Heads Up, gang......Sessions to be grilled by Senate Justice comm.hearing this week

[dixiegrrrrl]

Wed Oct 18, 10:00 am.
and a PUBLIC hearing.
Pls. share the info.

I've already cleared off my calendar and warned the fur kids not to pester me that morning.

[malaise]

1. Clearing mine

Get thee to the greatest page for visibility

[OneBlueDotBama]

2. Will There Be Cookies?

Keebler Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies, 15 Ounce

Hope Amazon can deliver... one always needs the right accompaniment.

[TexasProgresive]

3. I believe you guaranteed the fur kids will be crying and tearing around.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. lol!

[TexasProgresive]

13. Ah don know much but I knows my fur peoples. n/t

[orangecrush]

4. K&R

[Glamrock]

5. Hahaha

Good luck with the fur babies. Hopefully yours are considerate, mine aren't.

[stuffmatters]

6. TY for sharing the news. Recorder set for 10/18 @ 10 AM EST!!!

Can't wait.

[SharonClark]

7. Is that the Judiciary Committee headed by Grassley?

He'll try to blame whatever they are discussing on Obama.

[eleny]

8. Some music especially written to calm kitties

I learned about it in another thread yesterday. It even relaxed me. Worth a try.

Maybe we'll all need it when the R members have their turns kissing his weasel ass.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Thanks!

I knew it was coming up, but hadn't heard the date/time. I'll be tranquilizing my fur kids; warnings don't work with them!

[onethatcares]

10. will that be on

charcoal or gas? Will it be the same people that confirmed his appointment that grill him or some outsiders that really care.

Apologies up front. I no longer trust our congress folks, our pResident, or federal justice system. In fact, I'm still waiting on Fitzmas.

Thank you for the information.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. 20 of America's top political scientists gathered to discuss our democracy. They're scared.

On October 6, some of America’s top political scientists gathered at Yale University to answer these questions. And nearly everyone agreed: American democracy is eroding on multiple fronts — socially, culturally, and economically.

The scholars pointed to breakdowns in social cohesion (meaning citizens are more fragmented than ever), the rise of tribalism, the erosion of democratic norms such as a commitment to rule of law, and a loss of faith in the electoral and economic systems as clear signs of democratic erosion.

Snip:

Yascha Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard University, summed it up well: “If current trends continue for another 20 or 30 years, democracy will be toast.”
“Democracies don’t fall apart — they’re taken apart”

Nancy Bermeo, a politics professor at Princeton and Harvard, began her talk with a jarring reminder: Democracies don’t merely collapse, as that “implies a process devoid of will.” Democracies die because of deliberate decisions made by human beings.

https://www.vox.com/2017/10/13/16431502/america-democracy-decline-liberalism

[UTUSN]

12. "Grilled" as in "kissed"?!1