News of the week IV

- "We don't agonize, we organize"! - Nancy Pelosi

- Calling Mrs. Malaprop!! - DJT confuses "herd mentality" with "herd immunity" - picky, picky!

"We have more arrows in our quiver!" - Nancy Pelosi

-"When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out"  - RBG

-Dateline Australia: Qantas Airline is advertising Flights to Nowhere - depart and return to the same place. Thousands of people who miss flying are rushing to buy tickets. First flight sold out in ten minutes. NYT 

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News of the week III

- "Strong letter to follow!" - Tom Ridge after a critical rant about DHS.

-"A good anvil does not fear the hammer." - China's ambassador to Britain.

-"He always needs to touch the flame." - Jared Kushner
(Something like Icarus flying too close to the sun).

-......Better to pet the bear than to poke him!  - the attitude of many Presidents in dealing with Bob Woodward.

-From the mouths of babes: With the smoke blocking the California sun, a four year old asked her mother: "Is this how the dinosaurs died?"
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News of the week II

- Mixed metaphors: DJT thinks that certain law enforcement officers may be prone to "choke" under pressure. He compares the condition to freezing over a three foot putt. But his three foot putts are "gimees" so how would he know?

-Get out of the sand trap and do your job!" - Joe Biden.

-"I'm thinking it's time to just put up the Christmas tree  and call it a year." - Anon.

-Eyebrow raiser: Strom Thermond wanted Joe Biden to  eulogize him at his funeral and stipulated it in his will.
tjs

News of the week

Having reached a certain age, I do read the obits in the NY Times. One dated Aug. 22 was for Norman Carlson, a long time leader of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He served under 11 Attorneys General having been appointed by John N. Mitchell, Nixon's A.G. Subsequently, Mitchell was convicted in the Watergate scandal and was sent to Federal prison where he was under Mr. Carlson's custody. You can't make this stuff up.
- "I know a predator when I see one." - Kamala Harris, Attorney General of California.

-Post G.O.P. convention - The mostly maskless guests were seated cheek by jowl for hours, like the teeming crowd for the big finale of a pandemic reality show: "The Celebrity Appestilence."-James Poniewozik NYT
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How now Dow Jones

Some of you with IRAs may follow the readings of the Dow Jones index of the top 30 stocks based on their share prices. Apple's 4 to 1 recent stock split has shuffled the roster with new arrivals Amgen, Honeywell and Salesforce(?) bumping Exxon Mobil, Pfizer and Raytheon. Exxon Mobil is the successor to Standard Oil of New Jersey the longest serving member since 1928. Its exclusion now should make old John D. Rockefeller roll over in his grave. They say this gent used to hand out dimes to folks during the depression. This brings to mind a saying of the time "Brother, can you spare a dime."
tjs

News of the day

Re COVID 19 - during the Spring, the hardest hit neighborhood in New York City  was CORONA, Queens.
(NYT 8/20/20)

When Steve Bannon was arrested this week he was having morning coffee on the deck of the yacht LADY MAY on Long Island Sound.  Gosh dang it, I hate to have my coffee hour disturbed.Well, LADY MAY but Stevie did.

Heard on the street: If Trump wanted to lock Hillary up he should have hired her.
tjs

Aerial Battle

Dateline - Upper Michigan - The Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. Their name is abbreviated E.G.L.E..........one of their drones was challenged by a Bald Eagle and the drone lost. The Eagle may have been protecting his turf but some think he may have been offended by the misspelling of his name.
tjs(NYT 8/16/20)