It’s another day that the pain remains severe, but I did get enough sleep to publish. I expect to publish tomorrow as well, as I have to be up to receive a grocery delivery.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:11 (average 4:04). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Bill O’Reilly’s Downfall (And Trump’s, Too?) | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
All should boycott all things Trump. As I said…
… and a few more. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: In an appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, former President Barack Obama unloaded a relentless barrage of complete sentences in what was widely seen as a brutal attack on his successor, Donald Trump.
Appearing at his first public event since leaving office, Obama fired off a punishing fusillade of grammatically correct sentences, the likes of which the American people have not heard from the White House since he departed.
“He totally restricted his speech to complete sentences,” Tracy Klugian, a student at the event, said. “It was the most vicious takedown of Trump I’d ever seen.”
“About five or six sentences in, I noticed that all of his sentences had both nouns and verbs in them,” Carol Foyler, another student, said. “I couldn’t believe he was going after Trump like that.”
Dang Andy! It must be an attack on the Fuhrer for Obama to have used the science of grammar! RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: Donald Trump still insists that Mexico is going to pay for the border wall. Except Mexico stubbornly refuses to send an up-front check for something that would cost as much as their national budget, is designed to wreck their economy, and is basically the world’s biggest and “most beautiful” screw-you. So until Trump figures out exactly how to get Mexico to shell out for a giant slap in the face, there’s the problem of finding that money in your pocket.
Last week Trump budget director, and chief torturer of both reason and common decency, Mick Mulvaney, proposed that Trump might let slip a dollar worth of health care for every dollar that Democrats provided for hate concrete. Mulvaney insisted that the Wall was a must-have, take-it-or-leave-it item, but his healthcare for hardware exchange was not exactly a deal anyone rushed to embrace.
As it turns out, there was no need to, because faced with the idea of hitting a government shutdown on Day 99 of his regime, Donald Trump appears ready to fold like a gaudy gold napkin in the Mar-a-lago dining and strategic planning room.
Trump has two choices, fold or face the consequences of his shutdown. RESIST!!
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3:22 After a little warmth last week we are getting chilly again. Not all that cold, but odd for April-going-into-May. So I shivered.
Keith #62 – Impeachment by proxy? Interesting concept. And does make the point that it was necessary to go through the advertisers and strike at the money flow because of it. Well, Christina Wilkie has an open spreadsheet with a list of all donors/donations to Trump's inauguration, and is asking for anyone who has any dirt on any of them to add it to the spreadsheet – it's actuallt being crowd sourced. It is a time-consuming activity, but hey, if you have any spare time, go at it. And then, of course, boycotting anyone who deals with Trump. I hear Ivanka re-labeled some of her clothing line "Adrienne Vittadini" but also that it didn't work.
TNY – … causing thousands of people to say they had forgotten what it was like to have a President who could speak English. And many of them to cry. Straight reporting again. Alas.
DKos – Also on Daily Kos, user teacherken quoted an op-ed pointing out that, if you were a retailer, and someone came up to your cash register and said the purchase would be paid "eventually, at a later date, in some form" by your neigbor, you would be likely to throw the bum out.
Cartoon – I don't think even 1%-ers bodies can evolve fast enough to thrive on breathing that stuff. Not that they will admit it!
Purrrrfect graphic.
KO: I like what he's saying, boycott & resist anything that dt has, has interests in, advertisers, etc., get him out!!! And that goes for his family interests too.
NYer: I've started watching and listening to Mr. Obama. Love this man. So eloquent.
DK: Glad it's off the table.
Hope that you start feeling better….have a relaxing evening, and take good care. Thanks, Tom.
Just seconds ago, watching Rachel Maddow, at 9:52 PM Eastern, a very quick, picure of the name of Rupert Murdoch blew across the screen. Anybody else see that? Subliminal crap?
DK: Apparently, Rumpy has already folded about the wall, and Rush Limbastard is complaining!
New Yorker: Full sentences, comprehensible sentences, even? Sentences that are, therefore, less laible to being interpreted according to the listener's agenda? The nerve!
Breaking: Maddow reports that the Orange House is bragging about the 32 executive orders put out in his first 100 days! Wow! Historians will really be able to wax eloquent about this achievement!
A Republican pResident, a Republican dominated Congress, and the "plan" is executive orders rather than legislation —dictates from the resident dictator. So far, important legislation like the healthcare bill DOA.
From the archives, Obama signed 285 executive orders in 8 years, average 35.6 per year. Drumpf, 32 in 100 days which comes to 116.8 for one year if continues at his existing pace.
Puzzle — 3:28 Obviously, my ship sank!
YouTube — Economically castrating Drumpf? Interesting idea but I doubt it could be done in a timely manner. Having said that, anything that gets him out, legally of course, is worth trying. As usual, Keith makes good points.
JD, thanks for bringing up the spreadsheet. I remember reading about a week ago that Venezuela contributed to Drumpf's inauguration to the tune of $500,000. The Guardian has an article that outlines just how that happened, and wouldn't you know, it has a Russian connection. It is on line 60 of the spreadsheet under the name of Citgo Petroleum Corp. I hope that the powers that be are able to nail his ugly orange ass big time and that that leads to impeachment.
The New Yorker — Unfortunately, Drumpf probably would not understand because it was spoken and not tweeted, nevermind the grammar.
Daily Kos — Good that it is gone for now but I still wonder what will happen to Obamacare. The $1 for $1 was totally unacceptable. Paul Ryan apparently thinks he has the votes to repeal Obamacare but does he have the votes for Trumpdon'tcare? If he doesn't, that will be another failure for Drumpf based on his campaign promises.
As to the wall, if Drumpf (the US) wants a wall constructed on its land, then the US should pay. It is no different to me constructing a fence around my yard to keep the neighbourhood hounds from coming in and scaring my cats.
Cartoon — When I was a child, I remember the heavy pollution along the Canada-US border at Niagara Falls. The Canadian side was clean park land while the US was heavy industrial pollution that wafted over the border. And at Lake Erie, there were many dead fish floating in the lake because of pollution coming from the US side. As I was once told, that is not pollution, its money making. Well if that is money, I'll take poverty. Republicans gutting clean air and water regulations is criminal.
Thanks JD for this purrfect reminder.
Glad you got some sleep. Keep at it! I was told by my doctor that I need to take vitamin B12 — I had my quarterly blood tests plus some annuals that I have never had before last Saturday. B12 and iron are now on the menu. At least my A1C is going in the right direction. If its not one thing its another.
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A wall around your yard to keep the hounds out is a little different – in that the hounds are a legitimate danger to your pooties, whereas …
Glad you're still able to sleep enough even though the pain won't abate, TomCat. It allows you to get up to publish and to reunite Stumpy with George more often, which will in time make them get allong better too and have you all prepared for your first cataract operation. So keep up the good work on all fronts, my friend.
Keith Olbermann: Presidential Impeachment by Proxy. Worth a try.. But Drumpf needs to remain on the wrong footing with other countries too for it to work. He's using his meetings with their major representatives to enlarge his families empire and their income – Ivanka won three new trademarks for her brand after dining with president XI, giving her a monopoly right to sell jewelry, bags and spa services in China. For China that's a good deal too as most of her products are manufactured in China. No doubt Drumpf's own merchandise is doing well in other countries too after a visit from a head of state, making a boycott a much less effective weapon than in O'Reilly's case.
TNY:
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Brilliant Andy. After seeing some excerpts from Drumpf's AP interview in which he not only could put one coherent sentence together, but was unintelligible 16 times, rambling Drumpf had this one coming. Comparing him to brilliant orator Obama was the final knock-out though. A six-year-old forms better sentences than Drumpf. No, let me rephrase that: A six-year-old can form a proper sentence, which Drumpf is apparently incapable of. But even if he was, the content of the sentence would still be pure rambling. He just doesn't make any sense at all. Obama has left the office only a 100 days ago, but how we miss him, both for his eloquence and his leadership.
DK: Let's hope Drumpf folds; a shutdown will be blamed on Democrats, as usual, and will make his popularity rise again at the cost of all the civil servants who will have to do without pay when the federal coffer runs empty.
Cartoon: I'm sure there's little pollution at sea-side Mar-a-lago. For now, that is.
I think Mar-a-Lago is in more danger of disappearing to permanent flooding than of pollution while still above sea level.
Thanks all! hugs!