Wendy is due in about twenty minutes to destink the TomCat and help with several chores, including the dreaded task. Since my Broncos have already won, may the holy Ellipsoid Orb bless your team.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:37 (average 5:08). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (SNL Channel): White House Tree Trimming Cold Open
It’s almost too accurate to be funny. RESIST!!
From Politico: A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s transition team is accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of unlawfully obtaining tens of thousands of private emails during its investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election.
Kory Langhofer, an Arizona-based attorney representing Trump for America, spelled out the complaint in a seven-page letter sent Saturday to the main House and Senate oversight committees where he raises potential violations of attorney-client privilege and the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful search and seizure.
Mueller’s office got the records earlier this summer from the General Services Administration, the government agency charged with holding all transition materials, even while it was “aware that the GSA did not own or control the records in question,” Langhofer wrote.
Translation: There’s stuff in there we don’t want known, and this false claim of misconduct could be the basis to fire Mueller, who may be dismissed only for cause. RESIST!!
From Think Progress: The Trump administration told policy analysts for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta that they could not use certain words in documents for the 2019 budget, the Washington Post reported. Those words were “fetus,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “vulnerable,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
The administration prohibited these words from being used in the budget, which should be released in February, and in supporting materials for Congress and CDC partners. A “longtime CDC analyst” who spoke to the Post said that they did not remember a time when an administration previous banned “controversial” words from budget documents. The analyst said it’s probable that other areas of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have had the same directive.
The next step in the Republican censorship of truth description terms will be to hijack funding for State and Local entities that employ them. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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5:07 He looks kind of tough.
SNL – If you hadn’t, I would have. (But I figured you would.) Kate McKinnon is one busy little elf, isn’t she?!?
Politico – Mueller’s office got ALL the emails from the GSA in connection with an investigation of (potential) criminal charges. PERFECTLY legal. They also (asked for and) got SOME emails from the transition team direectly. This will definitely save them time looking for incriminating ones – they will be the ones from the GSA that were not duplicated in the ones from the transition team. Sheer genius, if you ask me.
TP – David Corn provided a list of what Republicans want them to say instead but won’t admit it. The comments in a discussion on Daily Kos have some better ideas, of course.
Cartoon – Yup.
SNL: Great show!! Kate was adorable, ‘as I recall.’ 🙂
Politico: Gawd Forbid!!! If Humpty D. and his cohorts were in fact, innocent, they’d welcome the ongoing investigation. He’s not, but he puts on such a show, with his lies, his deceitful, deplorable behavior. The more they holler, the more it shows their guilt, imho. I have the utmost respect for Mr. Mueller (and his team) they know what they’re doing, and getting the job done…bless them all.
TP: I read that, how crazy is this? I also read what Joanne wrote too, in her comment, on DKos. Makes sense.
Cartoon: UGH!! Who is the same hill owns a yacht? Too much $$, and upkeep. Oh, that’s right, it’s for the repugs. ugh!!
Good Lord, my guys had a hellofatime today. 45Jags-my guys 7. HI, WWW!!! Hope that you get all your chores done, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
SNL: Excellent portrayal of dirtbags!
Politico: Setting the stage in the only way they know how…more lies.
TP: Borrowing a tactic from G.W.Bush, who also lost the popular vote. It is as if we are in the USSR, or Nazi Germany. Hitler was also willing to jettison science, as well, “for a few years,” as I recall. This smells like a Mike Pence walk-up to Theocracy, and Koch boys control.
Puzzle — 3:48 I hate garden gnomes!
SNL — Unfortunately, it is not available for viewing in Canada.
Politico — So Mueller got the “offending” records from the GSA and Drumpf’s lawyer is writing to contest them almost 6 months later? Me thinks that Mueller is getting very close and a desperate Drumpf is going ape shit over the possible ramifications. Add to that that Drumpf would dearly love to fire Mueller anyway! Drumpf is playing with fire, more fire than he has before. Another case of obstruction? He sure is racking them up! Now if Gowdy would just slither back under his rock, Mueller might be able to complete his job.
Think Progress — Obfuscation? Denial? Fascist mind control? The Drumpf administration is filled with a bunch of feeble minded fools.
Cartoon — … and other assorted billionaires!
Thanks and tired hugs to all.