Dr. Frog

FWIW, I never had any particular "affection" for Reagan, and never voted for him. In fact it was the Reagan/Schlafly takeover of the GOP in 1980 that made me stop thinking of myself as a Republican. 🤨 (I'd voted for GHWB in the 1980 primary instead.)

I'm not overlooking it. Treating AIDS as a moral deficiency instead of a public health crisis was an abhorrent policy, but it wasn't a violation of the POTUS's oath to defend the Constitution, like ignoring birthright citizenship and legal due process. Trump's wrongdoing is at a meta level.

YouTube video by Montclair Immigration Network The last speech of Ronald Reagan as president was on immigration

This was Reagan's last speech as POTUS. No Republican in government today would ever talk like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8Q...

Reagan promoted some truly awful policies, but none of those involved overturning the Constitution. (And on the positive side, he was strongly pro-immigration and pro-free-trade, and took his role as leader of the free world seriously instead of turning us into a 3rd-world autocracy.)

I find "Katie"'s allegations credible, but the fact that she waited until Trump was running for POTUS to say anything does leave her open to charges that she was hoping to cash in somehow. Plus it never went to trial, we never heard witnesses/evidence; we cannot decide the truth without facts.

Automat, 1927 by Edward Hopper

www.edwardhopper.net/automat.jsp

New York Movie, 1939 by Edward Hopper

Waittaminute, pretty much all of @edwardhopper.bsky.social 's paintings evoke isolation and despair....

www.edwardhopper.net/newyork-movi...

BTW, here is the "Katie Johnson" lawsuit against Trump and Epstein, from 2016. She withdrew the suit but IIRC not the allegations in it after purportedly receiving death threats. It might have been a publicity stunt that backfired, or it might be the truth.

www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

You missed one:

www.latimes.com/nation/ct-do...

Holy crap, it reads like he was not even wearing a life vest. 😱 How stupid do you have to be to venture out on the open lake without one? Lake Superior doesn't mess around!

I just need one member of the media to ask Trump how much a $500 drug would cost after a 1500% discount.

I love geeky jokes! 🤓

ICE: 'Two illegal aliens' on the run after allegedly attempting to ram ICE agents with a vehicle ICE says two people who were in the country illegally attempted to ram officers with a vehicle after being subjected to arrest.

Reporting on this has been rather confused, but I'm sure taking the ICE statement quoted here with a huge grain of salt... "criminal aliens" attacking the "brave men and women of ICE". Yeah, sure. 🙄

www.koaa.com/news/local-n...

Shelter-in-place order issued in Black Forest due to law enforcement activity A shelter-in-place order has been issued in Black Forest due to law enforcement security activity involving Homeland Security in the area.

I'm not often given to profanity, but f**k. I'm reading that somebody may have been killed in an ICE raid on a handyman business in Black Forest, just north of where I live. 😭

gazette.com/news/local/s...

There were some nice choreographic touches in this program too.... even 25 years later, I remembered the swing rolls and edge sequence at the start of the program. Not terribly difficult moves, but again highlighting their excellent pair-ness.

Scott and Dulebohn were by no means great technical skaters; Tiffany always struggled with her solo jumps, and their twist lift was often outright scary. But they were well-matched with similar timing and extensions that gave them an appearance of easy unison -- which is what pair skating is about.

First off, this is GREAT music for skating. It's got rhythm, tension, and excitement. So many skaters nowadays choose random, slow-paced cuts from a movie score that they totally ignore while they do their elements.

YouTube video by The Skating Session 1999 Trophée Lalique - Pairs Free Skate - Tiffany Scott & Philip Dulebohn USA

⛸️ It's been a long time since I've followed figure skating in any detail, but I recently had an urge to re-watch this program. It's Tiffany Scott and Philip Dulebohn's free skate from the 1999 and 2000 seasons, set to Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances.

youtu.be/6EXM11UKl9k?...

Following up on my cat bite, the antibiotics have kicked in and it's looking a lot less inflamed than it was yesterday. Unfortunately the side-effects of the antibiotics have also kicked in.... 💩 Imodium/loperamide works, but the prospect of another whole week of this has me 😱!!

Cooper is 68 years old already. I'd be a lot more excited if Democrats were running a young up-and-comer instead of another geriatric geezer.

The emergency equipment is stored in separate, marked bins from passenger luggage. I believe it's not allowed for passengers to put stuff in those bins even if it would fit.

I think they ought to have an auto-lock mechanism on those overhead bins.

I saw in the CNN article that it took them 10 to 15 minutes to evacuate the plane. They're supposed to be able to do it in 90 seconds, with only half the exits available, for certification!

At about 0:33 there's a guy who drops his kid on the ground while keeping a firm grip on his luggage. 🙄

Amazing number of people trying to bring luggage down the slide (which you absolutely are not supposed to do). Flight attendants ought to have been enforcing that -- your carry-on bag is not worth people getting trapped in a burning plane.

So instead of working I ended up spending a good part of the afternoon at urgent care and picking up antibiotics. (Cat bite wounds can be nasty, it's a deep puncture wound and their mouths are full of unfriendly bacteria.) And I find I can't really type with a bandage on my finger!

Blah. This morning I was settling in at my desk to do some work when Patch the cat started prowling around at my feet. Normally this is a sign she wants some TLC and I reached down to pet her, but this time she chomped down on my finger, hard. 😲

As far as I've been able to figure out with my rudimentary git knowledge, "detached HEAD" state is pretty much a fatal error (duh!) indicating you've done something terribly wrong, and the only way to fix it is to get a fresh checkout and reapply your local changes.

Ha, this is a post only geeks will "git"! 🤓

I've been struggling to understand why this Epstein thing has suddenly blown up. We knew what Trump was all along; it was no secret that he was Epstein's pal and that he had a thing for little girls himself. We saw the lawsuits and the photos. So why have MAGAts suddenly started to care NOW?