I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Me too.
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Going to be 28 degrees by Friday. Hmmm.
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What's the temperature going to be in Cancun? Going to be 🥶🥶 here too.I’m next door to Clearwater.0 -
Those thermostats…
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Cardplayer, I have no words. I mean can't our CIA just use our satellites to change votes rather those Italian ones. Are the Italian ones much better or something?? I think I will make a credible report that Scott perry has lost control of his screws and they are very loose now.
Ruth get outta here for sure. Just think if we had to make a list of what he doesn't cheat about it would be a little shorter. It follows:
1. Ah,hmmm, let me see, well maybe I'll work on it more tomorrow.
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a picture is worth a thousand words
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I cannot believe the bad press that he has received while addressing Congress for not wearing a suit! Of course it is all repugnican generated but he is leading his army against Russian aggression and this is his uniform. So far I have not seen much from the repugicans about the content of his message other than that from the loser's junior offspring and the ignorami Boebert and Gaetz. What losers they are and their behavior is far from civility to a foreign leader.
The only thing that comes to mind about what the loon doesn't cheat at is IQ. There seems to be a real deficit there in spite of his claim of being a genius and he reveals it every time he posts a revelation or opens his mouth in response to a perceived slight. Frankly they are not perceived, they are real.
As far as Perry, my DD used to kid us when we did something dumb, "when God was passing brains out, did you think he said trains, and say no, I already have a set". So I offer the same question to Perry and I do think he answered "no".
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I so love this story, so glad that Confederate male monuments are coming down and that more women are being honored with statues. I read “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and am happy to see that she and her family continue to finally get recognition for her unending contributions to the medical field and its advancements. I love that it is she, who has done so much good, who will replace Lee.
Henrietta Lacks' hometown will build statue of her to replace Robert E. Lee monument
Giulia HeywardDecember 22, 20225:00 AM ET
(Artist Bryce Cobbs stands next to the drawing he created of Henrietta Lacks, which was unveiled in Roanoke, Va., on Monday. The drawing will be used in the design process of a larger-than-life bronze statue).A statue of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells were taken without her consent and subsequently used in several major medical breakthroughs, will be built in her hometown in Roanoke, Va.
The statue will replace a monument of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. City officials voted to remove the monument after its vandalization during the height of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Trish White-Boyd, Roanoke's vice-mayor, and the Harrison Museum of African American Culture started fundraising for a public history project to replace the monument.
The Roanoke Hidden Histories initiative raised $183,877, which will be used to cover the cost of the statue and a virtual reality documentary about the town's history.
"This beautiful woman was born Aug. 1, 1920, right here in Roanoke, Virginia," White-Boyd said at a press conference on Monday, where Lacks' family members were also present. "And we want to honor her, and to celebrate her."
After Lacks died from cervical cancer at John Hopkins Hospital in 1951, a gynecologist named Dr. Howard Jones collected her cancerous cells without her consent. Jones, who also collected cells from his other cancer patients, noticed a remarkable difference: While other cells would die, Lacks' continued to double every 20 to 24 hours.
Lacks' cells — often referred to as HeLa cells — continue to play an integral role in medical research — and in saving countless lives — from cancer to polio, and most recently in the development of COVID-19 vaccines. But Lacks' contribution had gone unrecognized for decades.
"Having reviewed our interactions with Henrietta Lacks and with the Lacks family over more than 50 years, we found that Johns Hopkins could have – and should have – done more to inform and work with members of Henrietta Lacks' family out of respect for them, their privacy and their personal interests," John Hopkins Medicine wrote on its website.
The Lacks family most recently filed a lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a multibillion-dollar biotech company, over its nonconsensual use of Lacks' cells.
"Today, in Roanoke, Virginia, at Lacks Plaza, we acknowledge that she was not only significant, she was literate and she was as relevant as any historic figure in the world today," attorney Ben Crump, representing the Lacks family, said at the press conference.
Artist Bryce Cobbs, another Roanoke native who is involved in the project, debuted a preliminary sketch of the statue at Monday's press conference. The statue is scheduled to be completed in October 2023, in the renamed Henrietta Lacks Plaza, previously known as Lee Plaza.
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If you observe really happy people, you will find them building a boat, writing a symphony, educating their children, growing double dahlias or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. They will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator, striving for it as a goal in itself. They will have become aware that they are happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day. -W. Beran Wolfe
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A whole tribe of ruined people who don't know it. They don't know they are mean and pathetic.
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Haha, for some reason I’ve never cared for Valerie Bertinelli, but after reading the above post I have immediately and completely become her fan!
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I love all the memes as usual. This thread is great!
I would like to point out though that the one a page back about Scott Perry is a fake. He has certainly said some stupid things, but not exactly that statement which was doctored. Here’s the Snopes report on it:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/statement-from-scott-perrys-office/
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Not really how I feel, but this poor guy in the red hat is just doing his job for the city so tosses it right back.
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Thanks for catching that janett2014. Didn’t mean to post a fake meme.
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Just a thought to share:
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MERRY HAPPY what ever you celebrate. Stay safe and WARM.
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HSR’s newsletter excerpt:
December 22, 2022 (Thursday)
Today, the Democrats elected Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) as the top Democratic member (the top member of the party out of power is called the "ranking member") of the House Oversight Committee. This is an enormously significant election because the Republicans have already announced they plan to use their majority to investigate a wish list of targets, and many of those investigations will likely come from the Oversight committee.
Because Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has decided not to put together committees until after the election for speaker takes place on January 3, it is not clear what Republicans will be on that committee, but Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) currently sits on it, and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has said she expects a seat on it. Jordan's role for the Republicans in Congress is to shout and hector witnesses to establish a narrative (he is famously ineffective at passing legislation), while Greene's role is to parrot right-wing conspiracies. Clearly, the Republicans plan to use the Oversight Committee largely for propaganda before the 2024 election.
This makes Raskin's new position key: Raskin is a brilliant constitutional law professor who is cowed not even a little bit by the likes of Jordan and Greene. He tweeted: "I was recruited to [the Oversight Committee] by Representative Elijah Cummings on my first day in Congress & it is overwhelming to think I will now become one of his successors. I thank my Caucus colleagues for entrusting me with the awesome responsibility of being Oversight Ranking Member."
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Another excerpt:
For its part, the Senate this afternoon passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill to fund the government through next September 30. Among other measures in the bill, the Senate included a reform of the Electoral Count Act to make impossible another attempt to overturn a presidential election the way Trump tried. The bill clarifies that the vice president's role in counting electoral votes is purely ceremonial, makes it clear that there is only one slate of electors per state, and increases the number of congress members required to launch an objection to a state's electoral slate.
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One last excerpt:
Among the transcripts released by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S Capitol is one from Cassidy Hutchinson, the former top aide to Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. In it, Hutchinson tells the interviewers that what she calls "Trump world" set her up with her first attorney, Stefan Passantino. He refused to tell her who was paying the bills—it was Trump's political action committee—and she worried that "they will ruin my life… if I do anything that they don't want me to do."
Emphasizing repeated references to "loyalty," and "Trump world," Hutchinson told the committee that Passantino urged her not to tell what she knew, prodding her to say she didn't recall events she clearly did. "If you don't 100 percent recall something, even if you don't recall a date or somebody who may or may not have been in the room, that's an entirely fine answer, and we want you to use that response as much as you deem necessary." "Look," he told her, "the goal with you is to get you in and out. Keep your answers short, sweet, and simple, seven words or less. The less the committee thinks you know, the better, the quicker it's going to go. It's going to be painless. And then you're going to be taken care of."
"We just want to focus on protecting the President," Passantino said. "We're gonna get you a really good job in Trump world. You don't need to apply to other places. We're gonna get you taken care of. We want to keep you in the family." Hutchinson told of being scared of what they could do to her. "I'd seen how vicious they can be. And part of that's politics, but…I think some of it is unique to Trump world, the level they'll go to to tear somebody else down. And I was scared of that."
Mark Meadows, too, sent Hutchinson a message through a mutual friend saying "he knows you're loyal and he knows…you're going to protect him and the boss. You know, he knows that we're all on the same team and we're a family." She also received notice that Trump was aware of her testimony.
After two interviews with the committee, Hutchinson reached out to a former White House colleague, Alyssa Farah, to become a back channel to the January 6 committee to clear her conscience of testimony she felt was not fully truthful. In a third interview, committee members asked questions that clearly shocked Passantino, who kept asking how they knew what to ask. When, afterward, he insisted on talking both to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and his Trump world law partners against Hutchinson's wishes, she realized that he was working for Trump, not her. When he suggested she should risk a charge of contempt of Congress, along with jail time, she cut ties with him and began working with new lawyers.
In her newer, clean testimony to the committee, Hutchinson recounted a number of conversations in which it was clear Trump knew he had lost the election, as well as some conversations that suggested the planning for January 6 was well underway weeks ahead of time. On December 12, for example, when Trump tried to cancel a trip to the Army-Navy game, Meadows told Hutchinson, "He can't do that. He's gonna tick off the military, and then he's gonna be ticked off at me in a few weeks when the military's ticked off at him…." Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) asked Hutchinson what she thought that exchange meant, and she answered: "Looking back now, I can speculate."
The transcript is not just a damning portrait of the Trump loyalists, it is a window into the struggles of a clearly very bright young woman who was under enormous financial and emotional pressure to please her former boss and yet could not accept the erasure of her moral values. After two sessions with the committee in which she felt she had not been forthcoming, she realized she had to "pass the mirror test."
She told the committee: "[Y]ou know, I did feel like it was my obligation and my duty to share [what she knew], because I think that if you're given a position of public power, it's also your job, your civic responsibility, to allow the people to make decisions for themselves. And if no one's going to do that, like, somebody has to do it."
There will no doubt be more information from the January 6 committee documents forthcoming. (The committee released its 845-page report a little before 10:00 Eastern time, but I will not have time to read it before posting this letter tonight.)
Hutchinson's moral reckoning stands in stark contrast to a court filing yesterday that revealed Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity pushed the idea on air that Trump had won the 2020 election even though, as he said under oath, "I did not believe it for one second." Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit against the Fox News Channel and its parent company, Fox Corporation, for defamation after its frequent declarations that voting systems rigged the election. Testimony like Hannity's makes a strong case that the outlet knew it was lying when it pushed the story that Trump had won the election.0 -
Also wishing everyone a happy holiday and hope we all stay warm and snuggly!
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I should add -and hear on Fox News and from Trump.
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
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So enjoyed all the memes and entries. Ms. Hutchinson is a very valiant person, and definitely appears to have her ethics and morals in line. How so many of the Reps. can look in the mirror and not see horrible things is beyond me. Cassidy H. wants to see truth honesty, humility and justice in her reflection. Such a world of difference between those willing to do ANYTHING to achieve their and the Loon's ends.
Don't know how many Reps. will actually read any of the 1/6 summations, since I know I'm highly un-likely to read the one put out by the Reps. Then again, knowing the difference in the two parties makes all the difference. For the better as well, we were, though the right does not accept it, a bi-partisan panel. McCarthy had a chance to put people on that would have been accepted -- rather than his trying to send the worst he had.
I think the importance of it now and forever is that it was done in a very professional manner and will stand in the history books and anyone who starts to 'wonder' will have their work to delve into should they question what REALLY happened. That is priceless. I also believe the Reps. party has not reached its bottom yet and that will I think just be another energy point for those who begin to question the interim of these last few years.
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