Using the Google account, I just want to note that I compiled a timeline for Manafort from the time he met Roger Stone in Nixon's White House because I had been following McCain's dabbling in foreign policy via the Congress-funded International Republican Institute in whose Moscow offices Manafort first met Kilimnik, the KGB guy. At some point during Obama's tenure Putin expelled the IRI and they moved their operations to Ukraine. McCain got my attention during the 2004 campaign when a group of veterans organized as the Swiftboaters shifted their allegience towards Bush after McCain did not succeed in the primary. The Swiftboaters were organized by a fellow from Missouri with commercial interests in southeast Asia who resented the competition from John Kerry's brother. In addition, this Gannon fellow had set up a technology company with a unique operating system that was installed on the computers with which the Secretary of State of Ohio managed the election and where tallies were suspect, including in the presidential election but Kerry refused to challenge the results and ask for a recount. So, Bush got another term that a Democrat won. I was hoping that Kerry, the former prosecutor would do something about all the war crimes in Iraq. But, tru to form, he flip-flopped.
Poll: Confidence in Supreme Court has collapsed [Click] Ready; aim; fire! NO, NOT AT YOUR FOOT! --Alan BTW, I consider the troublesome members of the SC to be radicals, not conservatives. But the surveyors, like other members of the mainstream media, are not yet willing to even grant the possibility.
It has been quite some time since the word "consevative" meant "desiging to maintain the status quo." I am reminded of the quip form the 1950s: An isolationist is someone who wants to fight in Asia.
Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said Ukraine should become a full member of the European Union at some point but that there could be no shortcut to membership.
Speaking alongside her Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, Baerbock stressed that Germany would reduce its imports of Russian energy to zero, “and that will stay that way forever”.
Several US officials are saying that they do not expect Putin will actually use nuclear weapons in Ukraine unless he sees an existential threat to his regime.
I am thinking that the US and allies are well on the way to dealing with Russia as we dealt with the Japanese naval base at Rabaul during WWII. Having rendered it untenable/unusable as a naval base, they basically just isolated it, figuring it wasn't worth the losses that would be associated with capturing it. One admiral (?) described Rabaul as "a self-supporting POW camp." The Japanese soldiers and sailors were reduced to gathering, farming, and fishing to stay alive. They were very significantly undernourished by the end of the war, albeit not so badly as the garrison of Truk.
Several US officials have said that although Putin will continue nuclear saber rattling, but is most unlikely to do more unless he perceives an existential threat to his regime.
My concern is that Putin is a malignant narcissist (only smarter and more disciplined than DT), so if push comes to shove he is more likely to "go postal" than to back down.
While the Google account worked fine on the ipad, Chrome on a laptop is more particular. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that the SCOTUS and the whole judiciary apparatus is supposed to ride herd on the leegislative and executive branch. What has happened over the years is that the creation of corporate entities via legislative authorization has brought much enterprise into the legislativ purview bcause corporationas and companies and even registered partnerships are subsidiaries of the states that authorize them. Ditto for domestic partnerships. Once created, a subsidiary of a state is subject to regulation . Now, in the past, most of those regulations were designed to facilitate enterprise. So, for example, thee facilities and professional licensing requirements inititially imposed on clinics were at the behest of hospitals who resent the competition. Most of the current legislation is targerting the care providers for injuring a fetus in which some male has a property interest. A lot of deception going on, but the Rpublicans' main motivation is resentment of an electorate that is rejecting them. Perhaps we are supposed to be grateful when the legislation fails, like children who are glad to escape a bating because father is too drunk when he finally comes home.
Susan!!! (listener here) I gave a quilting question. Have you ever used a sheet as a backing, and have you ever found a sheet to be odd shaped? This one appears to be nearly an inch longer on one side than the other. I’ll know for sure tomorrow when I unearth the livingroom (again) so I can lay this queen size quilt out flat (again). But I am having to make a couple of adjustments to the quilt to make it all work. Argh. It won’t matter for use of the quilt, but I’d sure like to understand what’s wrong with the geometrics. 😵💫
The sheeting material is stretched on a cutting table to be cut be machine. If the cutter does not align with the grain, all the sheets will be off. If you want to follow the weave, you have to pull a thread across the piece and cut along the line it leaves. If your quilt top is bigger than the sheet, you can always add a border to the bottom.
West Virginia and Nebraska have their Republican primaries today. In WVA, Mooney, the DT candidate, has pulled way ahead of McKinley (the person who voted for the January 6th Committee). Both are sitting Congressmen, but their distrcits got merged this year, so now they have to compete.
Our ballots (by mail) began arriving today. The booklet of candidate statements arrived last week, and it sure is strange. LOTS of candidates I have never heard of, and other prominent ones (who are evidently running) missing. --Alan
Great read: Heather Cox Richardson explains how the Russian connection to American politics goes back to 2008
ReplyDelete~ A Nony Mouse listener
DeleteCheck out the Rachel Maddow show for yesterday on Youtube. I posted it on Hannah Blog, but do not know how to make links here.
ReplyDeleteHow to make links:
Delete< a href = LINK HERE , TITLE HERE < / a >
Only...just keep the space between a and href, not any of the others.
Using the Google account, I just want to note that I compiled a timeline for Manafort from the time he met Roger Stone in Nixon's White House because I had been following McCain's dabbling in foreign policy via the Congress-funded International Republican Institute in whose Moscow offices Manafort first met Kilimnik, the KGB guy. At some point during Obama's tenure Putin expelled the IRI and they moved their operations to Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteMcCain got my attention during the 2004 campaign when a group of veterans organized as the Swiftboaters shifted their allegience towards Bush after McCain did not succeed in the primary. The Swiftboaters were organized by a fellow from Missouri with commercial interests in southeast Asia who resented the competition from John Kerry's brother. In addition, this Gannon fellow had set up a technology company with a unique operating system that was installed on the computers with which the Secretary of State of Ohio managed the election and where tallies were suspect, including in the presidential election but Kerry refused to challenge the results and ask for a recount. So, Bush got another term that a Democrat won. I was hoping that Kerry, the former prosecutor would do something about all the war crimes in Iraq. But, tru to form, he flip-flopped.
Poll: Confidence in Supreme Court has collapsed [Click] Ready; aim; fire! NO, NOT AT YOUR FOOT!
ReplyDelete--Alan
BTW, I consider the troublesome members of the SC to be radicals, not conservatives. But the surveyors, like other members of the mainstream media, are not yet willing to even grant the possibility.
It has been quite some time since the word "consevative" meant "desiging to maintain the status quo." I am reminded of the quip form the 1950s: An isolationist is someone who wants to fight in Asia.
DeleteGermany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said Ukraine should become a full member of the European Union at some point but that there could be no shortcut to membership.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking alongside her Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, Baerbock stressed that Germany would reduce its imports of Russian energy to zero, “and that will stay that way forever”.
----Alan
Several US officials are saying that they do not expect Putin will actually use nuclear weapons in Ukraine unless he sees an existential threat to his regime.
DeleteI am thinking that the US and allies are well on the way to dealing with Russia as we dealt with the Japanese naval base at Rabaul during WWII. Having rendered it untenable/unusable as a naval base, they basically just isolated it, figuring it wasn't worth the losses that would be associated with capturing it. One admiral (?) described Rabaul as "a self-supporting POW camp." The Japanese soldiers and sailors were reduced to gathering, farming, and fishing to stay alive. They were very significantly undernourished by the end of the war, albeit not so badly as the garrison of Truk.
Several US officials have said that although Putin will continue nuclear saber rattling, but is most unlikely to do more unless he perceives an existential threat to his regime.
---Alan
My concern is that Putin is a malignant narcissist (only smarter and more disciplined than DT), so if push comes to shove he is more likely to "go postal" than to back down.
DeleteI figure Putin is a paranoid psychotic and Trump is senile; the former is potentially very dangerous indeed.
Delete--Alan
While the Google account worked fine on the ipad, Chrome on a laptop is more particular.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, what I wanted to say is that the SCOTUS and the whole judiciary apparatus is supposed to ride herd on the leegislative and executive branch.
What has happened over the years is that the creation of corporate entities via legislative authorization has brought much enterprise into the legislativ purview bcause corporationas and companies and even registered partnerships are subsidiaries of the states that authorize them. Ditto for domestic partnerships.
Once created, a subsidiary of a state is subject to regulation . Now, in the past, most of those regulations were designed to facilitate enterprise. So, for example, thee facilities and professional licensing requirements inititially imposed on clinics were at the behest of hospitals who resent the competition. Most of the current legislation is targerting the care providers for injuring a fetus in which some male has a property interest. A lot of deception going on, but the Rpublicans' main motivation is resentment of an electorate that is rejecting them.
Perhaps we are supposed to be grateful when the legislation fails, like children who are glad to escape a bating because father is too drunk when he finally comes home.
Oddly, for me it is ONLY on Chrome on my laptop that I can post as me instead of Anonymous. My laptop is a Macbook Air. What kind are you using?
DeleteMy laptop is a Macbook pro (old!) Here I am on the ipad, also old, and it recognized my Google account today.
DeleteSusan!!!
ReplyDelete(listener here)
I gave a quilting question.
Have you ever used a sheet as a backing, and have you ever found a sheet to be odd shaped? This one appears to be nearly an inch longer on one side than the other. I’ll know for sure tomorrow when I unearth the livingroom (again) so I can lay this queen size quilt out flat (again). But I am having to make a couple of adjustments to the quilt to make it all work. Argh.
It won’t matter for use of the quilt, but I’d sure like to understand what’s wrong with the geometrics. 😵💫
The sheeting material is stretched on a cutting table to be cut be machine. If the cutter does not align with the grain, all the sheets will be off. If you want to follow the weave, you have to pull a thread across the piece and cut along the line it leaves. If your quilt top is bigger than the sheet, you can always add a border to the bottom.
DeleteWest Virginia and Nebraska have their Republican primaries today. In WVA, Mooney, the DT candidate, has pulled way ahead of McKinley (the person who voted for the January 6th Committee). Both are sitting Congressmen, but their distrcits got merged this year, so now they have to compete.
ReplyDeleteOur ballots (by mail) began arriving today. The booklet of candidate statements arrived last week, and it sure is strange. LOTS of candidates I have never heard of, and other prominent ones (who are evidently running) missing.
Delete--Alan
Extreme Black Widow Pulsar Found 3000 Light Years Away [Click]
ReplyDelete---Alan