Abulsme.com: November 2018

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Chain of Events

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam is joined by Ed and Jon for another lightning round show. Twelve topics, including the stock market, an update on Sam’s dad, Sam’s thoughts on his new Apple Watch, Nancy Pelosi swatting down the attempt to challenge her for Speaker, that unfortunate encounter with the Sentinelese, some thoughts on spankings… and six more things.

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Recorded 2018-11-24
Length this week – 2:15:22

(0:00:20-0:26:39) Lightning #1
- Sam: Dad update
- Jon: Sentinelese encounter
- Ed: Roberts vs Trump
(0:28:22-1:06:35) Lightning #2
- Sam: Apple Watch
- Jon: Movie: Eighth Grade (2018)
- Ed: Climate Report
(1:07:50-1:43:38) Lightning #3
- Sam: Nancy Pelosi
- Jon: Stock Market
- Ed: Comey Deposition
(1:45:54-2:15:02) Lightning #4
- Sam: Trump and Saudi Arabia
- Jon: GoFundMe fraud
- Ed: Spanking

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-11-24 (UTC)

02:47:38 Retweeted @natsecHeather 01:30:12 I wouldn’t have chosen week Admin lost in two other court cases and shown civilian pols blundering around giving unвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ka6Gd7bazK
10:59:57 Retweeted @MrTimDunn 2018-11-23 08:11:57 I have been asked an interesting question. Why does London’s Moorgate tube station have a mix of вЂњtraditionalвЂќ bar-вЂ¦ https://t.co/XnGrYNWpiX
17:32:30 Retweeted @DepressedDarth 2018-11-23 21:06:45 THIS DESERVES ENDLESS RETWEETS https://t.co/g8hT03fng0
18:15:12 Listening to Internet History Podcast 183. Selling the First Facebook Ads, With Matt Britton https://t.co/nbw9gb23WE
18:38:39 Listening to Vox’s The Weeds The Impact: How do you make education funding fair? https://t.co/G5MQH57Pno
18:40:07 Retweeted @JamilSmith 18:39:06 I don’t know whether @cindyhydesmith graduating from a segregation academy made her so willing to indulge neo-ConfeвЂ¦ https://t.co/fGuzD4huoN
18:48:17 Retweeted @robtrench 2018-11-23 05:20:58 I hope Disney knows what they’re doing with this all-CGI remake of The Lion King https://t.co/kGlv6FVnXr
22:24:11 Oops. Should I not have put my life savings in Bitcoin? Should I not have done that? Oops. https://t.co/V4Lp96GMgn
23:00:05 Retweeted @bighappyhead 22:44:41 #Napoleon Was Attacked by Rabbits
“the rabbit horde divided into two wings and poured around the flanks of the partвЂ¦ https://t.co/DHwN2oX5AN
23:22:24 WTAF. https://t.co/QrFPJHP1EV
23:39:19 Listening to With her What Now (Part 2) https://t.co/42foObGQ72

@abulsme tweets from 2018-11-23 (UTC)

00:24:10 Retweeted @tripgabriel 00:15:15 Was once the chairman of the Republican National CommitteeвЂ”> https://t.co/aJmws7ULEr
00:27:54 Vaccinate your kids. It isn’t just about you. Or even them. https://t.co/6dJ08oN6ZO
01:27:49 Retweeted @GayPatriot 00:43:55 Holy shit, this is going to make so much money https://t.co/jUAOueVp7x
04:37:14 Retweeted @LightsCameraPod 2018-11-22 23:21:55 Here’s a side-by-side of ‘The Lion King’ trailer with the same scenes from the 1994 original movie. #TheLionKing https://t.co/nHpKHWDzPJ
18:05:32 Retweeted @amyspitalnick 17:47:04 #BREAKING: NY Supreme Court throws out Trump’s motion to dismiss @NewYorkStateAG Underwood’s Trump Foundation lawsuвЂ¦ https://t.co/4SSnf7gFFO

@abulsme tweets from 2018-11-22 (UTC)

00:27:40 Retweeted @natsecHeather 2018-11-21 22:56:38 Sec Mattis told reporters to “relax” but I argue there’s no relaxing when WH plays it loose w/ law and chain of comвЂ¦ https://t.co/8rK8FETuIm
00:36:33 Retweeted @katherinemiller 00:26:52 Hit play on this for a second and they were chatting about the importance of the rubber spatula in bakingвЂ¦ https://t.co/3nCnsgkmYo
02:15:14 Retweeted @JonLemire 2018-11-21 22:18:57 NEW: On January 27, President Donald Trump was to be quietly whisked to Camp David for an interview with Mueller’sвЂ¦ https://t.co/96Hspm2ya7
02:31:57 Retweeted @DrGetafix 2018-11-21 09:07:38 As much as I’m sure they’ll want to fire the driver, they need to ask themselves: “How did our system evolve to theвЂ¦ https://t.co/02UjVvU73A
02:34:18 Retweeted @sfpelosi 01:14:03 I mean … any of us 5 kids could have told you this years ago. (Some of us did!) #DontMessWithMama #TeamPelosi https://t.co/0bwR6wq41L
02:35:27 Retweeted @TulsiGabbard 2018-11-21 17:01:59 Hey @realdonaldtrump: being Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not вЂњAmerica First.вЂќ
03:04:28 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/m9jwMB79u5 Ion drive: The first flight
03:17:46 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/9SajdNeooK Aerospike Engines – Why Aren’t We Using them Now?
12:37:15 Retweeted @grimalkinrn 2018-11-21 04:56:16 Because we were literally asleep. https://t.co/v7MskP78no
13:45:42 Retweeted @washingtonpost 2018-11-21 22:48:42 After Khashoggi’s killing, Trump sent a clear signal: With enough money, you can get away with murder, The Post’s pвЂ¦ https://t.co/RUbTM6UUs2
14:58:15 Great thread with contradictions in both parties. https://t.co/NBuFhWXLcE
16:07:36 Retweeted @AnnMemmott 12:04:24 Autism and Phones.
A thread.
We get a lot of confusion about autism, and use of phones. This is possibly because oвЂ¦ https://t.co/XFX5snTZ4H
16:08:49 Retweeted @DavidCornDC 16:01:17 His predecessor died a month before. Next guy might want to say no. https://t.co/10AQFcLiSm
16:55:27 Retweeted @mickbk 15:12:29 Trump: вЂњSteam is very reliable. Electromagnetic вЂ“ unfortunately you have to be Albert Einstein to really work it prвЂ¦ https://t.co/i5Y67rpCf5
22:19:44 Retweeted @dataandpolitics 21:08:28 The reason biscuits suck outside the South is … science?!https://t.co/3enCyM0rqv
23:07:42 Retweeted @DisneyStudios 22:33:02 July 19, 2019. #TheLionKing https://t.co/ehTudu6wcm

@abulsme tweets from 2018-11-21 (UTC)

00:13:33 Retweeted @maggieNYT 2018-11-20 23:58:14 These are the kinds of comments from Trump that his advisers often rationalize as вЂњjust how he talks.вЂќ In the caseвЂ¦ https://t.co/Sxiuk7vUwb
00:18:02 Retweeted @DavidCornDC 00:01:37 SCOOP: Matt Whitaker suggested the Trump administration should prosecute Hillary Clinton https://t.co/kH3qekmr3t via @MotherJones
00:49:08 Details on the Avenatti thing from last week -> Avenatti’s Ex-Girlfriend Mareli Miniutti: He Violently Dragged Me OвЂ¦ https://t.co/yoJAuQuOYd
03:18:54 Retweeted @TFWaffleman 2018-11-20 12:55:57 Why the fuck did we let morning people set the world’s operating schedule
05:30:36 Hmmm. -> Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million – TheвЂ¦ https://t.co/t8ijYm0lre
05:42:59 Retweeted @Redistrict 00:05:40 Rep. Mia Love (R)’s defeat to Ben McAdams (D) in #UT04 gets Dems to +39, w/ the possibility of +40 in #CA21 (I stilвЂ¦ https://t.co/K7cYvHiHIx
05:52:56 Retweeted @YiyingLu 2018-11-18 04:02:00 It has been 10 years since my art piece “Lifting a Dreamer” became the Twitter Fail Whale, a symbol as @Twitter‘s sвЂ¦ https://t.co/k57QUMWWeV
12:12:43 Retweeted @Redistrict 03:42:14 Dems’ national lead in raw House votes – now 8.8 million – just broke the record for largest for either party in thвЂ¦ https://t.co/tswGpGm6iv
18:02:39 Retweeted @bpmckeon64 15:42:18 Possible this is kabuki, to respond to unreasonable request from POTUS. Memo allows вЂњ[DoD] military personnelвЂќ to вЂњвЂ¦ https://t.co/GILIBDZVde
18:55:08 Retweeted @normative 18:38:32 Remember, the seven month time limit for an вЂњactingвЂќ AG is suspended while a nomination is pending, and then resetsвЂ¦ https://t.co/VfbDg1EPNa in reply to normative
19:28:50 Retweeted @conor64 13:41:31 Birth rates are down, endangering future Thanksgivings, due to the failure of laid-back, Baby Boomer grandparents tвЂ¦ https://t.co/OO2bIqNNtZ
19:37:13 Retweeted @databyler 14:16:18 New piece on MS-SEN Special in which I talk through1) What type of red state Mississippi is (yes there are differвЂ¦ https://t.co/pXleE8fLpa
20:03:24 Retweeted @Redistrict 19:48:23 If you’d told me before the election that Rs would win an average of 83% of Trump’s ’16 votes in contested House raвЂ¦ https://t.co/etYnLnybQQ
20:03:31 Retweeted @JVLast 19:52:21 The reason R’s should panic about 2020 is that it isn’t that the Trump voters didn’t show up for ’18. They showed uвЂ¦ https://t.co/JE9kWYATn0
21:00:32 Retweeted @EmmaKennedy 20:57:26 I see Donald is now dissing SCOTUS. That’ll go down well when they’re deciding if he can be indicted. *files nails*
21:21:58 Retweeted @komonews 16:42:58 Alaska Air pilot’s detour gives passengers stunning view of Mt. Rainierhttps://t.co/wXrtek0YwM

@abulsme tweets from 2018-11-20 (UTC)

00:46:41 But her ema… oh never mind! Why bother? Nothing matters. https://t.co/DQmlm638ta
05:04:33 Retweeted @maggieNYT 03:54:49 He did. It was reported on last year,
along with hers, by Politico, NYT, Newsweek, others. https://t.co/7TDwZMobL8
14:53:38 Retweeted @intelligencer 13:20:50 President Trump doesn’t understand how one image, one crime, one martyr can crystallize a moment into a movement.вЂ¦ https://t.co/MvUIEozBr4
15:34:27 Retweeted @20committee 15:10:04 BOOM ===>”The central fact of Donald Trump’s presidency is that it was never supposed to happen.”
https://t.co/0deEht7BDT
15:54:36 Retweeted @sahilkapur 15:42:40 There’s growing angst among House Democrats that the Pelosi uncertainty is hurting the caucus.Here’s how one seniвЂ¦ https://t.co/wfGuq2xDfF
18:46:57 Retweeted @Oatmeal 18:03:34 On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars https://t.co/s9D2oX5NlO https://t.co/28M0Kg2HYy
18:52:32 Retweeted @mathewi 18:32:01 Trump on whether Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered the Khashoggi murder: “Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t” — in anвЂ¦ https://t.co/SdDCkZW7Qx
19:46:28 Retweeted @eclecticbrotha 19:08:45 Trump’s Saudi Arabia statement summarized: “Well, it was a very brutal killing, but what about Iran? And did MohammвЂ¦ https://t.co/oUsLSKUj0A
21:21:35 Retweeted @dsamuelsohn 20:52:28 Another NEW sealed motion just filed — apparently from Mueller — in the mystery grand jury subpoena case we’ve beвЂ¦ https://t.co/k10IS91ACN

@abulsme tweets from 2018-11-19 (UTC)

02:39:55 Retweeted @mark_tarello 02:10:41 Sun has set today in (Barrow) UtqiaДЎvik, Alaska. It’s now 65 consecutive days without a sunrise! The next sunrise hвЂ¦ https://t.co/gl6wA7Bkhj
12:16:59 Retweeted @juliehdavis 00:01:53 Pelosi warned a group of Democrats in a mtg on Friday that if they allowed a small minority of unhappy people to deвЂ¦ https://t.co/8pNSpnahAw
13:41:35 Retweeted @caroloffcbc 02:20:42 Today is the actual 50th anniversary.
A half century of people sitting in their cars to hear the end of an intvw; dвЂ¦ https://t.co/T0L1zsM59m
16:58:34 Oops https://t.co/zY1m3EoFXx
19:03:50 This doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. https://t.co/aISk7gYSF5
19:11:45 Retweeted @jbview 18:49:43 So if all 15 (16 with McAdams) and Dems have 233 (234 with McAdams) then Pelosi gets exactly 218….is this a realвЂ¦ https://t.co/p2JYhDGqm5
19:23:28 Retweeted @dandrezner 13:43:17 Why does Donald Trump flail at the easiest parts of his job? https://t.co/DJWkRuDSwP
19:57:50 Retweeted @johnastoehr 19:24:52 A thread on why California and New England were once home to conservatives, but not after the conservatives turnedвЂ¦ https://t.co/Uet71a5Dzs

@abulsme tweets from 2018-11-18 (UTC)

01:26:27 Um, so this happenedвЂ¦ https://t.co/tJRf37Hcu4 https://t.co/1sqRjXYxEJ
02:54:39 I may not agree with Ocasio on a variety of things, but this approach to politics is wonderfully refreshing. We neeвЂ¦ https://t.co/fZP4irCMzk
03:56:57 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Acceptable to the Leg https://t.co/pdPUZwqJge https://t.co/pdbrqdDtGU
06:36:10 Retweeted @drvox 2018-11-17 20:21:58 Welp, they did it. The GOP disenfranchised enough Democratic voters to cheat their way to razor-thin victories in FвЂ¦ https://t.co/nkyDGkkaYU
12:24:53 Retweeted @gavinesler 2018-11-17 21:38:30 Pro Brexit MP discovers that leaving the EU means the U.K. has no voice, no votes, no MEPs, no commissioner.
It’s aвЂ¦ https://t.co/VA3TTYxarj
13:18:39 Retweeted @maxbergmann 12:53:47 There is so much great Brexit twitter… this thread is particularly good. https://t.co/g1et4q20F8

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Acceptable to the Leg

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, Sam and Ivan do an all lightning round show. Twelve separate exciting subjects. These include… the newest Brexit developments, the Trump vs Acosta ruckus, the resistance to Pelosi as speaker, Trump’s eventful visit to Europe, a book review by Sam, the Lion Air crash… and six more things. You didn’t think they would all be in the summary did you? But they are all exciting. Really.

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Recorded 2018-11-17
Length this week – 2:02:38

(0:00:20-0:40:40) Lightning #1
- Ivan: Border Troops
- Sam: Book: Hands-On Data Science and Python Machine Learning (2017)
- Ivan: Trump in Europe
- Sam: Heading to DC
(0:42:40-1:19:55) Lightning #2
- Ivan: Assange
- Sam: Puppy?
- Ivan: Lion Air
- Sam: Pelosi
(1:20:30-2:02:18) Lightning #3
- Ivan: Brexit
- Sam: Brazil
- Ivan: Acosta
- Sam: Avenatti

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Um, so this happened…

Our older dog Miley has a new little puppy friend. His name is Jetski. He was born at a local shelter just under two months ago, and we adopted him a few hours ago. Welcome Jetski.

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