It’s a weird Sunday, because WWWendy came yesterday instead of today.  In fact, that makes it feel like Monday.  I decided to give myself a treat and ordered a pizza.  It should get here in about an hour so I’ll break for lunch before I’m done.  Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.  I have my semi-annual preventive eye cancer screening with Allison, my Ocular Oncological Surgeon.  My eyes will be fully dilated, photographed and ultra sounded.  The last is like fingernails on a blackboard inside my head.  When the torture is over, my vision will be so blurry that I’ll be useless for the rest of the day.  It’s an ARGH, but it is necessary.  Update:  BURP!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:52 (average 5:20).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): Lying Their Way Into Heaven

They have a point. The US has committed more terrorist acts than any other nation or group since Nazi Germany. In the last 40 years, virtually all have been committed by a Republican Reich. RESIST!!

From Politico: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation — by operating his own partisan news outlet.

Resembling a local, conservative news site, “The California Republican” is classified on Facebook as a “media/news company” and claims to deliver “the best of US, California, and Central Valley news, sports, and analysis.”

But the website is paid for by Nunes’ campaign committee, according to small print at the bottom of the site.

Hey Asshole! Don’t Californicate California!! RESIST!!

From NY Times: Before his sudden firing last week, the Pentagon official who oversaw military commission trials at Guantánamo Bay was exploring potential plea deals to end the long-delayed prosecution of five suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, a move that would foreclose the possibility of execution, according to several people familiar with the matter.

No deal was imminent, the people said, but the talks were active and contemplated the defendants — including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described architect of the attacks — pleading guilty and probably receiving life sentences. Most of the people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations.

At the GOP Gitmo Gulag, nothing short of state sponsored murder will satisfy the Party of Death! RESIST!!

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WWWendy is due in ten minutes, so I’ll have to do most of my writing after she leaves at around Noon.  I watched the opening ceremony last night, and neither Nambia nor Normay sent teams to Korea.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:44 (average 5:43).  To di it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Donald Trump Closer To Ending Russia Probe As Rachel Brand Quits DOJ

I think Rachel Brand was acting in her own self-interest. If it came down to either hamstringing the Mueller investigation for Trump, or refusing to do so, whatever she might do would be a career ending move for her. So when the Republican Reich got Wal-fart to offer her a plumb job, she ducked out of the line of fire and took the money. I know virtually nothing about Noel Francisco. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: In comments to reporters at the White House on Friday, Donald J. Trump stirred controversy by lavishing an alleged wife beater with praise that he historically has reserved for child molesters and Nazis.

Reporters who heard the President’s comments were taken aback since, in the past, the President had given no indication that he held wife beaters in the same high esteem in which he holds supporters of child abuse and white supremacy.

“We knew that President Trump considered child molesters and Nazis very fine people, but this was the first time he had put wife beaters up there, too,” Tracy Klugian, a member of the White House press corps, said. “We wanted clarification as to whether he considered wife beaters as fine as those other two groups, or finer.”

John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, accused reporters of attempting to drive a wedge between three of the President’s most cherished constituencies.

Dang Andy! Doesn’t the Fuhrer prefer all of the above? RESIST!!

From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Paul Begley Says Barack Obama Is Leading An Illuminati Plot To Assassinate Trump

Barf Bag Alert!!

This is what Republican Sheeple get to see as a substitute for real News. RESIST!!

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Hopefully, last night was the last muggy night for a while, and I can catch up on some sleep.  It’s a strange weekend.  WWWendy has student report day at the school, where she works, until late Wednesday evening, so we need to move my shower night to Tuesday next week.  To keep my showers from being two and five days apart, we’re also moving shower day to Saturday this and next weekends.  So I get destunk early, with no destinking on slow Sunday.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:51 (average 5:55).  To do it, click here.  Hoe did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (NY Times Channel): President Trump’s Best People

Barf Bag Alert!!

All Trump’s sycophants are either criminals, or, if any are actually are any non-criminals, incompetent. RESIST!!

From YouTube: Lawmakers’ late-night showdown ends with bipartisan budget deal

The Fuhrer has signed it, so it’s a done deal.  The problem with having no power, is that we need to do as much good as we can for the most people that we can, whenever we get a rare opportunity to do so, and millions will benefit from the Republican concessions.  DREAMers’ status is on hold, because of a court ruling.  I hope we can do some good for them.  As for all the military spending that we don’t like, we need to take power to change it.  RESIST!!

From NY Times: On Wednesday, we learned that during a 2017 background check for the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, his two ex-wives both told the F.B.I. that he had abused them. His first wife, Colbie Holderness, gave the F.B.I. a photo of her with a black eye, a result, she said, of Porter punching her in the face during a vacation in 2005. Porter’s second wife, Jennifer Willoughby, shared a 2010 emergency protective order she’d received after he punched in the glass on her door while they were separated.

The White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly knew about these allegations, which are said to be the reason the F.B.I. never gave Porter a full security clearance, ordinarily a prerequisite for his job. Nevertheless, Porter’s past was apparently not considered a problem inside the White House until it became public. This tells us quite a bit about how seriously this administration takes violence against women.

Even after The Daily Mail broke the story, Kelly reportedly urged Porter not to resign, though he did anyway. In the White House briefing room Wednesday, President Trump’s press secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement from Porter calling his ex-wives’ accounts “simply false” and part of a “coordinated smear campaign.” In what was perhaps a rare outbreak of candor by omission, she didn’t bother with a pro forma statement that the White House condemns domestic violence.

Even if you put aside questions of morality — which most people working for Donald Trump have already done — a staff secretary who can’t qualify for a security clearance because of his personal life is a serious security risk. Among other things, such a person could be subject to blackmail.

What people fail to realize is that, in the Republican Reich, a background like Porter’s is not a liability. It’s a prerequisite. RESIST!!

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It’s time for more Olympic Gay Gloves.  Vice Fuhrer Pence has already trashed gay US skater Adam Rippon.