluded from the political process for a variety of reasons and many legally excluded from voting.   It was not better and longing for it means you have no idea what it was really like.

     

  27. business insider:
    Michael Avenatti, the attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, isn’t taking President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen’s silence-breaking ABC News interview as a sign he’s splitting with his old boss.
    Avenatti views the interview as a sign that Cohen’s “loyalties still lie with the president,” he told CNN Tuesday.
    “Mr. Cohen is trying to get Trump to pay his legal bills & is playing games,” Avenatti tweeted.” If he has info & truly loves this country then he needs to come forward NOW. There is nothing stopping him. If not, it will be obvious he lied to the public in an effort to paint himself as a good guy.”
    Avenatti wrote that Cohen would eventually “flip” and cooperate with the government, “but not for ‘love of country’,” as Cohen seemed to suggest in the ABC News interview.
     

  28. More Justice Kennedy weirdness – He had chosen all four of his clerks for the next term. Seems odd he would do that if he was planning to retire.

  29. KGC, are you talking about the years when you were growing up in Ohio? I remember the post-War period as being politically vibrant both at the state and greater Cleveland level.

  32. Really maybe it was just your impression.  In Stark County Timken Roller Bearing controlled most everything including Frank Trump the member of Congress for far too many years followed by a clone Ralph Regula  and Frank Rhodes as governor??????

    I rather doubt it was vibrant since it was a closed system.

  33. Howard Metzenbaum won because he had a ton of money (airport parking) and John Glenn because he was a national hero.  The mother of presidents hasn’t produced much lately.

  34. msn:
    The resistance movement against President Donald Trump is less than a year-and-a-half old. And so are some of its newest members.
     

     
    At least that’s what Walmart is promoting with its new baby clothes.
    The retail giant is selling “Impeach 45” and “Impeach Trump” baby and adult apparel for opponents of the controversial 45th president of the United States. But Walmart’s “resistance” appeal has met — for lack of a better term — resistance of its own.
    On July 2, Ryan Fournier, a Trump advocate, set the Twitterverse abuzz with his discovery of Walmart’s clothing. He asked @walmart “why are you selling Impeach 45 baby clothes on your website?????”
    As the tweet became viral, Trump supporters took to the social media platform to voice their frustration, using the hashtag “#boycottWalmart.” Reactions ranged from calling Walmart unpatriotic to swearing off the company for good.
    However, Walmart’s new clothing line, which is produced by third-party companies, doesn’t seem to be part of any targeted corporate political agenda. The retailer also sells Trump slogan “Make America Great Again” and “Donald Trump Speaks For Me” apparel.
    Walmart hasn’t shied away from controversial clothing in the past. In December 2016, Walmart stopped selling merchandise with the caption “Bulletproof – Black Lives Matter” after the National Fraternal Order of Police, a police advocacy group, attacked Walmart for “profiting from racial division.” Moreover, in November 2017, the company sold a shirt that read ““Rope. Tree. Journalist. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED” before being pulled.

  35. Going out on a limb here but introducing some good news to counteract all of our daily Trump news Tourette’s syndrome/spam we are subjected to:

    It’s a big world out here & THE THAI KIDS WERE FOUND ALIVE IN THE CAVERNS! Holy cow, this is a lift to the spirit. Much gratitude to all those around the world who came together to help in the search. International help: people came together because they care. Really great news.

  37. In Ohio in the 50’s 60’s and 70’s both political parties has women’s divisions –no power just to provide volunteers when I moved to SF in 1974   there were still separate women’s divisions –separate and certainly not equal.   The only statewide post women were welcomed to run was the state treasurer.

  38. They found the kids but they don’t know how to get them out

  40. Mr Crawford,

    I have a banana tree. It is growing. A mile from the Canadian border 😉

    May only make it to the first frost, but your Florida poolside plantings inspired me.

    Thank You.

  41. How are gardens for everyone this year? My tomato plants are gang busters. I have a Datura plant that is the equivalent of the blob: it’s huuuuge!

    For those in the know, do you prefer potato leaf or regular leaf tomatoes? Will say my potato leafs are doing exceptionally well.

  42. sjwny, tomato plants preference? I prefer indeterminates of any persuasion, producing luscious fruit all season long.  even into fall the green ones can be salvaged.

  44. SJ, good for you. Our banana trees are thriving but I haven’t figured out how to properly harvest them. I’m either too soon or too late, haven’t produced anything edible yet. They are small dessert bananas, so a little trickier than the usual.

  45. potato leaf —

    we are growing green zebras, Burbank slicer, Sheboygan, spotted romas and some cherry tomatoes  one pepper plant, two tomatillos, two sunflowers, chives and lettuce and 5 marijuana plants (completely legal we could grow 12)  Mr. Cracker has thirty zinnias growing in pots

    He is organizing a fundraiser for a friend who was injured when she was hit by a drunk driver and wants to use the zinnias as decoration — the party is at the end of August and between the snails, fog and some other insect this is going to be quite the struggle

    My brother has a community garden plot and he is growing horseradish

  46. sjwny, even tho’ she was an exceptional cook, my maternal grandmother was scared to death of tomatoes, declaring them poisonous.  guess she wasn’t alone according to wiki:

    A member of the deadly nightshade family, tomatoes were erroneously thought to be poisonous by Europeans who were suspicious of their bright, shiny fruit. This was exacerbated by the interaction of the tomato’s acidic juice with pewter plates. The leaves and immature fruit in fact contain trace amounts of solanine, which in larger quantity would be toxic, although the ripe fruit does not.

  47. They will get them out — they just don’t know how or how long it will take it could be months —  not trying to rain on your good news but finding them was just the beginning.

  48. Zinnias are beautiful. I love the cactus flowered type.

    Indeterminate tomatoes are stalwarts, the survivors of bugs & pestilence.

     

  49. This horrifies some I know, but I adore grilled cheese tomato sandwiches.

    The best one I ever had was at a family diner outside Gettysburg back in the early ’70s.

  50. sj

    grilled cheese and tomato is a classic — and you can add ham and pickles –best ever SF airport employees cafeteria

  51. In case you did not know it, some blowhard named Jones stated on his radio (?) program that the Left is starting Civil War II on July 4th.  Location is hard to determine, but many are preparing for it with potato salad, deviled eggs.  I asked that it be delayed until mid-October because it is hot here.  I’m thinking some hot dogs and cheeseburgers would be good to take to watch the war.  I hope that my lounge chair will be out of the way, I would not like to have someone step in my pitcher of martinis.

  56. Flatus, LOL.  Friend of mine, Tommy Thomas, who was a local boxing legend had a bad case.  He’s in a nursing home with Parkinsons – I wonder if it was in part a result of the trauma his brain took in his years in the ring.    Before he started going downhill he was a city cop, and when he started to decline they put him as head of the DARE program – all the school kids loved the guy.  He was a heavyweight and rose to  No. 6 inthe WBC rankings in 1982  the pinnacle o f his career was a bout with Mike Doke in Atlantic City and he fought Leon Spinks to a 10 round decision in 1985.  One of the nicest guys I’ve ever known. 

  57. Bloomberg [linked above]
    The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly backed the finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately intending to help Donald Trump win.

    “The committee concurs with intelligence and open-source assessments that this influence campaign was approved by President Putin,” the panel said Tuesday in a report that endorsed as “sound” the intelligence findings issued in January 2017. The committee said there was a body of intelligence “to support the assessment that Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for Trump.”

    The Senate panel, which has sustained the only major bipartisan investigation into Russian meddling, forcefully rejected a campaign led by House Republicans and President Trump, who have contended that anti-Trump bias tainted the Russia inquiry from the start.
    Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, said that after 16 months of investigation, his panel “sees no reason to dispute the conclusions” reached by the intelligence community. “The committee continues its investigation and I am hopeful that this installment of the committee’s work will soon be followed by additional summaries providing the American people with clarity around Russia’s activities regarding U.S. elections.”

    ‘Extensive, Sophisticated’
    Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee’s top Democrat, said “the Russian effort was extensive and sophisticated, and its goals were to undermine public faith in the democratic process, to hurt Secretary Clinton and to help Donald Trump. While our investigation remains ongoing, we have to learn from 2016 and do more to protect ourselves from attacks in 2018 and beyond.”
    Trump has repeatedly dismissed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s continuing investigation into Russian meddling, and whether anyone close to Trump colluded in it, as a “witch hunt.” The president also has wavered from time to time on whether he believes Putin’s assurances that Russia didn’t attempt to shape the U.S. campaign.
    “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!” Trump tweeted on June 28.

    Steele Dossier
    House Republicans have contended the Russia investigation went awry well before Mueller’s appointment because it depended on an anti-Trump dossier gathered by former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
     
    But the Senate report said the intelligence community’s assessment of Russian interference didn’t rely on the dossier because it contained unverified information.
    “All individuals the committee interviewed verified that the dossier did not in any way inform the analysis,” the panel said.
    The Senate Intelligence panel has continued its investigation of whether anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with Russia’s efforts. Burr has said he hopes to wrap up interviews this month and begin drafting a final report in August.

  58. from the hill:

    [….]
    “The Committee has spent the last 16 months reviewing the sources, tradecraft and analytic work underpinning the Intelligence Community Assessment and sees no reason to dispute the conclusions,” said Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said in a statement .
    The so-called “intelligence community assessment,” or ICA, is a “sound intelligence production,” according the Senate panel.
    “A body of reporting, to include different intelligence disciplines, open source reporting on Russian leadership policy preferences, and Russian media content, showed that Moscow sought to denigrate Secretary Clinton,” the unclassified summary reads.
    he ICA relied not only on public Russian leadership commentary and state media reports, but also “a body of intelligence reporting to support the assessment that Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for Trump,” the committee found.
    Senate investigators also rejected the notion that the ICA was inappropriately influenced by politics, as some of Trump’s supporters have alleged.
    The committee says it reviewed “thousands of pages of source documents” and interviewed all the relevant officials who were involved in developing the ICA, from agency heads and managers to line analysts-and “heard consistently that analysts were under no politically motivated pressure to reach any conclusions.”
    A subtle difference in confidence between the NSA and the CIA and FBI on the assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to help Trump’s election chances “appropriately represents analytic differences and was reached in a professional and transparent manner,” the Senate panel found.
    [….continues….]

  60. reporters killed by Putin

    Trump probably wants to know how he does it

  61. 1. I don’t see how the border situation and the scotus ruling comply with the 8th Amendment, but the case may have been argued in narrow terms, avoiding the 8th. It may require a political remedy such as impeachment and removal.  Speaking of which, I still believe Anita Hill.

    2. The president CAN always be jailed. However, he MAY NOT be jailed prior to legal removal from office. Removal can be achieved by conviction of a high crime or misdemeanor in the Senate or via a 25th Amendment replacement, which is a formula for a legal coup d’etat. Presidents can also resign, or leave office having completed their terms. Former presidents are fair game for prosecutors.

  63. Just heard the latest oldie but goodie from the greedy old perverts on the planned attack on Dems.  Maryland has one of the “moderate” republicans, the Dem opponent is Ben Jealous, former head of the NAACP.  Hogan is calling him “extreme”, “too extreme for Maryland”.  Ever hear those before.  You betcha.  Retread old lies.

    But, we Resist.  Call the repubs extreme and out of touch with America.  Tell everyone how they cannot tell the truth.  Show they lack the ability to care for their own people.  And, point out how they profit and you lose when they are in power.

  64. Well, time to call it a day – headed home to drink a mojito and wonder at the heat.  If I forget to stop by tomorrow, have a good 4th everyone.

  65. mojito  that sounds good

    we are going to a 4th of July taco party.  We are among those who would have appreciated a taco truck on every corner and we are having margaritas

    I have some sort of summer yuck and am staying bed …very bored as evidenced by the posts illustrating other people’s comments

     

  66. I can’t burn my diploma…….I never received one. Neither high school nor college.    Wasn’t into it.

    Oh……except for that one for Aviation Electronics Technician from NATTC, Millington, Tn.    I wouldn’t feel right burning that…….assuming I could find it, of course.

  68. Jordan is a proud deplorable and someone Ohio should be embarrassed to have in Congress but when you look back over the Ohio congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle  I mean who can forget Jim Traficant and what about Buz Lukens  he’s probably dead otherwise he would be in the Trump cabinet.

  70. It’s no easy task to not get a high school diploma when you go for two extra years…….some things you have to learn on the street……

  72. Sturg, you are one of the most literate, well educated persons that I know. On top of it all, you know the meaning of Semper Paratus.
    Flatus

  73. They denied me my diploma at the end of my 2nd year in twelfth grade because after i figured out that the Episcopal preacher who taught the course was a stone freak, I quit attending Sacred Studies and so failed the course……..no sacred studies, no diploma……..

    I figured we was even, and went along to college like most  everyone else who wanted to……

  74. God knows……I had to sing it enough for Quartermaster Herman for those ten weeks of boot……..

    and I must say: Semper Paratus

  75. What literacy I might lay claim to I gleaned from some men and ladies who wanted me to learn it.    I paid attention to many of them.

    they were great.      They raised me from dirt roads to the streets of Constantinople, Athens, and Rome………

    Wasn’t all that much to me but translated from them to my daughter, it worked wonders……….slingshot effect.

  76. xrepublican,

    I’ll always believe that if someone is knowingly/deliberately kept ignorant it is abuse. May not be an enforceable law (our esteemed colleague Pogo discussed this awhile ago) but it sure is a moral law – at least to folks who have a conscience. A mind is a terrible thing to waste … how I remember that commercial from the ’70s. What a sad commentary our society has become today.

  79. I’ll never understand the snobbiness of people who put down those who attend Community College or Adult Education classes. I admire anyone who works to improve themselves. When I lived in Allegany County, NY years ago BOCES had Adult Education classes in the evening: $35 for a six week course. I loved it – everything from computer literacy to cake decorating. It was fun & felt good. Stuff like this should be encouraged.

  83. Okay, this olde feller is going to get ready for bed—-got to get up early tomorrow to raise the great big flag at first light. Sturgeone, you bring your bugle.

  84. Except……I’d have to say……..sometimes you guys type so damned slow,,,,,,,,,

  86. Ok, I promise not to comment again for 13 minutes……..synchronize your watches.

  87. from alternet: 

    ‘I’m Speaking Out Because They Can’t’: National Security Reporter Reveals the Very Real Danger of the GOP’s Attacks on the Mueller Probe

     

    “I’d like to put a human face — my own — to the risk posed by GOP gamesmanship on the Mueller investigation.”

     

     
    National security reporter Marcy Wheeler made a startling revelation Tuesday on the Empty Wheel blog where she has covered the Russia investigation in meticulous detail.
    Republican efforts to scrutinize and discredit the investigation, she said, threaten the safety of a range of witnesses and sources involved in the case.
    This includes, she revealed, her.
    […continues…]

  89. Woman feared she couldn’t afford ambulance after her leg was trapped by a subway train https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/health/subway-accident-insurance-fear-trnd/index.html

    “You don’t understand. I have terrible insurance.”

    Sad. (And, we understand.)

    I know an ambulance isn’t a taxi service. I know they have to pay for staff even when the ambulance isn’t on a call. But from personal experience, I will never get in one unless I’m unconscious…cuz $980 for a 7 mile ride. Insurance only does 80/20 after the deductible is met. Cheaper to die.

  92. Ms NY,

    One of the bizarre streams of conservatism appears to be in favor of de-educating Americans. The lack of a right to read is the excuse and ass cover for spending little to nothing on public education.

    And you are right, it is child abuse.  Lock ’em up. Lock ’em ALL up. Give their key to Pele.

  93. I must get to sleep early, so I can be something like Semper Paratus in the AM. I presume that the children of W. St Paul, MN will be up all night blowing their fingers off with fireworks, just to keep us awake. Such devotion to our sleeplessness . . . .

    In the AM, Sweetie and I shall drive deep into the silent North Woods.

    Good night, America. Sweet dreams to you. Follow those sweet dreams when you awaken.

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