Yesterday was a much better day. I made four laps around the unit. My previous high was one lap.
Short Takes:
From Washington Post (Thanks to Judi Angel {aka JL A} for bringing the issue to my attention.): The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that it will review whether Virginia lawmakers improperly packed minority voters into one congressional district at the expense of their influence elsewhere in the state.
The court will consider whether earlier court decisions that ruled the districts invalid were correct. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia has twice invalidated the boundaries of a snake-like district that stretches from Richmond southeast to Norfolk — and ordered lawmakers to redraw the election map.
The Supreme Court’s action represents a small victory for Virginia House Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) and Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R-James City), whose chambers would draw up the boundaries. Republicans had insisted on letting appeals play out before they abided by the order in case the high court intervened, as it did Friday.
There are two downsides to this. The first is that the Republican Reich can disobey the District Court decision until SCOTUS decides, which could be as late as the first Monday in October. The Second is the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD). This case is so obvious that I suspect SCROTUS will decide correctly but too late to implement the decision before the 2016 election.
From Daily Kos: Chris Whipple has written a story at Politico offering a long teaser of the upcoming Showtime documentary The Spymasters. He and two colleagues spent more than a hundred hours interviewing the 12 living CIA directors, with considerable focus on the 9/11 attacks. Although the overall picture of failure by the administration to prevent the attacks has long been known, the story and documentary provide some added details. The key detail is that the warnings the Bush White House received from the CIA in the summer of 2001 were a lot more chilling than the infamous August 6 presidential daily brief.
Click through for more. Perhaps this is because both the Bush and Bin Laden families made a bundle by short selling the companies hardest hit financially. They did this through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Carlyle Group.
From The New Yorker: On Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press,” Jeb Bush said that it was time for the United States to go to war with ISIS, and to put together an international coalition to rout the jihadis from their strongholds in Syria and Iraq. “We should declare war and harness all of the power that the United States can bring to bear, both diplomatic and military of course, to be able to take out ISIS,” Bush, who is trailing badly in the G.O.P. Presidential polls, said. “We have the capabilities of doing this, we just haven’t shown the will.”
InsaniTEA! If Strike Three is elected, we’re out.
Cartoon:
Place your bets!
12 Responses to “On The Edge–11/17/2015”
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Love the cartoon.
Hasn't the Bush solution to losing in the polls always been to advocate for a new war?
GOP folks need to notice the financial rewards Bush shared with the Bin Ladens.
You are welcome and I hope the courts' timing better serves justice than your prediction.
Glad it was a better day.
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Very glad yesterday was better. Keep those laps going. Hopefully you don't have to drag an IV pole around with you while doing them (which I did, years ago, but I was much younger then LOL.)
WaPo – This will be an interesting one. While I agree with you, TC, that this case is obvious, I wonder whether the injustices will be so drunk with power by then that they will have the gall to decide against the obvious, thinking they can get away with it. Certainly the results will tell us something about how powerful they think they are.
DKos (Politico) –
Tenet concurs. “People are throwing the word ‘torture’ around—as if we're torturers,” he complains. “Well, I'm not ever gonna accept the use of the word ‘torture’ for what happened here.” From sleep deprivation to waterboarding, Tenet and his lieutenant Rodriguez insist the techniques were all approved—by everybody.
Yes. And to hell with Godwin's Law. The Nazi Final Solution was also approved in every particular – by everybody. That did not make it right.
I sure hope a lot of people watch this on Showtime. And I hope they have a whole lot more intelligence that the people who are commenting on Politici about the article there.
New Yorker – Not just Jeb! – if any Republican is elected, we're out.
Cartoon – Are you sure that's the same maze the Repubs are looking at? Because the maze in the cartoon has a successful route to sanity. I don't think the actual Republican maze does.
Godwin's Law: a meme used by Republicans and pseudo-intellectuals to evade the many obvious commonalities between today's Republican Party and the German Nazi Party, before Hitler became the dictator.
Four laps! You mean there were more attractive nurses about yesterday, don't you, TomCat. But kidding aside, you sound chirpier and you're starting to throw articles at us like nothing happened, you even added some poll results. You're getting better, my feline friend, and I'm so happy to hear that.
Washington Post: The script behind this little drama is so obvious that someone knowledgeable in Republican shenanigans could write it and so you did,spot on, TomCat.
Daily Kos: Perhaps it's because I still haven't lost my European view on things, but I find it rather curious that documentary makers can get more of the truth in the open about what happened before and on 9/11 by just interviewing 12 CIA directors than all of the investigations before them.
The New Yorker: Surprise, surprise, Bush nr. 3 want his own war. Yup, most definitely learned nothing of the mistakes his father and brother made. Same family, same rhetoric, same stupidity, same Republicans.
Great cartoon, but only one thing wrong with it: the maze is doable, suggesting that one blundering GOPer might, admittedly by chance, after many trials and even more errors, get through it.
What is it with the Bushes and Iraq? There seems to be a family obsession with invading that country.
There is only one thing wrong with the cartoon. There is actually a pathway to sanity. Sanity is no longer an option for the GOP.
Jeb Bush and the rest of the repub clueless simply don't really understand the ISIS problem. The need to read the Atlantic article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
Bush is determined to repeat his brother's wondrous blunder. He never heard of that definition of crazy, you now doing the same thing over, and over while expecting different results. This is so frigging obvious it feels like I'm getting dumbed down just responding to his crap!
Former CIA director Tenet hs said that the Bush/Cheney admin. received more than ample warning, but, in typical fashion could not see what was not pre-progammed in their skulls!
SCROTUS is a cancer in our country!
New Yorker: I read that Bobby Jindal dropped out of the GOP race, "I've come to the realization this is not my time.” he said. So should Bush.
Cartoon: Won't they double back, and get lost in the maze though?
Wow, four laps? You're getting good, glad to hear that you had a upbeat day. Great news. I'm done for the evening, start back up tomorrow. Thanks, TC. Take care, and enjoy your evening.
For a very interesting perspective read "ISLAM AND THE FUTURE OF TOLERANCE, A Dialogue," by Sam harris and Maajid Nawaz, a new book.
Sorry I couldn't open your card. I have not downloaded the latest version of Adobe, and now C2 won't let me see the card without it. Glad you are speeding up your laps, that shows how much strength you are gaining.
Washington Post: Of course they will delay the decision until after the elections, this is a very calculating bunch of buzzards.
Daily Kos: I don't have Showtime, but I am sure the documentary will be streamed somewhere. Therehave been lots of rumors that Bush knew more than he admitted, but no one has shown proof yet, I hope this does. The fact that he and his family and the Bin Laden family made money off this is not surprising. Remember he loaded them on a plane and hustled them out of our country immediately after 9/11.
The New Yorker: This would be his way of finally upstaging Dubya. This country will be completely destroyed if we get another Bush in the Whitehouse. I almost would prefer Trump. We badly need another Democrat in the White HOuse. I plan to vote for whomever gets the Dem nomination. All of us who care need to encourage people we know to vote. The low voter turnout in our recent election is why I now have a Republican governor. ugh
Cartoon: They will never find the end of that puzzle. Their bigotry, misogyny, and love of money will prevent that happening.
Thanks all. There is a path the Republican could take to reach sanity. Thr Republican just refuses to do so.
Hugs!