Sep 15, 2019
Today's GIF
When you finally notice you're stuck in an endless loop of watching videos of cats doing wacky stuff, you've entered The Möbius Web.
Sep 14, 2019
Echoes
It pisses me off that I don't know this shit before I learn about this shit.
I went to public schools in what was then a very progressive district, and we never heard one fucking thing about this - or about Tulsa, or Rosewood, or Sanford, or any of the other incidents of outright white supremacist assholery that still goes on in this country even though it gets dressed up in different clothing once in a while and changes its name so we can pretend it's not happening the way POC tell us it's happening.
It pisses me off.
I went to public schools in what was then a very progressive district, and we never heard one fucking thing about this - or about Tulsa, or Rosewood, or Sanford, or any of the other incidents of outright white supremacist assholery that still goes on in this country even though it gets dressed up in different clothing once in a while and changes its name so we can pretend it's not happening the way POC tell us it's happening.
It pisses me off.
New Tech
Don't get me wrong - this is just too damned cool, but it reminds me strongly of using leeches and maggots to treat certain ailments.
They're making such great progress, even though they're still hung up on an Analog kind of approach.
The question is: When will we see this become the "weird shit they used to do"?
They're making such great progress, even though they're still hung up on an Analog kind of approach.
The question is: When will we see this become the "weird shit they used to do"?
'Bout Fuckin' Time
Better late than never, I reckon.
Here's a man who was trained as an Army engineer - one of the guys who can clear mine fields and build bridges and make sure the airplanes can land and take off so everybody gets the beans and the bullets and the bandaids they need - but was deemed no more valuable than to spend his time doing laundry for three white officers.
AP - New Orleans:
A man considered to be the nation's oldest living World War II veteran was serenaded and showered with kisses during a celebration of his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Lawrence Brooks was born Sept. 12, 1909, and served in the predominantly African American 91st Engineer Battalion stationed in New Guinea and then the Philippines. He was a servant to three white officers and his daily routine included cleaning their sheets and uniforms and shining their shoes.
There's something seriously wrong with this country. Sometimes we get around to doing something to make up for it, but it seems like those efforts are few and far between, and they don't come along at all unless something or someone kinda forces the issue.
Here's a man who was trained as an Army engineer - one of the guys who can clear mine fields and build bridges and make sure the airplanes can land and take off so everybody gets the beans and the bullets and the bandaids they need - but was deemed no more valuable than to spend his time doing laundry for three white officers.
AP - New Orleans:
A man considered to be the nation's oldest living World War II veteran was serenaded and showered with kisses during a celebration of his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
Lawrence Brooks was born Sept. 12, 1909, and served in the predominantly African American 91st Engineer Battalion stationed in New Guinea and then the Philippines. He was a servant to three white officers and his daily routine included cleaning their sheets and uniforms and shining their shoes.
There's something seriously wrong with this country. Sometimes we get around to doing something to make up for it, but it seems like those efforts are few and far between, and they don't come along at all unless something or someone kinda forces the issue.
Happy birthday, Mr Brooks. You've deserved a lot better than what we've delivered for you.
Some of us will keep trying.
Today's Tweet
I'm kinda partial to anthrax and ricin myself - why aren't they standing up for my god-given right to keep and bear those arms?
Democrats say we have guns in America because of “corruption”. No, we have guns because it’s our God-given right enshrined in the Constitution.— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) September 13, 2019
Sep 12, 2019
Today's Tweet
This may be a rerun - don't care. Doesn't matter if she's a Poe or not, it's just spooky AF thinking these knuckleheads are all around us.
THIS ONE IS DUMBER THAN A BOX OF COOKIES: A QAnon follower explains how she responds when somebody asks her "What is Q?"pic.twitter.com/JF062WiHX5— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) September 12, 2019
via travis_
A Matter Of Management Style
WaPo:
President Trump told his staff that the nation’s leading weather forecasting agency needed to correct a statement that contradicted a tweet the president had sent wrongly claiming that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama, senior administration officials said.
That led White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to call Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to tell him to fix the issue, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the issue. Trump had complained for several days that forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contradicted his Sept. 1 Alabama tweet, the officials said.
Mulvaney then called Ross, who was traveling in Greece, and told him that the agency needed to fix things immediately, the officials said. Mulvaney did not instruct Ross to threaten any firings or offer punitive actions. But Ross then called NOAA acting administrator Neil Jacobs, the officials said. That led to an unusual, unsigned statement from NOAA released on Sept. 6 that backed Trump’s false claim about Alabama and admonished the National Weather Service’s Birmingham, Ala., division for speaking “in absolute terms” that there would not be “any” impacts from Dorian in the state. The Weather Service is an arm of NOAA, which is an agency within the Commerce Department. The New York Times first reported some elements of the White House involvement.
Most of us have worked in a shop where it's "Management By Shit Rolling Downhill".
Everybody has to become either a snitch or the invisible man just to survive, which makes for a god-awful place to work, as that environment never leads to good outcomes for your business. Ever.
It's The Corruption, Stoopid
Nothing fails like prayer, but Republican rationalization is running a very close 2nd.
MSNBC, Steve Benen:
At a Capitol Hill press conference yesterday, a reporter asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), a close White House ally, if “the federal government should be spending money at the president’s resorts, especially when he is not staying at them.” According to CQ Newsmaker Transcripts, this was the GOP leader’s response:
The trouble, of course, is that McCarthy’s argument is woefully inadequate.
There were attempts to suggest McCarthy was just "playing dumb", but I think you'd have to be pretty dumb to think we'd buy the shit he was trying to peddle.
It's interesting that McCarthy's loud braying about "The Trump Economy" (the only thing Repubs have that might boost their favorables) gets drowned out by the ridiculous things 45* pulls out of his ass almost every day.
And don't forget that the GOP can't win anything if we all get to vote.
They reiterated that yesterday in NC.
Vox:
September 11 was supposed to be an uneventful day in North Carolina’s state capitol. Instead, it became a case study in the lengths Republican lawmakers in the state are willing to go to push through their agenda.
The state legislature was in session Wednesday morning, but Democrats were told there wouldn’t be any votes. So some lawmakers joined Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper at a ceremony for the victims of 9/11. Others stayed in their districts. Democrat state Rep. Grier Martin told me he took the time to go on a run.
Only nine Democrats went to the floor of the General Assembly. They were met with 55 Republicans ready to stage what Democrats are now calling a political ambush.
Republican leaders scheduled a surprise vote to override Cooper’s budget veto, an unprecedented partisan play that blindsided the state Democrats. Cooper called it “trickery, deception, and lies.”
North Carolina has a Democratic governor. But the state legislature is controlled by Republicans. Since late June, the state has been stuck in a legislative impasse; Cooper vetoed a two-year budget bill, arguing it underpaid teachers, awarded unnecessary giveaways to corporations and failed to include a Medicaid expansion. Republicans have been itching to override his veto ever since, unwilling to negotiate health care for low income North Carolinians.
But as of last November, state Republicans lost their veto-proof majorities in the state legislature, when Democrats flipped 16 seats across the state Assembly and Senate. On September 11, Republicans in the General Assembly saw their opportunity. Half of the chamber was empty. They voted to override Cooper’s veto. Now it goes to the state senate, where Republicans need one Democrat to join their ranks to officially override the veto.
“Basically, we have to stand guard on the floor,” Democratic state Sen. Jeff Jackson said.
Republicans are liars crooks and losers - they have no honor.
MSNBC, Steve Benen:
House GOP leader tries, fails to defend Trump profiting from presidency
At a Capitol Hill press conference yesterday, a reporter asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), a close White House ally, if “the federal government should be spending money at the president’s resorts, especially when he is not staying at them.” According to CQ Newsmaker Transcripts, this was the GOP leader’s response:
“The president’s resorts are hotels that he owns. If people are traveling, it’s just like any other hotel. I know people will look at it. I don’t know that that’s different than anything else.
“Is it different than if I go and stay or eat at a Marriott here or eat at the Trump? The president isn’t asking me to. He’s competing in a private enterprise. It’s nothing, something that he controls in that process.”I appreciate the fact that McCarthy didn’t just dodge the question. This appears to be an issue to which McCarthy has given some thought, and for those of us wondering whether Republicans care about allegations of presidential self-dealing, it’s good to hear a GOP articulate the party’s perspective.
The trouble, of course, is that McCarthy’s argument is woefully inadequate.
There were attempts to suggest McCarthy was just "playing dumb", but I think you'd have to be pretty dumb to think we'd buy the shit he was trying to peddle.
It's interesting that McCarthy's loud braying about "The Trump Economy" (the only thing Repubs have that might boost their favorables) gets drowned out by the ridiculous things 45* pulls out of his ass almost every day.
And don't forget that the GOP can't win anything if we all get to vote.
They reiterated that yesterday in NC.
Vox:
September 11 was supposed to be an uneventful day in North Carolina’s state capitol. Instead, it became a case study in the lengths Republican lawmakers in the state are willing to go to push through their agenda.
The state legislature was in session Wednesday morning, but Democrats were told there wouldn’t be any votes. So some lawmakers joined Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper at a ceremony for the victims of 9/11. Others stayed in their districts. Democrat state Rep. Grier Martin told me he took the time to go on a run.
Only nine Democrats went to the floor of the General Assembly. They were met with 55 Republicans ready to stage what Democrats are now calling a political ambush.
Republican leaders scheduled a surprise vote to override Cooper’s budget veto, an unprecedented partisan play that blindsided the state Democrats. Cooper called it “trickery, deception, and lies.”
North Carolina has a Democratic governor. But the state legislature is controlled by Republicans. Since late June, the state has been stuck in a legislative impasse; Cooper vetoed a two-year budget bill, arguing it underpaid teachers, awarded unnecessary giveaways to corporations and failed to include a Medicaid expansion. Republicans have been itching to override his veto ever since, unwilling to negotiate health care for low income North Carolinians.
But as of last November, state Republicans lost their veto-proof majorities in the state legislature, when Democrats flipped 16 seats across the state Assembly and Senate. On September 11, Republicans in the General Assembly saw their opportunity. Half of the chamber was empty. They voted to override Cooper’s veto. Now it goes to the state senate, where Republicans need one Democrat to join their ranks to officially override the veto.
“Basically, we have to stand guard on the floor,” Democratic state Sen. Jeff Jackson said.
Sep 11, 2019
Something A Man Once Said
Listen for the part about living in chaos (near the end at about 7:15), and how it's not sustainable.
- and "we've already won".
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