With the former president’s criminal trial under way, over 6,000 New Yorkers received summonses for jury duty. The judge denied several of Donald Trump’s requests for days off from the trial, while a small number of the MAGA faithful supported the defendant outside the courthouse.
Zarathustra maybe not the best one to start out with anyway……maybe better is genealogy of morals, birth of tragedy, or beyond good and evil….pretty sure my attention wandered a bit toward the end of Z as well.
It’s even harder when your eyes begin to malfunction…
I discovered Z in 70, coming across the Prologue in a digest-type book at sunrise one day while experiencing the effects of LSD…..what I had was the Thomas Common translation which I later found was disparaged by Kaufmann with all those “thee’s and thou’s”. But I guess gold is where you find it.
“Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!”
Just as my eyesight began to fail god came up with reading material which lights up. Good work, Goddy. lol
i hope prosecutors knew what they were doing letting in jurors who said things like Trump is “fascinating” and “speaks his mind”. Maybe there was something in their demeanor or how they said it that gave prosecutors less concern, or maybe, after using 6 of their 10 strikes they needed to save up.
No court today, jury selection resumes Thursday and looks like it’s on track for opening arguments Monday.
Old sleepy don, sure is apt. Two days in and he has already been reprimanded by the judge. I am waiting, patiently waiting, calmly holding back with any excitement for that moment it happens. Maybe he jumps up swearing at a witness. Perhaps blasting at a bailiff. Swearing at a clerk for handing a note to the judge. And, a wonderful moment of throwing something at the judge. Oh, we have weeks to watch that bottle, stretch, swell, sweat and change colors. The glorious explosion that will send sfb into a cell for at least a day or maybe a couple of days. Yes, I can wait because I learned mindfulness. I can wait knowing at some point the cork will blow. I want that moment and I have a bottle of champagne to enjoy when it happens.
“At the end of the day, she can make or break his candidacy,” said Stephanie Grisham, Mrs. Trump’s former press secretary who resigned on Jan. 6, 2021, and went on to write a memoir. “And at the end of the day, she could probably make or break him.”
Author of the Day:
William Rose Benét
THE READER’S ENCYCLOPEDIA
Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia is a reference work devoted to world literature. The first volume appeared in 1948, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Rose Benét, older brother of the writer Stephen Vincent Benét. Benét set out to “present to [the reader] a well-organized supplementary memory, in one volume”.[1] The encyclopedia was based on Ebenezer Cobham Brewer‘s classic Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and offered a compendium of curious information (such as “Aani. In Egyptian mythology, the dog-headed ape sacred to the god Thoth“). The second edition appeared in 1965, with the addition of new entries, the expansion of old entries, and the addition of illustrations.
More widely available is the third edition, edited by Katherine Baker Siepmann and published in 1987. While this edition no longer mentions such arcane figures as Aani, it offers substantial background on a wide variety of literary figures and increased the international scope of the volume. Jeppe Aakjaer, for instance, appears as a novelist who “was intensely concerned with social misery and the need for reform,” though he is “best known” for his “lyric poetry, in which he celebrates the courage of the peasants and the beauties of his native Jutland.”
In 1996, the fourth edition of this reference work appeared. The fifth and to date most recent edition was released in December 2008.
“The Anti-Defamation League said that the number of incidents reported in 2024 is already over the number they received in the entirety of 2023. Four hundred reports so far have been filed with the ADL in Colorado.”
Certain men my age like nice shoes. Goes hand-in-hand with actualy having a shoe-shine kit. Alas, many my age are beginning to pass from the mortal stage. it means there is an over abundance of very nice shoes at the Goodwill, many with pristine heels.
The magats are going full calendar to keep the demise of the impeachment of a cabinet member from happening. They are spending a lot of time doing motions to suspend the impeachment until a future date. All sorts of dates. Dems keep kicking sand in their diapers.
Ha ha…….that whole shoe-buying ordeal down at the Belks or J C Penny…..with the little stool and the foot measuring device. JC Penny had a machine which would X-RAY your foot—you looked at your footbones thru a little viewfinder.
“Now ha’s that feel, hmmm?” Smarmy shoe salesman. Al Bundy.
My family in Germany made their 19th century fortune manufacturing shoes every size and style of which looked like combat boots. My grandfather emigrated, but the family business continued up to WWII. A final letter (in German) to my grandmother after my grandfather’s death advised her there was nothing left of the properties or the money.
The Senate voted to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which allege he mismanaged an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Both votes were along party lines.
The impeachment trial of the first sitting Cabinet secretary came to a close a little over three hours after it started after Republicans quickly quashed an opportunity for limited debate and the creation of an impeachment committee, marking a rapid close to the first impeachment of a sitting cabinet secretary.
Democrats, voting along party lines, found the first article charging Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” to be unconstitutional. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted present. Democrats voted again along party lines, finding the second article charging Mayorkas with “breach of public trust” also to be unconstitutional. The trial came to a conclusion before the House impeachment managers could present their argument.
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One of the few things the former guy’s administration was to have a death date on the tax cut for billionaires. I don’t belong to any expensive accountants email lists so much of what I have has to do with digging on the intertubes. Although said to return to 2016 similar tax requirements, there are supposed to be things that would change according to 2025. What that means requires more information from people who know.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene offers an amendment to make funds from the Israel funding bill available “for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.” This is real, not made up— it’s amendment 11 here https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-PIH-IsraelSuppl… H/T @juliegraceb
11 Version 1 Greene (GA) Republican Provides funding for the development of space laser technology on the southern border. Submitted
She’s deep in the MAGAt cult, proving one does not need to have a brain in order to be brainwashed.
With the former president’s criminal trial under way, over 6,000 New Yorkers received summonses for jury duty. The judge denied several of Donald Trump’s requests for days off from the trial, while a small number of the MAGA faithful supported the defendant outside the courthouse.
searching for the honest juror in NYC
Zarathustra maybe not the best one to start out with anyway……maybe better is genealogy of morals, birth of tragedy, or beyond good and evil….pretty sure my attention wandered a bit toward the end of Z as well.
Oh, i was enjoying it, it’s just hard to find pleasure-reading time in my old age
It’s even harder when your eyes begin to malfunction…
I discovered Z in 70, coming across the Prologue in a digest-type book at sunrise one day while experiencing the effects of LSD…..what I had was the Thomas Common translation which I later found was disparaged by Kaufmann with all those “thee’s and thou’s”. But I guess gold is where you find it.
“Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!”
Just as my eyesight began to fail god came up with reading material which lights up. Good work, Goddy. lol
Handy stuff, no? Lighted reading material and a library in your hand.
i hope prosecutors knew what they were doing letting in jurors who said things like Trump is “fascinating” and “speaks his mind”. Maybe there was something in their demeanor or how they said it that gave prosecutors less concern, or maybe, after using 6 of their 10 strikes they needed to save up.
No court today, jury selection resumes Thursday and looks like it’s on track for opening arguments Monday.
Old sleepy don, sure is apt. Two days in and he has already been reprimanded by the judge. I am waiting, patiently waiting, calmly holding back with any excitement for that moment it happens. Maybe he jumps up swearing at a witness. Perhaps blasting at a bailiff. Swearing at a clerk for handing a note to the judge. And, a wonderful moment of throwing something at the judge. Oh, we have weeks to watch that bottle, stretch, swell, sweat and change colors. The glorious explosion that will send sfb into a cell for at least a day or maybe a couple of days. Yes, I can wait because I learned mindfulness. I can wait knowing at some point the cork will blow. I want that moment and I have a bottle of champagne to enjoy when it happens.
craig, many if not most are fascinated by watching a cobra; but few, very very few, would acquit said snake.
More changes due to climate change: buy a camel
She has her marching orders from Vlad.
Author of the Day:
William Rose Benét
THE READER’S ENCYCLOPEDIA
Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia is a reference work devoted to world literature. The first volume appeared in 1948, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Rose Benét, older brother of the writer Stephen Vincent Benét. Benét set out to “present to [the reader] a well-organized supplementary memory, in one volume”.[1] The encyclopedia was based on Ebenezer Cobham Brewer‘s classic Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and offered a compendium of curious information (such as “Aani. In Egyptian mythology, the dog-headed ape sacred to the god Thoth“). The second edition appeared in 1965, with the addition of new entries, the expansion of old entries, and the addition of illustrations.
More widely available is the third edition, edited by Katherine Baker Siepmann and published in 1987. While this edition no longer mentions such arcane figures as Aani, it offers substantial background on a wide variety of literary figures and increased the international scope of the volume. Jeppe Aakjaer, for instance, appears as a novelist who “was intensely concerned with social misery and the need for reform,” though he is “best known” for his “lyric poetry, in which he celebrates the courage of the peasants and the beauties of his native Jutland.”
In 1996, the fourth edition of this reference work appeared. The fifth and to date most recent edition was released in December 2008.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/antisemitic-incidents-surge-in-colorado/73-00d36d4d-7eb7-44a6-bdcb-6b98aba7e585
“The Anti-Defamation League said that the number of incidents reported in 2024 is already over the number they received in the entirety of 2023. Four hundred reports so far have been filed with the ADL in Colorado.”
The now Nazis think that the Nazis who came before them just didn’t do it right.
Certain men my age like nice shoes. Goes hand-in-hand with actualy having a shoe-shine kit. Alas, many my age are beginning to pass from the mortal stage. it means there is an over abundance of very nice shoes at the Goodwill, many with pristine heels.
100 years ago today (12/8/1923) Hemingway wrote a column for The Toronto Star: “War Medals For Sale”
The magats are going full calendar to keep the demise of the impeachment of a cabinet member from happening. They are spending a lot of time doing motions to suspend the impeachment until a future date. All sorts of dates. Dems keep kicking sand in their diapers.
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/17/confession-legal-experts-say-his-post-rant-could-be-a-big-issue-going-forward/
Ha ha…….that whole shoe-buying ordeal down at the Belks or J C Penny…..with the little stool and the foot measuring device. JC Penny had a machine which would X-RAY your foot—you looked at your footbones thru a little viewfinder.
“Now ha’s that feel, hmmm?” Smarmy shoe salesman. Al Bundy.
My family in Germany made their 19th century fortune manufacturing shoes every size and style of which looked like combat boots. My grandfather emigrated, but the family business continued up to WWII. A final letter (in German) to my grandmother after my grandfather’s death advised her there was nothing left of the properties or the money.
Wapo:
Screw Ted & Co.
One of the few things the former guy’s administration was to have a death date on the tax cut for billionaires. I don’t belong to any expensive accountants email lists so much of what I have has to do with digging on the intertubes. Although said to return to 2016 similar tax requirements, there are supposed to be things that would change according to 2025. What that means requires more information from people who know.
What this means to me is a big “it depends ©”. Last year it meant that I could not itemize and that meant I could not deduct much of my taxes and such, especially for charity. This year it meant I had to itemize and it meant I could not deduct much of my taxes and such, especially for charity. The whole magat scheme was to screw the little guy so the billionaires would support their life style. What all this means is you need to find out what happens if, I prefer when, Biden wins or sfb and his mob somehow ends up in power.
Why does Magda Taylor Goebbels not even know how to put on clothes?
“Marjorie Taylor Greene offers an amendment to make funds from the Israel funding bill available “for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.” This is real, not made up— it’s amendment 11 here https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-PIH-IsraelSuppl… H/T
@juliegraceb
11 Version 1 Greene (GA) Republican Provides funding for the development of space laser technology on the southern border. Submitted
She’s deep in the MAGAt cult, proving one does not need to have a brain in order to be brainwashed.
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