wapo: President Trump announced Friday night that a deal was in place that would avert threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico in exchange for that country’s taking “strong measures” to curb the influx of Central American migrants at the U.S. southern border. The agreement, which came just two days before Trump had vowed to impose a 5 percent, across-the-board tariff on one of the United States’ top trading partners, called for the Mexican government to widely dispatch its national guard forces to help with immigration enforcement, with priority in the south, on its border with Guatemala, according to a… Read more »
the guardian: Followers of astronomy were in for a surprise on Friday, when Donald Trump announced that the moon is part of Mars. In a tweet, apparently commenting on his own administration’s space policy, the president said: “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago.” He added: “They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!” Trump’s declaration shocked many space enthusiasts, because the moon has… Read more »
For those interested in history, mathematics, and Albert Einstein, there is a play on PBS that makes the dense material both entertaining and informative: Light Falls
“lock me up. lock me up” politico: Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges […] Flynn’s decision to shift legal teams is a mistake, said Peter Zeidenberg, a Washington defense attorney and former prosecutor in special counsel Pat Fitzgerald’s CIA-leak probe. “This is a very foolish thing to do. Flynn’s lawyers had positioned him to get probation for a single count of false statements. Given what he was facing, that is remarkable. It will go downhill from there,” Zeidenberg said. Flynn “simply cannot do any better than that, under these circumstances,” he added. “If he… Read more »
Rather than suffer through hours of ‘our President’ yesterday I watched last year’s royal wedding. Such a a happy affair with all its racial nuances, loving glances, beautiful scenery, and sheer joy.
Yard is done. Was able to skip by the habitat as the weather, until yesterday, has been bone dry for a month. We had 2.28-inches since Thursday night with no sign of puddling
We are at the beginning of a three-day heat wave. We are practicing staying cool.
Not many but a few people I know seem irrationally angry at Nancy P for not moving faster in impeachment.
I don’t know what they think impeachment will bring?
Finally got through some of those pesky chores one must do when getting back from vacay. I bought several new bird feeders and have them filled up and hung. I take them down at dusk and put them in the garage… put them back out in the morning after my shower. Black bears are mostly nocturnal. Pogo… hope you, the Mrs., and LP are having a ball in England. I didn’t watch any cable news while on Cape Cod… it makes vacations so much more pleasant. KGC… the Senate won’t remove trump…. besides… it’s kinda more delicious… Read more »
“…delicious to watch Nancy playing with his head.” renee, like this: Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed how President Donald Trump handled his latest trade and immigration talks with Mexico, repeating her claim that the President throws “temper tantrums.” “Threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy,” Pelosi said in a statement Saturday, a day after the President announced he’d rescinded tariff threats to Mexico after reaching an immigration enforcement deal. […] In her statement, Pelosi took issue with Trump’s relationship with Mexico and said the President’s actions “undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world” by… Read more »
As long as the Republicans are in lock step with Trump then impeachment = a three ring circus. We have more serious things to do, like Smearing as many Republican enablers with Trump stink as you can. If if the Urban/Eastern/west coast Democrats would get their heads out of their collective ass, they have an opportunity to flip the farm belt states from Montana to Texas.
But the odds of them doing that …………..
Jack
computers don’t have ears and if there is a human they are poor suckers just trying to buy food and feed the kids. Having known a few of those desperate call center workers if I happen to get a human, I just politely say no thankyou. Why screw with someone who is already having a shitty day.
BTW if you call me and I don’t have your number in my phone, leave a message. I rarely answer unknown numbers and never out of state.
Jack
Pat Glad to help Have a few ideas and will start putting them together but when it comes to classical stuff there is no way I can replace Jace, I flunked music appreciation. So for me what he posted most Sundays was knew and interesting to me. So I will stay away from anything that takes a big symphony to produce, it is not my thing. So if it is “Your Thing”( I’m talking to everybody out there) Post your favorite and we will let Pat* sort it out so we have a little variety. *Notice how we are still… Read more »
Well, the non-drought in the Mid-Atlantic continues. Rain continues without or without prayers. Heard from my boat mechanic. He got the engines running. He also said it was the first rain rain he has seen in months. He was in Florida and enjoying the weather there. Now he is soaked. I am watching grass grow, some species have drowned, others took over from those and drowned. Next up to be planted is rice.
Jamie and Pat, that’d be the place. Having a ball indeed. England’s in the rear view mirror. Lucerne is next -after the Vatican – then back to Florence then finish with Paris over the next 7 days. Beats shot out of working.
nytimes: Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal WASHINGTON — The deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with the United States over the past several months, according to officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations. Friday’s joint declaration says Mexico agreed to the “deployment of its National Guard throughout Mexico, giving priority to its southern border.” But the Mexican government had already pledged to do that in March during secret talks… Read more »
I’m beginning to think I want to get Trump in a poker game. Not that I’m great at poker but a man who telegraphs his bluffs like Trump……….. Man that is just money laying on the table.
Jack
So of all the candidates out there who would you most like to get in a poker game and who would you avoid at all cost. I think Biden is the one I would most like to have in a poker game, he has always struck me as a natural born sucker and the best part is he will leave happy and come back again. The one I would hate to set at my table, Kamala Harris. She would be the person who would want to cut your heart out and eat it raw, She wouldn’t even leave you enough… Read more »
Next up is “The Stranger Wore a Gun” The Stranger Wore a Gun is a 1953 TechnicolorWestern film directed by Andre DeToth and starring Randolph Scott and Claire Trevor.[1] Based on the short story “Yankee Gold” by John W. Cunningham, the film is about a former spy who moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but reconsiders and decides to change his life. The film is one of the first 3-D western movies; it earned an estimated $1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.[2] The supporting cast features Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
For me it was High Noon. Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado and Lloyd Bridges. “Former marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is preparing to leave the small town of Hadleyville, New Mexico, with his new bride, Amy (Grace Kelly), when he learns that local criminal Frank Miller has been set free and is coming to seek revenge on the marshal who turned him in. When he starts recruiting deputies to fight Miller, Kane is discouraged to find that the people of Hadleyville turn cowardly when the time comes for a showdown, and he must face Miller and his cronies… Read more »
NYTIMES op ed:
Why Should Immigrants ‘Respect Our Borders’? The West Never Respected Theirs
Immigration quotas should be based on how much the host country has ruined other countries.
By Suketu Mehta
Mr. Mehta is the author of “This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto.”
wapo: President Trump announced Friday night that a deal was in place that would avert threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico in exchange for that country’s taking “strong measures” to curb the influx of Central American migrants at the U.S. southern border. The agreement, which came just two days before Trump had vowed to impose a 5 percent, across-the-board tariff on one of the United States’ top trading partners, called for the Mexican government to widely dispatch its national guard forces to help with immigration enforcement, with priority in the south, on its border with Guatemala, according to a… Read more »
Bill recaps the top stories of the week, including President Trump’s visit to Europe.
the guardian: Followers of astronomy were in for a surprise on Friday, when Donald Trump announced that the moon is part of Mars. In a tweet, apparently commenting on his own administration’s space policy, the president said: “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago.” He added: “They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!” Trump’s declaration shocked many space enthusiasts, because the moon has… Read more »
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Oh, that wacky trump. He’s got a clinical case of mental push me pull you.
For those interested in history, mathematics, and Albert Einstein, there is a play on PBS that makes the dense material both entertaining and informative: Light Falls
sturge, that’s a mite modern gas pump for what looks like such an old timey store. I picture something like these in front of it
“lock me up. lock me up” politico: Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges […] Flynn’s decision to shift legal teams is a mistake, said Peter Zeidenberg, a Washington defense attorney and former prosecutor in special counsel Pat Fitzgerald’s CIA-leak probe. “This is a very foolish thing to do. Flynn’s lawyers had positioned him to get probation for a single count of false statements. Given what he was facing, that is remarkable. It will go downhill from there,” Zeidenberg said. Flynn “simply cannot do any better than that, under these circumstances,” he added. “If he… Read more »
Rather than suffer through hours of ‘our President’ yesterday I watched last year’s royal wedding. Such a a happy affair with all its racial nuances, loving glances, beautiful scenery, and sheer joy.
Time to cut the grass before the t-storms start again.
Yard is done. Was able to skip by the habitat as the weather, until yesterday, has been bone dry for a month. We had 2.28-inches since Thursday night with no sign of puddling
We are at the beginning of a three-day heat wave. We are practicing staying cool.
Not many but a few people I know seem irrationally angry at Nancy P for not moving faster in impeachment.
I don’t know what they think impeachment will bring?
Impeachment = Justice
Piazza Navona. Wine. Sunset. Wonderful. If only I could post pics….
impeachment does not equal justice. It’s an step along the way but it is nowhere near justice
Finally got through some of those pesky chores one must do when getting back from vacay. I bought several new bird feeders and have them filled up and hung. I take them down at dusk and put them in the garage… put them back out in the morning after my shower. Black bears are mostly nocturnal. Pogo… hope you, the Mrs., and LP are having a ball in England. I didn’t watch any cable news while on Cape Cod… it makes vacations so much more pleasant. KGC… the Senate won’t remove trump…. besides… it’s kinda more delicious… Read more »
pogo, will this do? salute y cin cin
“…delicious to watch Nancy playing with his head.” renee, like this: Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed how President Donald Trump handled his latest trade and immigration talks with Mexico, repeating her claim that the President throws “temper tantrums.” “Threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy,” Pelosi said in a statement Saturday, a day after the President announced he’d rescinded tariff threats to Mexico after reaching an immigration enforcement deal. […] In her statement, Pelosi took issue with Trump’s relationship with Mexico and said the President’s actions “undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world” by… Read more »
As long as the Republicans are in lock step with Trump then impeachment = a three ring circus. We have more serious things to do, like Smearing as many Republican enablers with Trump stink as you can. If if the Urban/Eastern/west coast Democrats would get their heads out of their collective ass, they have an opportunity to flip the farm belt states from Montana to Texas.
But the odds of them doing that …………..
Jack
But Pat, she needs the rest of the blabbering run in front of a camera idiots to get on board.
Jack
jack, your thread is set to publish at 6 a.m.
thank you thank you thank you
computers don’t have ears and if there is a human they are poor suckers just trying to buy food and feed the kids. Having known a few of those desperate call center workers if I happen to get a human, I just politely say no thankyou. Why screw with someone who is already having a shitty day.
BTW if you call me and I don’t have your number in my phone, leave a message. I rarely answer unknown numbers and never out of state.
Jack
RR
We are in agreement I was responding to an earlier comment
As usual Patd beat me to it, but at least this is sundown.
Pat Glad to help Have a few ideas and will start putting them together but when it comes to classical stuff there is no way I can replace Jace, I flunked music appreciation. So for me what he posted most Sundays was knew and interesting to me. So I will stay away from anything that takes a big symphony to produce, it is not my thing. So if it is “Your Thing”( I’m talking to everybody out there) Post your favorite and we will let Pat* sort it out so we have a little variety. *Notice how we are still… Read more »
Well, the non-drought in the Mid-Atlantic continues. Rain continues without or without prayers. Heard from my boat mechanic. He got the engines running. He also said it was the first rain rain he has seen in months. He was in Florida and enjoying the weather there. Now he is soaked. I am watching grass grow, some species have drowned, others took over from those and drowned. Next up to be planted is rice.
Jamie and Pat, that’d be the place. Having a ball indeed. England’s in the rear view mirror. Lucerne is next -after the Vatican – then back to Florence then finish with Paris over the next 7 days. Beats shot out of working.
nytimes: Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal WASHINGTON — The deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with the United States over the past several months, according to officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations. Friday’s joint declaration says Mexico agreed to the “deployment of its National Guard throughout Mexico, giving priority to its southern border.” But the Mexican government had already pledged to do that in March during secret talks… Read more »
When the Mars hits your eye like a big pizza pie – that’s amore.
Hey… to whomever gives a shit….
I’m taking War of Will for the Belmont.
Trump LIED about the timing of the Mexico deal? I’m shocked! WHAT A FUGGING GAS-HOLE. But his low IQ followers are buying it hook, line and sinker.
I’m beginning to think I want to get Trump in a poker game. Not that I’m great at poker but a man who telegraphs his bluffs like Trump……….. Man that is just money laying on the table.
Jack
Harry Truman played poker and drank bourbon. Good qualifications for a presidential candidate.
Jack
Maybe if Trump would just drink a bit of bourbon……………..
So of all the candidates out there who would you most like to get in a poker game and who would you avoid at all cost. I think Biden is the one I would most like to have in a poker game, he has always struck me as a natural born sucker and the best part is he will leave happy and come back again. The one I would hate to set at my table, Kamala Harris. She would be the person who would want to cut your heart out and eat it raw, She wouldn’t even leave you enough… Read more »
Rage at Dawn is a 1955 Technicolor Westernfilm directed by Tim Whelan, and starring Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, and J. Carrol Naish. It purports to tell the true story of the Reno Brothers, an outlaw gang which terrorized the American Midwest, particularly Southern Indiana, in the period immediately following the American Civil War.
Now it’s Randolph Scott in “The Gunfighters”1947
My latest love affair with a “western” is the recent remake of True Grit. It feels much more honest and deeper than the John Wayne original
Next up is “The Stranger Wore a Gun”
The Stranger Wore a Gun is a 1953 Technicolor Western film directed by Andre DeToth and starring Randolph Scott and Claire Trevor.[1] Based on the short story “Yankee Gold” by John W. Cunningham, the film is about a former spy who moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but reconsiders and decides to change his life. The film is one of the first 3-D western movies; it earned an estimated $1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.[2] The supporting cast features Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
For me it was High Noon. Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado and Lloyd Bridges. “Former marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is preparing to leave the small town of Hadleyville, New Mexico, with his new bride, Amy (Grace Kelly), when he learns that local criminal Frank Miller has been set free and is coming to seek revenge on the marshal who turned him in. When he starts recruiting deputies to fight Miller, Kane is discouraged to find that the people of Hadleyville turn cowardly when the time comes for a showdown, and he must face Miller and his cronies… Read more »
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