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I was ruminating about the heartlessness and hollowness that is Effingham Trump. I begin to wonder what would be inside him if you sliced him open. I have a horrific vision of maggots spewing from the incision. Alternately, I see it as opening up the mother of all black holes that sucks everything into it. Obviously, having too much is not enough for such a creature as Effingham Trump.
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With Effingham Trump firing the FBI Director, James Comey, I had a brief vision of seeing him at the unemployment office applying for benefits. Would that not be surreal on both sides of the desk?
Last weekend Robin and I made a pilgrimage to the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The reason for this pilgrimage was because Jimmy LaFave was going to be playing there. Jimmy is at the top of my list of favorite musicians. I have been listening to him for 20 years, and if I do not have all of his CDs, I have the vast majority. His music speaks to me on so many levels. The fact that he is not more famous than he is, says more about the music industry Continue reading “We Need Woody Guthrie and Jimmy LaFave”
The best way to tease you to listen to this podcast is their tease:
“President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and – in 20 minutes – kill 60 million people. Such is the power of the US President over the nation’s nuclear arsenal. But what if you were the military officer on the receiving end of that phone call? Could you refuse the order?
This episode, we profile one Air Force Major who asked that question back in the 1970s and learn how the very act of asking it was so dangerous it derailed his career.”
The officer profiled in this story was going through the Air Force training to be a Continue reading “Checks and Balances, Nukes – A Radiolab Podcast”
This is a very sad, and a very disturbing article. There were two things in the story that really surprised me. First, is that there are no real stats kept on police shootings!
“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement can say how many purse snatchings there were in any given year, but not how many times officers fired on citizens. The FBI’s statistics on police shootings aren’t much better. No one keeps accurate count.
“Embarrassing and ridiculous,” FBI director James B. Comey called the lack of data.
“Unacceptable,” former Attorney General Eric Holder called it.
For the past three years, shootings of unarmed black men caught on video have sparked outrage. But they are anecdotes. Without data, there’s no scope.
“How can we fix what we can’t measure?” asked Vanita Gupta, who headed the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division…”
The second thing that really surprised is the extent of police forfeiture and Continue reading “Why Police Shoot – Tampa Bay Times article”
I saw the figurine below on the Da’ Net. It is supposed to be Effingham Trump, but for all the world it looks like a young Bill Clinton to me. I thought perhaps they had some figurines laying around and just re-purposed them. I sent it to a friend and I thought his comment was spot on:
“They’re probably using the same mold, just adding the MAGA cap. Should have a woman standing over him, peeing, it would be a Yuuuge seller.”
If you are so inclined, it can be purchased on the web…just not here.
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What is the difference between a wife and a dog?
When you fart in the bed a wife will growl at you, and a dog will just snuggle closer.
Apparently anything that gets in the way of immediate profit is to verboten , no matter the future consequences. Almost every time I look at a news site my stomach does a flip-flop over some new piece of idiocy. Trump and his administration’s world view is totally incomprehensible to me. The best I can figure these people have absolute no social conscience and probably no conscience at all…sick, sick, sick.
EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades
What a strange pass we have come to in this country. I’m just a lay person in this field, and it has looked to me for a while that being in touch with reality is not one of effingham Trump’s traits.
From the article on http://www.independent.co.uk/us:
“Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.
Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country.”
Here is the link to the article: Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference