Do you have the day off in honor of President’s Day? Any exciting plans? Sit around your house just like any other day? If you can you might want to, as the weather looks miserable.
Daily new Covid cases in US dip below 100,000 for first time in months
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/14/us-daily-new-covid-cases-dip-below-100000
Stonk market is closed today.
Sprots!
Daytona 500 live updates: Denny Hamlin wins Stage 1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/14/daytona-500-live-updates/?arc404=true
This makes me happy:
Prince Harry and Meghan ‘overjoyed’ to be expecting second child
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/harry-meghan-duke-duchess-sussex-second-child
Imma watch the hell out of this.
Have a great day, stay warm!
I love Presidential trivia. Shall we swap some?
This President was the only American president who did not speak English as a native language and yet was the first president actually born an American. I’ll wait…
Cue “Jeopardy” music and mourn the passing of Alex Trebek…
Who is Martin van Buren? Van Buren, the 8th president, was born in 1782, the first president born after independence, so all this forebears were born British citizens. Van Buren grew up in a Dutch community in New York’s Hudson Valley and his first language was Dutch.
Who was the first president born in the 20th century?
John F. Kennedy.
Who was the youngest president at his inauguration?
Theodore Roosevelt, 42. (Kennedy was 43.)
Who was the oldest president at his inauguration?
Our very own Joe Biden, of course, 78. But wait, I thought Reagan was impossibly old, how old was he? He was 69. When he left the presidency after two terms he was still younger than Biden is today.
To be fair to Old Joe, Raygun’s brain was pretty much rotted by Alzheimer’s Disease.
Which president created the first national park?
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Nope, not Woodrow Wilson, try again.
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Time’s up. The answer is Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. You can back your way into the answer by looking up the history of Yellowstone National Park.
For me this is the last day of vacation. I really don’t want to go back to work although I will because $.
My plans today are really mundane… I have homework to do. I have to finish an assignment for a class (job related) I am taking.
I’m working today, I work in NH, they hate holidays there. It’s going to be a long day, I am suffering residual annoyance from the Friday dept. meeting, useless at best, it turned into a whine fest about $$. There are people at my work that have the first dollar they ever made and they are the cheapest people I have ever met. Then today, very first thing, I see an email from a coworker with a habit of stepping on my toes, stepping on my toes yet again. The big boss man knows about the situation and is avoiding the convo, but it’s getting really old.
Well, happy holiday to all you lucky folks that have the day off!
I’m in the private sector and we don’t get such days off.
Another 5-9 inches expected (are “that’s what she said” jokes still a thing?) But with temps in the single digits, expect some shrinkage. I. Am. So. Tired. This is some “Life Below Zero” shit. I’m gonna have to go kill a caribou soon or something. The condensation on my ceiling has frozen and I now have ice puddles. On my ceiling. 😩😩
What part of the country are you in with such bad insulation?
Thank you for the Tucci link! That show would have flown right under my radar otherwise.
I enjoyed the first show last night and plan to watch the whole series. It’s very well done.
I watched the Stanley Tucci show last night, and will be watching them all.
At this point, this is old news:
https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-trumps-vaccine-plan/
BUT, time for speculation. Trump was “leaving it up to the states” to develop their own inoculation plans and had developed NO national vaccination plan. Not even a hint of one. Trump bought about 200 million vaccines in August, not enough to cover all Americans, and refused offers of more from pharmaceutical companies. Conclusion: Trump planned to dole out vaccines to red states only, thus reducing (and by that I mean murdering) people who were not likely to vote for him.
You got that one right! He definitely would have used it as a political reward for HIS states. Now this comes out and as much as I would love to hear him at least shame these worthless people, Biden is the bigger man and proves again he is the President of the United States of America…
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-governor-storm-help-secede/
I love these tweets….
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215108769
Is this why frat bros and random assholes in Floribama are boasting about getting their shots but my 70+ year old relatives (in Illinois) have been on the waiting list since Jan 1? The one or two that have managed to track one down have had to drive up to 30 miles from home, and often can’t get their 2nd shot at the same place as the first. It. Is. A. Cluster.
Anybody got a guess what Graham and McConnell’s endgame is? I mean, if they’re calling for inquiries, they must be attempting a setup of some kind, right?
Ooooooh, oooooh, I do, I do…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9156995/Lindsey-Graham-blames-PELOSI-Capitol-riot-didnt-provide-security.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-johnson-claims-pelosi-blame-capitol-riot-2021-2
blame it on a woman, tried and true answer! Benghazi!!!!
There’s long been speculation that Trump was handed MAJOR compromat from Putin on Lindsey Graham. There were rumors it was mentioned in the Steele Dossier, and while I’m unsure of where things stand on that document’s veracity, parts of it were indeed corroborated. At this point, that’s the only rational explanation for Lindsey’s offensively obsequious toadying to a disgraced ex-president Trump. And whatever Trump’s got on Lindsey, it’s both BAD and utterly irrefutable, so I’m thinking video.
McConnell is, as always, playing the long game. He’s trying to thread the needle, getting Trump out of the Republican Party while keeping his voting base. He’s voting against impeachment but praying that the court system deals with Trump. It’s not going particularly well for him right now, but again, Trump voters are incredibly, almost impossibly stupid and have the memories of goldfish, and McConnell will certainly leverage that. McConnell has come out strongly in favor of criminal prosecution for Trump, and if you don’t think his speech will be referenced in Trump’s many trials, you are mistaken. More here:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/republicans-ask-the-courts-to-take-care-of-trump-for-them.html
The two biggest problems that Republicans are facing are voter flight (about 140,000 have left the party since 1/6, which doesn’t sound like much but remember Trump trying to find 12,000 in Georgia?) and donor flight. I sound like a broken record, but ultra-rich people (and by that I mean legit billionaires) DO. NOT. LIKE. CHAOS. They’ve got it very, very, very good RIGHT NOW and they do not want anyone fucking that up with some kind of martial law bullshit. That shit that went down on 1/6 is their worst fucking nightmare and they are going to make certain that Republicans know exactly how badly they fucked up and what they have to do to start turning on the money spigots again. Think Betsy DeVos sprinting for the exit — missy ain’t gonna lose her yachts because Trump is incapable of facing reality. And remember that Trump is not a member of that class and never, ever, ever has been. The ultra-rich might close ranks around their one of their own but Trump doesn’t meet the income requirement.
Republicans, in turn, are crawling back to their ultra-rich donors and showing their bellies and begging — please, please, please, we’ll never do that again. It remains to be seen just how long the Republican time-out will extend, but I’d say about a year at the outside. But McConnell’s going to have to do as he’s told and he’s been told to make sure Trump never runs again. So he’s trying to make that happen without committing political suicide. It’s splintering the Republicans into Trump and non-Trump, but the ultra-rich don’t care — they’ll go buy Democrats for a while instead. And they will find them — Pelosi’s probably at the top of their Christmas list, with Schumer next.
I listened to an interview w/ this author and he speculated that now that Trump doesn’t have much value to Putin, he may give info to Biden to get on his good side and get out of sanctions. Shit could get interesting for a bunch of Russian conspirators.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/07/american-kompromat-review-trump-russia-epstein-craig-unger
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sleeper-cell-the-fourth-of-july-traitors
Article discussing Lindsey’s bizarre about-face, and how author and private investigator Don Winslow tweeted about Trump threatening Lindsey on the golf course. Circumstantial evidence but this lays it all out pretty convincingly:
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/lindsey-graham-is-trumps-hostage
Well, Linds is threatening to Impeach Kamala Harris should R’s ever get the upper hand again
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lindsey-graham-hints-kamala-harris-could-be-next-impeachment-target-if-gop-regains-control-of-house/ar-BB1dGetn?ocid=ientp
have the day off, just woke up from my late sleep in, I really need to not sleep anymore today, or I’m going to have a hard time waking up tomorrow.
currently raining a bit, but according to google’s forecast, it’s about to stop until maybe Thursday/Friday.
Trying to decide if I should risk a shopping trip, or if I should just stay in and play computer games…