Quotable Quotes

"HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT? WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN'T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCE?...AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter." ~ Trump, at 1:30 a.m.
 
"A lot of the people need remedial math, did you see that? Where the students can't add two and two, and they go to Harvard." ~ Trump, on Friday

"What's 17 times 6?" ~ Howard Stern, 2006

"96? 94?" ~ Donald Trump Jr.

"112." ~ Trump
 
wmO0JhK.png
 
Ignoring the fact that wishing someone a "happy" Memorial Day is in bad taste ....

"HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY..." ~ Trump, yesterday
 

Mildred Weeks Wells’s Work on Airborne Transmission Could Have Saved Many Lives—If the Scientific Establishment Listened​

Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband figured out that disease-causing pathogens can spread through the air like smoke
By Carol Sutton Lewis, Luca Evans & The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer, charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science of airborne microorganisms. In this episode, we discover the story of two lost pioneers of the 1930s: physician and self-taught epidemiologist Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband, sanitary engineer William Firth Wells. Together, they proved that infectious pathogens could spread through the air over long distances. But the two had a reputation as outsiders, and they failed to convince the scientific establishment, who ignored their findings for decades. What the pair figured out could have saved many lives from tuberculosis, SARS, COVID and other airborne diseases. The contributions of Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband were all but erased from history—until now.

TRANSCRIPT

Carl Zimmer: Mildred is hired in the late 1920s to put together everything that was known about polio. And she does this incredible study, where she basically looks for everything that she can find about how polio spreads.

At the time, the idea that it could spread through the air was really looked at as being just an obsolete superstition. Public health experts would say, look, a patient's breath is basically harmless. But the epidemiology looks to her like ....

CONTINUED
 
Shiftless2 said:
Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband figured out that disease-causing pathogens can spread through the air like smoke

At the time, the idea that it could spread through the air was really looked at as being just an obsolete superstition. Public health experts would say, look, a patient's breath is basically harmless. But ... #1,507
Click to expand...

Literally translated, "Malaria" means "bad air". BUT ! Malaria's pathogen is transmitted by insect bite. Contrast "poliomyelitis".

ma·lar·i·a (mə-lârē-ə)
n.
1. An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium in red blood cells, which is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito.
2. Archaic Bad or foul air; miasma.
[Italian, from mala aria, bad air (from the belief that malaria was caused by vapors emanating from swamps, rather than mosquitos that bred there ) : mala, feminine of malo, bad (from Latin malus; see mel-3 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots) + aria, air; see ARIA.]
ma·lari·al, ma·lari·an, ma·lari·ous adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

note:
Today, modern experts insist exposure to severe cold does not cause the temporary respiratory ailment called "the common cold". That may be the latest word on it. Not the last word, I suspect.
 
"They stole the 2020 election and hijacked the country using a decrepit corpse as a frontman. They used an autopen to start wars, steal from our treasury, and pardon their friends. Arrest those responsible and charge them with TREASON." ~ Trump on Democrats

"Guess what, we're gonna be in power a long time. We need to take the FBI apart, and we need to take it apart today." ~ Steve Bannon
 
"Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt rebutted criticism [of Trump's crypto dinner], saying: 'The president is attending in his personal time. It is not a White House dinner.' But he flew to Virginia on Marine One. He gave his remarks from a lectern with the presidential seal. And some of the crypto crowd on Friday got a tour of the White House." ~ Maureen Dowd
 
Shiftless2 said:
"They stole the 2020 election and hijacked the country using a decrepit corpse as a frontman. They used an autopen to start wars, steal from our treasury, and pardon their friends. Arrest those responsible and charge them with TREASON." ~ Trump on Democrats

"Guess what, we're gonna be in power a long time. We need to take the FBI apart, and we need to take it apart today." ~ Steve Bannon
Click to expand...
mad·house (mădhous′)
n.
1. Offensive An institution for the mentally ill.
2. Informal A place of great disorder and confusion.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.

Shiftless2 said:
"Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt rebutted criticism [of Trump's crypto dinner], saying: 'The president is attending in his personal time. It is not a White House dinner.' But he flew to Virginia on Marine One. He gave his remarks from a lectern with the presidential seal. And some of the crypto crowd on Friday got a tour of the White House." ~ Maureen Dowd
Click to expand...
nemo est supra legis: nobody is above the law

No one is above the law, except President Trump.
 
sear said:
No one is above the law, except President Trump.
Click to expand...
Only thing is, when the Supreme Court granted him immunity it was for official acts so if this was a purely personal matter it's not an official act and he was in violation of the law. Actually a number of laws.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Only thing is, when the Supreme Court granted him immunity it was for official acts so if this was a purely personal matter it's not an official act and he was in violation of the law. Actually a number of laws." 1,512
Click to expand...
Horribly true,
but what difference does it make?
Trump is not even eligible to hold office:
United States Constitution
ARTICLE #14: Ratified July 9, 1868
SECTION 3. No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
Click to expand...
There's a stampede of elephants in the living room, and the authorities responsible for conformance to these standards entirely ignore them.

This is not a mere catastrophe.
In U.S. Constitutional history, this may well qualify as a cataclysm, or worse. - and the band played Waltzing Matilda -
 
"I've gotten word that my children's school has been ranked the #1 most unvaccinated school in Texas and I'm upset -- that we haven't celebrated sooner!" ~ TX State Rep. Nate Schatzline
 
"The Democrat Party has been waging war against democracy. They should be re-named the Communist Party." ~ Trump adviser Stephen Miller

"The Republican Party is now an entirely illegitimate political party, a bunch of sycophantic traitors mouthing Kremlin propaganda to defend this detestable little man who is occupying the White House. Trump is a disgrace to the office of the presidency." ~ Ron Reagan Jr.
 
"When will we see an actual trade agreement? Will we see any this week?" ~ George Stephanopoulos, ABC News

"I expected we were probably going to see one perhaps as early as last week." ~ Kevin Hassett, White House economic adviser
 
Shiftless2 said:
"I expected we were probably going to see one perhaps as early as last week." ~ Kevin Hassett, White House economic adviser #1,516
Click to expand...
There are not a lot of plausible explanations for this.
- Either Mr. Hassett is such a dim bulb he genuinely doesn't recognize the error. Or
- Hassett is so contemptuous of the People he's party to betraying that he either thinks they're not smart enough to recognize the error, or that the Trump conspiracy is sufficiently advanced that it's too late for them (U.S.) to successfully respond / defend.

In that latter case, Hassett may be right.
 
CNN's Dana Bash: "Is it fair to say that what you are doing now is in part enacting Project 2025?"

OMB Director Russ Vought, a principal author of Project 2025: "No, of course not."
 
To bad her job didn't involve reading (and understanding) the bills she was voting on. Or maybe having a bunch of aides who did that for her and then explained what the bill said

"I did not know about this section 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years...I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there." ~ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

In fairness, I'm sure she's not the only one - that's what comes from omnibus bills - thousand page documents make it easy to bury a couple of lines in that sort of bill - lines that have major and far reaching consequences.
 
German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."

Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."
d
Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top