Since I’ve been out of town a few days this week enjoying a trip up to Illinois to take my Aunt back after her Thanksgiving visit, this will be a brief “Friday Fun”.
But there’s been so much bad terrible news for Twitler this week that we probably don’t need a whole lot of cheering up. News like his own former lawyer, Michael Cohen, now pleading guilty to lying to Congress, and is spilling his guts to Mueller’s team in over 70 hours of interviews.
And that Trump’s tax attorney’s office in Chicago was raided by the FBI, and the Feds actually papered the front door so no one could see what was happening.
(The bow is a nice touch, but was added on via Photoshop. Doubt the FBI has that kind of sense of humor. Bit it’s a gift I know we are all anxious to unwrap!)
But there have been a few other bright moments recently. A month ago, an artist called “Porcupine Armadillo” got into the spirit of things by putting up “Pee on Me” statues of Trump all around Brooklyn for dogs (or I suppose, anyone) to take advantage of.
We are honored to do the Lord's work…https://t.co/osNYJUi9kV pic.twitter.com/v0d5YyaBld
— Porcupine Armadillo (@PorcupineArmad1) October 10, 2018
@billmaher Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/TyS4RdnMD3
— Porcupine Armadillo (@PorcupineArmad1) October 10, 2018
Also in October and just in time for Halloween, Daniel Holland captured a video of a “breathing forest” in Quebec.
The ground looks like it's breathing in this Quebec forest. pic.twitter.com/AeETAYJOdN
— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) October 20, 2018
It’s not special effects or CG (computer-generated) imaging – it’s real! Time magazine explains that it’s because of the very strong winds that day combined with the fact that these trees grew in a very mossy area which allows their root system to be quite loose, so the forest floor lifts up when the trees sway.
And I’ll close with a two-fer: Shutting down the NRA AND Ann Coulter … by doctors! (Maybe that makes it a three-fer.)
Physicians have really started speaking out about gun violence and the need to deal with it. After we endured the 307th mass shooting this year on November 7th, the NRA finally had enough of their anti-gun talk and told them to “Stay in your lane”.
Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves. https://t.co/oCR3uiLtS7
— NRA (@NRA) November 7, 2018
Well, Dr. Judy Melinek took care of the NRA via her Tweets
Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn’t just my lane. It’s my fucking highway. https://t.co/48S9UIFaV2
— Judy Melinek M.D. (@drjudymelinek) November 9, 2018
Not learning her lesson, Coulter unwisely decided to butt in and add her two cents with a snarky Tweet.
Emergency room doctors pull cue balls, vines & gummy bears out of human orifices every week. That doesn't make them experts on pool, horticulture or chewy candy. https://t.co/EdksEGDnCx
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 10, 2018
A perfect setup for Dr. Cathleen London to shoot her down in reply:
We do examine assholes all day so it does make us an expert on them. You qualify https://t.co/yRQTZnGqQr
— Cathleen London MD (@DrChaya) November 11, 2018
All-in-all, a pretty good week. And it looks like Mueller is getting ready to land some serious blows – probably shortly after the new 116th Congress is seated.
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I hope Cohen really is spilling his guts. If not, as is clear from what happened to Manafort, the plea bargain could get voided, but the guilty pleas would still stand. Every blessed one of them. Even if some are to state charges.
Cool statues. I missed them. Well placed too.
My word! That forest is spectacular!
I for one am very glad that doctors (and particularly trauma and ER doctors, who do know) are speaking out on a public health problem.
I found this pic including Ann Coulter this morning while looking for something else, and thought I’d share it.
LOL Nameless!! If I saw a dawg peeing on that statue, I’d let it go without eating it!
Loved the pic of the forest (amazing and beautiful), get the dogs out for a walk AND a pee session, ‘aim for the head’, doggie. lol.
Dr. London’s comment back to Ann Coulter is priceless! Kudos to the Dr’s responding by tweets back to the NRA.
Thanks, Nameless, for post.Thanks, Joanne for cross-posting. Love the three stages of R’s. lol
After putting the statues of tRump out, the next step is to paint fire hydrants to look like His Orangeness.
The Nuts Ruling America says doctors should “stay in their lane”? You first, NRA.
WOW amazing moving/breathing moss & trees!!!
I agree with you regarding Cohen spilling his guts.
Great video of the breathless forest. So beautiful.
Like the statues. I certainly would walk my dogs and let them go to town.
Lovely pot-pourri, Nameless. Got a big grin on my face, thank you.
Aaaaaaaww!
I have been assuming that the Chicago raid is based on info from Cohen. In any case, it seems that the orange noose is really closing in. And, NOW! I am REALLY sorry I no longer live in Brooklyn!!!!!!!!!
Breathing forest: wild, but much nicer than being in Anchorage recently.
NRA and Coulter: For them, perfectly typical, could easily have been written for them by a 3rd grader. Kudos for the Doctors!!!!!!!!! The NRA obviously wants the territory all to themselves, so that they can define, for the entire country, what is right, and what is wrong. What is wrong, is that there is still an NRA in existence.