In the Sept. 21 interview with [Sean] Hannity, Trump indicated that there should be no concern about taking classified documents to Mar-a-Lago. He said that’s because when he was president, he had the power to declassify documents at will — without having to document that decision or go through any formal steps to coordinate with executive branch agencies.
Here’s the exchange:
Hannity: “OK, you have said on Truth Social a number of times you did declassify —”
Trump: “I did declassify.”
Hannity: “OK. Is there a process? What was your process to declassify?
Trump: “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. You know, there’s — different people say different things, but as I understand there doesn’t have to be. If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it, because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you’re sending it. And there doesn’t have to be a process. There can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be. You’re the president, you make that decision. So when you send it, it’s declassified. I declassified everything.”
(from PolitiFact)
It’s a new week and I’m going to try something different. I was originally thinking I would leave up any and all posts for the week until the following week, but I’ve decided instead to keep the Avenue with three posts up, and we’ll see how that goes for a while. As always, feel free to offer your comments if its working for you, or not. Remember, you can comment on any of the posts that are active and showing. (This may not work in the long run, but we’ll see.) And you can always r/o a post.
Michael Moore was on Bill Maher. He was asked about the mid-term elections.
He’s absolutely right – women need to show up and VOTE!
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Most of the earthlings we have inspected prior to bringing them up have chemically impaired endocrine systems. Should we replace the hormones they are missing, before or after we bring them up or a all?
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There is an article in the San Francisco paper today that the Huntington Hotel “has tumbled into a loan default that means the property faces foreclosure on its delinquent financing,” The Big Four has the best bar in the whole city in my opinion! If only I had an extra 61 million dollars lying around.
We checked. It can be acquired for less.
Too bad my bank account is also less.
Poor Pinellas County and Tampa Bay are about get hammered. I’m thinking of all of you in Florida. Don’t be a hero and refuse to evacuate. This one is looking massive. Stay safe!
We are going to hammer that place. They harmed Howie.
The state harmed Howie? How did the state harm Howie? Or who is “they” if not the state? I can’t see Xhua being pleased with that scenario but you know best I’m sure
The state of Florida used its power to force Howie to have to leave his home. The people of Florida elected those corrupt and greedy politicians. They will pay. We will make an example of them.
Unless I am stopped, I will show the Gods that we do not accept what the humans did to Howie.
As I recall, Howie didn’t even live in that area. But do you know who did? The Navigator and family. I don’t think Xhua would get involved to stop you (but who knows when crazy awakes). Seriously I would not expect any favors from that quarter should you follow through and trash _______. That a favorite’s favorite. Maybe you might want to make a calculated skip over that town. Just a thought.
Also don’t forget to look up in the sky tonight – Jupiter will appear to be the biggest and brightest in has been in almost 60 years! It will be the brightest natural object other than the Moon, in the night sky tonight. You can see it for the next few weeks.
Did You Know?
The same woman, Kathryn Beaumont, provided both the voice acting for Alice and Wendy in the original Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953) as well as their characters, a half century later, in the 2002 video game Kingdom Hearts.
ALERT: —-+++——-
Everyone using RFID-enabled credit cards and passports destroy them immediately. Humans are using handheld chip readers to track you. We will reissue same with metal materials that will block the radio waves of your RFID chips.
Should you allow the Philippine typhoon to reach Guam, your ship and all its occupants will be destroyed.
You’re being watched
Critics call it bossware. Technology used to surveil workers, already widely adopted in lower-wage industries, is growing popular in the white-collar world — managers track keystrokes, mouse clicks and even take screenshots of monitors, Emily writes.
Why it matters: The uptick in monitoring happened as more workers went remote, and managers increasingly worried that they weren’t working. “Productivity paranoia,” is what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called it in a Bloomberg Television interview last week.
What’s happening: The number of employers who use some kind of worker surveillance doubled since the pandemic, the vice president of HR research at Gartner tells the WSJ. Two-thirds of medium-to-large companies now do this, up from one-third, he says.
In some cases, workers say monitoring cheats them out of pay. A finance executive told the NYT that if she stepped away to use the bathroom, her computer would go idle and the time wouldn’t be counted toward her hourly rate.
State of play: There isn’t clear data showing that this kind of monitoring actually increases productivity, as Christopher Mims reports in the WSJ.
Studies do show that monitoring increases worker stress, and absenteeism — perhaps not the desired impact during a labor shortage and at a time of increased worker unrest.
Workers also game these systems — some buying “mouse jigglers,” to make it seem like they’re working while away from the desk, doing something crazy, like making coffee.
Zoom out: Working from home is inherently different from working in the office. Folks work on weekends or later in the night. Sometimes the lines between personal and professional are more mixed up.
“It behooves companies to respect worker privacy as people shift quickly from personal to employment-related activities and back during the course of the day,” notes Brookings senior fellow Darrell West in a recent blog post.
If employers decide to forge ahead with close monitoring anyway, human resource group SHRM advises “being transparent” about it.
The bottom line: Trust is a key ingredient in the relationship between boss and worker. Obsessive monitoring does not typically foster that connection.
When you think white men can be trusted, think again.
What things were discovered accidentally?
This lady’s death saved literally billions of people from becoming crippled, limbless and dead.
In 1951 Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American farmer and mother to five visited The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the few places in Maryland willing to treat African American patients. Henrietta Lacks complained to the doctors about random bleedings and pain in her groin and how she was worried it was going to affect her work.
Upon examination by gynecologist Dr. Howard Jones, the doctors found a massive malignant tumor on her cervix; because of this Henrietta started undergoing radium treatments for her cervical cancer (which back then was the best medical treatment available for this terrible disease).
Alongside the treatment, a sample of her cancer cells was sent to Dr. George Gey’s nearby tissue lab. For years, Dr. Gey, a cancer and virus researcher, had been collecting cells from patients who came to The Johns Hopkins Hospital with cervical cancer, but each sample taken quickly died in Dr. Gey’s lab, all apart from Henrietta Lacks’. Henrietta Lacks’ cells did not die, in fact they would replicate every 24 hours.
This was an amazing medical breakthrough, for decades whenever anyone tried to experiment on human cells to find a cure for a disease they would simply die within hours, but with Henrietta Lacks’ cells, they survived and could grow again and again meaning that there was now nearly an infinite amount of these perfect cells alive if used correctly.
The first things these cells were tested on was polio, and instead of dying straight away like most cells they survived. This allowed scientists to experiment on Henrietta’s cells until they found a vaccine for one of the biggest children killers of the early 20th century: polio.
Curing polio was only the beginning of Henrietta Lacks’ cells’ career — by the end of the century her cells were used to create the first human-animal hybrids in 1965, Human Papillomavirus vaccines (also saving millions of lives), better hygiene improvements and better understanding of cells in general. Today scientists have grown as much as 50 million metric tons of her cells and they are being used to find cures/vaccines to things such as ebola, cancer and Typhoid.
Henrietta Lacks unfortunately never found out about her contribution to science as she died only a couple of weeks after her treatment; her cells were also taken without her knowledge and her family only found out about what she did for medicine and science 20 years later.
Writer: Alex Foster.
Speaking of white men fucking things up.
What is the single most useless thing ever?
As a man, I have to say this. I apologize to women everywhere for one thing that is completely useless.
I discovered this one day because my wife and I are both slim and tall. We also wear the same size jeans.
What I discovered was something I never experienced before. I was 45 when I found out that there truly is gender inequality in all aspects of life.
The thing I discovered was: women’s pockets.
I AM SO SORRY you have to put up with the stupid-ass, useless, hair-brained pockets on your pants, ladies. Why do they even TRY to make them if they aren’t going to make them the least bit useful.
I had just gotten dressed and accidentally put on my wife’s pants. Then I stuck my hands in the pockets to smooth them out on the inside. I only got my first 2 fingerbones in there. I thought I was in the Twilight Zone and somehow had my pants altered by some insane maniac overnight.
Imagine my surprise when my wife confirmed that that is how they are supposed to be.
Let’s try to eliminate the glass pocket ceiling! Give women equal pockets!!
Warm the air above it and when it reaches shore allow it to just hover for a while.
JOKE:
A blonde, wanting to earn some money, decided to hire herself out as a handyman-type and started canvassing a wealthy neighborhood.
She went to the front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had any jobs for her to do. “Well, you can paint my porch. How much will you charge?”
The blonde said “How about 50 dollars?”
The man agreed and told her that the paint and other materials that she might need were in the garage. The man’s wife, inside the house, heard the conversation and said to her husband, “Does she realize that the porch goes all the way around the house?” The man replied, “She should, she was standing on it.”
A short time later, the blonde came to the door to collect her money.
“You’re finished already?” he asked.
“Yes,” the blonde answered, “and I had paint left over, so I gave it two coats.”
Impressed, the man reached in his pocket for the $50.
“And by the way,” the blonde added, “it’s not a Porch, it’s a Ferrari.”