Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
Transcripts of the debate leading up to the DeVos confirmation vote: https://www.c-span.org/video/?423606-1/us-senate-democrats-continue-hold-floor-devos-vote-looms Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio's comments really stood out to me as a parent of three children that run the entire spectrum of the kids that IDEA is meant to protect: "I can't support Betsy DeVos because I can't look Ohio parents in the eye and tell them she won't put profits ahead of their children's education. Our children deserve to be --…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dusted off a seldom-used and selectively enforced Section 2 of Rule 19 to stop Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking in opposition to the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions to be the next Attorney General. "2. No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator." What prompted the Majority Leader…
If you find maths a bit of a struggle to figure out how to calculate inflation over that long period, Senators Tillis and Burr of North Carolina have made it much easier for you with their vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education despite having absolutely zero qualifications or any actual experience with public schools. Senator Tillis is joint-second on her bribe list to the tune of $72,900 and Senator Burr joint-ninth on…
"US President Donald Trump has vowed to overturn a legal ruling which suspended his ban on travellers from seven mainly Muslim countries. He described federal judge James Robart as a "so-called" justice whose "ridiculous" opinion "essentially takes law-enforcement away from" the US." As opposed to a so-called President who apparently doesn't have the first clue about what the Constitution actually says and means nor does he seem to be all that concerned about the RULE…
**** WARNING: This one's a bit long… **** It's funny how all this started with a seemingly innocuous question from out of the blue from my sister…"you like playing around with your camera, right?" She had started working at this theatre in downtown Fayetteville near the Market House that I had honestly never heard of…and no, it wasn't the one I remembered up the hill in Haymount! Anyway, they were really in need of someone…
Whilst thinking of my friend Sally Brown who noted the crickets one hears when speaking of terrorism committed by people of pale complexion and prompted a good discusion, we can now add Alexandre Bissonnette who is the nasty blagger who took it upon himself to kill at least six people worshipping in their mosque in Quebec City. There really isn't any way to spin that other than he was taking a page out of Dylann…
