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Lead story on Google News this morning?
Shannon Doherty Dies. . . .
Listening to CNN last night was pretty blasé as well. Couldn’t listen to Hannity try to report real news, so switched it on.
Loved Pelosi’s comments. Basically focuses it all about her and her brush (actually her husband’s) with political violence. .. .
Yes. Without a doubt. We can’t have a President that is only conscious from 10-4. Good grief. Pelosi and perhaps Schumer are coming out saying he should step down, I assume from the election. The problem is they both were on the record, multiple times, telling us how sharp Biden is. They are lying sacks.
The press briefing tonight should be entertaining, as should the NATO summit.
Your old friend is making the rounds, as well. I wouldn’t count her out yet, either.
Today was truly a sad day for America and for democracy. Trump had the opportunity to be presidential and take the high road. Instead, he yet again found a multitude of off-ramps, and eventually the gutter. Biden couldn’t find any road, high, low, paved, dirt. What’s scary, is what do the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and North Koreans do over the next five months, when the US is clearly adrift with no-one at the helm?
As for democracy, the democrats and/or whoever is pulling the strings in DC (the alleged Deep State) have been lying to the American people for years. “Joe is fine.” “Joe is in command.” “Joe has all of his cognitive abilities.” Today has proven that there are powers in DC that the populace doesn’t know or understand, let alone vote for. Who is in control of the Executive Branch? It’s clearly not Joe. To me, that is truly scary. Maybe a bit of a tin hat, but I’m proudly wearing it.Sadly, the press has been incredibly complicit in the lies. They’ve looked the other way. Tonight was allegedly a shocker to them. Clearly, it shouldn’t have taken a Pulitzer worthy effort from a journalist to delve into poor Joe’s decline. The Dems and the press hid his condition from the American people. And that shouldn’t come as a surprise, as they buried the laptop story in the run up to the last election. They conjured up the Russian collusion and the dossier (and won Pulitzers in the process). They silenced dissent during the pandemic and its aftermath. They weaponized the IRS and DOJ. And they’ve done it all in the name of “saving democracy from Trump”. George Orwell, Richard Condon, or even Robert Klane couldn’t have dreamed up such wholesale deceptions, subterfuge, and real affronts to democracy. After all this, how could anyone trust the Democratic Party? Seriously? (And you can’t argue Trump, because he did cede power once already).
And from a humanity standpoint, shame on Jill. After the debate, she was pumping up the crowd at a post-debate celebration, while Joe was doddering around the stage. Disappointing. Really, really disappointing. Not sure which network covered that, as I was on a plane from Atlanta to SFO struggling to get the broadcast and was flipping between CNN and Fox. Regardless it was really sad to watch. As a medical professional, she has to know he’s not all there anymore, so her conduct is disgraceful. A family with no scruples clinging to power, apparently. And why would they, at this point. Oh yes, the money. . . .
After tonight, my fears for the country have increased significantly. It’s really scary, though Trump is way down the list on scary monsters in our closet. . . .
Great quote. Thanks for sharing, and probably true. At least we made it longer than any in history thus far. Hope we find a way to keep it going, but those on both sides, keep funding their own. . . .
As I’ve an ongoing client in the field at the moment, I’ve too much inside baseball to comment in-depth. But, think about what a privately held utility would be able to generate cash-wise. . . .
I’ve a client in the waste and recycling world. Apparently, this is not a surprise to anyone, as similar happened in San Jose a while back with the same, family run business. . . .
Interesting list, and not very surprising. What was the factory? Lived in Green Hills, corporate office in Brentwood, factory in Lewisburg. Lived in Huntsville and ran a company/factory in Fayetteville. Huntsville I found to be pretty reasonable, though a couple of instances of ignorance here and there. Heck, even in California in 70s there was the thought that Catholics weren’t Christians, simply because of the deification of Mary and the Saints. . . .
Anyway, as you may know, my father in law was president of the University of Alabama in the mid to late 70s. Not a biased bone in the man’s body, and led them through some turbulent times. . . .
“there was huge population of people who would be entirely at home in the deep south.”
as if there is something wrong about the Deep South. Having lived and worked in Tennessee and Alabama for nearly five years, I find the South actually full of open, friendly, and respectable people. Black and White. Are there still some underlying currents of bigotry and sexism, perhaps. My father in law still opens the car door for his wife. . . .
Boston was far and away the most bigoted and segregated city that I’ve lived in. Chicago a close second. . . .
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Florida Supreme Court lets DeSantis veto voters, oust elected officials
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate suspended Orlando-area State Attorney Monique Worrell — an allegedly soft-on-crime prosecutor despised by Florida sheriffs — finding that Gov. Ron DeSantis has virtually unlimited power to remove elected prosecutors as long as he provides only the thinnest veneer of justification.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/columns/nate-monroe/2024/06/07/nate-monroe-florida-supreme-court-allows-desantis-to-veto-voter-decisions/74012074007/ Not a great precedent. Hopefully this isn’t a preview of the next Trump administration.[/quote]
I agree with you. If Trump wins, the Dems will again try to veto the voters like they did in the last election. DeSantis may have had the thinnest veneer of justifications, but that’s a hell of a lot more than Schiff and Dems had a few years back. They did it twice on pure BS. Talking about precedent? Sheesh.
I chuckled at that, as well. What I don’t understand though, is the clouds may reflect light back into space, but they also trap heat in. NASA and NOAA have estimated that vapor trails from planes have cause a couple of degree rise in global temps over the last 50 years simply by creating cloud cover. . . .
