Tuesday, July 16, 2019

A Good Day


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  1. Cash shortage squeezes huge Dem field [Click] I expect we will see desperate attempts to break out at the second debate.

    How Trump Broke the Immigration Courts [Click]

    The Border Patrol Hits a Breaking Point [Click]

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes that immigrants are protected by laws from employment discrimination, including harassment based on national origin. Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, “Go back to where you came from,” whether made by supervisors or by co-workers. Click here.

    History and speculation about the US political future. [Click] Quite a few interesting slides here…

    The story of William Belknap provides a way forward for Democrats. [Click] A very interesting lesson from history.

    It occurs to me that not only is Trump not up to the job of being President, he is now showing clear signs that he is feeling overwhelmed. Put another way, the man is having a nervous breakdown, and he has foreclosed his escape routes. Even though it was hardly noticed in the flood of craziness yesterday, Rep. Pelosi [a woman!] landed a body blow on him by refusing a simple debt increase bill. Sooner or later there will be a straw that breaks the camel’s back—he will unquestionably qualify for the looney bin (if one grants, for the sake of discussion, that he is not yet there).

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  2. The killer cop who took Eric Garner's life walks free. How do we secure justice? [Click] “Here lies a painful truth: we can’t rely on the criminal justice system for black liberation. But we don’t need to, either.” Not just blacks, either.

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  3. We lost Sally Kitty last evening. So, for me, it is not a good day.

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    1. Oh, I'm sorry, Cat; our pets really are part of our family, part of who we are.

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    2. Awwwww. 😿

      Very sad to hear that, Catreona.
      How old was Sally Kitty?

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    3. Thank you. As far as I can figure, she must have been nearly twenty-five. She had been declining for some time, but in recent weeks she became far less interested in eating - would only eat tuna, though she drank well. And she kept her plucky personality and iron will right to the end. do you know, she used to shout at Dad? There's no other way to put it; she shouted at him most imperiously. Other than that, she had a pleasant, easy-going personality, very friendly and polite. She always said hello whenever she saw me. Her loss hits Dad particularly hard, though we're all going to miss her.

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    4. Gee, 25 years old? I looked it up, and that would be roughly equivalent to
      115 years [Click] for a human! She must have been very well cared for.

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    5. Wow! 25?!! That's more than ANY cat I've ever heard of. What a wonderfully long life she had! Well done, Catreona and Family. She must have been very much loved. I feel such warmth for your Dad, hearing that story.

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  4. Donald Trump is a very ill man. Apparently, his wife and children do not care about his well being and he is surrounded by toadies, or maybe just toads, who will cling to and facilitate him no matter what he says or does and no matter how mentally or physically distressed he becomes. Nor apparently is the vice president sufficiently eager to move into the Oval Office to take over because of the president's ill health. only death or electoral defeat will remove him, and I'm far from sure electoral defeat will do it.

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    1. DT is not only racist, he's sexist, because he is a Malignant Narcissist: the only person who matters to him is himself. He is dangerously insecure, so much so that his actions are destructive. He is utterly unfit for office and Congress needs to do more than censure him. That we have a political system which cannot manage to remove someone this deranged from office is destroying our nation and undermining international concerns as well.

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    1. Thanks, Alan! We could all use some good news today. The “Good Day” comment was solely related to the weather photo. Pretty bad when the best thing is the weather!

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  6. July 16, 2019 at 5:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    Venture capitalist Peter Thiel, a vocal supporter of President Trump, told Fox News that while most of the Democratic presidential field was “equally unimpressive,” he thought that Sen. Elizabeth Warren was “the dangerous one.”

    Said Thiel: “I’m most scared by Elizabeth Warren. I think she’s the one who’s actually talking about the economy, which is the only thing — the thing that I think matters by far the most.”

    Warren tweeted a succinct response: “Good.”
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    Pelosi Suggests Debt Limit Deal Is Close [Click] But does the Treasury Secretary speak for the president’s gut? Stay tuned…

    House Condemns Trump’s Attack as Racist [Click] I think the quotation from the Washington Post is superior to that from the NYT.
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    “I know racism when I see it, I know racism when I feel it, and at the highest level of government, there’s no room for racism.”

    — Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), quoted by the New York Times
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    ACLU Will Pursue Sanctions Against Trump Administration In Census Case [Click] Go get ‘em!

    The fight on the House floor about Trump’s racist tweets illustrates how singularly unprepared Washington is for a president like him. [Click]

    The Democrats’ New Strategy for Capturing Black America's Attention [Click]

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  7. GREAT article on SANCTIONS for the DT Admin! Love it.

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