Good news and bad news.

Bad news first. No edition today, there will be a new edition tomorrow.

Today I am wearing a chef's hat not my normal cowgirl hat. It is my good friend's birthday and he asked me to make him two of my special lasagnas for his fiesta. Why, of course, I said yes!  One is traditional Italian and the other is Chicken/Asparagus. I have been cooking non-stop since 5 this morning.  I am waiting for them to cool and for my ride to deliver me and the lovelies.

I wish y'all were here!

The Good News. The release of the Fusion congressional transcripts has opened a huge can of worms that will soon engulf Team Trump. It's no wonder Trump is trying to distract us with meetings and bragging about his imaginary overblown accomplishments.

From what I have read of the transcripts, the FBI may need to do some serious splainin', including Comey.

See you tomorrow!

Peace.

Senator Feinstein releases testimony of Fusion

Feinstein posts testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has posted the entire transcript of closed-door testimony that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson made to the Senate Judiciary Committee.


Note to men: Women really have had enough of your nonsense. -Mrs. Betty Bowers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Fusion GPS attorney drops bombshell: ‘Somebody’s already been killed as a result of this dossier’
• Christopher Steele alerted FBI to dossier because he worried Trump was being blackmailed
• Trump admin considering preemptive strike on North Korea even as talks with South Korea yield results
• Iran Has Foiled Plot to Use Protests to Overthrow System, Leader Says
• Netanyahu defends son after strip club recording airs on Israeli TV
• Ecuador seeks mediator to resolve 'untenable' Assange standoff: minister
• Republicans scrutinize FBI's media contacts in Russia case
• FBI director calls unbreakable encryption ‘urgent public safety issue’

Trump: I just start kissing them. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.
Mueller: I understand, Mr. President--but my question was about your knowledge of Russian collusion during the election. - Erik Bransten

Will The Olympics Bring Peace?
North and South Korea will hold "military talks" in order "to relieve military tensions," the two countries said in a joint statement today after nearly 12 hours of highly anticipated negotiations on their border.
North Korea will also send athletes and a high-level delegation to the Winter Olympics next month in Pyeongchang, South Korea, they said.





Donald Trump: “Even the great Ronald Reagan didn’t get Alzheimer’s until 5 years after his presidency. I got Alzheimer’s my FIRST YEAR! That makes me a #stablegenius.” - Tea Party Cat

Republican Shenanigans

• Sarah Sanders refuses to address explosive Trump-Russia dossier transcript during White House briefing
• Internet rains hell on Sens. Grassley and Graham for trying to cover up explosive Trump dossier testimony
• Mueller insider: ‘Loose cannon’ Trump will ‘leap blindly’ on landmines laid by special counsel’s office
• ‘It’s a trap’: Fox News legal analyst begs Trump to ‘NEVER, NEVER, NEVER’ take interview with Mueller
• Donald Trump says he would beat Oprah Winfrey if she ran for president: 'It'll be lots of fun'
• Megyn Kelly: One thing Hillary Clinton never did in 25 years of public life ‘was inspire anybody’
• FreedomWatch sues to remove Mueller
• ‘Making America weaker’: Wall Street Journal trashes Trump policies hurting his boosters in the farm belt
• Did President Trump forget the words to the national anthem?

TRUMP: “Those ingrate NFL players need to stop disrespecting the... *looks at notes scribbled on hand*... ‘Star Strangled Boner.’” - Jess Dweck

I'd like to congratulate Steve Bannon on completing his transition to Groveling Human Pustule. -John Fugelsang

Trump's Money Changer
Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser has suggested that people send her money in order to transform their lives, or face divine consequences.
Paula White, who heads up the president’s evangelical advisory committee, suggested making a donation to her ministries to honor the religious principle of “first fruit,” which she said is the idea that all firsts belong to God, including the first harvest and, apparently, the first month of your salary.

2015: "I've never declared bankruptcy"
2016: "I won the popular vote" 
2017: "There was no collusion" 
2018: "I'm a very stable genius" 
2019: "I wasn't impeached"
2020: "I'm not in prison"
- Jeff Tiedrich

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Will A Flu Shot Help?
Medical experts in the United States are worried that this year's flu season could be a nasty one that may be lethal. That's because this year's main flu strain, the influenza A virus, known as H3N2, is worse than the swine flu in 2009. To put it in perspective, back when the swine flu was making headlines it infected just 51,000 people in Australia. This year's H3N2 sickened over 215,000 and the illness has hit our shores.

Rock The Voter News

• Gayle King Says Oprah Is Not Considering a Presidential Run — Though She's 'Intrigued' by the Idea
• Yoga, basketball and a test kitchen: Obama's presidential library plans
• 2000 7-Eleven customers possibly exposed to hepatitis A in Utah

I Can't Stand Scarborough. He's Always Looking For An Opportunity To Ruffle Feathers To Draw Attention.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday said "Barack Obama wasn't ready, in my opinion, to be president" and stated Obama was just "a glorified state senator" during a discussion on "Morning Joe."

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Subject: It's OK when Republicans Do It

Back in the days when we could actually have spirited arguments with our token Republican friends, during the relentless hunting of the Clintons and Obama Derangement Syndrome, I used to say, "Turn it around.  If Al Gore shot someone in the face, if Democrats outed a CIA agent, ruined her career, and possibly got people killed, which we will ever know, if the Carters or the Clintons, or the Obamas paraded a pregnant,  unmarried seventeen year old girl across the national stage, Republicans would be screaming with their hair on fire!  When Republicans do these things, it's OK.  It was OK for Newt Gingrich, serial marrier and serial philanderer, to come down harshly on Bill Clinton.  They all seem to be irony- impaired and obliviously immune to hypocrisy.
Dee

Thank you for writing. The GOP is proudly the party of personal destruction!

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Business/Tech News

• Senate bill to block net neutrality repeal now has 40 co-sponsors
• Sen. Warner 'disappointed' with Twitter about Russian election meddling information
• Credit card debt hits new record, raising warning sign
• Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCs

One of the things that inspires me most about Oprah is that I believe she’s reasonable enough to consider the possibility that being a billionaire TV star doesn’t necessarily qualify you to have the launch codes. Then again, if we did go toe to toe with North Korea, I bet she could calm Kim Jong-un down just by helping him lose weight. - Stephen Colbert

Idiot White Conservative Sues Google
James Damore, the former Google engineer who was fired after he wrote a memo sharply criticizing diversity efforts at the company, has filed a class-action lawsuit against his former employer alleging that the tech giant discriminates against conservative white men.






La Croix taste like if you were drinking carbonated water and someone screamed out loud the name of a specific fruit in the other room. - Daniel Tran

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Odd News

• Teacher questioned the superintendent's raise. She was tackled and handcuffed, video shows
• It snowed in one of the hottest places in the world
• Climate Change Turned 99.8% of These Sea Turtle Babies into Girls
• Blocked by passwords, FBI can't unlock over half of devices seized as evidence
• Astronaut Grows 3.5 Inches in Space—May Not Fit in Spacecraft Seat for Ride Home

Time To Deflate Photo

Carved Mexican Fire Opal skull. I'd prefer an opal ring.

Peace.

Trump says he is a stable genius

'A Very Stable Genius': Trump Responds To Renewed Criticism Of His Mental State
President Trump insisted Saturday that he is "a very stable genius," following the recent publication of a book that raises questions about his mental state and fitness for office.

Remember when we thought Dan Quayle wasn’t qualified to be vice president because he misspelled potato? - Amy Siskind

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Rouhani Challenges Iran's Hardliners With Call for More Freedoms
• RUSSIA: U.S. ONLY COMPLAINED ABOUT ELECTION INTERFERENCE BECAUSE TRUMP WON
• Cliven Bundy standoff case thrown out in another stunning blow to government
• DNC chair slams Trump over decision to end protections for Salvadorans: "Cruel and heartless"

America still has military bases in El Salvador - for our drug war.

When I performed for our troops there they told me it was considered too dangerous to wear their uniforms when off-base. 


That's where DT is sending 200k Salvadorans who've been paying the US taxes for 17 yrs. - John Fugelsang

Mueller To Interview Trump?
Anticipating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president’s legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses to questions in lieu of a formal sit-down, according to three people familiar with the matter.

We have had Presidents with mental problems before, but they all went to great lengths to hide them. Trump is the first President to lead with them, because his instability and stupidity are precisely what his base likes about him. - Andy Borowitz


Republican Shenanigans

• Kushner family company got $30M from Israeli firm shortly before Kushner traveled to Israel: report
• Russian lawyer says she talked to Ivanka Trump after infamous meeting with Jared Kushner, Donald Jr.
• Donald Trump doesn't know what the word consensual means in another Twitter typo
• Trump delays 'fake news' awards
• Lindsey Graham tells ‘The View’ that Donald Trump is no longer a ‘xenophobic, race-baiting, religious bigot’ because he’s the president
• Fusion GPS demands pro-Trump judge recuse himself on bank subpoena after working for Trump transition
• Bannon expresses regret after slamming Trump family in new book 
• The GOP’s new law taxes people for winning defamation claims
• The Mooch’s gift to Trump staff: A taxpayer-funded stylist
• Eric Trump wore a sombrero while blowing out birthday cake candles, and the internet lost it

If we don't vote the GOP scoundrels outta office in 2018, by this time next year, "The Handmaid's Tale" will be considered a "documentary." - Tea Pain

White House Aide Refused To Leave CNN Set
After his interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper was cut short on Sunday, White House aide Stephen Miller refused to leave the set and had to be escorted out, according to Business Insider.




Jake Tapper Unharmed After Explosion of Stephen Miller’s Head. - Andy Borowitz

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Still waiting for Donald Trump to be downgraded to a tropical sh*t storm. - Conan O'Brien

Rock The Voter News

• CNN: Oprah 'actively thinking' about White House run
• Sean Spicer knocks Oprah’s political inexperience
• Twitter Rips Hillary-Bashing Susan Sarandon For Women-Unite Speech At Golden Globes

Since no one remembers anything anymore: Oprah’s campaign appearances for Obama drew the biggest crowds of the primary campaign - Jacqueline Alemany, CBS






Hillary Had A Fire At Her Home Last Week. Today Trump Tower Had A Fire. What Are The Odds?
A small fire broke out on the roof of Trump Tower on Monday morning, injuring three people officials said.
Smoke was seen billowing off the top of the Manhattan skyscraper, carrying for several blocks.




Obviously, the media learned the lesson of 2016 and won't give disporportionate attention to a celebrity candidate who has never....OH MY GOD, IT'S OPRAH. -Matthew Miller

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Trump doesn’t start work til 11AM & takes “executive time” breaks all day. Thank god he’s lazy & not devoted to f*cking things up full-time. - Bette Midler

Business/Tech News

• Europe Becomes Victim of Russia's Newest Oil Strategy
• White House preparing for trade crackdown
• Pfizer to Cut 300 Jobs as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Research Ends
• Atlantic City's Failed Revel Casino Sells for $200 Million

Trump Demands Investigation of Oprah's Ties to Russia.- Andy Borowitz

Supreme Declines Case From Coal Company
The Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a coal mining company’s appeal arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must regularly report on the impact to coal jobs from its regulations.
Murray Energy Corp.’s case was one of dozens the court declined to hear without any explanation.



I've got a Muslim cousin, a Jewish sister-in-law, an atheist brother and an ex-nun mother. I don't get to hate on anybody. - John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• SpaceX Launches Secret Zuma Mission for US Government, Lands Rocket
• Climate Change Is Causing the Seafloor to Sink 
• American Tourist 'Overdosed On Viagra,' Arrested After Getting Naked At Thailand Airport
• Woman Allegedly Opens Fire at Husband on Toilet ‘To Make Him Listen to Me’ 
• Thieves set off fireworks at Florida mall to steal Rolex
• Florida man calls 911 to report himself drunk driving

Time To Deflate Photo

I love this photo of Claude Monet in his garden at Giverny in the summer of 1905. No wonder he painted such beautiful water lilies.

Peace.