Fogbow

Ooops, my bad phrasing. The 25th Amendment says "confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress." I assume, from its previous uses in what would have been Nixon's Second Term, that means a majority of the House and a majority of the Senate, in no particular sequence. And, yes, I'd like t...

Under the 25th Amendment (1967), if the office of VP is vacant - as, for example, the VP moving up when the President is removed from office - the (new) President nominates a new VP, who must (sec. 2) be confirmed by a majority vote of BOTH Houses of Congress. Until that new VP is confirmed, I think...

I presume that, by now, Trump has had a little chat with Mike Pence about granting him a pardon. Considering that Trump might be indicted after leaving office, and be considered too serious a flight risk to be bonded out, it may be difficult for Trump to advise Pence to wait until after Election Day...

More evidence of irresponsibility in his Sandy Hook reporting: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/infowars-editor-says-he-warned-staff-not-to-spread-sandy-hook-lies-was-laughed-at_n_5d935dc9e4b0ac3cddaf11d7 A 13-year veteran of conspiracy website Infowars said in a recent court deposition that he repeat...

Don't be surprised if vaguely identified sources start with heavy propagandizing that Pence would be a terrible President. Republican VPs tend to serve as impeachment insurance and Pence is not an exception.

Jessye Norman, soprano, dead at age 74.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/obit ... -dead.html

Don't be surprised if the FBI gets orders to investigate members of the Grand Jury.

This latest tragedy in St Louis highlights some important facts:

First, this 3-year-old did not purchase the gun ... nor load it.

Second, presumably some effort could have been made to hide the gun from the kid, but a 3-year spends all his time at home, exploring lots of possible hiding places.

Somehow PCH repeatedly calculates the odds of their sweepstakes as 1 in 6 Trillion - - which, if you look it up in the World Almanac, is greater than the entire population of Planet Earth. PCH only runs its sweepstakes in the US and Canada. So it would appear that PCH has rigged it so nobody will wi...

It's true that the Republicans won in both District 3 and District 9. District 3 was a landslide but District 9 was a very thin margin - perhaps that should provide some hope for Democrats for next year. By the way, Rachel Maddow reports that the Republican National Committee is distributing to Repu...

So far I have always guessed wrong about who will be the next to go.

I would not be surprised if Malania flew back to Slovenia.

Alex Jones has lost yet another appeal in his Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits, this time being required to repay the plaintiff parents all their expenses of fending off his appeal. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-loses-another-legal-battle-in-sandy-hook-defamation-case_n_5d6fc811e4b01108045...

"Nonreligious" is not the same as "non-believers". The "nonreligious" may have their own religious beliefs, possibly similar to any of the well-known denominations, but are unaffiliated with any church. Some of these people live where congregations of their particular opinions are not available. Som...

In VA law, disability is rated by employability. A person who can handle farm work is seldom considered more than 10% disabled. Someone who can only handle sedentary work might be considered 50%. Some with additional problems such as blindness or PTSD may be disabled at a higher rating. A 100% ratin...

They fired the cop who applied the choke hold but they ignored the policewoman who sucker punched Garner in the chest in order to provoke him to take an aggressive posture. I blame that policewoman and I want her punished.

At first, it appeared that the talk about Trump wanting to buy Greenland was a joke, then it appeared that Trump himself had been pranked into taking this seriously. Now it appears that Trump won't let go of the idea notwithstanding both Denmark and the inhabitant of Greenland are against the sale. ...

The propoised amendment would enable the Congress and state legislatures to enact legislation regulating campaign contributions AND enable a distinction between natural persons (humans) on one hand and juridical persons (corporations) on the other. BUT there's no assurance that a Congress stuffed wi...

Rachel Maddow has revealed that the prank seal is the work of "One Term Donnie", which sells tee-shirts and such with this seal, and other stuff disparaging the 45th President. .... https://one-term-donnie.myshopify.com/ Yes, the greenery is cash, moreover the shield on the eagle's breast is decorat...

I think Spanish was chosen only because whoever did this was more fluent in Spanish than in Latin AND expected other people to be likewise. Besides the golfclubs, the greenery in the eagle's other talons is also changed. It'n not olive branches, it's .... well, I don't know, I cannot see it clearly ...

I would not be surprised if Trump does something big and outrageous - like starting a war - to distract from the Mueller testimony and the impeachment drive.
How many of you expect something similar??

David (Al) Hedison, star of the original The Fly and of TV's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and played Felix Leiter in two James Bond movies, dead at age 92. https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ny-david-hedison-dead-92-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-20190722-u7jmrfdvtrdfnmshshlnfydv3a-story...

Robert Morgenthau, longtime NYC District Attorney, at age 99.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/nyre ... e=Homepage

Paul Krassner, hippie activist and editor of the Realist, at age 87.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/ ... 87-1424334

and

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/obit ... Position=7

Actually more than 13 lies. He's lying every time he begins a sentence with "I think ..."

That last part may be tough to enforce. Someone sympathetic to Stone (heck, there are people who believe the Earth is flat) might post something without any sort of communication with anyone in the Stone household or immediate circle. Stone could get shafted by the well-intentioned acts of sympathet...