For those of you in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, Hurricane Sandy is getting closer. The latest updates from NOAA here and for a few links on the preparations, check these out:
Take Hurricane Sandy seriously, East Coast residents warned
East Coast residents prepared Saturday for the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, which forecasters expect to make landfall as soon as Monday night and then merge with a sprawling winter storm to create weather havoc for tens of millions of people across one-third of the nation.
From Maine to the Carolinas, federal and state officials urged residents and businesses to prepare for the worst — drenching rain, flooding, high winds, highs seas, snow and widespread power outages. Federal officials said the impact would extend into the Ohio Valley.
Even though Sandy was still at least two days away, residents along the northeastern Atlantic Coast, mindful of possible transit shutdowns and bombarded by storm warnings, kicked into preparation mode.
Hurricane Sandy to reach Massachusetts late Sunday night
As Hurricane Sandy loomed closer to the northeast coast Saturday afternoon, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency in preparation for power outages, coastal flooding, and beach erosion that could rock the New England region.
The Bay State will begin feeling the hurricane’s effects Sunday evening, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kim Buttrick, but not its full force until Monday.
Winds will start blowing 35 to 45 miles per hour Monday in Massachusetts, with gusts up to 55 mph in the morning that will accelerate in the afternoon reaching a peak of 65 miles per hour. Higher-than-average winds and precipitation will continue until Tuesday morning, Buttrick said.
Threat of Hurricane Sandy grows as it targets East Coast
Rain accumulations of up to 12 inches and heavy snowfall inland are considered likely in some areas. As it merges with an Arctic jet stream, forecasters said Sandy has all the ingredients to transform into a “super storm” unlike anything seen over the eastern United States in decades.
On its current projected track, Sandy could make U.S. landfall on Monday night or Tuesday morning anywhere between Maryland and southern New England, forecasters said. Some computer models showed a likely landfall between Delaware and the New York/New Jersey area.
For a bit of humor on this Frankenstorm, The 12 Worst Ways New Yorkers Prepared For The Last Hurricane. (Some may find it offensive, but I always thought the novel Frankenstein was really horrifying.)
Okay, I’ve got a few more links for you this morning. There was so much going on this past week, with the whole “god’s gift” crap coming out of the mouths of the GOP, you may have missed these stories.
This first link is something I hope Dakinikat can comment on:
Transcript of ’44 Bretton Woods Meeting Found at Treasury
A Treasury economist rummaging in the department’s library has stumbled on a historical treasure hiding in plain sight: a transcript of the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 that cast the foundations of the modern international monetary system.
The Bretton Woods Transcripts
The Center for Financial Stability has included links to the transcripts on its web site.
International Monetary Fund, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
John Maynard Keynes addressed the Bretton Woods conference, where the International Monetary Fund was created.
Historians had never known that a transcript existed for the event held in the heat of World War II, when delegates from 44 allied nations fighting Hitler gathered in the mountains of New Hampshire to create the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. But there were three copies in archives and libraries around Washington that had never been made public, until now.
“It’s as if someone handed us Madison’s notes on the debate over the Constitution,” said Eric Rauchway, a historian the University of California, Davis.
Wow, that is huge…
This past week, we also saw Iran being hyped up again by the GOP: GOP Rep Says Strike On Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Would Not Be An Act Of War
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CNN last night that neither he, nor the Iranians, would consider an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities an act of war.
Rogers said that he believed there are options “short of war” that could prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and, strangely, CNN host Erin Burnett wondered if bombing suspected nuclear weapons facilities would be an option that is “short of war.” While Rogers at first appeared taken aback by Burnett’s odd question, he then went a bit further, saying definitively that such an attack would indeed be “short of war” and the Iranians would see it that way too:
[…]
ROGERS: Well, in very targeted strikes, we use very targeted strikes against al Qaeda. And so if it is a very targeted strike, many would argue that that’s short of war. And if it only seeks to go after their nuclear program, that is — we’re not talking about invasions or naval engagements or troops on the ground, none of that. And this has been used by other — President Clinton used this tactic.
But there’s also other things under that. I’m not saying that’s — that is the right answer. That is an option that I believe is short of war if it is very selective, very targeted, only to the nuclear program. And we do know, those — that the Iranians believe that there is a whole panoply of options — war and then these targeted strikes they don’t see as — wouldn’t see as an act of war.
Rogers made these statements and then I noticed this article a day later…from The Guardian: Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran
US diplomats are said to have also lobbied for permission to use US bases on British territory such as Diego Garcia. Photograph: AFPBritain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces in the Gulf, citing secret legal advice which states that any pre-emptive strike on Iran could be in breach of international law.
The Guardian has been told that US diplomats have also lobbied for the use of British bases in Cyprus, and for permission to fly from US bases on Ascension Island in the Atlantic and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, both of which are British territories.
The US approaches are part of contingency planning over the nuclear standoff with Tehran, but British ministers have so far reacted coolly. They have pointed US officials to legal advice drafted by the attorney general’s office which has been circulated to Downing Street, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence.
This makes clear that Iran, which has consistently denied it has plans to develop a nuclear weapon, does not currently represent “a clear and present threat”. Providing assistance to forces that could be involved in a pre-emptive strike would be a clear breach of international law, it states.
“The UK would be in breach of international law if it facilitated what amounted to a pre-emptive strike on Iran,” said a senior Whitehall source. “It is explicit. The government has been using this to push back against the Americans.”
The US has not officially asked for assistance from Britain, but feelers are being put out there. Which is scary enough…
Report: British attorney general thinks strike on Iran could be illegal
…the apparently staunch U.K. opposition to working with the U.S. on this is striking, particularly after British Prime Minister Tony Blair so closely joined U.S. President George W. Bush in planning and executing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The 2003 Iraq invasion became a source of considerable political backlash in the U.K., including a two-year official investigation that culminated in Blair being summoned to a bruising public inquiry.
Based on this story, it appears that the U.K. wants little or nothing to do with even U.S. planning for a potential strike on Iran, much less the attack itself. “I think the U.S. has been surprised that ministers have been reluctant to provide assurances about this kind of upfront assistance,” an anonymous British source told the Guardian, speculating that this meant Washington might not even inform London of an attack until after it had happened. “In some respects, the U.K. government would prefer it that way.”
I realize one probably does not have anything to do with the other, but it seemed like a strange coincidence. And since I am currently reading 500 Days, these stories made me think of the way the world was manipulated by Bush and Cheney. (Especially Cheney.)
This article from Alternet also talks about manipulation, as far as political ads are concerned. How Corporations Know Who You Will Likely Vote For
Chinese officials have launched a probe after microbloggers said they had uncovered another allegedly corrupt leader who owns millions of dollars worth of property, state press said on Thursday.
If you’re a registered voter and surf the web, one of the sites you visit has almost certainly placed a tiny piece of data on your computer flagging your political preferences. That piece of data, called a cookie, marks you as a Democrat or Republican, when you last voted, and what contributions you’ve made. It also can include factors like your estimated income, what you do for a living, and what you’ve bought at the local mall.
Across the country, companies are using cookies to tailor the political ads you see online. One of the firms is CampaignGrid, which boasted in a recent slideshow, “Internet Users are No Longer Anonymous.” The slideshow includes an image of the famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Next to it, CampaignGrid lists what it can now know about an Internet user: “Lives in Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, 19002 zip code, Registered primary voting Republican, High net worth household, Age 50-54, Teenagers in the home, Technology professional, Interested in politics, Shopping for a car, Planning a vacation in Puerto Rico.”
Freaky stuff…Oh and by the way, Romney lands key endorsement in crucial swing state – Iowa . Yup, after all that fuss over Obama’s interview being “off the record” and they endorse Romney.
Okay, enough with that…check out these two articles about those golden years of Hollywood. Iconic Scarlett O’Hara dresses restored, displayed
It turns out there will be another day for Scarlett O’Hara’s green curtain dress. Many of them.
The iconic dress and Scarlett’s burgundy ball gown from the 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” have been saved from deterioration by a $30,000 conservation effort by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
The dresses worn by actress Vivien Leigh are now on display for the first time in nearly 30 years at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum as part of a Hollywood costume exhibit.
Ransom Center officials announced the project in 2010, noting the dresses were in danger of falling apart from age.
And this one, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor’s Romance As Revealed In His Diaries, which has an excerpt of the newly published diary.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor married twice. Their first marriage lasted for ten years (1964-74), and their second marriage happened very suddenly, 16 months after their divorce, during a visit to Botswana in 1975. This excerpt from The Richard Burton Diaries (Yale University Press, $35) reveals what occurred.
From the little they have in the excerpt, Burton’s alcohol use was problematic…to say the least.
Almost done, just a couple more articles…this time on Hermit Crabs. My kids have kept these little crabs before and I have seen them fight to get into another crabs shell. Hermit crabs socialize to evict their neighbors
Social animals usually congregate for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a University of California, Berkeley, biologist has found that the terrestrial hermit crab has a more self-serving social agenda: to kick another crab out of its shell and move into a larger home.
The terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita compressus lives inside a discarded snail shell and forages for plants and carrion along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru. Photos by Mark Laidre, UC Berkeley.
All hermit crabs appropriate abandoned snail shells for their homes, but the dozen or so species of land-based hermit crabs – popular terrarium pets – are the only ones that hollow out and remodel their shells, sometimes doubling the internal volume. This provides more room to grow, more room for eggs – sometimes a thousand more eggs – and a lighter home to lug around as they forage.
But empty snail shells are rare on land, so the best hope of moving to a new home is to kick others out of their remodeled shells, said Mark Laidre, a UC Berkeley Miller Post-Doctoral Fellow who reported this unusual behavior in this month’s issue of the journal Current Biology.
So the crabs dance in a conga line….
“The one that gets yanked out of its shell is often left with the smallest shell, which it can’t really protect itself with,” said Laidre, who is in the Department of Integrative Biology. “Then it’s liable to be eaten by anything. For hermit crabs, it’s really their sociality that drives predation.”
A free-for-all takes place whenever three or more hermit crabs congregate, with all crabs intent on displacing someone else to get a larger shell.
Laidre says the crabs’ unusual behavior is a rare example of how evolving to take advantage of a specialized niche – in this case, land versus ocean – led to an unexpected byproduct: socialization in a typically solitary animal.
You can find a video of crabs fighting here, it is not in the conga line formation…but it is funny to see the crab being pulled out of the shell by another crab. It looks animated.
Let’s end this with a funny video, from the early 90′s, featuring a conga line:
“Heh!” What are you all up to this Sunday, share some links and thoughts below…and those of you in Sandy’s way, take care of yourselves.
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I have to say, my 1st thought about Sandy was, “I wonder what the anti-FEMA folks (Rmoney/Ryan in particular) are going to say?”. Remember when Cantor was saying that the Feds couldn’t afford to help tornado victims last summer? I have a feeling those naysayers will all become White Knights riding to the rescue now, since it’s election time. Here’s Treehugger’s piece on Sandy, with a little humor thrown in: http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/frankenstorm-2012-it-related-climate-change-will-it-ruin-halloween-will-it-kill-us-all-team-treehugger-investigates.html
As most of you know already, my first thoughts are for the critters – companion animals & wildlife. After Orlando got hit by the hurricanes in 2004, thousands of baby squirrels were blown from their nests to the ground. One rehabber I know was caring for over 100 babies. One of those storms actually stranded a manatee inland, in southwest Florida, who was rescued by concerned citizens. I hope that no lives – human or critter – are lost from this potential disaster.
I tried to find a story & photo I saw recently about artists designing modern shells for hermit crabs, but no luck. Here’s one from Treehugger with a link to Makerbot, which is designing printed 3D shells: http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/techies-try-solve-hermit-crab-housing-shortage.html
Romney himself said that FEMA should be abolished. He said in the primary debates that states should have to do their own rescue operations.
People should just depend on the kindness of strangers. /s
Deval has already declared MA as a “state of emergency”. I am going to make a run to the grocery store today for some non perishables as they are predicting at least two full days of rain and wind which could lead to power outages.
The only “good thing” so far is that the temps are expected to be in the late 50s for most of the week so that if the heat does go off it won’t be as cold as it was last year when it went into the 20s.
So if I “disappear” it will be due to the power going out.
Those predictions are hilarious. They’re only expecting 35 to 40 mph winds with gusts to 55? We get that in normal snowstorm. There have been nor’easters with gusts to 90 mph. And only 5 inches of rain expected over 3-4 days? I hope you don’t lose power, Pat, but that won’t be much of a storm if the predictions are right. Hurricane Gloria was a real hurricane. I can’t believe Patrick is calling out the National Guard.
I’m not saying those couldn’t be damaging winds, but in a blizzard, wind speeds can exceed 100 mph. I first arrived in Boston during a bad nor’easter in 1967, and at the time winds at Logan airport were in excess of 90 mph. I had to walk quite a distance from the plane to the airport, and the winds were really strong, but they weren’t picking things up and throwing them around or anything.
I definitely think everyone should take this seriously, of course. You never know.
I think the main concern has to do with the duration. It’s a really slow moving storm, and it’s going to smack into a storm front coming in from the west. It’s a convergence of three weather fronts that could really cause serious problems and last for several days.
From the weather reports I’ve been seeing, the storm will be worse in the middle Atlantic states than in New England. I’m hoping it’s a bust, but I did turn on my sump pump before I left home, just in case. I live on a really high hill, so I doubt if I’ll get any flooding, but it has happened.
Ignorant Florida old broad here – what exactly is the purpose of a sump pump? Keep in mind that I’ve never lived in a house with a basement. In Florida that would be called an indoor swimming pool.
pumps water out of a basement …
Sump pumps pump water out of basements — or actually, pump water just underneath basements away, so when the ground becomes saturated the basement doesn’t get flooded with water seeping in under pressure from all that saturated ground and standing water.
Both of the two houses we’ve lived in had previous owners who lied about water ever coming in the basement. So we had to get french drains put in, and in one a sump pump because there was no other way to tie the water into the drainage system. Unfortunately the pumps run on electricity, and during one storm the power went out. So we got a battery back-up system.
Where I live it rains frequently from Oct thru June — I don’t think basements are such a good idea.
I think they are also concerned about the leaves still being on the trees. That is what I heard on TWC, I guess leaves make the trees more vulnerable to falling over.
The leaves are pretty much down where I live.
Connie,
Maybe sump pump isn’t the right word. It’s an electronic pump that switches on when water gets to a certain level in the place in the basement where the water comes in. It has a tube that goes to the sink and it pumps excess water through it. We got it once when our basement flooded in a horrible nor’easter. I’ve used it only a few times, because I live at the top of a very big hill. It’s so high that you can see Boston from the top.
Of course it won’t work if the power goes out, but I seriously doubt that I’ll get any flooding. I’m more concerned about a tree falling on my house, but that isn’t going to happen in 35-40 mph winds with gusts to 55 mph. My trees have stood up to twice those wind speeds many times.
Pat and all of you in the NE, I wish you well. Take care!!!
Didn’t Dak post an endorsement from the Des Moines Register a couple of days ago for Obama? Did they have a split decision?
I thought the same thing but I think what you’re thinking about was an editorial but not actually an endorsement. I thought it was kind of weird though.
Yes, I just saw that on the previous thread. I misinterpreted Dak’s comment, I guess.
The editorial might have been written by one member of the paper’s editorial board while the endorsement may be a majority decision. Who knows?
Here in Richmond, Virginia it is overcast and gusty. I stocked up on Friday but went out last night because we are going to go to lunch with my daughter who is at college about an hour west of here. She asked me to bring her a case of water for her dorm room and a few things from the house. Well good luck trying to buy bottled water!! Nothing! I have some here at home that I’ll take and I found a few loose bottles, but you can’t buy any bottled water anywhere!
We’re supposed to get a bunch of rain and major wind gusts, but we’ll be better off than those closer to the coast. I put away what patio furniture I could and any small objects that could become projectiles. As long as we don’t lose power (and we didn’t during Irene) we should be fine.
Be careful driving, Janicen. I hope all goes well. Apparently this storm is so big that we are even going to get the edge of it in Indiana.
I will bb. I’m glad you’re over there rather than in Boston. Judging by my dog’s behavior and the arthritis in my ankles, this is going to be a bad one. My husband doesn’t even have arthritis and he says he can feel it in the air when he steps outside.
My cat is crazier than usual and I am very dizzy today. I can only imagine what animals and people close to the storm are feeling! I hope everyone stays safe.
I just hope Pat doesn’t lose power. She’s been through enough bad weather events in the past couple of years.
They are evacuating Manhattan, Zone A: http://project.wnyc.org/news-maps/hurricane-zones/hurricane-zones.html
Bloomberg is afraid not to do the ultimate in preparation after that time he ignored that big snowstorm a couple of years ago. I think NYC will be hit hard anyway. They’re saying it will be worst in the mid-Atlantic states. It sounds like the Jersey Shore could see devastation.
I remember the last one, and didn’t Vermont get hit the hardest, and that’s like a 1,000 miles up……………….this looks huge, and I don’t think our country has the trained resources to go into all the states to help the east get there power back. I don’t care how many national guards are coming, for the most part they aren’t trained to deal with the electrical problems and downed polls. There is no backup grid.
With two seperate storms, snow in west, and colder weather coming, with winds, etc, all sorts of things are going to happen, including flash flooding, damage to roads and bridges. The national guard can handle clearing the areas, etc.
You had mentioned airports, let’s hope all the major airports have the airplanes out of the area……….then too, I think about all the sewer plants spilling over into the domestic sewers, you’ll have a mess for more than just a day or two.
Be prepared for several days, and have a plan with your families, and neighbors.
@csmonitor: Hurricane Sandy liveblog: President #Obama says government will respond ‘big and fast’ http://bit.ly/XGiFzH
The worst part is always dealing with the results of no electricity. Clear out your refrigerator and make sure important stuff is in a waterproof container that you can grab fast.
MSNBC just said they are evacuating the Atlantic City casinos. Now I have to worry about the feral (wild) cats who live on & under the pier. Shit!
Yep, the Jersey Shore is very low altitude as is Manhattan. I hope it won’t be as bad as it sounds.
At least we know that SC is safe since their legislature passed a law restricting how high the sea level is legally allowed to rise. That’s one less place to worry about.
Charles Pierce’s take
FRANKENSTORM!!!!!!!!!!!!
I, for one, won’t believe it until I see: a) the idiots out on the beach, standing behind the local newsdrone, drunk as hell and doing cartwheels; b) the poor EyeCenterNews newbie who has to cover the ravaged local grocery stores; c) the elderly crank who “rode it out in ’36 and ain’t moving this time, either,” and c) Jim Cantore on my front lawn.
Also, too: Possible connection to famous debate non-issue global climate change? Oh, hell fck, no.
They are expecting a lot of flooding in NYC: http://wny.cc/EvacZones
New York Plans to Suspend Transit Service – NYTimes.com
Then you have that earthquake in British Columbia (7.7 mag) which sparked tsunami warnings in Alaska and Hawaii, and in LA they just had a small earthquake:
Small earthquake rattles Southern California; buildings shake in Los Angeles – U.S. News
I don’t know if fracking was approved in BC, but they are drilling for shale oil. One can only wonder – natural earthquake or manmade?
Producing shale oil without fracking wouldn’t be worth it, I don’t think.
My advice is to leave if you’re any where close to where Jim Cantore lands. He goes to the worse place. ALWAYS.
In a soaking wet, tight T-shirt. I think that in between storms, he’s at the gym.
Here’s Treehugger’s take on the Frankenstorm, from 2 days ago. It looks at whether or not climate change is playing a role. http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/frankenstorm-2012-it-related-climate-change-will-it-ruin-halloween-will-it-kill-us-all-team-treehugger-investigates.html I posted the link in my first comment this AM, in case ya’ll missed it.
Well, you all just take care of yourselves and your critters.
Good post this morning JJ, thanks for all the good reads
TNR: A Desperate, Deceptive Gambit for Romney in Ohio
Romney’s lies about Jeep going to China are now in an unannounced ad running in Ohio. He is beginning to get more desperate.
with the ad…
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/10/romneys-unreleased-ohio-auto-bailout-ad-147485.html
Romney and his cronies really believe the american people are stupid, racist, misogynist, and assholes like them. They’ll say anything.
Sadly they could be right about a small majority, but I doubt it.
I have wondered since Rmoney said “he’d fight for every American job”, why someone hasn’t asked him, “What about Sensata?”
A Desperate, Deceptive Gambit for Romney in Ohio
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109256/romney-ohio-chrysler-jeep-china-toledo-obama-gm-rescue#
Here’s another one this from MoJo. I guess it’s not enough to be caught in the lie to shame him.
Mitt Romney Gets Desperate in Ohio
Alan Colmes @AlanColmes
Romney’s Auto Bailout Ad Tells Four Lies In 30 Seconds http://colm.es/ReOfii #thanktheliberals
Desperate is right, and why is the media not talking about this instead of that stupid endorsement from the Des Moines Register. I’m sorry but isn’t it just a fact he’s lying?
“Obama hired Steven Rattner, himself a millionaire hedge fund manager, to head the task force that would negotiate with the troubled firms and their creditors to avoid the collapse of the entire industry. In Rattner’s memoir of the affair, Overhaul, he describes a closed-door meeting held in March 2009 to resolve Delphi’s fate. He writes that Delphi, now in the possession of its hedge fund creditors, told the Treasury and GM to hand over $350 million immediately, “because if you don’t, we’ll shut you down.”
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12210-greg-palast-mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza
Yes, it is an established fact that he is lying his miserable ass off!
That’s despicable!
It really is pathetic. Flopsweat just drips from that ad.
This is just incredible and I don’t know what to think of it. Apparently a retired NSA analyst found electronic signatures of widespread election fraud.
AddictingInfo: PROOF: GOP Party Bosses Rigging Elections For Romney
commenters are Sam Wang’s place pretty well shot it down.
http://election.princeton.edu/2012/10/27/landfall/comment-page-1/#comment-20530
Obama leads by 3 in Reuters Ipsos poll
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/28/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSBRE89K0A920121028
woohoo! Gallup now shows Romney up 4 instead of 6 yesterday. It’s moving too much to be useful. They must be screwing with their LV screens.
Some other election modelers who predict the 2012 race.
http://research.uvu.edu/DeSart/forecasting/october.html
http://www.colleyrankings.com/election2012/
http://votamatic.org/
Good housekeeping interviews Michelle Obama and Ann Romney. What I learned, The lady Ann wants to get rid of public education and don’t go into politics until your children are grown and your husband has made “a bit of money”.
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/celebrity-interviews/ann-romney-interview-2012-election
Here is Michelle’s
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/celebrity-interviews/michelle-obama-interview-2012-election?click=main_sr
I really wanted to add this Lady Ann answer
GH: Who are your heroes? Your role models? Don’t say your husband, even if it’s true. (Laughing)
AR: I would say Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa…and Hillary Clinton. She has been through so much; she just kept going. Now she’s doing a great job as Secretary of State. I also admire Robin Roberts right now. You see the resilience of the human spirit in these women, and I love it.
Who is Robin Roberts?
One of the co-hosts of Good Morning America. She battled breast cancer & then had to recently have a bone marrow transplant. She took a leave of absence from GMA & went to visit her elderly mother before having the surgery & her mother passed away while she was visiting.
Lady Ann:
Nothing radical there, just throw out public education and bring in all charter schools. Think of the money to be made off that at the expense of the common good. Damn!
Ralph, BB has put up a new Lady Ann thread!
That response was beyond disturbing. That’s a major area that she just doesn’t get. Can we say clueless.
Thanks for sharing those interviews. Thoughtful, and insightful. Both Michele & Barack have grown during his presidency. And I actually think Ann’s interview was pretty good too, but there is no comparison between the two of them, much like their husbands.