(Maybe it's Saturday SOMEWHERE in the world)

It’s been an unusually busy week for me, so I’m just pulling a few out of the air, hopefully for your amusement.  And a couple of Public Service Announcements. 

Stop me if you’ve heard these before …

Oprah, Obama, Trump and a high school girl were traveling on a plane together.  The engines start to sputter badly, and then they saw the two pilots parachuting out.

The four looked at each other in bewilderment and concern – because they saw there were only three parachutes left.

Oprah steps forward and tells the girl: "I'll take one of the parachutes, and I'll build a school for girls in your honor.  It'll benefit thousands of young women like you …" And she jumped out.

Trump lumbered forward announcing, "Give me one of those parachutes!  In case you didn’t realize, not only am I the best President America has ever had, I’m also the smartest person alive!"  He clumsily straps it on and jumps out the plane.

Obama looks at the girl and said "As you know, I have two lovely daughter – and I believe children are our future.  I want you to have the last parachute."

The girl replies: "No, we're good.  There are two parachutes remaining. ‘The smartest person alive’ took my backpack."

Just a reminder of what his Wharton professor said of him:

And Chancellor Merkel can provide proof:

But there’s an easy explanation for Twitler’s toddler-like “intellect” AND actions:

So it’s not a bit surprising that his Trumpkins are equally … hmmm … seriously IQ-challenged:

According to a recent CNN poll, Donald Trump's approval rating is 38 percent, which is the same percentage of people who think "collusion" is when two pickup trucks run into each other.

On the “Good News” front, it looks like Mueller Special Counsel’s Report is imminent. 

And yet Twitler continues to try and claim “No collusion”.  But I trust Mueller will be able to connect the dots – shouldn't be too hard:

And wouldn’t it be odd if this were true:

Reporter 1: "Donald Trump died yesterday, so they buried him."

Reporter 2: "Are you sure he was dead?"

Reporter 1: "Well, he said he wasn't, but you know how he lies."

And with 2020 approaching and the field of excellent Democratic candidates growing, this is how it must seem to Donnie:

TIME’s new cover: The biggest field yet. No frontrunner. A divided base. Welcome to the 2020 Democratic primary https://t.co/JoIed9PEBI pic.twitter.com/uNCP0FTAKI

— TIME (@TIME) February 21, 2019

SERIOUS PSAs

[1] Informed Delivery Provided by USPS

Informed Delivery provides eligible residential consumers with a digital preview of their household's incoming mail scheduled to arrive soon.  Users can view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of incoming letter-sized mail pieces (not the inside contents) via email or an online dashboard. Check out our FAQs for more details.

I set mine up to come as an email, and the notification typically arrives before 9:00 AM. 

Not only is it a nice feature, but it prevents someone from grabbing your option to use it.  There have been reported cases that someone signed up as another person, then monitored when packages were arriving in order to steal them.

You can see it’s a USPS address:

https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action

And the FAQ page:

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Informed-Delivery-The-Basics

[2] Opt Out of Receiving Prescreened or Pre-Approved Credit Card and Insurance Offers

You can fill out the online form (or call) to opt out of receiving those annoying credit card and insurance offers that are pre-approved.  It helps protect your identity to some degree.

I did the 5-year option, because the permanent option requires you to mail back some form.  And I did NOT provide my SSN – but did provide my birthdate.  Seems like that was enough info to process me, because I got a confirmation notice.

You can see it’s a government website:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0148-prescreened-credit-and-insurance-offers

Which will direct you to here to complete:

https://www.optoutprescreen.com/

ADDENDUM

I would strongly suggest that when you sign up at BOTH sites you enter your LEGAL name.

For example: If your legal name is "Robert" – enter "Robert" … NOT "Bob" or "Rob"

If your legal name is "Roberta" – enter "Roberta" … NOT "Bobbi"

I first entered my common name on the "Informed Delivery" rather than my legal name used on the IRS forms – and got rejected.

But entereing my legal name solved the problem.

CAVEAT: Dependiing on how long you have lived at the address you enter, you might still have to enter your SSN to qualify.  

PLUS if you select the "Permanent Opt Out" – they might be more restrictive.

Last night, Rachel Maddow published a special report on her show.  Between the two clips available, there are over 35 minutes of video coverage.  Most of what she revealed is brand new to me, and I found it way to fascinating not to pass it on.  The history of the DOJ policy not to indict a sitting President, or as applies today, Resident, is particularly relevant.

In a special report Thursday Night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow dove deep into the Justice Department history and the origins of the policy that says sitting presidents can’t be indicted.

As part of her research for her podcast “Bag Man,” she and her team found that the department’s policy was first conceived of in response to the crimes of Vice President Spiro Agnew. Because of President Richard Nixon’s Watergate crisis, Attorney General Elliot Richardson was fearful of a situation in which Agnew might ascend to the presidency even while an investigation into his corruption ramped up. So Richardson sought an opinion from legal counsel about whether a vice president could be indicted.

Maddow reported that the conclusion of this work, that a vice president could be indicted but a president could not be, was specifically designed in mind for dealing with the Agnew situation. It rested on “shaky” grounds, citing no constitutional provisions, simply saying that the burden of the president’s office required that the commander in chief not face indictment. Maddow also interviewed J.T. Smith, who worked in the Justice Department when that reasoning was crafted who said: “Its purpose was to allow indictment and removal of Agnew and not to serve as the ‘last word’ on indictability of the president.”

He added: “It would be timely and appropriate for the Justice Department and Robert Mueller to reconsider the shaky policy regarding indictability of a sitting president first formulated 45 years ago.”… [emphasis added]

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Here are the clips:

Fmr VP Spiro Agnew Sought Saudi Millions To Fight ‘Zionists’: Document (20 min.)

DOJ Policy On Indicting A President Has Weak Basis In 1973 Memo (15 min.)

So the DOJ policy about indicting a sitting Resident is based on an incidental aside, not an intent to formulate policy. It was never meant to serve as the last word on indicting a Resident.

Therefore, out of deference to Richardson, we should indict Pence first.  Then we should indict Trump!

RESIST!!

Here is the one hundred forty-ninth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is a Republican USCG Lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson. He is so honored for white nationalism, Ammosexuality, and a domestic terrorist plan to start a race war and establish a white homeland.

A 49-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant charged with stockpiling weapons and drugs is being described as a “domestic terrorist” who was planning “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland on Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors say Christopher Paul Hasson, a self-described white nationalist living in Silver Spring, Md., was amassing firearms since at least 2017, while cultivating plans to launch a widespread attack on prominent Democratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and several high-profile television anchors from MSNBC and CNN.

Court documents indicate Hasson espoused extremist and white supremacist views for years — aspiring to establish a “white homeland” — and say he is a “domestic terrorist bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct.”

“I am dreaming of a way to kill every last person on earth,” Hasson wrote in a draft email dated June 2, 2017, that was uncovered by investigators, according to the court records.

Throughout the email, addressed to “friends … Acquaintances more likely,” he contemplates the most effective methods to “cause complete destruction” by unleashing a biological attack on the public, followed by contamination of food supplies.

“Much blood will have to be spilled to get whitey off the couch. … They will die as will the traitors who actively work toward our demise,” he wrote disdainfully…. [emphasis added]

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Here’s a short CNN video:

Hasson’s manifesto indicates than his inspiration is Anders Behring Breivik.   Breivik is a Norwegian Republican terrorist, who killed 77, including many children.  I previously wrote about how Breivik had US Republican connections. The Koch Brothers financed his activities through ADA.  I wonder which Prominent Republicans financed Hasson’s arsenal.  If I knew, they would also get a parade.

RESIST!!