Deal.

This link. Hat tip to the reader emailing the link.

Tune time? Said earlier, versions differ.

There were concessions and adjustments on the Apartments too. Letting the deal go down. Tiringly steady = Happened earlier, versions differ.

Different oxen getting gored while Houston is getting wet.

Michael Hiltzik writing August 28, 2017, for LA Times:

On Saturday, the New York Daily News was quick to underscore the irony in Cruz and Cornyn scurrying to secure emergency assistance for their home state after voting against Sandy relief. “The devastation of Hurricane Harvey has two-faced Texas politicians looking for the same sort of relief funding they flatly opposed five years ago,” the newspaper reported.

Of the 24 GOP members of the Texas House delegation in 2013, all but one voted against the Sandy relief package in 2013. The one “yea” vote was Rep. John Culberson, whose district includes Houston. But seven other Houston-area congressmen voted the package down. All 12 Democratic members of the delegation voted in favor of Sandy relief with the exception of Sheila Jackson Lee, who represents central Houston and didn’t cast a vote. Three Republicans and two Democrats in office at the time of the vote are no longer serving in Congress.

Most of the lawmakers who commented on the 2013 Sandy appropriation couched their opposition in terms of fiscal responsibility. The issue, they said, was that the Sandy bill had been larded down with non-Sandy and non-emergency spending. “Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending," Cruz said then.

Others demanded that every dollar spent on Sandy relief be balanced by a dollar cut somewhere else in the federal budget. As I wrote last year, when Louisiana congressmen who voted against Sandy were tasked with securing relief for victims of Hurricane Matthew, this position elevated the ideology of the balanced budget to an article of faith. Notably, the lawmakers insisting on a one-for-one trade-off against Sandy aid were never specific about where the cuts should come from.

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Well . . .

Arguable guidelines the linked Cruz item expounds which might apply to the Houston disaster recovery:

Emergency relief for the families who are suffering from this natural disaster should not be used as a Christmas tree for billions in unrelated spending, including projects such as Smithsonian repairs, upgrades to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration airplanes, and more funding for Head Start.

[...] This bill is symptomatic of a larger problem in Washington – an addiction to spending money we do not have. The United States Senate should not be in the business of exploiting victims of natural disasters to fund pork projects that further expand our debt.

So Ted says pork for Big Oil in terms of public funding of refinery upgrades; and hasty ill-reasoned pipeline approvals would be inappropriate. It is good to know that. Even while Ted's statement's precise wording years ago was not prescient about expected overreaching by Big Oil, it fits.

Cutting the military budget would help against further expanding our debt. But the underlying problem, Canadian Ted Cruz, needs voter action. Indeed, the pack of them are problematic there in Texas, which in hindsight arguably ought to have been allowed to remain "The Lone Star Nation," years ago when a different outcome happened.

Good sense shown by the Brits, collectively.

This link. Not enough bozo clowns in the population to keep Hegseth et al. on the air. Possibly, a whiff of that good sense could cross the Atlantic.

But then -

“Fox News is focused on the U.S. market and designed for a U.S. audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the U.K.,” 21st Century Fox said in a statement provided to CNN. “We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the U.K.”

While 21st Century Fox said its decision was based on the channel’s inability to attract a considerable audience, critics say it’s actually an attempt to smooth over the media giant’s bid to take over European satellite company Sky. (21st Century Fox owns a controlling stake in Sky PLC, the parent company of the London-headquartered network.)

Well, sly motives aside, that first paragraph should read, "... designed for a particular U.S. audience ...".

Hegsethians. Fools by another name.

WISCONSIN: Audacity of the already privileged; and a Democratic candidate identifies himself.

AP feeds carried by Wisconsin news outlets; here, here and here.

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

This link.
Is there a Bekah Mercer model, with diamond studded eyeglasses?
A Robert Mercer model, pull a string, it says nothing.

Vanity Fair. Mid-item excerpt [links omitted]:

It is fair to see these well-timed getaways as a chicken-egg situation—whether the scandal prompted the vacation, or the vacation prompted the scandal. As one person close to the couple explained to me soon after inauguration, the president tended to get in most trouble on Saturdays, when the couple was observing Shabbat, and couldn’t advise him away from his more self-destructive tendencies.

By now, though, it is clear that they don’t have nearly as much sway as anyone had assumed. They do, however, deserve credit for perfect timing and honoring their real-estate scion roots and birthrights to a spring break in March and a subsequent August vacation regardless of the fact that they are now in charge of Middle East peace and job creation.

While their absence always draws a certain amount of attention, it was particularly felt on Tuesday. Infrastructure, after all, is under Kushner’s vast West Wing portfolio. Ivanka Trump had been the highest-ranking White House official besides her father and member of the Trump family to publicly denounce hate groups. Still, they decided to go ahead with a two-day trip, just up north to Vermont, while the country was raging on an issue that touches the parents of three Jewish children directly. The two are worth as much as an estimated $740 million. They can foot a late cancellation fee. Vermont will still be there in the fall, and it happens to be quite lovely that time of year. (There is a Vermont Teddy Bear Factory bear modeled after the First Daughter "ready to head out to business meetings with her briefcase and pearls.”)

Many believed that this moment in Trump’s presidency may be the final straw for the more rationally minded members of the administration. Cohn told a person close to him that he was disgusted by the president’s comments, and two of the president’s business advisory panels disbanded Wednesday as a growing number of C.E.O.s resigned.

But to think that this is the moment that may send Ivanka and Kushner back to New York misses the mark. The administration has already crossed so many moral lines that many believed should have had them packing that it is hard to imagine that any such line exists for them at this point. (For what it's worth, Cohn, not a family member, also has not resigned, despite his disgust.)

Perhaps there was a moment in which this could have happened, when Kelly first arrived and was praised as a general who would run a tight ship.

Ah, yes. Generalissimo Kelly.

Vs. kids on break?

Privacy.

And then, there is Google. Can you envision targeted ads for ventures such as "Freud's Shop," or a boutique, "For Jung People?"

UPDATE: Next, might we expect that on googling "Bitcoin" we get a questionaire from Tim Pawlenty, "How happy are you with present banking services?" Followed by targeted Wells Fargo multiple account services adverts? Touting, "At Wells, one account can have multiple promising developments."

A quick link - BLM today???

This link.