Except for cooking in preparation for Sunday, I’m spending a lazy day.  I need all the the rest I can get.  It’s dead, so this is my only article today, and I shall not be sending links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:30 (average 4:41).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Washington Post: A lawyer for former national security adviser Michael Flynn informed an attorney for President Trump this week that he can no longer discuss the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, a sign that Flynn may be preparing to cooperate in the probe, people familiar with the investigation said.

The call from Flynn lawyer Robert Kelner to Trump attorney John Dowd came Wednesday evening and is a potentially ominous sign for Trump and his close associates. Before this week, Kelner had been communicating with lawyers for Trump.

The split suggests that Flynn, who has been a top target of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his team, may be looking to share information with the prosecutor and his team.

As much as I would hate to see this Nazi get off, I’d welcome it, if his testimony takes down his Fuhrer. RESIST!!

From Alternet: GOP Insider Bruce Bartlett: ‘The Republican Party Needs to Die’

Onetime Reagan White House aide Bruce Bartlett on the media’s massive failure and his own party’s living death.

Click through for an excellent read. I agree with this Republican. RESIST!!

From Politico: The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere

I can’t show you, due to © restrictions. Click through to see the toons. RESIST!!

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It has been big time hectic around here.  Yesterday, at 2:30 PM, the local Safeway.com manager informed me that my Thanksgiving grocery order had been cancelled.  He was unsympathetic and rude.  I called Wendy to ask her to pick up a few staples for me.  She said no and insisted on doing my entire shop instead.  Due to store congestion and holiday traffic, it took her three hours, and she refused extra pay for the help.  Is she great, or what?  As a result, I got to bed late last night.  I slept poorly.  The low last night was 61°, and even though my window was wide open, the way heat rises in this building it was 78° inside and 100% humidity when I woke up.  Today, I decided to have Chinese from Grub Hub for Thanksgiving dinner.  After all the trouble of ordering, the restaurant said they were too busy and cancelled the order.  So I nuked four frozen BBQ chicken wings, and that was my Thanksgiving  Dinner.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:42 (average 5:01).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Thanks for Nothin

We can be thankful for Trae. RESIST!!

From All In: Trump’s busy day at Mar-A-Lago

The White House adamantly claimed Trump had a full work schedule at Mar-a-Lago, Here’s what his day actually looked like.

Barf Bag Alert!!

Trump earned an A in Bullshitology for that one! RESIST!!

From NY Times: The heightened scrutiny of sexual impropriety on Capitol Hill has swept up a senior House Republican who apologized Wednesday for a sexually explicit photograph that wound up on the internet and raised the possibility that he had been the victim of a crime.

Representative Joe Barton of Texas, who was once the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is now its vice chairman, said that he was reconsidering his political future after the photograph appeared on an anonymous Twitter account.

Mr. Barton, who has hired a crisis communications firm, made clear he was ready for a fight. In a statement Wednesday night, he said that he had suffered “a potential crime.” A Texas law, the so-called revenge pornography law, makes it a misdemeanor to intentionally publicize images or videos of someone’s genitals or sexual activity without consent.

Hours after his initial apology, The Washington Post reported that Mr. Barton, 68, had threatened in 2015 to report to the Capitol Police a woman with whom he had shared explicit photographs, videos and messages if she exposed him.

I’ve written about Fartin’ Joe Barton on several occasions, but this is the first I knew that he practices microscopic photography. RESIST!!

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I have a major mess today.  Safeway’s computer system is dawn, so my grocery delivery from Safeway.com, which was supposed to be here by now, has been indefinitely delayed.  I have to wait up until they arrive, which means I get no rest  How frustrating!  Wendy will be here this evening.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:46 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel):  Former Trump economic adviser draws moral equivalency between child molestation and pro choice

Barf Bag Alert!!

Under Republican moral code, "choice" includes justifying any perversion. RESIST!!

From All In: Texas sheriff threatens charges over anti-Trump sticker

Based on this update, I like this gal! A Saguaro suppository for the fascist Sheriff. RESIST!!

From NY Times: The Federal Communications Commission released a plan on Tuesday to dismantle landmark regulations that ensure equal access to the internet, clearing the way for internet service companies to charge users more to see certain content and to curb access to some websites.

The proposal, made by the F.C.C. chairman, Ajit Pai, is a sweeping repeal of rules put in place by the Obama administration. The rules prohibit high-speed internet service providers, or I.S.P.s, from stopping or slowing down the delivery of websites. They also prevent the companies from charging customers extra fees for high-quality streaming and other services.

The announcement set off a fight over free speech and the control of the internet, pitting telecom titans like AT&T and Verizon against internet giants like Google and Amazon. The internet companies warned that rolling back the rules could make the telecom companies powerful gatekeepers to information and entertainment. The telecom companies say that the existing rules prevent them from offering customers a wider selection of services at higher and lower price points.

FIGHT for Net Neutrality!! RESIST!!

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It’s Thanksgiving week, and I have nothing special planned for Thursday, other than my annual interlude with the Ellipsoid Orb.  My celebration is Sunday, because I can treat Wendy to a holiday meal.  She’s tied up with her own family on Thursday.  So I’ll be doing a lot of cooking this week.  Otherwise, I’m still improving and resting as much as I can.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:13 (average 5:20).  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.

Scores:

Woooo Hoooo!!  Sorry Patty Monster!

Kudos to Vivian and Seth, who lead the league.  Condolences to Jack, who lives under the Sasquatch and appears to be AWOL.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Alex Jones Is Having More Children So He Can Beat The Globalists

Barf Bag Alert!!

This is the intellectual side of the Republican Reich. The rest are even crazier. RESIST!!

From Washington Post: A federal judge issued an injunction to permanently block President Trump’s executive order to deny funding to cities that refused to cooperate with federal immigration officials, after finding the order unconstitutional.

The ruling by District Judge William H. Orrick in San Francisco comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the city of San Francisco and nearby Santa Clara County and follows a temporary halt on the order that the judge issued in April.

Orrick, in his summary of the case Monday, found that the Trump administration’s efforts to move local officials to cooperate with its efforts to deport undocumented immigrants violated the separation of powers doctrine as well as the Fifth and Tenth amendments.

Kudos to the judge for making his temporary order permanent (pending appeal).  RESIST!!

From NY Times: The Justice Department sued to block AT&T’s $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner on Monday, setting up a showdown over the first blockbuster acquisition to be considered by the Trump administration and drawing limits on corporate power in the fast-evolving media landscape.

By challenging the deal, the Justice Department is taking an approach to antitrust issues that is starkly different from the Obama administration’s. In 2011, for instance, the department approved a similar deal — Comcast’s acquisition of NBCUniversal — after imposing numerous conditions on the transaction.

If AT&T’s bid for Time Warner were to go through, the merger would create a media and telecommunications behemoth. By itself, AT&T is one of the nation’s largest internet and telephone providers. With its 2015 acquisition of DirecTV, the country’s largest satellite company, it also became the largest television distributor in the United States.

I oppose this merger for other reasons, but it should fail for those reasons, not because Trump is pissed off at CNN. RESIST!!

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