I have an idea. Let’s trade Trump to Putin in exchange for Edward Snowden.
Then pardon Snowden.
I was going to tell Mamie to BE MINE but then I remembered owning people is wrong and making strict demands isn’t conducive to a healthy relationship and besides that’s kind of greedy.
So I am making a nice dinner instead.
I have the best valentine. But, you know, I hope you all have a good one too.
The (second) sacking of Michael Flynn is good news. Russian impropriety aside, he is an ugly, hateful Islamaphobe and he should never have been given a title that suggested his views were acceptable.
Thinking of this lovely sentiment today:
I was one of the most fearful, but pretending to be brave, to encourage the others, I became courageous too. Lotte in The Sorrows of Young Werther
Sophia: [sitting on the couch in a bra and pants watching Bob Ross]
Me: You don’t have a shirt on.
Sophia: I was hot.
Me: You are very strange.
Sophia: You’re the one making it weird dad.
There are some things I’m so unqualified to judge that I’m not even qualified to judge which people are qualified to judge.
Sophie and I are shopping for pants for her which is a hoot because neither of us have any clue what we’re doing. How the heck can she be either a 4 or a 29?! And why are there no lengths?
I think I’m just going to buy her boy pants where the sizes make sense.
Sophia in front of this clothing store that doesn’t open for another 5 minutes: “Huh, people are lining up here. I didn’t know that was a thing.”
Citizens of Midland City, I salute you. You have given a home to a masterpiece! Rabo Karabekian
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. Martin Van Buren (who, incidentally, never really managed to excite any multitudes…)
No words.
Definitely just ordered both my daughters “Nevertheless she persisted” t-shirts.
Fun Fact: From 1836 through 1844 it was against the rules in the House of Representatives to discuss, debate, or consider anti-slavery petitions.
This is widely considered a violation of the first amendment, specifically “the right of the people…to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
I stand with Elizabeth Warren and etc…
Doing my taxes and now I’m a Trump supporter. #maga
The nation…has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln. Supreme Court Justice David Davis, 1866
We are all survivors of Bowling Green.
I’ve already had two people question why I oppose Trump’s Muslim ban if I never complained when Obama banned refugees for six months. Sigh.
It is a terrible shame, in the midst of all the fallout from the Muslim ban, that Trump’s first military operation killed the innocent child of a terrorist. Obviously that wasn’t the intent but I assure you our enemies will recall that Trump promised to do exactly that while campaigning. We’re making ISIS’s job easier.
Words matter.
New rule: If Trump publicly picks a petty fight with someone, they have the right to meet him in hand to hand combat.
I’m 98% sure Rosie O’Donnel will take him down, but if he plays dirty, Schwarzenegger is on deck.
Facebook’s always like “We’re sorry you had this experience…” and I’m like “It’s ok. It wasn’t a bad experience. I just like blocking things…”
Please no. I hope this is not true.
Fun Fact: Supreme Court justices have been disappointing the tyrannical aspirations of their appointing presidents since Thomas Jefferson contended unsuccessfully with the “sophistry … and personal malice” of Chief Justice John Marshall.
Professional advice from a computer professional. Read more…
Sophia was VERY SPECIFIC that I MUST pick her up EXACTLY on time today because she has a busy night planned baking an elaborate cake for Portia de Rossi’s birthday.
Why? Because Sophia defies classification. That’s why.
Winona Ryder during this acceptance speech is all of us the last 10 days.
Sally Q. Yates, the first hero in this, the end of the Age of Men.
Look up! Moon / Venus / Mars. A lovely reminder that some things are immune to human affairs.
“To assume that just because of someone’s age or gender or whatever that they don’t pose a threat would be wrong” — Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer when asked about the appropriateness of detaining a five year old at the airport.
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Spitballing here. There’s definitely a speculative conspiratorial undercurrent here for which I apologize.
“Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
Steve Bannon
“What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.”
The Judge from Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”
1. Foment muslim extremism and terrorist recruiting and financing efforts through targeted anti-Islamic rhetoric.
2. Act to ban immigration in a way that agrees with anti-Islam rhetoric while maintaining an air of legality.
3. In so doing, establish an adversarial relationship with congress and the courts on the issue of immigration.
4. Undermine the Central Intelligence Agency by casting doubt on their efficacy.
5. Undermine the Department of Homeland Security by breaking down lines of communication.
6. Undermine the Department of State by disrupting leadership and diplomatic missions.
7. Undermine anti-terrorist efforts by breaking down lines of communication and cooperation through the above actions.
(Recall that this poor interdepartmental coordination was the primary failing of our intelligence systems pre-9/11 resulting in the establishment of DHS in the first place.)
9. Wait.
10. When a major terrorist attack happens, pin it on lax immigration policy.
11. Consolidate executive power with a new political mandate fueled by the above.
Mike Pence two years ago: “Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.”
Mike Pence today: 😶
