I'm following my normal Wednesday routine of resting in the morning and writing in the afternoon to be sure to be up when my grocery delivery from Store to Door arrives. This evening Wendy will be here to scrub and buff the stinky TomCat, do some light housework, and have supper. Happy Hump Day to all, but, if you must hump Trump, please use a cattle prod!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 3:30 (average 5:34). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From All In: Trump lie latest
After President Trump repeated a lie about illegal voting costing him the popular vote, Senator Jeff Merkley [D-OR] discusses how to grapple with such a president.
Jeff: "When the sanest member of the cabinet is nicknamed 'Mad Dog', you know you have a problem." Amen Jeff! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: In less than a week as President, Donald J. Trump has created ten million jobs for fact checkers, the Department of Labor has confirmed.
Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of HonestyWatch, a Minnesota-based fact-checking organization, called the pace of hiring in the fact-checking industry since Trump’s Inauguration “blistering.”
“The nation’s supply of fact checkers is being stretched to the breaking point,” he said. “There are not enough fact checkers to keep up with the exponential growth in alternative facts.”
OK, Andy!! It's time to start doing satire again! RESIST!!
From YouTube: Dan Rather: Alternate Facts Are A ‘Propaganda Tool’ – Facts Are ‘Foundation of Our Democracy’
There are no Alt-Facts. Facts are just true. There is no Alt-Right. Alt-Right Nazis are just Republicans!! RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: With Republicans holding a numeric advantage on every committee, Democrats can’t kill any nomination on their own. But they can act to delay the vote.
Senate Democrats are delaying a key vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions's nomination to be President Trump's attorney general, arguing they want more time to review the pick.
The vote was expected on Tuesday morning, but may be held off for a week, giving Democrats more time to bring in evidence and point out Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s history of racism.
Keep rubbing their deplorable racist noses in Beauregard! There are several more to delay too!! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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5:07 But where's the caterpillar?
Saw this: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/voter-fraud-found-in-the-white-house-steve-bannon-is-registered-to-vote-in-two-states/ Delicious! (And, no, it actually isn't voter fraud, but it "would have been" if it were a Democrat. That's what Crosscheck is all about.)
Incidentally, I have a whole – um, load of petitions on the DAPL/KXL in view of the infamous executive order:
http://nm.martinheinrich.com/page/s/protect-land-and-water-rights
http://lakotalaw.org/dapl-action
http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50836/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=20673
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=00000000.app360b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2066&autologin=true&NONCE_TOKEN=12E39BBF94296C40DE6CB0CDC5E47950
https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/s/DAPL-keystone-XL
To submit comments (which you must write):
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/18/2017-00937/notice-of-intent-to-prepare-an-environmental-impact-statement-in-connection-with-dakota-access-llcs
Just a cattle prod? Not an electrified saguaro?
All In – I think that Jeff is onto something – if they answer him truthfully, the Nectarine Narcissist may withdraw the nomination. If they lie, they are caught in a lie in confirmation hearings. Yes, I know, for Republicans that is not a deal breaker, but at least we have them on record.
TNY – TC, I think the satire is in the fact that the number of fact checkers needed are not in fact being hired and paid. That would create jobs, so a Trump administration would nip that in the bud.
YT – What do Trump supporters want? Well, they want those "alternative facts" to be facts. If they can't have that, they want to be able to keep believing in them anyway. So the bottom line is, they want us to shut up. Isn't it?
DKos – Again – like with Jeff and the photos – if we can't stop them, at the very least, we can get them soundly on record if we delay and bring out more facts. And that can't hurt.
Cartoon – Exactly.
Do they electrify them?
Thanks. Great links!!
All In: Of course they lie, and the Repugs will bow down and do what DT wants. It's sickening.
TNYer: They would need millions of fact checkers at this rate…and that's not gonna happen with this administration, LOL, Andy.
YT: Giving "alternative facts' gives them leeway to lie. And lie every single day. Making stuff up/distorting the truth? Alternative facts. Unreal. (and that's a FACT!)
DK: Kudos to the Dems fighting the fight. Delay, Delay, Delay.
Cartoon: Reminds me of this snippet: Dragnet's "Jack Webb's 'Joe Friday' character typically used the phrase "All we want are the facts, ma'am" *snopes.
Hope that, after all your chores and dinner, that you get a chance to relax. Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Thank you, Joanne for the links that you posted.
I sure do appreciate it, and have signed them all. I will mail the last one, when I go get ink this week for the printer, and get that done.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for the petitions, Joanne! Going to every one of them and signing them!
Loved ANDY! He has a wicked sense of humor! Just love it!
Alternative facts! Geez, Louise! They gotta be kidding!
Thanks TC!
Question: My question is to C2 and PP readers is: Have you noticed an increase of emails in your mailboxes lately? I have noticed an uptick, an increase in my emails lately ever since drumpf became not-my-president. It feels as if my mailboxes have been swamped with emails of all kinds, petitions and news stories. It is like the dam has sprung a big leak and emails have poured in, somewhat, like a flood. I can no longer keep up with them anymore. sigh… Does anyone else have this problem?
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Jim, my impression is that the volume is about the same since before the election (which in a way represents an increase, because it shouldn't be – it should go down after an election) – but that fewer of them are JUST fundraising whereas more than before the election are actual petitions. You are the best keeper-upper I know, I think – if you are having trouble keeping up, the rest of us either are or soon will.
I'm getting multiple e-mails regarding petitions, some % of which lead to requests for $. But, not huge numbers of them.
Usually, aftre an election, dination requests drop off. Mine have more than doubled
Jus tback from paying a shiva call to a friend who lost her husband, and it's late, here, so it will suffice me to remind people hat the Saint of the GOPigs, Pres.Reagan is infamous for having said, "Facts are just an annoyance!" So, the Rumpy ass kissers are just turning hthat up a notch, the precedent is there…dumb SOB's
Wouldn't it be great if there were a recording of St. Ronnie Raygun imploring …
Condolences to your friend, and I trust you also won't forget her after the week is up. Thanks for supporting her.
"… Rumpy ass kissers are just turning hthat up a notch …" — Living their pseudo Christian values of 'turn the other cheek'?
Sorry for your loss.
The fact is we have a nut case running the country….
Good to see you return to your usual routine quickly after all that torture you went through, TomCat. I hope your sight is no longer affected by it. A nice buff and shine will have you purring in no time, I'm sure.
AI: Well, the gloves are off, and any self respecting journalist, TV host or politician will call out Drumpf's assertions for what they are: lies. And they all remark on how disturbing it is that not even his close associates can convince Drumpf that what he believes is delusional, if they try to do so at all. Soon more will say out loud what Krugman and Olbermann already have stated: Drumpf is insane. Of course Drumpf's reaction to statements from sane persons like Jeff Merkley is to demand an yuge investigation into his delusional voter fraud of 3-4 million illegals all voting for Hillary. Apparently someone told Drumpf the information on which he's based his alter reality on according to Sean Spicer, isn't enough to convince us mere mortals.
TNY: Great one Andy, your millions of jobs in the fact-checking business had me ROTFLMAO.
Dan Rather: "Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods." Bingo! What more needs to be said? Focus what's on hand: Drumpf and his administration are telling lies. Full stop. Stop allowing yourself to be distracted by by these scam artists who move the ball to another cup because you're not paying attention. Stop discussing it as if there's something to discus, focus on what is reality: America has allowed itself to get stuck for the next four years with a madman for a president and an administration and ruling party that deal in lies only. Deal with it and
RESIST!
DK: Good, anything legal is allowed if it helps to
RESIST!
Cartoon: I think Inspector Goosestep is slightly confused, the GOP wants us to acknowledge alternative facts.
Puzzle — 3:50 Magic mushrooms are not my style.
Sorry, my laptop is a true Republican — it was not working properly last night and would not allow PP to open so no comments.
I saw my mother yesterday for several hours and will leave shortly to go back. The orders for palliative care are in. I did get her to drink yesterday which is about all she is doing intake wise. I will be going to Victoria for my Aunt's memorial service on Saturday so I will likely be scarce for several days.
Take care.
Under the circumstances, you may not see this timely, but please take care of yourself at this time, which has to be stressful. I'm sure I can speak for us all in sending good thoughts.
Thanks all! Hugs!!