Much ~ma sent to your mom, Scrappy. Pneumonia and flu are miserable when the rest of you is well. I'm sorry.
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I guess the Pompeo you are talking about is not Meredith Grey?
I think I have already run out of functional brain cells today. Not sure what to do about that. Have decided to go get Thai food for lunch, I believe that comes with soup, maybe that will help.
I have 3.5 hours of meetings scheduled tomorrow. Yay.
I'm thinking bad news, because he was one of the few cabinet members who seemed to actually value the work of his department and approach it with the good of the country in mind.
He really didn't, though. He more-than-decimated the State Department, drove out career diplomats with combined thousands of years of experience, and has contributed to the ruination of the US's reputation overseas. That he's not obviously, overtly insane is, in fact, a pretty low bar. He didn't want to start a nuclear war with Russia or North Korea, fine: but his primary goal was pretty clearly not to maintain US interests abroad.
And because he made it a year in the position, he won't get taxed on the $54 million in stocks he sold prior to becoming SoS.
That said, we're not going to be better off with Pompeo in the slot: he's a xenophobic islamophobe, and a Trump toady.
Lol, I too keep seeing Pompeo and thinking Ellen
I hadn't heard about Tillerson gutting the State Department. Mainly all the news I've seen about him is his more reasonable conflicting statements with Trump, which is of course setting the bar so low that one needs ground sonar to find it.
I keep wishing for a grown-up to come in and say, "All right, enough of this." Hey, Your Majesty! Can we borrow Prince Philip?
But seriously, can we get Ellen Pompeo into the cabinet?
Did some work, including finishing my stupid mid-year reviews, and the cheese bread is in the oven.
So blizzardy outside.
I'm on my flight halfway to Florida and it's just been a flurry of work emails and office communication (we use Slack) for most of the flight.
Busy. Busy. Busy.