1/ Jeff Goodall in Rolling Stone on what is likely to happen in the next few years with the effects of climate change becoming apparent even to the Republicans....people will be voting with their feet, and housing markets will collapse in the hotter and wetter areas of the country.
If you live in South Florida, Tampa, Jacksonville, Arizona or Louisiana you definitely need to read this.
Remember - to get in front of a trend you have to be reasonably timely, just ahead of all of the people saying "it's just temporary".....
An excellent story....
Sean McCabe for Rolling Stone
Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana last August, causing $125 billion in damage, dumped more water out of the sky than any storm in U.S. history. By one calculation, roughly a million gallons fell for every person in Texas. The water rained down on a flat former bayou that had become a concrete and asphalt empire of more than 2.3 million people. Highways turned into rivers and shopping malls into lakes. As the water rose, people scrambled for safe refuge – into attics, onto rooftops and overpasses. A Texas game warden captured a nine-foot-long alligator in the dining room of a home near Lake Houston. Snakes swam into kitchens. A hawk flew into a taxicab and wouldn't leave.
As the deluge continued, tens of thousands of people fled – some in fishing boats down suburban streets, some in canoes, some on Jet Skis. Others risked a harrowing drive through water, fallen trees and swimming dogs. More than 30,000 people ended up in shelters.
2/ John Oliver with three minutes of hilarity.....
Last Week Tonight host John Oliver ripped Donald Trump for his “terrible idea” of arming teachers with guns to prevent school shootings, with the late night personality suggested the president is in denial about the actual problem.
“That is Donald Trump in a nutshell: proposing a terrible idea in a tone-deaf way, then refusing to acknowledge he just lost the popular vote,” Oliver said.
3/ The excellent Frank Rich on the news of the week.....helps us all to make sense of the insanity in our political world....
Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today: the ongoing political fallout from the Parkland mass shooting, Jared Kushner’s precarious position in the White House, and the new film The Death of Stalin.
As Marjory Stoneman Douglas High reopens its doors, national support for gun control has reached its highest level in at least 25 years, the campaign to boycott the NRA’s business partners continues to widen, and even President Trump has made a show of defying NRA dogma. Why has the response to Parkland been able to break through where others were not?
Let’s not get too carried away:
4/ This young man, David Hogg, is smart, articulate and gives some of the best responses to a TV interviewer I have ever seen....there is even a House of Cards moment where he looks into the camera....
A great and heartening seven minutes..... heartening because with smart kids like this coming up we may be OK eventually....
Appearing on MSNBC’s AM Joy, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida shooting that left 17 dead last week snapped back at the NRA’s top lobbyist for fighting any attempts to institute common sense gun control laws, saying the NRA is more interested in seeing weapons manufacturers profit from the tragedy.
Speaking with host Joy Reid, David Hogg, one of the founders of the student movement that will march on Washington in March, was asked about the NRA’s response to the shooting, including a memo sent out by one the NRA’s top lobbyists telling members to not give an inch on gun regulations.
“The thing that I hate most about that is the members of the NRA that these people are supposed to be representing,” Hogg began. “99.9 percent of the people in the NRA are amazing Americans who want to stand up for what they believe in. I respect that.”
Turning to lobbyists Marion Hammer, Hogg called her out for promoting violence
5/ Tom Tomorrow on gun violence....spot on....
6/ Seth Meyers with 11 minutes on Ben Carson, Trump and Jared.....a good one....
President Donald Trump staged a made-for-TV meeting to talk guns, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks said so-long, First Son-in-Law Jared Kushnerand Ben Carson stayed mum under the gun, and NBC’s Late Night star Seth Meyerstook a Closer Look
C
arson is caught up in scandal after spending $31K for a dining set, despite federal law requiring congressional approval for any office-redo bill over $5K.
Meyers reminded viewers that Carson’s the guy who launched his political career with a 2013 National Prayer Breakfast speech blasting government spending and warning that the national debt at that point had hit $16.5T. Carson said back then that if you count one number per second, it would take 507K years to get to $16.5T.
While more members of Trump’s team came under scrutiny, POTUS on Wednesday invited cameras to cover a bi-partisan gathering on gun reform.
7/ "How do we cope with Trump?" Andrew Sullivan's column for the week, with three essays.....more intellectual than usual but read it, it's good for you!
There are times when I genuinely wonder whether I can hold up psychologically in our current politics and culture. My shrink tells me I am far from alone in this, and that everyone she listens to is consumed with a depression that swings from despair to rage to what can only be called learned helplessness. There are moments when everything I have come to believe in — reasoned deliberation, mutual toleration, liberal democracy, free speech, honesty, decency, and moderation — seem as if they are in eclipse. Emotionalism, tribalism, intolerance, lies, cruelty, and extremism surround us (and I have not been immune in this climate to their temptations either). Trump has turned the right into a foul, spit-flecked froth of racist reactionism, and he has evoked a radical response on the left that, while completely understandable, alienates me and many others more profoundly with every passing day.
8/ We know the military budget is bloated and a scandal, but we really don't know how awful it truly is.....a very good article from William Hartung....
Imagine for a moment a scheme in which American taxpayers were taken to the cleaners to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and there was barely a hint of criticism or outrage. Imagine as well that the White House and a majority of the politicians in Washington, no matter the party, acquiesced in the arrangement. In fact, the annual quest to boost Pentagon spending into the stratosphere regularly follows that very scenario, assisted by predictions of imminent doom from industry-funded hawks with a vested interest in increased military outlays.
Most Americans are probably aware that the Pentagon spends a lot of money, but it’s unlikely they grasp just how huge those sums really are. All too often, astonishingly lavish military budgets are treated as if they were part of the natural order, like death or taxes.
9/ The malignant wanker in the White House hogging an umbrella to protect his hair, leaving his dear son and loving wife to
struggle in the rain.....what a POS.....
10/ We watched the David Letterman interview with President Obama the other night with friends, and it was truly wonderful - if you haven't seen it it's on Netflix. It will make you laugh, but ultimately cry because the contrast between the adult, intelligent and articulate Obama and the moron in the office now is almost unbearable.....but see it anyway - excellent.
This is a brief trailer....
11/ Nothing political, just a horrendous true story about the tenant from hell.....wow....
Worst Roommate Ever
12/ Todays Floriduh story.....
Note the bastard who has introduced this evil bill is Mount Dora's State Senator Dennis Baxley.....Gary Mckechnie is running against him, and needs your help....
![Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R- Land O' Lakes and Florida Senate President Joe Negron, R- Stuart, talk on the floor of the House during a joint session of the Florida Legislature in January. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]](http://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20180301/ARTICLE/303019982/AR/0/AR-303019982.jpg?MaxW=2000&cachebuster=836892 "Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R- Land O' Lakes and Florida Senate President Joe Negron, R- Stuart, talk on the floor of the House during a joint session of the Florida Legislature in January. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]")
In times like these, you often hear Florida’s Legislature described as tone-deaf. I’m sorry, but that’s a sadly charitable portrayal.
Calling lawmakers tone-deaf implies they don’t understand the current mood surrounding them. I think they fully understand it. They just choose to ignore it.
Take a moment to consider what’s happened in recent days:
• Committees in both the House and the Senate refused to advance plans to ban assault weapons in Florida, even as polls indicated that public support runs about 2-to-1 in favor of such bans.
• A Senate committee chairman has effectively buried a bill that would toughen texting-while-driving laws, another idea with wide support among the public.
• An unpopular plan that singles out teachers unions for decertification was removed from a bill last week, and then abruptly added back by a Senate committee Tuesday.
• Senate and House committees also approved a plan to arm teachers on campus, despite opposition from the Florida PTA, part of the nation’s largest student advocacy program.
So to recap:
Teachers with guns? Good.
Teachers with unions? Bad.
Todays boomer jokes....
1. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not
know what time it is.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize
you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was
younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest or Google Maps really need to start their directions on #5.
I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the
person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment when you
know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of
the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu-Ray? I don't
want to have to restart my collection... again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if
I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I
did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to
answer when they call.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or
Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.
17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and
smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to
prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and
sisters!
21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty,
and you can wear them forever.
22. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys
in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey -
but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away,
in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.
23. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and
the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men
to realize that their brain is also important.
(Ladies .... Quit Laughing! )
It just gets better as you get older, doesn't it?
I was in a Starbucks Coffee recently when my stomach started rumbling and I
realized that I desperately needed to fart. The place was packed, but the
music was really loud so to get relief and reduce embarrassment I timed my
farts to the beat of the music. After a couple of songs I started to feel
much better. I finished my coffee and noticed that everyone was staring at
me. I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my Ipod (with ear piece)
- and how was your day?
Todays marital bliss jokes...
A bookseller conducting a market survey asked a woman – “Which book has helped you most in your life?”
The woman replied – “My husband’s check book!!”
A prospective husband in a book store “Do you have a book called, ‘Husband – the Master of the House’?
Sales Girl: “Sir, Fiction and Comics are on the 2nd floor.”
Someone asked an old man: “Even after 70 years, you still call your wife – Darling, Honey, Luv. What’s the secret?
Old man: I forgot her name and I’m scared to ask
Wife: I wish I were a newspaper so I’d be in your hands all day.
The woman replied – “My husband’s check book!!”
A prospective husband in a book store “Do you have a book called, ‘Husband – the Master of the House’?
Sales Girl: “Sir, Fiction and Comics are on the 2nd floor.”
Someone asked an old man: “Even after 70 years, you still call your wife – Darling, Honey, Luv. What’s the secret?
Old man: I forgot her name and I’m scared to ask
Wife: I wish I were a newspaper so I’d be in your hands all day.
Husband: I too wish that you were a newspaper, so I could have a new one every day!
Husband to wife – “Today is a fine day.” Next day he says: “Today is a fine day.” Again next day, he says same thing – “today is a fine day.”
Husband to wife – “Today is a fine day.” Next day he says: “Today is a fine day.” Again next day, he says same thing – “today is a fine day.”
Finally after a week, the wife asks her husband – “since last week, you are saying today is a fine day. I am fed up. What’s the matter?”
Husband: “Last week when we had an argument, you said, I will leave you one fine day. I was just trying to remind you."
Husband: “Last week when we had an argument, you said, I will leave you one fine day. I was just trying to remind you."
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