Yesterday my day was thrown out of kilter, because a squatter escaped the cold outside and set up camp in the only bathroom with a handicapped shower that is properly set up for my use. Not realizing it, we waited for half an hour, before knocking on the door and asking the occupant how long they might be. The guy said soon, but sounded drunk. Fifteen minutes later Wendy went back and explained through the door that she had a handicapped client that could not use any other shower. Another fifteen minutes passed, we knocked again, and he wouldn’t answer at all. I called management, and a manager came and opened the door. They kicked out the squatter, but hew had trashed the bathroom so badly, that they had to clean the room, before it could be used. By the time I was done, my half hour shower had consumed 2 1/2 hours of my Wendy time, and that’s why you got only a Personal Update yesterday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 6:06 (average 5:43). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (SNL Channel): Donald Trump Press Conference Cold Open – SNL
Baldwin was …ummm… golden! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Trump’s plans for a triumphal Inauguration were upended over the weekend when a karaoke machine that had been engaged to perform at the event abruptly backed out.
In an official statement, the karaoke machine said that it was withdrawing because it “did not want my participation at the Inauguration to in any way be construed as an endorsement of Donald Trump.”
The President-elect wasted no time in lashing out at the karaoke machine, taking to Twitter in the early hours of the morning to call the entertainment device a “loser” and “sad.”
Dang Andy!! That machine is smarter than a bunch of people! RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. attended a real estate conference, where he stated that
Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.
As it turns out, that may have been an understatement. Human rights lawyer Scott Horton, whose work in the region goes back to defending Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents, has gone through a series of studies by the Financial Times to show how funds from Russian crime lords bailed Trump out after yet anther [sic] bankruptcy. The conclusions are stark.
Among the powerful facts that DNI missed were a series of very deep studies published in the [Financial Times] that examined the structure and history of several major Trump real estate projects from the last decade—the period after his seventh bankruptcy and the cancellation of all his bank lines of credit. …
The money to build these projects flowed almost entirely from Russian sources. In other words, after his business crashed, Trump was floated and made to appear to operate a successful business enterprise through the infusion of hundreds in millions of cash from dark Russian sources.
He was their man.
The article includes a petition to appoint a special prosecutor on Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign. Please click through to sign it. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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the one good thing about tRump is Alec Baldwin as tRump! he is awesome
Not only do I agree, but the Bonus is that Baldwin irritates the $hit out of Traitorous Trump!
5:15 Oh, sure. Nothing to eat.
SNL – That was definitely a live stream, wasn't it?
TNY – And I don't feel the least but of sympathy for any singers who had planned to use it, either. (Off topic but too tempting: I hve sometimes commented about the way casual games can mirror life, even with the most fantastic plots. A rcent one had a blond villain who journalled that the people he ws ripping off were "losers." Very satisfying to finish be defeating him utterly.)
DKos – A "diary" with that many recs and comments takes a while to load. I will sign that petition, though, even if I have to close everything down and reboot. (And even if I have already signed it, which I may have.)
Cartoon – Precious kitty! I don't think catnip was ever illegal, though.
SNL: Spot on, Baldwin should be President. I'd vote for him. lol.
NYer: What's he got? Besides 3 showing up for the gig? I'll be watching the “Protest at the Inauguration: Stand Against Trump, War, Racism and Inequality” movement! instead.
http://www.infowars.com/the-far-left-is-planning-the-biggest-political-protest-in-united-states-history-for-inauguration-day/
DK: Crooked is as crooked does. ugh! Signed petition.
Cartoon: I'm not a drinking woman, but…..??? I might this day. lol.
*Gene, the best to you on Friday. While you're comment is humorous, I will say a little prayer for you this day.
Wow! Sorry about your having to wait for the squatter to leave. I'm assuming that the front door does not lock for the tenants? What a bummer! Glad that it got resolved though, for your sake and Wendy's.
Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Puzzle — 4:07 Vroom! Vroom!!
SNL — I really do wish we could get SNL here! Anything that pisses off Drumplthinskin so much HAS to be good!
Resist!!!
The New Yorker — "That machine is smarter than a bunch of people!" — AMEN!!!
Resist!!!
Daily Kos — Crooked Hillary?? CROOKED Drumpfenfarten!!! What a bloody mess and Drumpfenfarten has no one to blame but himself, narcissism, greed and all! Most definitely a special prosecutor needs to go after Drumpfenfarten with the tenacity of a pit bull!! Petition signed!
Resist!!!
Cartoon — Too bad that Drumpfenfarten and Republicans were not prohibited!
Resist!!!
Showers must be the talk of a lot of towns right now. At physio today, we were discussing the shower they give you before you go home. For me, it was turning a garden hose on me in a tiled room after covering the surgical bandages on my right ankle with a garbage bag! Very high tech at the end of a 1 week stay in hospital! Glad you were able to sort things out even though you had to wait. We here north of the 49th are glad that you did not have to wait until Wendy's next visit!!! OMG, you probably would have melted a few keyboards!
TY/SNL, was great!
Andy is going to have to work very, very hard to keep up with the (sad) opportunities that the Donald is going to provide.
DK: Petition signed. Is it possible that the GOP has grabbed ahold of a heavy, orange, rotting, carcass that will finally put them out of circulation? Even if they have the smarts to let go ofit, their poor capacity for judgement MAY have, at last, been brought out into the light…hey, I can still hope! "MAY" is in caps, because one never knows, do one? 62,000,000 fools voted for this emtiness, including, probably, all the Evangelicals, many of whom still send money to Televangelicals, including Jim Bakker…one can not accuse them of having much accumen, just like their ORANGE SAVIOR.
Resisting while waiting for medication to kick in…
I do hope you feel better soon.
We all do. Please take it easy.
Thanks all! Hugs!!