DOGE (Heather Cox Richardson pronounces it "Doggy")
Billionaires have enough money to do nothing else but
spend it all day every day for the rest of their lives,
and they still wouldn't blow through it all.
But they still want more.
Somebody tell them that the 1980's game
"the one who dies with the most wins"
was about lawn ornaments, not money!
Captain Steeeve's analysis of the Toronto plane crash
ReplyDeleteThanks; that is informative.
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This is a video clip worth watching. I don't know if you have to have a Facebook account to get it to work. Try popping it into your browser.
ReplyDeleteNM Rep Melanie Ann Stansbury, 11 FEB 2025
My old facebook account is not active. When it asked me for my password, I just clicked through and could read the text as I watched the video.
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Hadn't heard of this lady. She rocks. -- nordy
DeleteYoungest posted this last week:
ReplyDeleteWe should all start texting each other like old time explorers:
"Dearest friend, I have survived another week. The horrors persist."
{listener}
ReplyDeleteA chink in the armour!
“”CNN: “Two prominent GOP senators, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and seemed to break with President Donald Trump over negotiations in the peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.”
Team Trump scrambles to rehire the bird flu officials it fired. The Trump administration tried to rehire a group of fired officials who were important to public safety. Then it happened again.
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DeleteMother Jones: Holiday Massacre of Federal Workforce Is a Rude Awakening for Rural Westerners [Click] “Park rangers, biologists, maintenance crews, wildfire prevention people—all fired arbitrarily.”
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We are seeing this happen in WA state.
DeleteTrump’s job cuts lead to closed trails, staff shortages in WA. Seattle Times. -- nordy
Michael Popok Video: Analysis of Judge Chutkan’s order responding to 14-state request for restraining order against Musk/Trump mucking with federal agencies. [Click] Hmmmm…… howzabout Musk/Trump being referred to as “Muskrump?”
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DOGE says it’s saved $55 billion; data show much less
ReplyDeleteBloomberg: The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
And that’s before factoring in an error in the data published on DOGE’s website that mislabels a contract as $8 billion, which was later corrected in the federal database to only be $8 million. That cuts nearly in half the total of DOGE’s itemized savings, including from contracts and leases, to about $8.6 billion. -- nordy
Which doesn't factor in the losses they have caused.
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Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator amid fears of irreconcilable rift
ReplyDeleteGuardian: The US and Ukraine appeared to be heading towards an irreconcilable rift after Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president “a dictator” and warning that he “better move fast” or he “won’t have a country left”.
The US leader’s comments on Wednesday, which were rife with falsehoods, came after Zelenskyy said Trump was “trapped” in a Russian “disinformation bubble,” following Trump’s claims that Ukraine was to blame for Russia’s 2022 invasion, remarks that echoed the Kremlin’s narrative. -- nordy
Trump doesn't have the brains God gave a goose. Maybe he did once upon a time, but certainly not now.
Delete-----Alan
DT is really losing his faculties. Muck doesn't know how our government works. And the Clown Cadre that has been confirmed by the Senate just completes the circus. If they weren't stealing our data, and insulting the whole world in our behalf, they might just be laughable.
DeletePaul Warburg video: Russia’s oil problem is probably way worse than you think [Click]
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From the article:
ReplyDeleteIn the royal MAGA court, “Christian” isn’t a term that describes someone who is a follower of Jesus or a member of a church. It is a privileged, protected status awarded by the Great Leader to politically useful religious people, preferably white rather than Black, and evangelical rather than mainline or Catholic or Orthodox. With this sleight of hand, Trump’s “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias” order licenses persecution of Christian (or other) groups he declares disloyal, while permitting favoritism of white evangelical Protestants to masquerade as religious liberty.
What "anti-Christian Bias" Means For Trump
Federal judge appears poised to strike down Trump’s anti-trans military ban
ReplyDeleteI feel like I'm becoming a little more Canadian every day. Our boat was even made in Ontario, eh?
ReplyDeleteDo not read this before sleeping.
ReplyDeleteNuclear Proliferation 2.0 anyone?