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Monday Blues, Blahs and Blehs
… whatever
35 thoughts on “Monday Blues, Blahs and Blehs”
Don’ nobody give me no bad news !
Well, they call it ‘Stormy Monday’,
But Tuesday’s just as bad.
Monday, Monday,
Can’t trust that day.
sooo, what would our* mascot look like? here’s what john has to say about this city’s
The Japanese city of Susaki cut ties with their unofficial otter mascot, Chiitan, leaving their official otter mascot, Shinjo-kun, all alone. So we came up with a plan to help.
*not just the trail, but the country at large or your state in particular
Hi-ho, Hi-ho,
It’s off to work we go.
the twit hits a milestone… [I hear some of you mixers muttering under your breath “too bad it’s not the other way around”]
It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of eight claims a day.
But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark — an average of nearly 23 claims a day in this seven-month period, which included the many rallies he held before the midterm elections, the partial government shutdown over his promised border wall and the release of the special counsel’s report on Russian interference in the presidential election.
This milestone appeared unlikely when The Fact Checker first started this project during his first 100 days. In the first 100 days, Trump averaged less than five claims a day, which would have added up to about 7,000 claims in a four-year presidential term. But the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.
As of April 27, including the president’s rally in Green Bay, Wis., the tally in our database stands at 10,111 claims in 828 days.
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XR, aren’t you the Miss Sunshine today! put something extra in the coffee, perchance?
“Just survived inspection without having to give up anything, and buyer moving forward. Loan appraisal next step.”
craig, ahh the comforting light at the end of the tunnel.
Minnesota Cartoon Mascots :
Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, the favorite sons of Koochiching County, Minnesota
Charlie Brown and Lucy Barton, the favorite kids of St Paul, Minnesota
Monday’s are NOT my favorite day of the week. It reminds me that The weekend wasn’t long enough to get my stuff around the house done. But the lawn tractor worked well and I got some rest and I should get my car back from the shop tomorrow morning – oh and this is the first of what promises to be a week of nice weather. So it’s not ALL bad.
The sun is shining bright and I am taking the day off. A needed day after a long weekend. Now that I am past the half way point of life (plus a few years) I need today to get over all the pain I caused myself over the weekend.
X-R, that one?
YES!… after a weekend of rain… woke up this morning to bright sunshine… I’ll take it!
oh yeah… and being semi-retired means I work whenever the fuck I want…
or this one?
oh no! who are they compromising next? not free willy not flipper . they already have donald, the bern and the gopers. what more do they want?
Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force.
Fishermen in waters near the small Norwegian fishing village of Inga reported last week that a white beluga whale wearing a strange harness had begun to harass their fishing boats.
“We were going to put out nets when we saw a whale swimming between the boats,” fisherman Joar Hesten told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. “It came over to us, and as it approached, we saw that it had some sort of harness on it.”
The strange behaviour of the whale, which was actively seeking out the vessels and trying to pull straps and ropes from the sides of the boats, as well as the fact it was wearing a tight harness which seemed to be for a camera or weapon, raised suspicions among marine experts that the animal had been given military-grade training by neighbouring Russia. Inside the harness, which has now been removed from the whale, were the words “Equipment of St. Petersburg”.
The fisherman said the whale was very tame and seemed used to human beings.
“If this whale comes from Russia – and there is great reason to believe it – then it is not Russian scientists, but rather the navy that has done this,” said Martin Biuw of the Institute of Marine Research in Norway.
Audun Rikardsen, professor at the department of arctic and marine biology at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), told NRK: “We know that in Russia they have had domestic whales in captivity and also that some of these have apparently been released. Then they often seek out boats.” He said he had contacted Russian researchers who said the harnessed whale had nothing to do with them. “They tell me that most likely is the Russian navy in Murmansk,” said Rikardsen.
In 1980s Soviet Russia, a programme saw dolphins recruited for military training, their razor-sharp vision, stealth and good memory making them them effective underwater tools for detecting weapons.
This mammal programme closed in the 1990s. However, a 2017 report by TV Zvezda, a station owned by the defence ministry, revealed that the Russian navy has again been training beluga whales, seals and bottlenose dolphins for military purposes in polar waters. In the past three years, president Vladimir Putin has reopened three former Soviet military bases along its vast Arctic coastline.
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Another great Monday song.
BB, I’m five years past the traditional “Sell By” date of three score and ten, but aiming for the family record of 106. Just keep plodding along.
Craig, good news on the potential sale. We need you back on the trail.
AMEN
lol, Monday morning hangovers. It is why you never want a car built on a Monday. For me I never understood the Monday blahs thing. But then most of my life I worked for myself so it was just another day with a list of shit to get done.
Speaking of shit to get done…………..
The grass is growing, the trash is still out there to be picked up and I’ve only got 2 days to finish it if I expect to be paid. Oh and it is raining. But I can use the weed eater in the rain. Hi Ho.
We did the memorial service Friday and everything went of as planned and as my cousin Jim(the retired funeral director) said we made the funeral director look really good.
Major surprise, when the planned speakers finished, we ask if anyone else wanted to contribute( we had 5 who did) our councilman stepped up and spoke , the city council had directed $50,000 for any project we wanted to do in the park, in Sherry’s honor. My sister said she was most impressed by the fact that he had trouble speaking just like the rest of us. In addition Sherry’s company has a charitable foundation and the local office is going to apply for a grant for the park, Oh and the head of the parks department told me as she walked out, “lets meet, we have things to discuss”
One other update, The “reading room project” phase one will soon be under construction. This is the project that a number of you donated to over a year and a half ago.
Well, time to get to work
Jack
Jack – you and your community have made my Monday a better day. Such nice is good to hear.
Jack
That is such wonderful news about the park and reading room. A well deserved honor for Sherry.
Post position for Oaks Horses took place if anyone wants to look. I’m on Champagne Anyone.
Dunbar Road and Point of Honor are both listed as also eligibles and would gain entry into the field before the scratch deadline in that order of preference.
X-R
I appreciate your Minn. chauvinism but I must say Charley Lucy etc are at home in Santa Rosa where Charles Schultz lived most of his time. Santa Rosa is littered with peanuts paraphernalia including the ice rink Schlutz built so he could play hockey.
Jack… thanks for that post… agree with BB… it made my day!
Jamie… I’ll take Lady Apple…
Bink…. I’ve missed you!
Wow I can feel this 3-month fog finally lifting. House is sold and we’re past the usual obstacles to closing, in the next few weeks.
Craig…. then it’s time to say…. welcome back!
Jamie, champagne for me too so once more the dynamic duo races (if you don’t mind company that is) to victory.
These days, the President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.
[…lengthy article…]
When we met, Cohen remained outraged that he was prosecuted and Trump was not. “You are going to find me guilty of campaign finance, with McDougal or Stormy, and give me three years—really?” Cohen said. “And how come I’m the only one? I didn’t work for the campaign. I worked for him. And how come I’m the one that’s going to prison? I’m not the one that slept with the porn star.”
The Southern District prosecutors did acknowledge that Trump orchestrated the hush-money operation. As they wrote in advance of Cohen’s sentencing, “In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1”—that is, Donald Trump. Under Justice Department policy, a sitting President cannot be indicted, though it is possible that Trump could be charged in the hush-money case after he leaves office.
[long article continues and concludes with this]
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, about the fictional Buchanan family, that they “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” For a decade, Michael Cohen cleaned up Donald Trump’s messes. He embraced Trump so uncritically that he wound up committing crimes on his behalf. Thus far, Trump, like the Buchanans, has escaped the wreckage he leaves behind.
I wholeheartedly agree with renee’s “Craig…. then it’s time to say…. welcome back!”
Top Democratic congressional leaders cast aside a brewing showdown over presidential oversight Monday and pitched President Trump on a “big and bold” infrastructure bill ahead of a White House meeting on the issue, insisting there are “significant majorities in both the House and Senate” ready to act.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) are set to meet Trump on Tuesday, joined by other leading Democrats. In a letter sent Monday, the pair asked Trump to entertain infrastructure legislation with “substantial, new and real revenue” — as opposed to previous GOP plans that have focused on using smaller amounts of public money to leverage private investments. They did not specify a dollar figure for the package, though many Democrats have discussed $1 trillion as a bare minimum.
[…]
“We look forward to hearing your ideas on how to pay for this package to ensure that it is big and bold enough to meet our country’s needs,” the leaders wrote to Trump Monday.
Pelosi and Schumer also said any infrastructure bill must address “clean energy and resiliency priorities” and expand “beyond transportation and into broadband, water, energy, schools, housing and other initiatives.” They also call for “strong Buy America, labor, and women, veteran and minority-owned business protections” — provisions important to key players in the Democratic coalition.
[…]
The House Democrats joining Pelosi at the meeting include Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.) and Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), as well as Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter A. DeFazio (Ore.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (Mass.).
The Senate Democrats set to join Schumer are Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin (Ill.); Assistant Minority Leader Patty Murray (Wash.); Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (Mich.); Sen. Thomas R. Carper (Del.), the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee; and Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), the top Democrat on the Finance Committee.
Rosenstein Resigns. I guess he just couldn’t swallow any more crimes.
Don’ nobody give me no bad news !
Well, they call it ‘Stormy Monday’,
But Tuesday’s just as bad.
Monday, Monday,
Can’t trust that day.
sooo, what would our* mascot look like? here’s what john has to say about this city’s
The Japanese city of Susaki cut ties with their unofficial otter mascot, Chiitan, leaving their official otter mascot, Shinjo-kun, all alone. So we came up with a plan to help.
*not just the trail, but the country at large or your state in particular
Hi-ho, Hi-ho,
It’s off to work we go.
the twit hits a milestone… [I hear some of you mixers muttering under your breath “too bad it’s not the other way around”]
wapo:
It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of eight claims a day.
But on April 26, just 226 days later, the president crossed the 10,000 mark — an average of nearly 23 claims a day in this seven-month period, which included the many rallies he held before the midterm elections, the partial government shutdown over his promised border wall and the release of the special counsel’s report on Russian interference in the presidential election.
This milestone appeared unlikely when The Fact Checker first started this project during his first 100 days. In the first 100 days, Trump averaged less than five claims a day, which would have added up to about 7,000 claims in a four-year presidential term. But the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.
As of April 27, including the president’s rally in Green Bay, Wis., the tally in our database stands at 10,111 claims in 828 days.
[continues]
XR, aren’t you the Miss Sunshine today! put something extra in the coffee, perchance?
“Just survived inspection without having to give up anything, and buyer moving forward. Loan appraisal next step.”
craig, ahh the comforting light at the end of the tunnel.
Minnesota Cartoon Mascots :
Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, the favorite sons of Koochiching County, Minnesota
Charlie Brown and Lucy Barton, the favorite kids of St Paul, Minnesota
Proposed Trail Mix Cartoon Mascot :
The Hunter, bwaaAAAH-H-H-H ! ! !
Or, the Dot and the Line
Monday’s are NOT my favorite day of the week. It reminds me that The weekend wasn’t long enough to get my stuff around the house done. But the lawn tractor worked well and I got some rest and I should get my car back from the shop tomorrow morning – oh and this is the first of what promises to be a week of nice weather. So it’s not ALL bad.
The sun is shining bright and I am taking the day off. A needed day after a long weekend. Now that I am past the half way point of life (plus a few years) I need today to get over all the pain I caused myself over the weekend.
X-R, that one?
YES!… after a weekend of rain… woke up this morning to bright sunshine… I’ll take it!
oh yeah… and being semi-retired means I work whenever the fuck I want…
or this one?
oh no! who are they compromising next? not free willy not flipper . they already have donald, the bern and the gopers. what more do they want?
the guardian:
Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force.
Fishermen in waters near the small Norwegian fishing village of Inga reported last week that a white beluga whale wearing a strange harness had begun to harass their fishing boats.
“We were going to put out nets when we saw a whale swimming between the boats,” fisherman Joar Hesten told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. “It came over to us, and as it approached, we saw that it had some sort of harness on it.”
The strange behaviour of the whale, which was actively seeking out the vessels and trying to pull straps and ropes from the sides of the boats, as well as the fact it was wearing a tight harness which seemed to be for a camera or weapon, raised suspicions among marine experts that the animal had been given military-grade training by neighbouring Russia. Inside the harness, which has now been removed from the whale, were the words “Equipment of St. Petersburg”.
The fisherman said the whale was very tame and seemed used to human beings.
“If this whale comes from Russia – and there is great reason to believe it – then it is not Russian scientists, but rather the navy that has done this,” said Martin Biuw of the Institute of Marine Research in Norway.
Audun Rikardsen, professor at the department of arctic and marine biology at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), told NRK: “We know that in Russia they have had domestic whales in captivity and also that some of these have apparently been released. Then they often seek out boats.” He said he had contacted Russian researchers who said the harnessed whale had nothing to do with them. “They tell me that most likely is the Russian navy in Murmansk,” said Rikardsen.
In 1980s Soviet Russia, a programme saw dolphins recruited for military training, their razor-sharp vision, stealth and good memory making them them effective underwater tools for detecting weapons.
This mammal programme closed in the 1990s. However, a 2017 report by TV Zvezda, a station owned by the defence ministry, revealed that the Russian navy has again been training beluga whales, seals and bottlenose dolphins for military purposes in polar waters. In the past three years, president Vladimir Putin has reopened three former Soviet military bases along its vast Arctic coastline.
[continues]
Another great Monday song.
BB, I’m five years past the traditional “Sell By” date of three score and ten, but aiming for the family record of 106. Just keep plodding along.
Craig, good news on the potential sale. We need you back on the trail.
AMEN
lol, Monday morning hangovers. It is why you never want a car built on a Monday. For me I never understood the Monday blahs thing. But then most of my life I worked for myself so it was just another day with a list of shit to get done.
Speaking of shit to get done…………..
The grass is growing, the trash is still out there to be picked up and I’ve only got 2 days to finish it if I expect to be paid. Oh and it is raining. But I can use the weed eater in the rain. Hi Ho.
We did the memorial service Friday and everything went of as planned and as my cousin Jim(the retired funeral director) said we made the funeral director look really good.
Major surprise, when the planned speakers finished, we ask if anyone else wanted to contribute( we had 5 who did) our councilman stepped up and spoke , the city council had directed $50,000 for any project we wanted to do in the park, in Sherry’s honor. My sister said she was most impressed by the fact that he had trouble speaking just like the rest of us. In addition Sherry’s company has a charitable foundation and the local office is going to apply for a grant for the park, Oh and the head of the parks department told me as she walked out, “lets meet, we have things to discuss”
One other update, The “reading room project” phase one will soon be under construction. This is the project that a number of you donated to over a year and a half ago.
Well, time to get to work
Jack
Jack – you and your community have made my Monday a better day. Such nice is good to hear.
Jack
That is such wonderful news about the park and reading room. A well deserved honor for Sherry.
Post position for Oaks Horses took place if anyone wants to look. I’m on Champagne Anyone.
1. Out for a Spin
2. Chocolate Kisses
3. Lady Apple
4. Bellafina
5. Flor de La Mar
6. Positive Spirit
7. Jaywalk
8. Motion Emotion
9. Liora
10. Champagne Anyone
11. Jeltrin
12. Street Band
13. Serengeti Empress
14. Restless Rider
Dunbar Road and Point of Honor are both listed as also eligibles and would gain entry into the field before the scratch deadline in that order of preference.
X-R
I appreciate your Minn. chauvinism but I must say Charley Lucy etc are at home in Santa Rosa where Charles Schultz lived most of his time. Santa Rosa is littered with peanuts paraphernalia including the ice rink Schlutz built so he could play hockey.
Jack… thanks for that post… agree with BB… it made my day!
Jamie… I’ll take Lady Apple…
Bink…. I’ve missed you!
Wow I can feel this 3-month fog finally lifting. House is sold and we’re past the usual obstacles to closing, in the next few weeks.
Craig…. then it’s time to say…. welcome back!
Jamie, champagne for me too so once more the dynamic duo races (if you don’t mind company that is) to victory.
jeffrey toobin today at the new Yorker:
Michael Cohen’s Last Days of Freedom
These days, the President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.
[…lengthy article…]
When we met, Cohen remained outraged that he was prosecuted and Trump was not. “You are going to find me guilty of campaign finance, with McDougal or Stormy, and give me three years—really?” Cohen said. “And how come I’m the only one? I didn’t work for the campaign. I worked for him. And how come I’m the one that’s going to prison? I’m not the one that slept with the porn star.”
The Southern District prosecutors did acknowledge that Trump orchestrated the hush-money operation. As they wrote in advance of Cohen’s sentencing, “In particular, and as Cohen himself has now admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1”—that is, Donald Trump. Under Justice Department policy, a sitting President cannot be indicted, though it is possible that Trump could be charged in the hush-money case after he leaves office.
[long article continues and concludes with this]
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, about the fictional Buchanan family, that they “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” For a decade, Michael Cohen cleaned up Donald Trump’s messes. He embraced Trump so uncritically that he wound up committing crimes on his behalf. Thus far, Trump, like the Buchanans, has escaped the wreckage he leaves behind.
I wholeheartedly agree with renee’s “Craig…. then it’s time to say…. welcome back!”
welcome back craiger
wapo:
Top Democratic congressional leaders cast aside a brewing showdown over presidential oversight Monday and pitched President Trump on a “big and bold” infrastructure bill ahead of a White House meeting on the issue, insisting there are “significant majorities in both the House and Senate” ready to act.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) are set to meet Trump on Tuesday, joined by other leading Democrats. In a letter sent Monday, the pair asked Trump to entertain infrastructure legislation with “substantial, new and real revenue” — as opposed to previous GOP plans that have focused on using smaller amounts of public money to leverage private investments. They did not specify a dollar figure for the package, though many Democrats have discussed $1 trillion as a bare minimum.
[…]
“We look forward to hearing your ideas on how to pay for this package to ensure that it is big and bold enough to meet our country’s needs,” the leaders wrote to Trump Monday.
Pelosi and Schumer also said any infrastructure bill must address “clean energy and resiliency priorities” and expand “beyond transportation and into broadband, water, energy, schools, housing and other initiatives.” They also call for “strong Buy America, labor, and women, veteran and minority-owned business protections” — provisions important to key players in the Democratic coalition.
[…]
The House Democrats joining Pelosi at the meeting include Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.) and Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), as well as Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter A. DeFazio (Ore.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (Mass.).
The Senate Democrats set to join Schumer are Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin (Ill.); Assistant Minority Leader Patty Murray (Wash.); Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (Mich.); Sen. Thomas R. Carper (Del.), the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee; and Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), the top Democrat on the Finance Committee.
Rosenstein Resigns. I guess he just couldn’t swallow any more crimes.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/politics/rod-rosenstein/index.html
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