Abulsme.com: August 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Useful Thing

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam is joined by guest host Bruce. Sam and Bruce go lightning round format and hit a lot of different topics including the “uberization” of all sorts of things, a couple movies Sam watched, preliminary thoughts on the 2020 Presidential election, whether Trump is being bashed for the wrong things, jury nullification… and more!

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Recorded 2018-08-30
Length this week – 1:27:39

(0:00:20-0:40:25) Lightning One
- Bruce: Sam’s shifting politics
- Bruce: Bashing Trump for the wrong things?
- Sam: Movie: The Incredibles (2004)
- Sam: Movie: The Incredibles 2 (2018)
- Bruce: Manafort trial and jury nullification
- Sam: John McCain
(0:41:04-1:27:19) Lightning Two
- Bruce: Uberization of everything
- Sam: Democratic superdelegate rules
- Sam: Democratic caucus and primary rules
- Bruce: Smoke detector batteries
- Sam: Bruce and local politics
- Sam: Election 2020

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-30 (UTC)

04:06:42 Retweeted @nytimes 2018-08-28 22:47:02 An ex-CIA officer running for Congress in Virginia accused a GOP super PAC of leaking her security clearance papersвЂ¦ https://t.co/28boJRpMTa
15:07:15 Retweeted @jonathanchait 13:04:24 Trump is a coastal snob who secretly hates his own supporters https://t.co/HHPDnXPGrQ https://t.co/XgtLX941lM
17:44:04 Retweeted @ShaneGoldmacher 16:50:29 Related: Virginia is no longer seen as a swing state https://t.co/IYBQp7xtzz
17:46:45 Retweeted @tackettdc 17:22:40 BREAKING: Postal Service Accepts Blame for Release of Candidate’s Security File and Asks for It Back https://t.co/2Q9rQutab0
17:47:26 Biden on right now. Listening. https://t.co/C3VVKkLoxe
21:00:50 Reading – Apple Watch Series 4 revealed вЂ” massive display, dense watch face, more (Zac Hall – 9 to 5 Mac) https://t.co/9AxCXu5hdC
21:02:05 Reading – This is вЂiPhone XS’ вЂ” design, larger version, and gold colors confirmed (Guilherme Rambo – 9 to 5 Mac) https://t.co/DWDRvbZjJw

@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-29 (UTC)

00:08:12 Retweeted @intelligencer 2018-08-28 21:45:01 Trump’s trade deal with Mexico is totally fake, but it has the potential to reshape not just trade, but U.S. politiвЂ¦ https://t.co/vGmOnfyxxP
01:22:17 @BYUfan Um, uh… in reply to BYUfan
07:08:29 Retweeted @Matt_Kiser 05:32:01 Inside McCain’s surprise eulogy invitation to Obama
https://t.co/7iWsW1oZbz via @CurrentStatus
14:12:55 Reading – Republicans can’t even agree to take a segregationist’s name off a building (Rubin – WaPo) https://t.co/2WwRGjYTQZ
16:14:18 Retweeted @TheRickWilson 14:43:39 Well, this is off to a good start. https://t.co/5KIB4idr0S
18:08:08 Surprise! https://t.co/PAgzZ251wR
18:10:36 Retweeted @HowellONeill 17:23:48 FBI pushes back on unfounded Trump claim that China hacked Hillary Clinton’s email https://t.co/R9lmwVhkwg
18:43:55 A growing number of Democrats now disagree with this too. It is unhealthy on both sides, and will lead to results tвЂ¦ https://t.co/SxL7M1YNoe
20:14:42 Nice. Nice. https://t.co/HUYrjjsqL6
21:10:54 Sigh. https://t.co/HHXlrXPdPi
21:11:00 Retweeted @SJGrunewald 20:56:14 The time to argue about candidates is during the primary. Once the winner is selected you line up behind whoever woвЂ¦ https://t.co/tIl6H8Ol2z
21:25:05 The writers for this season need to get more creative. https://t.co/oPivuaaSLo
21:44:07 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 21:20:56 Mueller’s prosecutors want more time to decide whether they’ll seek to re-try Paul Manafort on the 10 counts the ViвЂ¦ https://t.co/tKn8kAMCeG

@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-28 (UTC)

02:03:55 Reading – Lanny Davis Says He Was A Source For CNN’s Trump Tower Story https://t.co/r3VzAN49uI
02:13:11 Good thread by Brendan. Very similar to my own thoughts on such things. I still cling to some institutionalize procвЂ¦ https://t.co/cKcmxC7osi
05:44:30 !! https://t.co/XTmFtJvxPY
06:26:33 Retweeted @Pogue 2018-08-27 15:17:22 EXCLUSIVE: Fitbit has now accumulated 150 BILLION hours’ worth of heart-rate dataвЂ”the biggest dataset in historyвЂ”anвЂ¦ https://t.co/0ZpP9yjwEk
14:37:56 Retweeted @WALeXMXeLAW 07:52:39 (167) NormalEla Robla: https://t.co/KOoeHY4y4d via @YouTube
17:52:30 So sad. -> Boy, 9, commits suicide after coming out as gay, being bullied by classmates: mom (Kathleen Joyce – Fox) https://t.co/02UYMJtwAl
17:54:50 Reading – Apple might kill off sophisticated iPhone tech that took 5 years to develop вЂ“ and I’m glad (Zach EpsteinвЂ¦ https://t.co/aH3CwOaJd4
17:58:52 Reading – U.S. court says North Carolina gerrymander is illegal, seeks new congressional map (Jon Herskovitz – ReutвЂ¦ https://t.co/RpNmugpB89
18:06:04 Reading – After years of effort, physicists spot Higgs boson decaying in most ordinary way (Adrian Cho – Science) https://t.co/7SlNSx1RZe
18:38:23 Retweeted @Variety 2018-08-27 19:20:12 Weird Al has one request: “Please don’t pickaxe my star. I know it’s all the rage these days, but that’s not cool.вЂ¦ https://t.co/FvrAfZZPx6
19:34:14 FFS https://t.co/1nRsmRNnh8
19:38:59 Retweeted @sm_osment 2018-08-27 19:47:31 today i asked my class to come up with a pair of terms that share a denotative meaning but whose connotative meaninвЂ¦ https://t.co/xvXwO1bd6s
19:41:52 Retweeted @ABCPolitics 19:29:16 Sen. Lindsey Graham breaks down in tears while offering a tribute to his friend John McCain:
“I learned that failuвЂ¦ https://t.co/xK2p6E7CDj
19:49:12 InterestingвЂ¦ -> Report: Matt Smith Looks to Be Joining Star Wars: Episode IX (James Whitbrook – io9) https://t.co/G79vUhN48U
20:00:15 Retweeted @AndrewRestuccia 17:25:09 I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out this question: Does a statement read by Sarah Sanders outlining tвЂ¦ https://t.co/Vt1zUyjj3C
21:25:04 Retweeted @NASASolarSystem 21:19:47 First look: the @NASANewHorizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper BeltвЂ¦ https://t.co/Nb3fjRHYn8

@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-27 (UTC)

01:13:45 Great list. I’m sure more can be added. It is, as they say, a target rich environment. https://t.co/8TyBMvADc1
01:15:58 Retweeted @OctopusCaveman 2018-08-26 04:56:30 My 5 year old son just asked вЂњwhat if we put a slice of turkey in the DVD player and it played a movie about the tuвЂ¦ https://t.co/eNqgqyDCDl
01:39:02 Retweeted @WotDpod 01:36:17 Today’s episode of popular Wiki of the Day is on the article John McCain.Listen to the new episode here:вЂ¦ https://t.co/gSj5Y4J0K4
01:58:02 Retweeted @KatieMGio 2018-08-25 14:57:21 Mollie Tibbets mom. People need to step off.
#mollietibbits
#truth https://t.co/qUM26EHpI9
02:11:16 Retweeted @MyEverettNews 02:00:52 It appears @EverettSchools and their teachers have reached a tentative contract agreement and school in #Everett wiвЂ¦ https://t.co/ibpEPUluGa
08:21:19 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/nARKTf3ZE5 Super Glue Gets Even WEIRDER (Testing Your Ideas!)
08:35:05 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/qrDdZo9oHN 4 Experiments with Batteries
09:26:10 Listening to Story of the Day : NPR Foster Parents And Migrant Kids https://t.co/SbyHlKN7CE
11:50:33 I spent a lot of time as a child under a table in their kid’s section reading while my parents worked downstairs atвЂ¦ https://t.co/DonyGAV1XE
12:02:15 The book I bought from @RegulatorBooks: The Marginalized Majority: Claiming our Power in a Post-truth America by OnвЂ¦ https://t.co/efGbxpDNoZ in reply to abulsme
12:08:16 Retweeted @AstroKatie 2018-08-26 17:48:22 The view of the Earth from BEHIND the Moon. This is an amazing (composite) video, created out of real data fromвЂ¦ https://t.co/fjDxGbzkfm
12:08:51 Retweeted @jimsciutto 11:05:09 New: Europe can вЂњno longer relyвЂќ on the United States for its security, says French President Emmanuel Macron. вЂњItвЂ¦ https://t.co/QIpGyiWIky
12:13:08 Retweeted @Zeddary 12:07:16 The interesting thing about this petty breach of decorum is that Trump is still holding 500 kids as hostages from tвЂ¦ https://t.co/WKE4Mhse2d
12:18:34 Retweeted @Pidgers28 2018-08-26 07:36:55 Overheard at British Museum –
Young boy to Dad – вЂwhen you die, can I use your skull to strike fear into the heartsвЂ¦ https://t.co/qDomGYJSJz
12:48:17 Retweeted @KevinMKruse 12:19:40 Sometimes I wonder why the Trump team’s alleged abilities to communicate with ordinary Americans can’t mask the facвЂ¦ https://t.co/zPAT1AdRVQ
13:24:26 Retweeted @emptywheel 12:12:29 Seriously, there should be some convention about whether we report the ravings of a septuagenarian lawyer-flack witвЂ¦ https://t.co/Cj4XyXMd1n
16:35:20 Retweeted @PeteSouza 16:06:21 This is a very informative thread, which shows he has no clue what he’s doing. https://t.co/pRU6bstUAV
16:38:45 Reading – U.S. and Mexico make NAFTA breakthrough, Trump threatens to exclude Canada | The Star https://t.co/EIutwb1uc5
18:00:21 Retweeted @kellymagsamen 16:23:22 So….without Canada, this “deal” has no standing. Pretty amazing to watch the media overlook this pretty importanвЂ¦ https://t.co/EkaOa9u8Fo
18:00:28 Retweeted @NarangVipin 17:35:37 <symbol><symbol>He. Did. Not. Agree. To. That.<symbol><symbol> https://t.co/tSoNaezGTu
18:04:22 Retweeted @NBCNews 17:56:11 The late John McCain’s full farewell statement: https://t.co/xfxGkv7MNd in reply to NBCNews
21:15:04 Can Pence trigger the 25th yet please? https://t.co/yZq5QgbZu5
22:14:21 @LibertyJen @kebejay Seattle. Last year. :-) https://t.co/wkftzmyFzP in reply to LibertyJen
22:25:21 Oops https://t.co/KQi4c4ecgE
23:11:44 Retweeted @ClaireKIRO7 23:03:34 Moderate & Good air quality across the state today! NO air quality warnings in effect at this time.Enjoy the freвЂ¦ https://t.co/RJGsH6sLrx

@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-26 (UTC)

00:20:25 <symbol> https://t.co/TIZpWU5JN0
03:28:27 Retweeted @MeghanMcCain 00:41:34 I love you forever – my beloved father @SenJohnMcCain https://t.co/Y50tVQvlVe
03:30:05 Retweeted @BarackObama 01:09:45 Our statement on the passing of Senator John McCain: https://t.co/3GBjNYxoj5
03:34:03 Retweeted @katiecandraw 2018-08-24 21:32:22 My 7yo daughter: someone at camp said girls aren’t tough.Me: what did you say to that?
My 7yo, who has had a loвЂ¦ https://t.co/vrczrqw1ua
04:40:39 Retweeted @MaxBoot 02:27:20 McCain’s passing, tragic at any time, is all the sadder now. His dedication to global leadership, advocacy for humaвЂ¦ https://t.co/rhLnHsGZFk
11:45:41 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 11:45:00 Front page of @nytimes. https://t.co/CUTmQbp7xw
12:02:15 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Information in the Information https://t.co/iO0tAVkpAO https://t.co/3wgk1HI5L1
17:02:31 Yes. It does matter. It provides a minimum baseline that must be passed before conversations about policy can evenвЂ¦ https://t.co/QqLbAiUWQF
21:24:55 Retweeted @BrendanNyhan 21:06:36 We memorialize that moment because it represents precisely what is so lacking in today’s politics – politicians wilвЂ¦ https://t.co/xcBH5VYxDt
22:55:22 Retweeted @NWSSeattle 22:50:42 The Air Quality Alert for #King, #Kitsap & #Snohomish counties has ended. However, smoke could return on Monday & aвЂ¦ https://t.co/DA6Z1kwnfw

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Purely accidental alignment in this selfie. But it kinda freaked me out when I saw it. :-)

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Information in the Information

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan talk about… what else? The Manafort verdicts, the Cohen guilty plea, and the potential implications of both, and how things might go from here. But first, Ivan talks about airplanes, the podcast got another iTunes review worth noting, and Sam saw a couple more movies.

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Recorded 2018-08-24
Length this week – 2:02:34

(0:01:43-0:24:34) But First
(0:25:13-0:48:22) Paul Manafort
(0:49:42-1:20:34) Michael Cohen
(1:21:49-2:02:14) What’s Next?

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-25 (UTC)

02:17:31 Fun times coming. https://t.co/Ni45KuTQyy
02:19:36 Retweeted @NatashaBertrand 2018-08-24 23:39:51 Jerry George, the former LA bureau chief of the National Enquirer, tells @CNN that Trump had stories killed about hвЂ¦ https://t.co/JZmpMtC0Pm
02:20:42 Retweeted @JohnKerry 01:26:53 The secret’s out – busted! https://t.co/hj2E94C7og
02:33:03 Retweeted @thehill 2018-08-24 14:01:09 Florida GOP candidate: I was abducted by aliens but that doesn’t define me https://t.co/ZQy39H0hvi https://t.co/aChXMEQdiK
03:04:56 Retweeted @weatherdak 01:38:22 Mesmerizing loop of Lane getting torn apart along with some cool transverse banding. ( https://t.co/pgySF1s5Ig ) https://t.co/4Iki7QRnPq
03:15:12 Retweeted @MichLKosinski 2018-08-24 20:25:35 Source: State Dept folks caught “completely off guard” by Trump’s cancelling Pompeo’s trip to NKorea; they had beeвЂ¦ https://t.co/GBvNakMVdl
04:40:26 Oops https://t.co/6ImJb3LiYF
06:53:34 Retweeted @voodoodad 2018-08-24 23:52:38 Remember that time a while back when Trump and Saruman laid their hands on the Palantir so they could collude withвЂ¦ https://t.co/5bDr8mIdNt
07:00:52 Retweeted @2020fight 01:22:40 The President has colored his flag wrong.That is all. https://t.co/wWXBgR9I6V
14:19:29 The question should be at the beginning. If there is an non-disparagement agreement, the interview should end immedвЂ¦ https://t.co/dNKFa8MVC1
17:35:30 Maybe not in the 2020 cycle, but I am certain that at some point in the future, D’s will regret this change. If R’sвЂ¦ https://t.co/ggJmvpLC9D
18:12:35 Retweeted @_youhadonejob1 17:57:42 That was unexpected. https://t.co/7G1YIKJaNf

@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-24 (UTC)

02:17:01 Retweeted @JeffreyGoldberg 2018-08-23 16:33:31 вЂњI literally controlled Manhattan, literally. You want concrete poured in Manhattan? That was me. Tishman, Donald TвЂ¦ https://t.co/Kv7SdjlOEI
02:28:13 Sigh. Lets not. https://t.co/sI7fdwK2Nd
02:34:46 Retweeted @IsaacDovere 2018-08-23 00:37:37 in the midst of all this, everyone has just internalized that the president had affairs with a porn star and PlayboвЂ¦ https://t.co/mJdOQETjL0
04:38:05 Retweeted @pattonoswalt 2018-08-23 17:21:32 <symbol>If you like piГ±a colada… https://t.co/dR4j0xAu1h
06:18:39 Cc @imbou https://t.co/1v8I1F2YXP
07:11:39 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 2018-08-23 23:57:58 Interesting moment on CNN: After Rob Astorino defends Trump’s post-conviction praise of Paul Manafort, Poppy HarlowвЂ¦ https://t.co/HTVDhr0EGY
14:55:37 Boom https://t.co/4PwtYIxoAM
15:07:54 <symbol> https://t.co/NoQsOKzaez
15:20:01 Oops https://t.co/JH5rzL0yis
15:28:21 Retweeted @xeni 15:19:08 Senator McCain is a warfighter. He has fought and won plenty of battles. Let him rest now. He’s not losing anythingвЂ¦ https://t.co/PsZA7dGGev in reply to xeni
15:29:16 Retweeted @CNNPolitics 15:19:02 Read the McCain family’s full statement https://t.co/niE2pDdCAM https://t.co/0TUe1NVby7 in reply to CNNPolitics
19:00:28 Retweeted @jacobsoboroff 2018-08-23 22:59:15 BREAKING: New Trump administration breakdown of 2,654 separated migrant kids.Numbers barely moving.
➡️ 528 *stilвЂ¦ https://t.co/SkthgywucI
19:12:25 <symbol> https://t.co/cisxOtoOPU
20:43:47 Retweeted @JuddLegum 2018-08-23 23:52:09 Having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that Trump’s personal attorney stood in a federal court and saiвЂ¦ https://t.co/xLYkUD5SXS
20:54:09 Retweeted @WhatsaTararrel 13:36:46 I unironically love @Popehat‘s strategy of, “I’ll tell you about Trump, but while you’re here, let me tell you abouвЂ¦ https://t.co/XQ8GMf5Bb7
20:57:39 This is a cheery thread… https://t.co/X9T2OdYC5E
21:59:07 This https://t.co/c9lUGtdGg0
23:08:04 @AshaRangappa_ Could there be state tax issues too? Or are no NY state taxes at play? in reply to AshaRangappa_

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