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That ball on the branch is a Chickadee napping just outside my window.
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Amazon cancels plans for New York headquarters after fierce opposition [Click] I am moved to wonder if there is a raised fist emoji…
ReplyDeleteGigantic dinosaur prints saved from Queensland flood [Click] Actually, tracks of three different kinds of dinosaurs!
New drug raises hopes of reversing memory loss in old age [Click]
Search for Shackleton's Endurance called off after loss of submarine [Click] Oh, rats!
A380: Airbus to stop making superjumbo as orders dry up [Click]
Theresa May defeated on Brexit again as ERG Tories abstain [Click] “PM defeated by 303 votes to 258, plunging hopes of uniting her party around renegotiated deal into chaos” This is starting to sound grim.
You know, there comes a point after which persistence and tenacity cease to be admirable virtues and become indistinguishable from bloody minded obdurateness. I think Mrs. May has passed that point.
DeleteIt seems to me that the Conservative party is locked into a lose-lose situation of their own making. Not altogether unlike the Republican Party.
DeleteA woman walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist for some arsenic. He asks "What for?" She says, "I want to kill my husband." He says, "Sorry, I can't do that." She then reaches into her handbag and pulls out a photo of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife and hands it to him. He says, "You didn't tell me you had a prescription..."
ReplyDeleteOK, I'm gonna share that with a couple of forensic toxicologists and a forensic pathologist.
DeleteLOL Susan
DeleteDavid Frum: Trump’s emergency declaration is going to run into four hurdles. [Click]
ReplyDeleteWalter Shapiro: Declaring a national emergency over the wall? This won't end well for Trump [Click]
ReplyDeleteTwo excellent pieces. Thanks, Alan.
DeleteGlad you liked them, Cat. I often fear that my particular choices might not be to everyone's taste.
DeleteDonno about everyone. A fair proportion of the news I get comes from the links you post.
DeleteThanks, Cat
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ReplyDeleteHow slavery’s lingering stain on the US Constitution spoils Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal – for now - Click
You'd think, wouldn't you, she would have thought of that, being such a hotshot lawyer.
DeleteWell, that's interesting. The estate tax strikes me as essentially a wealth tax, though. I am reminded of the old Ottoman law. All government officials were slaves of the Sultan; it was quite possible for them to accumulate significant wealth. As their children were almost always Moslem (unlike their fathers), they could not be slaves, and therefore could not inherit their fathers' governmental positions. Presumably, though, they would have had at least an opportunity for good educations and been able to get along well in the world. Upon an official's death, his estate reverted to the Sultan, but for whom he would never have accumulated it. Most of the government officials were promising youths from Christian areas of the Balkans; the caravans of the "recruiters" had to be guarded carefully to prevent locals from abstracting those who had already been gathered and substituting their own sons. The recruits were educated according to their abilities, through what would be roughly the college level if they could handle it. The British East India Company seems to have copied the system.
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ReplyDeleteFox News’ Sean Hannity dictated Trump’s national emergency plan — and his next demands are even more frightening - Click
Manafort Faces 19.5 to 24.5 Years in Prison [Click] Oh—that’s just for the Virginia convictions; the DC guilty pleas sentencing is scheduled for next month. He has already surrendered 22 million dollars in ill-gotten gains in the DC case.
ReplyDeleteWashington Post: “Where to begin with Trump’s rambling news conference to announced he was invoking a national emergency to build a border wall? It was chock full of false and misleading claims, many of which we’ve previously highlighted, either in our database of Trump claims or our list of Bottomless Pinocchios.”
Ann Coulter fired back at President Trump in a KABC interview stating that “the only national emergency is that our president is an idiot.” I hadn’t expected that I would ever be on the same page as Ann Coulter!
Trump Attorneys May Have Lied About Cohen Payments [Click]
New Jersey Attorney General Subpoenas Trump Inaugural [Click] Gee—the more the merrier, I suppose! It seems they are investigating whether any funny business took place in New Jersey.
And here are a couple of headlines from Political Wire: [Click]
Judge Puts Gag Order on Roger Stone
Mueller Has Stone’s Communications with WikiLeaks
Oh, did I mention that Manafort and Stone were partners in a lobbying company?
Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid reach settlement with NFL over kneeling protest fallout [Click]
Demand Rep. Nadler start impeachment hearings - Click
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