Not. Kidding.
via Dean blogger Liane Allen:
What trump's press office is sending out to surrogates. When you hear these things parroted
all over the old-school and social media in the next few days, you'll know where it came from:
One of these days I am going to be so conflicted between hilarity and fury that they'll find me hysterical~!
The only humanitarian crisis on the border is trump-manufactured: children ripped from their parents' arms and caged with custodians who abuse them. There is not enough lipstick in the world to make Pig trump palatable. His bread-dead cultists are going to believe him anyway, but they ARE in the minority.
ReplyDeleteThat says it, Susan. Thank you.
DeleteEvery time DT tries to claim a humanitarian crisis at the southern border, I shout, "YOU'RE the one who created it!!"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-delivers-a-wet-fart-oval-office-address
ReplyDelete"On Tuesday night, Trump’s flaming dumpster train of distractions, lies, cons, and empty political promises flew off the rails and plunged into a mountain of burning tires in one of his worst public speeches.
After 17 days of a government shutdown temper tantrum, Trump needed a game-changing home run of a speech to change the political climate in D.C. He failed."
"Donald Trump, as even the slowest members of the class have now noticed, is a lying liar who lies.
He is a gushing Niagara of lies, a torrential waterfall of deceptions, exaggerations, statistical manglings, and dumbfuck agitprop that insults the intelligence of Americans outside his base. He lies when the truth would suffice. He lies to cover up his own failings and inadequacies (“No, really. Your ruler must be wrong. That’s clearly 9 inches.”) and those lies drag his political supporters and the “conservative” commentariat into increasingly strained and elaborate defenses. Tonight didn’t disappoint when it came to lies of every flavor and scale."
Bigger Than People Seem to Realize [Click] Josh Marshall on the latest Manafort-Russia connection. earlier JM blog post here. [Click]
ReplyDeleteFood assistance programs funded through February [Click]
Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry [Click] As near as I can figure, food costs in constant dollars are about a third of what they were when I was young. I wonder if the cure is mandatory home economics classes in high school, including basic cooking. And laundry. And housekeeping. Eating at restaurants, take-out or otherwise, has become pervasive in our country, and there is no question it is expensive. Few workers seem to bring a packed lunch from home any more.
Why Federal Workers Still Have to Show Up Even If They’re Not Being Paid [Click] I expect this will accelerate retirements of baby boomers.
Opinion: Trump Has Defeated Himself [Click] “The president, trapped without a decent exit in a predicament of his own making, will yield everything and get nothing.”
Compulsory Home Ecc for both boys and girls in all four years of high school is a splendid idear. This should include domestic arts such as sowing, cooking (including basic neutrician), marketing (that is grocery shopping), budgeting, the basics of laundering and other cleaning, simple home repair and maintenance (which overlaps somewhat with cleaning I suppose) and child care. There should also be a year or two of a compulsory course on vehicle maintenance - bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles - again for both sexes. It makes me sick when girls, much less grown women, smirk and simper and say *they* don't know anything about how to take care of their car. It's just as stupid and self-defeating as a boy not knowing how to prepare meals or take care of his own clothes.
DeleteMy mother saw to it that I knew the household basics, including rudimentary sewing; my skill would never compare to hers, but I can patch a piece of clothing, sew up a tear, and replace a button; that's enough.
DeleteI remember one or two of my grad school classmates (both gals) who took the auto repair course at the local adult school and had a fine time at it--learned to tear out and rebuild engines, even. (That is far beyond my limited skills, certainly.) Granted that was in the days before computerized engines, when there were still a lot of shade tree mechanics around. A lot of the simple auto maintenance and repair stuff was taught in our drivers' education class; there was a partially cutaway engine on a wheeled rack in the classroom, which was a lot better than just drawings in a book. In driver's training we were taught (not that most of us internalized it) to inspect the tires before driving. If a flat or partially flat tire was detected that way, the teacher would help to change it. One day the first student driver (a young woman) failed to do the check, and she was obliged to change the tire by herself (with the teacher supervising) when it went flat. Good training! I don't know, but strongly suspect that the car was equipped with one of those potentially dangerous old bumper jacks, not the modern scissorlift jacks. But there was one thing those bumper jacks could do that the new ones can't: get one out of a too tight parking place. If you parked close to the car in front, and another car later parked so close behind you that you couldn't drive out, you could jack up the back of the car, then shove on the curb side of the car and tip the jack over, moving the back of the car sideways a foot or so. Repeated several times, it could get the back of the car clear and you could back out of the parking place. I don't think I ever had to do that, but knew I could.
Yes. How much of this beyond auto mechanics (which I never attempted beyond changing a tire and maybe replacing a battery) requires actual training? Well, maybe sewing; my mother taught me enough to get by. I guess I learned the rudiments of cooking just from watching my grandmother, but surely that's an experience everyone has?
DeleteWe home schooled, and part of that was preparing our children for life. They each had a job to do to benefit the family, in accord with their age and ability, from pairing up the family socks to more involved jobs when they were older, such as such as keeping the wood stove stocked and stoked, doing the family's laundry, cooking dinner, cleaning up after dinner, etc.. The jobs rotated every two weeks. As you can imagine, they first did the jobs with us, to learn how. Two of them got really interested in cooking. One son, who was the early riser, was so good at doing laundry that we would wake up and the clothes we'd worn the day before were already hanging up in our closet or at least hanging on a rod beside the washer. We made sure ours knew how to take care of themselves (and their cars), after hearing from an acquaintance that her son had come home from college at mid-semester break with a huge duffle bag full of dirty laundry. He had done no laundry at all, all six weeks! And...she did his laundry for him...!!
DeleteBill, it seems like commonsense, but I can attest that even growing up in the same house with the same parents doesn't guarantee that two people learn the same lessons about running a house, or anything else. My sister and I both watched our parents, talked to them, listened (or not) to them. Yet my sister doesn't seem to have absorbed what I did. She's fully sighted and able bodied, yet she isn't the one who does things the way our parents does. Partly it may be temperament, and partly the large age gap. And some of it may be because she went away to boarding school. But I still find it unsettling.
DeleteShutdown hits American farmers already hurt by China trade war [Click] Reports from Iowa, among other states…
ReplyDeleteA second repeating source of fast radio bursts detected [Click]
Probably the aliens have observed that we've regressed enough to be easily subdued.
Delete*shudder* Don't say that, Susan!
DeleteOn the other hand, it might just be the aliens signaling their grub, which is currently imperfectly disguised as a human and is further masquerading as U.S. president. I certainly hope they recall it to the mother ship or better yet to its home planet soon!
It sure sounds like collusion, conspiracy, treason to me.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/politics/manafort-ukrainian-oligarchs/index.html
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ReplyDeleteLet's see if this link will work. It is to a fascinating piece from Quartz Obsession about a huge financial scandal. Trump is peripherally connected through an advisor, although there is no real indicated he understood what was going on and no suggestion he profited personally. https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1519008/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=quartz-obsession
ReplyDeleteI had heard some about that, Bill, but not so much. Thanks for the heads-up.
DeleteA few minutes ago, when I reactivated the computer after a few hours, the monitor display was, inexplicably, green. Then, for no reason I could discern, it turned blue. Rebooting did not help. It's bizzarre!
ReplyDeleteThe display just turned green again!
DeleteWhy, what an interesting feature! I remember back in the day PC's would exhibit The Blue Screen of Death, the equivalent of The Chimes of Doom on Apple computers (which was done away with some years ago, more's the pity). But I have never heard of an Alternating Blue and Green Screen of Impending Catastrophe. [He ducks!] If it continues, or becomes more frequent (that's the most likely thing) I'd expect it might be a failing part in the video card. Make note of when it happens, so you will know if it is happening more frequently.
DeleteCurrently reading Nightfall, the collaborative effort between Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverburg expanding the good doctor's 1941 short story of the same name to a novel. Needless to say, I'm enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteEvery Congressperson along the southern border opposes the border wall.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-border-wall-every-congressperson-along-southern-border-opposes-border-wall-funding-2019-1-8/?fbclid=IwAR1pC9OJP1DsE5syfQuHU9HlWmO5VthpGn3JDHoopODoNr-iLzzK4_-XXeI
USA Today: Trump's team had OVER 100 contacts with Russian-linked officials, report shows [Click]
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I am reminded of something that happened to my boss a few years back. He was driving down the freeway, hauling a pretty big trailer of timothy hay for his alpacas, when the weld holding one of the outside wheels on the trailer gave way, and the wheel and tire went careering down the side of the road through a construction zone (where, thank Heaven, there were no workers at the time). He was nearly home, having picked the hay up in New Mexico. In short, the wheel came off both suddenly and unexpectedly. Wonder why I would think of that....
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