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The things he did this summer, we’ll remember all winter long
and all the way to election day 2020.
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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68 thoughts on “The things he did this summer, we’ll remember all winter long”
Congress has days to prevent the second government shutdown of the year before leaving for a two-week break.
Lawmakers need to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through Nov. 21 before getting out of town.
The House already passed the short-term bill in a 301-123 vote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has started the process of bringing it to the Senate floor, but it hasn’t been scheduled yet for a vote.
McConnell has acknowledged that a short-term bill would be needed to avoid an end-of-September shutdown, saying earlier this month they would need a “temporary continuing resolution for the outstanding parts of the government before the end of September.”
But he hasn’t yet weighed in on the House-passed CR, which was unveiled last Wednesday.
[continues]
All Summer: A Fable for Our Time
Redbird at dawn upon leaving the nest: “Well, I’m off to work, Honey”.
[Spends all day on the deck fighting his reflection in the big glass doors.[
Mr Redbird, hard at work.
sturge, yep some of our worse enemies and hardest fights are ourselves or the image we see as our self.
alert to fearless leader and all other DC denizens:
‘Shut Down D.C.’: What you need to know about the protests that may create gridlock in Washington
I guess that’s how he got to be a Cardinal.
cf. Short Story of the Day:
”William Wilson”, by Poe
I, for one, would welcome any and all corrections of punctuation in any or all of whatever I may comment. I’m trying to hone in on that semi-colon thing.
The leaves begin to fade like promises you made How could a vote that seemed so right go wrong? The things you did this summer we’ll remember all winter long
We‘ve tried so to forget, at times we do, and yet The memes of you linger like our wrong The things you did this summer, we’ll remember until we’re all gone.
Rep. Jim Himes said on CNN’s “New Day” that Trump is abusing American public’s trust and U.S. resources.
“I mean extorting a foreign leader for the purposes of getting that leader to do your political work to try to find dirt on your opponent is extortion.” Himes said. “Of course, it’s an impeachable offense.”
Himes also said that the Trump administration is breaking the law by refusing to hand over the whistleblower report — said to be centered on Trump’s phone call — to Congress.
[…]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has been cautious on moving forward with impeachment, but said in a letter Sunday the whistleblower report could prompt a “new stage of the investigation.”
The Washington Post has reported the whistleblower report centered on a call between the president and a foreign leader, said to be the president of Ukraine. On Sunday, Trump suggested that he discussed Biden in that call.
Trump has also said he’s considering the release of a transcript of the phone call.
There has been no evidence so far to implicate Biden or his son in illegal activities in the Ukraine.
Politics and the Senate be damned. For the sake of a chilling effect on future presidents, House cannot let these crimes go un-impeached.
Old line from a Bob Newhart Show, Carol is dating an older man, he says he needs to get back home as he has surgery do to in the morning. Carol says his place is full of antiques. His response is the truth now, “they weren’t antiques when I bought them”.
You might have thought not a single Republican would ever show daylight between himself and Trump. There were, however, a few bright spots. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) declared, “If the President asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out.” (Nevertheless, both Rudy Giuliani and Trump have made admissions that seem to say exactly this.) Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) likewise weighed in: “Look, it is not appropriate for any candidate for federal office, certainly, including a sitting president, to ask for assistance from a foreign country. That’s not appropriate. But I don’t know that that’s what happened here.” Well, that’s not a rousing call for justice to be done, but it is a start.
[…]
… we see, already, progress in clarifying what is at issue (Trump asking Ukraine to come up with dirt on his opponent) and the seriousness of the offense (the very definition of a high crime and misdemeanor), the lawlessness of Trump bottling up the whistleblower complaint and the necessity, if impeachment is to have any meaning, of pushing forward on this issue. Now the media must press each and every Republican as to whether they will defend Trump going to a foreign power for help in his reelection campaign.
Congress, the responsible media outlets, Democrats and those Republicans not entirely under Trump’s spell must keep up the drumbeat of facts: If Trump did what news reports say he did, impeachment is a necessity.
Jennifer throws down the gauntlet: “Now the media must press each and every Republican as to whether they will defend Trump going to a foreign power for help in his reelection campaign.”
but will the media take up the challenge?
Ms. Rubin is my new television Girl-Fave.
To quote the timeless words of Eric von Zipper, III:
”Her, I like.”
Caveat: Big margin of error (9pts +-) but indicates Warren pilfering Sanders Iowa 2016 vote.
Like I’ve said on occasion: Bide-awhile ain’t in it to win it……his job is to draw fire. Old feller knows the score.
If Sanders really is losing his own 2016 Iowa vote to Warren — WTF mister?
Sanders will have bupkus. No telling how long he will fight, but it’s bupkus all the way down. The days of the dinosaur are numbered, in fractions. It’s curtains.
Minnesota dumped the caucus system this year. They’ve tried going pure primary before, and were deeply sorry afterwards. They’ll be deeply sorry again.
Oh ye gods, stand up for geezers !
I stand up for all the geezers who can still stand up!
Some of my best friends are geezers.
The geezers have so much to offer to our society. Without them there’d be no one to Geeze!
My best parts are geezer.
If Sanders can get pushed down or out before New Hampshire Warren wins there after Iowa, and then her Capitol Hill soul mate Jim Clyburn (they’ve introduced black college legislation etc together) delivers SC for her, and we’re done.
What Poobah said at 8:55. Yep, go for it.
Interesting graphic, boss. It tells me that Bernie! is only holding 1/4 of the voters he had in 2016, he ain’t getting any votes from 2016 Clinton supporters, and the Clinton supporters are distributed among the other 3 in the chart. Am I reading that right?
Sturg, a semicolon is a cheat to let you make 2 sentences into one. Saves your ass from having that dreaded “run on sentence” comment from your most hated English teacher.
Poobah, you think Bernie! will be forced out when he’s currently 2nd in NH polling and only 1 pt. behind Biden? Have you forgotten 2016? He ain’t going nowhere.
But then you never hear a judge admonishing a Geezer with something like, “I’m going to let you go this time, seeing that you have your whole life ahead of you; and I hope you will learn the lesson involved here and apply it to your life. And don’t let me catch you here again.”
Yup…. I’m with Craig and Pogo…. impeach him… let the Republicans go on record as defending party over country.
Rick’s youngest brother tried to talk me into changing over from a Democrat to an Independent for our upcoming primary. And then take a Republican ballot and vote against trumpty dumpty. Though I admit it sounds intriguing…. fuck ’em… I can’t put my X next to any Republican.
Pogo, if Bernie does not defer to Elizabeth when the time comes we will know what we always knew, it was always about himself.
Yes RR, let history record Senate Republicans abandoned the Constitution.
I’m gettin’ a little worried about History’s health.
James Carville, who had opposed impeachment, now says House should move “quick and clean” after obtaining Trump’s phone transcript: “Let the Senate Republicans stew “
Sturg, this will probably steer you in the right direction in re semi-colon usage; if it doesn’t, switch to in re.
I think in usage such as, let History record, the noun ‘history’ deserves to be capitalized.
Yes Flatus, History worth capitalization, lest we forget. However I do find semi-colons unsightly.
Speaking of geezers, I am always expecting to hear the ripping of a squashed duck whenever SFB sits down or stands up. Sorry, but it does allow me to laugh to myself even though I have tears for America on the outside.
…we will know what we always knew, it was always about himself.
Sun gonna rise, sun gonna set. I hate having to go through things more than once to remind myself that I was right in the first place.
Semicolons work well – as the 1st of 3 characters needed to create a winking emoji. Aside from that I don’t find them particularly useful except to separate items in lists.
unfortunately, pogo is right about the bern ain’t going nowhere. how do you think he got to be in that 1% millionaire class? unlike Hillary’s, all those surplus leftover donations of his weren’t spent on helping the dems in the last elections. the longer he stays in race the longer he gets paid to stay in the race and pocket the change when it’s over.
Want to read some of the dumbest shit to come out of Squeaky of late? (Wapo’s John Wagner can help.)
President Trump on Monday questioned the patriotism of the whistleblower who has sparked intense scrutiny of a July phone call in which Trump is said to have pressed the leader of Ukraine about investigating former vice president Joe Biden and his son.
“Also, who is this so-called ‘whistleblower’ who doesn’t know the correct facts,” Trump said in a tweet as he attended a United Nations gathering in New York. “Is he on our Country’s side. Where does he come from.”
Right……. as soon as his phone recordings are no longer under audit.
And from the same article:
President Trump on Monday questioned the patriotism of the whistleblower who has sparked intense scrutiny of a July phone call in which Trump is said to have pressed the leader of Ukraine about investigating former vice president Joe Biden and his son.
“Also, who is this so-called ‘whistleblower’ who doesn’t know the correct facts,” Trump said in a tweet as he attended a United Nations gathering in New York. “Is he on our Country’s side. Where does he come from.”
Says the president engaged in treason who wouldn’t know a fact if it bit him in the butt.
like the little boy who yelled “the emperor has no clothes” greta excoriates world leaders for having no brains, no heart and no decency.
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,’ climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in New York. In an emotionally charged speech, she accused them of ignoring the science behind the climate crisis, saying: ‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about it money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth – how dare you?’
looks like faux news is doing for his campaign what the twit hoped Ukraine would do – trashing biden.
Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential challenger Bill Weld said Monday that President Donald Trump’s “acts of treason” in pressuring Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden deserved the death penalty.
“That is treason. It’s treason pure and simple, and the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death,” Weld told MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “That’s the only penalty.”
Weld made the shocking statement in a joint appearance with fellow GOP presidential challengers Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford, who are protesting state Republican parties that have decided to cancel primaries to give the edge to the sitting president.
“Obviously, canceling primaries undermines democratic institutions and democratic elections, but that’s far from the deepest dive crime that the president has committed here,” Weld said, referring to the growing calls for clarification about Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and the withholding of military funds in the weeks before a July 25 call in which he admitted to discussing an investigation of Hunter Biden.
Biden’s son had business dealings in Ukraine at the same time then-Vice President Biden was tasked with overseeing the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy. Trump made the call when he already knew Biden would challenge him in the 2020 presidential election.
“He has now acknowledged that in a single phone call right after he suspended $250 million of military aid to Ukraine, he called up the president of Ukraine and pressed him eight times to investigate Joe Biden, who the president thinks is going to be running against him,” Weld said.
“Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S. election.”
The death penalty is the maximum punishment for treason, but federal law also allows for lesser sentences including five-year prison terms or fines starting at $10,000. The law also states that treasonous acts can prohibit one from holding public office.
“The penalty on the Constitution is removal from office,” Weld said. “And that might look like a pretty good alternative to the president if he can work out a plea deal.”
Weld then backed off calls for executing the president, but only slightly.
“The grounds for removal of office, impeachment, are treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,” he said. “We don’t have to worry about bribery anymore, we don’t have to worry about other high crimes and misdemeanors, although I think he committed many. We have treason and we can go right for the hoop.”
[continues]
The guillotine is nice, quick and almost painless.
Then, you can display the head on a pike at the rose garden presser. Cool.
I may have to return to the ripper party just long enough to vote for Weld. ugh
Republicans gleefully impeached Clinton for oral sex. What about fucking the Constitution?
…guess that makes them “necrophiliacs”?
The battle is not for the 3X% who are Dems. The battle is not for the 30% claiming to be white supremacists. The battle is for the 30ish% who are unaffiliated or not naming a party. A lot of them are religious. A lot of them are conservative, in fiscal and/or social mores (LGBTQ things). And, a lot of them are just not liking the extremes and just want a life of the “normal” America. I think that means more about not having to listen to politics on the news. Even more they just want a comedy TV program that is not cutting edge. Or a drama TV program that is not cutting edge.
Hey. I am a flaming liberal Progressive Dem. I want to watch a comedy TV program that is not cutting edge. That does mean I understand what an Independent voter wants to watch on the telly. But, it does not mean I know which candidate that person wants as president, or congress critter, or county, or even city council. Which is why a lot of polls missed the power of the KKK/white supremacists/white nationalists/anti-people of color in the elections.
In 2019 I am always surprised that the white nationalists are able to be a power in elections. Shame on them.
I like your theory Ms Bronc. Let me re-phrase it, the way I read it :
30-ish % of the public will vote based on what they want to see/hear on the tube over the next 4 years. Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Full House and Happy Days are as ‘out there’ as they like.
Well, I don’t think they want any more of Mussolini’s Gong Show.
The battle is for truth.
BB, more so, shame on us
Craig, I dislike hard-stops more than semi-colons. Being a newspaper editor, I can see where you are coming from; my professional writing was for a different audience.
Semi-colons: The digger you deep, the flatter you shovel.
You can dig deeper than that; if you hold the cards, call a spade a spade.
Don’t go too deep–you’ll end-up with a colonic.
I always enjoyed the magic marks,!?:;-, never figured, out where to, put them so I tend to treat them like driving.
So . = a stop, : is a tap your breaks hard stop, ; a rolling stop, and all the ,,,,,,,,,,, are the hand gestures you make to let other drivers know what you are up to.
back in the use net days I was typing and my thumb kept hitting the space bar before my finger hit the comma button. Someone made a comment about my ignorance and I pointed out he should be happy there were any commas at all.
That is why Mrs Jack always proofed anything I wrote. I’m a decent poet but a terrible grammarian
Jack
As to impeachment, it is time, But don’t bother to call administration people and do the stupid hearings to “get at the truth”. There is enough public information (lol just from Trumps tweets) to make a case. Assign a prosecutor to lay all the facts out, then let the Republicans call witnesses to dispute it. Everything has been so disjointed that most of us can’t connect all the dots. All the congress critters need to set on their hands and keep their mouths shut. Let the pros do the hard and nasty work.
Jack
Had to remove it; No Wm Lee Golden, No Oakers.
do this one instead
Sturge, yep that was my thought, Thanks.
I’m not so good as a punctuationist as you all have noticed, and at times maybe even been alarmed by.
When I left school, I must have inadvertently left my punctuation behind. I hope it’s been useful to whoever found it.
That looks like a Soggy Bottom Boy
If Congress isn’t ready to impeach, just wait a week- he’ll commit more impeachable offenses.
.
in the meantime, from the hill:
Congress has days to prevent the second government shutdown of the year before leaving for a two-week break.
Lawmakers need to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through Nov. 21 before getting out of town.
The House already passed the short-term bill in a 301-123 vote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has started the process of bringing it to the Senate floor, but it hasn’t been scheduled yet for a vote.
McConnell has acknowledged that a short-term bill would be needed to avoid an end-of-September shutdown, saying earlier this month they would need a “temporary continuing resolution for the outstanding parts of the government before the end of September.”
But he hasn’t yet weighed in on the House-passed CR, which was unveiled last Wednesday.
[continues]
All Summer: A Fable for Our Time
Redbird at dawn upon leaving the nest: “Well, I’m off to work, Honey”.
[Spends all day on the deck fighting his reflection in the big glass doors.[
Mr Redbird, hard at work.
sturge, yep some of our worse enemies and hardest fights are ourselves or the image we see as our self.
alert to fearless leader and all other DC denizens:
‘Shut Down D.C.’: What you need to know about the protests that may create gridlock in Washington
I guess that’s how he got to be a Cardinal.
cf. Short Story of the Day:
”William Wilson”, by Poe
I, for one, would welcome any and all corrections of punctuation in any or all of whatever I may comment. I’m trying to hone in on that semi-colon thing.
cory on morning joe this morning
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/sen-booker-says-campaign-can-t-continue-without-nearly-2m-69653573564
;
GOPer critters’ new lyrics:
The leaves begin to fade like promises you made
How could a vote that seemed so right go wrong?
The things you did this summer we’ll remember all winter long
We‘ve tried so to forget, at times we do, and yet
The memes of you linger like our wrong
The things you did this summer, we’ll remember until we’re all gone.
[with apologies to lyricist Sammy Cahn]
the beating drums are getting louder
the hill:
Rep. Jim Himes said on CNN’s “New Day” that Trump is abusing American public’s trust and U.S. resources.
“I mean extorting a foreign leader for the purposes of getting that leader to do your political work to try to find dirt on your opponent is extortion.” Himes said. “Of course, it’s an impeachable offense.”
Himes also said that the Trump administration is breaking the law by refusing to hand over the whistleblower report — said to be centered on Trump’s phone call — to Congress.
[…]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has been cautious on moving forward with impeachment, but said in a letter Sunday the whistleblower report could prompt a “new stage of the investigation.”
The Washington Post has reported the whistleblower report centered on a call between the president and a foreign leader, said to be the president of Ukraine. On Sunday, Trump suggested that he discussed Biden in that call.
Trump has also said he’s considering the release of a transcript of the phone call.
There has been no evidence so far to implicate Biden or his son in illegal activities in the Ukraine.
Politics and the Senate be damned. For the sake of a chilling effect on future presidents, House cannot let these crimes go un-impeached.
Old line from a Bob Newhart Show, Carol is dating an older man, he says he needs to get back home as he has surgery do to in the morning. Carol says his place is full of antiques. His response is the truth now, “they weren’t antiques when I bought them”.
a teeny tiny glimpse of a silver lining noticed by Jennifer Rubin at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/23/baby-steps-toward-accurate-impeachment-debate/
Jennifer throws down the gauntlet: “Now the media must press each and every Republican as to whether they will defend Trump going to a foreign power for help in his reelection campaign.”
but will the media take up the challenge?
Ms. Rubin is my new television Girl-Fave.
To quote the timeless words of Eric von Zipper, III:
”Her, I like.”
Caveat: Big margin of error (9pts +-) but indicates Warren pilfering Sanders Iowa 2016 vote.
Like I’ve said on occasion: Bide-awhile ain’t in it to win it……his job is to draw fire. Old feller knows the score.
If Sanders really is losing his own 2016 Iowa vote to Warren — WTF mister?
Sanders will have bupkus. No telling how long he will fight, but it’s bupkus all the way down. The days of the dinosaur are numbered, in fractions. It’s curtains.
Minnesota dumped the caucus system this year. They’ve tried going pure primary before, and were deeply sorry afterwards. They’ll be deeply sorry again.
Oh ye gods, stand up for geezers !
I stand up for all the geezers who can still stand up!
Some of my best friends are geezers.
The geezers have so much to offer to our society. Without them there’d be no one to Geeze!
My best parts are geezer.
If Sanders can get pushed down or out before New Hampshire Warren wins there after Iowa, and then her Capitol Hill soul mate Jim Clyburn (they’ve introduced black college legislation etc together) delivers SC for her, and we’re done.
What Poobah said at 8:55. Yep, go for it.
Interesting graphic, boss. It tells me that Bernie! is only holding 1/4 of the voters he had in 2016, he ain’t getting any votes from 2016 Clinton supporters, and the Clinton supporters are distributed among the other 3 in the chart. Am I reading that right?
Sturg, a semicolon is a cheat to let you make 2 sentences into one. Saves your ass from having that dreaded “run on sentence” comment from your most hated English teacher.
Poobah, you think Bernie! will be forced out when he’s currently 2nd in NH polling and only 1 pt. behind Biden? Have you forgotten 2016? He ain’t going nowhere.
But then you never hear a judge admonishing a Geezer with something like, “I’m going to let you go this time, seeing that you have your whole life ahead of you; and I hope you will learn the lesson involved here and apply it to your life. And don’t let me catch you here again.”
Yup…. I’m with Craig and Pogo…. impeach him… let the Republicans go on record as defending party over country.
Rick’s youngest brother tried to talk me into changing over from a Democrat to an Independent for our upcoming primary. And then take a Republican ballot and vote against trumpty dumpty. Though I admit it sounds intriguing…. fuck ’em… I can’t put my X next to any Republican.
Pogo, if Bernie does not defer to Elizabeth when the time comes we will know what we always knew, it was always about himself.
Yes RR, let history record Senate Republicans abandoned the Constitution.
I’m gettin’ a little worried about History’s health.
James Carville, who had opposed impeachment, now says House should move “quick and clean” after obtaining Trump’s phone transcript: “Let the Senate Republicans stew “
Sturg, this will probably steer you in the right direction in re semi-colon usage; if it doesn’t, switch to in re.
I think in usage such as, let History record, the noun ‘history’ deserves to be capitalized.
Yes Flatus, History worth capitalization, lest we forget. However I do find semi-colons unsightly.
Speaking of geezers, I am always expecting to hear the ripping of a squashed duck whenever SFB sits down or stands up. Sorry, but it does allow me to laugh to myself even though I have tears for America on the outside.
Sun gonna rise, sun gonna set. I hate having to go through things more than once to remind myself that I was right in the first place.
Semicolons work well – as the 1st of 3 characters needed to create a winking emoji. Aside from that I don’t find them particularly useful except to separate items in lists.
unfortunately, pogo is right about the bern ain’t going nowhere. how do you think he got to be in that 1% millionaire class? unlike Hillary’s, all those surplus leftover donations of his weren’t spent on helping the dems in the last elections. the longer he stays in race the longer he gets paid to stay in the race and pocket the change when it’s over.
Want to read some of the dumbest shit to come out of Squeaky of late? (Wapo’s John Wagner can help.)
Right……. as soon as his phone recordings are no longer under audit.
And from the same article:
Says the president engaged in treason who wouldn’t know a fact if it bit him in the butt.
like the little boy who yelled “the emperor has no clothes” greta excoriates world leaders for having no brains, no heart and no decency.
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,’ climate activist Greta Thunberg has told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in New York. In an emotionally charged speech, she accused them of ignoring the science behind the climate crisis, saying: ‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about it money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth – how dare you?’
looks like faux news is doing for his campaign what the twit hoped Ukraine would do – trashing biden.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/giuliani-accuses-ukraine-of-laundering-3m-to-hunter-biden-asks-how-obama-could-let-that-happen
rudy channeling lee atwater
New for Floridaman:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-edit-growth-management-hb7103-20190920-6aqtvigupfd6hio4tkilcnz5nu-story.html%3foutputType=amp
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-weld-trumps-treason-over-ukraine-calls-for-death-penalty-republican-primary-challenger-says
[continues]
The guillotine is nice, quick and almost painless.
Then, you can display the head on a pike at the rose garden presser. Cool.
I may have to return to the ripper party just long enough to vote for Weld. ugh
Republicans gleefully impeached Clinton for oral sex. What about fucking the Constitution?
…guess that makes them “necrophiliacs”?
The battle is not for the 3X% who are Dems. The battle is not for the 30% claiming to be white supremacists. The battle is for the 30ish% who are unaffiliated or not naming a party. A lot of them are religious. A lot of them are conservative, in fiscal and/or social mores (LGBTQ things). And, a lot of them are just not liking the extremes and just want a life of the “normal” America. I think that means more about not having to listen to politics on the news. Even more they just want a comedy TV program that is not cutting edge. Or a drama TV program that is not cutting edge.
Hey. I am a flaming liberal Progressive Dem. I want to watch a comedy TV program that is not cutting edge. That does mean I understand what an Independent voter wants to watch on the telly. But, it does not mean I know which candidate that person wants as president, or congress critter, or county, or even city council. Which is why a lot of polls missed the power of the KKK/white supremacists/white nationalists/anti-people of color in the elections.
In 2019 I am always surprised that the white nationalists are able to be a power in elections. Shame on them.
I like your theory Ms Bronc. Let me re-phrase it, the way I read it :
30-ish % of the public will vote based on what they want to see/hear on the tube over the next 4 years. Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, Full House and Happy Days are as ‘out there’ as they like.
Well, I don’t think they want any more of Mussolini’s Gong Show.
The battle is for truth.
BB, more so, shame on us
Craig, I dislike hard-stops more than semi-colons. Being a newspaper editor, I can see where you are coming from; my professional writing was for a different audience.
Semi-colons: The digger you deep, the flatter you shovel.
You can dig deeper than that; if you hold the cards, call a spade a spade.
Don’t go too deep–you’ll end-up with a colonic.
I always enjoyed the magic marks,!?:;-, never figured, out where to, put them so I tend to treat them like driving.
So . = a stop, : is a tap your breaks hard stop, ; a rolling stop, and all the ,,,,,,,,,,, are the hand gestures you make to let other drivers know what you are up to.
back in the use net days I was typing and my thumb kept hitting the space bar before my finger hit the comma button. Someone made a comment about my ignorance and I pointed out he should be happy there were any commas at all.
That is why Mrs Jack always proofed anything I wrote. I’m a decent poet but a terrible grammarian
Jack
As to impeachment, it is time, But don’t bother to call administration people and do the stupid hearings to “get at the truth”. There is enough public information (lol just from Trumps tweets) to make a case. Assign a prosecutor to lay all the facts out, then let the Republicans call witnesses to dispute it. Everything has been so disjointed that most of us can’t connect all the dots. All the congress critters need to set on their hands and keep their mouths shut. Let the pros do the hard and nasty work.
Jack
Had to remove it; No Wm Lee Golden, No Oakers.
do this one instead
Sturge, yep that was my thought, Thanks.
I’m not so good as a punctuationist as you all have noticed, and at times maybe even been alarmed by.
When I left school, I must have inadvertently left my punctuation behind. I hope it’s been useful to whoever found it.
That looks like a Soggy Bottom Boy
If Congress isn’t ready to impeach, just wait a week- he’ll commit more impeachable offenses.
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