$20 Cone
Our 11 year old granddaughter surprised Grandad Wil with this "$20 Cone" for Father's Day.
It's a long standing thing between them. One year on his birthday she mentioned she had saved $20.
Next she mentioned she was going to buy him an ice cream cone as a present.
😆 He pretended to be very excited about the $20 ice cream cone she was going to buy for him...
PS: The Fiji water in the photo was brought by a guest, not supplied by us.
Judge issues permanent injunction against using military funds to build Trump’s wall. [Click]
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian: No country for old white men: Kamala Harris heralds changing of the guard [Click] “The Democratic debates’ standouts have been Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Harris and Warren – none a straight male Caucasian – while Joe Biden looked like this year’s Jeb Bush”
K.A. Dilday: Reparations Are Not the Answer [Click] “The struggle against poverty needs to be a collective fight.” A good perspective, I think.
ReplyDeleteDid the U.S. and Mexico Just Link Their Immigration Policies? [Click] “The president sees his deal with Mexico as a victory—but he might not be pleased with the possibilities it opens up.” Unforeseen consequences? In an action by DT? Who could have imagined it?
The days of the [traditional] conglomerate are dead [Click] Interesting evolution of manufacturing businesses.
Trumpy trumped: Backs down on China trade war. [Click] Typical.
Trump’s Ignorant Comments About Japan Were Bad Even for Him [Click] The man belongs in a memory care facility.
I seem to have discovered a way past the NYT view counter—completely clear my browser history.
Opinion: The Women Who Won the Debates Are the Democrats’ Best Hope [Click]
Re The Women Who Won the Debates Are the Democrats’ Best Hope it seems to me that the way Harris assailed Biden showed every sign of being carefully planned in advance; it is typical of a good trial attorney. But--she herself is similarly vulnerable on account of her own baggage, and there are other attorneys in the race--who can seek confidential advice from yet other outstanding trial attorneys. She might be [albeit indirectly] hoist by her own petard. [Vocabulary note: the petard was the precursor of the limpet mine--and they not infrequently injured their users rather than the doors or gates they were intended to breach. But that was centuries before the invention of shaped charges]
DeleteKamala Harris is a corporatist to her bone marrow. She's putting on a show now, but it is a show and not reality.
DeleteTalk of reparations gets me itchy because it's always in reference to slaves and black people. My SIL is Ojibwa and I've *never* heard talk of reparations to the Native Americans whose stolen land we live on.
I've hear talk of reparations for Native Americans, although pretty low-key because this is not a major voting block. Do the casinos some nations run count as reparations?
DeleteHarris is also a Clintonista--she was HRC's California campaign manager or some such as I recall. I don't trust her as far as I could throw a bull by the tail.
DeleteWith regard to reparations for slavery, I am unaware of anything analogous, be it truth commissions or payments; and I see no way to do justice and at the same time avoid injustice. It is better IMO to lift up as many poor people as we can.
Susan, there has definitely been discussion of reparations for Abenaki in Vermont. Not much has happened, but there is a movement.
DeleteThings have moved on since the time of Bush the Younger… [Click] but in the wrong way.
ReplyDeleteBoris Johnson could become Tory leader and still not become Prime Minister. [Click] Jolly indeed!
ReplyDeleteHow Brexit party won Euro elections on social media – simple, negative messages to older voters [Click] “Analysis highlights key to success of Farage party and identifies dozens of pro-Brexit bot accounts.” I suppose we can expect the same.
Speaking of which, Crackpots and twitterbots make silly birtherism-like claims about Harris not being “an American Black” (which sounds like something a native Russian agent might say). [Click] 2020 Democrats rushed to her defense. [Click]
Oh, and The Great Orange One evidently plans to go the the armistice line in the Korean DMZ, and hopes Kim Jong Un will greet him there--nothing substantive, just say hello. Says KJU wants to do it, but that sounds like projection to me. It would be a propaganda/PR victory for KJU to not show up, no?
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