50 thoughts on “Jim Crow Rises Again”

  2. Tine flies faster and faster.  Twitter gave me a tweet that I have been on it for twelve years.  That means I joined it about two years after it started.  A better explanation is that my media manager signed me up for it back then, he also put me on FB MySpace and other social things, a few of which I am occasionally reminded of.

  3. BTW it’s billie bob’s (aka the princess dog) 14th birthday.  am celebrating with my famous groundhog meatloaf feast tonight.  (along with ground beef, the aforesaid hog that’s in it is jimmy dean sage sausage, onions, green pepper, celery, diced tomato, mushrooms, egg and spices. shaped appropriately as the critter  with mushroom stems for eyes, slices of same for the ears and for the nose, baked and served with a dollop of  catsup, mashed taters, green beans etc.)  a veritable blue plate special.

  5. good news

    the hill:

    President Biden will sign three executive orders on Tuesday focused on reforming the immigration system and undoing actions of the Trump administration, including establishing a family reunification task force and calling for a review of the public charge rule.

    One of the orders will create a task force focused on identifying all of the minor children separated from their parents or guardians due to the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy in 2018, which a senior Biden administration official called a “moral failure and a national shame.”

    The task force will be charged with reuniting the hundreds of migrant children who still have yet to be brought together with their families, and it will provide regular updates to the president on how to prevent future family separations.

    The task force will be led by Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s pick for secretary of Homeland Security.

    Mayorkas is expected to be confirmed to the position on Tuesday. The task force, a key campaign promise for Biden, was originally planned to be announced on Friday, but was delayed while Mayorkas’s nomination was held up.

    [continues]

  8. So the end of the meeting yesterday between Joe and the Republicans was, “thanks for caring, let’s have our staffs talk.” Good on Joe. 

  9. BB

    Twitter has now been “reviewing and we will get back to you in a few days” for over a month now.  So much for over a decade of one account, one email, one identity.  

     

  12. There is a contingent of people who call themselves Democrats, yet they disparage President Biden and Vice-President Harris calling them republican lite.  As I have been blocking SFB cult members for several years, I am now including these “democrats”.  What hurts is several of them used to be very solid Democrats, but fell into the Bernie cult, and then into some other cult (anti-Biden) during the last year.  Sigh

  13. I’ve been blocking all turds since day one.   Never saw any reason not to.  If I see the slightest hint of turd-dom, out they go. Zero tolerance. Most times you see their shit from someone else, anyway.

    “Block ’em, Danno.”

  15. So the fat rat Phil saw his shadow – well that settles it.  Winter is here to stay.  Maybe if they wouldn’t bathe him in TV and camera lights he could yawn and go back to sleep and we’d think that Spring is on the way.
     
    I heard Joe Manchin’s comments – Joe’s not bad, but there are times when he talks and IMHO doesn’t listen to himself.  On the day before 10 Repuke senators are meeting to try and present a different, Republican,  relief bill to Joe Biden, he complains that no one from Kamala’s camp called him before she gave an interview to WSAZ, a Charleston TV station saying that WV has been hit hard by the pandemic and economic downturn and needs its reps to step up and help get a relief bill passed (all of which strikes me as true and completely noncontroversial) … then he goes on to say he is going to try and reach a bipartisan relief package.  Ummm, somehow he misses that bipartisan means with the other side, not with the other political branch of government.  

  16. This is such a heartbreaking story but beautifully written…

    For four years, legendary singer Tony Bennett and his family have kept his secret. Now, they’re breaking their silence about his [Alzheimers] condition.
     
    “Tony was a considerably more muted presence during the recording of the new album with Lady Gaga. In raw documentary footage of the sessions, he speaks rarely, and when he does his words are halting; at times, he seems lost and bewildered. Gaga, clearly aware of his condition, keeps her utterances short and simple (as is recommended by experts in the disease when talking to Alzheimer’s patients). “You sound so good, Tony,” she tells him at one point. “Thanks,” is his one-word response. She says that she thinks “all the time” about their 2015 tour. Tony looks at her wordlessly. “Wasn’t that fun every night?” she prompts him. “Yeah,” he says, uncertainly. The pain and sadness in Gaga’s face is clear at such moments — but never more so than in an extraordinarily moving sequence in which Tony (a man she calls “an incredible mentor, and friend, and father figure”) sings a solo passage of a love song. Gaga looks on, from behind her mic, her smile breaking into a quiver, her eyes brimming, before she puts her hands over her face and sobs.”
     

  17. Yahoo.  I’m scheduled for vaccine dose 1 tomorrow morning.  (About damn time). Gotta go to Morgantown for it – 35 miles from East Bumfuck, but it’s all good – worth the drive to me.

  19. I saw Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain and in another role on stage here in NH.
     
    Woke up to lots of light fluffy snow….     weeeeeeee!

  20. The game works both ways, so…any Republican Senator not siding with POTUS Biden on the relief bill are continuing the economic terrorism of vulnerable Americans.  Democrats won’t negotiate with terrorists.  

  24. quite a few of my old friends have died, but they weren’t famous.

    They coulda been, if a bunch of people had known who they were.

  25. someone please explain to me why people (specifically certain u.s. senators and the defense lawyers for the upcoming trial of you know who) keep saying the former prez can’t be impeached?  he’s already been impeached!  twice.  yes, he was acquitted in the 1st impeachment and not yet in the 2nd one; but he still goes down in history as having been impeached. twice.   

    shouldn’t the correct words be “tried and convicted or acquitted” when they’re making their constitutional argument against holding the trial?

    https://thehill.com/homenews/news/536978-read-trump-defense-teams-response-to-impeachment-case

  27. patd

    You are absolutely right.  The House “impeaches” (accuses of a crime).  The Senate tries and either acquits or convicts.

    I think it is sloppy media that most people don’t understand exactly what to call the procedure.  I used to try to explain it, but it is now too common an event.

     

  28. Short version of the Dumbco response to the article of impeachment – 1. Listen to me not to your lying eyes and ears, 2. He didn’t mean fight when he said fight, 3. Since you can’t remove him from office you can’t convict him (nevermind that disqualify language in the impeachment provisions of the constitution).

  29. patd, the reason they say he can’t be impeached (OK, convicted) is that they argue that removal from office is a prerequisite to a finding that he should be disqualified from holding public office in the future.  Nothing in the Constitution says that, BTW.

  30. So it seems yesterday’s Kabuki between the 10 republicans and Joe did not convince him to go small.

    President Biden urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to go big on coronavirus relief, making an aggressive case in favor of his $1.9 trillion rescue package as Democrats prepared to take the first steps to advance the legislation.
     
    Biden’s comments, on a private lunchtime call with the Senate Democratic caucus, were confirmed by several people familiar with his remarks who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were private.
     
    Biden addressed Senate Democrats a day after meeting with a group of Republican senators who are pushing a much narrower, $618 billion bill.
     
    The president made clear to Senate Democrats that he viewed a proposal of that size as inadequate and that the risks of going small outweighed the risks of going big, the people said. Press secretary Jen Psaki emphasized in a press briefing shortly thereafter that the White House stood by the $1.9 trillion top-line figure of its plan.

    Senate Democrats are prepared to take an initial vote later Tuesday to move forward on a budget bill paving the way to pass Biden’s relief package with a simple majority in the Senate, leaving Republicans out if necessary.

    (Continues – attaboy Joe)

    Oh, and about that “Let’s have our staffs discuss it”, well, never mind.

  32. At Kaiser’s current pace it will take it will take 4 years to vaccinate the members in California 
    Mr C is 92 and he keeps being told check back in a week. His doctor recommended a nonKaiser source and he got an appointment right away.  
     

  33. TT – We are seeing the last of the Greatest Generation dying, along with the Silent Generation and the big start of the Baby Boomers.   There is something I did not write in my post is that in our American world death is an abstract.  Modern sanitation, medical care and food has changed death as a constant reminder of the frailty of life to one that is in the hospital or assisted living facility and not seen. 

  34. Maybe it was intentional.  “Unites” is code for “I’ll pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.” 😉 

  36. It’s no  surprise that trumpski’s lawyers can’t spell?  That whole swath of society is a failure of the American educational system.

  38. Once again, the Constitution DOES NOT say an impeachment trial cannot continue after an impeached president leaves office.  Why aren’t Dems throwing “strict constructionist” bullshit back at the Goopers?

  40. when Arlen Specter heard about restrictive voter registration issues in Pa (a few years ago) he realize it meant his mother wouldn’t be able to vote.   Needless to say he got some sort of exemption for her.   What about all the people who don’t have a U s  senator for a son?

  41. BB, just realized I left out an ingredient in the groundhog loaf recipe: crumbled up slice of wheat bread.  not sure it’s a necessity (like the egg) for binding the beast together but it’s traditional in most meat loaf recipes.

  42. funny how now when i see the white house on the news i no longer cringe at the thought of who’s in it.  

  43. Yeah, phrases starting with “the President” no longer make me nauseous and angry, when i hear them.
     
    Glad to see some of you getting your shots- i have at least a month to wait. 

  44. Ok, I’ve misspelled a word or two in my legal career. They prolly looked for the little red lines under misspelled words – unfortunately Unites is a legit word. You’d think that in an impeachment trial you’d have some puke read it OUT FUCKING LOUD to find the errors (best proofreading method BTW). 

  45. The base likes spelling errors, they don’t appreciate the Washington D.C. elite with their “‘cogent’ arguments” and “‘properly spelled’ words”.

  46. Also, the Republican base is in on the lie/joke, so i wouldn’t mind a singular purposely-disingenuous Democrat to shred the Republican line- that’s all that’s needed, just one.

    That is to say, none of these Republicans except the stupidest among them believe their own bullshit, time to expose that.

  47. Craig, I emailed you a post about Deb Halaand the first week of January, but then something happened that made me forget about it.  Something about an attempted coup, I think. 
    Anywhooz, POTUS Joe Biden EO’d Keystone since then, too.   

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