It takes 67 Senators to impeach a fellow senator. Only 53 did NOT sign the letter, they feel immune

Posted by digger666 on 12 March 2015

via It takes 67 Senators to impeach a fellow senator…..

OK, so impeachment’s off the menu for the moment; that still leaves arrest and prison…

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zabriskie point…and we’re not talking antonioni, here

Posted by digger666 on 12 March 2015

via America’s Great Outdoors, Watching the sun rise from Death Valley National….

Watching the sun rise from Death Valley National Park’s Zabriskie Point is a must. Located in the park’s Furnace Creek Area, Zabriskie Point provides spectacular views of the park’s wildly eroded and vibrantly colored badlands with the flat salt plains and the Grapevine Mountains visible in the distance.

Photo by Steve Perry (www.sharetheexperience.org).

But, if you are interested, or mildly curious, here’s the official trailer…

Ted Cruz Without Applause is the Most Gripping Video You’ll See All Day – Bloomberg Politics

Posted by digger666 on 12 March 2015

via Ted Cruz Without Applause is the Most Gripping Video You’ll See All Day – Bloomberg Politics.

The Texas senator tanks at a presidential forum

David Weigel t daveweigel

Mar 11, 2015

If, like many Americans, your job involves watching a lot of speeches by Ted Cruz, you have grown familiar with the Texas senator’s applause lines. Since October 2014, he has honed a list of “conservative agenda” items that can be punctuated with hoots, hollers, and huzzahs at any gathering on the right. Last month, at CPAC, he rattled them off in a friendly Q&A with Sean Hannity.

“Repeal every blasted word of Obamacare.”

“Abolish the IRS.”

“Take all 125,000 IRS agents and put ’em on our southern border.”

Each declaration sparked a roar of applause, acknowledged with a small smile from Cruz.

That was CPAC. Yesterday morning, Cruz entered the less friendly climate of the International Association of Firefighters, for its bipartisan presidential summit. Firefighters’ unions are not as solidly Democratic as most labor unions. In 2010, for example, Scott Walker won his first term as Wisconsin’s governor with the backing of the Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Association. (Walker was invited to the IAFF summit but skipped it.)

Still, the firefighters assembled to hear from possible presidents gave Cruz one of the coldest receptions he’s ever given before a camera. The Now This News crew clipped together the highlights, which include some of the CPAC applause lines.

Nothing. Zip. After the speeches, the firefighters I talked to had a few good things to say about South Carolina Lindsey Graham, who discussed homeland security, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who stuck largely to a story about his upbringing. No one had anything good to say about Cruz. “I had to take a shower after listening to that,” said Washington state IAFF leader Ricky Walsh.

Of course, Cruz has gotten worse receptions on purpose.

Tough Crowd

Ted Cruz

—Jack Kerouac, born on this day in 1922

Posted by digger666 on 12 March 2015

via The Paris Review — “Oh the Beat generation was just a phrase I used….

“Oh the Beat generation was just a phrase I used in the 1951 written manuscript of On the Road to describe guys like Moriarty who run around the country in cars looking for odd jobs, girlfriends, kicks. It was thereafter picked up by West Coast Leftist groups and turned into a meaning like “Beat mutiny” and “Beat insurrection” and all that nonsense.”

Your Brain On Shrooms – YouTube

Posted by digger666 on 12 March 2015

via Your Brain On Shrooms – YouTube.

So now I know and now I want to know how to get involved in some research projects…

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Joe Biden Blasts Republicans for Letter to Iran | Mother Jones

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via Joe Biden Blasts Republicans for Letter to Iran |….

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Since the beginning of the Republic, Presidents have addressed sensitive and high-profile matters in negotiations that culminate in commitments, both binding and non-binding, that Congress does not approve. Under Presidents of both parties, such major shifts in American foreign policy as diplomatic recognition of the People’s Republic of China, the resolution of the Iran hostage crisis, and the conclusion of the Vietnam War were all conducted without Congressional approval….

In thirty-six years in the United States Senate, I cannot recall another instance in which Senators wrote directly to advise another country—much less a longtime foreign adversary— that the President does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful understanding with them. This letter sends a highly misleading signal to friend and foe alike that that our Commander-in-Chief cannot deliver on America’s commitments—a message that is as false as it is dangerous.