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Today (Saturday) is Yodel for Your Neighbors Day
A couple things I am watching today….
The Proud Boys are being investigated for conspiracy. This indicates to me the Justice Dept. has reasons to believe it was a planned attack, using a mob that was generated and propelled by Donald Trump.
NY is investigating fraud in the financial dealings at Trumps' family estate in NY.
1,000 doses of vaccine spoiled and wasted in West Palm Beach County, Fla….home of Mar-a-lago. Was it human error or just way more supply than they need?
I am impressed with Unca Joes' rhetoric regarding the pandemic relief bill. If there is one GOP practice that always pisses me off (mostly because the Dems usually fall for it) is the moving goalposts bullshit. Hey…Mitch! Listen up…$1.9 trillion IS a compromise. The American economy needs a $4 trillion boost.
I am watching with delight as Wall Street gets a case of hemorrhoids…😀
What a good summary of the news of the day! I had not heard about the vaccine spoilage in West Palm Beach. My guess: Someone managed to get way too many doses. Awful.
Why…thanks.!
Yeah…the vaccine waste is unconscionable. When you have others getting out of their vehicle in a snowstorm to vaccinate stranded motorists in order to salvage a handful of doses. The actual lives of actual people have no meaning in the mind of a Trump…any Trump that is part of Fat Donnies’ clan anyway.
I am not quite 70, so I have been waiting patiently for my first Jab. The 8th can’t come soon enough! 😀
Guess this would be as good a time as any to ask…when did they start calling it a "Jab" instead of a "shot" (as in flu shot)? And why? Inquiring minds, and all that.
Being of suitable old fart age, I got my first dose a couple of weeks ago. I am definitely looking forward to my first plate of sit-down Mexican food!
No particular reason except that I heard it somewhere and thought it clever and appropriate. Perhaps, subliminally, some might suggest I have an aversion to words that suggest guns and gunny things.
They would be wrong. I am, however, very much opposed to those who own guns with the intention of attacking the govt. I didn't support it in 1969…and I still don't.
But, no. No hidden message.
"Jab" is British English.
Thanks for that. A quick check of Wikipedia would have told me, I guess, but more fun to pick up knowledge from Pols.
The Brits strike again.
Thanks…awfully.
Here you go, Wolfman. Get More Smarter: https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2020/12/16/jab/
That was interesting….thanks.
Getting our second dose/jab/shot/inoculation today – a major milestone.
👍 excellent!
I wish vaccine distribution was not so screwed up in Mesa County. We've been helping some 80-something neighbors with significant health problems who haven't been able to get even their first shots. Others in their early 70s in good health have completed theirs. Our neighbors, btw, are quite adept with computers. I wish the county was.
I’m 75 with diabetes. Kaiser says I’m 25123 on the list. Sigh
I tell everyone – get yourself on multiple lists, not just one (multiple hospital systems, etc). And, check with nearby counties – the Governor says you can go to any county in Colorado. And I also say – you have to be your own investigator and advocate. Good luck.
I agree. I am also with Kaiser, but the bride signed us up with others – with success. I got mine via CU Health (Anschutz) and she with the Salud clinic (Aurora), even though we live in Jeffco.
Good luck to all.
Probably stolen from the allotment of a blue state that was expecting them.
The Dems should just re-introduce their original $3 billion bill, or even better, replace it with a new $4 billion bill. If they want to move the goal posts, so can the Dems. Raise them! Call their bluff with the reminder that they are in the minority and that the Dems can pass it without them on a party-line vote. And, W.Virginia has to need something that can buy Mancin onboard.
#PewPew may have met her match.
Update…the 2 Proud Boys being investigated are not accused of planning the attack. Rather, they are accused of conspiring to do certain things together as the attack began.
Governor Polis live at a vaccination event at Servicios de la Raza. Good on him.
Caption this photo:
re: the photo. No quick “caption” sprang to mind.
However, the image did make me recall a very earnest, well-meaning university debater on my squad who thought it was more stylish and “professional” to show up at tournaments during cold weather wearing a suit and not an overcoat. He was used to getting outside in all weather conditions to milk cows twice a day, so cold wasn’t a deal breaker for him. Asked about his fashion choice, he pointed out his long thermal underwear, 2 pairs of socks, shirt, full sweater, and suit coat kept him feeling pretty good, and if it was really cold, he had a hat and gloves.
Even his suit coat didn’t strain the buttons as much as Gaetz is showing
Good to be reminded about a really nice person — who benefited from debate and the rest of his university experience. He doesn’t deal with cows anymore.
I liked Jason Crow’s twitter response:
The sleeves are too short. Did he get the jacket in Jr.High?
I think he's wearing Nestor's jacket.
“The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter what side he’s on.”
— Yossarian, ‘Catch-22’, by Joseph Heller
Disturbing analysis behind the GOP's 65 year fixation with right-wing extremism. It has reached its logical conclusion (but wait, there is no bottom).
I have noticed our conservative cadre seems tongue-tied (or keyboard challenged, if you will). I would love to hear the take of our friendly neighborhood GOP apologists. CHB…R&R…all ya'll.
You have become conspicuous by your absence,
Recall that GOP officials declined to recognize Biden’s victory for weeks precisely in order to keep the GOP base fired up for the Georgia runoffs.
Well, that didn't work out as they hoped.
Thank goodness for Stacey Abrams! The most impactful runoff election in years!
Today (Sunday) is National Hot Chocolate Day
I just watched Adam Kinzinger. Very impressive. The next couple of weeks will be fascinating.
The political courage of Cheney, Romney, and the very small number of congressional Republicans willing to publicly split with FDFQ is pitted against the Orange King.
The GOP is going apeshit crazy.
A followup to a Republican’s doxxing . . .
The
unintended consequences: . . .. . . intimidation: a conservative “family value.”
Tim Foster is retiring as chancellor of Colorado Mesa University in June. Encomiums showing up in the Sentinel and I'm wondering; is he going to be the one to go up against Bennett or Boebert in '22?
Here's an idea: Qbert vs. Bennet in 2022!
Kills two birds with one stone, so to speak…
My money is for Tim to shoot for governor. That he will run for something is pretty much a foregone conclusion in my mind. Mr. Foster is a superstar in the GOP firmament in these parts.
Mr. Fosters mission, developed when Bill Owens was governor, to build a conservative, Republican based, seat of GOP influence, with the word " University" attached to it…is done. Mr. Foster has built a very top down, secretive, organization that is shot through with former Oily Boyz as adjunt professors.
Now that the management structure there is so rigid his assistant, Mr.Marshall can take over, Tim can ride to the rescue of a party with a bench full of marginally able leaders. It is time for Tim to bite the bullet and help the party.
Maybe I am full of baloney…but I think his goal is governor.
I'd be surprised if Foster gets into elective politics. He's not near crazy enough for today's GOP. While I'd love to see him take on Calamity Jane, I just can't get there. Why would he want the travel and dealing with the professional crazies in D.C.?
I agree about politics in general. I don't think he would want any position but governor.
Agreed he'd like the guv job. But he's not crazy enough to win a GOP primary and doesn't have the Republican registration numbers to beat Polis.
I think he'd rather travel with his wife, see his family and pick and choose what, if anything, among various state projects interests him.
True that Tim can pick and choose.
The situation with both parties is the same. The best and brightest don't usually opt to run for office for all the obvious reasons.
FFS . . .
10 Republican Senators offering a package to the Biden Administration — $600 billion instead of $1.9 Trillion. What's missing?
Thanks, JiD. That's helpful.