Words matter.

New Trump Agency Memo Gags Staff Communications, Democrats Say
The Trump administration is circulating a memo ordering federal employees not to communicate with Congress, a demand that Democrats are calling an illegal gag order.


BREAKING: Donald Trump locked himself in White House bathroom and won't come out until everyone admits he had, like, the biggest crowd ever.- TeaParty Cat

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Holocaust Memorial Day: Only eternal vigilance can prevent a return to the hatred of the 1930s
• The history of the Doomsday Clock as it moves closer to 'midnight'
• Trump Will Keep Vow on Jerusalem Embassy Move, Giuliani Says
• Russia Says Syria Peace Talks in Geneva Pushed Back
• Conway: Mexico wants to continue allow drugs across US border 

Russian Double Agents?
Russian media on Thursday reported the arrest of yet another security service officer accused of being a U.S. spy in a treason case thought to be tied to the U.S. hacking scandal. After news broke on Wednesday of the arrest of Sergei Mikhailov, the agency’s top cyber expert, two other FSB officers were reported under arrest for the same charge on Thursday – meaning either the U.S. had a ring of infiltrators deep inside Russian security services, or Russia has a trick up its sleeve.


Trump says he & Mexican president 'agreed to not meet next week."
Like the time Darth Vader & Luke agreed to cut off Luke's hand. - John Fugelsang

Payback Is A Bitch Delight
A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump suggested in televised comments that lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia is "under consideration 








1. Russia hacks campaign to help Trump.  
2. During Trump's first week there are signs he may lift sanctions on Russia. 
Art of the Deal? - David Corn

Add Another To Trump's Long List Of Lies
President Trump claimed in an interview with ABC News that two people were shot and killed in Chicago during former President Obama’s farewell speech in the city, but police records show that did not happen.





Trump Enraged as Mexican President Plans to Meet with Meryl Streep Instead. - Andy Borowitz


Republican Shenanigans

• President Trump Has Already Been Sued 34 Times Since Being Elected
• White House misspells UK PM Theresa May's name multiple times in official memo
• Philadelphia mayor torches Trump's claim on rising murder rates
• Newt Gingrich: Callista being considered ambassador to the Holy See
• Senior Trump security adviser facing a potential gun charge: report
• Pence in leaked audio: There will be 'full evaluation' of voter fraud
• Trump: Military more important than balanced budget
• Anti-abortion marchers to celebrate a new era under Trump
• Conway Defends Inaugural Outfit: ‘Sorry to Offend the Black-Stretch-Pants Women of America’

Please pray for President Snowflake. He woke up, like every morning, triggered by losing the popular vote by such an embarrassing margin. - Mrs. Betty Bowers


Dueling Republicans
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) scoffed at a proposal floated by President Trump's press secretary about taxing Mexican imports to pay for a border wall in a pair of tweets Thursday.


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Rock The Voter News

• Obama draws neck-and-neck with Reagan in poll of greatest modern president
• Al Gore will hold climate change summit cancelled after Trump inauguration 

How sad is it that government employees have to create rogue Twitter accounts just to communicate FACTS to the American public? - Rogue NASA on Twitter

The park ranger rebellion suddenly gives a lot more context to all those walks in the woods Hillary's been taking. - goldengateblond


More Dueling Republicans
Following his resurrection of the unsubstantiated claim that millions of people illegally voted in the last election, which is why he lost the national popular vote to Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump called for a “major investigation” of voter fraud.
Well, it appears that one Republican Congressional leader won’t be helping him out in this quest.

Even Melania's hands look bigger than Trump's!

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Congratulations to Donald Trump for showing Americans how much they should've appreciated Barack Obama. - goldengateblond

Biz/Tech News

• Oil prices fall as focus shifts to US output
• Apparel Retailer Wet Seal to Close All Stores
• Mexicans Launch Boycotts of US Companies in Fury at Donald Trump
• Surge in media mergers is expected under Trump's pro-business agenda

BREAKING: White House aides ask Comcast to shut off service for a few hours so they can get Trump to attend briefing in Situation Room. - Tea Party Cat

Keeping Them Ignorant 
The Trump administration is pulling back advertisements that encourage people to sign up for health insurance under former President Barack Obama's health care law.


Trump is so incredibly not racist he just hung a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office.   Old Hickory, meet Old Dickery. - John Fugelsang

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Yee Haw

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Odd News

• Grocery store tomatoes taste like cardboard — Florida researchers are fixing that
• 'Smunday:' Kraft Heinz says the Monday after the Super Bowl will be a day off for its salaried employees
• Cops: Pennsylvania woman, 65, hit another with cane, took $8
• GOP Lawmaker In Mississippi Proposes Fines And Psychological Counseling For Saggy Pants
• Japanese Toy Company Gets Donald Trump All Dolled Up

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Somewhere on a beach in Australia, this guy is waiting for you.

Peace.

The Wall

Mexican president cancels meeting with Trump amid spat over border wall
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Thursday he has canceled an upcoming meeting with President Trump amid a spat over Peña Nieto’s refusal to pay for a planned wall along the U.S. southern border. Trump has long vowed that Mexico would pay for the construction project.



Following President Trump’s inauguration, the White House website no longer has an option for translation into Spanish. So, sorry, Mexican immigrants, if you want to live here, you’ll just have to learn to speak Russian.- Seth Myers

Apologies to the memory of Edward Hopper.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Syria rebels await action from Trump on safe zones, Damascus silent
• China may be developing new long-range air-to-air missile
• ‘Doomsday clock’ is now at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight
• President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir He 'Absolutely' Thinks Waterboarding Works

Dear Donald J. Trump: Honest, we don't need a wall. Just having you as our President is enough to to make people not want to live here.- Andy Borowitz

I'm Surprised Terrorists Haven't Attacked The U.S. Since We're So Vulnerable
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don’t want to stick around for the Trump era.


It hasn't been 14 days yet.  We should be able to return the President as long as we kept the receipt and original packaging.- Tea Pain

Republican Shenanigans

• White House press secretary says border wall will be funded by 20 percent import tax on Mexican goods
• Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers
• Civil Liberties Groups to Donald Trump: 'See You in Court'
• Cognitive science says a lying leader like Trump can scramble your mind and destabilize society
• Trump Urges Republican Lawmakers to Move Fast on His Agenda
• Carl Bernstein: Nervous Republican officials are questioning President Trump’s ’emotional stability’
• Republicans divided over whether millions of Americans should lose government-subsidized health coverage

You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President. - Jimmy Carter ( from the Onion)

Nope. Trump Can't Silence The Scientists.
Jan 25 (Reuters) - Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle federal climate change research and other science.

The Oscar nominations came out and the movie “La La Land” got 14 nominations. However, that’s only because 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants voted illegally. - Conan O-Brien

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Rock The Voter News

• Obama's advice to British PM: Befriend Donald Trump
• Hillary Clinton on women's marchers: "We have to keep up the momentum"

A Fox News host claims he saw Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway get into a fistfight at one of the inaugural balls. However, today it was explained to him that “that’s just how Irish people dance.”- Conan O-Brien

Germany Allows Insulting Foreign Heads Of State
Germany's Cabinet says it is scrapping a controversial and little-used law that makes it a criminal offense to insult foreign heads of state, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Justice Minister Heiko Mass said the law is "obsolete and unnecessary," Deutsche Welle reported.

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Biz/Tech News

• Dow trades above 20000 but stocks struggle to reclaim momentum
• US Jobless Claims Rose Last Week to 259000
• Ford Plunks Down $200 Million Bet on Trump and Awaits Reward
• Mexico's Jose Cuervo tequila IPO aims to raise over $700 million

President Trump today met with the leaders of Fiat, Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors. And he asked them one question, “How many people do you think were at my inauguration?”- Seth Myers

The War On The Media Deepens
Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” by an election outcome few anticipated, and repeatedly describing the media as “the opposition party” of the current administration.

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call.

Thank you Mary Tyler Moore.

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Odd News

• NASA's New Astronaut Suits Are Straight Out of 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Scientists create a part-human, part-pig embryo — raising the possibility of interspecies organ transplants
• Chinese send fake Trump tweets as jokes, New Year wishes
• Knitting store: no yarn for women's movement protesters
• Australia zoo urges people to catch deadly spiders as antidote runs low
• Young Aussie surfer photo bombed by shark that shared wave

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El Peñón de Guatapé in Colombia. Not rock climbing but rock stair stepping, there are over 700 steps to the top.

Peace.

Trump is dismantling the government

Trump bans government scientists from sharing their work with the taxpayers who funded it
Donald Trump wants to be known as the president who tweets, but his administration is prohibiting government researchers from sharing their findings with the Americans who pay for their work.
The president signed executive orders Tuesday that cut off all new contracts and grants for the Environmental Protection Agency — and he also banned the agency’s employees from providing updates on social media or to journalists...


The USGS is still updating their earthquake map. Are they in violation?
I don't know whether to cry or scream. The world's Twitter bigmouth has silenced our government scientists. 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Dem bill would ban Trump from launching nukes without declaration of war by Congress
• Trump says he will ‘send in the Feds’ if Chicago doesn’t end ‘carnage’
• Republican threatened to deport 'Muslim' Obama and family
• Secret Service agent may face disciplinary action over her anti-Trump Facebook posts

Comey stays on as head of FBI.  FBI now stands for "Federal Bureau of I Got Trump Elected." - Tea Pain

The CIA Must Be Pissed Over Trump's Treatment Of Them
Former CIA Deputy Director Philip Mudd on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump’s “disgusting” speech to CIA officials over the weekend, telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, he almost wanted to cry after the president’s self-aggrandizing presentation.

Study shows 10% of USA college grads believe Judge Judy serves on the Supreme Court. ISIS, you're trying too hard. - John Fugelsang


Republican Shenanigans

• Trump admin tells EPA to take down its climate change webpage: report
• Sean Spicer defends calling Trump inaugural ‘biggest ever’: I was like a weather man who got it wrong
• ‘Not supported by the evidence’: Pew study author shoots down Trump over ‘false’ voter fraud claims
• Teens report onslaught of bullying during divisive election
• Man behind conspiracy theory of 3 million illegal voters claims he may release their names
• Schumer: Congressional leaders did not challenge Trump's false voter fraud claim
• South Dakota Republicans are about to get rid of the state's first independent ethics commission

I support Donald J. Trump's call for an investigation of foreigners illegally participating in our election. He's talking about the Russians, right? - Andy Borowitz

The Wall
President Trump is expected to take executive actions on immigration this week that will include ordering the construction of a border wall with Mexico on Wednesday

If you think fertilized eggs are people but refugee kids aren't, you're going to have to stop pretending your concerns are religious. - LOLGOP

Saturday Night Live To Devote Full Hour To Trump
In addition to airing some of the most piercing comedic satire going about our new president, Donald Trump, Saturday Night Live has also gotten very smart about who gets invited to host...  For its next episode, the show has hired Kristen Stewart—an outspoken star who was once the target of Trump’s online bullying. 




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BREAKING: Kellyanne Conway has requested Secret Service protection after someone sent an envelope of verifiable facts to her home. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Perez: Dems should treat Trump like GOP treated Obama
• Cards Against Humanity Is Trying to Recruit Barack Obama as CEO
• Could Caroline Kennedy be the next Hillary Clinton and run for president?

So Trump says Hillary was smart enough to rig 3-5 million fake votes, but not smart enough to rig 'em in the right states?  Hmmm. - Tea Pain

CNN Throws Facts At Trump, They Bounce And End Up Somewhere In The Stratosphere

CNN late Wednesday fired back late Tuesday at President Trump, who said more people tuned in to watch his inauguration on Fox News than "FAKE NEWS" CNN.

“According to Nielsen cumulative numbers, 34 million people watched CNN’s inauguration day coverage on television. 34 million watched Fox News,” read the message tweeted from CNN Communications. “There were an additional 16.9 million live video starts on CNN Digital platforms. Those are the facts.”

I've found & questioned the (now) 5 million people who voted illegally. They all voted for Trump. (see how easy it is to make vote stuff up?) - Kurt Eichenwald

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OK, now I understand - Trump is replacing Obamacare with two giant oil pipelines.- Andy Borowitz



Biz/Tech News

• Tribal leaders vow to to battle Trump’s ‘poor decision’ to revive pipeline
• Trump's top economic adviser is walking away from Goldman Sachs with a payout of more than $100 million
• Trump tells leaders of US automotive industry he'll ease rules to bring back jobs
• Under Trump, It's Make a Deal With the President -- or Else

The people saying Keystone XL will bring down gas prices are the same people who said 2 wars w/Iraq would bring down gas prices. - Jon Fugelsang

The Banana Republicans Are Coming For Your Deductions
With so much focus in the early days of the Trump administration centered on GOP plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, it's easy to forget that Republicans are planning another ambitious goal this year - overhauling the entire federal tax code.

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Odd News

• Chicago Trump signs that were taken down have gone missing
• Nude cyclist detained after nighttime ride in sub-freezing temperatures in Austria
• NY man with 95 license suspensions arrested for guns, drugs
• Special toilet at U. Mich. takes aim at urine-to-fertilizer
• 10-year-old boy drives to store, speeds away in police chase

Time To Deflate Photo

I took this picture about 10 minutes outside of Huacas in the early morning yesterday while speeding down the road. The fog was as thick as pea soup.

Click on the photo to enlarge. This was about 3pm on the drive back from Santa Cruz. We are into the second month of the dry season and the grass has turned brown.

Peace.