Posted in Taos a day ago, but it takes that long to get material through the Internet pipeline from New Mexico to here

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A day late, but as relevant yesterday, and today, as it was back in 1972

From the Taos Tatler

Not really, Mr von Hoffman has been dead these six years, and is no longer well known, but he was most certainly well known 50 years ago when he got into huge trouble for his utterances on CBS Television over the collapsing presidency of Richard Nixon during the height, or depths, of the Watergate scandal. He was fired for them.

Von Hoffman, a leftist, but a very funny one, on a segment of CBS’s 60 Minutes program called “Point/Counterpoint,” which your Tatler saw, likened the soon-to-be-former President Nixon to a “dead mouse on the kitchen floor.”

But that’s not all he said. Read the rest and keep in mind our current president. Ask yourself if the words below might just apply to him and his administration.

“The question is who is going to pick [the mouse] up by the tail and drop it in the trash. At this point it makes no difference whether he resigns, thereby depositing himself in a sanitary container, or whether Congress scoops him up in the dustpan of impeachment. But as an urgent national health measure, we’ve got to get that decomposing political corpse out of the White House.”


Hey, it's got my vote

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Not a vote for the ticket come November — no, but I enthusiastically support the proposal.

'West Wing' creator spins scenario to save Democrats: Nominate Mitt Romney to stop 'dangerous imbecile' Trump

'There isn’t [any other] Democrat who is polling significantly better than Mr. Biden,' Aaron Sorkin wrote in the New York Times

I love it: the not-so crypto Democrat Romney and, if I may be so bold as to offer my own suggestion (no charge), Miss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as his VP.

How nuts are these people? Watch and listen

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Be sure to watch the whole thing or you’ll miss the part where she quote’s Jefferson on the tree of liberty needing to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants (I’m guessing she doesn’t consider Trump to be one of those patriots whose blood must be shed), and her carrying a cross-bow “because I don’t believe in guns”.

I can’t guarantee it, but I’m willing to bet that this creature graduated from an institution of higher learning sometime in her dark, troubled past.

After a week of denials, the government admits it was lying: the Secret Service DID deny Trump's staff's requests for additional security

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Hell, this was known (the news even made its way to this bitty blog) a full week ago, but the Bidenites denied it vehemently.

And “our border is secure”

That prevarication lasted all week until yesterday, when, knowing that they’d be testifying under oath on Monday, they admitted their lies (or, as they put it, :”new information” was discovered).

A Major Lie From the Secret Service About the Trump Assassination Attempt Just Got Busted

The Secret Service acknowledged on Saturday that it had turned down requests for additional federal resources sought by former President Donald J. Trump’s security detail in the two years leading up to his attempted assassination last week, a reversal from earlier statements by the agency denying that such requests had been rebuffed. 

Almost immediately after a gunman shot at Mr. Trump from a nearby warehouse roof while he spoke at a rally in Butler, Pa., last weekend, the Secret Service faced accusations from Republicans and anonymous law enforcement officials that it had turned down requests for additional agents to secure Mr. Trump’s rallies. 

“There’s an untrue assertion that a member of the former president’s team requested additional resources and that those were rebuffed,” Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said last Sunday, the day after the shooting. 

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On Saturday, Mr. Guglielmi acknowledged that the Secret Service had turned down some requests for additional federal security assets for Mr. Trump’s detail. Two people briefed on the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that the Trump campaign had been seeking additional resources for the better part of the time that Mr. Trump had been out of office. The denied requests for additional resources were not specifically for the rally in Butler, Mr. Guglielmi said. 

U.S. officials previously said the Secret Service had enhanced security for the former president before the Butler rally because it had received information from U.S. intelligence agencies about a potential Iranian assassination plot against Mr. Trump. 

Fortunately, you can expiate your white guilt by buying her ... er, book

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I’m pretty sure that the western world divided into two camps: “everything is racist;” and “nothing is racist: get a job” long ago, and there’s no convincing the other. But this Didn’t Earn It PhD awardee is willing to sell guilt trips to the first group, anytime.

El Norte Recuerda author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Rep Books, Penguin Random House, May 14, 2024. BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi, 2017. 2019 Whiting Award, 2021 NEA. PhD at USC

And will they and their friends be arriving by Prius, or by bicycle?

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David Letterman to Headline Biden Fundraiser on Martha’s Vineyard with Hawaii Governor on July 29

The fundraiser on July 29 will be at the home of a family friend on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, Green told The Associated Press Friday. It will feature the longtime late-night host, plus Biden and first lady Jill Biden. The campaign has at least 10 other fundraising events over the last 10 days of July.

Governor “Green”. “I’m flying while the flyin’s good”

Just last month, Hawaii’s jet-setting governor settled a climate change suit ostensibly brought by school children:

June 20, 2024: Hawaii agrees to 'groundbreaking' settlement of youth climate change case

The agreement, which can be enforced in court, calls for the creation of a volunteer youth council to advise the state's Department of Transportation, which committed to reworking its planning to prioritize reducing greenhouse gasses and creating a new unit dedicated to decarbonization.

The department also plans to dedicate at least $40 million to expanding the public electric vehicle charging network by 2030 and accelerate improvements to the state's pedestrian, bicycle and public transit networks.

John Kerry weeps

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Israel strikes Iran-backed Houthis after Tehran proxy attacked Jewish state: 'Significance is clear'

NSC spokesperson says US 'not involved' in Yemen strikes, and didn't 'coordinate or assist' Israel with them

I believe that last part about the U.S.’s non-involvement. Entirely predictable and in fact, it was predicted here yesterday.

JERUSALEM - Israel’s air force on Saturday launched surgical strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran-sponsored Houthi terrorist regime in Yemen.

According to an Israel Defense Forces statement, "A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months."

In a video statement posted on X, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that, "The port we attacked is not an innocent port. It was used for military purposes; it was used as an entry point for deadly weapons supplied to the Houthis by Iran." Netanyahu, who is due to address Congress next week, congratulated the IDF and Air Force for the operation and warned: "I have a message for Israel's enemies: don't misunderstand us. We will protect ourselves in every way, on every front. Anyone who harms us will pay a very heavy price for his aggression."

Netanyahu noted that the port was over 1000 miles away from Israel's borders, saying "It makes it clear to our enemies that there is no place that the long arm of the State of Israel will not reach."

Here’s a sample of what we’re wringing our hands about and threatening to condemn “with very harsh tweets”

July 16: :

Yemen's Houthi rebels use missiles, drones to attack 2 more ships in Red Sea

Houthis have targeted more than 70 ships, sinking 2 of them and killing 4 since November

“This may get serious, John”