The Billings Public Library previously scheduled a 'Civility in America' discussion set for today form 630-8pm.

Also following up on previous posts, here is the story about Spicer being angry about not meeting the Pope.

pacino wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Been charged with misdemeanor assault, losing newspaper endorsements. Think it's clear it's best for the party if he loses tomorrow, wash hands and give the seat a go next November. The alternative is needing to work on convincing him to resign or primarying him or whatnot. Or I guess I'm good with a win and an immediate resignation.

As an anti-early voting/anti vote by mail person, I would love nothing more than for this guy to squeak his way in.

mail in ballots are great, and early voting allows people to vote. perhaps if we had an actually holiday for voting and allowed people to vote on a Saturday I'd be closer to your side. If you want to do that, I'm all for it.

agreed. you should always be allowed to change your vote on e-day too. which some states do allow.

This photo is just incredible. The automaton, the grieving widow (her husband has been dead to her for years), the grinning idiot, and The Pope, a man who looks like he has his work cut out for him.

Seriously, what's with dressing in black? They look like they are mourning something, perhaps our democracy?

Monkeyboy wrote:

This photo is just incredible. The automaton, the grieving widow (her husband has been dead to her for years), the grinning idiot, and The Pope, a man who looks like he has his work cut out for him.

Seriously, what's with dressing in black? They look like they are mourning something, perhaps our democracy?

dressing in black is customary for officials and partners

Sean Hannity is going on a totally pre-planned vacation

The Pope is definitely thinking that he's standing next to the devil, that smile is dripping with evil.

That picture is creepy. Ivankna has a weirdly long neck (I think it has something to do with the head covering that looks like a shrub growing out of her skull), and Melania's expression is hauntingly strange. The Pope, for his part, looks like he was caught saying Oh, Christ", but not as the start of a prayer or other liturgical ceremony.

pacino wrote:Sean Hannity is going on a totally pre-planned vacation

hmmmm...O'Reilly went on one too before getting canned

With regard to the president, and his henchman's budget, I will fall back on an actual great president to provide calm in a sea of crazy.

“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”

FDR

thephan wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Who knows, maybe if MORE people had early voted last fall, before the Comey letter, a different thoroughly horrible Republican nominee for office would not have process-errored his fat traitorous ass into the White House

Back up a page or two to my post yesterday, it would have had to take early voting in September. Email was a dominate topic the first week of October, and grew ever larger the whole month.

Phan, the Comey letter was an inflection event. Watch as the evidence unfolds

ACHA and the What the What -

CBO estimates that in states requesting AHCA waivers, premiums for low-income elderly enrollees would go up 800 percent.

Monkeyboy wrote: and The Pope, a man who looks like he has his work cut out for him.

a man running through the exorcism checklist in his mind

jamiethekiller wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

This photo is just incredible. The automaton, the grieving widow (her husband has been dead to her for years), the grinning idiot, and The Pope, a man who looks like he has his work cut out for him.

Seriously, what's with dressing in black? They look like they are mourning something, perhaps our democracy?

dressing in black is customary for officials and partners

when meeting the pope or just in general? Anyway, the shroud is the clincher

I'm a hypocrite for this, but: I think we (not just BSG, just people in general) spend too much time griping over the insignificant (attire, hand swatting, Spice spurned).

I say I am a hypocrite because I don't buy that argument when it's used to say we spend too much time on Russia instead of policy X, but that's because I think we have the capacity to care about more than one relevant thing fully.

I can partially agree, with your assessment, but only very slightly. Here is my reasoning on the items you mention.

Attire (and by extension customs) - There is a general protocol to respect other people and nations in view of their customs. The whole presidents should never bow is one of those stupid assaults on otherwise rational, logical thought. It is a custom of mutual respect, not subservient. Likewise, attire is the same. There are ways to dress in the Muslim world that ride the line between their customs and western customs, so when it is not observed in Saudi Arabia, but it is observed in Europe at the Vatican, it is in play to wonder why. It is also fair to explore how this juxtaposition within the same trip might be viewed world view.

Hand slap - Who cares. That is Tofu for the Democrat base.

Spicer - His treatment by the boss just speaks to, and is evidence of, how dysfunctional things are within his circles of circles. Whereas Spicer is known to be a devout Catholic, and has taken hit after hit for the administration and to his career, he gets a seat, whereas the body gard, junk yard dog (Hicks), and others are pointlessly in attendance.

The good news is that there are plenty of pixels to explore, and have been devoted to, pressing matters like the CBO scoring of the ACHA and its effect on the population, Russian involvement in disrupting the operations of the government, and plausible corruption at the highest levels.

TomatoPie wrote:

That may be the funniest thing I have ever seen...

Trump scolds the NATO members for not doing their part financially as it is not fair to the US tax payer, and throws in the passive aggressive statement about never once asking how much the new, beautiful NATO head quarters costed.

And while no one was looking, Ben Carson spoke to a member of the press, dropping this nugget:

HUD secretary Ben Carson: Poverty is largely 'a state of mind'

His premise is slightly Darwinian that if you take away the safety net then some people will rise up out of poverty. I guess it goes with his early May think piece where he suggested that public housing is too comfortable.