I’m writing early, because my grocery order from Amazon Prime Now is due anytime within the next two hours. That disrupts my morning nap, a shame, because I slept poorly last night. Tonight Wendy is coming to fumigate the TomCat and feast on lox and bagels. I’m publishing early, because my groceries came, and while I was putting them away, I had a sudden attack of Republicosis and have to wait for the Immodium AD to kick in.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:13 (average 5:34). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Late Show Channel): Trump Attacks 2017
Isn’t it pathetic that the list is incomplete? RESIST!!
From Washington Post: Israel’s minister of transportation wants to name a new train station set to be built in the next few years in Jerusalem after President Trump.
And it’s not just any station.
If all goes according to plan, the station will sit close to the Western Wall and ferry the faithful — and about 11 million tourists a year — to one of Judaism’s holiest sites in the disputed Old City.
The transportation minister, Israel Katz, said Wednesday that the naming of the station was a gesture to a U.S. president who had made a “courageous and historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel.”
Oy Gevalt! Askoul Central Station? RESIST!!
From Think Progress: During the Obama administration, the federal government took action to prevent another Deepwater Horizon-sized oil spill, widely viewed as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. After taking office, the Trump administration immediately began making plans to relax certain offshore drilling rules implemented after the 2010 disaster.
As part of those regulatory rollback efforts, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which regulates offshore drilling, has developed a proposal that it estimates will save the industry more than $900 million over the next 10 years. The proposed changes would reverse safety measures that offshore oil and gas companies consider burdensome, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
A Republican recipe for another disaster. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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YT: That mango meathead will attack anything and anybody. He must feel as though somebody is keeping score. He’s made so many enemies, it’s a wonder that he has any allies left.
WP: Israel Katz really thinks that tRump made a “courageous and historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel”? Israel’s (the country, not the aforementioned knot-head) worst enemy is its government.
TP (an unfortunate abbreviation!): So, the bozos in charge of the Department of the Interior are going to risk billions of dollars in damage just to save $900M over the next ten years. Brilliant. I think I’ll send them invitations to a proctored Mensa test.
Cartoon: The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. – Friedrich Hegel
UGH! And the list is not complete because there’s STILL a few days left in the year? That won’t stop him! He will continue to attack anybody and everybody that he thinks might testify against him from here on out!
It’s a shame that tRump is hell-bent on making the worst decisions that have ever been made in regards to ANYTHING to do with healthcare, climate change, pollution, immigration and just about anything else that has to do with people in the world!!! How anyone can act this STUPID and still say they are for mankind is beyond my comprehension!!! He is just flat-out ignorant when it comes to making choices for the people!!! Please, Lord PLEASE, let this be the last time he has a chance to screw the people of the WORLD!!! MUËLLER! GET HIM OUTA HERE!!!
4:48 I’m pretty sure it’s not real, but expertly painted.
Late Show – Yup. The best thing he does. AND HIS BASE LOVES IT! Because they too hate everyone and everything!
WaPo – Good going, Israel. Way to lose tourist dollars.
TP – This is why Masha Geller and others warned us about normalizing the tyrant. This is so in keeping with the Trump regime as to seem normal. Resist indeed!
Cartoon – On this date in 1831 Charles Darwin set out in the good ship “Beagle.” Here is a beagle puppy.
Love the way you balance all that depressing political news with the cutest of puppies, Joanne.
Thanks. I felt like we needed it.
Beagles go GREAT with bagels!!
YT: Lordy, such a mean, evil cad. I’m sure he wouldn’t use mean words ‘ALL CAPS’ with puttie Putin though.
WP: ugh!!
TP: Gawd!! This is awful. There goes our environment, water, marine life, and the list goes on and on. He’s (dt) a disaster through and through!! every.single.day!
Cartoon: And…they don’t give a sheet either.
Hope that your Republicosis goes away. Far, far away!! Sounds like you have a busy day in store, love Lox & Bagels!! HI, WWW!! Have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
*Joanne, your picture is adorable. I want one. lol.
YT: There are too many people whose focus in life is defending their emptiness by going on the offense! This clown is the epitome of that sort!
WaPo: Can the Israelis really not know how he is using them to pander to the Evangelical-rapture-loving sheep!
TP: It is all about corporate gifts…damn the torpedoes!
LS: I can understand they left all the repeat attacks from the list, otherwise it would have been twice as long. And there are still a few more days to go in 2017, and Drumpf has a lot of time on his hands to tweet so…
WP: This was probably the carrot that made Drumpf recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Katz also forgot to mention this train station is probably going to be built with American money which is part of the billions the Israeli receive as American support and money Israel is skimming of the international funding to rebuild Gaza. And investigative journalists would do well to look into the subcontractors building this station.
TP: So what if another environmental disaster on the scale of Deepwater-Horizon happens; Republicans don’t care about environment and what happens to it as long as their (private) beaches, golf resorts and marinas remain untouched. And if they are forced to clean it up, they’ll use taxpayer’s money for it, certainly not the company’s that caused the disaster because they save themselves millions by cutting “burdensome” corners.
Cartoon: And Americans were stupidly happy to take over when the Russians left 10 years later. Nobody seems to learn lessons from history,; nobody.
Hope your Republicosis eases off soon, TomCat.
I first read that as “the subcontractors bilking this station.” Probably equally appropriate.
Puzzle — 4:00 Love the colours! Good thing that it cannot be eaten!
Colbert — An incomplete list, yes. But if it were complete, it would take hours if not days to broadcast!
WaPo — I wonder what percentage of the profits Drumpf will demand for the use of his name. Will the loo be gold plated too?
Think Progress — He won’t be happy until there is nothing left! Everything comes down to the almighty dollar for Drumpf and his ilk.
Cartoon — History is littered with so many “I told you so”s because we keep doing things over and over without regard to the results. Isn’t that the definition of insanity — doing things the same way but hoping for different results!
Here’s hoping you feel better. My Primo has been having troubles but Republicitis. Mashed pumpkin works really well and he loves it . . . as do the other 2.
Thanks all. Hugs!
Squatch is correct. The list is incomplete, because covering all of his attacks so far would take many hours, if not days.