Monday, January 22, 2018

His name's Jim.


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  1. TODAY!

    via Rick Thoman (Alaska):

    "First sunrise of the year is Jan 22 at Utqiaġvik, Alaska 🌞"

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  2. Jim would be a crow or raven, I suppose?

    Alan

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  3. Keystone Komedians in the White House? Yep, we've seen smarter cabinets at Ikea.--Alan
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    Trump Turns on His Interior Secretary

    January 21, 2018 at 6:26 pm ESTBy Taegan Goddard164 Comments
    Jonathan Swan: “Two weeks ago, Zinke made an announcement that surprised the White House (and over Twitter, no less, after telling reporters at the Tallahassee airport): the waters around Florida would be exempt from his agency’s offshore oil and gas leasing program. Zinke’s announcement came shortly after he met with the state’s Republican governor, Rick Scott.”

    “Trump has made clear to Zinke that he’s angry about this move… Zinke’s decision is both legally and politically dangerous for the Trump administration. Zinke did not coordinate with anybody, and gave the White House no forewarning of his controversial action.”

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    1. He and all his appointees seem to think they are feudal lords, each ruling over his own little fiefdom. While to us they look like a pack of larcenous idiots.

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    2. They're not even good at being feudal; they are notably disloyal to their superiors. It seems to me that they are more akin to anarchists.

      Alan

      Oh, and on top of all the resignations of congressmen in PA, now the state supreme court has thrown out the current districts as unconstitutional--under the PA constitution, so there is no appeal.

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    3. But anarchists can't rule anybody at all, so that obviously doesn't fit.

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    4. I suppose it would concentrate their minds remarkably if they were actually and reliably to suffer the standard repercussions of disloyalty in a feudal government...

      Alan

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    1. I remember where I grew up we could regularly see the Milky Way, and all seven stars in the Pleiades with the naked eye. I remember lying out on the lawn watching artificial satellites pass over, when they came to be.

      Alan

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    2. Much of Vermont is still that way!

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  5. Bonus Quote of the Day
    January 22nd, 2018
    “I believe history will remember him like John Dean.”
    — Simona Mangiante, the fiancee of George Papadopoulos, quoted by the Washington Post, adding “there’s a lot to come.”

    A lot more to come? Maybe related to this?
    The Conspicuous Gap In Mueller’s Case Against Trump Adviser Papadopoulos[Click]
    Nov. 5th, 2017

    --Alan

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    1. Note of Merit: It was at the Presidential Debate on 27 July 2016 that DT asked the Russians to look into the 30,000 Clinton emails. Given that Mueller's Gap begins on 22 July, and given that DT cannot say he knew NOTHING about the Russians, with a statement like that so near to when Papadopoulos was connecting with Russian #2, it does seems that DT is in it bigly.

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    2. Dum spiro, spero!

      Alan

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