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dixiegrrrrl

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August 12, 2017

Pat Boone is calling me.

He made recording in support of Alabama's Repub. contestant for Session's old seat.

3 calls since yesterday......"Your old friend Pat Boone" etc.

grrrrr.

and I got a flyer from Roy Moore, who looks almost sane in his pic.

so, you see, Sessions may have moved on, but his politics are still in the state.

August 11, 2017

car falls seven stories and land on man driving SUV--no fatalities..(video)

The thing is, the guy was starting to back up, and if he had moved back even 5 feet, the falling car would have done him in .

https://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/watch-car-falls-seven-stories-and-land-on-man-driving-suv/rty2c5yze6zl7afwvymqemzf3dalwyea



August 9, 2017

Nagasaki anniversary tomorrow.

Jus mentioning....

August 9, 2017

"extreme vetting" would make sure the U.S. only accepts the *right* people"

And who would those be?

ICE is seeking computer programs for using

ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people.”


which they will do by using:

Essentially, anything online that doesn’t require a password would be fair game under the Extreme Vetting Initiative:

The Contractor shall analyze and apply techniques to exploit publically [sic] available information, such as media, blogs, public hearings, conferences, academic websites, social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, radio, television, press, geospatial sources, internet sites, and specialized publications with intent to extract pertinent information regarding targets, including criminals, fugitives, nonimmigrant violators, and targeted national security threats and their location.


via for profit businesses, of course. For a lot of money.

Oh, and those snoopy privacy concerns that the ACLU successfully challenged TWICE in the recent past??
“We will continue to do it until someone says that we can’t.”



August 8, 2017

This NK war threat needs a much more skeptical look, esp. at Trump

What's the basis of the story, where did it come from, and how WaPo or other papers get the technical information?

this sounds like Bannon/Miller happy news.
Or Russia, who vowed just a few days ago that Trump will get "payback".

Takes the ink away from other Trump problems and from his "vacation" activities.

Which deserve a closer look.

Trumpknows he is really screwed by the investigations on so many levels, and the recent public news that Mueller was going to be looking at the money laundering as a first step of other charges.

Trump announces a sudden long vacation, and jaunts off to New Jersey to "work.
While there, he makes Sec. Ser. operate from a long distance
and he shuts reporters in a room with covered windows, AGAIN.

Then he announces a sudden trip to the one place he has been avoiding since he moved into the WH...
to Trump Tower, "for a series of meetings".
ONE week after Sec. Ser. has moved OUT of the Tower, instead of 1 floor below.
(remember the tower has several secret exits )

Almost immediately Trump announces a war threat. The words he used he was reading from somewhere in front of him, and he repeated the war-fire-etc sentence word for word, but in the 2nd telling, he stumbled, looked at the paper to make sure of what to say, and finished sentence.
He totally was detached emotionally..watch the news tapes again.

Assuming someone smarter than Trump is behind all this...given the above facts....
what is the next thing that happens?





August 8, 2017

Guys, Congress changed the nuke button procedure already.

They agreed to agree and put the button at the bottom of a long line people.
Upside he can't go off half cocked, or no cocked, all by hisself.

I read that news with considerable interest, but it may have sank under some other Trump headline grabbing behavior at the time.

google should have something on it, if that help with anxiety.

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About dixiegrrrrl

Long time political activist, working to tint my lil "Mayberry" more blue. Collector of strays of various species and minds.
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