Dave Ferguson

They were store brand.

I never thought I'd miss Lyndon Johnson this much.

I checked. Tommy Tuberville, a man with the legislative skill of two cups of cornflakes, managed all by himself to hold up senior military promotions for ten months.

The gang of eight couldn't manage as well.

Tommy Tuberville single-handedly held up senior military promotions for TEN MONTHS. Couldn't Durbin be at least as effective as a mediocre coach who couldn't name the three branches of government?

Old trick for a Senate leader to vote against his own idea.

Resign.

To hell with the entire Democrat “leadership.”

Chuck Schumer couldn’t lead a pack of wolves to fresh meat.

No wonder that @democrats.senate.gov has posted four whole times in the last three weeks.

The staffers are too embarrassed, and the actual Senators are still using BlackBerries.

Shame on you all.

Reminder folks that the CR still has to pass the House AND IT SHOULD DIE THERE.

Make sure your rep is on board to vote NO.

@democrats.senate.gov DO NOT CAVE.
DO NOT CAVE.

TRUMP IS COUNTING ON SCHUMER TO FOLD.

DO NOT CAVE.

IT'S THE GOP SHUTDOWN.
THEY OWN IT.

NO NEED TO BUY IN.

Alex Karras, when asked by a referee to call the toss in a 1964 game: "I'm sorry, sir. I'm not permitted to gamble."

No such thing as a Delta airport or a Southwest air traffic controller.

I thought it went well, at least the parts a lapsed cradle Catholic could grasp. FWIW I can hear echos of Hayim Halevy Donin in the thread. (I took two courses under him at the Jesuit-run U of Detroit, when he was rabbi at B’nai David in Southfield MI.)

I've got some canned food with a longer shelf life than Target had in Canada.

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If the day ever arrives that John Roberts finally feels shame and resigns… I mean, “retires to teach the yutes,” how does Chief Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sound?

Could hasten one or two additional more-time-with-the-family moments.

The majority operates under the mandate of Leo while bowing in the faux-gold direction of the least fit person to ever set foot in the White House, not excluding drunks and the soldiers who torched the place in 1814.

Chief Justice John Calvin Ball.

I have a daughter named Rose, and so far as I know the only person who ever called her Rosie was my dad, who was 67 when she was born. He’d call her Rosie the Riveter at times till she got to about age 8.

Not nearly enough people call him Jimmy Watson the way he referred to her as Rosie.

One last note about Watson, Crick, and Franklin: when Watson, Crick, and Wilkins stole her photographs, FRANKLIN was a PhD with a student of her own.

Crick was a grad student. Watson was a pretty newly minted PhD (1950).

Far too many people don’t know it was DOCTOR Franklin.

Chief Justice Calvinball.

As a former Virginia voter, I have to think that the main reason the GOP controlled the legislature while losing statewide to Democrats was gerrymandering.

Lived in Fairfax when H of Delegates drew a redistributing map so protective of incumbents that it had only 99 seats instead of required 100.

If corporations are legal people, they’d face actual incarceration, when they couldn’t engage in any business the warden doesn’t approve.

Nothing would improve compliance like directors and corporate honchos actually going to prison.

Plus: garnishment of earnings, just like pay checks.

Also on the menu:

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A satire of the "Come and Take It" flag, which usually features a star in the upper center, the silhouette of a 19th-century cannon, and the slogan "come and take it." This version includes a gold star, a stylized submarine sandwich with colored layers to represent cheese, tomato, salami, onion, and lettuce. These ingredients are, well, sandwiched by two brownish layers curved on the end to represent the sandwich bun. Beneath the sandwhich, in capital letters: "Here, you take it."

“No president, not ever the late, great George Washington, was able to do this, but WE did it!”

Even to make the case for Edward de Vere. ;-)

Oh, that was very clear. Have they come to see you (or zoom with you) for any reason? Did that feel good in the sense of connecting?

I had really enjoyed this class, and she was encouraging of participation, so I reveled in the humor of the response. It’s a fond, fond memory.

Bauder: what’s an example of a diffuse relation ship for you?

Idealist me, in class: Student and teacher?

Lillian Bauder: What are you doing Saturday night?