Politics Plus

I’m mostly recovered from Thursday evening’s ordeal, and am looking forward to a week of seasonal weather.  Somehow I have a feeling that one of the hottest summers in history is just around the corner.  I am watching my Broncos doings in the NFL draft and I want to remind you that we need two more players in our fantasy football league.  Please reply here.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:16).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Is Arizona Special Election The GOP’s Canary In The Coal Mine?

I too think we have a blue wave coming, unless idiots think it’s OK to vote third party, because Democrats will win anyway, like they did in 2016. RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: A Fox News poll [Faux Noise delinked] released this week found that most Americans believe the Russia probe will yield impeachable offenses and a solid two-thirds of the public think completing the probe is important to some extent. The Hill writes:

Fifty-six [percent] of respondents in the poll said they believed Mueller’s probe will find that Trump committed the offenses. And 67 percent say they believe it’s at least somewhat important that Mueller’s investigation continues.

However, 71 percent said they think that Trump will fire Mueller before the probe is over. […]

Sixty-four percent of respondents in the poll overall also said they believe Mueller is treating the White House fairly.

I’m amazed that Faux Noise, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, didn’t cover this up. RESIST!!

From NY Times: The Trump administration has drafted a new set of regulations on planet-warming emissions from cars and light trucks that would dramatically weaken Obama-era standards. The proposal, if implemented, would also set up a legal clash between the federal government and California by challenging the state’s authority to set its own, stricter, air pollution rules.

Details of the proposal, which is being jointly drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department and is expected to be sent to the White House for approval in coming days, were described to The New York Times by a federal official who had seen them but was not authorized to discuss the matter.

The proposal follows an announcement this month by the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, that the Trump administration intended to weaken the stringent vehicle fuel economy standards set by the Obama administration that aimed to roughly double the average fuel economy of new cars, S.U.V.s and light trucks by 2025.

With Trump’s appointed criminals, the only thing worse than what they steal from taxpayers is that they institute Republican policies. RESIST!!

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In the foolishness of youth I thought we (progressives) had won, but back then, we called ourselves radicals.

It’s much to hot here for this time of year, before I’ve had a chance to get used to it.  I’m doing as little as possible.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:18 (average 5:49).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): EVERYBODY KNOWS – Parody of Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

Thoroughly depressing and spot-on. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump Said "The Mob Takes The Fifth"- And So Did His Lawyer

Unfortunately, most folks are blowing the importance Cohen taking the Fifth. It is a common practice for defendants in both civil and criminal cases to take the fifth in the civil case until the criminal case is resolved. RESIST!!

From NY Post: A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars — because the law doesn’t protect against political discrimination.

Philadelphia accountant Greg Piatek, 31, was bounced from a West Village watering hole in January 2017, just after Trump took the oath of office, for wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, according to his lawsuit over the incident.

FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!! RESIST!!

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The heat have has begun.  It’s only 71° outside right now, but the sun has been super-heating the brickwork of my wall all morning.  When the inside temperature passed 80°, I buttoned up the room and turned on the A/C.  It should reach the mid 80°s today.  Tomorrow and Friday will be worse.  April is too early for this.  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:08 (average 4:28).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (BuffFeed Channel): Weird Laws From All 50 US States

OOPS! Once I violated the Oregon law!  RESIST!!

From NY Times: He was once reported to the police in Illinois for stashing an AR-15 in the trunk of his car and then diving into a public pool wearing a women’s pink housecoat. There was the time he complained to an officer that the singer Taylor Swift had demanded a rendezvous. And then last July he was grabbed by the Secret Service when he tried to force his way on to the White House grounds.

Travis Reinking, 29, was on the radar of law enforcement well before he was taken into custody on Monday and accused of barging into a Nashville Waffle House over the weekend and opening fire, killing four and injuring four more.

Yet even after the Illinois police revoked his firearms license and ordered that his guns be transferred to his father, Mr. Reinking got them back, including the AR-15 used in the Tennessee shooting, the police said. His case raises questions over how such a troubled individual could have legally carried weapons for so long and could have continued to carry them even after he was ordered to give them up.

“We have a man who has exhibited significant instability,” acknowledged Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

The police say that Mr. Reinking’s father, Jeffrey, the owner of a crane business near the town of Morton, Ill., returned the guns to his son, enabling Travis Reinking to carry out the killings over the weekend.

Jeffrey Reinking’s act of returning the guns to his son is “potentially a violation of federal law,” Marcus Watson, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said at a news conference.

I think Jeffrey belongs in a cell, but I’d also like to know what political organizations he supports, as I bet he’s the source of his son’s ideas. RESIST!!

From Alternet: Donald Trump is a white supremacist, which is why it’s no coincidence that that language he uses to demonize people of color—Mexican immigrants, in particular—is the same language of self-avowed white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Columnist Dana Milbank:

“There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept,” the president tweeted [Tweeting twit delinked] on Tuesday.

What could he mean? Immigrants are breeding thoroughbred horses? Prize-winning cattle?

Or perhaps Trump was using “breeding” in the sense now popular among white supremacists?

Is there any question about what the Fuhrer means? Of course it’s racist. He’s a Republican! RESIST!!

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I’m still quite tired.  Wendy is on her way to destink the foul TomCat and help with chores, including the dreaded task.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:43 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): New forecast predicts trillion-dollar deficits

The first step to economic health has to be removing every Republican from office from Dawg Catcher to White House Resident. RESIST!!

From Huffington Post: A heavily militarized police force of some 400 officers aggressively patrolled a small neo-Nazi rally in this city 40 miles southwest of Atlanta on Saturday and arrested about 10 counterprotesters, many for the crime of wearing a mask.

Police officers arrived before the rally began and approached a group of about 50 anti-fascist protesters. They demanded the protesters remove their masks or face arrest. The officers — who wore bulletproof vests and helmets, and carried semi-automatic rifles — cornered the anti-fascist protesters, then grabbed those who were still masked, tossing them to the ground and handcuffing them.

At one point, an officer pointed what seemed to be a modified AR-15 at the faces of counterprotesters, none of whom appeared to be armed.

This was all the Republicans demonstrating,…

…expect for the police that sided with them against the people demonstrating for freedom. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: The independent counsel, Robert Mueller, told reporters that, prior to news reports on Thursday, he had “almost forgotten” to investigate the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

“Like most Americans, I had totally forgotten about Rudy Giuliani’s existence,” he said. “But then when he popped up on the news I was, like, ‘Hold on—shouldn’t we be investigating him?’ ”

Mueller was at a loss to explain why he had failed to investigate Giuliani earlier. “I have no idea how it could have slipped my mind,” he said. “His role in Trump’s campaign was as fishy as all get-out.”

Andy, I suppose we can forgive Mueller’s oversight, considering how much more important the other Republican criminals are than Rudy 911. RESIST!!

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