Thursday, February 07, 2019

Tightrope




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  1. For a change, there seems to be nothing particularly newsworthy out of Washington this morning.

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  2. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-nancy-pelosi-apos-sotu-193600309.html

    "One of her most talked-about body language choices was to read her way through most of Trump's meandering address. She was in all likelihood reading a transcript of his speech to see if he was staying on-script (another power move). Body language expert Patti Wood, author of Snap: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language, and Charisma, called it "an obvious, clear, and sustained nonverbal message of disbelief and disregard for the president."

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    1. Y'know, I actually thought she was reading the speech. I'm not sure why. I'd have to go back and see, but I think it's because he said something odd and she picked up the papers. I don't think I quite put it together enough to articulate it, but I had a hunch.

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  3. It hadn't occurred to me that she might have been reading a transcript of the speech, but that does seem both likely and interesting. Thanks for the heads-up, Susan. And herewith some idle gleanings for the morniing (which was just a bit frosty for us, like yesterday).

    Brooke Harrington: 'Aristocrats are anarchists': why the wealthy back Trump and Brexit [Click]

    Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest [Click] How had I missed this story?

    No-deal Brexit: UK exporters risk being locked out of world's harbours [Click] “Goods dispatched in coming days may not arrive until after 29 March deadline”

    Sam Lowe: Forget new trade deals – Britain’s struggling to keep the ones it has [Click]

    Tom Kibasi: A no-deal Brexit won’t result in a siege. The EU will be more clinical than that [Click] “In truth, the short-term impact of a no-deal Brexit would be not nearly as bad as predicted, but the long-term impact will be much worse than feared.”

    Gloom de jour: Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America [Click] “When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.”

    A new way to stop mosquitos from biting? [Click]

    Trump Is Walling Off the GOP [Click]

    When Amazon Went From Big to Unbelievably Big [Click] “The data on the company’s real-estate holdings reveal a remarkable inflection point.” Gee—so recently?

    Yesterday I received my ballot for the “March 5th” election; I marked it last night and put it out in the mailbox this morning. I will be interested to see how many mailers I get in the next several weeks.

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    1. Sam Lowe

      I had to do a double take. It seems a mashup of Rob Lowe's character Sam Seaborn from West Wing. LOL!

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    2. VERY cool that the drug could not only work on mosquitoes but also ticks!!

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  4. I am just checking to see that the blog is actually working on this windy night in C-land.

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  5. The Throwback Democrat [Click] “Sherrod Brown could help his party win back white working-class voters—but…his weakness as a candidate is the possibility that he embodies a party that no longer exists.”

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