A country operating without basic economic reporting is like a pilot flying without instruments. Could a private economic think tank(s) step in to provide some basic reports to guide us in the fog? Perhaps this would shame our government leaders to come back to work?
The second item on the immediate horizon demands immediate sincere attention. The US and Europe cannot leave Ukraine twisting in the wind. Putin will not stop his atrocities at Ukraine-(the ghost of PM Chamberlain would agree IMO.) He will advance on other countries because he knows he can. If the US wants to be great again it should get on board with NATO again and show some real leadership again. Let Apple, Meta, Amazon etc. twist in the wind.
Hey Mary.... I have been fussing about the 86 Dems who signed that anti socialism resolution. Did you know that the Jefferson quote they used is listed as "spurious" by the Monticello foundation? Anyway, it is such an embarrassing juvenile, un-historic piece of .... Just when I was rewarming up to the Democratic Party that I left in 2016, they pull this stunt. I feel like writing a resolution to condemn the Roman Catholic church for all the millions they killed and all the native cultures they destroyed over a couple thousand years. Do you think that Congress would take that one up for consideration???
I don't quite get the "under the desk with ketchup" reference but so what? Keeping up with similes, metaphors and symbols is part of the fun. I wonder did the WH staff vet the turkeys to make sure they came from a Republican-voting turkey farm? If not, they may have to put them to death after the holiday. I get that some people respect Marco Rubio but I have always thought he was a little man with a plastic spine, oh, wait, is that Mike Johnson? Why not both? And I know that Mitch McConnell died a few years ago but boy is that cardboard cutout doing some brave sputtering! And as for the creepiest of them all, RFK Jr will, I predict, choke on a turkey bone, something I wouldn't wish on too many people, but I do have a list...
I first read your comment as faux-stripper which makes about as much sense. Maybe more, probably less. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and hold the ketchup.
I knew a little bit about a lot of that and thank Mary for context and clarity. I knew nothing about the attempts at poetry by a guy whose name I refuse to use. Perhaps it'll keep my algorithms from pushing stories about him into my field of vision. Hope so.
A country operating without basic economic reporting is like a pilot flying without instruments. Could a private economic think tank(s) step in to provide some basic reports to guide us in the fog? Perhaps this would shame our government leaders to come back to work?
The second item on the immediate horizon demands immediate sincere attention. The US and Europe cannot leave Ukraine twisting in the wind. Putin will not stop his atrocities at Ukraine-(the ghost of PM Chamberlain would agree IMO.) He will advance on other countries because he knows he can. If the US wants to be great again it should get on board with NATO again and show some real leadership again. Let Apple, Meta, Amazon etc. twist in the wind.
Hey Mary.... I have been fussing about the 86 Dems who signed that anti socialism resolution. Did you know that the Jefferson quote they used is listed as "spurious" by the Monticello foundation? Anyway, it is such an embarrassing juvenile, un-historic piece of .... Just when I was rewarming up to the Democratic Party that I left in 2016, they pull this stunt. I feel like writing a resolution to condemn the Roman Catholic church for all the millions they killed and all the native cultures they destroyed over a couple thousand years. Do you think that Congress would take that one up for consideration???
I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing
Better not let the Catholic-laden SCOTUS get a whiff of your intentions, they might find you in contempt. (I find them in contempt, btw.)
I don't quite get the "under the desk with ketchup" reference but so what? Keeping up with similes, metaphors and symbols is part of the fun. I wonder did the WH staff vet the turkeys to make sure they came from a Republican-voting turkey farm? If not, they may have to put them to death after the holiday. I get that some people respect Marco Rubio but I have always thought he was a little man with a plastic spine, oh, wait, is that Mike Johnson? Why not both? And I know that Mitch McConnell died a few years ago but boy is that cardboard cutout doing some brave sputtering! And as for the creepiest of them all, RFK Jr will, I predict, choke on a turkey bone, something I wouldn't wish on too many people, but I do have a list...
‘Bottle of ketchup’… waiting for the faux-sniper to arrive?
I first read your comment as faux-stripper which makes about as much sense. Maybe more, probably less. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and hold the ketchup.
Thank you for presenting everything so ugly in beautiful prose...Have a lovely holiday and I give thanks for you.
All this… and Epstein too…
I knew a little bit about a lot of that and thank Mary for context and clarity. I knew nothing about the attempts at poetry by a guy whose name I refuse to use. Perhaps it'll keep my algorithms from pushing stories about him into my field of vision. Hope so.
It’s almost as if Trump is an agent of Putin, whose goal since forever has been the demise of the west and a renewed Russian empire.
Thanks Mary, I’m laughing but know we won’t be laughing long.
Now of course I'll have to go look up those non-Shakespearean sonnets...