We have a couple days of cool weather, and they couldn't have come soon enough for me. I expect Store to Door to deliver my groceries between now (12:15) and 3:00 PM. This evening Wendy will be here, and has plenty of stink to remove from the heat-waved TomCat. Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow, as I have an an appointment with a new Prosthetist. My old one moved out of town, so the new one will need to familiarize herself with George, Stumpy and me in order to get approval for my annual upgrades.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 2:54 (average 4:45). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): So, What About Those Oval Office Tapes? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
For us, the best option may be impeachment in 2019, if we can take the House. Presenting Trump's agenda is a less difficult win that stopping the same agenda under Pence. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump’s foreign trip hit a snag on Tuesday, when the remaining countries on his itinerary announced that they would rather “wait a month” and meet with the next President instead.
“It makes no sense for us to roll out the red carpet for Trump when there is going to be a completely different guy in the White House in a month,” Hendrik van der Valde, a travel minister for the Belgian government, said. “We very much look forward to hosting the next U.S. President, be it Mike Pence or Paul Ryan or whoever.”
Citing the exorbitant costs of hosting a President, the Belgian said it “would be insane” to spend such sums on someone who “only has a few weeks left” in office.
LOL Andy! Those foreigners sure are smarter than we are! RESIST!!
From CNN: Conditions are right for a major Democratic wave to sweep out the House Republican majority next fall, according to Nathan Gonzales, who runs the "Inside Elections" campaign tipsheet.
"The midterm elections are still nearly a year and a half away, and the political dynamics could yet change, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that history and the current environment are merging together for a potentially great set of elections for Democrats in November 2018," writes Gonzales in a piece published Wednesday morning.
God knows we need it! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
Republicans still don't believe it.
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3:53 Rather a tough old bird?
From an email (DLCC): "The town of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire has never elected a Democratic state representative. Not ever. Not during the Civil War. Not during the Depression or WWII. Not even during Lyndon Johnson's bone-crushing 1964 landslide. It did last night. Edie DesMarais just broke a 189-year record to become the first Democrat ever to break through in Wolfeboro, in a special election for the state House last night." this is not a timefor complacency, but I think we deserve a small celebration at least.
LOL of the day, from Daily Kos user "pr0gressivist": Too bad Jill Stein is such a nutjob. Who could resist voting for a Franken/Stein ticket?
Keith #78 – Competent and thorough analysis of potential, possible facts and scenarios. And, as he says, none of them good for Dolt.45.
TNY – From van der Valde's mouth to God's ears!
CNN – From Nathan Gonzales' mouth to God's ears also! (And, also, we should not neglect any special election or off-year election coming up in the meantime, as my quote above demonstrates.)
Cartoon – And Republicans have been denying it ever since!
Good lock tomorrow indeed. And (I am assuming you will have some time on the trip or on a waiting room) pray hard. Rob Quist's opponent just body-slammed a reporter (breaking his glasses) andhas issued an official statement blaming the victim. The election is tomorrow.
Thanks. See today's Open Thread.
That would ruin a Franken ticket.
It would – but it's still a chuckle.
KO: Very good info, re: the investigation. Hole's getting deeper…..
NYer: I had to chuckle at this one, LOL.!!!
CNN: How refreshing to read this! I am out of my doldrums (if only for a bit) to celebrate this good news!
Cartoon: Yep.
Best to you tomorrow, take good care, relax, and Thanks! Tom.
Keith: So, Rumpy is his own worst nightmare? You Betch'a! 2019 would be good, despite the amazing amount of damage this ass and his dingleberries can still create, because, then it will not be Ryan at the helm of the House. Pence, as I've said before, is a snake of a diffrent color! Oh that might mean that I have to find another breed thereof to photograph.
CNN: Nathan, I am so WITH YOU!
Andy: It must feel very good to have your career, just now! You rock!
Cartoon: Ok, Miles Davis' birthday is the 26th, and that is carved into my heart, but Nicolaus (See "The Book Nobody Read," by Owen Gingerich) Copernicus changed the world on May 24th 1543. I wonder whether, or not, the GOPigs would want to silence his branch of the National Science Foundation! Oh, yeah, without a doubt…yesterday!
Puzzle — 3:42 If you are planning on sea eagle fricassée, watch the talons! They are damn sharp and strong and could slice and dice a Puddy Tat, even an old mangy one!
YouTube — If you're going to threaten someone with tapes of your conversations, you better not be playing Russian roulette. Can the country wait 18 months for a "maybe" Democratic Congress to impeach the Orange Ogre. Keith has laid out the information so well, as usual.
The New Yorker — I heard on this morning's or yesterday's news, I can't remember which, that Theresa May publicly warned the US (read that as Drumpf) that there must be no further intelligence leaks like that which was made to the Russians with the information from Israel. I wonder if Drumpf got the message. They may not have to wait a month if Drumpf opens his big mouth again.
CNN — Bring on the Blue Wave! The Red Tide that hit in 2010 caused so much damage, surely the American people are sick of the colour red.
Cartoon — Republicans have not caught up to Copernicus yet. They still think they are the centre of the solar system, maybe even the universe.
Resist and Persist!!!
Good luck with the prosthetist tomorrow. I had a vey busy day today leaving the house at 1000 hours and returning at 2200 hours. Boy were the babes glad to see me . . . they were hungry! The final information on last night's wind storm are in — 90 km/hr winds, it covered most of the province, major hydro interruptions in the tens of thousands, and we shipped it off to Alberta where Calgary had rain, snow and hail today. At least we did not have any rain. It was nice today but like Portland, it cooled off. Tomorrow is another very busy day but it starts at 1100 hours instead at 1000 hours and hopefully I'll be home earlier. Take care! I'm off to bed now.
Puddy Tat used the talons as toothpicks!
Nothing like your windstorm here. Rest whan you can!
Hope you, George and Stumpy get along with the new prosthetist as well as with the previous one tomorrow, TomCat.
Keith Olbermann: Nobody is talking about tapes anymore, they're conveniently forgotten by most, especially by Republicans, as new information comes to light each day. Personally I don't think there are any tapes, just an empty and stupid threat from "businessman" Drumpf, who does most, if not all of his deals by bullying and threatening to "reveal" or sue. And apparently that is acceptable businessman behavior to his base, as this was already known before they voted for him. So I doubt that neither the Republicans in Congress, nor his followers, nor Drumpf and his acolytes are losing any sleep over these tapes because nobody is perusing this, no matter how well Keith presents his case against Drumpf's empty tape threat.
TNY: Brilliant, Andy! Love the way you leave "the next president" open, suggesting that Pence and Ryan may go down with Drumpf. If only it were true.
CNN: Wouldn't that be great. But I do hope that by "Democrats" Nathan Gonzales means "Progressives".
Cartoon: Drumpf is a firm believer in a heliocentric system, i.e. one in which everything revolves around him.
Amen!
Thanks all. Hugs