Both Sides Now

They’ve already investigated her role in Benghazi more thoroughly than Iraq’s WMD, now Congress wants her e mails.  Colin Powell used an AOL account for some of his e mails and said it was faster and more efficient than the State Dept. System.  (I had to look hard to find that on a credible web site.)

They complain, they scream and they howl

Lock her up, she’s crooked, she’s foul

They fail to recall

Private e mail protocol

Was employed by Colin L. Powell.

Now there’s the Clinton Foundation.  

A donor wanted to meet with Hillary to get a visa for a soccer player - didn’t happen.  LOCK HER UP.  

Paul Manafort worked for pro Russian Ukranians and funneled money illegally to US lobbying firms and the Republican platform was changed to favor Putin’s intentions in the Ukraine.  YAWN.

Hillary’s record’s not pure

And Congressional committees are sure

If they continue to dig

They’ll find something big

In her petty peccadillos du jour.

August Vacation

It’s August vacation for Congress so we can’t really expect much from them right now.  For them August runs from July 18th to September 5th.  They will take a few more days off for the election (October 10 to Nov. 11th) when they return just in time to recess for the week of Thanksgiving.  So when would they have time to replace a Supreme Court Justice anyhow?  It’s just gonna have to wait.

Scalia’s been dead for six months

And Congress decided at once

To obstruct and delay

Because that is the way

Of McConnell the Majority Dunce.

McConnell said he will not play nice

And would hold Garland’s job in a vice

“The people should be heard”

Which is kind of absurd

Those people voted Obama in twice.

 Through the Looking Glass - Very Darkly

QUOTATION: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” 

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” 

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

ATTRIBUTION: LEWIS CARROLL (Charles L. Dodgson (1832–98)), Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, p. 205 (1934). First published in 1872.

Mr. Dumpty was the original egg head

He was confident in all that he said

The words were his servant

And every word meant

Exactly what Humpty intended.

Humpty’s meaning was sometimes oblique

His word use was often unique

Their meaning was bent

To Humpty’s intent

He was the master of political speak.

Any resemblance to any person living or dead, in the public eye or running for public office is unintentional and purely coincidental.  That’s #Sarcasm!

 Day 6 and On and Off

Last of the ship’s blogs from way back in June.

On a terrace cooled by the breeze

Eat a dinner guaranteed to please

A stone's throw from Arki

On tiny Marathi

A dot in the Dodecanese

The fisherman give Pantelis a call

He picks out the best of their haul

It's grilled to perfection

Served with a selection

Of tasty delights - home cooked - all.

Remember to see the real story check sy-thetis.org.  This year’s trips probably won’t be on until fall, but you can check out earlier voyages.

Just one week behind Thetis' mast

Our journey was over too fast

We did all we could do

To be relied on as crew

But mostly we acted as ballast.

Does Anyone Know What Victim Means?

From this week’s The Week magazine …”a growing sexual harassment scandal forced [Roger Ailes] to accept a multi-million-dollar severance package from the network.”  

It’s rumored to be $ 40,000,000.  Who’s the victim here?

The Roger Ailes ‘settlement’ sucks

It totally misses the the crux

Of fairness and justice -

His power play lust is

Rewarded with millions of Bucks.

Now right wingers are complaining that without Roger Ailes at FOX ‘news’ there is no counterbalance to the ‘liberal’ press.  

That ‘liberal’ press that gave Trump more coverage than Hillary or Bernie and the Republicans 63% of all political coverage.  That ‘liberal’ press whose stories on Trump in 2015 ranged from a low 63% positive in the New York Times to 74% positive in USA Today.  (The National Enquirer was not part of the study.)  That ‘liberal’ press whose positive stories on Hillary in the same period were about 33%.  Though Bernie got less coverage than Trump or Clinton, roughly 75% of the stories about him were positive.  Yes that ‘liberal’ press.

see news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/06/the-making-of-the-campaign-2016/

Will Fox lose it’s edge on the air

When Ailes is no longer there?

It’s been feeding the nation

Misinformation

And calling it balanced and fair.