It’s a chilly day, and that’s OK with me. I ordered groceries from Store to Door and put the finishing touches on a huge load of γηννα chili, so Squatch had better close her window.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:35 (average 4:56). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Update:
Here is the latest from our own fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends.
Scores:
Wooo Hooo!
Standings:
Congrats to Pam, who left the league in sole possession of 1st place. Condolences to Jack who is even under a Bigfoot foot. I have broken up Pam’s team and her players are available to claim on waivers, through the add player feature. Whether or not any of your claims are successful will depend on your position in the waiver order and who else claims which players. Be sure to make claims today.
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Donald Trump is the Harvey Weinstein of Washington
Trump is the Harvey Weinstein of the World, but why no outrage from the Reich? Keith forgot one key element of the Republican world view. IOKIYAR! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): Good News: Voting Rights
Oregon leads the way! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Just minutes after the publisher Larry Flynt offered ten million dollars in exchange for information leading to Donald Trump’s impeachment, Trump contacted Flynt and said that he would gladly provide the information himself in exchange for the cash.
According to Flynt, shortly after their phone conversation Trump sent him a voluminous number of e-mails, phone records, and other evidence of impeachable offenses, after which Flynt wired ten million dollars to Trump’s Swiss bank account.
“That was a lot easier than I thought it would be, to be honest,” Flynt told reporters.
The swift denouement to Trump’s tenure in the White House raised more than a few eyebrows in Washington, with some insiders wondering if Trump’s eagerness to accept the ten-million-dollar payment indicated that his net worth was considerably smaller than he had professed.
Andy, his net worth is way less than he claims. Even if Trump owns $billions, he is worth less than a wormy dawg turd! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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4:10 “Garden.” Hmmmph.
Keith # 135 – Yeah, I guess you can say that. Or you could say that Harvey Weinstein is the Donald Trump of Hollywood. I’d hate to let all the other Republican scumbags slide out under this.
YT/MoveOn – Colorado too – but how did Georgia and West Virginia get in there?!!!???! AMAZING!
TNY – Well, he had to jump in fast! Manafort might have gotten the money!!
Cartoon – Amen. What is taking so long? Oh, never mind – I know what the problem is!
Good news from Massachusetts special election for state senator. The Democratic candidate held the seat (and the legislative supermajority) for the Dems. Not spectacular like a red-to-blue-flip, but still important.
KO: Word, Keith. Word.
MO: Kudos to those states that have this. Texas needs to get on board.
NYer: Gawd, dt is such a loser!!!
Cartoon: Yep!!
Enjoy your cooler weather. I can’t wait for it to be autumn and have cool days. Your chili sounds delicious! Hope that you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Keith: Seen at the TV bank at the gym: Faux News, on the Hannity show, putting out a headline about how the lightweight, or something tooth effect media won’t let go of the Russian issue. They included a photo of Keith, as an example of that sort of media. News happens, and Faux works on demeaning the other media. Are thy trying to prime the Faux foolish public for “knowing” that whatever comes out in the investigations about Russian interference will be “fake news?” Probably.
New Yorker;tRump has never been anything other than a looser. Now, he’s threatening McCain, again. Bullies sometimes never grow up!
Keith Olbermann: All the examples of Drumpf’s sexual abuse of women Keith reiterated here are known to us, and therefore are known to Republicans, no matter how they have tried to move it to the back of their minds, or bury it in a flurry of fake news about anybody but Drumpf. So Keith’s reasoning is perfect: Democrats have repudiated Weinstein, so now Republicans have to play the false equivalence game they’ve been playing, in which Harvey Weinstein is somehow as bad and as important as Drumpf, to the very end and repudiate Drumpf, by giving his money back or giving it away, remove him from his job and any political influence, just like the Democrats did to Weinstein.
While the reasoning is logical and perfect, do we think this is ever going to happen? Naaahhh, Republicans haven’t got any character to count on, have they.
MO: There’s hope for democracy in America yet, and it comes in the form of Automatic Voter Registration, even in red states.
TNY: Well, there’s a saying that some people would sell their mother for a few bucks, so why wouldn’t Drumpf sell himself for a few million bucks? He knows he’s going to be impeached anyway so he might as well make som money out of it while choosing to rush headlong into it.
Cartoon: They promised to do so nearly 10 years ago, but that old bull is still standing high and dry in Wall Street. Not drowning in the swamp either.
Enjoy the chili, TomCat. I’m sure Portland is glad it’s to chilly out to keep your windows open.
But Greater Vancouver is not!!! That chili still travels northward through windows! Vicious stuff that Puddy Tat chili!
The window is wide open for the Squatch’s benefit.
Olbermann: drumpf = scumbag.
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BTW, I left that pending comment for you to examine. It is coming out of Russia on today’s lead article.
Puzzle — 4:58 When was the last time you saw me over the average? I had a fall about 600 hours PDT and I am still shaking so putting puzzles together is not a good activity right now. More later.
Fantasy Football — I beat the crap out of Jack (Purple Demons) last week. I noticed that he did not adjust his lineup for byes and it looks like he may not have do so again this week. Is everything OK? Don’t get me wrong, I like the blowout win but I’d rather Jack be OK. I get the endthegop pass this week so I’ll have 2 wins in a row — WOO HOO — but I am not going to get accustomed to it.
YouTube — Don’t you just love the Republican double standard! Not!!! Drumpf is a lecherous old scum bag who is unfit and incompetent in his current role. The end of him can’t come soon enough and the sooner Republicans wake up to that news, the better!
MoveOn — The only logical way to do things if representative democracy is to work.
The New Yorker — “Even if Trump owns $billions, he is worth less than a wormy dawg turd!” — AMEN! . . . and even that is over priced!!!
Cartoon — Drumpf steaks???
Resist, Persist and Remove!!!
Silence is Consent!!!
I fell this morning while trying to put a leg cramp to rest. I managed to skin my knee on the bed frame lifting some skin, bruise both knees, and jar my preserves! I have physio this morning so hopefully Ghasem will have me moving more comfortably by mid day.
Yeah, I saw it too, and almost deleted it (so obvious – Russia AND spam), but then I thought, no, TC should see it.
The pending comment from Russia was SPAM. If you hover your pointer over links, you can tell where they lead sometimes.
I sure hope you’re OK!! {{{HUG}}}
Jack may be AWOL too. You can still make waiver claims on Pam’s players.
I am definitely sore and the right knee is very swollen and purple — at least it matches my hair! I did not hit my head fortunately but the headache was persistent. After teaching yesterday, I was home late, ate and then to bed. That seems to have helped the headache. I also srapped off some skin on my butt so it is tender, but at least like my knees, no blood. This Sasquatch might be a bit battered which is not fake news, but I will recover! At least I still have my sense of humour. Thanks for the Puddy Tat hugs!
I hope you heal up. I’d be happy to kiss you knee to make it better. On the rest, I’ll pass!
Hugs!!
Sorry to hear about your fall, Lynn. Hope your feeling and moving a bit better after your physio.
Hope your knees need no special kneading or massage.
But please – more detailed information WRT “jar my preserves”.
Is that a Canuck phrase? I’m confused.
“jar my preserves” — More likely an English idiom as I remember hearing my grandmothers and my mother use it, although my mother was born and raised American til age of 16 years. That is all that I know. As to meaning, it is somewhat fluid but all in the same general direction. In this case, it means “general upset”. It is similar to “rot your socks”.
If Trump was dumb enough to walk into Flynt’s trap, he’s definitely a few ramps shy of a cloverleaf.
Thanks all! Hump Day Hugs!