Bill Murray:
«Their most powerful asset in their fight to bring change is their idealism»
I was saying something like this to Erika a few days ago.
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Iraq War 15th Anniversary: 1 Million Dead, No One Held Accountable
The War in Iraq’s latest anniversary passed in all-American silence.
Source: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19547603/iraq-15-years-george-bush/
Tweet on confidence
Vitality takes many forms in German churches – The United Methodist Church
Interesting.
http://www.umc.org/news-and-media/vitality-takes-many-forms-in-german-churches
«“I urge my church to try new things. If it fails after a year or so, so what? We try something else,” the bishop said. “In order to fulfill our mission of reaching out to make disciples for the transformation of the world, we must be very courageous and try out new things.”»
Nate Silver tweet on CA vs. cable
Nate Silver, of 538, again:
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/976473895397142534?s=19
«I hate to sound like a broken record but media coverage of Clinton’s e-mails (and the Comey letter in particular) was also highly influential in the election (way more so than Cambridge Analytica was). And that extended to the general election and didn’t just come from cable.»
Tweet on Mensa
🙂
https://twitter.com/DOGGEAUX/status/976243158311829504?s=19
«my favorite Mensa fact is that both founders ended up hating Mensa, the first hating it because he didn’t know poor people were allowed to be smart and the second hating it because he had to find out the hard way that the kind of people who would join a high-IQ society are dorks»
Well, one thing about this new POSSE solution
…is it slows down my tendency to re-post Tweets. I think.
Tweet
https://twitter.com/SamGrittner/status/976579354363908096
«Instead of “emotionally unavailable” I prefer the term “there are currently no vacancies in my brain.”»
Seems about right.
Bob Corker’s remarkable admission about Trump and Mueller – The Washington Post
“People who tell me, who are out on [the campaign] trail, say, look, people don’t ask about issues anymore. They don’t care about issues. They want to know if you’re with Trump or not,” Corker added.
Here we are. Rabid Trump supporters are still out in large numbers in Trump country. No telling if PA-18 is a harbinger or not (although I sure would like for it to be). He campaigned there to no avail, but was it a fluke?
GOP confronts another failed tax experiment in Oklahoma
https://via.hypothes.is/https://apnews.com/f058811fa1fb4bf68a34e3c243a14a6f
A constitutional requirement of a 3/4 majority. Wow. I wonder when that was enacted?
«Gov. Mary Fallin and GOP leaders have been unable to reverse course because of a constitutional quirk that says any tax increase needs a three-fourth’s majority vote of the Legislature. Despite broad GOP support for tax hikes, a small number of fiercely anti-tax Republicans have joined with the minority Democrats to derail attempts to raise revenue. Democrats complain that most of the tax plans unfairly target the poor.»
