"Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house." --Fran Lebowitz
"Willful ignorance comes at a price." --A. Tecacca

28 December 2016

What more evidence do you need? (You're welcome Donald!)

U.S. Constitution, 25th Amendment

Section 4:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Want to bet that George Santayana, Edmund Burke, et.al. are spinning in their graves.


Trump: The leader this sort of country deserves!

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I have this recurring dream; I wish I knew what it meant.


Mormon Tabernacle Choir said to be rethinking transportation arrangements to Trump Inaugural.


26 December 2016

Notes from all over

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So we've had a Hanukkah and a Christmas greeting;

will there be one today for Kwanzaa, we wonder?


Nessun dorma*

*'No one shall sleep', the overwrought (and criminally exploited) tenor aria
from the third act of Puccini's Turandot, 'sung' by pop stars like Jacki
Evancho---oh wait maybe that will be the class act at the Inauguration.

19 December 2016

Random Thoughts

They say that her gown cost more than three million.
Covered with rubies: from pink to vermilion.
But the dramatic split skirt,
Caused every eye to avert.
She'd forgotten to maintain the Brazilian!

Trump trumps diplomacy