Whew! The blog dieties had been giving me a whole lot of grief on that last post, so let's see what happens here now. Are today's troublesome blog gods actually descended from those of ancient times?
Trump's primetime speech rehashes false, misleading election claims
Donald Trump still cannot believe that he actually lost an election--win some, lose some--that's life. It can happen. No one wins each and every single time.
Trump did win election this last time--not by much, but it still was a definitive win--so he should celebrate that. And, yes, he also had lost an election before that. No one actually stole it from him. That's just a myth.
So, Donald, stop being such a crybaby! You cannot be a winner every single time. Learn to be a graceful loser; congratulate the actual winner and offer that person your support. Be a man, not just a great big crybaby. Just let it go; you are big boy now,
President Trump reportedly made $2.2 billion in his first year back in office. Is that anything to cry about?
Trump Faces Deafening Jeers at World Cup Trophy Ceremony
INSTANT POPULARITY CHECK
The president got to hear what people really think of him. Or did he?
Did Trump actually hear the jeers? He said that he thought it was mostly cheers.
The reasom that Donald Trump is not in prison for sexual assault or whatever it was called, is that he paid E. Jean Carroll for "defaming" her, not for the actual rape or assault, a subtle distinction
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Baby surprise
A woman in Australia has given birth to a rare set of identical quadruplet daughters after a pregnancy her doctor described as "unheard of."
Jenitar Sau Na'amoana, 34, gave birth to her quadruplets via cesarean section on July 14 at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Queensland, according to the hospital.
Na'amoana and her husband Jortham did not use fertility treatments. All four babies are identical quadruplets, meaning they shared a single placenta, the hospital said
Tom Joe, my late former husband, as many readers already know, was totally blind and was the receipient of a MacArthur Genius fellowship as the result of work we had done together. His mentor was Jacobus tenBroek, a blind professor at UC, Berkeley.
Together with tenBroek, we had helped found the disabiloty rights movment and the National Federation of the Blind. I say "we" because I was directly involved, though tried to keep a behind-the-scenes role.
Dr. tenBroek, like my own Dad, was born in Alberta, Canada. Here are tenBroek's remarks at the founding of the National Federation of the Blind. We actually were there as he spoke, excited to be at the launch of a new disability rights movement.
Here is what he said: These then are the objectives of the self-organized blind, goals freely chosen for them by themselves. And this is the true significance of an organization of the blind, by the blind, for the blind. For the blind the age of charity, like that of chivalry, is dead; but this is not to say that there is no place for either of these virtues. In order to achieve the equality that is their right, in order to gain the opportunity that is their due, and in order to attain the position of full membership in the community that is their goal, the blind have continuing need for the understanding and sympathy and liberality of their sighted neighbors and fellow citizens. But their overriding need is first of all for recognition—recognition of themselves as normal and of their purposes as legitimate. The greatest hope of the blind is that they may be seen as they are, not as they have been portrayed; and since they are neither wards nor children, their hope is to be not only seen but also heard—in their own accents and for whatever their cause may be worth.
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Daniel Ortega. Nicaragua's defacto dictator, says there's no point in even holding elections, because he and his vice president wife will inevitably continue in power. Talk about a "rigged" system! They've found out just how to do it.
But twhat happens after they die? They are human, not immortal, after all.
Have they designated any successors for when they are both gone? Apparently not.
After so many of us, along with the help of Jimmy Carter, had worked to finally oust Daniel Ortega back in the day and to put opposition candidate Violeta Chamorro into the presidncy, I could not believe that Ortega would so doggedly and systematically manage to work his way back. He does deserve credit for doing that, arousing little alarm at first, even allowing the US Peace Corps to remain in place for a time. Nicaraguans simply took their eyes off the ball, believing Ortega to be a changed man, so now they are suffering the consequences. But I doubt that his reign will survive after he and his wife are gone, as Nicaraguans have really never supported him and will not let his influence continue after the couple's deaths. Mark my words friends, you will see that I am right, even if I am no longer around then to see it for myself.
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https://thehill.com/policy/int
The Hill--Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has “no jurisdiction” to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his planned visit to New York in September, dismissing the mayor’s threat as “a stunt.”
In an interview with The New York Times, Mamdani said his administration is in “an active conversation” with the city’s legal department about whether there is legal authority to arrest Netanyahu if he attends the U.N. General Assembly in September, describing the Israeli leader as a “war criminal.”
Danon argued Mamdani lacks the authority to carry out such an arrest, noting that the U.S. is not a party to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November 2024 over alleged war crimes tied to Israel’s military action in Gaza. “The U.S. is not part of the ICC so there is no warrant against a prime minister in the U.S., and there is no jurisdiction for the mayor,” he said.
Of course, many of us do consider Netanyahyu a war criminal, along with Donald Trump, as well. It would be such a relief to have them both behind bars. But it may never actually happen.
Wash. Post, Mexico, home of the original Mexican food, now has a Chipotle Mexican Grill
Mexico also once had a Taco Bell. but not any more.
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I just ran across this Halloweem photo of my older daughter living in Florida, I'll have to ask her more about it. I'll just post this now.
