Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Jeff Sessions on verge of Confirmation for Attorney General


Jeff Sessions's name was voted out of committee to the full Senate 11 votes yes to 9 votes no.  Final passage isn't expected till later tonight.  Elizabeth Warren was ruled out of order by Mitch Mc Connell when he attacked Senator Jeff Sessions on Civil Rights.  It’s the darndest thing I’ve ever heard.  She quoted Coretta Scott King for complaining about an unjust prosecution of Blacks in a voting rights case in 1984.  Sessions indicated an eagerness to prosecute Blacks in a case where they were eventually acquitted and then was up for a judge ship in 1986.  She was reading a letter from Coretta Scott king that was entered into the congressional record in 1986.  Apparently a congressman can attack anybody and everybody in committee hearings whether the charges are true or not.  But you’re not allowed to say something that’s completely true in the hall.  Jeff Sessions is in the process of getting the final approval vote for Attorney General and the way I figure it, the more power to everybody and anybody who uses all of the political power they poses to stop him.  Stated another say, we now know that the U S Senate is on stated record as being a racist, bigoted body who denies the light of Truth from penetrating its chambers.  If anybody had any doubts about whether Jeff Sessions was a racist, this ends those doubts. 

Stephanie is still clinging to the theory that Donald Trump won’t be president for much longer.  I think these liberals are just getting desperate grabbing at straws.  I’m afraid something horrible is going to have to happen either with the economy or in world affairs before people are “disabused” of the notion that Donald Trump is the greatest thing since sliced bread.   It’s the same way the Germans and Japanese had to be “broken in spirit’ as a people being utterly defeated in war before they at last saw the light and realized they’d been under the spell of dictators.  If there is a way of somehow short circuiting the process I don’t know what it is.  Mao Tse Tung said in his little red book, “Power flows from the barrel of a gun”.  It’s still true.  

Yemen's foreign minister said Wednesday his government has asked for a "reassessment” of a U.S. anti-terrorism raid last month that apparently caused the deaths of several women and children, but he denied reports that the government requested a suspension of American ground operations.  “Yemen continues to cooperate with the United States and continues to abide by all the agreements,” Abdul-Malik al-Mekhlafi said, according to the Associated Press. He said the government “is involved in talks with the U.S. administration on the latest raid.”  His remarks followed news reports that Yemen's government had demanded a halt to U.S. special operations. He said the reports are “not true,” according to the AP.  Yemen's government controls only part of the country, which has been divided by civil war. A Saudi-led coalition is fighting Houthi rebels, which are supported by Iran. The chaos has allowed al-Qaeda to grow in strength.

 Betsey De Vos was confirmed as Secretary of Education.  Two republican senators defected but they needed three to defeat her.  Mike Pence broke the tie vote.   I’ve been saying for days now that the democrats can flap their gums all they want but Trump is getting his way and all of the cabinet appointments as well as the Supreme Court justice, will be approved almost without a hitch.  The democrats are out of political capital, pure and simple.   And I’m tempted to say the same thing about world leaders regarding Trump.  They may initially complain about his brashness or inexperience but in the end they will go along with him and make deals with him. 

There are three types of hyperbolas.  The first classic type is the one in the formula for hyperbolic trig where there is a ninety degree angle cocked at a 45 degree angle each way.  From this the calculations from hyperbolic trig are made.  A plus sign is turned into a minus sign so this type could be called a circle “turned inside out”.  There is another type of hyperbola even more basic, which is the one where a space craft overshoots a planet it’s supposed to be orbiting and goes off on a tangent out somewhere away from the planet.  This one differs from the first kind is that the angle needn’t be a ninety degree angle.  It could be between anything and a hundred and eighty.  (or 179)  This and the first kind of hyperbola have an official “midpoint”, and in this orbital type it’s the closest the space craft ever gets to the planet before it starts getting farther away.  It gains speed till it hits the midpoint and then slowly loses speed from that point on.  Both parts of this hyperbola are symmetrical.  There is a third type of hyperbola and this is a ninety degree hyperbola like the first type however it differs from both the first and second kind in that there is no official “midpoint” of the hyperbola.  It’s all how it’s grafted.  You may see a hyperbola on the national debt or some other economic debt trend and see a hyperbola- - but twenty years ago you could have drawn what looked like the same shape.  So the “midpoint” of the hyperbola in this type keeps shirting, because indeed the ‘midpoint” is a subjective experience and in fact doesn’t really exist.  There is no “mid” point.  One might say a hyperbola is the opposite of a Venn diagram.  In that diagram what’s on the inside of the circle is what’s relevant, or the data you’re showing.  But with a hyperbola it’s the information on the outside of a hyperbola that’s relevant.  I just thought that was an interesting fact.  

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