It’s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. My Broncos are visiting the Chiefs. My expectations are not high. The game is televised here. This article is short, because the Republican in today’s parade dominated yesterday’s news. WWWendy should be here in about 35 minutes.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Take:
From NY Times: After Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota announced that she would not vote to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, sympathetic voters went to work to show their support for the embattled red-state Democrat, writing letters of thanks and posting their appreciation on social media.
Others found a more practical way to demonstrate their gratitude: cold, hard cash. In 17 days, Ms. Heitkamp raised an astonishing $12.5 million, according to campaign finance filings; the bulk of that was after she announced her vote.
I’ve never been a Heitkamp fan, but she deserves the support. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
I voted Blue!
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NYT: WooHoo, Ms. Heitkamp for the WIN!
Cartoon: Where the speakeasies and bootlegging became widespread, with gangsters becoming wealthy, and just as dangerous during that time period.
Hi, WWWendy! Enjoy your game, relax and rest, and take good care. Thanks, Tom.
oops..my bad.
This just in: “Fox News: ‘If we didn’t lie, we’d have nothing to say.'” ~ Steven V. ~
NYT: Amen!
‘Toon: Yet anther religiously driven, inappropriate, lamebrain incursion into government. Oh, I’ll drink to that! But, the mob loved it! All those shoot-em-up gangster movies would never have been reality based with prohibition.
5:12 Frizzy? Maybe, but still not a bad hair day compared to Orange Judas.
From the “What fresh hell is this?” department (petition)
NYT – A lot of her support is from the Lakota, and if they are happy with her, I’m happy.
Cartoon – The act which enforced the 19th Amendment
Maybe I’ll do something on Medieval illuminated manuscripts sometime.
Often wondered how they had time to do all that when the rigors of putting food on the table must have been a full-time effort.
Most often, such was only done by some monks because they were educated as opposed to average people who had little or no formal education. Also, in the abbeys where these monks usually lived, there were other monks who had “kitchen duty”, or as one anonymous monk commented, “each to his own God given gifts”.
Squatch is correct. There were also some who had duties of actual gardening, and some who had duties of collecting alms (which could certainly include food in kind). All monks had obligations to pray, but some orders had a “choir” of those who were called to pray as their chief duty, quite a bit in song. Monasteries (and convents) were quite the microcosm.
Charlemagne took a personal interest in calligraphy, and has what we would now call a “font” named after him. The Book of Kells is a milestone, as are individual books of hours crafted by monasteries for nobility and royalty. The materials used (parchment, paper, ink, paint, gold leaf, precious stones, pens, brushes) are studies in themselves. I won’t even start on occupational hazards, such as getting poisoned.
Well, there goes THAT topic.
Back to the drawing board …
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Oh, I think you could do quite a lot with it! I didn’t mean to discourage!
Petition signed and I may just include it again in a post I am preparing.
Be our guest (our = me and everyone who cares about LGBTQ). Share it widely!
“Trump wants to require intrusive genetic testing to settle disagreements about a person’s gender.” WTF?!?!?!?
So signed!
29,325 signatures
Thanx Joanne
Good Luck to the Broncos, TC
WTF indeed, Animae! Thanks for the update!
NYT: Good for Ms. Heitkamp.
Cartoon: Yep. Stirred all sorts of crazies.
Vote blue no matter who! When primaries come back around, then we’ll settle with Heitkamp and other DINOs. This is why we need to vote in primaries, to make sure that Democratic finalists are REAL Democrats, real progressives, not just elephants in donkey skins.
Well, the horsies aren’t having a good year. Chin up, though – better times are in the offing.
28 October 1919: A dark day in the history of this country. All the Volstead Act did was play into the hands of organized crime, and give drinking a certain glamour. On the other hand, it was the best thing that ever happened to homebrewing.
NYT: At least Heidi Heitkamp had some Democratic principles she stood by, and for which she is now amply rewarded, something that cannot be said of Manchin. If Heitkamp dares to stand up for some of those principals in future too, the people of North-Dakota could do worse than by voting for her. Strategically it makes sense to vote for her, for Manchin not so much.
I think it makes sense to support Manchin for the rime being. When enough West Virginians have been gotten off of opiates, and actually recover, more minds may be more open to actual progressivism. Now, not so much.
I agree.
Most Drumpfians never ‘recovered’ and were more open-minded; why would people with actual brain lesions, from which there is no recovery, be more open-minded then?
NYT: I hope Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota does well with her election. She does face an uphill battle. She did right in voting against Bret Kavanaugh.
Cartoon: Yup. The Volstead Act.
The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure.
Volstead Act, formally National Prohibition Act, U.S. law enacted in 1919 (and taking effect in 1920) to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Puzzle — 3:33 Sorry puppy, I could not save you from those rapacious jaws of the Puddy Tat!
NY Times — Republicans should be very worried at the fundraising success of Heitkamp. And some of it is undoubtedly because of her vote on Kavanaugh. The Washington Post had an article about why Heitkamp voted against Kavanaugh:
I hope Heitkamp prevails against her Republican opponent, Cramer.
Cartoon — The Volstead Act (Prohibition Act) “set down methods for enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which “intoxicating liquors” were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition (e.g., for medical and religious purposes).” (Wikipedia) was repealed by the twenty-first amendment on 05 December 1933. The US has been producing, selling and consuming ever since. I’ll bet Al Capone was crushed when that happened.
Because Hallowe’en falls on Wednesday this year, I am teaching this afternoon. Sareena’s Mama-jun and Papa-jun (grandma and grandpa) are returning to Iran next week so I am taking over some baked sweet potatoes for their dinner. It is almost 1230 hours so I have to hustle to get them done. I will certainly miss them. They are such delightful people despite the language barrier we share.
It’s good for you that I get my dawg, as I just made a HUGE batch of chili.
Bring it on Puddy!!! I have a big supply of beans!!! Shall we have duelling natural gas attacks at the border?
Sasquatch gas isn’t bad. It covers up the foot odor.
Thanks all. Hugs!