Well at the beginning of the protests he said it was a great day for George Floyd. And what was it he said on a phone call to a woman who'd lost her soldier son? She was driving her car... was it "He knew what he was getting into?" I guess it comes down to the fact that dead people are losers. And there's no getting around that!
Hmmm. Trump hasn't done that yet, but Pompeo just did it for him, on the Fox News special report. Where else? He wishes, he says, that the previous administration had been a lot tougher with Russia, because then this one would have less of a mess to clear up, and instead the Obama administration allowed Russia "a lot of room to move".How much more room to move can Trump give Russia?
And even viewed in the most charitable light, McEnany's insistence that "He was not personally briefed on the matter" looks like a careful attempt to get around the presence of a written report by claiming that it didn't count because no one explained it to Commander Numbnuts using words of two syllables or less and a visual aid in comic book format.
To be fair, her boss IS a man who would be doing the entire planet a favor if he just sat through those meetings picking his nose.
Obama put Putin in so much rage and misery by sanctioning his buddies so that they could not do banking anymore. I remember hearing about this but not grasping it at first and it turned out it was Putin's main activity-- I mean wheelling and dealing and enabling his chosen moneybags to wheel and deal in his name. They were hogtied! Those were the sanctions, as you probably recall, that Flynn discussed with Russkies before the inauguration, which Flynn lied about to P. Pence. Poor little soul!!!!Pompeo the stupid fuck, can you believe it?
The capacity for disbelief I had burned out completely about the time Trump said with a straight face, "Nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have."I've been watching Gateway Pundit (just the headlines, these days, as that's all I can stand) for any mention of the Russia bounty on U.S. soldiers, and as I've mentioned online a couple of times, there hasn't been any from Hoft's site. Until now. And now would appear to be a little bit late to take notice. Like Pompeo, they have just fallen in with a chorus of, "But Obaaamaaa!" They're saying that Russian bounty paid to the Taliban was a thing back in 2014 and what did Obaaaaamaaaaa do about it? Oh my.Trump has been president for three and a half years plus change and what, if it was a thing since 2014, did Trump do about it, would seem to be more relevant right now.
I really wish I could arrive at some decision about these liars who don't care. I mean when I say they're liars and don't care-- I mean these people who damage the world just to be jerks. I can't get used to them being like that. I can't get over getting enraged. I think Obama was unmoved, or have had a different grasp of it, in order to behave so exactly right, always sticking to the non-inflammatory words,when actually he's so witty and smart and surely refrained from saying so many many things that must have passed thru his mind. My son has been a huge cynic from his childhood and he always seems to accept crap as inevitable. Since this Trump period I've asked him how he does it and he said, "You have me all wrong." He's just been hiding his feelings! He's a lawyer so yesterday I asked him about non disclosure agreements and about Mary Trump and my hope that she could prevail. He told me it was impossible for him to care about any member of that family. I said,"she's an outsider! She even looks normal!" But we'd reached the man's limit! (I will say he told me it's up to the judge whether to enforce these agreements. And this judge decided 'NO',
So, have you gotten used to these people or only more appalled?
That's good advice. I think I will read about Jacinta Ardern all day and ignore Trump except to hope he's voted out by a landslide and voter suppression fails. Gigantically.And after overdosing on the utterances of Trump and his enablers (bad for the mental and even physical health, I will not dispute) I may also read, for relief, something rational and likely like Burroughs's TARZAN AND THE ANT-MEN.
Was it at Wonkette we were talking about Burroughs and a man started talking who was the world's foremost authority on Burroughs? And I told him I'd just read The Oakdale Mystery and he said, "that's a weird one." Anyway don't you want to read "Winds over the Diamantina?" Or "The Mountains Have a Secret" That's the one where a man calls his father "a right ear basher." Or the very first one I ever read which my husband got for me at the library when I was condemned to bed rest! "Bony and the Swag Man." He was trying to get arrested to be undercover in a certain police station so he lay down and slept on a bench outside the station and when the policeman came along and said in a rude voice 'who are you? where are you from?' he said, "way down in Texas." That made me laugh all day for some reason. In bed! I was there for months, made much more fun by those great books. My son was in Australia and I asked him to take pictures of them in a bookstore and he couldnt' find any nor any book stores. For some reason. He loved it there tho.
Yes, Arthur Upfield's books are like hen's teeth now, hard to find and mostly out of print, I believe. Back in my youth I liked his "Bony" books a lot. "Bony and the Kelly Gang", "Bony and the White Savage" and "The Will of the Tribe" were all really good, and maybe I read "Madman's Bend" too, but I'm not sure after all this time ... and I don't think they're online, although I'll have a look. Wait, "The Mountains Have A Secret" is available online through a lending library. I'll keep it in mind.
Oh so glad to find someone who's read them! You're the first person I've found who knows what books I'm talking about. They have so much charm. And they never have scenes I dread. Except The Lake Frome Monster. I stopped reading it the minute he saw that huge solitary camel in the distance. I knew it would be the most heart rending camel and it would be too sad. It had been alone for years and years-- just a rumor. Do you remember Wings Above the Diamantina? A plane lands with a girl in a coma at the controls??? Godalmighty. I'm sure Amazon has them all. And what's that other service? My son's friend from Perth's father ran it, or started it-- begins with A. Is it alibris? Have you read Tony Hillerman? He's just as great-- a bit more profound but also, no sex scenes. This to me is the most fantastic quality. Anyway, he read an Upfield book in his youth. "I can do this about the place I'm from," he thought. He's not Navajo, but he grew up on the Rez, which is immense. And he's an immensely good writer. For the same reasons Upfield is. Did you read "Another Author Bites the Dust." I'm an author myself and got many laughs out of that one. Tho not all writers are stuffy. But many are.
Oh, yes! Sue Grafton's "alphabet" series. A is For Alibi, B is For Burglar, and so on. With feisty, perceptive private eye Kinsey Millhone doing the detecting. I've only read a couple, but I like them. "D is For Deadbeat" was the first one I read, and it opens with a smooth character Kinsey instinctively doesn't like hiring her to do what seems like a very minor errand he could easily have done himself ... and then cheats her out of her retainer.Not smart. Kinsey decides she's not going to be stiffed, and she's also going to find out what this character is really about. Told in first person.
No it's an Upfield book. I think he must have been despised in his time by Australian hi brows?? Or once I read he was disliked because he had 'indigenous peoples' in his books. As real characters! Does that seem likely?
Well at the beginning of the protests he said it was a great day for George Floyd. And what was it he said on a phone call to a woman who'd lost her soldier son? She was driving her car... was it "He knew what he was getting into?" I guess it comes down to the fact that dead people are losers. And there's no getting around that!
Ah yes. I thought of that later.
Hmmm. Trump hasn't done that yet, but Pompeo just did it for him, on the Fox News special report. Where else? He wishes, he says, that the previous administration had been a lot tougher with Russia, because then this one would have less of a mess to clear up, and instead the Obama administration allowed Russia "a lot of room to move".How much more room to move can Trump give Russia?
And even viewed in the most charitable light, McEnany's insistence that "He was not personally briefed on the matter" looks like a careful attempt to get around the presence of a written report by claiming that it didn't count because no one explained it to Commander Numbnuts using words of two syllables or less and a visual aid in comic book format.
To be fair, her boss IS a man who would be doing the entire planet a favor if he just sat through those meetings picking his nose.
Obama put Putin in so much rage and misery by sanctioning his buddies so that they could not do banking anymore. I remember hearing about this but not grasping it at first and it turned out it was Putin's main activity-- I mean wheelling and dealing and enabling his chosen moneybags to wheel and deal in his name. They were hogtied! Those were the sanctions, as you probably recall, that Flynn discussed with Russkies before the inauguration, which Flynn lied about to P. Pence. Poor little soul!!!!Pompeo the stupid fuck, can you believe it?
The capacity for disbelief I had burned out completely about the time Trump said with a straight face, "Nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have."I've been watching Gateway Pundit (just the headlines, these days, as that's all I can stand) for any mention of the Russia bounty on U.S. soldiers, and as I've mentioned online a couple of times, there hasn't been any from Hoft's site. Until now. And now would appear to be a little bit late to take notice. Like Pompeo, they have just fallen in with a chorus of, "But Obaaamaaa!" They're saying that Russian bounty paid to the Taliban was a thing back in 2014 and what did Obaaaaamaaaaa do about it? Oh my.Trump has been president for three and a half years plus change and what, if it was a thing since 2014, did Trump do about it, would seem to be more relevant right now.
I really wish I could arrive at some decision about these liars who don't care. I mean when I say they're liars and don't care-- I mean these people who damage the world just to be jerks. I can't get used to them being like that. I can't get over getting enraged. I think Obama was unmoved, or have had a different grasp of it, in order to behave so exactly right, always sticking to the non-inflammatory words,when actually he's so witty and smart and surely refrained from saying so many many things that must have passed thru his mind. My son has been a huge cynic from his childhood and he always seems to accept crap as inevitable. Since this Trump period I've asked him how he does it and he said, "You have me all wrong." He's just been hiding his feelings! He's a lawyer so yesterday I asked him about non disclosure agreements and about Mary Trump and my hope that she could prevail. He told me it was impossible for him to care about any member of that family. I said,"she's an outsider! She even looks normal!" But we'd reached the man's limit! (I will say he told me it's up to the judge whether to enforce these agreements. And this judge decided 'NO',
So, have you gotten used to these people or only more appalled?
I think I've become more appalled.
Oh. God you could be reading about Jacinda Ardern all day instead of Trump. You're a riddle, man. I mean, Sir.
That's good advice. I think I will read about Jacinta Ardern all day and ignore Trump except to hope he's voted out by a landslide and voter suppression fails. Gigantically.And after overdosing on the utterances of Trump and his enablers (bad for the mental and even physical health, I will not dispute) I may also read, for relief, something rational and likely like Burroughs's TARZAN AND THE ANT-MEN.
Was it at Wonkette we were talking about Burroughs and a man started talking who was the world's foremost authority on Burroughs? And I told him I'd just read The Oakdale Mystery and he said, "that's a weird one." Anyway don't you want to read "Winds over the Diamantina?" Or "The Mountains Have a Secret" That's the one where a man calls his father "a right ear basher." Or the very first one I ever read which my husband got for me at the library when I was condemned to bed rest! "Bony and the Swag Man." He was trying to get arrested to be undercover in a certain police station so he lay down and slept on a bench outside the station and when the policeman came along and said in a rude voice 'who are you? where are you from?' he said, "way down in Texas." That made me laugh all day for some reason. In bed! I was there for months, made much more fun by those great books. My son was in Australia and I asked him to take pictures of them in a bookstore and he couldnt' find any nor any book stores. For some reason. He loved it there tho.
He's supposed to be a 'regular guy' !
Yes, Arthur Upfield's books are like hen's teeth now, hard to find and mostly out of print, I believe. Back in my youth I liked his "Bony" books a lot. "Bony and the Kelly Gang", "Bony and the White Savage" and "The Will of the Tribe" were all really good, and maybe I read "Madman's Bend" too, but I'm not sure after all this time ... and I don't think they're online, although I'll have a look. Wait, "The Mountains Have A Secret" is available online through a lending library. I'll keep it in mind.
Oh so glad to find someone who's read them! You're the first person I've found who knows what books I'm talking about. They have so much charm. And they never have scenes I dread. Except The Lake Frome Monster. I stopped reading it the minute he saw that huge solitary camel in the distance. I knew it would be the most heart rending camel and it would be too sad. It had been alone for years and years-- just a rumor. Do you remember Wings Above the Diamantina? A plane lands with a girl in a coma at the controls??? Godalmighty. I'm sure Amazon has them all. And what's that other service? My son's friend from Perth's father ran it, or started it-- begins with A. Is it alibris? Have you read Tony Hillerman? He's just as great-- a bit more profound but also, no sex scenes. This to me is the most fantastic quality. Anyway, he read an Upfield book in his youth. "I can do this about the place I'm from," he thought. He's not Navajo, but he grew up on the Rez, which is immense. And he's an immensely good writer. For the same reasons Upfield is. Did you read "Another Author Bites the Dust." I'm an author myself and got many laughs out of that one. Tho not all writers are stuffy. But many are.
Oh, yes! Sue Grafton's "alphabet" series. A is For Alibi, B is For Burglar, and so on. With feisty, perceptive private eye Kinsey Millhone doing the detecting. I've only read a couple, but I like them. "D is For Deadbeat" was the first one I read, and it opens with a smooth character Kinsey instinctively doesn't like hiring her to do what seems like a very minor errand he could easily have done himself ... and then cheats her out of her retainer.Not smart. Kinsey decides she's not going to be stiffed, and she's also going to find out what this character is really about. Told in first person.
No it's an Upfield book. I think he must have been despised in his time by Australian hi brows?? Or once I read he was disliked because he had 'indigenous peoples' in his books. As real characters! Does that seem likely?