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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Hairy Lime]

And that, my liege is how we know the earth to be banana shaped.

[facilitatorn]

Speaking of dark comedy (we’ll miss you terry), trump confesses to impeachment article two from behind a podium in his best soothe the soon to be ex wife voice. “We have all the materials.”

[josh]

Damned Muslim immigrant extremists!

https://apnews.com/e5d17a8735678aa604a22f011c2685db?fbclid=IwAR1DyUcYIF1Jtg153Gm4E_zsx6We3vCmtLItjxhed87SMHXb5VGc7nazUUs

Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war
Documents: Extremist group wanted rally to start civil war
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war

A hidden camera captured members of a white supremacist group expressing hope that violence at a gun rights rally in Virginia this week could start a civil war, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.

Former Canadian Armed Forces reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews also videotaped himself advocating for killing people, poisoning water supplies and derailing trains, a prosecutor wrote in urging a judge in Maryland to keep Mathews and two other members of The Base detained in federal custody.

But the 27-year-old Canadian national didn’t know investigators were watching and listening when he and two other group members talked about attending the Richmond rally in the days leading up to Monday’s event, which attracted tens of thousands of people and ended peacefully.

[barton]

Adam Schiff just thanked John Roberts for paying attention

heh

Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

[FlyingVProd]

I finally got around to sending a few ideas to the research department at UCI, a scientist there said that some of my ideas might be worthy of funding, so we will see what happens. And my ideas can help to create opportunities for people who currently are denied opportunities. My ideas can help a lot of people. 

Salute,

Tony V.

[kiidcarter8]

Daniel is back (where is Tara?)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/trump-lawyers-impeachment-false-claims-scif/index.html

[bambu.]

Meanwhile...over at the "Luvvie Uprising"

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/luvvie-uprising-continues/news-story/2fc505b14262be463fae5a1141f79e09
Tim Blair Blog Posts


Luvvie Uprising Continues

Millionaire actor John Cusack warns his fellow Bernie Sanders fans they have only a “ten to twelve year window” in which to transform “predatory capitalism”:

The billionaires are getting nervous and all the corporate media is — they hate us, they don’t hate us, they're confused. And it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we’re still here.
We know this form of capitalism takes and takes; it takes whatever, whenever, however it wants. It’ll take our lives, it’ll take our labor, our spirit, our air and water, even our earth.

And Bernie respects us enough to tell the truth, the hard truth: We have a ten to twelve year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all.
Cusack has an estimated net worth of $50 million. Millionaire presidential candidate Sanders uses private jets.

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Another 'uprising' to add to the list.
Predatory capitalism.
I'll have to spent the rest of the day trying for figure out exactly what that means.
It must be better that Marx and his Cronies' "inheritors much purchase all hereditary properties", and the other commie tripe.

[kiidcarter8]

To quote noted "Godfather" consigliere Peter Clemenza, "(l)eave the gun. Take the cannoli." While it may seem completely counterintuitive to leave a literal smoking gun at the scene of the crime, the fictional Clemenza tampered with the gun, rendering it untraceable. His belief that there would be no way to tie the incriminating evidence to him emboldened him to such an extent that he taunted investigators with their own perceived impotence.
Which brings us to President Donald Trump's impeachment trail, which began in the US Senate Tuesday.
It seems Trump's legal defense team is following this odd Clemenza-inflected roadmap: be dismissive of the incriminating evidence in plain view, knowing your stonewalling strategy may have inoculated the President. This is no coincidence. Trump's defense team's strategy is attempting to capitalize on a kind of Catch 22 approach that requires the Democratic House impeachment managers to prove their case using evidence that the administration has refused to provide, all while Republican overseers in the Senate attribute the insufficiency to the incompetence of the House. We'll have to wait and see whether this taunt will ultimately leave Senators wondering how much smoke and mirrors their voters will take.

Laura Coates is a CNN legal analyst. She is a former assistant US attorney for the District of Columbia and trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. She is the host of "The Laura Coates Show" airing weekdays 10 am -12 pm on SiriusXM. Follow her @thelauracoates.

[LarryBnDC]

To quote noted "Godfather" consigliere Peter Clemenza, "(l)eave the gun. Take the cannoli." While it may seem completely counterintuitive to leave a literal smoking gun at the scene of the crime, the fictional Clemenza tampered with the gun, rendering it untraceable. His belief that there would be no way to tie the incriminating evidence to him emboldened him to such an extent that he taunted investigators with their own perceived impotence.
Which brings us to President Donald Trump's impeachment trail, which began in the US Senate Tuesday.
It seems Trump's legal defense team is following this odd Clemenza-inflected roadmap: be dismissive of the incriminating evidence in plain view, knowing your stonewalling strategy may have inoculated the President. This is no coincidence. Trump's defense team's strategy is attempting to capitalize on a kind of Catch 22 approach that requires the Democratic House impeachment managers to prove their case using evidence that the administration has refused to provide, all while Republican overseers in the Senate attribute the insufficiency to the incompetence of the House. We'll have to wait and see whether this taunt will ultimately leave Senators wondering how much smoke and mirrors their voters will take.

Laura Coates is a CNN legal analyst. She is a former assistant US attorney for the District of Columbia and trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. She is the host of "The Laura Coates Show" airing weekdays 10 am -12 pm on SiriusXM. Follow her @thelauracoates.

I agree with Coates toa certain extent.

The GOP is trying their best to use the Jedi Mind Trick on the nation.

[barton]

https://ifunny.co/picture/a-moment-of-tension-in-vatican-if-the-bishop-moves-chb7RtXZ6

[josh]

https://ifunny.co/picture/a-moment-of-tension-in-vatican-if-the-bishop-moves-chb7RtXZ6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI2ej_ctM9I

[josh]

We live in a bizarre world.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/health/surgical-gown-recall-cardinal-health-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3uA3nMRCFbcXsaYp5flt8rmYKgwUU_LvtNeITdnOw1gGUGFMSvBYYiZ8s

Surgeries in the US are being delayed by a lack of surgical gowns.

Not the Onion!

[bodiddley]

The Constitution’s framers seemed more preoccupied by the notion of a president’s “faithfulness to the office” than on the precise acts that would merit impeachment, said Kent Greenfield, a Boston College constitutional law professor.

“What that means is faithful as opposed to corrupt, faithful as opposed to self-interested,” Greenfield said. “There’s something like a fiduciary duty to the nation. That duty is really more than just, ‘Don’t break the law.’”

It means, Greenfield said, putting the interests of the country above personal interests.

[bambu.]

We live in a bizarre world.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/health/surgical-gown-recall-cardinal-health-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3uA3nMRCFbcXsaYp5flt8rmYKgwUU_LvtNeITdnOw1gGUGFMSvBYYiZ8s

Surgeries in the US are being delayed by a lack of surgical gowns.

Not the Onion!

Wonder where they were made.

[bambu.]

The Constitution’s framers seemed more preoccupied by the notion of a president’s “faithfulness to the office” than on the precise acts that would merit impeachment, said Kent Greenfield, a Boston College constitutional law professor.

“What that means is faithful as opposed to corrupt, faithful as opposed to self-interested,” Greenfield said. “There’s something like a fiduciary duty to the nation. That duty is really more than just, ‘Don’t break the law.’”

It means, Greenfield said, putting the interests of the country above personal interests.

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