WWW is coming a couple hours late, so I’m rushing to finish early.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:00 (average 6:02). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (SNL Channel): White House Christmas Cold Open
Amen pseudo-Hillary! Lock him up! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Vice-President Mike Pence has requested that Jesus Christ rapture him up before the special counsel Robert Mueller can indict him, a source close to Pence confirmed on Friday.
Shortly after the former national-security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I., Pence contacted Jesus to discuss the early rapture proposal, the source said.
The source characterized Pence’s request to be raptured up as “urgent” but did not indicate whether the Vice-President asked Jesus to rapture up any other senior Administration officials.
Gee, Andy. Republican Supply-side Jesus (the opposite of the real Jesus) is welcome to poof Pence down to where he is. Then Pence can sizzle with Scalia. RESIST!!
From NY Times: As the tax cut legislation passed by the Senate early Saturday hurtles toward final approval, Republicans are preparing to use the swelling deficits made worse by the package as a rationale to pursue their long-held vision: undoing the entitlements of the New Deal and Great Society, leaving government leaner and the safety net skimpier for millions of Americans.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan and other Republicans are beginning to express their big dreams publicly, vowing that next year they will move on to changes in Medicare and Social Security. President Trump told a Missouri rally last week, “We’re going to go into welfare reform.”
They have claimed this was not true from the beginning, but we have always known they were lying. RESIST!!
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6:43 They do love their acorns at JigZone.
Update for Erinyes story: Sarah Sims charges DROPPED.
SNL – From SNL’s cameras to God’s eyes and ears!
TNY – No kidding, if only Republican Supply-side Jesus would take all these tools away!
NYT – Yes, well they have to pass it first. It’s not a done deal. A lot of things could happen.
Cartoon – I don’t think Alka-Seltzer will help that donkey. It’s not designed to help the system keep actual toxins down long enough to absorb them, which would not be a good idea anyway. No, I recommend a copious supply of ipecacuanha and barf bags instead.
Thanks for the update on Sarah Sims, Joanne.
Great news on Sims!
This is absolutely fabulous that charges were dropped! They never should have been pursued in the first place.
Oh, those Repulicooks! They’re all for smaller government, except when it comes to defense, fighting terror (i.e., stomping on any country that doesn’t submit to the rule of Big Business), waging the asinine war on drugs, persecuting the homeless, and policing women’s bodies.
Alka-Seltzer ain’t gonna cut it. The only cure for the headache our so-called Congress has given us is booze. Lots of booze. Then planning to kick as many Rethuglican asses out of Washington in 2018.
Or, if you live where it’s legal, THC.
SNL: Sweet!! Love it!!
NYer: Uh…hell no, no such name on the ‘Rapture’ list…. he’d be going downwards (as in a spiral), and Jesus can direct him where to go! lol
NYT: Keeping fingers crossed that this scam does NOT pass….!!
Cartoon: Booze and Barf Bags. Well said, Ladies, (above), and I wholeheartedly agree with you.
Final score: my guys 13 vs. Titans 24. ugh.
HI, WWW!! Hope you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
*Joanne, Thanks for the update re: Ms. Sims. Great news, and I Appreciate you getting that info out. 😉
SNL: Way to go Hillary!
New Yorker: Pence, and so many others believe this clap-trap, and it will be part of government policy if he gets to be POTUS! So, how many false “endings” has the world seen, already?
NYT: The unravelling of the country is on the way? Can Ryan smile more broadly, now that his wet dream has come true?
SNL: Don’t you love it that all Drumpf’s Christmas ghosts are alive and kicking and are going to haunt him long before and after Christmas. He won’t get away with just one night of bad sleep and night terror. May the rest of his and his cronies’ nights be filled with it.
TNY: Let’s hope Pence finds out soon that the supply-side Jesus is just as untrustworthy as those who created him for their political purposes.
NYT: Republicans haven’t even passed the Tax Cut bill for final approval and they’re already trying to minimize the damage this legislation does, i.e. not enough billions going to the 1%, by talking austerity for those they are fleecing. Their Tax Cut victory must have led to some partying afterwards which transported them to Drumpf’s alter realty if they think they will keep their majority in Congress after the next elections if they start spouting this sickening beastliness now. In this reality things might turn very ugly if they keep pushing millions to a point where they have nothing more left to loose.
Cartoon: I think the donkey won’t make it on a couple of Alka Selzers, nor on two aspirins. It’s in need of a huge vitamin boost.
This has nothing to do with American politics but with Aussie politics and is is bitter-sweet, so I thought I’d share it with you:
The speaker takes it all in his stride and reacts in that typical Aussie way.
So, so very Sweet! and Awesome!
Thanks, Lona for sharing this!!
That’s pretty cool – and I dare say, a first!
And probably not just for Australia. I wonder if anyone has proposed on the floor/well of their nation’s deliberative body.
So very cool! I wish them both a lifetime of happiness!
My allergies are acting up, must run for a Kleenex, but wish them the best.
Great minds fall in the same ditch. Fortunately, I saw this and had time to replace the Short Take. Kudos on getting down-under from down-under!!
Puzzle — 5:21 You’d have to be squirrely or nuts to eat that!
SNL — I do so wish SNL was available in Canada . . . (sigh)
The New Yorker — Too bad for Pence that he does not know that supply side Jesus presides over hell. It is all in the directions! May he be raptured down . . . or has that already happened?
I am reminded yet again of the sign at my church from a few weeks ago — If you hate anyone because of your faith, U R doing it wrong!
NY Times — Republican “long-held vision: undoing the entitlements of the New Deal and Great Society, leaving government leaner and the safety net skimpier for millions of Americans.” I can only hope that Drumpf’s base and all middle and working class Republican voters finally see the light before it is too late. As you say, “… we have always known they were lying.”
Cartoon — “Plop! Plop! Fizz! Fizz! Oh what a relief it is!” But is it a relief?
Thanks all. Hugs!