October Geranium!
I don't recall ever before having such a delicate flower still blooming in the second half of October. This one has made it through a frost and a freeze, since the ground and root system are still warm. We won't have another chance of frost now for at least a week, so this flower is likely to set a record!
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/not-stable-former-bush-advisor-says-trump-is-psychologically-and-emotionally-not-well-after-fallen-soldier-incident/
ReplyDelete“It’s not just this incident, this is one of a series of incidents,” he explained. “There’s data point after data point in the campaign and during the presidency. This is a president who has a disordered mind. He’s impulsive and vindictive. And even when it is in his self-interest not to do certain things like drag Gen. Kelly’s son into this or drag President [Barack] Obama into this, or get into a fight with the Khan family, or go after John McCain; he continues to do it. There’s no strategy. This is a person who is just not in command of his emotions and feelings and actions.”
listener, did your book from the 27 psychologists arrive?
I think it is appropriate (and not excessively specific) to identify him as a mental defective. An old-fashioned term, surely, but that's OK.
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20667-second-world-war-bombers-changed-the-weather/
ReplyDeleteI'd say it was early dementia, but when he was in college, he had a date with Candace Bergen. He showed up in a burgundy suit, with matching shoes, and the car was burgundy also. . . . She said she was home by nine.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/watch-bush-just-delivered-a-stunning-16-minute-repudiation-of-trumpism-without-ever-mentioning-his-name/
ReplyDeleteFrom the speech:
"“Being American involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility,” Bush remarked. “We become the heirs of Thomas Jefferson by accepting the ideal of human dignity found in the Declaration of Independence, we become the heirs of James Madison by understanding the genius and values of the U.S. constitution, we become a heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. by recognizing one another not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. This means that people of every race, religion and ethnicity can be fully and equally American.”
Bush also warned that some American leaders were not acting like positive role models.
“Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children. The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”
Geez, and to think I used to scorn Bush for his stupidity. I'm sure someone else was the writer, but Bush was smart enough to know it needed to be said in public. Compared to Cheetolini Bush comes off like a Rhodes Scholar in this instance.
Oh. My. God. This is really, really long and really, really horrible. I don't know how else to share it other than copy and paste, but I think it's important to read it.
ReplyDeletePlease take the time to read this brief explanation of what happened to four brave young men in Niger. We owe them that much at the very least.
Garr Novick From Bob Lamb:
While everyone is so busy talking about Trump's handling of his call to the widow of the soldier killed in Niger, you're all missing the important part of that story -- the part about what happened that night in Niger.
The story that is emerging is so much worse than anything that happened in Benghazi, but the same GOP Congress that investigated Benghazi with a fury seems to have little or no interest in this story.
Here's what we know so far:
These soldiers went to a meeting in an area near the border with Mali. This is a well known hot spot for ISIS activity.
Our soldiers were not backed up by US Military air support. No, they were backed up by the French, who were not authorized to intervene or even fire a shot.
Our soldiers did not have armored vehicles. They traveled in pickup trucks.
Our soldiers were given faulty intel that said "it was unlikely that they would meet any hostile forces." Of course, they walked into an ISIS ambush. It was chaotic and they took three casualties.
It took the French 30 minutes to arrive. When they did, they were not authorized to help. So, a dozen of our Green Berets fought a battle with more than 50 ISIS fighters, without help, for 30 minutes.
Finally, a rescue helicopter arrived, but it was not a US military helicopter. No, we apparently outsourced that job to “private contractors.” So, these contractors landed and loaded the remaining troops, the injured and the dead.
Here's where this gets really bad ....
Because they were not military, they never did a head count. That is how Sgt. La David Johnson was left behind.
That's right .... they left him behind.
According to the Pentagon, his locator beacon was activated on the battlefield, which indicates that he was alive when they left him there.
They recovered his body 48 hours later, but are refusing to say where. According to his widow, she was told that she could not have an open casket funeral. This indicates that he was mutilated after being left behind on the battlefield.
This is what led to the nonsense we're obsessing over. This is the real story. As usual, you're allowing it to be about Trump's distraction, but this is Benghazi on steroids.
The Trump Pentagon gave these men bad intel, no support, outsourced rescue people and then tried for more than a week to pretend it never happened.
In that time, Trump spoke on many occasions and never mentioned it. He tweeted attacks on many but never mentioned these men.
Only after pressure from the media has he bothered to even acknowledge these men and their service
From the little bits we've heard I knew it was bad. I never imagined it was this bad!
DeleteWHAT is going on?!! Are our soldiers being sold to the lowest bidder?!!
I believe I will be cancelling today. I'm going back to bed.
ReplyDeleteI agree that W's statement must have been written by someone else, Susan. Maybe one of his father's advisors. And giving him credit for realizing it needed to be said (very late, but still said) is fair. One of the things I most disliked about W is his lack of regard for the men and women in our armed forces; someone said, fairly I think, that he treated them like toy soldiers. That attitude seems to have become general in the Republican political class. Stinkers.
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P.S.: It looks like I will have a job up at Beale Air Force Base in November; doing a little research on the base and its environs, I discovered that there is an SR-71 on display at the main gate! I have never seen one in the flesh, as it were--that's going to be a highlight of the trip. An engineering marvel of the slide rule era. I remember an early photo in Life or Look of an SR-71 taking off (at night--it was still officially a secret) from an air base in the UK.
"listener, did your book from the 27 psychologists arrive?"
ReplyDeleteIt did! It arrived on Tuesday and I haven't even had chance to open it yet, even to look at the Table of Contents. I hope to tomorrow, though.
Every day that goes by DT does something horrible. WHEN will Mueller or Congress or the Judiciary or the rising up of We the People get that man out of power?!! It's a world gone crazy!
We are headed up to Canada on Sunday to visit a friend. Can we please just stay?
Sorry for my late response. Mah*Sweetie had a root canal this morning; I weeded gardens at our son's house this afternoon; this evening we went to see the play Sense & Sensibility at [wait for it] Lost Nation Theater in Vermont's capitol city of Montpelier.
We delicate subtropical flowers would find the weather challenging in Canada; but that shouldn't be a problem for Vermonters. But the tax laws for US citizens living abroad are extremely onerous. Financially we oldsters are pretty much trapped down here.
DeleteI had a root canal quite a few years ago; the pain relief was miraculous; I hope it was so for your Sweetie, listener.
--Alan