Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Overheard at Table 1: The Purge of America

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5109360-doj-fires-prosecutors-who-worked-on-trump-criminal-cases/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/justice-department-firings-trump-jack-smith.html


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/27/trump-justice-department-jack-smith-officials-fired/77978912007/





Thursday, January 23, 2025

Overheard at Booth 1: Muzzling the Medicals

M: Did you hear that they're cutting funding to NIH?

C: Good!

M: How can you say that?

C: You don't know!  I know!  I work at the University and you don't know what they do to the animals there ... they have dogs in cages, monkeys that they separate from their mothers just to see how they'll react, rabbits that they pour chemicals in their eyes just to study what medicines they can make.  All that is from Federal grant money, but YOU!  You think that it's all about cancer research.  Well, they already have a cure for cancer but they won't let anybody know because cancer is such a big industry, so yeah, they SHOULD cut off all the funding to ALL scientists until they can figure out what's really helpful and what's not.

M: Wow.  That's a lot to unpack there.

C: You should pay more attention to what's happening instead of being such a Leftist with your head in the sand thinking everyone is so goody-goody!


https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring

 

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/trump-administration-orders-health-communications-pause-cdc-hhs-fda/ 


https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/ice-hospitals-citizenship-status-undocumented-workers-health-care/




Friday, January 17, 2025

senate

 Sen Elissa Slotkin: Would you really send the US military to the southern border?


Gov Kristi Noem: Lady, if I can shoot Fido in a gravel pit, I can shoot Pedro in the Rio Grande


Sen Rand Paul: I am so turned on right now.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

david lynch

 I want you all to know that, once, someone told me that I was a lot like David Lynch - only without the creativity, pithiness, coolness, intelligence, body of work, and vision.


I said, "That just leaves the weirdness and the hair"


They added, "Oh yeah.  Without the cool hair as well"

Friday, January 10, 2025

Overheard at Table 5: América Mexicana

 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-president-claps-back-trump-name-america-mexicana-rcna186854

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Overheard at Table 4: Machado v Maduro

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/09/venezuela-maria-corina-machado-kidnapped