Happy Wednesday gang!
It’s still chilly and raining here in the DMV. Gotta say, I’m OVER it.
Also, all the tires in my car decided it’s too cold and therefore have low pressure. Looking forward to dealing with that this morning.
Hope you have a great day!
Well they are his minions…
Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago search case
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/04/trump-supreme-court-mar-a-lago-search/
Ukraine Update:
Ukraine continues to liberate territory in east and south, says Zelenskiy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/ukraine-continues-to-liberate-territory-in-east-and-south-volodmyr-zelenskiy
Stonks!
This stock market comeback is unprecedented by one measure
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/this-stock-market-comeback-is-unprecedented-by-one-measure.html
Sprots!
Aaron Judge hits home run #62 and makes baseball history
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1125991553/aaron-judge-62-home-runs-record
#RIP
If you’re into this sort of thing, there is a lot to keep you entertained here…
Today in cute!
To those who observe Yom Kippur, a meaningful and easy fast to you today.
As far as gossip rabbit holes go, I was thinking just the other day (or whenever it was that Odd Couple Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson decided to embark on their brief strictly-for-the-tabloids “romance”) what it would have been like if Twitter had been around when Kim’s Dad Bobby was defending O. J. Simpson. Imagine the white Bronco: “This video has been retweeted 7.9 billion times.” “If it doesn’t fit you must acquit.” “This video has been retweeted 12.6 billion times.”
Speaking of things in their billions, either this month or next the world’s population will hit 8 billion. That news reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974XGkRVIV4
Trump’s Supreme Taliban case will be interesting to watch. I’ve theorized that the Taliban is done with the orange oaf. They got what they wanted and they’re going to turn their collective backs on him. Now we get to see if I’m right.
Specifically, the case is extremely narrow and doesn’t address any really knotty legal issues. It’s just a cry for help from a buffoon that’s actually looking at indictments (let’s not consider convictions right now). The Taliban would also have to overturn the 11th Circuit, which is mostly Trump appointees as well.
Additionally, the Taliban is facing massive unpopularity, which isn’t supposed to affect them, but they’re speaking out, so it clearly does. I imagine speaker fees for their “wisdom” are starting to dry up in the face of their hyper-partisanship. I doubt fundamentalists religious organizations provide that much income to them.
Maybe someone can bring some shame into this shameless bunch?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/ketanji-brown-jackson-voting-rights-originalism.html
Some good judge news…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-ordered-to-testify-in-abortion-rights-suit-after-fleeing-subpoena
Speaking of hypocrites…
and speaking of Georgia, I can’t wait to see this, Greg Palast is a god!
But don’t forget that Christian Walker is a conservative media influencer.
I saw a tweet that pointed out that according to Republican morality, Herschel Walker paid to have his child murdered. He should therefore be facing a life sentence in prison. According to their rules.
Instead, they flock to support him.
I wonder if Herschel has enough intellect left to understand that if he wasn’t fronting for fascists, they would be calling for his arrest as a baby killer.
Yep!
https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/baptist-megachurch-pastor-leads-prayer
See I wonder about that. Trump likes to fancy himself some kind of mob boss. So it stands to reason he wants to find dirt on people to keep them in line. What are the chances he tells Amy that unless the world wants to know about the five abortions she had, or Brett about all of the gay relationships, they’ll do what they’re told? Granted this is way too much thinking for that moron but it at least fits with his self delusional Godfather image.
I’ve seen online speculation that Trump has dirt on Aileen Cannon to make her jeopardize her “career” like this, so it’s entirely possible you’re right. Kavanaugh clearly received large sums of money prior to his nomination to wipe out his extensive debts, and frankly people in that income bracket shouldn’t have huge debts unless they’ve got gambling or substance abuse problems. As a religious fundamentalist, Barrett’s probably hiding some dirt. In my experience at least 50% of “devout” fundamentalists are engaged in illicit behaviors, from straight crime to things like abuse.
Barrett either wears a BDSM day collar, like Prime Minister Liz Truss, or makes her husband wear one. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Steroids were not the worst scandal involving Roger Clemens.
No kidding.
Why, exactly, did Roger Clemens meet Lee Harvey Oswald in the Cuban Embassy in September 1963? And what was in the briefcase he was photographed bringing into the Embassy but didn’t have when he left it?
It certainly wasn’t 15-year-old Mindy McCready. She was in his bed.
Yeah, he did some seriously messed up stuff for real.
FACTS! Little known, but Clemens was used by Oliver North as a courier repeatedly during Iran-Contra; Clemens is a longtime pal of Osama bin Laden; Clemens was among the admitted attorneys who argued W’s case during the 2000 election hearings; Clemens and Dick Cheney had a standing weekly lunch date in the runup to the Iraq war; Clemens has been the worst climate offender in the world since 1996; Clemens’ first contract helped fund the founding of Fox News; Clemens is personally responsible for all of the plastic currently floating in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Anyway, fuck Roger Clemens.
and maybe Meg can do a duet w/ her cat too?
The Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three researchers into quantum entanglement, which fascinates and confuses me.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/2022-nobel-physics-prize-goes-to-seminal-tests-of-spooky-action-at-a-distance/
Basically, two particles which go through the same process and then are separated get sort of encoded with information. If you then “read” the information of one you now know the state of the other which can lead to instant communication of a type that Einstein didn’t think was possible.
There is a theory that dogs use quantum entanglement to decide where to poop, based on their alignment with magnetic fields.
I dropped my toast jam and butter side down this morning in case you were wondering how my day was going!
Aaron Judge’s record is the real record.
As apposed to a “fake” one? Why so? You don’t think he is on anything? I am surrounded by Yankee fans, it’s kind of hilarious the sanctimony their players have, but if course others are tainted, ha ha.
I don’t care about the Yankees or about baseball in general. I do however care when people cheat and try to get away with it.