Yesterday was reasonably calm, and I got some things done, but still have some de-cluttering to do. I did succeed in setting up my meds for the ext two weeks so that all I have to do is remember to take them – and I’m fairly good at that.
Cartoon (After all, it’s Tuesday) –
Short Takes –
Crooks and Liars – Sixteen Weapons, Tons Of Ammo Found In Hotel Room Near Coors Field
Quote – A maid working at Denver’s Maven Hotel tipped off law enforcement about weapons in one of the rooms there. Police got a search warrant, found 16 long guns, body armor, and over a thousand rounds of ammunition in the room, which featured a balcony overlooking the downtown area. The Maven Hotel is not too far from Coors Field, which will host the All-Star game on Tuesday. Click through for preliminary details (which may get updaed). The sad thing is that if I hadn’t seen “Coors Field” I might have passed ths by.
The Hill – Judge grills attorneys over suit challenging Michigan results
Quote – “I need to point out here that my concern is that the counsel here have submitted affidavits that suggest and make the public believe that there was something wrong with the election and that is what this is all about,” said the judge, who was appointed by former President Obama. “That’s what these affidavits were designed to show, that there was something wrong in Michigan, there was something wrong in Wayne County.” Click through for some of the back-and-forth. Kudos to Judge Parker. We need more of this.
Neighbors See Trump Waiting by Mailbox for Reinstatement Notice
Quote – Mr. Klugian said that he sympathized with Trump because he remembered “checking the mail a lot when I first retired…. If you don’t have anything to do, the mail becomes kind of the high point of your day,” he said. “He has to get into gardening or volunteering. Something. He can’t go on like this.” Click through for details. Sounds like straight news to me, but with Andy … how can you tell?
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 10, 2021
Don Winslow – Don Winslow Films – #LaurenBoebertIsAMonster
CNN – [John Dean] says he’d pay to handle Trump’s deposition. I have a very sift spot forpeople who have made mistakes, including extremely stupid ones, and LEARNED from than and turned around. John is one. Another is Monica Lewinsky.
Liberal Redneck – I’m from TN and LAWD I CAN’T STAND MARSHA BLACKBURN. (Taylor Swift is acually a liberal.)
Beau – Boebert is no Einstein, but I have administered GED testing and read the tests and getting it is NOT easy. And, yes, apparently it took her several tries to get it. However, it still is not that easy (and it certainly is not the same questions every time one tries) and Istill assert that GEDs are respectable and arw to be respected by Democrats, among others. And certaily by the military. I don’t know whether the military is accepting GED students now, but at the time I was working with it they weren’t. I have advised GED grads nterested in the military to go to the nearest and cheapest community college and take and pass one course – any course. Then, their educational level becomes “some college” and bypasses the GED question altogether. And I still consider that good advice. (But I hope Boebert doesn’t take it.)
Glenn Kirschner – Trump Org Terminates CFO Weisselberg From Some Duties. Is Trump Org Setting Him Up to Take the Fall? (when I first heard this I figured Scotland forced him to do it. The Scots don’t mess around. But Glenn is probably closer.)
Meidas Touch – Ben Meiselas: The GQP is a F**king Death Cult
Rebel HQ – Racist Gets KNOCKED OUT, Then THIS Happens
CNN – Acosta to Trump: Take your fake WH seal and play president elsewhere
Now This News – Dalai Lama Portrait Made With Rubik’s Cubes Sells For $555k+ OK, a flulff video, but good for the Dalai Lama (who is now 86)
135-Pound Mastiff Becomes Obsessed With A Tiny Kitten
Beau – Let’s talk about being happy and Biden’s door-to-door salespeople….
This is quite late … but, trying to get it up before I gat any more behind.
Glenn Kirschner catchup – DC Court Makes it Easier to Jail Insurrectionists Pending Trial; Prosecutors Hint at New Conspiracy (535 defendants. Where have I heard that number before? Gotta be a coincidence.)
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Frivolous Lawsuit Against Twitter/Google/Facebook Will Be Dismissed. But 1st, a Deposition?
Meidas Touch – Former SDNY Asst. US Attorney Explains Why Trump Just Incriminated Himself
The Lincoln Project – Toyota
Thom Hartmann – What Happens When the GOP Flips an Election?
Keith Olbermann – Olbermann VS. Trump: It’s not that he praised Hitler in 2018, it’s why was John Kelly “stunned”?
Beau – Let’s talk about sympathy for Republicans…. (Good advice. Too bad it will fall on deaf ears – if it even gets that far.)
