Open Thread - Thurs 04 Dec 2025 - Hmmm, Knew It...
Hmmmm, Knew It...
Sometimes, things are just like I figured, even if I don't really want them to be.
A couple of weeks ago I happened across a news story on Common Dreams about Trump and his case against former FBI directory James Comey. Now, I'm not a fan or supporter of Comey's in any way, and yea, he probably did make some false statements. Who in government doesn't do that? But, I saw the title and the main picture of this story and suddenly understood exactly how this attorney got appointed.
Here's the pic:
Trump 'hand picked' and appointed this lawyer, this very nice looking young woman (Lindsey Halligan), as an interim attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. And this is ok, I guess, but she has no experience at all as a prosecuting attorney, she was an insurance lawyer. And Trump knew her from the past, because she had competed in one of his beauty pageants! And Trump fired the attorney who held the position before her and wouldn't bring the case to court, because the charges against Comey lacked evidence!
I think this little story shows exactly why I turn my head away from paying much attention to the news now, from any angle and any side. Why couldn't people see this about Trump (or any of the other ding-dongs in power) before? It was frapping obvious when he was doing that wrestling crap... sheez.
Alright, enough of that. Here's a fun holiday song to start the season off with: I think I'm more of a SnowMiser than a HeatMiser, but I like them both!
Mr. HeatMiser, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Ok, here's the open thread! What's up, whatcha doing? Reading? Thinking? Listening to? Remember, everything is interesting if you dive deep enough, so tell us about where you're diving!
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Thursday!
Almost Friday and the weekend! Hope every one is doing well. I'm going to be spending part of Friday and Saturday watching concerts on nugs.net by the Mavericks, or, most of the Mavericks. We've followed the Mavericks a bit on this site, Otc and JtC even posted some concerts they'd been to (those were great!). Well, the band is most likely retiring this weekend, and I thought I'd watch their last concerts on nugs. This is a concert, over two nights, to honor the Maverick's lead singer, Raul Malo. He's quite sick with cancer, at 'only' 60. Very sad, very sad.
I'll enjoy the good music, the memories and hope for the best for Raul and everyone else! Have a great Thursday and weekend, y'all!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
hey, good morning
.
Appointing a beauty queen to be a district attorney
sounds about right for the ring master of the clown show
which the present administration performs.
Not sure if I'm ready for the
Christmascommercial season.But it is what it is.
Thanks for the OT!
Zionism is a social disease
Pretty sure I ain't ready for the...
Commercial, err, 'Christmas', season either. But I do enjoy some of the weird music, heh.
Gotta wonder in what kind of political circles an attorney, err, beauty queen, runs. Especially one as stupid as she seems to be... Or maybe not stupid, maybe just stupid about being a district attorney. Heh.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Good morning, sima!
Trump surrounding himself with attractive women is his way of compensating for his shortcomings. It started with Tulsi. She is a photo op, nothing else.
That Mavericks concert was as great as any concert we have ever attended. We have been expecting retirement news for months.
Must get ready for a trial this morning, so everyone keep rolling along!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Tulsi ...
I never thought about her 'conversion' to Trump that way. But yea, another beauty queen...
Yea, Raul isn't doing so good. I thought maybe he'd be ok after his surgery, but the kind of cancer they say he has now? Bleh. Hoping and praying for all the best for him.
Ok, I see below you have a post about your day in court. I'm going to go read it now
Have a good one, sister!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Good morning Sima et. al. Thanks for the OT, Sima.
Trying to get it together, as usual. Sub forty mornings lately aren't helping, my hands seriously rebel at those kinds of temperatures and I really get fed up with the' gloves on', 'gloves off' routine each time I go in and out, which is generlly often, especially in the early part of the morning.
Sad to hear about the Mavericks, good that you can catch the sign off.
Not much apolitical happening of wide interest and the political shit is all batshit, so wehre does that leave us? Football? Futball? Roundball? Actually I could really go for some Jai Alai, not so much for the desportes but for the locale, ready ready for Mazatlan, but not making that run this year (Wah!)
Gertting organized s a real PITA and time waster, but staying disorganied is as bad or sorse, meanwhile I cannot find my Jerry Garcia xmas tree ornament (also Wah!). One of the neighborhood strays is beginning to adopt our back yard despite the menagerie that haunts it nightly after dark. Not sure where it hangs between sundown and sunrise.
Ah well, stuff to do, so off I go.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Gloves!
On... off... on... I know what that's like! And the jacket, and the waterproof boots... Boots are usually muddy as heck and I refuse to wear them inside (because cleaning those floors is my chore) but taking them off and putting them back on is a pain in the keyster.
Hope the neighborhood stray settles in and finds a place. I have been super disorganized lately, am finally coming out of it, maybe. Or maybe it's a new state of mind that I had to accept? I dunno.
Have a great Friday and weekend!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
I think that
Trump really believes that he can dominate women more easily than men, especially those that are both a) attractive and b) "owe him something" (like being elevated to lucrative, highly visible stations far beyond their training or experience, perhaps). I'm sure that his cabinet meetings are replete with lots of pussy-grabbing.
He also likes his eye-candy just for its own sweet sake, so there is also the thought that he likes to appoint people that he somehow believes (in his little black heart-of-hearts) that he can lure into bed, should the mood strike him. And that certainly explains Rubio and Hegseth. The jury's out on RFKjr, but I'm sure that Trump Has A Plan, should his wandering eye wander in that particular direction.
Note to the humor-impaired: This Is Snark. Mostly. He certainly isn't doing
women'shuman rights any favors...Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Snark... but...
True too! I'm thinking to myself, why is the old man's cabinet so young and not super intelligent? Well, they all make Trump look 'good', don't they? Ok, nothing can make him look good.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Is there a casting couch
in the Oval Office? Or does Trump keep his desk cleared?
We have a week of rain coming starting today. Temperatures are moving away from freezing though, and that's good.
The Polar Vortex will not reach down to us here in southern Washington State but may brush across you up there.
Holding off mounting up my studded tires till it gets colder.
Thanks for the OT.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I suppose that
that would constitute a "Quid Pro Schwanzstücker", in his mind anyway- with all due apologies to Mel Brooks, Teri Garr, and the entire Latin universe...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
That casting couch comment...
was perfect! I think he might keep his desk cleared as well, after all, nothing important would be on it, right?
We've got the rain forecast for a week too. We need it and it usually means we won't drop below 40, even at night. I've never had to use studded tires, but I live right next to the ocean water of the Sound, and when it gets icy it's never icy long enough to need driving in... yet. Are my fingers crossed? Yes, they are!
Have a good weekend!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
As I suggested previously...
Here, I'll just quote my own comment:
Well today we have a brief and very concise summation on Naked Capitalism of how we are getting smaller. We're doing it, kids. Right here, right now. We'll be shrinking like "the President" in Rick and Morty. "Such lame shrinking":
Our ruling class's goal, it would seem, is to make the US into the economic equivalent of Venezuela before Chavez, with a 90% poverty rate and sitting atop "vast resources"...
"It hasn't been okay to be smart in the United States for centuries" -- Frank Zappa
Yep...
'Our ruling class's goal, it would seem, is to make the US into the economic equivalent of Venezuela before Chavez, with a 90% poverty rate and sitting atop "vast resources"...'
I think so!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Sima,
Thanks for starting out our day with a bang, so to speak...
I had a great trial. The divorcing couple only had 1 big asset...their home and 3 acres. It is to be sold and she will receive 70% of the proceeds. 66 yr old men getting caught by their wives sexually molesting their 11 yr old g'daughters pay a price. When he complained he would have no place to live, the courtroom broke out in a lot of snickering. He will have a bed and 3 squares for at least 5 or more years for free.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
That G'dad...
Needs to be in jail until the end of his life, whenver that is. Sheez. And his wife should get everything. Still 70% is good! As for him complaining, I might have laughed out loud, nevermind snickered!
Good job in Court!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
The tricky part was my judge is also the judge
in his criminal case and does not want any challenge by the defense attorney of bias to transfer the case.
The prosecutor has already discussed this with me, and there will be no plea bargain offer, no chance of probation. The stupid fucker told the kid's mom and dad he did it, but it was just his error of judgment. He doesn't think what he did is a big deal.
Everything in the house was awarded to my client, and the golf cart and things like that. He got a car, tractor, some tools, and he can start over with that. Years down the road, of course.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
This is horrendous...
on the abuser's part: 'He doesn't think what he did is a big deal.' What an @ssh*le. I've encountered that attitude before and it sucks!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Venezuelan airspace is in fact open
The mentalities of those in power, however, are closed, and so we read:
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
So there it is, folks. If you can't have what you want, make it up. One has to suspect that the reason they haven't tried to invade Venezuela just yet -- besides poor preparation, the likelihood of a tough counterattack, and all that -- is that Hegseth is in trouble.
"It hasn't been okay to be smart in the United States for centuries" -- Frank Zappa
I hope Hegseth goes...
Wonder what monster will replace him?
As for ICE - guess that's an American way of saying Schutzstaffel (SS) or Gestapo, maybe? Gads
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so