BREAKING: Rick Perry expected to resign @politico https://t.co/fAO84LHffF
— Rick Tyler (@rickwtyler) October 3, 2019
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BREAKING: Rick Perry expected to resign @politico https://t.co/fAO84LHffF
— Rick Tyler (@rickwtyler) October 3, 2019
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Elizabelle
Rick Perry expected to resign in November
By POLITICO STAFF
10/03/2019 07:46 PM EDT
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is expected to announce his resignation next month, according to three people familiar with his plans.
The former Texas governor largely avoided the controversies that pushed other Cabinet members out of the administration, but his contacts with Ukraine have drawn him into the impeachment inquiry engulfing President Donald Trump and his inner circle. However, the three people said the Ukraine affair is unrelated to Perry’s departure.
chopper
how would he, or anybody else for that matter, know the difference? did he ever actually do anything in the position?
BubbaDave
I’d be happier if I weren’t thinking about which gobshite might replace him….
Another Scott
Interesting. I just saw a news blurb a few days ago about him.
VF – WILL RICK PERRY BE PULLED INTO TRUMP’S UKRAINE HELLSCAPE? (from yesterday).
Heh.
Cheers,
Scott.
Elizabelle
@BubbaDave: Maybe we’ll have President Pelosi by then?? A girl can hope. We’re in warp speed territory.
The Politico story only has one more sentence. It is brand new breaking news.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
how quaint
A Ghost To Most
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Oops.
mad citizen
@A Ghost To Most: I get it! So instead of deleting the DOE he used it for some plain old family graft.
dmsilev
Said this before, but the folks I’ve interacted with in the DOE orbit (not necessarily actually at the agency) said that for most things, Perry was acutely aware that he was out of his depth and deferred to the professionals. Not always (see: coal), but in many cases. “Self-aware enough to recognize his own lack of qualifications” is, sadly, well above average for a Trump appointee.
Obama, lest we forget, started with a Nobel Prize winner at DOE.
cain
@Elizabelle:
We are replacing all cabinet positions with acting or temporary positions that are likely just going to be that way for the rest of Trumps terms. Congress should sue the administration and get them replaced.
jl
A few more days of this insanity and I think I’ll start to really understand the phrase ‘through the map and off the looking glass’.
I’m starting to check for ‘and fled the country’ after ‘resigned’
Jim, Foolish Literalist
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And Ernest Moniz was no slouch in the sciencey stuff either
so I'm told
dmsilev
@cain: Isn’t there some legal limit on how long an “acting” Cabinet secretary can serve before they have to step down? Not that little things like “laws” are particular important to Trump, of course.
Elizabelle
Neither the WaPost nor NY Times has this up yet. Interesting. Did Politico jump the gun? Or just hard to confirm …
catclub
@chopper:
there were no unintentional explosions of nuclear weapons owned by the DOE. This should count as a win.
Were any lost? probably highly secret. Have we upgraded them to be better than new (Trump says this)? I doubt much change.
Elizabelle
@dmsilev:
That’s actually huge for this maladministration. Point in Perry’s favor.
catclub
@dmsilev: i am not sure. The recess appointment rule was that the appointee could serve until something like the next term of the Senate?
But that would be a full cabinet member, not an acting. I wonder if there is a little table in the cabinet room for all the actings.
Princess
I feel like I saw a tweet earlier today that said Rick Perry plans to cooperate fully with the impeachment inquiry.
Wait…here it is:
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1179778165234978818?s=20
Interesting timing.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Elizabelle: Erica Greider, a conservative TX columnist, has been teasing a big Texodus resignation all day. Hard for me to square the resignation of an ex-Dancing With The Stars model as “big” but…
Mr Anderson, you missed a chance to use the GIF of Perry doing that weird marching-dance under a headline “Rick Perry dances off stage…”
Mike in NC
How many days a week (month?) did Rick Perry even show up at the office?
Steeplejack
@Elizabelle:
Dan Brouillette: Huh, not a complete political hack. Surprise.
Mike J
If you want to be optimistic, if he resigns he doesn’t have to worry about anyone ordering him to do anything overtly illegal. If anyone subpoenas him, there’s no reason not to march in and spill his guts,.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jay
@jl:
“Off the map, and through the looking glass,”
Alice in Wonderland reference.
Steeplejack
@catclub:
Better than new? Tippy-top, sir! Tippy-top.
Steeplejack
@Jay:
The other way is a Silverman reference.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Wonder what that’s about. Could be something as mundane as that he sees where this is going and wants to get out with as much of his reputation [sic] in one piece as he can.
Jay
Isn’t Derpowitz friends with a bunch of pipple in the Infrastructure news these days?
NotMax
Texit.
HumboldtBlue
I’m just resigned, resigned to the fact that it’s expensive being poor in California.
Jay
Another Scott
@Elizabelle: Of course, he had no business accepting the position of Energy Secretary in the first place.
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Steve in the ATL
@Mike J: was hoping you’d show up tonight. Our favorite hangout: Antenna Club
HumboldtBlue
On the other hand, there is always Cannonball, Brubeck, Desmond and Mingus.
Say what you will, I was but a little one for the first half, but the 70s were pretty fucking awesome music-wise.
grammypat
Earlier today, I saw a CREW article about Perry taking an interest in and opening a department in the Energy Dept related to AI. What CREW was interested in is that Perry’s wife is involved in 3 companies with stakes in AI. When I saw that, I thought that Perry had been flying under the corruption radar and was due for a fall. The idea of his resignation occurred to me after seeing that article.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I can’t…. fucking… even…
Shut it down. Shut it down. Just shut it all down.
Of course it’s The Hill.
Patricia Kayden
Even the dumb rats know when to jump off the sinking ship.
Shalimar
@Elizabelle: I’m optimistic about Republicans turning on Trump en masse, but they’re never going to vote to impeach Pence regardless of what he might have done. Especially because they know it would make Pelosi president.
Another Scott
@dmsilev: Lawfare says 300 days on a quick skim, but I may have missed some caveats.
Cheers,
Scott.
Marcopolo
As the Nigerian prince who sent me that email the other day said, “We all now have a once in a lifetime opportunity.”
That opportunity is to tell our Congressional reps that we demand Trump be impeached & convicted. We don’t have to wait for some polling outfit to call us. Our Senators & Congresscritters are doing their own polls every day to figure out which way the impeachment winds are blowing.
So call & do it every day if you can. If they are D thank them for defending the Constitution. If they are an R tell then to grow a spine and save our democracy.
Get your family members to call. Get your friends to call. Get your neighbors to call. Get your co-workers to call. If you are on fb, Twitter, instagram, or any other social media platform tell everyone you are calling & use it to ask more people to call. And ask all of them to get recruit one more caller.
It’ll take 5 minutes per call (unless you really want to go to town). If you are phobic of taljing to a live person call there local office after hours and leave a message.
Calls do matter. The more they get the more they matter! Here’s the # for the congressional switchboard: 212-224-3121.
Your country thanks you in advance!
Mary G
He didn’t even know what his department did when he started. I’m sure he did whatever the political fixers put in told him to, so he’s got exposure. I wouldn’t be surprised if he took $ and orders from the Saudis and the UAE. A lot of shoes to drop yet there.
But still, he lasted a lot longer than a couple of hundred other people.
jl
@Jay: ” Alice in Wonderland reference. ”
Yes, I know. But I mean really really really understand it.
Marcopolo
@jl: As someone wrote as a standing headline, “Welcome to fucknutsville!”
Elizabelle
There is still not a word about the Perry resignation on either the Post or the Times. Not even a “Politico is reporting.” Maybe just too big a news day?
Leto
@catclub: @catclub: Let’s break some of these down:
DoE doesn’t own any of them. Also they don’t have operational control of any.
We’d know about it because movement of our nuclear weapons is an international affair. The number of international partners/agencies we have to notify/coordinate with is many. Those flights are tracked by multiple countries, so any “lost” flights would be known. Lost “subs” would also be known.
No. AF nuclear forces are still operating on a shoe string budget with no new items coming down the pike in the foreseeable future.
Elizabelle
Don’t see anything on the Dallas Morning News site, or CNN either. They can’t confirm this thing?
Elizabelle
From the middle of an expanded article in Politico:
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
I cannot fucking keep up. Stop this timeline, I want off.
Redshift
Who would have thought Rick Perry would be the smart one in this crowd (in a “world’s tallest little person” sense, at least) and get out before the walls close in!
Mary G
EW has an online ad now that consists solely of CNBC and other finance media people talking about how horrifying she’ll be for the banks and the big corporations. Plus this:
The Dangerman
I wonder how many of those Midwest Farmers that were told “tough shit” about the Trade War (but are still gonna cash the bailout checks) are thrilled that Donald reportedly went to China for dirt on Biden?
He might as well just come clean on the Pee Pee tape and about lusting for his Daughter. I mean, if the Dude sprouted horns and his head spun like in The Exorcist, his base isn’t deserting him
Michael Cain
@dmsilev:
I believe the law is an acting head can occupy that position for 210 days. Time while there is a nominee waiting for the Senate to act doesn’t count towards that. If the Senate rejects a nominee, the 210-day clock starts over. So far as I know, the first “acting” has to leave when one of those timers expire, but there’s nothing to keep Trump from dropping a new acting in. All acting heads have to have been previously approved by the Senate for some other position. I think Trump’s got enough people that the Senate has approved for something that he can cycle through them for a long time. And of course, McConnell can help out by simply not considering a nominee.
waratah
@Steeplejack: he must have done the work as I do not think Perry knew how to get things done and he came from Texas. Perry was there for a long time until I read that he was reversing something.
Jay
cynthia ackerman
The Aristocrats!!!
Mary G
@Mary G:
?????
Jeffro
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wouldn’t an Eric trumpov column automatically pose problems as an op-ed? You have to have a brain to have an opinion.
Eric, baby, you maxed out in fourth grade with “I’m rubber, you’re glue!” Just chill and relive those days. Please.
Ken
@jl: You can do quite a lot if you really really really understand it.
Mary G
Not even a furrowed brow in sight:
Jay
Your fellow ‘Merkins,
https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-trump-fans-chase-elizabeth-warren-through-airport-screaming-pocahontas-slur/
Mike J
@Steve in the ATL: WOW!
They Interview Doug Easly in that. He famously ran a recording studio out of his garage. The McCain of Easly McCain Recording is Davis McCain, the singer in Barking Dog[1]. When I was in HS, I insisted the HS radio station needed to feature local music and I interviewed the band. They invited me to see them play, and I was at Antenna at least once a week from the beginning of my jr year of high school until I left for college,
[1] Who did a great cover of Tennessee Waltz.
Sebastian
Today more so than ever (and tomorrow probably even more):
TICK TOCK MOTHERFUCKERS!
NotMax
@Ken
Have long harbored a wish to see and hear a TV weathercaster announce “Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a chance of brillig.”
Mary G
@Jay: I saw film of them unable to run as fast as she was walking.
Ken
@Elizabelle:
Betcha a nickel, by this time tomorrow Trump will have tweeted that Perry didn’t quit, he was fired.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
womp! womp!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mary G: looked to me like a collection of bar-flies unaccustomed to moving that fast longer than it takes to get to the restrooms
Leto
OT: Sen Kamala Harris will be on the cover of Time for the Oct 14th issue. They need to send extra copies to the White House.
Jay
Corruption in plane sight,
catclub
@Mary G: The key followup question is: What will you give the Chinese if they DO come up with something on Biden? A better trade deal than otherwise?
HumboldtBlue
Interesting story about the former border between East and West Germany.
Jay
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I realize that language changes and singular “they” is now a thing, but surely “all” still requires more than two?
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: Hey, are you watching the game? The Braves have 3 outs to turn it around :).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
every once in a while I think about the letter a bunch of retired Senators published in the Washington Post calling on everyone in Washington to put party before country, or remember the Constitution, or some vague platitude that never mentioned either party, or trump, so that they could get some Rs to sign it. Bill Cohen– R-ME (ret’d) and later Bill Clinton’s SecDef and I believe Susan Collins’ political patron– made himself spokesman for the group and went on TV for a couple days and sometimes got quite emotional. I saw him close one interview by announcing with a slightly quavering voice that he was not a Donald Trump Republican. I wanted the anchor to ask him if he was a Susan Collins Republican, because if he is, it’s all just (ahem) Balloon Juice.
Jay
@Mary G:
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Now imagine them in their Moar Gunz and Combat gear taking part in the American UnCivil War IV.
Raven
@Marcopolo: They aren’t scoring 2 runs.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
another non-barking dog in all this: Colin Powell. Remember how he got George W Bush elected twice, then got tossed aside like a used kleenex and then spent a couple years making media appearances, acting as if he had resigned in noble protest and Tim Russert and the gang played along? Does anyone ever wonder what St Colin thinks about all this?
Yarrow
She’s up for re-election. Must see which way the wind is blowing.
A Ghost To Most
@Steve in the ATL: Antenna Club in Memphis?
The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town
Marcopolo
@Raven: If they do my brother will be pretty unhappy. He just called me from Boston to tell me about the game.
NotMax
@Yarrow
Grassley promise her a new pair of bread bags on the first of every month? //
Raven
@Marcopolo: I’m a lifelong Cubbie fan and you know what that means.
RAVEN
@Marcopolo: one
Steve in the ATL
@Marcopolo: yeah, wasted a $200 bottle of wine on this! If only we had a bullpen…enjoy your gloating!
ETA: wait a minute…
Marcopolo
@Raven: Well, that’s three runs :). Good thing I don’t live & die by these sporting things.
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: Hey, I ruled nuthin out in my comment to you. Game ain’t over till the phat lady sings.
Marcopolo
@Raven: If It were Cubs/Braves I’d still be rooting for the Central team :)
Steve in the ATL
@Marcopolo: you’re like an SEC football fan!
And you suck.
Marcopolo
@Marcopolo: And she has now sung. Felt a little adrenaline there at the end.
Steve in the ATL
@A Ghost To Most: the very one! Link doesn’t work for me.
Mike J
@A Ghost To Most: That’s the one. The bar I grew up in.
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: that you’ve seen so many bullpen meltdowns that tonight didn’t raise your blood pressure by even a single point?
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: No, that I hate the fucking Cards!
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: I usually root for the most underdog team in the college football playoffs, even though the Tigers are now in the SEC. That is rarely the SEC team.
Steve in the ATL
@Mike J: Alex Chilton drunk and assholish, Rebel confiscating fake IDs, bathrooms that could be considered a war crime….
FelonyGovt
As a Mets fan it’s interesting watching other teams’ bullpens melt down.
Marcopolo
@Raven: See, I’m a lover not a hater :). And in the other series I will be rooting for the Nats since they are slight underdogs.
Steve in the ATL
@Marcopolo: Ohio State, Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, possible Auburn—the only contenders for the NC this year. And all football factories. Easy to root against all of them, except Georgia because Georgia is awesome. Can I get an amen, Raven?
Steve in the ATL
@Marcopolo: I root against any team that has or had Brice Harper on it.
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: I saw Big Star play in a basement bar in St Louis a few times. Don’t recall Alex Chilton ever causing drunken trouble though. But that might say more about my condition at the time than his.
Steve in the ATL
@Marcopolo: he got worse after Big Star. Ended up washing dishes at a restaurant in New Orleans, until one day he opened his mailbox and there was a giant royalties check in it because “that seventies show” used a Big Star song as its theme.
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: I’d kinda like to see OK (and Jalen Hurt) kick AL’s a$$ in the NC just for karma’s sake but we’ll see, it is early days.
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: Fuckin A.
Raven
@Marcopolo: What Tigers are in the SEC now?
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: Missouri
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Steve in the ATL:
Ahem. That’s THE Ohio State University to you, bub
/s
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: Well, that’s holding a grudge. Since I sorta view Harper as the anti-Trout I kind of feel a little pity for whatever team is stuck with him. Obviously, the Nats were better off w/out him.
PS I also feel a little sympathy for Trout who seems to have wasted most of his amazing career playing for a team that has rarely come close to fielding a competitive team.
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: Oh. I relented and a agreed to have a retirement/70th birthday thing and my wife scheduled it for the Friday of the Mizzou game and now I have all these fucking family coming on a game day!
Marcopolo
@Steve in the ATL: Whoever they are! I mean they lost to Wyoming in W1. WTF.
Steve in the ATL
@Marcopolo: let’s hope that same fate doesn’t befall Acuña
Mike J
@Steve in the ATL: Rebel confiscating fake ids? Never saw that. Of course I don’t think I ever showed him one.
Saw Alex there dozens of times. He could be an asshole, but usually not. I think he bummed cigs off me every time I ever saw him. Antenna, New Daisy, 9:30, Black Cat, Hohumbia.
Steve in the ATL
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: are you enjoying our former quarterback who couldn’t win the starting job at an SEC school but who looks like a heisman winner against Big-whatever number they use now competition?
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: The REM guys (at least Mills) seem to really be in love with Big Star. I don’t get it,I think I’m too old.
Steve in the ATL
@RAVEN: that’s grounds for divorce in the south. Like having a fall wedding. Who does that shit?
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: She was trying to do something special. The worst part was that my jackass lawyer brother (the one I flew in for the NFD game) made non-refundable airline reservations and got a room at Chateau Elan because there is nothing here. I asked my wife if I arranger her 60th and retirement with HER family?? She felt awful but the shit is done so I’ll probably just be the asshole everyone already thinks I am and go to the game.
eta We had TWO gay weddings durning Georgia games (away but still). When we had our wedding party people didn’t come because of Pride so I gave these folks a raft of shit about their scheduling!
Steve in the ATL
@Raven: it’s hip to cite them as an influence now, but they were a commercial failure at the time. I was a little kid when they were a band but knew them later as two of the guys went to my high school, one of them lived down the street (next door to a former Miss America), and my uncle was friends with Alex (who liked to use his photos on album covers).
“September Gurls [sic]” is about as perfect a power pop song as there is, but their catalog was not terrible deep.
mrmoshpotato
“Shouldn’t have taken a job in this criminal enterprise they try to call a presidency. Oops.”
Raven
@Steve in the ATL: All I know is bubblegum Box Tops and I was way too hip fot that shit.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Corruption? In this bastard administration? GTFO!
PJ
@Steve in the ATL: Is your uncle by any chance William Eggleston? (!!)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Yarrow:
her answer: I can’t control what the president says
RAVEN
@Steve in the ATL: You know about this?
A Night of Georgia Music featuring Mike Mills, Robert McDuffie, and Chuck Leavell! Celebrate the music of James Brown, Ray Charles, R.E.M.,
PJ
@Steve in the ATL: In three albums, Big Star put out more great music than most bands do in their entire careers. They may have been unknown in the 70’s, but their influence is, ahem, big now.
RAVEN
@PJ: Yea, like Tom Petty, The Stones, The Beatles, The Who. . . .right.
Marcopolo
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Hmm…how about how he acts? Checks notes…which appears to be corrupt…checks notes again…correction, is corrupt.
Okay off to do some dead tree reading before sleep. Good night all.
Steve in the ATL
@PJ: yup
hotshoe
WHY are these fuckers resigning? Where does it say that “if you resign, you won’t be prosecuted for the corruption you did while you were in office”
PJ
@RAVEN: Tastes differ, but better than Petty, for sure.
Gravenstone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It wouldn’t be a Republican office holder if there wasn’t some sort of self dealing going on.
Steve in the ATL
@RAVEN: no, looks cool!
@PJ: under appreciated at the time, like many artists. Too bad. And the whole Panther Burns thing was just weird!
PJ
@Steve in the ATL: !!! you must have stories
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs?
Ladyraxterinok
@Ken: Had forgotten that story. Read it long ago, and it kinda bugged me. Don’t remember why. Was younger then—maybe read when my son was a toddler.
Steve in the ATL
@PJ: you have no idea…Stanley Booth was trying to steal some from my wife the other day, but I have been collecting them for a New Yorker article when he’s gone.
Ken
@Gravenstone:
Blackadder: Now then; criminal record…
Baldrick: Absolutely not.
Blackadder: Oh, come on, Baldrick, you’re going to be an MP, for God’s sake! I’ll just put `fraud and sexual deviancy’.
Blackadder III, Dish and Dishonesty
Jay
Vhh
@Leto: DOE makes the bloody bombs. That is where the highest risk of accident–by far–is. I am a physicist.
Jay
@hotshoe:
In a target rich environment you go after the sitting ones first,……..
So, in the Dolt 45 and Rethug era, many are retiring to spend moar time with their Lawyers in the hope that by the time that the wheel of justice grinds down to them, statutes of limitation will apply.
Mike J
@Steve in the ATL: Let me know if you have access to his catalog. There’s a pic I’m looking for.
mrmoshpotato
@hotshoe:
It’s in the Constitution Article 9, Section “Oops!”
PJ
@Steve in the ATL: This is only my theory (I certainly didn’t know him personally, as you did), but I think Alex put his heart and soul into Big Star, and when those records went nowhere (mostly due to Stax’s distribution problems, but also because they were pretty out of step with the sound of the early ’70’s), he said to himself, “That’s the last time I put 100% of myself into my songs.” So he said, “F*ck it” and decided to pursue a weirder, and, to me, less interesting path. There are some good original songs scattered throughout the rest of his career, but nothing like the stuff he made with Big Star. Instead, he occupied himself with mostly reinterpreting obscure r&b tunes and standards, and it wasn’t bad by any means, but it wasn’t his strength, so he came across as a journeyman rather than an original artist (at least when I saw him).
Also, from the stories I’ve read, his alcohol consumption wouldn’t have been a help.
Jay
Honus
@catclub: I can’t wait to see Trump appoint someone dumber and more corrupt than Perry to be in charge of those weapons. And that’s a high bar.
PJ
@Steve in the ATL: I’ll look forward to reading it. They had a really good exhibit of his photos at the Met last year, which was the first time I’d seen his stuff in a gallery.
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh, and when the woman tries to get her to condemn Trump for asking other countries to investigate his political rivals, her answer is “On that, I would say that corruption should be rooted out, wherever it exists.”
Ladyraxterinok
@HumboldtBlue: 30th anniversary?!?!
Was in Berlin in summer of 90. Still streets filled with people from the former GDR wandering around wide eyed. In Berlin again in summer of 91. Streets normal but there was a large area where people were selling all sorts of things left by the departing Sovirt soldiers—unifoms, military caps,etc. Even flags. Many of the things were not being sold by departing soldiers but by Turkish immigrants to Germany. They had bought them cheap from the soldiers and selling to tourists at a nice profit.
In that summer of 91 our study group was taken along part of that Green former border. I had forgotten that.
Ken
@Honus: Hmm, which Fox News talking head is presented as an expert on energy and/or nuclear policy?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@zhena gogolia: when they cut away to just Ernst and the reporter, she defaults to the “Secondhand news” talking point. I thought she looked pathetic in that clip, but I imagine in Iowa all she has to do is pose on the steps of the right church holding a jug marked “Ethanol”
OTOH, if the IA Dems have a good candidate…
Jay
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jonathan Karl, professionally brought up by the same wing nut welfare group that brought you Laura Ingram, Rich Lowry and other luminaries, is getting thoroughly dragged for this tweet, but I like the way Stanton does it
Steve in the ATL
@Mike J: get my email from Adam and we can discuss offline
Jay
Inquiring minds want to know,………
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: I was really hoping they’d have the smarts to avoid that problem again by just doing their “press conference” in boxer shorts and suit coats. Idiots.
piratedan
@Steve in the ATL: I dunno, if you’re talking Power Pop personified, I’m still more in the camp between choosing between Badfinger’s “No Matter What” or Raspberries “Go All The Way”, with leaning to the latter due to the harmony and killer iconic opening riff…. not saying I didn’t like Big Star, I did, but to each their own.
Steve in the ATL
@piratedan: I know someone who takes a very hard stance that the Kinks’ “Waterloo sunset” takes the title, but I think your choices are better than that one. And why not “I Feel Fine”?
Peale
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: remember how Trump was bragging the other week about our shiny new nuclear arsenal that he built because Obama let it decay? Well, I think it was Perry’s job to actually do that. He probably lied and said he did, but he was really just taking naps and trying on clothing.
Ladyraxterinok
@Ladyraxterinok: I was in Berlin with group from grad school on 1st anniversary of when Berlin Wall was put up. Wall went up Aug 13, 1961. Was there with fellow students Aug 13, 1962
Steve in the ATL
@PJ: all true, as far as I know. And his cover of “volare” was probably a low point!
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
I was praying for someone to say, “So what are you doing to investigate the corruption in the White House?”
Leto
@Vhh: Cool. I too play a space cowboy. Let me know if Ghedi AB rings a bell for you.
Ryan
Did he ever figure out what agency he was in charge of?
divF
@Ryan: As bizarre as it may seem, I will defend Perry as a Secretary of Energy. He visited all the labs, including Berkeley, and said all the right things, including the value of the basic science mission, and praising the labs’ role in mentoring young scientists from abroad.
As far as the AI / machine learning business is concerned, I have not seen any evidence of the graft angle. This is being driven by the technical management in DOE, which is following the herd in the academic community, stemming from (at least in part) a serious case of Google Envy.
CaseyL
Strange to think that Perry was the least corrupt, most conscientious, and generally “best” Cabinet Secretary in the Trump Administration.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
Not diapers?
Jay
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Diapers because they’d wet themselves, or diapers because they’re babies?
Matt McIrvin
@Shalimar: That’s why Trump is trying to implicate Pence in his crimes. It’s insurance– if Republicans can’t turn on Trump without also getting Pence, they won’t do it, because putting Pelosi in as President would be too terrible for them to contemplate.
Personally I think putting the Speaker of the House third in line of succession is a terrible idea– it should not be possible to flip the party of the presidency by, for instance, assassinating two people. And as much as we’d prefer to see Pelosi in the White House, that possibility is probably keeping Republicans in a state of total denial that anyone did anything wrong.
J R in WV
@Another Scott:
Of course, he had no way of knowing that. He was firmly convinced that DOE was in charge of Oil and Gas and Coal, and as Gov of TX he knew al about Oil and Gas and all that. How to make money as governor of a state filled up with oil and gas bidness. Yessirree~!
J R in WV
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
His first experience with a monstrous cover up was in Vietnam, when he was in charge of the “investigation” of the Mỹ Lai Massacre of women and children. Mr. Powell is a walking, talking piece of shit, and has been for his entire career, including his retirement.