A guy in Guam perfectly describes what living among huntsman spiders is like.
The Curse of Milk Sickness. Read about crowdsourced research into it in a two part post at Appalachian History. (via Digg)
The Fruit That Can Turn Anything Blue.
5 titleholders of major pageants are all women of color. And that's a bigger deal than you might think. (via Metafilter)
A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at Donald's many imaginary friends. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
After 90 Years, the ‘Flying Santa’ Is Still Dropping Gifts From a Plane.
Meet Fat Fred. Let's hope we learn more about Fred in the future.
A blast from the past (2011): Christmas in Australia.
Oh please yesterday was such a farce, Trump was already found guilty before the hearings and the trial. Will the stompy left children please sit down now they got there way
ReplyDeleteThe evidence made him look guilty. It's their not there. What is stompy?
ReplyDeleteTrump cannot be found guilty until the trial in the senate. But he won't be, even then. The left knows it's a lost cause, and might be politically damaging the the Democratic Party, but they impeached him because it was the right thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but with the makeup of the Senate as it is (53 R, 45 D, and two I who caucus with the Dems), unless at least four Republicans suddenly grow a pair of cojones AND a spine, Trump will never be convicted. Lindsay Graham has already said that he is going to vote to acquit, evidence be damned, even before the House vote had been taken — and I'm sure he's not the only Republican who will vote along party lines.
ReplyDeleteI just hope that there IS a trial and the evidence can be brought out if for no other reason than to show the public, especially those undecided voters, just what kind of a no-good-nik Dishonest Donnie actually is and maybe sway some votes in 2020. But even that isn't a given, because the Senate rules permit any senator to introduce a motion to dismiss the charges against the president at any time before the conclusion of the trial; and if such a motion passes by a simple majority, the impeachment proceedings effectively end. So this thing could be done and over with, with Trump worming his way out of it, before it ever gets started.
Sorry for the long post, but it needed to be said.
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You mean at least 20 republicans. The senate needs 2/3, or 67 votes, to convict.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I said it would take four to flip-flop (I don't know if Pence, as President of the Senate, would be allowed to cast a tie-breaking vote if it came to that), I was talking about a vote on a motion to dismiss, which would need only 51 votes to succeed and effectively cancel anything that even looked like a trial, not a vote to convict.
ReplyDeleteLooking back, I guess I could have worded it better; it does appear like I was talking about a vote to convict.
Oh yeah, that. Pence would not be allowed to break a tie in am impeachment trial.
ReplyDeleteand the 1st angel poured his bowl into the great abyss and whispers :
ReplyDelete"May The Almighty save the worthy"
On November 13 I posted this article outlining that the Democrats would stop the impeachment process to keep their side from having to testify under oath. That the impeachment was a cynical manipulation of the process and was unconstitutional.
ReplyDeleteI remain the ONLY news source you need. Are Democrats building a collapsible impeachment? BY JONATHAN TURLEY https://www.facebook.com/notes/mike-flores/are-democrats-building-a-collapsible-impeachment-by-jonathan-turley/10157473914353267/
I would normally delete self-promotional links on this blog, as I do most days, but I will let this one slide. It's a list of the same old republican talking points, mostly wrong.
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