I’m feeling very tired on a hot muggy day. The move is set for the week of 6/9. I just took a ride in the elevator. They fixed it yesterday afternoon. If I can sign the lease and get the keys next week, I can go see it before moving day. That would make me much more organized then. TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:21 (average 4:19). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Smoking Gun Evidence Of President Donald Trump’s Push To Rig The Census
The goal of the Republican Party is to create permanent, racist, fascist, totalitarian, plutocratic Republican Reich in which elections exist for show only, because the Reich controls who gets to vote. RESIST!!
From YouTube (CNN Channel): He broke with GOP under Nixon; hear his advice for them today
Effectively, that divides Republican Reps and Senators into three categories: complicit criminals, quivering cowards, and Amash. RESIST!!
From AlterNet: If the United States weren’t in the midst of its own “constitutional crisis,” a headline like this would be big news: “Israel Moves to Hold New Election as Netanyahu Fails to Form a Coalition.”
Seven weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “a night of tremendous victory” in Israel’s election, his failure to form a government by midnight Wednesday has turned into a stunning debacle for him and thrust Israel into a new election.
Israelis will return to the ballot box in about three months, the first time in the country’s history that it has been forced to hold a new national election because of a failure to form a government after the previous one.
To maintain his parliamentarian majority, Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party needed to form a coalition government with right wing secular ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox factions. A refusal by those parties to compromise on proposed legislation about military service made that impossible. But here is a critical element of the story.
Facing possible corruption charges, Mr. Netanyahu had less political wiggle room to turn to more liberal parties and failed to assemble the 61-seat majority required to form a government.
The best thing that could happen for Israel and for Palestine is for Butcher Bibi to crash and burn. He has dragged Israel into multiple war crimes. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
8 Responses to “Open Thread – 5/31/2019”
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4:41 “Large tree nymph” – does that make it a dryad?
MSNBC – Hoffeler’s daughter could have told us this. She is appalled by it, but confirms that that is who he was.
CNN – While I have some sympathy for people who are in real and deadly fear of losing their careers (especially if they have dependents), I would say to them (if I were asked) that a career founded on abject terror is no way to live.
AlterNet – It IS big news. It will be even bigger news if the new election kicks Bibi out. There are times I think the United States should look at adopting some kind of parliamentary system like that in Israel, Britain, and so many other nations … but it’s far from a cure-all. All those nations have suffered under terrible mismanagement resulting from their electoral systems too. I wish I had an answer.
Cartoon – You are correct. they literally do want to repeal it. Heaven forbid.
(Today is Laylat)
MSNBC: Good video. Lying. rigging the whole system, to benefit he Republicans?? Boy, they go to great lengths, don’t they? Unreal. WOW!
CNN: The R’s need to grow a spine, and stand up for what they were elected for….to serve the American people, and to protect the Constitution. They’re in it for their own self interests, imho.
Cartoon: Oh, but of course!!
Hope that you get a chance to view your new digs, if and when you can sign, and get your key. Seems like everything is going smoothly….Hope that you have a good rest of your day/evening, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “:You take the word ‘impeachment’ and you change it to ‘Trump Criminal Investigations’, and force Trump to say, ‘I’m not a criminal.’ ~ Donny Deutsch ~ msnbc
“The R’s need to grow a spine,” Your comments really points up the difference between having a spine and having balls. They have balls, all rught 0 brass ones the size of church bells. But as you say, no spine.
I for one hope that this is the beginning of the end for Nuttin’ Yahoo. And the Mango Menace. Good riddance to both of them!
MSNBC: “…would reduce the count of non-white people in this country….” And what is it about that, that puzzles anyone? Jim Crow voting laws, gerrymandering, stripping felons of the right to vote, forever, the vast majority of them non-white. Does anyone need an anvil to the head to see that this is exactly what the Rethuglicans have been aiming at ever since reconstruction?
CNN: “…some note of grace in his soul.” DEVOID! This is the Malignant Narcissist in action. You know the old saw about doing the same thing, over and over again, and hoping for different results, being a definition of crazy? Well, expecting Dumpness to be different than his tiny, measly, little, empty, rabidly selfish self has shown him to be, is also senseless. I vote for “complicit criminals!” Taking no action when someone is blatantly attacking the very foundations of your culture, is an action!
Alternet: “The best thing that could happen for Israel and for Palestine is for Butcher Bibi to crash and burn. He has dragged Israel into multiple war crimes. RESIST!!” AMEN!
‘Toon: They would love to repeal it, and to maintain the Electoral College, which a was set up to hand control of the voting to the powerful, from then get-go!
MSNBC: Makes me so angry to continue reading of the more evidence they keep finding of the bas*ard’ and cronies evil doings. Wish they’d lock them up and throw the keys away.
CNN: Agree with Joanne and Pat.
Hope you do get to see your new place soon. I’m praying that it will be everything you’ve ever wanted.
Thanks and hugs to all.
Missed so many posts, was this when C2 was down!?