I’m tired, because I stayed up late last night to watch the draft, and because it was a hot, muggy night. My Broncos drafted Noah Fant (TE-Iowa). That surprised me, but we certainly need help at that position.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:19 (average 5:49). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Historians Roast Trump
Should historians ‘roast’ Trump? Isn’t ‘flush’ the appropriate verb? RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Facebook Is Facing A Fine Of Up To $5 Billion, The Largest Ever
By Facebook standards, that fine is tiny! Fuckerberg is dancing all the way to the bank. The Republican Reich is helping him screw YOU! UNPLUG!! With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. RESIST!!
From NY Times: A panel of three federal judges ruled on Thursday that 34 congressional and state legislative districts in Michigan are extreme partisan gerrymanders and unconstitutional. The judges ordered state lawmakers to redraw maps in time for elections in 2020.
The panel wrote that it was joining “the growing chorus of federal courts” that have held that drawing districts to unfairly favor the party in power is unconstitutional. The judges said the maps violated Democratic voters’ constitutional rights.
But the impact of the ruling ultimately will turn on an opinion by the Supreme Court, which is weighing decisions in two other partisan gerrymander cases involving congressional districts in North Carolina and Maryland. The justices’ decision in those cases, expected by the end of June, could reinforce the Michigan ruling, force alterations to it, or even overrule it entirely.
The judges clearly did the right thing, but I have no faith that the Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) will rule Constitutionally. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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FFC: “History will do that!” Perfect. And, history will show his skill at redirecting golf balls. Total POS! He give me extra motivation to live well into my centurion years, so that I can read what the historians will say, after they stoop crying and laughing!
MSNBC: That quote comes from a very good movie: DON’T PLAY!
NYT: May RGB thrive, and live long!!!!
‘Toon: Gee, is there a lesson in there, somewhere?
FFC: VERY well done and spoken!
MSNBC: Holy Moly!!!
NYT: Good for the state judges making a decision, but not so much in the SC on the (R) side, we’ll see what happens.
Cartoon: Yeah, ain’t that the truth? ugh!
Got some chores here I need to get done. Hope that you have a good rest of your day, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
Historians roasting tRump – no surprise there. I’m amazed that Full Frontal was able to find only eight who would do this. And if the Mango Menace thinks they’re bad, future historians will be worse!
Facebook being fined? Fine. I don’t have a Facebook account, and never will.
Heard about the Michigan ruling. Now let’s have similar rulings in plenty of other states!
Cartoon – yep, that’s Republican logic, all right.
6:20 Watch out for bones.
Roast – Wrong group. Historians know if we don’t learn from him, we’ll be condemned to repeat him – at least the ones who are still alive will. So “flushing,” lovely as it sounds, isn’t the answer.
Fakebook – So glad I don’t have a business … and very sorry for businesses who feel compelled to be on the Book. I mean, the big criminals can pound sand, but the little Mom-and-Pops are different. And apparently there are some at least medium sized ones with a heart. Of course they’ll get it all back from individual users who have much less than they do. This what we did wrong with the banks (as many have said much better than I can.)
NYT – Hard to determine how much of gerrymandering is stupidity and how much is cupidity. I guess we can just say both are involved.
Cartoon – Yeah.
3:59 Didn’t look very silvery to me; it took me a while before I understood I had to catch three of them.
Sam 🐝: I bet these eight historians were only too eager to participate in this and write their own jokes to roast Drumpf. But as they said, we can leave it to history to fully dissect him, lay bare all his doings and name him for what he is: the worst president ever.
MSNBC: Facebook is facing a $5 billion fine, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to pay it. Even if they did, it is a trifle to them, paid for by lose change in their pockets. As suggested, adding a zero to the fine would be more appropriate, but $50 billion wouldn’t change their behaviour one iota either. Apparently which is exactly what their shareholders expect from them.
NYT: It’ll be a very sad day in America’s history of jurisdiction when SCOTUS will overrule the two gerrymandering cases before them, thereby ignoring “the growing chorus of federal courts” who rule that their district’s gerrymandering is unconstitutional. If that happens, SCOTUS no longer represents the Rule of the Land, but the rule of a Republican minority.
Cartoon: After 33 years and an inundation in concrete, which is starting to crack already, Chernobyl is still uninhabitable and will be so for a very long time.
Puzzle — 6:05 These look like glow in the dark fish. Are you sure they’re not from Chernobyl?
Full Frontal — I hear the sizzling of Trump’s fat in the roasting! He is an incompetent asshole!
MSNBC — As Galloway said, add a zero to the fine. I wonder if that would even be an adequate deterent. Shutting down their revenue stream would get their attention, but almost impossible to do.
NY Times — I hear knuckle dragging! Kudos to the 3 judge panel in Michigan! But there will be a referral to SCOTUS undoubtedly. But will SCOTUS hear the case before the 2020 election platform deadline?
Cartoon — And Trump and Jong-Un threaten to throw nukes like kids throw a football around?
I never joined Facebook (thankfully) – but the more I learn about Zuckerberg, the less I like him.
I’m actually hopeful WRT the SCOTUS doing the right thing WRT gerrymandering. The North Carolina & Maryland cases they heard are pretty strong for reining in the willful malfeasance by Rethuglicans.
Housekeeping note: This spring my allergies have been very kind to my nose, but, as is the way of allergies, they have found other body parts to punish. Yesterday and today I am having so much trouble focusing my vision that I am not going to be able to complete an Erinyes. For distance I’m fine – I never felt in danger driving – but in the computer range it’s another story. I’m finding myself having to double the zoom just to read charts, for instance. I’ve had it happen before, and hopefully this too shall pass, but this week = just no.
JD, I hope your allergies clear up quickly. Allergies at the best of times are annoying!
Sorry about your allergies troubling your vision, Joanne. I hope your eyes clear very soon and you feel better. don’t worry about your Erinyes. Though they’ll surely be missed this week, they can do with a week gathering strength for all the injustice that is out there the coming week.
JD, I hope the allergies are kinder to you in short order,
Thanks and hurried hugs to all.