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 View all posts by patd
my second choice to illustrate the day and the mood
artstormer writeup about the above work and others:
“The Good China” Ceramic Sculptures by Eva Hild
Theresa May has named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. May says it has been ‘the honour of my life’ to be the ‘second female prime minister, but certainly not the last’. Her voice cracks as she says it has been an honour to have the opportunity to serve the country she loves
oh what a lovely mess you’ve gotten us into, Theresa,
just hours prior to above announcement, this from business insider:
Donald Trump is “delightfully oblivious” to the UK’s domestic turmoil and is simply preoccupied with spending as much time as possible with the royal family when he visits early next month, a report from The Times of London claims.
Queen Elizabeth II invited Trump on a state visit to the UK from June 3 to June 5, where he is scheduled to appear at a Buckingham Palace banquet, and take tea with Prince Charles, Britain’s next monarch.
Britain is in the midst of a political crisis as Prime Minister Theresa May repeatedly fails to pass her Brexit deal through parliament, with UK members of parliament unable to agree on how they want to proceed with leaving the EU. May is now widely expected to resign her post in the coming days.
Trump, however, doesn’t seem to care.
“They seem delightfully oblivious to what is going on to be honest,” an unnamed government official told The Times.
Trump is expected to meet with Prime Minister Theresa May, or her successor if she has stepped down, during the trip, and will attend a ceremony in the city Portsmouth to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Instead of focusing on the UK’s apparent departure from the EU or vocal demands for Prime Minister Theresa May to resign, Trump is looking forward to the banquet hosted by the Queen, and tea at nearby Clarence House with the Prince of Wales, the Times wrote.
Read more: A giant Trump baby blimp that the president says makes him ‘feel unwelcome’ is following him to London this summer — and could be 5 times as big
Trump’s last visit to the UK was characterized by several faux-pas, including breaking royal protocol twice in the space of a morning.
Meeting her in July 2018, Trump first broke royal protocol by walking in front of the Queen. He then forgot to bow to her later in the day.
US diplomatic sources assured the Times that Trump won’t be seeking a one-on-one with Boris Johnson, who is pushing to become the next prime minister, or with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.
Trump will attend a dinner alongside trans-Atlantic dignitaries at the US Ambassador’s residence, which may include several British politicians sympathetic to Trump.
After the visit concludes, Trump will travel to Shannon, Ireland, and will play golf at his Doonbeg resort.
The President’s last visit to the UK was met with 250,000 demonstrators, who were joined by a 6-meter balloon depicting Trump as a screaming baby in a diaper.
During his 2018 visit the president told the British newspaper The Sun: “I guess when they put out blimps to make me feel unwelcome, no reason for me to go to London.”
On accepting the Queen’s invitation for the June visit, The White House said: “This state visit will reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.”
Here is a long ago memory. Kids today have no idea what it is.
Store your wine or your guns:
Atlas Survival Shelters
So SFB gave Barr the go ahead to order intel chiefs to declassify stuff that will be harmful to his political enemies. I’m sure their pillow talk was explicit about what would be declassified. What a load of SHIT.
Some Jackson Pollock free form
Then there was the cabinet meeting with all the Stepford Wives telling Trump just how “CALM” he was with Nancy just before he retweeted a slowed down fake video of her to make her look drunk.
This is what we are stuck with ….
Jamie, mrs. stepfords spot on. catch them starting at 3:06 in the vid below
good discussion with mayor pete
am envisioning a kamala-pete ticket on the horizon
considering what trail friend jack said yesterday about “the face of the Democratic party is the fumbling rest home committee” they would surely be the antithesis of that yet still provide the right amount of intelligence, gov’t experience, maturity and compassion for the job in addition to reflecting the diversity of America.
plus they both seem to have a wicked sense of humor which is refreshing
patd… I’m leaning toward voting for Harris in the primary… but I could change my mind. Rick went back to “undeclared” in the last election. He’s leaning toward taking a republican ballot in order to vote for Bill Weld. It will mean that we will get republican literature sent to us… but he thinks it’s worth it.
I’m still with Klobuchar with Castro or Booker in the second slot, but certainly wouldn’t have a problem with a Harris/Mayor Pete ticket, though on that front would rather have Harris/Castro
Just going for the maximum spread of Gender, Ethnicity, Geography so that everyone has someone they can vote for.
I joined the Army during the height of the Cold War. I was trained as a guided missile propellants and explosives specialist. The propellants of the liquid fueled missiles such as the Nike Ajax were exceedingly dangerous. The fuel was aniline and the oxidizer was inhibited red fuming nitric acid. To kick the liquid propelled engine to life a hypergolic agent, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) was used. We did our work wearing poopy suits and scuba tanks.
Flatus – thank you. My main work was in a clean room. My secondary work was wherever ordered as Auxillary Security Police.
My great-uncle James Bennett was a Seaman on the U.S.S. Buenaventura, sunk off the coast of Spain, September 16, 1918 by a German submarine. His body was never recovered.
wapo: $19.1 billion in nationwide disaster aid stalls after single House Republican objects
A House Republican lawmaker blocked a $19.1 billion disaster aid package on Friday, delaying passage of relief for disaster affected areas across the country.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) voted to block the legislation, which has the support of President Trump and passed the Senate on Thursday.
Only one vote was needed to defeat the motion. House lawmakers left town Thursday morning, before Senate negotiators reached a compromise on the bill, and with members absent, leaders had hoped to pass the measure by unanimous consent.
Following the objection, the House ended its session.
The House is set to have another “pro forma” session — one with few lawmakers present — on Tuesday, at which time they plan to again try to pass the legislation by unanimous consent.
“We’ll see,” Roy said when asked whether he would object again. “I have not decided what I’m going to do next week, but I also have a job to do back in Texas.”
House lawmakers are not due back in Washington until June 3.
Roy, 46, is a freshman lawmaker but one who is no stranger to Capitol Hill and the highest levels of conservative politics. He is a former chief of staff to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who served in that role as Cruz helped force the federal government into a partial shutdown in 2013 that lasted more than 2 weeks.
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Roy’s objection to the disaster aid bill further delays legislation that would send aid to victims of Western wildfires, Midwestern flooding and hurricanes that hit the Southeast and Puerto Rico, as well as to other disaster-affected areas across the country.
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The package does not include the more than $4 billion in U.S.-Mexico border funding the Trump administration requested. That demand had proved contentious, and leaving it out sidestepped a fight over immigration that had further complicated the delicate disaster-aid negotiations.
With the border funding provision stripped out, the Senate voted 85 to 8 to advance the bill Thursday. Hours later, Trump wrote on Twitter that the measure had his “total approval.”
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House Democrats ripped Roy for the additional delay. “After President Trump and Senate Republicans delayed disaster relief for more than four months, it is deeply disappointing that House Republicans are now making disaster victims wait even longer to get the help they need,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.) in a statement. “We must pass this bicameral, bipartisan bill and we will keep working to get it through the House and onto the President’s desk.”
Roy could be inviting political peril by stalling the disaster bill. The move puts him at odds with Trump, who publicly supported the deal Thursday, in a district where the president is popular among Republican primary voters. And Roy barely won his general election with 50.2 percent of the vote. His district is rapidly becoming more suburban and in a state that has recently benefited from billions of dollars in federal disaster funds following Hurricane Harvey and other floods.
Roy, when asked if Trump or House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had attempted to dissuade him from objecting, said he did not want to discuss private conversations.
Jason Easley at politicususa:
Frank Figliuzzi said that Donald Trump came close to violating federal bribery laws when he refused to do his job if Democrats won’t stop investigating him.
Trump can’t go a week without committing a crime
Figliuzzi said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, “Here’s the other neat thing I see through my law enforcement he can’t go a week without committing or coming close to committing another crime. What no one is seeing yesterday is that he came close to violating the bribery statute, it says whoever offers or promises a thing of value to an official to induce or stop them from taking an official act is committing a crime. What did Trump do yesterday, he said if you stop investigating me, I will get your legislation done. A thing of value if you stop doing something of value for me. And no one is talking about that. But in plain sight once again the president is coming close to violating the law.”
Crime comes so naturally to Trump. He easily slides into crime in the same way that people put a jacket on before they go out on a chilly day. Crime has been Trump’s constant companion, and he doesn’t seem to know what to do with himself if he can’t commit crimes.
Trump’s criminal attitude is why impeachment doesn’t matter. If Trump gets impeached, he won’t stop committing crimes. If Trump were removed from office tomorrow, he would be back in Trump Tower committing crimes the day after.
Nancy Pelosi triggered Trump into potentially violating bribery laws because no matter what the situation, Trump’s go-to move is to commit a crime.
pogo, with regard to your comment earlier “SFB gave Barr the go ahead to order intel chiefs to declassify stuff that will be harmful to his political enemies… What a load of SHIT.” that’s an understatement. from this in NYTimes looks like he’s also declassifying stuff to help this country’s enemies:
I hope Chris Roy gets to do whatever it is he does other than “serve” in Congress come November, 2020. Prick.
Watching Trump blathering on about the conspiracy against him, you really think it is time for the 25th, but that VP & cabinet value greed and power too much to do it. We very well may be stuck with impeachment and hope enough of the GOP in the Senate are saner than the President we are now suffering.
abc news:
Democratic Rep, Jerry Nadler, who as House Judiciary Committee chairman is leading his party’s congressional investigation into President Donald Trump, appeared to nearly faint at an event in New York City on Friday.
“He is okay. Seems to have been dehydrated and it was very warm in the room. He is now responsive and receiving a check-up,” a Nadler spokesman told ABC News.
The New York congressman, who’s 71, was at an event with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio when video showed him slumping in his chair.
Microphones picked up De Blasio saying to Nadler, “You’re looking dehydrated brother. You are looking a little dehydrated, you want a drink?”
Then, shortly afterward, a voice on the loudspeaker announced: “I have a code blue in the gym. Code blue in the gym. First responders to the gym please.”
Nadler later could be seen drinking water and eating an orange. The event, with signs saying “speed cameras save lives,” ended.
Not long after, he sent out a tweet saying he was “feeling much better.”
Appreciate everyone’s concern. Was very warm in the room this morning, was obviously dehydrated and felt a bit ill. Glad to receive fluids and am feeling much better. Thank you for your thoughts.
Nadler has had an especially high profile and busy schedule as of late, doing political battle with the president and House Republicans and taking part in numerous television interviews.
President Trump has repeatedly attacked him, often mentioning their feud go back to their days in New York before Trump ran for president.
more from Nadler at abc news:
Robert Mueller wants to avoid ‘political spectacle’ before Congress: Nadler
Special counsel Robert Mueller is eager to avoid the politics swirling around his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia’s 2016 influence efforts and doesn’t want to testify publicly on Capitol Hill about his findings, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Thursday.
“He doesn’t want to be public in what some people will regard as a political spectacle, I think,” Nadler said in an interview with MSNBC, confirming reports from ABC News and other outlets about House Democrats pushing back on DOJ’s offer for limited Mueller testimony.
“He’s willing to make an opening statement, but he wants to testify in private,” he said. “We think it’s important for the American people to hear from him and to hear his answers to questions about the report.”
Nadler and the committee have been in discussions with Justice Department officials about Mueller’s appearance for weeks, after initially proposing the special counsel appear on May 15.
President Trump, after initially suggesting Mueller shouldn’t testify, said he would defer to Attorney General Bill Barr. The attorney general has repeatedly said he has no objections to Mueller testifying.
“He envisions himself correctly as a man of great rectitude and apolitical and he doesn’t want to participate in anything that he might regard as a political spectacle, especially if Republicans on the committee start asking him questions about the beginning of the — about this stuff, the beginning of the investigation,” Nadler said.
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Nadler said Thursday that his committee would release transcripts from any closed-door session with Mueller, and didn’t rule out potentially hearing from the special counsel’s deputies, or other subject-matter experts in the coming weeks.
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Close to last days with our hawks, they’ve been fine guardians.
Rick and I just got back from the Currier Art Museum in Manchester, NH. We went to see a special exhibit of bead work done by women from South Africa. Beautiful works done with thousands of little glass beads.
Ubuhle Women: Bead Work and the Art of Independence
…got any good raw-wool suppliers you’d recommend, RR? I need loose fibers by the pound.
Bink… I haven’t worked with wool for at least 30 yrs. I weave with rayon, silk, bamboo, cotton, and what is called novelty yarns. You can google fleece for sale for some stuff in your area. Although… I do want to caution you that raw wool still has the lanolin in it. Lanolin is an oil and in it’s raw state stinks. So you might want to google “washed fleece for sale” instead.
Got it, thx.
(i actually like that smell?♂️)
Free form v free yell
I do not like having a cat come in from the deck, sit next to me and have damned ants walk off the fur and on to me. Just had one decide to stroll across my glasses.
So poobah, you don’t have internet in the wilds of Orlando?
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