A lot of words between "consider" and "impeachment"

We’re in the midst of Palindrome Week! (well, actually 10 days). Write out the date, today is 9-12-19. and the digits are the same forwards and backwards.

This only works with the strange American system of writing dates as month, day, year. While in Europe last month I had to keep in mind that the day came first. So they would get palindrome days on October, November, and December 9th this year.



The House Judiciary Committee voted this morning to approve how to go about holding hearings on impeachment. A few days ago, when the vote was scheduled, it was announced that the committee “will consider procedures on Thursday for future hearings related to its investigation to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment with respect to Trump.”

Chuck Wendig responded:

Boy that's a lot of words between "consider" and "impeachment." JFC.

"The House Dems today voted to consider whether or not to consider a gentle Q&A which will in turn seek to inform whether or not to ask the oracle of the forest if she would possibly maybe perhaps whisper the word 'impeachment' into the blowhole of a dolphin or other cetacean. The Dolphin Council will in turn vote to approve a second vote, the porpoise of which -- ha ha just a little cetacean humor there -- would be to determine whether or not it is appropriate to recommend finpeachment -- ha ha there we go again -- for the Mad Orca King."

In response to an article that ICE is seeking a way for its agents to train for “urban combat” Charles Johnson tweeted:

This kind of training would be necessary if they were planning on large scale mass deportations and seizure of property. Because picking up people who overstay their visas usually doesn’t involve “urban combat.”

Look, I’m not saying the Trump administration is preparing to go full-on mass deportation and/or concentration camps for non-whites.

But I’m not laughing it off, either.

There was a special election in North Carolina a couple days ago. The GOP “won” the seat last year, though illegal handling of absentee ballots was quickly revealed and the result voided. The GOP won it this time, 52% to 48%. That means for this red district the Democratic challenger came really close! Or, as Jennifer Cohn, who specializes in election security, tweeted, the GOP cheated again. Keep that in mind when you hear calls to simply vote the nasty guy out of office.

Leading up to the 2016 election there were 600 consecutive days of stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Why hasn’t there been daily stories about election security? This is vastly more important.




The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan congressional research agency, looked at the survival rates of the rich and the poor. Of those Americans who were in their 50s in 1991 how many were alive in 2014? Of the richest 20% more than 75% were still alive. Of the poorest 20% less than 50% were still alive. Poverty affects longevity.