I'm waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries. Wendy comes this evening, and I have plenty of stink to keep her scrubbing for a while. Tomorrow I have two appointments with Christine, my Ophthalmologist in preparation for my first cataract surgery on the 23rd. Please expect only a Personal Update. I'll be fully dilated and virtually blind when I return.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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From YouTube (GQ Channel): Shouldn’t Jared Kushner Be Arrested? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
Arrest Kushner Now! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump tweeted early Wednesday morning that his practice of sleeping only four hours a day was having no impact whatsoever on his ability to cljjryff.
Trump, who repeatedly touted his high energy level during the 2016 campaign, tweeted that, despite his gruelling Presidential schedule, he still had enormous reserves of stamina, which he called “stamgygygyggy.”
In the same tweetstorm, he lashed out at news reports questioning his fitness for office, denouncing them as “fakequez%(™.”
Andy is back to straight news again. RESIST!!
From NY Times: Back from overseas and confronting an unforgiving political environment, President Trump appears increasingly isolated inside the White House, according to advisers, venting frustration over the performance of his staff and openly talking about shaking it up. But as he considers casting off old aides, Mr. Trump is finding it challenging to recruit new ones.
The disclosures from investigations stemming from Russian meddling in last year’s election — coupled with the president’s habit of undercutting his staff — have driven away candidates for West Wing jobs that normally would be among the most coveted in American politics, according to people involved in the search.
By the time the first change in what may be a broader shake-up was announced Tuesday, the White House was left without a replacement. Michael Dubke, the White House communications director, said he would step down, but four possible successors contacted by the White House declined to be considered, according to an associate of Mr. Trump who like others asked not to be identified discussing internal matters.
That makes perfect sense. If I were a completely corrupt Republican (tautology intended), I would not accept an appointment from the Fuhrer without a guaranteed full-salary pension for life and a blanket full pardon for all crimes: past, present and future. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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4:02 Not much nutrition in a butterfly, even a "large" one. And I hope neither the butterfly nor the flower is poisonous to cats.
Keith #80 – And Cory Booker jumped to Jared's defense (and, coincidentally, received a sweet contribution as a result). [There's a petition to tell him to GIVE IT BACK here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/308/600/265/cory-booker-give-back-kushner%E2%80%99s-cash/] I can live with Booker in the Senate (although, of course, I'd prefer a real Democrat), but he had better not think he can run for President on a Democratic ticket, EVER. As for Jared – here's my take – there is no reason to bypass due process here. Rescinding someone's security clearance does not require due process, only suspicion. And if a person whose clearance has been rescinded is cleared, they can get it back, no harm, no foul. So what we should do is rescind the security clearances of (at least) Trump, Pence, Kushner, and Ryan should be rescinded. Of course, with no security clearances they will be unable to do their respective jobs, so the action will make Orrin Hatch acting President. Temporarily, of course.
TNY – My, that typo got a lot of attention! You can go to almost any liberal site and find comments which, though the word has gotten to be just clickbait most of the time, are truly hilarious.
NYT – Of course this administration intended to reduce the size of government. But if they are unable to get replacment for positions they actually wanted to fill, the reduction may get to the point where even they will admit it's too much. And won't THAT be something!
Cartoon – It would be interesting to look at repeal on a state by state basis to see what would happen. I am not advocating repe
al, but it would seem difficult to come up with anything worse than the current Republicans in the Senate.
KO: List gets longer and longer. Espionage, collusion with a foreign government, obstruction of justice, banking, etc., pick him up/arrest him! Get them all.!!
NYer: When I first read this, I thought it was a joke. Then I saw the tweet online. What an id.
NYT: What goes around, comes around. Slap dab in the face, dt. He's living in a fantasy world, imho.
Cartoon: Of course they do.
Prayers & good wishes to you for tomorrow. Hope you get to & from your home safely too. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
The tweet wasn't a joke … but it certainly is now!
http://www.alternet.org/culture/brands-are-already-cashing-covfefe-and-its-hilarious
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Covfefe
I liked the charity diapers best.
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Keith: I suspect that Jared's arrest is, indeed, in the offing…or at least in the Covfefe!
New Yorker: Alzheimer's can do that to you! Where's tht idiot doctor who swore that Rumpthing was the bigly healthiest person to EVER run for the presidency?
NY Times: At the gym, last night, I saw a "Headline" on CNN News, that read: "Trump, Alone and Angry." My thoughts:
1- Good for you!
2- Karma can bite, huh?
3-Be careful about what you wish for!
4- Gee, have you alienated everybody?
5- You never did care about other people's feelings, or needs!
6-You really couldn't help yourself, could you?
7- It's your narcissistic drive that drove you here.
8- That's kind of sad, being a "prisoner" of your own mental disorder.
9- For which, seen in others, you have no capacity for compassion!!
10- And it drives you to hurt others.
11- May you be free of your sickness and pain, whether you acknowledge having them, or not. (in your deluded state)
I hope this medical appointment will go smoothly this time and you won't have to battle the bus company while you're legally blind, TomCat. Good luck.
Keith Olbermann: After having looked at the issue from top to bottom, sideways and back to front, Keith draws the only logical conclusion: arrest Kushner now.
TNY: Stamina is not what came to my mind when I read about the covfefe. I pictured a Drumpf, having been scolded too often by either Bannon, Ivanka or Kushner for tweeting too much, hiding with a flashlight under the blankets and then, startled by being caught mid-tweet, hastily pushing some buttons until he hit 'send'.
NYT: It's lonely at the top, isn't it, Drumpf? Normally the rats will leave a sinking ship, in this case they won't even come aboard.
With a flashlight under the blanket …. LOL !!!
P. S. Nice Graphic!
Thanks, JD.
Graphic is in the media library, to which I try to add one each day. They're not home-made and not nearly as lovely as your colorful and creative signs, but feel free to use any you fancy.
Puzzle — 3:50 Sorry preety butterfly but I could not save you. However, Puddy Tat has an eye doctor's appointment tomorrow and the eye drops they use will very temporarily render almost blind. Get the hell out of there before he gets his sight back! You have to save yourself this time.
YouTube — To quote Keith, "Arrest Kushner now!" This entire administration is awash in incompetency and scandal, things that are hurting the US's international standing. Right now it looks llike the tarnish will never be removed. From Drumpf on down, the chief architects of this Republican train wreck need to be removed.
The New Yorker — Straight reporting indeed! I'm not sure if Drump realises that he is being laughed at, not laughed with. He is such a twit, an odious one at that.
NY Times — Drumpf made his bed and now he must lay in it! Who in their right mind would want to lay down there with him. If one consorts with dogs, one gets fleas, and who wants fleas! Just listening to the talk of foreign leaders after having to deal with him, one can certainly understand why nobody wants to jump into the cesspool of an administration.
Cartoon — Why stop at the 17th amendment? Republicans want to repeal big sections of the Constitution so that they can stack the deck in their favour . . . permanently!
Resist and Persist!!!
Good luck tomorrow! It seems like you've waited a long time for the cataract surgery. My father had it done years ago and was pleased with the results. He did not think women should drive, but who did he call to drive him to the doctor's office — his daughter of course! Hey I was glad to do it but I wasn't so happy to babysit his wife who by then had Alzheimer's. Anyway, hope this trip is uneventful.
Thanks all. Hugs!