It’s a nice comfortably cool day, and I slept well last night. It’s been a strange winter. I’m at the same latitude as the border between Wyoming and Montana, but I have not turned my heat on this winter, and I only closed my window overnight once. I expect a grocery delivery from Store to Door in about an hour. When I finish putting everything away, I’ll break for lunch. Then I’ll finish here.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:55). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Late Show Channel): Donald Trump’s Valentine’s Day Card To Melania Trump
Barf Bag Alert!!
How appropriate! Other than National Socialism, Trump loves only his own ego. RESIST!!
From Washington Post: When evaluating President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s new admission that he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket, it’s worth focusing on what he doesn’t deny: namely, that Trump had anything to do with it.
In a statement first reported by the New York Times and also shared with The Washington Post, Cohen says for the first time that he paid Daniels. The Wall Street Journal had first reported the payment as hush money to keep the adult-film actress from disclosing an alleged affair with Trump, but thus far nobody else had confirmed that the payment existed. Cohen’s hand was apparently forced by the watchdog group Common Cause, which last month announced it was filing a complaint arguing that Cohen’s $130,000 payment could be construed as an illegal 2016 campaign contribution.
I don’t buy it. Cohen is a Republican. Republicans don’t altruistically pay out big bucks like that. When it comes to their own money, they squeeze quarters so tight the eagle shits. Cohen, if not Trump, paid her with campaign money or with our money, both of which are criminal acts. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Millions of Americans on Wednesday demanded that Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, issue them checks in the amount of $130,000 for not having sex with Trump.
After Cohen revealed that he had issued such a check to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who he claims never had intimate relations with his client, there was widespread outrage among other Americans who had also not had sex with Trump but had not been paid for not doing so.
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Stormy Daniels,” Tracy Klugian, a florist in Santa Rosa, California, said. “I just want my check, too.”
Harland Dorrinson, a bank teller in Akron, Ohio, said that he had already e-mailed Cohen to demand payment. “I have never come close to having sex with Trump, and that should be worth something,” he said. “Specifically, $130,000.”
Andy, Dorrinson is wrong. Albeit non-consensual, he has had sex with Trump. There isn’t an American in the poor and middle classes that Trump and the Republican Reich haven’t screwed. Where’s my $130,000? RESIST!!
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6:19 A bridge too far for me.
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BBA – It is to barf, all right. You can cleanse your brain with Barack and Michelle’s tweets.
WaPo – On the bright side, Stormy says now that Cohen has broken their agreement, she can TELL ALL.
TNY – I want my $130,000 too! ROFLPMPACGU !!
Cartoon – Yup!
LS: Can’t even keep a thought in his head before rambling about how great he is, or something else. ID !!
WP: Yep, either campaign or taxpayers $$. I hope she spills the beans, (eventually).
NYer: Where’s my $130K?? We, (all) taxpayers are getting screwed by him, so why not?? lol
Cartoon: Hell to the NO!!!
Still rainy and chilly here. Glad your having good weather. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!! Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
My wife and I would like our $260,000.00, although we both feel that it would be settling quite low.
LOL! Literally!
BBA: He has no ego. Much of his presentation in life is designed to hide that from himself, and others; he is the EMPTY ORANGE!
WP: This jackass has more up cover up than Richard Nixon ever dreamed could be possible!! Of course, he does not have much little dickie to cover up, Dickie Nixon had that locked up.
Borowitz: I love the way Andy thinks.
Hush money by any other name would stink as much. The Repooplicans and their stooges aren’t fooling anybody.
LS: I doubt Melania would even be in the card Drumpf would have her sent (you don’t think he’s writing her one by hand himself, do you). It would probably have been a picture of him on his inauguration day with a “Happy Valentine” scribbled on its back by an aid.
WP: After he has confirmed that hush money has been paid to Stormy Daniels, Cohen now may have the impossible task of proving to the court that Drumpf has paid it out of his own pocket if the suitors can make their accusation stick. Because groups like Common Cause will not be fobbed off with a settlement out of court.
TNY: Excellent satire to debunk the ?? Cohen is trying to sell Americans.
Cartoon: Or sick then dead if you’re male.
Lona, where did you get those emoticons?
Thanks all. Hugs!
Puzzle — 4:05 Looks a lot like the Capilano Suspension Bridge here in Metro Vancouver except this one is over tropical rainforest where ours is over temperate rainforest.
Late Show — Perfect from a troll who only loves himself! Why she stays with him, I do not know. Must be the pre-nup!
Washington Post — The old but true adage comes to mind: follow the money! I would like to see the results of a forensic audit on Drumpf, Cohen, Daniels and the Drumpf campaign. The whispers are shouting from the back of the room!
The New Yorker — “There isn’t an American in the poor and middle classes that Trump and the Republican Reich haven’t screwed.” — LMAO!!! although it is no laughing matter! Too bad I am not American because I’d love to line up for $130,000 US (~$104,000 CAD).
Cartoon — That is an act of war!
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Thanks Lona. I found it for Chrome. Gotta be able to go ??