Thanks to Scotland for it’s “giftie gie” and to Trail friend Renee who brought it to our attention. That one perfect word that’s worth a thousand pictures:
23 thoughts on “Keeping Your Word”
wiki:
“To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church” is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie. The poem’s theme is contained in the final verse:
Burns original
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, An’ ev’n devotion!
Standard English translation
Oh, would some Power the gift give us To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free us, And foolish notion: What airs in dress and gait would leave us, And even devotion!
that word also fits a certain floriduh man
Everyone who works with Rep. Matt Gaetz thinks he’s a sleaze, the former president says he’ll go to Capitol Hill to help select the next House Speaker, and Rudy Giuliani’s alleged drinking problem is under the microscope.
inquiring minds’ most horrible thought of the day:
getting to be speaker and therefore in the line of succession is the newest scheme for loser guy to become prez.
hmmm, very interesting turn of events may ensue. stay tuned all you X-tweeters
This may come under the heading of be careful what you wish for. Trump has now endorsed Gym Jordan commonly known to be one of the stupidest men in Congress.
What’s a cockwombie who’s also a traitor to his country? Lock him up already!
NYT free link: Trump Revealed Nuclear Secrets to Australian Businessman. Soon after leaving office, the former president shared sensitive information about American submarines with a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago, according to people familiar with the matter. The businessman, Anthony Pratt, went on to share the sensitive details with several others. Mr. Trump’s disclosures potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet.
This will be a great gop test to see if there are ANY republican house members with ANY degree of decency. I have to think there are at least a handful who will want to stop the madness. I may be wrong. I mean, there is that primaries thing. They might all be abject cowards who would LIKE to have some decency but are just too afraid of losing their cushy little government jobs.
Yo
I swear, if brains were dynamite Dumbass wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose.
If you put it on the edge of a razor blade it would roll around like a BB on a 4-lane.
If it was lard it wouldn’t grease too big a pan. (Jed Clampett)
patd… glad you liked that one.
here’s today’s meme…
Cockwomble of the House. Mmmm, we could pretty much use that for any Republican House Speaker.
Will Dems work with non-exotic Repugz to vote in Liz Cheney as SOTH? Is this just a warning about Gym Jordan or is she campaigning to be drafted?
“Jim Jordan knew more about what Donald Trump had planned for Jan. 6 than any other member of the House of Representatives,” Cheney said. “Jim Jordan was involved, was part of the conspiracy in which Donald Trump was engaged as he attempted to overturn the election.”
“Cheney said there was a handful of people, Jordan being the leader, who knew what Trump had planned on that day. Cheney said in her speech that someone needs to ask Jordan why he didn’t report his knowledge about the events on Jan. 6 to Capitol Police.”
“Inflation is still biting. Prices continue to rise faster than anyone would like. Although annual price increases aren’t in wild-runaway mode like they were when inflation was above 9% last year, inflation is still above 3%, which is unhealthy for the economy, according to the Federal Reserve and a number of economists. (The Fed believes 2% inflation is ideal over the long haul.)”
After the supply chain problem eased, where we are now lays at the feet of the Fed.
What can be done now to help folks?
Price controls on basic necessities like food.
That helps everyone, but it doesn’t create a huge influx of extra dollars to be pumped into the economy and drive up prices elsewhere.
Geraldo Rivera: “Former President Trump’s remark about undocumented immigrants ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ is disgusting. Not only does it harken back to the Nazi-era, it is also part of the shameful, vile, centuries old tradition of claiming falsely that immigrants carry diseases.”
J6 Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren echoes Cheney: “What we found was Jordan was up to his neck in this plot to overturn the election, and he refused to talk to us”
Another blowout jobs report, Thanks, President Biden 🫡 🇺🇸
“House speaker candidates have pulled out of a planned joint interview on Fox News next week just hours after it was announced amid fierce blowback from GOP lawmakers, the latest sign of how simmering tensions within the conference are boiling over as Republicans scramble to find a new leader following Kevin McCarthy’s stunning ouster.”
“Both of the leading Republican candidates for speaker – Rep. Jim Jordan and Majority Leader Steve Scalise – backtracked from the plan to be interviewed jointly on Fox News with anchor Bret Baier from the Capitol next Monday…”
I want someone to go up Gym Jordan’s political and financial backside with a microscope to find out what he and tRUMPsky have planned.
My guess is that tRUMPsky will be happy with Gym as Speaker, but will want to take the job himself (or tap Junior) if it looks like someone less obsequious than Gym is likely to have the votes.
“At an invitation-only fundraiser held over Zoom last week, Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rosendale, who is said to be plotting another Senate run next year, heaped skepticism on the probe.”
“I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon, a podcaster and onetime political adviser to former President Donald Trump, who was moderating the discussion.
“They’re trying to engage in a, like, ‘forever war’ of impeachment,” Gaetz said. “And like many of our forever wars, it will drag on forever and end in a bloody draw.”
“As they fielded questions from high-dollar conservative donors, Gaetz and Rosendale were just days away from moving to end McCarthy’s speakership…”
So, the big money knows it’s all a lie, but the lie benefits them. It’s the poor folks who are still feeding on the hate that are making the demise of democracy a very real possibility.
“Many found the decision to bury Ivana at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster puzzling.”
“Under New Jersey state tax code, any land that is dedicated to cemetery purposes is exempt from all taxes, rates, and assessments. Cemetery companies are also specifically exempt from paying any real estate taxes, rates, and assessments or personal property taxes on their lands, as well as business taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and inheritance taxes.”
“… the savings would hardly be worth the trouble. That’s because Trump had already found a way to lower his taxes on that wooded, largely unused parcel. He had persuaded the township to declare it a farm, because some trees on the site are turned into mulch. Because of pro-farmer tax policies, Trump’s company pays just $16.31 per year in taxes on the parcel, which he bought for $461,000.”
“…Trump slashed his Bedminster tax bill by about $88,000 a year by keeping eight goats and farming 113 acres of hay on the property.”
“Former President Trump has abruptly dropped a federal lawsuit he filed against Michael Cohen, his former “fixer,” earlier this year. Trump had sought more than $500 million in damages from Cohen, claiming he had “spread falsehoods” about him.”
“Trump has “decided to temporarily pause his meritorious claims” against Cohen, the spokesperson said, added that Trump will continue to pursue the claims once he has “prevailed in dealing with the witch hunts against him.” Sources tell the New York Times that Trump advisers had been worried he would say something under oath in the deposition that could be used in one of the four criminal cases against him.”
Coalition of Media Outlets Requests Video Access to Trump’s Election Interference Trial Due to ‘Unprecedented Nature’
Coalition attorneys wrote in the petition that “the prosecution of a former president, now a presidential contender, on charges of subverting the electoral process presents the strongest possible circumstances for continuous public oversight of the justice system.”
They added: “That oversight, rooted in decades of First Amendment precedent and sound judicial policy, will be functionally illusory without audiovisual access to these proceedings.”
The proposal asks for live broadcasting from the courtroom, or that the court “publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.” The petition also requested that the court release audio and visual recordings at the end of each day during the trial.
*That sure would make it tougher for the MAGAt propaganda machine to infect folks with their lies.
wiki:
“To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church” is a 1786 Scots language poem by Robert Burns in his favourite meter, standard Habbie. The poem’s theme is contained in the final verse:
Burns original
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
An’ ev’n devotion!
Standard English translation
Oh, would some Power the gift give us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!
that word also fits a certain floriduh man
Everyone who works with Rep. Matt Gaetz thinks he’s a sleaze, the former president says he’ll go to Capitol Hill to help select the next House Speaker, and Rudy Giuliani’s alleged drinking problem is under the microscope.
inquiring minds’ most horrible thought of the day:
getting to be speaker and therefore in the line of succession is the newest scheme for loser guy to become prez.
hmmm, very interesting turn of events may ensue. stay tuned all you X-tweeters
Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover of Twitter | Elon Musk | The Guardian
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This may come under the heading of be careful what you wish for. Trump has now endorsed Gym Jordan commonly known to be one of the stupidest men in Congress.
What’s a cockwombie who’s also a traitor to his country? Lock him up already!
NYT free link: Trump Revealed Nuclear Secrets to Australian Businessman. Soon after leaving office, the former president shared sensitive information about American submarines with a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago, according to people familiar with the matter. The businessman, Anthony Pratt, went on to share the sensitive details with several others. Mr. Trump’s disclosures potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet.
This will be a great gop test to see if there are ANY republican house members with ANY degree of decency. I have to think there are at least a handful who will want to stop the madness. I may be wrong. I mean, there is that primaries thing. They might all be abject cowards who would LIKE to have some decency but are just too afraid of losing their cushy little government jobs.
Yo
I swear, if brains were dynamite Dumbass wouldn’t have enough to blow his nose.
If it was lard it wouldn’t grease too big a pan. (Jed Clampett)
patd… glad you liked that one.
here’s today’s meme…
Cockwomble of the House. Mmmm, we could pretty much use that for any Republican House Speaker.
Will Dems work with non-exotic Repugz to vote in Liz Cheney as SOTH? Is this just a warning about Gym Jordan or is she campaigning to be drafted?
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4241170-liz-cheney-thinks-jim-jordan-will-lose-speakership-vote/
“Jim Jordan knew more about what Donald Trump had planned for Jan. 6 than any other member of the House of Representatives,” Cheney said. “Jim Jordan was involved, was part of the conspiracy in which Donald Trump was engaged as he attempted to overturn the election.”
“Cheney said there was a handful of people, Jordan being the leader, who knew what Trump had planned on that day. Cheney said in her speech that someone needs to ask Jordan why he didn’t report his knowledge about the events on Jan. 6 to Capitol Police.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/economy/economy-mortgage-rates-cost-jobs-report/index.html
“Inflation is still biting. Prices continue to rise faster than anyone would like. Although annual price increases aren’t in wild-runaway mode like they were when inflation was above 9% last year, inflation is still above 3%, which is unhealthy for the economy, according to the Federal Reserve and a number of economists. (The Fed believes 2% inflation is ideal over the long haul.)”
After the supply chain problem eased, where we are now lays at the feet of the Fed.
What can be done now to help folks?
Price controls on basic necessities like food.
That helps everyone, but it doesn’t create a huge influx of extra dollars to be pumped into the economy and drive up prices elsewhere.
Geraldo Rivera: “Former President Trump’s remark about undocumented immigrants ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ is disgusting. Not only does it harken back to the Nazi-era, it is also part of the shameful, vile, centuries old tradition of claiming falsely that immigrants carry diseases.”
J6 Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren echoes Cheney: “What we found was Jordan was up to his neck in this plot to overturn the election, and he refused to talk to us”
Another blowout jobs report, Thanks, President Biden 🫡 🇺🇸
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/politics/speakers-race-fox-candidate-forum/index.html
“House speaker candidates have pulled out of a planned joint interview on Fox News next week just hours after it was announced amid fierce blowback from GOP lawmakers, the latest sign of how simmering tensions within the conference are boiling over as Republicans scramble to find a new leader following Kevin McCarthy’s stunning ouster.”
“Both of the leading Republican candidates for speaker – Rep. Jim Jordan and Majority Leader Steve Scalise – backtracked from the plan to be interviewed jointly on Fox News with anchor Bret Baier from the Capitol next Monday…”
I want someone to go up Gym Jordan’s political and financial backside with a microscope to find out what he and tRUMPsky have planned.
My guess is that tRUMPsky will be happy with Gym as Speaker, but will want to take the job himself (or tap Junior) if it looks like someone less obsequious than Gym is likely to have the votes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gaetz-biden-impeachment-rosendale-rcna119131
“At an invitation-only fundraiser held over Zoom last week, Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rosendale, who is said to be plotting another Senate run next year, heaped skepticism on the probe.”
“I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon, a podcaster and onetime political adviser to former President Donald Trump, who was moderating the discussion.
“They’re trying to engage in a, like, ‘forever war’ of impeachment,” Gaetz said. “And like many of our forever wars, it will drag on forever and end in a bloody draw.”
“As they fielded questions from high-dollar conservative donors, Gaetz and Rosendale were just days away from moving to end McCarthy’s speakership…”
So, the big money knows it’s all a lie, but the lie benefits them. It’s the poor folks who are still feeding on the hate that are making the demise of democracy a very real possibility.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ivana-trump-buried-bedminster-3-theories.html
“Many found the decision to bury Ivana at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster puzzling.”
“Under New Jersey state tax code, any land that is dedicated to cemetery purposes is exempt from all taxes, rates, and assessments. Cemetery companies are also specifically exempt from paying any real estate taxes, rates, and assessments or personal property taxes on their lands, as well as business taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and inheritance taxes.”
“… the savings would hardly be worth the trouble. That’s because Trump had already found a way to lower his taxes on that wooded, largely unused parcel. He had persuaded the township to declare it a farm, because some trees on the site are turned into mulch. Because of pro-farmer tax policies, Trump’s company pays just $16.31 per year in taxes on the parcel, which he bought for $461,000.”
“…Trump slashed his Bedminster tax bill by about $88,000 a year by keeping eight goats and farming 113 acres of hay on the property.”
https://www.newser.com/story/341056/trump-abruptly-drops-500m-lawsuit-against-michael-cohen.html
“Former President Trump has abruptly dropped a federal lawsuit he filed against Michael Cohen, his former “fixer,” earlier this year. Trump had sought more than $500 million in damages from Cohen, claiming he had “spread falsehoods” about him.”
“Trump has “decided to temporarily pause his meritorious claims” against Cohen, the spokesperson said, added that Trump will continue to pursue the claims once he has “prevailed in dealing with the witch hunts against him.” Sources tell the New York Times that Trump advisers had been worried he would say something under oath in the deposition that could be used in one of the four criminal cases against him.”
https://www.thewrap.com/media-outlets-livestream-video-youtube-donald-trump-election-interference-trial/
Coalition of Media Outlets Requests Video Access to Trump’s Election Interference Trial Due to ‘Unprecedented Nature’
Coalition attorneys wrote in the petition that “the prosecution of a former president, now a presidential contender, on charges of subverting the electoral process presents the strongest possible circumstances for continuous public oversight of the justice system.”
They added: “That oversight, rooted in decades of First Amendment precedent and sound judicial policy, will be functionally illusory without audiovisual access to these proceedings.”
The proposal asks for live broadcasting from the courtroom, or that the court “publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.” The petition also requested that the court release audio and visual recordings at the end of each day during the trial.
*That sure would make it tougher for the MAGAt propaganda machine to infect folks with their lies.
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