It sure has been a crazy day! Windows Update warned me that it was a big one, but I had to get it done, because I can’t be interrupted when I do my online shopping tonight. It took well over an hour, but at least it installed clean. Between that and all the other things I have to do, I worked through my morning nap. But I did get a new cat smiley.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:35 (average 5:00). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Report:
Here’s the latest from our own fantasy football league, lefty blog friends.
Playoffs:
Patty Monster eliminated Wendy and plays Vivian in the Semis this weekend. I squeaked by the Sasquatch by less than two points and play Seth in the Semis. Wendy plays Squatch this weekend in the game for 5th place.
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Right-wing media call Mueller’s investigation a coup against Trump
Barf Bag Alert!!
If this were 1960s, I’d call it Russian Propaganda. OOPS!! That’s what it is! RESIST!!
From Huffington Post: The Senate banking committee rejected President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Export-Import Bank on Tuesday, voting 10-13 against advancing his nomination to the full Senate.
Scott Garrett, who was a tea-party-aligned Republican congressman from New Jersey until he lost his re-election bid in 2016, has faced intense opposition from the business community ― corporations like General Electric Co. and Boeing ― and many traditional GOP allies, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
That’s because Garrett once wanted to shutter the institution that he now is trying to run, and he consistently voted against reauthorizing it.
No doubt this Bagger is drunk on InsaniTEA and should not be confirmed, but why is the only way to stop one of these guys objection by Banksters and corporate criminals? RESIST!!
From Alternet:
Here are the grounds for investigation. [leading to impeachment]
1. Obstructing justice.
Beginning soon after the inauguration, the president engaged in a course of conduct that sought to obstruct justice in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigations of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn and of his own campaign’s potential involvement with Russian activity in the 2016 election.
2. Violating the Foreign Emoluments Clause and Domestic Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Through his businesses in the United States and abroad, the president receives payments, regulatory approval, and other forms of direct and indirect financial benefits from foreign governments. These violate the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause, which prohibits federal officials, including the president, from receiving a “present” or “emolument” from any foreign government or official. The president’s businesses also act as a conduit for enrichment from federal and state government coffers. These violate the Domestic Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president from receiving, beyond his official salary, any emolument from the United States or any state.
3. Conspiring with others to commit crimes against the United States involving the solicitation and intended receipt by his presidential campaign of things of value from a foreign government and other foreign nationals, and to conceal those violations.
In the 2016 election, the senior officials of Trump’s presidential campaign (including his campaign chairman, his son and his son-in-law) met with Russian nationals after an invitation to receive compromising information about his campaign opponent, Hillary Clinton, that they were told would be of great value to the campaign. Federal campaign finance law prohibits a candidate or campaign from soliciting a foreign national (including a foreign government) for a thing of value. In 2017, after this meeting was revealed, President Trump personally dictated a misleading public statement on behalf of his son about the intended purpose of the meeting.
I shared three of eight. Click through for the other five. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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4:55 Kitteh toys instead of kitteh food today.
Well, good luck to everyone in the playoffs.
Media Matters – Yes, this is all over the place today. I’m trying to shake my head rather than beating it against the wall, since that is not useful. (There was a coup actually – it happened 11/9/2016)
HuffPo – Your question amswers itself. It’s because they are the ones actually in control.
AlterNet – Of course Congress has a duty to impeach, but when did duty become a motivator for the GOP? Do they even know the meaning of the word? No, aifinkso. This article was probbaly intended as a reply to the clueless one who asked on national TV “What grounds would there be to impleach?” – and to give talking points to anyone who has the ill fortune to get into a discussion with some Trump supporter who “thinks” the same way.
Cartoon – Damn right we do.
MM: Oh, pleeze…..Stop already!!! Like Joanne’s comment on the (coup) date too.
AN: Can’t come soon enough, imho.
Cartoon: Can I get an ‘AMEN’ ??!!!
Hope that you get everything done. Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
AN: Any one of those should be grounds to investigate the Orange One. Eight suggests that he should be frog-marched not just out of the White House, but the hell out of D.C. Unfortunately, then you know what we’ll get–
Cartoon: Waaaaaaay too true! The House of (Mis)representatives just passed the disastrous tax bill, despite all the petitions and phone calls. My rep can kiss my vote goodbye. No doubt he can kiss a lot more votes goodbye! Let’s gear up for a political bloodbath in 2018.
BREAKING NOOZ! The House will have to re-vote on the damnable tax bill. Tomorrow morning, contact your rep and tell him/her to vote against it. Remind your rep that he/she will be up for re-election next year!
I just saw that! I got an email from mine, so proud about having voted for it! So I made this, though haven’t sent it yet. It would be easy if I were on Facebook or Twitter, but I’m not, and I won’t be.)
His congressional website?
There may be some, but I have not seen a Congressional website that allows anyone but a staffer to post on it. I did use his “contact me” form to send, not the picture itself, the form didn’t support that, but the URL.
A wonderful gift for him. Don’t forget to tell him “Happy Holidays”.
MM: Can’t watch the video, but I’m not keen on Russian propaganda anyway, so I’m happy to skip this one.
HP: Garrett has been rejected by the likes of GE, Boeing and other GOP cronies? You mean Garrett wasn’t bad enough for them? Like all Drumpf’s candidates, Garrett wants to dismantle his own department, in this case the Export-Import Bank; what more could the business community want?
Altnet: All eight points sound great to me. It’s a lovely list and I expect the number will be doubled in no time. And then what?
Cartoon: Want to? NEED TO! The future of America and a large part of the world depends on it.
All of these large Windows Creator updates kick out my printer and scanner drivers every time and I can run Outlook 2010 only in administrator mode, both on PC and laptop which took me more than a day to find out, but everything else is hunky-dory.
Thanks all. Pooped hugs!
YT: Not going to watch the BS slingers sling!
HP: Politics does, indeed, make fro strange bed-fellows!
Alternet: Jail him! Jail him!