Are Joe Biden’s Debate Stumbles Simply the Result of a Stutter? [Click] Seems like it. An empathetic look at it. By the way, in recent years I have found myself stuttering when I am trying to get a sentence out and someone repeatedly interrupts me before I can, particularly if it is a rather complicated sentence. I consider it a symptom of the fact at my age I am definitely more easily distracted than when I was young—which is normal. I have no recollection of stuttering when I was a boy.
Two Headlines from The Guardian: Facebook/White nationalists are openly operating on the platform. The company won’t act. Mark Zuckerberg/Trump hosted Facebook chief for private White House dinner”
Aa blood clot. Very bad headline, IMHO. The more significant point is that there was little or no blood flow in the juglar vein of most of the astronauts in the study.
Very very odd. This morning on WAVA, 1040, Richmond, the radio jocks were reviewing yesterday's goings on, and it went, roughly, like this: the dems put on a big deal very bad for tRump witness, there was dancing in the streets, followed by two republican witnesses that pulled the bacon out of the fire, and made it all okay for the preznit. I reviewed my sources for yesterday, and I'm seeing nada. Anyone know WTH they're talking about?
From the Secrecy News newsletter of the Federation of American Scientists:
BILL WOULD REQUIRE APPROVAL OF "NATIONAL EMERGENCIES"
Under current law, the President can declare a national emergency -- and exercise extraordinary emergency authorities -- but the ensuing state of emergency cannot be terminated by Congress without veto-proof majorities in both houses.
A pending bill known as the ARTICLE ONE Act (S. 764) would invert that scenario so that an emergency declared by the President would automatically expire after 30 days unless and until Congress adopted a resolution to approve the declared emergency.
The bill "reclaims certain emergency authorities that Congress has ceded to the President," according to a Senate report on the bill that was published this week.
The bill is remarkable both because it is an uncommon congressional initiative to limit presidential authority in this area and because it has significant bipartisan support, including 18 Republican cosponsors in the Senate. It was reported out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee by voice vote on July 24.
As of last month, there were 34 national emergencies in effect, the Senate report said, citing data from the Brennan Center for Justice.
In a significant limitation, the proposed congressional review procedures would not apply to national emergencies that are declared under the provisions of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which is used to impose economic sanctions on foreign individuals or governments. All but three of the current national emergencies fall in this category.
"This exclusion is intended to preserve the President's flexibility in deploying economic sanctions as a national security tool," the Senate report said.
However, legislators added, "To ensure that a President cannot skirt congressional review by invoking IEEPA along with other emergency authority provisions, the bill specifies that any such declared emergency remains subject to the new framework established by the ARTICLE ONE Act."
Last month, 15 Senators wrote to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer asking them to schedule a vote on the bill as soon as possible.
"The ARTICLE ONE Act's proposition is simple but fundamental: Congress cannot continue to cede its powers to another branch, regardless of who is President or which party holds a majority," the bipartisan group of senators wrote on October 17.
"This bill would take a pretty giant step toward preventing future abuses of emergency authorities and reclaiming some of the power Congress has delegated away to the president over the past 40 years," tweeted Liza Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice. "That's a big deal."
The Congressional Budget Office said that it anticipated that Congress would approve most future declarations of national emergencies if the bill were enacted, though there might be fewer of them or their duration might be shorter.
Last week, the President renewed for another year the oldest continuing national emergency, pertaining to Iran, which was declared 40 years ago.
Bernie Sanders rally at Morehouse College [Click] Oddly, there are no shots of the audience. At the Atlanta Journal Constitution [Click] there is a photo of the audience and some more information. “The speech was well-received by the crowd, which frequently interrupted Sanders with bursts of applause and cheers. Chants of ‘Stacey’ broke out when he said ‘the governor shouldn’t be the governor.’ Some of the loudest ovations came when he outlined his criminal justice agenda, which calls for banning the death penalty, eliminating cash bail, ending the ‘horrific and destructive war on drugs’ and decriminalizing marijuana.”
I continue to think about Stacey Abrams as Sanders’ VP…
People have commented on the large size of the printing in Trump's notes. It occurs to me that he may well need to have such large print in order to read it without glasses. At his age, he is far more likely than not to have presbyopia. Could that explain why he seems to have difficulty reading his daily security summaries and other things? That, combined with being too vain to wear spectacles.
Krugman: Trump and his Corrupt Old Party [Click] “For Republicans, there is no botom.” I note that Krugman does not consider the possibility that the Republican Party will disintegrate, like the Whigs.
That second article strikes a chord. There has been a lot of talk about criminal justice reform in connection with black voters. That is certainly true in large northern cities, including my congressional district. But from what Blow is saying, things are very different in the Deep South.
I think it was on the BBC web site I was watching a video about dying shopping malls in the US. No particular surprises except this one: a number of such defunct malls are now regional e-commerce distribution centers. They have huge amounts of floor space, lots of parking, are near freeways and lots of customers. Makes sense.
How Boeing Went Off Course [Click] A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance. Not news, and only part of the story.
ReplyDeleteThis lady is remarkable
ReplyDeleteSis just told me something she saw on Facebook:
ReplyDeleteDoctor's Note
Donald J. Trump is excused from the presidency due to brain spurs.
Signed,
Hawkeye Pierce M.D.
If only that were real!
DeleteA good one.
DeleteAre Joe Biden’s Debate Stumbles Simply the Result of a Stutter? [Click] Seems like it. An empathetic look at it. By the way, in recent years I have found myself stuttering when I am trying to get a sentence out and someone repeatedly interrupts me before I can, particularly if it is a rather complicated sentence. I consider it a symptom of the fact at my age I am definitely more easily distracted than when I was young—which is normal. I have no recollection of stuttering when I was a boy.
ReplyDeleteAn Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream [Click] “A study has turned up a side effect of human spaceflight that no one had observed before.”
Buttigieg Is in Bad Shape With African-American and Hispanic Democrats [Click]
Netanyahu Indicted on Bribery and Fraud Charges [Click]
Why Tim Cook made friends with Donald Trump [Click] “Cook’s strange, transactional relationship has worked out well for Apple.” [Read: “Money talks.”]
Two Headlines from The Guardian:
Facebook/White nationalists are openly operating on the platform. The company won’t act.
Mark Zuckerberg/Trump hosted Facebook chief for private White House dinner”
“They barely mentioned us”/Atlanta’s black voters frustrated by Democratic debate. [Click]
At Bernie's web site I notice this event:
ReplyDeleteRally at Morehouse College with Bernie Sanders
Nov 21st, 2019 at 12:30pm
That's a nice, student-friendly time. Hope he gets a good turnout.
DeleteLet me guess. He's the only candidate stumping at historically black colleges.
Emerson Poll: Biden and Sanders tied nationally, followed by Warren [Click] 27%/27%/20%; Pete 7%.
ReplyDeleteIt is a small sample--468 people.
DeleteI read the details and don't trust the results.
DeleteSo what did they find in the astronaut's bloodstream? I have an ad blocker and can't read the article.
ReplyDeleteAa blood clot. Very bad headline, IMHO. The more significant point is that there was little or no blood flow in the juglar vein of most of the astronauts in the study.
DeleteVery very odd. This morning on WAVA, 1040, Richmond, the radio jocks were reviewing yesterday's goings on, and it went, roughly, like this: the dems put on a big deal very bad for tRump witness, there was dancing in the streets, followed by two republican witnesses that pulled the bacon out of the fire, and made it all okay for the preznit. I reviewed my sources for yesterday, and I'm seeing nada. Anyone know WTH they're talking about?
ReplyDeleteSounds like time for an employment drug screen.
DeleteFrom the Secrecy News newsletter of the Federation of American Scientists:
ReplyDeleteBILL WOULD REQUIRE APPROVAL OF "NATIONAL EMERGENCIES"
Under current law, the President can declare a national emergency -- and exercise extraordinary emergency authorities -- but the ensuing state of emergency cannot be terminated by Congress without veto-proof majorities in both houses.
A pending bill known as the ARTICLE ONE Act (S. 764) would invert that scenario so that an emergency declared by the President would automatically expire after 30 days unless and until Congress adopted a resolution to approve the declared emergency.
The bill "reclaims certain emergency authorities that Congress has ceded to the President," according to a Senate report on the bill that was published this week.
The bill is remarkable both because it is an uncommon congressional initiative to limit presidential authority in this area and because it has significant bipartisan support, including 18 Republican cosponsors in the Senate. It was reported out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee by voice vote on July 24.
As of last month, there were 34 national emergencies in effect, the Senate report said, citing data from the Brennan Center for Justice.
In a significant limitation, the proposed congressional review procedures would not apply to national emergencies that are declared under the provisions of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which is used to impose economic sanctions on foreign individuals or governments. All but three of the current national emergencies fall in this category.
"This exclusion is intended to preserve the President's flexibility in deploying economic sanctions as a national security tool," the Senate report said.
However, legislators added, "To ensure that a President cannot skirt congressional review by invoking IEEPA along with other emergency authority provisions, the bill specifies that any such declared emergency remains subject to the new framework established by the ARTICLE ONE Act."
Last month, 15 Senators wrote to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Schumer asking them to schedule a vote on the bill as soon as possible.
"The ARTICLE ONE Act's proposition is simple but fundamental: Congress cannot continue to cede its powers to another branch, regardless of who is President or which party holds a majority," the bipartisan group of senators wrote on October 17.
"This bill would take a pretty giant step toward preventing future abuses of emergency authorities and reclaiming some of the power Congress has delegated away to the president over the past 40 years," tweeted Liza Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice. "That's a big deal."
The Congressional Budget Office said that it anticipated that Congress would approve most future declarations of national emergencies if the bill were enacted, though there might be fewer of them or their duration might be shorter.
Last week, the President renewed for another year the oldest continuing national emergency, pertaining to Iran, which was declared 40 years ago.
Thanks, Bill.
DeleteBernie Sanders rally at Morehouse College [Click] Oddly, there are no shots of the audience. At the Atlanta Journal Constitution [Click] there is a photo of the audience and some more information. “The speech was well-received by the crowd, which frequently interrupted Sanders with bursts of applause and cheers. Chants of ‘Stacey’ broke out when he said ‘the governor shouldn’t be the governor.’ Some of the loudest ovations came when he outlined his criminal justice agenda, which calls for banning the death penalty, eliminating cash bail, ending the ‘horrific and destructive war on drugs’ and decriminalizing marijuana.”
ReplyDeleteI continue to think about Stacey Abrams as Sanders’ VP…
Agree about Stacey.
DeleteYes.
Delete'Sounds like a Ramones song': Trump's Ukraine remarks become punk rock hit [Click] “President’s poetic words set to music in the style of the Ramones, the Smiths and more”
ReplyDeleteNot really my scene. Let me know when the Dean Martin version comes out.
DeletePeople have commented on the large size of the printing in Trump's notes. It occurs to me that he may well need to have such large print in order to read it without glasses. At his age, he is far more likely than not to have presbyopia. Could that explain why he seems to have difficulty reading his daily security summaries and other things? That, combined with being too vain to wear spectacles.
DeleteYes, I've thought that. But other reading--I doubt he's ever understood what the job he's doing is.
DeleteKrugman: Trump and his Corrupt Old Party [Click] “For Republicans, there is no botom.” I note that Krugman does not consider the possibility that the Republican Party will disintegrate, like the Whigs.
ReplyDeleteCharles M. Blow: Failing to Decipher Black Voters [Click] “This group is multifaceted. Understanding that is key.”
That second article strikes a chord. There has been a lot of talk about criminal justice reform in connection with black voters. That is certainly true in large northern cities, including my congressional district. But from what Blow is saying, things are very different in the Deep South.
DeleteI think it was on the BBC web site I was watching a video about dying shopping malls in the US. No particular surprises except this one: a number of such defunct malls are now regional e-commerce distribution centers. They have huge amounts of floor space, lots of parking, are near freeways and lots of customers. Makes sense.
ReplyDeleteNYT: After Debating About Black Support, Democrats Fan Out to Try to Earn It [Click] “The candidates crisscrossed Atlanta to speak to largely black audiences, as they tried to build on a debate where racial justice was a key theme.”
ReplyDelete