...Not the Monkey.
Trump backs Johnson at Mar-a-Lago as speaker touts "election integrity" bill
...Not the Monkey.
Trump backs Johnson at Mar-a-Lago as speaker touts "election integrity" bill
Arizona Ruling Spurs Strong Reactions, but Election Impact Is Unclear
“Leave it up to the female,” said Maverick Williams, 25, a retail manager who was walking his dog in the conservative Anthem neighborhood on the northern edge of Phoenix. “It’s her body, then she needs to decide.”...But voters like Mr. Williams suggested that it might not be so simple in this closely divided desert battleground. Although he opposed the state court’s abortion decision, he said he was more worried about the rising cost of living, and he called President Biden too old and unfit to serve another term. He said he would vote for Mr. Trump.
Arizona Ruling Spurs Strong Reactions, but Election Impact Is Unclear
The decision upending abortion care in a critically important battleground state inspired passionate reactions from Arizonans across the political divide, ranging from elation to disgust.
Some conservative voters and the state’s most ardent critics of abortion hailed it as a victory for women. Many Democrats, moderate independents and some Republicans said the Arizona Supreme Court had gone too far. But it was far from clear Tuesday that the decision would tip the balance in the November presidential election.
I can't decide is this is the Times still being so freaked out about being so very, very wrong in 2016 that it's in-house default position is to publish this kind of garbage, or this kind of garbage arises naturally from the Times' decades-old Both Siderist fetish.
Buit one thing I can say for sure. Arizona is a land of contrasts.
This is a written reprise of some of the stuff we covered on this week's episode of The Professional Left podcast. It happens sometimes. I get on some subject, start outlining it for a post, then comes podcasting time, and what I'm writing about is current, interesting and top-of-mind, so it makes its way into the show.
My understanding is that Sophocles did this all the time on his podcast.
So...
Of all the things that can and have been said about MSNBC, one thing remains clear. There is absolutely no fucking shortage of current and recently-former Republicans on that small, leaky lifeboat. They Republicans them coming and going and waiting in the green room or in the comfort of their camera-ready living room, just waiting for their turn to tell Democrats how we should be running their party.
And given all the recent layoffs at NBC, you might have have thought, well, they even though they have no ethical qualms about colonizing their network with Republicans, they have obviously reached some kind of financial boundary on their Republican shopping spree and now there's just had no more money in the "Put More Republicans On The Air" jar. But you'd have been wrong. The ransacked the sofa cushion in Cesar Conde's office and what'd ya know! They found they had just enough skrilla to wedge in one more GOP douchebag into their lineup.
Ronna McDaniel.
But for reasons other than financial, she proved to be just one, wafer-thin Republican too many and it all went *boom*.
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine, who rules on election disputes: “Do you really think the Democrats are gonna roll over and let Trump be president again? You think they’re just gonna go away, all of a sudden find Jesus and be an honest election?” pic.twitter.com/1mh35KDjDJ
— Robert Downen (@RobertDownen_) April 4, 2024
I'm not saying it is or it ain't, but consider:
Revelation 9: Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. 2
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit. 3
And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.…
So blotting out the sun?
Check.
From the Illinois Department of Natural Resources:
Seven years after the 2017 total eclipse thrilled and delighted viewers in the Midwest, another total solar eclipse will be visible over 128 miles of Illinois the afternoon of April 8, 2024. The next total solar eclipse visible in the United States won’t be until 2044.
Thirty-one Illinois state parks and sites managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources are in the eclipse’s path of totality. Numerous other parks and sites lie just outside the path of totality, offering equally spectacular views of the eclipse, though for shorter periods of time.
Southern Illinois is considered the eclipse crossroads of America because it was in the centerline for the path of totality in 2017 and will be again in 2024.
The largest Illinois city in the path of totality is Carbondale. In downtown Carbondale the eclipse will begin moments before 2 p.m. and last for 4 minutes and 9 seconds, which is nearly double the length of time of the 2017 eclipse.
A nearly unprecedented swarm of big, loud, scary-looking flying bugs?
Check.
From ABC News, Chicago:
17-year cicadas in Illinois part of 'double brood emergence' that will soon unleash billions of bugs
In a matter of months, they will dig their way out from underground, red eyes shining, deafening song filling the air. It will be a confluence of creatures the likes of which hasn't been seen in the United States since Thomas Jefferson was president - and won't happen again until 2245. It's a rare emergence of insects some are referring to as cicadapocalypse.
Billions of cicadas are expected to surface this spring as two different broods - one that appears every 13 years, and another every 17 years - emerge simultaneously. The 13-year group, known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, is the largest periodical cicada brood, stretching across the southeastern United States. The Northern Illinois Brood, or Brood XIII, emerges every 17 years.
Not saying the end of the world is definitely coming and that it'll begin within shouting distance of my house.
All I'm saying is, if I feel the slightest rumble from the New Madrid Fault -- which runs right through Southern Illinois -- I'm outta here.