Daily Archives: 2/25/2018
But there’s room for worse…
California’s senator Dianne Feinstein has set a low for Lefty politics for decades, but she may have run to the end of her belt.
California Dems Reject Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Re-Election Bidby Kathryn Blackhurst
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) suffered a humiliating setback Sunday when the California Democratic Party withheld its endorsement of her 2018 reelection bid after the state’s senior senator failed to garner enough support among an increasingly progressive electorate.
Feinstein, at age 84, is the Senate’s oldest member and has served since 1992. She is a ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and was viewed widely as a middle-of-the-road Democrat for much of her political career.
But when the California Democratic Party voted on endorsements this weekend at its annual convention, progressive state Senate leader Kevin de León (D) surpassed Feinstein with a 54 percent to 37 percent margin. The results weren’t announced until Sunday.
If he’s MORE ‘progressive’ than Feinstein, the dude’s gonna make Fidel Castro look like a republican.
The Name Game #506
Sixty overcast, wet, drizzly degrees at 0800 this morning. I’m not planning any travel this week, but sometimes events change that idea.
Opened the paper over a bowl of steel-cut oats. Waded past the normal amount of trivial and bright ideas and found that the big hospital across the river reports thirty-four new babies from between February 9 and February 19. That’s thirty-four new babies, half – seventeen – born to unwed parents, and five new mommies aren’t laying claim to a baby daddy. Half! We, folks, are LIVING in the opening scene of Idiocracy.
Let us step off into the abyss:
Stephen M. & Destining(!) H. have a son, Daelyn Amari.
Levi (Named for the jeans, not the Hebrew tribe) & Blythe M. do a son with Roan Austin.
Cory W. & Amber B. start a daughter off with her very first stripper name, Kori Starr.
Tyler & Jillian S. pick a random surname and toss it on their new daughter, giving us little Monroe Diana.
Miss Jessica P. triples up on her daughter Graislyn Merci Serenity. She plenty of room to write since she didn’t need to use that ‘father’ block on the form.
Christopher & Lacie B. tag a baby boy with Jackson Reese. Great! Name the kid after some random dude and a peanut butter cup.
we get our first apostrophe of the week as Michael & Reagan(!) D. tag a daughter with Ryliann Shae’.
Jacob H. & Treasure(!) F. have a daughter, Graisyn Lynn.
Paul & Lisa R. give their son a nudge towards a career with Carter Paul.
Domonique(!) N. apostrophicates her daughter Tai’lan Nicole.
T.J. & Kasie M. show their daughter Kya Lynae.
Matthew & Kari A. do a son with Cason David.
James B. & Whitney W. name their daughter after fabric, Paisley Louise. Perhaps we should await a brother, Houndstooth Jack.
And that’s enough for this week.
Today in History – February 25
1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain. Tate, the ‘French’ commander, is Irish-American, and half his force is Irish.
1836 – Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. This is known as ‘the camel’s nose under the tent’…
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. See what happens when you screw around with immigration law?
1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier. Her first combat action is against the French in North Africa.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt, after having Israel kick his butt in 1948. He tries two rematches, 1956 and 1967, loses those, too.
1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin. What!??! There are consequences to a personality cult? Somebody tell the dimmocrats.
1964 – Speaking of personality cults, North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones. This single brilliant move turns North Korea into a cornucopia of riches. South Koreans line up at the DMZ, clamoring to get in. Right?!?
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded. After all those years of me and a million other American soldiers waiting for them to come streaming through the Fulda Gap…