Worked with a cheese clerk once. Real liberal and this was when Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on all the magazine covers and he goes ok you're gay so what? He thought she was exploiting this and defining her public image by her sexuality. Truman Capote on the other hand was gay but at most he'd mention it in passing if at all.
The classic colonoscopy has met AI. We note the robotic worm which crawls through your colon (or lower intestine, I'm still a bit foggy on the precise terminology). It is said to put much less pressure on the walls where the big ol tube pokes around until it curves. If you bought one, you could save $$ and I'm thinking it might work for clearing plugged kitchen drains as well. Just saying.
Sort of understandable. AI language is digital based, human language derived from sound, then analog characters. Instead of asking for five sheets of paper, an AI-noid 'thinks' and expresses “sheet of paper, sheet of paper” repeated five times. I think...I have trouble with Klingon language too.
Eclipse Mania- A population of 6,700 of Madras residents is expected to swell to well over 60-70,000 during the week surrounding the solar eclipse event just within the city of Madras. That means that all of the hotels, campsites and even the roads will be totally over capacity. Getting into and out of the Madras area on highways, main thoroughfares and even the smallest side streets will be nearly impossible in the days leading up to and following the 2017 eclipse. This is why so many people have booked several days in the hotels Madras has, as far back as 2015. In fact, there are no hotel rooms available during the eclipse week and most of the camping sites are also already spoken for, with exception of only a few. My daughter and family, who live directly under the eclipse, decided instead to drive over to Madras, Oregon and join the astronomy nuts. Every motel and campground was sold out a year ago. They found a farmer who would let them tent in his pasture for $1200 one night. So, they will drive over the night before and drive back that afternoon. The areas to the south of Portland are expecting wall to wall traffic jams. Maybe they will get back in a week or so?
Last total eclipse I saw was when we were vacationing in N Wisconsin in 1954- cabin on lake Pulaski in the 'Indianhead' area. I was about 13, more interested in fishing and playing catch. In those days, everyone used two layers of exposed photographic film. Do they even have that anymore? 1954: the Mau Mau was active in E Africa, Mamie Eisenhower christened the first nuclear sub, an H-bomb test submerged the island of Bikini, the Viet Min surrounded the French at Dien Pen Phu, the first color TV was introduced, Joe McCarthy goes after the US Army for being soft on communism, Elvis releases his first single, the transistor radio was introduced, the first Godzilla film premiered in Tokyo, the first Burger King opened and Joseph Stalin died. We learn that eclipses occur, and a lot of other stuff goes on as well. Astronomical odditiy, eclipse views are confined to a rather narrow strip across the earth surface: most of the world will miss this one. If an eclipse happens in Wyoming, doe the people in Sri Lanka care?
So special prosecutor Robert Mueller has convened a special grand jury to look into the Russia matter which means he feels he has something worth looking into...
Ever notice that R. Muller looks like Leslie Neilson in 'Naked Gun' from a certain angle? Trump working hard to suppress leakers: should be down to his family members in the admin shortly.
“I sat cringing before MGM’s Technicolor production of The Wizard of Oz, which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity… I don’t like the Singer Midgets under any circumstances, but I found them especially bothersome in Technicolor… I say it’s a stinkeroo.” – Russell Maloney, The New Yorker The Excorcist- "A chunk of elegant occultist claptrap... A practically impossible film to sit through... It establishes a new low for grotesque special effects..." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times When It's a Wonderful Life was first released in 1946, it received generally negative reviews. It was the next generation of the 60s and 70s that so loved the film that it became the classic that it is today. Bonnie & Clyde- “It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in Thoroughly Modern Millie… This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste, since it makes no valid commentary upon the already travestied truth. And it leaves an astonished critic wondering just what purpose Mr. Penn and Mr. Beatty think they serve with this strangely antique, sentimental claptrap…” – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times And, we note that the Turner Classic Movies channel for example, has programmed a festival of "Movies Condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency" that included several that were not rated C by the Legion. So, if you want to go, go. Box office receipts and critics are not necessarily synchronous.
My friend absolutely does not care what critics think he just goes. I've often said if movie critics know how movies should be made why don't they make them themselves???
Some movies are sleepers; really good but get no critical acclaim. Others get really good reviews but essentially suck. I like TCM, it's my mother's 24/7 go to. They have no commercials, which really makes a difference. Not long ago we watched Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. I think a lot of the shock value was kind of lost on us. It was hard to imagine how truly interracial relationships were viewed back then.
I really don't see what the big deal is about letting transgender people in the military. Seriously I think Trump just does stuff to piss people off. How much of the stuff he's done has been arbitrary, things that he didn't have to do but that have such widespread negative effects, like the act that protects streams that provide drinking water from pollution. Seriously, why did he have to get rid of that law? Clean water is no good?
Now I'm seeing rumors that Pence is going to run in 20? He may be in office by 2018 if things keep up.
Also, this business with leaked phone call transcripts. He really is that stupid.
The laminate floor is in, done, and looks gorgeous. The YouTube put out by Pergo on installation is a lot of propaganda. It's infinitely harder than they make it out to be.
The RW clones over at Z's really came unglued at the idea of transgendered military. Somehow the following nations have them: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. I suspect the resistance to such people in uniform extends to women fighter pilots, pharsi interpreters, and truck drivers as well. IMO, qualities like courage, honor, sense of duty and ability transcend gender and race. *note Israel has transgendered soldiers, perhaps the Neanderthals should go after that tough little country?
Isn't that the American way? It doesn't matter that something (like socialized medicine or transgender people in the military) is done successfully all over the civilized world, we can't take a hint and possibly learn something by doing the same.
I remember hearing back with Katrina that the Dutch (who know more about living below sea level than anyone else) volunteered to give some expertise and help with rebuilding. The help and knowledge were refused by the Bush administration.
Trump railed about Obama playing golf. His believers elected him. So, how's that working out? Golf games first 200 days: Trump 19 B. Clinton 5 Obama 1 Bush 0 So, he has done three times the golfing of the three preceding presidents. Meanwhile, N. Korea's nuclear sophistication grows: we see a WWF cage match between Kim Jong Un and Donald Jong Trump, with Vlad in the front seat, laughing and eating popcorn. This ain't politics, this is nonsense.
Checking on the lower regions of politics, I used your Grudge Link, but instead found an article on the rise of the sexbots. Further inquiry reveals some tech/financial data on AI and sex . Bible-wise, we ponder what Jesus would say?
Is the right wing at war with inself ? G. Beck reports on Robert Jefress, S. Baptist bible expert, leader of a huge following of faithful and all around poor example of a Christian, urging nuclear war. He should have been in my college research lab on mice exposed to a mere 1000 roentgens; how misearble it is to die from the inside out. I miss Obama. Just saying.
Kim announced they were planning to drop 4 untipped MRBMs around Guam, 25 miles off shore. To demonstrate his capability, apparently. Not sure what the Yonkers coworkers have concluded, but IMO it is just another in the long string of human conflicts: the Opium War in 1800s China, the War To End All Wars in 1917, the Phoney War in 1939 Europe and now the Twitter War. Like a couple of Bronx teens, the insults fly and escalate: we seem to be at the “yo Mama” stage. Bizarre, considering the energy expended on fighting the opiod epidemic, the transgender soldier arguments, the Merry (or not) Christma scandals, dozens of Hillary investigations, The Great American Wall, Boko Haram, Global (or not) Warming, Jeffry Beauregard Sessions, Where did Comey Go? and what does Ivanka Do whem Donald is putting... So, what do the restaurant coworkers conclude...and do any have a geiger counter?
Nuclear weapons have been around since the early fifties and most countries with the capability have been pretty responsible . In N. Korea's case, it is sort of like keeping a pyromaniac from playing with fire, IMO.
Island of Guam threatened by N Korean missiles? Rumors that Reddit has moved Guam south and east and it now lies out of the target zone between Tahiti and Bouganville. Check the map. Where is Yonkers these days?
Early west trivia department- We note that there were worse disasters along the Oregon/California Trail than the Donner Party. Having been caught in a couple of central Wyoming blizzards, IMO they should have started earlier and ignored Brigham Young that year.
Monthly visit from a pair of Jehova Witnesses- Nice folks, not pushy, but long term persistant. This week they stopped by with the latest 'Awake' amd 'Watchtower' and their montly topic: 'Are You Doing Too Much?' That being the lead in question, I answered that no, I wasn't and never had. So they pressed on with the the words of Soloman in Ecclesiastes, “Better is a handful of rest than two handfuls of hard work and chasing after the wind”. (they even had electronic tablet bibles, which I criticized for being a bunch of bits and bytes rather than Hebrew) I observed that some old king with 700 wives and 300 concubines was trying to tell ME how to take it easy? They left laughing....but will be back next month. You ever get these folks on your porch?
Conspiracy Theory 12A-14 DB Cooper was transgender. Since there were almost a dozen other potential suspects in this sole unsolved hijacking case, none of whose fingerprints or DNA matched the intrepid parachutist, I'm going with the theory that old DB trotted down the back steps of the NW Airlines flight, parachuted into the rough country north of the Columbia River, thinking to walk west to Portland. But, he/she landed further to the east and north in the upper Wind River drainage. He injured his leg, landing in a Douglas Fir, was discovered by a Sasquatch family and spent his/her remaining years unshaven and lurking with them deep in the mountain forest. Maybe.
Dunno Z-man; Venezuela doesn't seem like much of a threat. They don't promise to launch missiles at us, having none and they have about as much nuclear capability as a microwave. The dude just likes to hear himself jabber? They say he is defining a new type of presidency....
I am fairly distraught over Charlottesville. We were in VA about 50 miles west when it all went down. On Facebook people are trying to equate BLM with Nazis. One guy who was identified in the pictures has lost his job, probably a few more to come but one of the biggest questions is why did the police wait so long to intervene? Is it because it was a bunch of wild eyed white boys that it didn't seem so scary? They are all ecstatic because Trump didn't call them out, they're taking it as a secret love message which cmon who really doubts it? Like David Duke said, these are the people who put him in office. How much more out in the open can it get?
I was pleasantly surprised by Ted Cruz's statement calling it terrorism and I understand they are looking into whether terrorism charges can be filed. Meanwhile mom says she doesn't get into politics with her son but that she thought it was a Trump rally. Are we getting to a point yet that the GOP will abandon Trump?
Nazi Trump Rally Update- As Charlettesville cleans up, we note that the driver of the car that injured 20 and killed one was NOT an Antifa (maligned antifascist groups) as reported by numerous 'reliable' right wing outlets, but one James Fields, a young Ohio man. Mr. Fields was known in HS as a pro Nazi white supremacist kid. He held a couple of odd jobs here and there, was the subject of run ins with law for threatening his Mom numerous times, joined the US Army and was released after a few months for not meeting standards. Another attendee of the skinheads for Trump rally was the president of the Washington State University Young Republicans. He stated he was attending to legitimize the groups, which he described as IQ 80 and bad examples of modern antileftist protesters. Mr. Allsup was controversial on campus, having the Young GOP build a plywood wall on campus praising Trump and warning blacks, Jews and minorities they were not welcome. While the WSU club remains radicalized, Mr. Allsop had to resign, and it is not clear whether he will return to school, but he quickly removed his YouTube rant. (which is still available, but with a warning:inappropriate and requiring sign in)
At the other end of the spectrum, we note that a young black Virginia woman has been named as the Brigade Captain of the West Point corps of cadets and ponder the differences between her, Fields and Allsup. As she assumed command duties, Mr. Allsop played the victim- “Allsup added that he sees any action or response from the university as an affront to his free speech rights and singling him out as a member of the alternative media.” We ancients, old enough to recall Hitler in the flesh, cringe at the thought of the GOP letting itself be used by by Himmler wannabees whose concept of patriotism is defined by hate and rage.
You could not in good concience vote for either candidate. We suspect that may have been fairly common. It cannot be known if those votes would have favored one or the other. All that is known is that we have a president by the name of Trump. We cannot determine what the other candidate would do, although with a loaded GOP congress, probably not much. That is the reality. And we note that reality is not some twisted black is white, up is down Alt-right/Alt-reality. History will judge the blame, if any.
We can speculate that the other candidate wouldn't have installed white supremacists in the WH, wouldn't have pulled out of the Paris Accord, wouldn't have defended neo Nazis in Charlottesville or worked to repeal the Clean Water Act. We can also assume with confidence that there would not currently be the spectre of nuclear war with Korea and that the established governments of the world would not be looking on in mingled horror and disbelief as they watch the birth of a fascist state.
I agree with you except for the part about Hillary and war esp. regarding North Korea. We really don't know how she would have handled it. Is she a hawk a dove or in-between? Almost anybody that could have ran and won has more gravitas than Trump.
In the Trumpian world of confused anger, we note his use (and his minion's use) of the term 'alt-left'. Since I never heard of that, I googled alt-left and found 29 million refs. Almost all explaining that there is no such thing. Perhaps the closest was- “ Alt left” is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal healthcare.” --in other words, thugs screaming heil Trump, carrying torches, wearing swastikas, carrying clubs and bearing signs with fascist slogans are simply just the same as people who would like healthcare as good as the rest of the world has and tell their congressmen so. Kafka could have written this book.
I once posed the question here if there's an alt-right it would seem there should be an alt-left. Back in the day maybe the Black Panthers. Worth pondering. However that doesn't mean you can't call a neo-Nazi a neo-Nazi. David Duke is still around?
There ARE violent leftists hence your alt-left but there was only one guy who drove his car into the crowd and he's part of the alt-right. The shivering thought came to me that our domestic terrorists are taking a page from ISIS.
In my admittedly brief study of the terms alt-right/alt-left, it seems alt-right was invented by some extreme RW writer that felt the 'right' wasn't far right enough. So the fringe groups, militias, skinheads KKK, Nazis have been lumped into that. The term alt-left was also invented by people on the far right as a derisive term for any progressive or liberal groups which show up with signs. I would agree with your earlier tagging of the Black Panthers as falling into the category of violent left, the Unabomber and the Hearst kidnappers. That segment is probably now exemplified by the anarchist guys that like to show up and break windows, throw stuff, break into university animal labs etc. I would argue that since these fringes on either side place weapons and violence above peaceful assembly, they seldom end up confronting each other. The so called antifa is an ad hoc grouping of people that hate nazis and facism (you know like the US Army in WWII). Unlike the alt-right, antifa does not make threats, has no goal of influencing government, and considers itself as protecting people from the facists. But thanks to Breitbart/Storm trooper and many Trumians, alt-left is that large group of people who don't like them: so they lump them into a derogatory group. I guess I would be considered alt-left under those ridiculous terms, although my past is far more military and defense department oriented than say the Nazi car driver that ran over women (and who was kicked out of the Army after 3 months) We suspect that you also, Z-Man, may be considered alt-left for making unflattering remarks about der Trumpfuhrer. One of the problems with labels + alt-reality. Hindu-wise, I'd like to come back as a unicorn, ya know?
Conspiracy Theory #1287 G- Business men Preibus, Bannon, Spicer & Scarmucci are planning on opening a cronut and salad joint in Yonkers. It will be on the far right of town and called 'Buffalo Right Wings' and feature retired Hooters waitresses...look for their ad on Reddit. :)
So today's the day of the eclipse. I think here it will be 97% totality. Scott's job is shutting down production so the employees can go out and see it. Vedic astrology is very definite that eclipses are bad news, very inauspicious and should not be viewed at all. There are rules of behavior for during the eclipse and actually include taking a shower after it's over before you do anything else. I am a little concerned because my stability could be affected but I think I'm going to go out and look anyway. Everywhere people are talking about heavy traffic during the eclipse but I'm not sure why? Are people going to be driving somewhere special? I wouldn't want to be driving then anyway as people will probably be trying to look at the same time and it might cause an accident.
Bannon's out, that's good news. I saw where a bill has been written to force Trump to get a mental evaluation, that's something that should have been done before the election and ought to come standard. And I see that Israel is choosing to love on Trump instead of hating on some Nazis. Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse or something?
We ponder the Babylonians 5000 years ago being able to predict eclipses. Rather than a base 10, like us, they used a base 6. Which permitted clever spherical geometry, among other things. Yet, they believed that the earth was a flat disc in the center of the universe with Babylon in the center. This being my second solar eclipse, I am hoping to hear the crickets start chirping as we go from day to night for a few minutes.
Have you noticed that Navy ships are lately running into merchant vessels at sea? Damaging themselves worse than the big commercial ships; we ponder that they have traded in their old navigation maps for GPS....
BTW what did Christopher Columbus do? NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito wants to take down the statue? What's next? Do we blast off Thomas Jefferson's face from Mt. Rushmore?
Columbus, while being a brave explorer, also brought the brutal methods of Spanish conquest, later honed to perfection by Cortez and Pizzaro. Among native Americans, he is persona non grata, much despised. In his favor, his ships never collided with merchant ships as has been the odd practice of the US 7th Fleet.
Where does it end? We recall the Sadam statues coming down in Baghdad and the Stalin ones in Moscow. Winchester Abbey is full of them, but the English like their old Kings, warts and all. It is apparently in bad taste to have your statue before you die: When Pope Francis found out there was a life sized statue of him in Buenos Aires, he called and said “get that thing down immediately” and the iconoclasta movement in Byzatium saw every statue of king, emperor and saint broken to rubble. The Taliban destroys big religious temples and statues. As far back as Ramessess II a few thousand years before Christ, grave robbers destroyed statues and vaults to get at the treasures buried beneath, as intoned by Shelly's famous lines: “The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.” From another standpoint, statues are a work of art, Michelangelo's work for example. But they are also just stone or brass and for whatever reason or transgression, there are those that will tear them down. Given the practice has gone on for about 5000 generations, we guess there is not end, Z=Man.
I think the fad will fade, replaced by some other campaign/crusade. One argument with merit about the Confederate statues is that they were not American heros, but heros of the Confederacy, and like some are saying, should be kept in museums. Remember, the old south has been re-fighting the civil war for 150 years, trumpeting states rights and ignoring slavery. All the 'Southern Strategy' did was turn them from bluedog Democrats to far right Republicans. Stuff changes/stuff stays the same. BTW, has Trump tweeted about transgendered robots yet?
The Why Vote? Department- “Right-wing prepper pastor Jim Bakker interviewed televangelist Paula White, who is one of President Trump’s key spiritual advisers, on his television program today, where she declared that opposition to the president is opposition to God and explicitly praised Trump for not sounding or acting presidential. “Thank goodness,” she said. “In other words, he’s not a polished politician. In other words, he’s authentically—whether people like him or not, he’s been raised up by God because God says that He raises up and places all people in places of authority. It is God that raises up a king, it is God that sets one down and so when you fight against the plan of God, you’re fighting against the hand of God.”
20 Neanderthal Texas congressmen voted against aid for the eastern victims of Hurricane Sandy. Any bets on how they will vote for the Harvey vicitims? What's the definition of hypocracy again? Oh, yeah..a Republican.
We note from the alt/reality/media Kellyanne Conway explaining to Pat Robertson that D. Trump's most important trait is humility. Are you confused too?
Pat's accounting department informed him that a theological statement (known in this case as a Pat's Bull, but not in Latin) linking an atmospheric condition with Gay Marriage would affect the 700 Club giving of the LGBT community. Safer to blame it on the Sasquatch Community, ya know?
Minor ponderings- Trump's most positive attribute is making George Bush look good. Those Antifas that harrass the US Nazis, KKK and alt-right? If they had been around in the 1930s, there would have been no Hitler, no Third Reich, no Holocaust. We try to figure out how a poor isolated starving country like N Korea can afford nuclear weapons and missiles, let alone do the complex R & D...who is helping them? Finally, is there transgenderism among the Sasquatch?
There's been a lot of family stuff going on, I've been in VA for a few days and getting ready to spend this weekend in Kure Beach setting up my mother's house to face Irma. Spending long hours with my mother in law in the hospital (now transferred to a nursing home with hospice) I spent my time reading the news. I should have done crossword puzzles instead.
Harvey, such a bad scene. Trump once again makes it about himself. There are sad to say a lot of scammers ripping people off about it but just as many truly selfless people going to work helping each other. Ann Coulter blames the storm on the city electing a gay mayor. The mayor replies that shucks now everyone knows she has a superpower over the weather. Joel Osteen, being a huge ass in the name of Christianity, is already shilling for money from these people who have lost everything. And the saddest part is that these people revere him and he's just a snake oil salesman, the worst of the worst, ripping people off in the name of Christianity. I'm glad he got called out.
Irma is a cat 5 now and nobody knows where it's going. Coastal NC will see something however slight so I am going down to put up the hurricane shutters and get the porch furniture in, etc., for my mom. Scott is going to VA to be with his mom and try to work on handling some of her affairs. Trying times but this is family.
I was surprised (not really) to see that Antifa was named a domestic terrorist group. Have the Nazis been put on that list? The racist bias grows more blatant by the day and it seems like most people are okay with that. I believe statues should be in museums surrounded by information on the real reasons the war was fought (slavery) instead of all this nonsense people spout to make it look like slavery wasn't part of it at all. These people were traitors to the Federal goverment and lost the war besides. Most of the statues were put up during the Jim Crow era to remind black people who's really in charge. I don't see any good reason for them to remain.
DACA, even Paul Ryan broke with Trump on that one. How do you deport someone to a country they've never lived in?
And finally, North Korea. Are we headed to nuclear war? Trump is the last person I would like to see with the nuclear codes. It'll be yuuuuge, won't it?
Meh. Identity politricks. Defining the self by sexual preference. Double meh.
ReplyDeleteWorked with a cheese clerk once. Real liberal and this was when Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on all the magazine covers and he goes ok you're gay so what? He thought she was exploiting this and defining her public image by her sexuality. Truman Capote on the other hand was gay but at most he'd mention it in passing if at all.
ReplyDeleteIt's an annoying habit. This whole "This is who I AM...." bleh.
ReplyDelete“My generals” my foot. It is simple Ralph Reed payback.
ReplyDeleteIf if quacks like a fundy....
They don't have transgendered robots yet, but the administration is considering
ReplyDeletebricklayer robots for creating the TrumpWall
Will the Wall have wi-fi and coffee kiosks?
DeleteScaramucci out, before his clearance passed and his Aug 15 official start date. Is it me, or is the
Deletenews cycle turning into TV tinnitus?
What a mouth on him! Would make Trump blush.
DeleteThe classic colonoscopy has met AI. We note the robotic worm which crawls through your colon (or lower intestine, I'm still a
ReplyDeletebit foggy on the precise terminology). It is said to put much less pressure on the walls where the big
ol tube pokes around until it curves. If you bought one, you could save $$ and I'm thinking it might
work for clearing plugged kitchen drains as well. Just saying.
There's gotta be some YouTube videos out there.
DeleteFB had to shut down two ai chatbots because they started communicating in their own language. Remember the simple days like MySpace?
ReplyDeleteSort of understandable. AI language is digital based, human language derived from sound, then analog
Deletecharacters. Instead of asking for five sheets of paper, an AI-noid 'thinks' and expresses “sheet of paper,
sheet of paper” repeated five times. I think...I have trouble with Klingon language too.
Eclipse Mania-
ReplyDeleteA population of 6,700 of Madras residents is expected to swell to well over 60-70,000 during the week surrounding the solar eclipse event just within the city of Madras. That means that all of the hotels, campsites and even the roads will be totally over capacity. Getting into and out of the Madras area on highways, main thoroughfares and even the smallest side streets will be nearly impossible in the days leading up to and following the 2017 eclipse. This is why so many people have booked several days in the hotels Madras has, as far back as 2015. In fact, there are no hotel rooms available during the eclipse week and most of the camping sites are also already spoken for, with exception of only a few.
My daughter and family, who live directly under the eclipse, decided instead to drive over to Madras, Oregon and join the astronomy nuts. Every motel and campground was sold out a year ago. They found a farmer who would let them tent in his pasture for $1200 one night. So, they will drive over the night before and drive back that afternoon. The areas to the south of Portland are expecting wall to wall traffic jams. Maybe they will get back in a week or so?
Who's working that week nobody?
DeleteLast total eclipse I saw was when we were vacationing in N Wisconsin in 1954- cabin on lake Pulaski in the 'Indianhead' area. I was about 13, more interested in fishing and playing catch. In those days, everyone used two layers of exposed photographic film. Do they even have that anymore? 1954:
Deletethe Mau Mau was active in E Africa, Mamie Eisenhower christened the first nuclear sub, an H-bomb
test submerged the island of Bikini, the Viet Min surrounded the French at Dien Pen Phu, the first
color TV was introduced, Joe McCarthy goes after the US Army for being soft on communism, Elvis
releases his first single, the transistor radio was introduced, the first Godzilla film premiered in Tokyo,
the first Burger King opened and Joseph Stalin died. We learn that eclipses occur, and a lot of other
stuff goes on as well. Astronomical odditiy, eclipse views are confined to a rather narrow strip across
the earth surface: most of the world will miss this one. If an eclipse happens in Wyoming, doe the people in Sri Lanka care?
In deep red Idaho, Trump got 60% of the votes .
ReplyDeleteBut second thoughts are cropping up.
So special prosecutor Robert Mueller has convened a special grand jury to look into the Russia matter which means he feels he has something worth looking into...
ReplyDeleteEver notice that R. Muller looks like Leslie Neilson in 'Naked Gun' from a
Deletecertain angle? Trump working hard to suppress leakers: should be down to
his family members in the admin shortly.
YES
DeleteWent to a movie, 'Dunkirk'. Last movie in a theater I saw was in 2007 'Night At The Museum.
ReplyDeleteI should get out more?
I go at about the same rate, maybe slightly more. Want to see Dark Tower but the critics are crapping on it.
DeletePay no attention to the critics-
ReplyDelete“I sat cringing before MGM’s Technicolor production of The Wizard of Oz, which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity… I don’t like the Singer Midgets under any circumstances, but I found them especially bothersome in Technicolor… I say it’s a stinkeroo.” – Russell Maloney, The New Yorker
The Excorcist- "A chunk of elegant occultist claptrap... A practically impossible film to sit through... It establishes a new low for grotesque special effects..." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times
When It's a Wonderful Life was first released in 1946, it received generally negative reviews. It was the next generation of the 60s and 70s that so loved the film that it became the classic that it is today.
Bonnie & Clyde- “It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cutups in Thoroughly Modern Millie… This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste, since it makes no valid commentary upon the already travestied truth. And it leaves an astonished critic wondering just what purpose Mr. Penn and Mr. Beatty think they serve with this strangely antique, sentimental claptrap…” – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
And, we note that the Turner Classic Movies channel for example, has programmed a festival of "Movies Condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency" that included several that were not rated C by the Legion. So, if you want to go, go. Box office receipts and critics are not necessarily synchronous.
My friend absolutely does not care what critics think he just goes. I've often said if movie critics know how movies should be made why don't they make them themselves???
DeleteSome movies are sleepers; really good but get no critical acclaim. Others get really good reviews but essentially suck. I like TCM, it's my mother's 24/7 go to. They have no commercials, which really makes a difference. Not long ago we watched Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. I think a lot of the shock value was kind of lost on us. It was hard to imagine how truly interracial relationships were viewed back then.
ReplyDeleteI really don't see what the big deal is about letting transgender people in the military. Seriously I think Trump just does stuff to piss people off. How much of the stuff he's done has been arbitrary, things that he didn't have to do but that have such widespread negative effects, like the act that protects streams that provide drinking water from pollution. Seriously, why did he have to get rid of that law? Clean water is no good?
Now I'm seeing rumors that Pence is going to run in 20? He may be in office by 2018 if things keep up.
Also, this business with leaked phone call transcripts. He really is that stupid.
The laminate floor is in, done, and looks gorgeous. The YouTube put out by Pergo on installation is a lot of propaganda. It's infinitely harder than they make it out to be.
The RW clones over at Z's really came unglued at the idea of transgendered military. Somehow the following nations have them:
ReplyDeleteArgentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
I suspect the resistance to such people in uniform extends to women fighter pilots, pharsi interpreters,
and truck drivers as well. IMO, qualities like courage, honor, sense of duty and ability transcend gender and race. *note Israel has transgendered soldiers, perhaps the Neanderthals should go after
that tough little country?
Isn't that the American way? It doesn't matter that something (like socialized medicine or transgender people in the military) is done successfully all over the civilized world, we can't take a hint and possibly learn something by doing the same.
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing back with Katrina that the Dutch (who know more about living below sea level than anyone else) volunteered to give some expertise and help with rebuilding. The help and knowledge were refused by the Bush administration.
We're so stupid.
Trump railed about Obama playing golf. His believers elected him. So, how's that working out?
ReplyDeleteGolf games first 200 days:
Trump 19
B. Clinton 5
Obama 1
Bush 0 So, he has done three times the golfing of the three preceding presidents. Meanwhile,
N. Korea's nuclear sophistication grows: we see a WWF cage match between Kim Jong Un and Donald Jong Trump, with Vlad in the front seat, laughing and eating popcorn. This ain't politics,
this is nonsense.
They ALL play golf. Everyone needs to drop the golf issue already.
DeleteYeah, but only one owns a slew of golf courses.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs to drop the golf issue already? First time I mentioned it, but perhaps we should
ReplyDeletenot kow-tow to the boy emperor in the matter.
Checking on the lower regions of politics, I used your Grudge Link, but instead found an article on
ReplyDeletethe rise of the sexbots. Further inquiry reveals some tech/financial data on AI and sex . Bible-wise, we ponder what Jesus would say?
Drudge does seem to like those offbeat articles into human weirdness but it's getting annoying.
DeleteIs the Yonkers fallout shelter well stocked with cronuts?
ReplyDeleteI see the FBI has raided. Do you think they found evidence of Sasquatch?
ReplyDeleteYes, a Russian hairy creature.
DeleteIs the right wing at war with inself ? G. Beck reports on Robert Jefress, S. Baptist bible expert, leader of a huge following of faithful and all around poor example of a Christian, urging nuclear war. He should
ReplyDeletehave been in my college research lab on mice exposed to a mere 1000 roentgens; how misearble it is
to die from the inside out. I miss Obama. Just saying.
So now if Jong-Un nukes the US territory of Guam President Trump has promised "fire and fury" and the likes of something the world has never seen.
ReplyDeleteCalling Mr. Rodman..Mr. Rodman...
DeleteKim announced they were planning to drop 4 untipped MRBMs around Guam, 25 miles off shore.
ReplyDeleteTo demonstrate his capability, apparently. Not sure what the Yonkers coworkers have concluded, but
IMO it is just another in the long string of human conflicts: the Opium War in 1800s China, the War To
End All Wars in 1917, the Phoney War in 1939 Europe and now the Twitter War. Like a couple of
Bronx teens, the insults fly and escalate: we seem to be at the “yo Mama” stage. Bizarre, considering
the energy expended on fighting the opiod epidemic, the transgender soldier arguments, the Merry (or not) Christma scandals, dozens of Hillary investigations, The Great American Wall, Boko Haram,
Global (or not) Warming, Jeffry Beauregard Sessions, Where did Comey Go? and what does Ivanka
Do whem Donald is putting... So, what do the restaurant coworkers conclude...and do any have a
geiger counter?
Guy at work was funny today. He said alot of countries have nuclear weapons but YOU can't have ONE.
DeleteNuclear weapons have been around since the early fifties and most countries with the capability have been pretty responsible . In N. Korea's case, it is sort of like keeping a pyromaniac
ReplyDeletefrom playing with fire, IMO.
The moral use of nuclear weapons. Kind of an oxymoron.
DeleteWe ponder what a Catholic theologian thinks about the state of
ReplyDeleteaffairs in the US.
Who's best then Switzerland?
DeleteThe Swiss would say so.
ReplyDeleteIsland of Guam threatened by N Korean missiles?
ReplyDeleteRumors that Reddit has moved Guam south and east and it now lies out of the target zone
between Tahiti and Bouganville. Check the map. Where is Yonkers these days?
Ah modern cartography.
DeleteEarly west trivia department-
ReplyDeleteWe note that there were
worse disasters along the Oregon/California Trail than the Donner Party. Having been caught in a couple of central Wyoming blizzards, IMO they should have started earlier and ignored
Brigham Young that year.
Monthly visit from a pair of Jehova Witnesses-
ReplyDeleteNice folks, not pushy, but long term persistant. This week they stopped by with the latest 'Awake'
amd 'Watchtower' and their montly topic: 'Are You Doing Too Much?' That being the lead in question,
I answered that no, I wasn't and never had. So they pressed on with the the words of Soloman in Ecclesiastes, “Better is a handful of rest than two handfuls of hard work and chasing after the wind”. (they even had electronic tablet bibles, which I criticized for being a bunch of bits and bytes rather than Hebrew) I observed that some old king with 700 wives and 300 concubines was trying to tell ME how to take it easy? They left laughing....but will be back next month. You ever get these folks on your porch?
Conspiracy Theory 12A-14
ReplyDeleteDB Cooper was transgender. Since there were almost a dozen other potential suspects in this sole unsolved hijacking case, none of whose fingerprints or DNA matched the intrepid parachutist, I'm going with the theory that old DB trotted down the back steps of the NW Airlines flight, parachuted into the rough country north of the Columbia River, thinking to walk west to Portland. But, he/she landed further to the east and north in the upper Wind River drainage. He injured his leg, landing in a Douglas Fir, was discovered by a Sasquatch family and spent his/her remaining years unshaven and lurking with them deep in the mountain forest. Maybe.
Now Trump wants to go to war against Venezuela like what are we doing?
ReplyDeleteDunno Z-man; Venezuela doesn't seem like much of a threat. They don't promise to launch missiles at us, having none and they have about as much nuclear capability as a microwave. The dude just likes to hear himself jabber? They say he is defining a new type of presidency....
DeleteYeah so I'm like Venezuela? What is this gonna be like a bonus war?
DeleteNot much news about N Korea the last few days. Probably ran out of insults.
ReplyDeleteI am fairly distraught over Charlottesville. We were in VA about 50 miles west when it all went down. On Facebook people are trying to equate BLM with Nazis. One guy who was identified in the pictures has lost his job, probably a few more to come but one of the biggest questions is why did the police wait so long to intervene? Is it because it was a bunch of wild eyed white boys that it didn't seem so scary? They are all ecstatic because Trump didn't call them out, they're taking it as a secret love message which cmon who really doubts it? Like David Duke said, these are the people who put him in office. How much more out in the open can it get?
ReplyDeleteI was pleasantly surprised by Ted Cruz's statement calling it terrorism and I understand they are looking into whether terrorism charges can be filed. Meanwhile mom says she doesn't get into politics with her son but that she thought it was a Trump rally. Are we getting to a point yet that the GOP will abandon Trump?
A shameful president.
Delete..that can't afford to lose the critical Nazi vote...
ReplyDeleteNazi Trump Rally Update-
ReplyDeleteAs Charlettesville cleans up, we note that the driver of the car that injured 20 and killed one was NOT
an Antifa (maligned antifascist groups) as reported by numerous 'reliable' right wing outlets, but one
James Fields, a young Ohio man. Mr. Fields was known in HS as a pro Nazi white supremacist kid.
He held a couple of odd jobs here and there, was the subject of run ins with law for threatening his Mom numerous times, joined the US Army and was released after a few months for not meeting standards. Another attendee of the skinheads for Trump rally was the president of the Washington State University Young Republicans. He stated he was attending to legitimize the groups, which he
described as IQ 80 and bad examples of modern antileftist protesters. Mr. Allsup was controversial on campus, having the Young GOP build a plywood wall on campus praising Trump and warning blacks,
Jews and minorities they were not welcome. While the WSU club remains radicalized, Mr. Allsop had
to resign, and it is not clear whether he will return to school, but he quickly removed his YouTube rant.
(which is still available, but with a warning:inappropriate and requiring sign in)
At the other end of the spectrum, we note that a young black Virginia woman has been named as the
Brigade Captain of the West Point corps of cadets and ponder the differences between her, Fields and Allsup. As she assumed command duties, Mr. Allsop played the victim-
“Allsup added that he sees any action or response from the university as an affront to his free speech rights and singling him out as a member of the alternative media.” We ancients, old enough to recall
Hitler in the flesh, cringe at the thought of the GOP letting itself be used by by Himmler wannabees whose concept of patriotism is defined by hate and rage.
And this morning I woke to the news that they pulled down a statue in Durham. The revolution has begun.
ReplyDeleteSoooooo glad I didn't vote...clear conscience.
ReplyDeleteNeutrality is tacit approval.
ReplyDeleteWhy is nonvoting always considered such a horrible thing?
ReplyDeleteYou could not in good concience vote for either candidate. We suspect that may have been fairly common. It cannot be known if those votes would have favored one or the other. All that is known
ReplyDeleteis that we have a president by the name of Trump. We cannot determine what the other candidate would do, although with a loaded GOP congress, probably not much. That is the reality. And we
note that reality is not some twisted black is white, up is down Alt-right/Alt-reality. History will
judge the blame, if any.
We can speculate that the other candidate wouldn't have installed white supremacists in the WH, wouldn't have pulled out of the Paris Accord, wouldn't have defended neo Nazis in Charlottesville or worked to repeal the Clean Water Act. We can also assume with confidence that there would not currently be the spectre of nuclear war with Korea and that the established governments of the world would not be looking on in mingled horror and disbelief as they watch the birth of a fascist state.
ReplyDeleteI think that much we can be fairly certain of.
I agree with you except for the part about Hillary and war esp. regarding North Korea. We really don't know how she would have handled it. Is she a hawk a dove or in-between? Almost anybody that could have ran and won has more gravitas than Trump.
DeleteIn the Trumpian world of confused anger, we note his use (and his minion's use) of the term 'alt-left'.
ReplyDeleteSince I never heard of that, I googled alt-left and found 29 million refs. Almost all explaining that there is no such thing. Perhaps the closest was-
“ Alt left” is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal healthcare.”
--in other words, thugs screaming heil Trump, carrying torches, wearing swastikas, carrying clubs and
bearing signs with fascist slogans are simply just the same as people who would like healthcare as good as the rest of the world has and tell their congressmen so. Kafka could have written this book.
I once posed the question here if there's an alt-right it would seem there should be an alt-left. Back in the day maybe the Black Panthers. Worth pondering. However that doesn't mean you can't call a neo-Nazi a neo-Nazi. David Duke is still around?
DeleteDavid Duke has gone on record saying he's thrilled with the presidential response to Charlottesville.
ReplyDeleteThere ARE violent leftists hence your alt-left but there was only one guy who drove his car into the crowd and he's part of the alt-right. The shivering thought came to me that our domestic terrorists are taking a page from ISIS.
DeleteIn my admittedly brief study of the terms alt-right/alt-left, it seems alt-right was invented by some
Deleteextreme RW writer that felt the 'right' wasn't far right enough. So the fringe groups, militias, skinheads
KKK, Nazis have been lumped into that. The term alt-left was also invented by people on the far right
as a derisive term for any progressive or liberal groups which show up with signs. I would agree with
your earlier tagging of the Black Panthers as falling into the category of violent left, the Unabomber and the Hearst kidnappers. That segment is probably now exemplified by the anarchist guys that like
to show up and break windows, throw stuff, break into university animal labs etc. I would argue that
since these fringes on either side place weapons and violence above peaceful assembly, they seldom end up confronting each other. The so called antifa is an ad hoc grouping of people that hate nazis
and facism (you know like the US Army in WWII). Unlike the alt-right, antifa does not make threats,
has no goal of influencing government, and considers itself as protecting people from the facists.
But thanks to Breitbart/Storm trooper and many Trumians, alt-left is that large group of people who
don't like them: so they lump them into a derogatory group. I guess I would be considered alt-left
under those ridiculous terms, although my past is far more military and defense department oriented than say the Nazi car driver that ran over women (and who was kicked out of the Army after 3 months)
We suspect that you also, Z-Man, may be considered alt-left for making unflattering remarks about
der Trumpfuhrer. One of the problems with labels + alt-reality. Hindu-wise, I'd like to come back as a unicorn, ya know?
The marine version being the narwhal.
DeleteConspiracy Theory #1287 G-
ReplyDeleteBusiness men Preibus, Bannon, Spicer & Scarmucci are planning on opening a cronut and salad
joint in Yonkers. It will be on the far right of town and called 'Buffalo Right Wings' and feature
retired Hooters waitresses...look for their ad on Reddit. :)
So today's the day of the eclipse. I think here it will be 97% totality. Scott's job is shutting down production so the employees can go out and see it. Vedic astrology is very definite that eclipses are bad news, very inauspicious and should not be viewed at all. There are rules of behavior for during the eclipse and actually include taking a shower after it's over before you do anything else. I am a little concerned because my stability could be affected but I think I'm going to go out and look anyway. Everywhere people are talking about heavy traffic during the eclipse but I'm not sure why? Are people going to be driving somewhere special? I wouldn't want to be driving then anyway as people will probably be trying to look at the same time and it might cause an accident.
ReplyDeleteBannon's out, that's good news. I saw where a bill has been written to force Trump to get a mental evaluation, that's something that should have been done before the election and ought to come standard. And I see that Israel is choosing to love on Trump instead of hating on some Nazis. Isn't that a sign of the apocalypse or something?
We ponder the Babylonians 5000 years ago being able to predict eclipses. Rather than a base 10, like
ReplyDeleteus, they used a base 6. Which permitted clever spherical geometry, among other things. Yet, they believed that the earth was a flat disc in the center of the universe with Babylon in the center. This being my second solar eclipse, I am hoping to hear the crickets start chirping as we go from day to night for a few minutes.
Who knew Bannon would look like the sanest one at the end. Did you have a nice romantic eclipse dinner?
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that Navy ships are lately running into merchant vessels at sea? Damaging themselves worse than the big commercial ships; we ponder that they have traded in their old navigation maps for GPS....
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile in the world of
ReplyDeletemilitary AI .
They can't even get autonomous cars to drive right. Autonomous weapons, what could go wrong?
ReplyDeleteRumor.. Trump wants to ban transgendered robots.
ReplyDeleteBTW what did Christopher Columbus do? NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito wants to take down the statue? What's next? Do we blast off Thomas Jefferson's face from Mt. Rushmore?
ReplyDeleteColumbus, while being a brave explorer, also brought the brutal methods of
DeleteSpanish conquest, later honed to perfection by Cortez and Pizzaro. Among native Americans, he
is persona non grata, much despised. In his favor, his ships never collided with merchant ships as
has been the odd practice of the US 7th Fleet.
So where does this end? Maybe somewhere in the annals George Washington made a racist joke. Is this an example of astroturfing?
DeleteWhere does it end? We recall the Sadam statues coming down in Baghdad and the Stalin ones in Moscow. Winchester Abbey is full of them, but the English like their old Kings, warts and all. It is
Deleteapparently in bad taste to have your statue before you die: When Pope Francis found out there was a
life sized statue of him in Buenos Aires, he called and said “get that thing down immediately” and the
iconoclasta movement in Byzatium saw every statue of king, emperor and saint broken to rubble. The
Taliban destroys big religious temples and statues. As far back as Ramessess II a few thousand years
before Christ, grave robbers destroyed statues and vaults to get at the treasures buried beneath, as
intoned by Shelly's famous lines:
“The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains.”
From another standpoint, statues are a work of art, Michelangelo's work for example. But they are also just stone or brass and for whatever reason or transgression, there are those that will tear them down. Given the practice has gone on for about 5000 generations, we guess there is not end, Z=Man.
Why all of a sudden this massive concern over statues of some controversial figures? Is this an example of astroturfing at work?
DeleteIt is the latest thing. Like Pokeman-go was last year. This year its all about the symbol.
DeleteThe only thing left will be statues of the Saints.
Delete...and Trump up on Mr. Rushmore.
DeleteI think the fad will fade, replaced by some other campaign/crusade. One argument with merit about the
ReplyDeleteConfederate statues is that they were not American heros, but heros of the Confederacy, and like some are saying, should be kept in museums. Remember, the old south has been re-fighting the civil war for
150 years, trumpeting states rights and ignoring slavery. All the 'Southern Strategy' did was turn them
from bluedog Democrats to far right Republicans. Stuff changes/stuff stays the same. BTW, has Trump tweeted about transgendered robots yet?
New Amsterdam Governor Peter Stuyvesant - another one on the shitlist. Charge: anti-Semitism.
DeleteThe Why Vote? Department-
ReplyDelete“Right-wing prepper pastor Jim Bakker interviewed televangelist Paula White, who is one of President Trump’s key spiritual advisers, on his television program today, where she declared that opposition to the president is opposition to God and explicitly praised Trump for not sounding or acting presidential.
“Thank goodness,” she said. “In other words, he’s not a polished politician. In other words, he’s authentically—whether people like him or not, he’s been raised up by God because God says that He raises up and places all people in places of authority. It is God that raises up a king, it is God that sets one down and so when you fight against the plan of God, you’re fighting against the hand of God.”
I honestly don't know what to say. The Divine Right of Kings eh?
DeleteThere are those that make Christianity look sort of crummy
ReplyDeleteSurprised. Joel Osteen is supposed to be one of the better ones. Reading the paper today did alot of people not evacuate?
DeleteIt seems some areas escaped the first storm, but it circled back with a huge constant rainfall.
Delete20 Neanderthal Texas congressmen voted against aid for the eastern victims of Hurricane Sandy. Any bets on how they will vote for the Harvey vicitims? What's the definition of hypocracy again? Oh, yeah..a Republican.
ReplyDeleteWe note from the alt/reality/media Kellyanne Conway explaining to Pat Robertson that D. Trump's
ReplyDeletemost important trait is humility. Are you confused too?
Kellyanne didn't leave yet?
DeleteWhere would she go, what would she do? NRA calendar girl? Dancing with the Stars? Yonkers Ghost Busters? Ambassador to Bangledash? Uber driver?
DeletePat Robertson hasn't tied in Harvey with gay marriage yet? He's getting better.
ReplyDeletePat's accounting department informed him that a theological statement
Delete(known in this case as a Pat's Bull, but not in Latin) linking an atmospheric
condition with Gay Marriage would affect the 700 Club giving of the LGBT
community. Safer to blame it on the Sasquatch Community, ya know?
Minor ponderings- Trump's most positive attribute is making George Bush look good. Those
ReplyDeleteAntifas that harrass the US Nazis, KKK and alt-right? If they had been around in the 1930s,
there would have been no Hitler, no Third Reich, no Holocaust. We try to figure out how a poor
isolated starving country like N Korea can afford nuclear weapons and missiles, let alone do the
complex R & D...who is helping them? Finally, is there transgenderism among the Sasquatch?
There's been a lot of family stuff going on, I've been in VA for a few days and getting ready to spend this weekend in Kure Beach setting up my mother's house to face Irma. Spending long hours with my mother in law in the hospital (now transferred to a nursing home with hospice) I spent my time reading the news. I should have done crossword puzzles instead.
ReplyDeleteHarvey, such a bad scene. Trump once again makes it about himself. There are sad to say a lot of scammers ripping people off about it but just as many truly selfless people going to work helping each other. Ann Coulter blames the storm on the city electing a gay mayor. The mayor replies that shucks now everyone knows she has a superpower over the weather. Joel Osteen, being a huge ass in the name of Christianity, is already shilling for money from these people who have lost everything. And the saddest part is that these people revere him and he's just a snake oil salesman, the worst of the worst, ripping people off in the name of Christianity. I'm glad he got called out.
Irma is a cat 5 now and nobody knows where it's going. Coastal NC will see something however slight so I am going down to put up the hurricane shutters and get the porch furniture in, etc., for my mom. Scott is going to VA to be with his mom and try to work on handling some of her affairs. Trying times but this is family.
I was surprised (not really) to see that Antifa was named a domestic terrorist group. Have the Nazis been put on that list? The racist bias grows more blatant by the day and it seems like most people are okay with that. I believe statues should be in museums surrounded by information on the real reasons the war was fought (slavery) instead of all this nonsense people spout to make it look like slavery wasn't part of it at all. These people were traitors to the Federal goverment and lost the war besides. Most of the statues were put up during the Jim Crow era to remind black people who's really in charge. I don't see any good reason for them to remain.
DACA, even Paul Ryan broke with Trump on that one. How do you deport someone to a country they've never lived in?
And finally, North Korea. Are we headed to nuclear war? Trump is the last person I would like to see with the nuclear codes. It'll be yuuuuge, won't it?