I’ve had another busy day, and catching up with sleep just makes me sleepier. I ordered groceries from Store to Door. I also spoke with the Safeway Store Manager. She was highly apologetic and offered me $50 in compensation as an apology. I refused, and told her I would reconsider, if they demoted the .com manager. She said she will take my complaint to senior management and let me know what happens. I doubt that I’ll hear back, but I take pride in refusing to be bought off over the principal that they can’t just dismiss cursing a justifiably irate crippled senior.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:09 (average 4:07). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Report:
Here’s the latest from our own fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends.
Scores:
Woooo Hoooo!! Did I put that Sasquatch under foot, or what? 
Standings:
Congrats to Vivian and Seth, who lead the league. Condolences to Jack, who is still eating Sasquatch toe jams. There are only two weeks left before our playoffs.
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Trump is Finished
On the one hand, I fully agree with Keith. On the other, I feel devastated over Keith’s retirement from political commentary. We still need his clarity, integrity, and depth. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Elizabeth Warren: This Is Donald Trump Bringing His Chaos
As of 12:30 PM PST the CFBP was still in limbo. Liz spelled it out with crystal clarity. May she win the White House in 2020. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Casting further doubt on the authenticity of his notorious “Access Hollywood” tape, Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the voice on the tape was actually that of Hillary Clinton, imitating him.
“That’s not me on the tape,” he said. “That’s Hillary faking like she is me.”
Trump said that he had a theory to explain how Clinton came up with the infamous “locker-room talk” that appeared on the tape. “It’s so obvious that Bill came up with that,” he said.
Dang Andy! Now that you gave him the idea, that’s coming next! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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4:53 And there, scientists, you have the answer to the question, “Why do so many people think the sun is yellow, when in fact it is white?” You’re welcome.
Keith # 147 – “THE END” – “prematurely and soon” – Good grief, I hope so. So, OK. We have the Flynn deal. We have the hypothesis that Mueller has found a way around Trump’s pardon power. We have so much obstruction of justice that we may not need all the Russian details. We have the possibility of designation. We have a possile impeachment by Republicans (although I doubt that and I’ll expand after my further comments.) We have the 25th Amendment possibility. We have the Democratic controlled Congress possibility. And, the latest, we have what is starting to happen to sexual predators and the possibility that the avalanche will snowball big enough to wrap around him.
In Nixon’s day, there were still Republicans who had some brains. Consider this: “Some studies also suggest that high self-esteem makes people more confident and certain in their decisions. High self-esteem and self-belief is also often a sign of low intelligence. How you apply this information in the current context is up to you. I’m saying nothing.” – Dean Burnett for The Guardian Today …
With regard to the predator scandal, the Washington Post revealed this afternoon that one of Roy Moore’s accusers had approached them first with a phony story and been turned away, and has now been seen entering the Veritas Foundation. Something is definitely about to hit the fan. But WHAT?
However, I have to agree with Keith that his point has been made and I think he can go back to having a life now, God bless him. I had worried about him over the past two weeks. I’m glad he is alave and well, and certainly hope he stays that way.
Incidentally, Keith has been apparently doing this for free.
MSNBC – Hoping for an injunction soo., maybe even today.
TNY – I really wish today the New Yorker didn’t have a paywall! Several good things. Oh well.
Cartoon – You look contented!
I knew Keith was doing it for free. See today’s cartoon.
I figured that you did. But it wasn’t widely stressed, and I thought might have been missed by some. And it’s one more thing to appreciate him for. A real patriot.
Amen. Thank you for stressing it.
KO: I saw this this morning. I will put here what I wrote on another post by a C2 member. Mr. Olbermann, I will miss your insightful, and truthful commentaries, it’s like losing a good friend, with you now gone. Enjoy your life, you’ve done well, and I bid you ‘good bye’, in a good way, of course! Oh! and Happy Holidays!! also adding: I also hope that your words echo in the chambers and that justice is served! And…Quickly!!
MSNBC: Love, love, love Ms. Warren. I pray Ms. English stays.
NYer: That would be a typical answer, from lying dt. LOL, Andy!
Cartoon: “Where’s my pillow and blanket?” said the kitty.
You did well in refusing any compensation. Let it rest on their minds how they treated you, in such a nasty way. Colds are in the house, and I’m ready for bed. lol. Hope that you have a good evening, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
I hope everyone feels better.
Keith: I will miss him as well.
“High self-esteem and self-belief is also often a sign of low intelligence.” I still do not think he has either, but puts out the façade of it to cover abysmal interior absence!
Rachel: This W.H. will do whatever it can to protect the interests of the plutocrats…period!
New Yorker: How sad that the president of the U.S.A. stoops so low…and that some will believe him.
‘Toon: Looks like one satisfied cat.
You may be right that Agent Orange is just compensating … but, oh! His associates!
Keith Olbermann #Last:
I’m so sorry to see Keith go, but I can fully understand why he has stopped with his excellent, spot-on analyses which were giving us hope and lifting our spirits. Keith is convinced Drumpf will not make it to the end of his term, probably not even past spring next year. He doesn’t seem to mind that America is most likely stuck with the GOP leaders and Mike Pence pushing the plutocrat agenda, by then expanded with Pence’s Talibangical agenda, but perhaps they’ll be the reason for another of Keith’s comebacks. No, the main reason to stop before Drumpf is deleted from the cast, is that Keith, like so many of us, is exhausted from repeating himself. He has come full circle more than once, yet the same senile madness emanating from the White House keeps on coming, in fact keeps on increasing. Yesterday a commenter on Drumpf’s inexcusable and unforgivable handling of a ceremony for Native American veterans from WWII said something along the lines of: “Some time ago we’d be discussing this new Pocahontas incident for days, now we only chalk it up with all the others and wait for the next one to emerge.” There’s no end to it, we’re getting used to it and I think Keith wants out before he’s getting either blasé or embittered about it. And that is sad, very sad.
Rachel Maddow: (Thanks for embedding the YouTube video and not MSNBC’s directly, as the latter just won’t run from your page, TomCat. This one does.) Drumpf is evil minded enough to call Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” to try to shut her up, but he’s mentally too far gone to have this all planned. He had a script for the ceremony, but as usual, the fact that he was supposed to honor Native Americans triggered his decaying brain and off he went. He just can’t help himself. As I’ve said before, Drumpf “reacting on the spot” and appointing Mulvaney as Acting Director was at the advise of his staff, not something he had come up with while playing golf. Chaos indeed, just as Liz interprets it and deals with it. Marvelous how she stays on top of it and won’t allow Drumpf’s rapidly increasing chaos to distract her and make her lose her overview!
TNY: Drumpf now trying to make the tape out as fake, something he couldn’t even do when it counted the most just days before the election, is more chaos stemming from a demented brain. Drumpf may actually be so deluded by now that he truly believes the tape is a fake; in a few more weeks he’ll believe Andy’s version of it too.
News update: Drumpf is going into overdrive creating diversions and chaos:
Cartoon: Organic turkeys are the best!
Drumpf apparently also retweeted a Dutch video and this is what our news had to say about it:
Trump falls for fake news and retweets Dutch ‘anti-Muslim video’
Today, 13:36
Abroad
The American president Donald Trump retweeted a video this morning, showing how someone strikes down and abuses a boy on crutches. The original message is from the British politician Jayda Fransen and her caption was: “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches.” [JaydaBF deleted]
The video appears to have originated in May and is from the Dutch site Dumpert. The video is no longer there. According to weblog GeenStijl and De Telegraaf , the perpetrator was found and turned out to be neither Muslim nor migrant.
Incidentally, Trump reticulated two other anti-Islam videos of Jayda Fransen this morning, who is vice-chairman of the extreme right-wing British group Britain First. Fransen was arrested in Northern Ireland earlier this month after insulting Muslims in a speech in Belfast.
I do when I can. Have you tried clicking through to MSNBC and watching the video there? Most have no trouble watching them here.
Thanks all. Hugs!