I got up a little early, so I decided to publish today, but I am in a hurry, as WWWendy will be here shortly. She lest and I’m a scrubbed Puddy Tat!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:44 (average 5:27). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (CSPAN Channel): Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein: “The indictment charges 13 Russian nationals…”
Not definitive, but it I expect it to become so. RESIST!!
From YouTube (NY Times Channel): Survivors of the Florida School Shooting Speak Out
Put petty partisanship aside? One party favors gun control. The other, the Republican Party, favors allowing the NRA to keep killing children. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence: Donald Trump’s Fears About What Vladimir Putin Knows
The only other explanation is that Putin is blackmailing Trump over financial activities. My estimate is that Trump is Putin’s Pee Pervert, and Putin is threatening to release the pee-pee tapes. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
Completely by accident, because it stopped!
14 Responses to “Open Thread – 2/17/2018”
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As the Bob Dylan song says, how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died? How many corpses must pile up till our lily-livered Congresscritters finally stand up to the gun kooks?
I’d like to know how many Representatives and Senators who are in the NRA’s pockets also cater to the anti-abortion crowd. They scream and howl and roar about protecting the unborn, but don’t give a rat’s arse about those who are already here. An abortion is bloody murder, but a shooting victim is just another statistic. When they mewl about the potential lost in abortions, do they think of all the potential that was lost at Columbine, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, and so on, and so on, and so on? Far, far, far too many people – including tender children, and pregnant women – have been sacrificed on the gore-soaked altar of the Gun God.
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. ?
CSPAN: Sweet !!!!
NYTChannel: We must do something, we MUST be the change for our children & grandchildren. Repugs, and NRA…..this is on your time & hands, do what’s right, and do what’s right to stop the gun violence!! and slaughter of our kids.
MSNBC: Good.
Mr. Dumpty deserves everything that Mr. Mueller throws at him. I might add that dt doesn’t give a sheet about us, the government, nor putting sanctions on Russia. He’s in Putin’s hands, fawns over him, and he’s spineless, imho.
Cartoon: Not on God’s time in this WH !!
Glad that you had a good day! Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
I might add, respectfully, that all students, (Pre-K, to grades 12), community colleges & colleges, now show compliance for/with lock-down procedures ico of an attack or threat to a campus. Mandatory drills every year. Back in 1981, at the little country school I started out in, lockdowns were unheard of. The last few years that I worked at the middle school here, I was part of the ‘Crisis Response Team’, to keep up with additional data that was necessary to assist students/staff in emergencies.
I find today….profound sadness that this is what we’ve become to protect our next and future generations.
https://www.guideone.com/safety_resource/lockdown-procedures/
Remember when these drills were held in case of possible (but unlikely) nuclear attacks from Russia during the Cold War? The USA has now sunk to this level to protect their children from the very real attacks by their own, simply armed with an assault rifle.
I remember the drills to which Lona refers, but when I was in school, if a cop actually set foot in the school, we assumed he had come in to use the rest room. ?
Thanks! y’all
YVW!
5:44 My Fiat stalled.
CNET – This is excellent – giving enough background in enough detail, but simply
expressed, that anyone should be able to get it. I say SHOULD … of course there
will be those who won’t get it, because they choose not to. But for anyone with a
smidgen of an open mind, this is great, in that it works to establish the
existence of the conspiracy without naming any particular American – YET.
NYT – However, it’s true that the ONE party that IS pettily partisan should put
that aside. I hope someone can come up with a way to listen to REASON when they
won’t even listen to FACTS. https://wellthisiswhatithink.com/2018/02/15/is-
there-no-end-really-is-there-really-nothing-you-can-think-to-do-america/
MSNBC – BOTH. No question about it.
Cartoon – Excuse me … but I think it’s a twenty-four hour clock, in which case
it would only be right ONCE a day.
YT/CSPAN: For me this is a possible tipping point, perhaps the first real nail in tDump’s coffin! I posted on the indictments, yesterday, and JL has written that, already Faux Not-News and Lyin’ Ryan have begun to change their spin on the formerly fake Russian interference!
YT/NYT Channel: These kids are in High School, and things are different in our culture than they were at the time of Columbine, so maybe, just maybe, since they are able to put things into a different perspective than the victims of Sandy Hook, themselves, since they can give voice to their horror and anger in their own words, and loudly, just maybe this will help push the NRA’s puppets out of office. I have no expectation that the current flock of cowards in congress will do anything useful!
Grab them by the mid-terms!
Why does tDump seem like a “…helpless, weak, little boy…?” Because he is just that, and Putin knew that a long, long time ago, I’ll bet. When tDump HAD to go to Russia for loans, because the U.S. banks would no longer touch him with the proverbial “ten foot pole,” Putin learned about it, and probably shoved a “ten foot pole” into tDumps posterior, and has been puppet master ever since: Dunce on a stick!
Puzzle — 3:23 VROOM!!! VROOM!!!
CSPAN — Rosenstein laid out the situation well without over playing it. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out in court, although I question whether that will be in my lifetime or not. Anybody taking bets on how long before Drumpf declares that these charges and Rosenstein’s announcement, specifically that it is believed that no Americans were aware they were working with Russians, vindicate him of collusion?
NY Times — Kudos to these students for speaking out! They are so correct for saying this is about guns. I can’t believe that mental illness is an issue in all the mass shootings that occur . . . some, yes, but not all. But of course Drumpf will push that point to the exclusion of all others. Republicans have pushed the “it’s not the time to discuss gun controls” like they have every other time. If not now, when? They would rather bury kids than tackle a real social problem. So much for being pro life, eh! Yesterday, Lona noted someone who was tweeting the amount of donations received by Congress critters from the NRA. That is information that should be made public for all critters, federal and state.
MSNBC — Well I guess nobody is taking bets as I asked in my CSPAN comment! Lawrence did a great job of outlining Drumpf’s reaction and it was as I figured it would be. Like JD, I think that Putin has Drumpf over a barrel both for financial activities and his lewd activities with Russian hookers. Would someone please tape Drumpf’s damn thumbs down!!! His perpetual “thumbs up” is really annoying and so phoney!!!
Cartoon — The trouble is, the clock is moving backwards!
I came home about 2030 hours Saturday evening and by 2130 hours there was a bunch of snow where none had been at 2030 hours, enough that at midnight, there was a plough clearing the roadways. I guess Wiarton Willie was right to predict 6 more weeks of winter! Say hi to WWW from me the next time she comes over.
Thanks Frosty! ⛄
CSPAN: 13 Russians and three Drumpf associates down, the rest of the Drumpf team to go.
NYT: These kids are so right, it is time to put partisan differences aside. And they make it also very clear that they’re sick of “prayers and condolences” and all the talk without doing anything and with that which is the party that needs to move. As young as they are, they are no fools. Kudos to them.
Lawrence: He sums it up quite nicely in his assumption that Putin knows more about Drumpf than anyone else, with the possible exception of Mueller.I think Putin has a big fat dossier in the top drawer of his Kremlin desk with all the dirt on Drumpf, the Drumpf clan and all his associates, including all fraudulent or criminal financial dealings, personal indiscretions and, of course, all details on all collusion that took place then and now. Because Putin has Drumpf in a tight grip, the White House is still in collusion with Putin by not acting on the stricter sanctions on Russia Congress has made into law or by taking action by protecting American democracy and the next elections from further Russian interference. First the Russians had to come in by the back-door, with his collusion now Drumpf has opened the front-door wide for Russians (and possibly others) to create political chaos.
Cartoon: It stopped at two minutes to twelve.
Thanks all. Pooped Hugs! ?