Glenn Kirschner – Judge REJECTS Donald Trump’s attempt to delay E. Jean Carroll defamation trial. Trial begins 4/25
The Lincoln Project – How to Manufacture a Debt Ceiling Crisis
Farron Balanced – Former Trump Associate Says Ex President Has Become Too Boring For Voters
MSNBC – Ralph Yarl: Charges filed in shooting of teen who rang wrong doorbell
2-pound Wild Boar Grows Up Believing She’s a Puppy
Beau – Let’s talk about Jordan falling into a trap….
Glenn Kirschner – In Hannity interview, defendant Trump admits to obstruction of justice, reveals his motive
Ring of Fire – Fox News Makes Terrible Decision To Let Hosts Testify At Dominion Trial
Robert Reich – Debunking Criticisms of Donald Trump’s Indictment
Patrick Fitzgerald – The Song of Alvin Bragg
Woman Moves Feral Cat Into Her Bathroom
Beau – Let’s talk about McCarthy, budgets, and the debt ceiling….
Glenn Kirschner – Michael Cohen appears before NY grand jury. Here’s why Cohen is the PERFECT WITNESS against Trump
MSNBC – Remembering women’s rights and gender equality trailblazer former Rep. Pat Schroeder (Yes, this is Mrs. Greespan. But the subject is Pat Schroeder, one of my heroes – She came up with the phrase “The Teflon President” for Reagan)
Farron Balanced – Trump Loses Defamation Case After His Lawyers Screw Up Again
Robert Reich – The Big Mistake That Led to Silicon Valley Bank’s Crash
16 Year Old Shelter Dog Starts Galloping Like A Puppy With His Foster Dad
Beau – Let’s talk about 3 debt ceiling scenarios….
Yesterday, a couple of days of sleeping late and then falling into knitting rabbit hole had put me a bit behind. So I decided to try to get abit ahead instead. did go through February and figured out what days I will need new cartoons for (and one I think I can update) and picked subject matter. i didn’t actually make anything yet, except the update, which I wanted to finsh while it was fresh in my mond, but that is still a head start. And I still managed a little knitting. Also, yesterday was another good day to play Name Drop. I was fortunate enough to get it on the first clue, but I can’t imagine anyone in our generation NOT getting it before the last one.
Cartoon – I see I already poseted today’s yesterday. So, here is yesterday’s, today:
Short Takes –
Scientific American – Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?
Quote – The short, broad-brush answer to the first part of that question is this: men, who on average possess almost twice the number of guns female owners do. But not all men. Some groups of men are much more avid gun consumers than others. The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.
Click through for description and some eye-opening stats.
Robert Reich – Five truths about the pending debt-ceiling fight that the mainstream media doesn’t want you to know
Quote – Truth #1: The fight is being waged solely by the Republican Party. The Democrats did not pick this fight. When Trump occupied the White House, Republicans voted to increase the debt limit three times without incident. Over the last quarter century, it has been raised over a dozen times. You wouldn’t know this from the way it’s being covered. Last Thursday’s [New York] Times, in an article titled “Months Before a Potential Crisis, Both Parties Kick Off a Fiscal Blame Game,” leads with the wildly false equivalence that:
Click through for more detail on #1 and for the other four. Bob is angry, and justly so.
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – New interview with Michael Cohen suggests NY DA Bragg may be back in the Trump prosecution mix
Farron Balanced – Oops! Republicans Accidentally Admit They’ve Been Lying About Tax Cuts For Decades
The Lincolm Project – The Way I Handle Things
Politics Girl – Debt Ceiling Crisis
Stray Cat Stuck In A Wall For Over A Week
http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDFs/OutofSilentPlanet_CSL.pdf
Beau – Let’s talk about explaining Earth to aliens…. (C.S. Lewis did something like this in the first volumne of his “Space Trilogy” – and he [deliberately] wrote himself into a corner where his hero had to fail to translate a concept because it flat made no sense. There’s a pdf here of the whole book – the conversation begins at the bottom of page 119 of the pdf [numbered 115 in the text] and the untranslateable concept appears at the bottom of the following page. The conversation ends near the top of pdf page 122 [118] – not terribly long, but a bit long to quote. Though you aay have to suspend disbelief a bit, it’s very reavealing as to some things we think we know but really haven’t a clue.)
Yesterday, Weather Undergound advised me to maybe expect snow this evening, and maybe also a couple of days from now, during the night. I’m skeptical, but I’m also paying attention. Also, CPR reported that the judge to whom the Elijah McCain murder case is assigned has deemed there need to be three separate trials. Since there are five defendants, it will be interesting to see how that shakes out. Finally, the debt ceiling, but no deal, was reached. Axios has an article about emergency measures. (Did you know that the whole point of having a debt ceiling was to prevent this sort of thing happening?)
Cartoon –
Short Takes –
Robert Reich – Back to another horrible, hellish, horrendous, totally absurd battle over the debt ceiling
Quote – Congress could defuse this bomb by simply raising the debt limit, as it has dozens of times under presidents of both parties for decades. But the MAGA radicals now in control of the House of Representatives are refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless President Biden agrees to devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other key programs. I was involved in a similar fight over the debt ceiling fight twenty-eight years ago, which holds some lessons for what happens now.
Click through for full article. This is not a first rodeo for any of us.
Letters from an American – January 17, 2023
Quote – Today the bill for the elevation of Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to House speaker began to come due. McCarthy promised the far-right members of his conference committee seats and far more power in Congress to persuade them to vote for him. Now they are collecting.
Click through for full letter. She covers multiple abuses, starting with committee assignments, but she does get around to the debt ceiling too.
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – ANOTHER Federal Judge calls out Donald Trump for being responsible for the insurrection!
The Lincolm Project – Republicans + Retirement
MSNBC – Police arrest disgruntled Republican candidate in connection with shootings in New Mexico
Farron Balanced – Former Staffer Says George Santos Is DEFINITELY Going To Jail
Mother Dog Reunited With Her Puppies All Grown Up
Beau – Let’s talk about default and the Constitution….
Glenn Kirschner – Republican representatives say, “smoke ’em if you got ’em,” reintroduce carcinogens into Congress
MSNBC – Why the stakes of the debt ceiling fight are so high
Thom Hartmann – Was The FBI Started To Stop Black Revolution?
Ring of Fire – Trump Wanted To Nuke North Korea And Blame Another Country
Friendly Stray Cat Gets An Uber Home
Beau – Let’s talk about Special Counsel updates….