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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Where It’s Supposed To Be

On this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner, first Ed joins Sam for a lightning round. They of course cover the latest Mueller developments, but also tax refunds, Venezuela, some books Ed read, and more. Then for the last part of the show, Sam is joined by his wife Brandy, who is attending the Power Rising conference and talks about her experiences there, including hearing from Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris.

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Recorded 2019-02-22
Length this week – 1:48:15

(0:00:20-1:13:12) Lightning Round
- Ed: Thwaites Glacier
- Sam: Tax Refunds
- Ed: Venezuela
- Sam: Mueller Time
- Ed: Books: Life on the Edge (2015) / Biocentrism (2009)
- Sam: Foiled attack on politicians and journalists
(1:13:56-1:47:46) Power Rising
- What is Power Rising about?
- Movie: Amazing Grace (2018)
- What is it like?
- Stacey Abrams
- Kamala Harris
- Memorable highlights
- New Orleans

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@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-23 (UTC)

00:54:42 Not Constantinople! https://t.co/eLODkG4IpW
01:11:03 Retweeted @JayThurberShow 01:02:38 @abulsme That’s nobody’s business but the Turks. in reply to abulsme
05:56:23 Retweeted @marykk196051 05:49:41 Workers Rescue Dog from a Frozen Lake and Rush It to the Vet вЂ” Only to Find Out It’s a Wolf! I’m so happy they rescued him! https://t.co/ExViPHlsTo
08:00:09 Retweeted @ErynnBrook 2019-02-22 20:37:28 It’s up! The “Let’s talk about Russia” thread is now available as a blog post:
In Mother Russia… Culture Changes You https://t.co/dmYaCXjuO0 https://t.co/JLp8JncQDT
12:46:49 Retweeted @INTEREST1NG 2019-02-22 03:32:06 Dog watches “Lion King” movie https://t.co/uEQCmo3pO0
13:39:56 Retweeted @benjaminwittes 2019-02-21 03:07:37 The window for @RepJerryNadler to follow this precedent is fast closing. I stand by this piece: https://t.co/qK9B6DlsFH
14:19:02 Retweeted @ThePlumLineGS 12:48:12 1) I watched the whole Dianne Feinstein video, and I have to say, I’m baffled by the outrage.I say this episode was a good thing.
Yes, she was at times cantankerous and a bit dismissive of the legitimate political aspirations of these children and their parents.

*THREAD*
14:23:36 Retweeted @davidfrum 13:28:53 Trump DoJ readying itself to take view re Mueller report:1) No release of derogatory information about persons who are not indicted;
2) The president cannot be indicted;

3) Therefore no release of derogatory information about the president

https://t.co/xgftrmCOt7
14:29:21 Retweeted @ErynnBrook 2019-02-22 23:21:54 Why I don’t like thread compilers: a thread.Please do not compile. I’ve blocked threadreaderapp and it won’t store my threads.
14:39:34 Not sure I agree on all this, but interesting thread. https://t.co/veFNt3kmkC
15:03:58 Retweeted @johnastoehr 14:53:51 Holy shit from the AP. It is usually not this forward leaning.https://t.co/kRYoVKXpJT
17:10:27 Retweeted @FactTank 17:08:02 President Trump’s approval ratings so far are unusually stable вЂ“ and deeply partisan https://t.co/D6VyeUMaiy https://t.co/vDx2KFJKZU
17:21:11 Retweeted @sarahkendzior 17:02:29 My interview on #AMJoy: “We don’t need the Mueller report to get information about Manafort, the crime machine. That’s long been in the public domain. What we need are indictments. We need people like Manafort behind bars as a matter of national security and public safety.” https://t.co/uH7V77Y9rq
17:24:18 Retweeted @JohnArnoldFndtn 2019-02-22 19:56:58 I know there are other factors in play, but that life expectancy is declining while the % of GDP spent on healthcare is making new highs is not a good trend.
17:29:42 Retweeted @Redistrict 16:37:55 Want to understand the 2020 primaries? Start following @FHQ right now -> https://t.co/9vtJsVLkW2
17:35:56 I’m thinking the divide on the DiFi clip has nothing to do with how rude or not DiFi was, but rather if you agree with her or the kids on approach. Find something incremental that can actually pass? Or push an ideal that won’t ever become law, but may shift the Overton window?
17:56:59 Retweeted @BritainEakin 17:55:10 And here it is, looks like the sentencing memo was filled under seal. Will be watching for the redacted version. https://t.co/ZENfZhXReh
18:15:30 Retweeted @shelleyaw123 18:07:01 @abulsme I agree. We need good bold ideas. But we also need to do the math. IDK. We’re going to have to change the way we live on this planet. It’s gonna take a major shift in thinking and in spending. This was a good example of old school ways balking. in reply to abulsme
19:26:30 Retweeted @kenvogel 19:19:55 JUST UPLOADED: In sentencing memo, MUELLER accuses MANAFORT of “bold” crimes, “some of which were committed while under a spotlight due to his work as the campaign chairman &, later, while he was on bail from this Court.” https://t.co/JNkwbz5ELE
19:26:53 Retweeted @joshtpm 19:23:10 At least from the primary document, manafort memo looks quite thin in terms of new information. Haven’t read the literally 800 pages of supporting docs (obviously <symbol>).
19:50:34 Retweeted @2020Delegates 19:48:13 In this new @EmersonPolling NH poll, Sanders would get 13 delegates, Biden would get 11. No one else gets anything! #FITN https://t.co/9Nb9egdXeQ
21:40:42 @AuthorLMendez You should! in reply to AuthorLMendez
22:05:15 Retweeted @DxGGEAUX 21:51:23 aperture AI engineer: so our extremely angry death robot that constantly tries to kill us has asked for specifically enough neurotoxin to flood one (1) underground facility
scientist: what’s she need that for
aperture AI engineer: i don’t know. robot stuff. i don’t see the harm
22:05:55 Retweeted @DxGGEAUX 21:58:11 this is canon by the way https://t.co/US2lb3kqks in reply to DxGGEAUX
22:54:19 Retweeted @ccadelago 22:17:49 Sanders: “I’m not crazy about getting rid of the filibuster.”Booker: вЂњWe should not be doing anything to mess with the strength of the filibuster.”
Warren: “All the options are on the table, that that’s how we gotta do this.” https://t.co/IMIlP7MuYN
23:21:21 Retweeted @Lollardfish 21:44:20 this is the best post I’ve read laying out the vision of the crisis from supporters of the GND and why addressing that crisis demands building a new politics rather than working incrementally in the current system. https://t.co/tdc2Ci51wb
23:24:42 Retweeted @drvox 16:53:15 My new post: I tried to put into words (a lot of words) what has frustrated me about so much criticism of the Green New Deal. In short, this is not a normal political moment and we don’t have a lot of time to fk around. https://t.co/UllG4EhwI6

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-22 (UTC)

06:14:18 Retweeted @AnnaGHughes 2019-02-21 21:50:15 If you ever feel lonely just remember you have tiny arachnids living in your eyelashes https://t.co/goknAtGdU5
07:28:45 It just happens to be Warren saying this, but as I have said before, the filibuster’s days are numbered. The next time one party has the House, Senate, and Presidency, and a вЂњmajorвЂќ piece of legislation important to that party’s base is blocked by a filibuster, it will be gone. https://t.co/MFJYAU1Fpv
07:31:39 Retweeted @notcapnamerica 2019-02-21 21:53:45 Kamala Harris on the hubbub over famous rainbow jacket. https://t.co/0N4FzFyiYc
11:59:49 Five days since I laughed at you and said “You just did just what I thought you were gonna doвЂќ https://t.co/k89hl66KFw
16:33:57 Oops https://t.co/TosNvEvZSA
18:01:22 Retweeted @notcapnamerica 2019-02-15 20:51:44 How is this person qualified to be President? Why bother going on Univision if you refuse to answer questions about Latin America? https://t.co/8lpQZ9yXv7
18:04:50 Retweeted @notcapnamerica 2019-02-21 19:18:17 .@KamalaHarris: вЂњYou must start the marriages immediately.вЂќ <symbol>️‍<symbol> https://t.co/lym9FQzJB4
18:11:41 Retweeted @KevinMKruse 03:48:07 Some thoughts on Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew and anti-Semitism. https://t.co/rwJdF6Sxup

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-21 (UTC)

02:29:59 Well good. https://t.co/Q90ptuxcK2
14:01:10 Retweeted @John_Hudson 11:33:22 If the Mueller report describes evidence of a crime it won’t recommend any kind of criminal charges because of DOJ regs blocking a sitting president from being indicted. вЂњWhether it’s a crime or not is beside the point” former DOJer tells @JaxAlemany https://t.co/0HR31eTHIe
20:10:11 Retweeted @natsecHeather 19:45:54 It’s 2019 and both your podcasters (whom I respect as professionals) and your comms folks think it’s fine to use “autistic” as a negative descriptor of a country of 1.38 billion? Signed, a fellow security wonk and autism parent. https://t.co/M1Adiqm4qD
20:10:13 Retweeted @natsecHeather 19:48:08 ps: Actually, yeah, my son is like China: high-achieving, proud to the point of touchiness, and prone to crushing your stereotypes. in reply to natsecHeather
20:15:20 Oops. https://t.co/84UI7aSn1t
20:57:40 Retweeted @hankdeanlight 15:26:37 Pre-teen reporter is riding her bike to cover news in #az border community.Local cop stops her, threatens to throw her in juvy.
She pulls out her camera and gets the cop in trouble.

Somebody give this badass girl an award.

https://t.co/vg25oQIvuY https://t.co/oGCvNNdDmz
21:03:41 Orange Street News for the win yet again! https://t.co/pnS3oxpDn8
21:04:30 Retweeted @Amy_Siskind 20:49:22 Further, of the 2020 candidates, thanks to Jonathan Alloy who further broke down bills enacted to include whether they are substantive (or say a bill to rename a post office). https://t.co/QpT86mXVsn in reply to Amy_Siskind
21:07:30 Retweeted @rgoodlaw 20:07:38 Not days. Not вЂњas early as next week,вЂќ per yesterday’s reports.Now it’s вЂњweeksвЂќ?
вЂњThe new attorney general, William P. Barr, is preparing for the special counsel to deliver a report in coming weeks…вЂќ

(h/t вЃ¦@lrozenвЃ©) https://t.co/2NH5zRgxO5
21:11:24 Retweeted @TimothyNoah1 20:48:34 Who among us hasn’t at one time or another publicly insulted on Twitter a judge who will try our criminal case and included a photograph with crosshairs given to us just days ago by one of our half-dozen volunteers only we can’t remember now which one? https://t.co/Ox7hyd94Om
21:24:33 Retweeted @MikhailaRFogel 19:10:51 The Mueller report is coming, as Rick Blaine said, “maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon,” and, whatever it says, here is how @Susan_Hennessey @qjurecic @benjaminwittes and I think it should be read… https://t.co/G0tJkI9zXE
21:25:03 Retweeted @BreakingNews 21:07:26 North Carolina Board of Election orders a new election in US House race after allegations of illegal activity in the handling of mail-in ballots. https://t.co/OQTvxfSXiU
21:27:00 Oops https://t.co/zjA1ll6iFp

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-20 (UTC)

20:29:54 @BYUfan @imbou Oops. It will almost certainly be Wednesday evening in Seattle based on feedback so far. But Ivan will be up in Everett doing the Boeing tour and visiting my place Wednesday daytime. Maybe we can squeeze something in if you can’t make Wednesday… in reply to BYUfan
20:39:53 @BYUfan @imbou In that case we look forward to seeing you. I imagine we’ll announce specifics and put something online about it before the end of February. in reply to BYUfan
20:51:49 Thread https://t.co/OatnmoaUoN
23:17:39 Retweeted @BreakingNews 23:05:40 US Coast Guard lieutenant working in the nation’s capital lived a secret life as a “domestic terrorist” who aspired to mass murder and compiled a target list of prominent politicians and journalists, federal prosecutors allege in court papers. https://t.co/27YhbIoQ88

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-19 (UTC)

10:37:44 Retweeted @joshscampbell 03:30:33 Fact-check: As special assistant to both, this is false. <symbol><symbol>‍♂️ https://t.co/AEtijKYHDP
18:15:11 Retweeted @NPR 16:31:37 Just In: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released an interim report based on multiple whistleblowers who say the Trump administration is rushing to transfer sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in violation of federal law.
22:42:34 Retweeted @RantingOwl 18:04:23 Someone on Facebook just said that they only realized today that “PorkenвЂќ wasn’t a type of bean. Their whole life they thought they were eating “Porken beans.”I am…speechless.

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-18 (UTC)

15:51:00 Retweeted @TPM 15:42:52 5 most eye-opening insights from McCabe’s CBS interview https://t.co/d9KA59ZfE1 https://t.co/S0dmBO7hVM

@abulsme tweets from 2019-02-17 (UTC)

00:55:04 Retweeted @SlenderSherbet 2019-02-16 11:48:05 Derek, nature’s great hunter, who stalks his prey and attacks with efficiency and precision. https://t.co/6nSP0Ema1J
01:45:43 Retweeted @dodo 01:00:00 When a whale swam up to this woman and wouldn’t leave her alone, she was freaked out вЂ” until she realized he was saving her life <symbol> (via @caters_news) https://t.co/tXdllBdiY1
01:53:50 Retweeted @joshtpm 01:10:14 You know, I just can’t if this is the first sentence of your book. https://t.co/fyQCnIMnA9
06:15:28 Retweeted @DKElections 2019-02-16 22:57:29 A Dem-led coalition took charge in the Alaska state House this week, denying the GOP its lone legislative chamber pickup of 2018. Full details on the amazinig saga here: https://t.co/EuyOZMQtxs
06:24:02 Great thread. https://t.co/EDflg5v4xk
06:38:02 Retweeted @KyleAMadson 04:07:57 Need you to dead serious walk into an Apple store with this and tell them it’s been running a little slow and you need their help resolving the issue. https://t.co/EUAFZEoxjv
17:14:25 Retweeted @dandrezner 14:15:45 вЂњTrade wars are good, and easy to win.вЂќ https://t.co/uxHwAho9M9
17:25:16 Retweeted @CharlieCookDC 17:23:26 Worth remembering. https://t.co/L0hzpjvreK
20:13:41 Retweeted @GlennF 17:55:43 The ongoing horror of economic devastation in Seattle due to livable minimum wage https://t.co/u3vuNeG8zl
20:25:55 Yup yup yup -> Why Joe Biden shouldn’t run for president (opinion) – CNN https://t.co/R7X5v0jJiO
22:37:34 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Toe to Too https://t.co/XF1XkBiZ7i https://t.co/URGGku9h62
22:53:54 Retweeted @danpfeiffer 15:18:12 The fact that the President is either delusional or a particularly dumb and pathological liar is frankly not taken seriously enough https://t.co/CCiJjQroFF
22:59:30 Retweeted @FiveThirtyEight 22:45:04 PSA: We’re sharing the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics. We hope you’ll use it to check our work and to create stories and visualizations of your own. https://t.co/mitQaVzx2J

Curmudgeon’s Corner: Toe to Too

This week on Curmudgeon’s Corner… lightning rounds! Sam and Ivan talk about a total of 17 different topics this time around. These include… the snow in Seattle, Roger Stone, the Green New Deal, Paul Manafort, a correction to something Sam said last week, food delivery, translating Trump into other languages, the National Emergency, an upcoming Seattle Curmudgeon’s Corner meetup, and of course eight other things too. Enjoy!

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Recorded 2019-02-16
Length this week – 2:40:00

(0:00:20-0:28:09) But First
- Trump translations
- Agenda
- Curmudgeon’s Corner Seattle meetup
- Correction about Tucson
- Seattle snow
- Food delivery
(0:29:53-1:10:31) Lightning Round I
- Ivan: Glenn Greenwald
- Sam: Book: The Zimmerman Telegram (1985)
- Ivan: Movie: Geostorm (2017)
- Sam: Green New Deal
(1:12:32-2:04:20) Lightning Round II
- Ivan: Paper Bank Statements
- Sam: Doing a “Clinton Email”
- Ivan: Manafort
- Sam: Stone
(2:05:29-2:39:42) Lightning Round III
- Ivan: National Emergency
- Sam: Bill Weld 2020
- Ivan: McCabe and the 25th
- Sam: Democratic debate rules

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