Saturday, January 04, 2020

Young Hemlock, iced

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  1. Killing Soleimani Was Worse Than a Crime; It was a blunder. [Click] “…the main question about the strike isn’t moral or even legal—it’s strategic.” But Trump doesn’t do strategy.

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    1. Pity he doesn't do law or morality either.

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  2. Well, there’s some good news out of Washington: Congress Saves Coal Miner Pensions [Click]

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  3. Well, the 48 hour whirlwind just left. Amazing what he can accomplish in so little time.

    Alan, I hadn't seen Sleepers, but he had, multiples. So, in return, I gifted him with Kornbluth's Marching Morons.

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    1. I was unfamiliar with Marching Morons, but Wikipedia filled in that gap in my knowledge

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    2. Sleeper's humor is dated, but so are we! There are quite a few jokes that the young 'uns probably wouldn't understand.

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  4. The Blueprint Iran Could Follow After Soleimani’s Death [Click] Sounds plausible. And they will probably take steps to make it impossible, or very difficult to follow leaders by monitoring the locations of their cell phones. And how about shooting down US drones? It ought to be possible; as memory serves me, the drones can’t outfly a Sopwith Camel.

    Australia Will Lose to Climate Change [Click]

    Nathan Robinson: Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings round him. [Click] You don’t say…

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  5. Sub rosa: “Trump’s disapproval has been at or above 52% for his entire presidency. Only two presidents — Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush — spent more than a few weeks [Click] with the majority of Americans disapproving of them. Both were one-term presidents.”

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  6. The Other Reason Republicans Won’t Cross Trump [Click] “This should tell you everything you need to know,” Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a prominent Trump critic, told me. “When national polling shows that these folks [Republicans] think that Donald Trump was [sic] a better president than Abraham Lincoln, you know this is fucked up.”

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  7. Didn't go online yesterday afternoon or evening because I was boiling mad and didn't want to subject my friends to that.

    Remember me saying I had a doctor's appointment on Friday? Patty took the afternoon off work to take me and I was all ready, just preparing to go downstairs to put on my coat when she texted to say she was on the way. Unfortunately, just as the text came in, Dad was on the phone with the doctor's office. He had it on speaker phone so I could hear it too. The girl (I use the word "Girl" advisedly. She was definitely not a mature woman!) informed us that the appointment would have to be rescheduled because it had been mistakenly marked as a physical, but MEDICARE doesn't pay for physicals. Though flustered and increasingly angry as the call went on, Dad kept his cool admirably, far better than I would have done. But, it gets better. He told her the driver was on the way and asked if I could come in for the appointment if I paid for it myself. It wasn't terribly clear but, apparently, even if I were willing to pay out of pocket, the appointment would still have to be rescheduled. That part made no sense at all, but he let it go. If it had been up to me, I would have refused to reschedule; but, Dad went to get his calendar and rescheduled for Wednesday of next week.

    What really got me was not the confusion or incompetence or whatever you want to call it of canceling and rescheduling because the appointment was miscoded. Shit like that happens. It's annoying, but it's part of life. What really pushed me over the edge was that they waited till after 2:30 to call and cancel a 4:00 appointment. If they'd called five minutes later, I would have been out of the house.Then Dad or more likely Mum would have had to call me on my cell phone to let me know. Like Sis said, when they were laying out the schedule for the day first thing in the morning someone must have seen the problem. Why didn't they call in the morning?

    I guess it doesn't sound so bad when it's written out, but the snafu pissed everyone off...to the point I'm not altogether sure I want to go there next week. In fact, although I'm not a betting woman, I would lay a small wager that come Wednesday afternoon they call with similar doubletalk to "reschedule" that appointment.

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    1. Maybe someone should tell them that they don't get a second chance to make a good first impression?

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  8. Why Tom Steyer couldn't buy his way onto the debate stage [Click] Earned news coverage is now considerably more important than paid coverage.

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    1. Got a snail mail flyer from him the other day. Must be because I have been involved with and have given money to his Impeach Trump movement pretty much from its inception. But that doesn't mean I want to vote for Tom Stayer.

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  9. A couple of notes on the last thread.

    Puddle, that dream is priceless! Gave me a good laugh.

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  10. Imagine, the founding fathers imagined that we'd get better and better. Wonder what the hell they'd have made of der trunip?

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    1. We can but imagine. Nothing good, that's for sure!

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  11. Strange—just ignorance, I suppose. [Click] The photo chosen to illustrate the schism of the United Methodist Church is of an African Methodist Episcopal congregation.

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