34 thoughts on “Moonstruck”

  1. couldn’t pass up the buck staring at the super buck moon. this morning Billie Bob the princess dog and Bodhi the cat both seemed hypnotized by it in the same way i was.  due to the atmosphere here, it seemed to have rays shooting from it.  absolutely gorgeous.
    it appears to get bigger as it’s setting and in relation to what’s on the horizon but not so big earlier in the night.

    here’s another photo that’s from todacanada

     See the source image

  2. how big or in this case how high the moon by a fine jazz pianist usually known only for his movies

  4. interesting disclosure reported in wapo. here’s an excerpt: 

    Mother Jones is out with a new Bannon tape from Oct 31, 2020, in which Bannon talks in detail — presciently, it turns out — about how President Donald Trump would claim victory on election night regardless of where the vote count stood.
    […]
    To be clear, this is hardly the first indication that Trump’s false victory declaration was preplanned, nor is it news that Bannon was predicting as much. A day after these taped comments, Axios’s Jonathan Swan reported that Trump had told advisors that he would declare victory if it looked like he was ahead at the time — even if the outcome wasn’t final. And even as voters were voting on Election Day, Bannon on his podcast publicly echoed his private prediction Trump would claim victory between 10 and 11 p.m.
    But what the new comments add to the record is what Bannon might have viewed as the ends. And just as his prescience about Trump’s premature victory declaration and about “all hell” breaking loose on Jan. 6 invite all kinds of questions about just what he knew about Trump’s plans, so too does how he described the potential impact of Trump declaring victory.
    [continues]

    Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory – Mother Jones

  5. And yet a Harris poll referred to in Marc Thiessen’s column in WaPo yesterday shows the presidential race to literally be a dead heat. (I have to say that’s a double “consider the source” reference- Marc “torture boy” Thiessen citing a poll from Mark “caucus states aren’t important” Penn’s polling organization). Either those poll results are faulty or half the country is just nucking futz. 

  7. My last word on the subject…..You anti-Biden Mugs better pay attention to your surroundings. Biden, with Clyburn’s help, saved America’s ass and has done a better job than any other democrat could have and now you want to dump on him?
    Fuck that. 

    Clyburn’s position.
    Jim Clyburn says he’d endorse Kamala in 2024 if Biden doesn’t run. “Right now, I’m for Biden, and sec­ond I’m for Har­ris…So I don’t care who goes to New Hamp­shire or Iowa, I’m for Biden and then I’m for Har­ris—ei­ther to­gether or in that or­der.”

    So, Yeah, sure—go ahead and piss off Jim Clyburn; then afterward you can sift thru the ashes of democracy in America.

  8. Michael Beschloss tweet

    “We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil…preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.” Adlai Stevenson in last major speech before dying today 1965

    Fifty-seven years and four billion less people ago, and we still haven’t really done anything.

     

  9. Glowy moon caught me by surprise last night, hadn’t known what everybody was talking about. Like what you saw Pat, rays shooting out in a halo effect. Very cool.

  10. That’s not a “buck”  it’s a bull” .
    Elk –
    Bulls and Cows 
     
    Deer –
    Bucks and Does
     
    Even if the Insurance company wants “re-brand” it. 

  11. I’m with Sturg – Biden & Harris   

    Beto is within 6 points of Abbott in one poll and within 5 points in another.  

    Eager for a statewide breakthrough, Texas Democrats will soon decide who will lead their party

    “Abbott, Patrick and Paxton all are Republicans. On Nov. 8, all are seeking a third four-year term.”

    “All three are polling below 50% among likely voters — a potential sign of trouble for an incumbent.”

    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/07/13/texas-gov-greg-abbott-leads-beto-orourke-by-5-points-uh-poll-finds/

    The moon was big and bright last night and it was still pretty showy this morning.

  12. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/12/jan-6-committee-texans-brian-babin-louie-gohmert/

    “Two Republican Texas congressmen — Brian Babin of Woodville and Louie Gohmert of Tyler — participated in a December 2020 White House discussion about whether former Vice President Mike Pence could reject former President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection loss, the U.S. House Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed Tuesday.”

    “The December 2020 meeting also included some of Trump’s most ardent Republican supporters in Congress, according to visitor logs obtained by the committee: Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Andy Harris of Maryland, Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona, Jody Hice of Georgia, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia also attended.”

    None of them should be able to hold any office, again.

  13. Some good news  , the Ukrainians  are hitting Russian ammo dumps, watch the video in this story.

    Grayson Quay, Weekend editor
    Wed, July 13, 2022 at 4:51 PM·2 min read
    Japanese HIMARS launcher
    Japanese HIMARS launcher Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images
    Ukrainian forces are using new, long-range rocket launchers provided by Western countries to strike targets far behind Russian lines, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

    The Times describes a “fireball” that “lit up the sky” over occupied Luhansk on Wednesday morning in what Russian media described as a strike on an aircraft battery.

    Russian state media reported that similar strikes against ammunition depots near Kherson in southern Ukraine actually targeted civilians, leaving seven dead. Ukraine’s military rejected this claim.

    Per the Times, Ukrainian forces are carrying out these strikes with “truck-mounted, multiple rocket launchers known as High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems or HIMARS.”

    As explained here at The Week, “HIMARS is a lighter, more mobile cousin of the [Multiple Launch Rocket System]” and has an effective range of more than 180 miles. That’s 10 times the range of the M777 howitzers the U.S. previously sent Ukraine.

    On June 1, a U.S. official confirmed that the HIMARS was headed to Kyiv as part of a new $700 million military aid package.

    If Ukraine is able to successfully disrupt Russia’s logistics and artillery operations, this could be a game changer. During the Donbas campaign, Russia has relied heavily on its massive artillery advantage to drive back Ukrainian forces, shooting some 50,000 artillery rounds per day, 10 times what Ukraine could manage.

     

     

    Ukraine strikes behind Russian lines with long-range launchers from the West

    https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-strikes-behind-russian-lines-215105163.html

  19. Biden this or challenger that, Dems need to throw the progressive left a bone or two, and quick
     
    The right embraces their loons, the left ostracizes theirs, neither can win without each, respectively 

    climate change mitigation, reproductive rights codification, college access/debt relief- something; anything

  20. bink, every time joe tries to throw a bone to the growling malcontents mitch’s pack of dogs grabs them before they hit the ground and chews them up or buries them.

     

    craig, i think it’s the valet too but not just to relate what went on during the gleeful watch party.  he may have several stories to tell about 4 years of cleaning up broken plates, big macs on the carpet and spaghetti sauce on the historic murals covering the walls.

    and what about the maids/janitors who found the commander in chief sh*t’s toilet clogged with suspicious papers?

  21. BTW, that bull elk is basking in the moonlight but he’s looking away from the moon.
     
    Bannon – nice try buddy, but the judge ain’t buying what you’re selling.  
     
    I’d love to see Meadows going down, but my money on the Meadows thing is that if Dumbass’ attorneys are right and Meadows is in danger of going down, he ain’t going down alone.

  26. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/14/texas-biden-emergency-abortion/

    “The Biden administration reassured the nation’s doctors that they don’t need to wait until a patient’s health deteriorates before acting and that they can act in cases where nontreatment would result in serious impairment…”

    “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues the Biden administration is violating the state’s “sovereign interest” by reassuring the nation’s doctors they can perform abortions in medical emergencies.”

    In other words, TEXAS REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT TO SAVE THE LIVES OF WOMEN. TEXAS REPUBLICANS DO NOT CARE IF WOMEN SUFFER AND/OR DIE.

    Just wait until the wife of an important Republican (because women can’t be important on their own, according to Republicans) dies from sepsis after an ectopic pregnancy ruptures an ovary and Fallopian tube, and, the doctors in Texas are now too afraid to help her.

  27. They will try to milk Ivana’s  death for sympathy,  but there is no sympathy for the devil, his evil minions, or, his demon spawn.

    Two words as to the orange guy’s love for Ivanka: Marla Maples

  30. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/politics/secret-service-text-messages-erased/index.html

    “The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency’s response to the US Capitol riot…”

    BB – Don’t they exist somewhere, anyway?

    “The Secret Service has been in the spotlight since witnesses have described how former President Donald Trump angrily demanded that his detail take him to the Capitol following his speech at the White House Ellipse — shortly before rioters breached the building.
    A former adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence also referenced the Secret Service in his testimony. Greg Jacob, Pence’s former counsel, told the panel that Pence refused to get into the vice presidential vehicle after being evacuated from the Capitol, raising concerns that the driver would have taken him to a secure location and thus prevent him from certifying the electoral results.”

  31. Hey everyone. Just a quick post. My sister was shopping in downtown Holland yesterday. She was looking at clothes on a clearance rack. Another woman was looking at clothes on the same rack as her. The woman was wearing a nice dress and high heel shoes. My sister glanced up at her and the woman was Betsy DeVos. As if she NEEDS to shop the clearance rack.

  33. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/us/indiana-ag-ohio-rape-victim/index.html

    All Republicans have got to go. They are monsters.

    “…an Indianapolis-based Ob-Gyn, told CNN earlier this month that she helped the girl after Ohio banned abortion as early as six weeks of gestation following the US Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. The young girl was raped in early May and police in Columbus were first alerted of her pregnancy on June 22, according to police documents and court testimony.”

    “Indiana’s Republican attorney general said Thursday that authorities in his state are investigating — for potential failure to report child abuse — a doctor who said she recently helped a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio obtain an abortion in Indiana, even as the attack already had been reported by the girl’s mother and Ohio police were investigating.”

    “In a statement, Bernard’s attorney said her client “took every appropriate and proper action in accordance with the law and both her medical and ethical training as a physician.”

    Intimidating other doctors from helping women (and children) in need of medical care. Republicans are monsters.

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