Happy Holidays to all!

I will return on December 26, I  am looking forward to being Trump-free till then.  Deep apologies for any humor inconvenience as my Internet was mostly down today, probably caused by some grinch gremlin.

Tomorrow is Christmas Tamale Day when we make dozens of tamales. Christmas Eve is as big a celebration as Christmas here in Costa Rica, maybe bigger. I'm making chicken bacon lasagna with mushroom cheddar sauce for all the "laborers" tomorrow.

Costa Ricans flee to the coasts for the holidays. It'll be busy here until mid January. Kids are on their summer vacation.

Times like this I wish I had a car, taxis are unavailable. lol

Best wishes to all for a happy holiday!

Peace.

Evangelical publication calls for Trump's removal from office

Evangelical publication calls for Trump's removal from office
A leading Christian magazine founded by late evangelist Billy Graham -- father of key presidential supporter Franklin Graham -- published an op-ed on Thursday calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office and urging evangelicals not to support him.

Who will be the first Fox personality to call Christianity Today communist? - Schooley

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Trump Pulled Plug on Pompeo’s November Ukraine Trip Over Impeachment Heat
• Twitter removes 88K accounts tied to Saudi Arabia
• Erdogan says Turkey will retaliate against possible U.S. sanctions
• Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff pushes back on Afghanistan reports
• Trump's 'shameful' migrant stance condemns thousands to violent limbo in Mexico
• Republican Matt Shea 'participated in act of domestic terrorism', says report
• US service academies say hand gestures at Army-Navy game were a game and not racist

Trump could crucify Jesus on 5th avenue and not lose any supporters. - mith tweet

I Wonder How the POC Soldiers Feel About This
The Republican-controlled Senate quietly cut the phrase "white nationalist" from a measure in the National Defense Authorization Act, which was intended to explicitly address the threat of white nationalists in the military, altering the language of a House-passed amendment before passing the massive military spending bill Tuesday.

The president* is not merely unChristian. He’s a damn heathen in every sense of the word. - Charles P. Pierce

Republican Shenanigans

• Evangelical Trump supporters bash Christianity Today for calling for removal from office
• White House considers arguing that Trump wasn't impeached: reports
• White House: Trump was 'just riffing' about late Rep. John Dingell 'looking up' from hell
• Laura Ingraham Insists Trump Wasn't Actually Impeached: 'America's First Fake Impeachment'
• Trump DOJ Blows Up GOP Excuse for Rejecting Witnesses at Impeachment Trial in Senate
• Ivanka Trump says father is 'energized' by impeachment fight
• Matt Bevin Defends Pardoning Convicted Child Rapist Because 'Hymens Were Intact'
• Police: Iowa woman said she hit teen with car because she was 'a Mexican'

Evangelicals standing by Trump despite him being a lying, cheating, sexual predator are the same ones who said Obama wasn’t a Christian. This isn’t politics or even religion, it’s just overt racism. - OhNoSheTwint

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Mocks Biden Then Apologizes
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former chief spokesman for President Donald Trump, tweeted an apology to Joe Biden Thursday night after mocking the former vice president’s reference to stuttering at the sixth Democratic presidential debate.
“I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I hhhave absolutely no idea what Biden is talking about. #DemDebate,” the former White House press secretary wrote in a now-deleted tweet during the PBS NewsHour/POLITICO debate. Biden had just referenced talking with a "little kid who says I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I can't talk, what do I do?"

Imagine torturing a dog and still being the least objectionable member of the Huckabee family. - Jeff Tiedrich

Trump Claims He Knows John Dingell Is In Hell Because He Sees Window Into Terrifying Inferno Every Time He Closes His Eyes - The Onion

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Clashes with Sanders While Ripping Medicare for All: 'Put Your Hand Down for a Second, Bernie!'
• Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg Lock Horns at Dem Debate: 'You Lost By 20 Points' in Indiana'
• 'I Miss Kamala, I Miss Cory': Andrew Yang Gets Ovation Responding to Question on 2020 Field Being 'Overwhelmingly White'
• 'Wine cave': Inside Buttigieg's high-priced underground fundraiser

My man-servant dropped a candelabra and burned down my wine cave. I'd appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot. - George Wallace

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Business/Tech News

• Facebook says a pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create fake people and push conspiracies
• U.S. Steel to Eliminate 1,545 Michigan Jobs
• French telecom company Orange convicted over suicides
• United pulls 737 Max from its schedule until early June
• Boeing’s Starliner crew spacecraft won’t dock with Space Station as planned after missing target orbit

I had an 85” TV installed yesterday which sounded pretty cool until MSNBC show a clip of sweaty rally Trump.  Now I don’t want to turn it back on.
Any good therapists out there? - Scot

Loosened Security at US Airports To Reduce Wait Time.
A whistleblower with the Transportation Security Administration is sounding the alarm about loosened security at US airports, charging that top TSA officials have prioritized speed over security by reducing the sensitivity of metal detectors, disabling technology on some X-ray machines, issuing orders to keep the baggage conveyor belts moving in certain circumstances and ordering policy changes that result in fewer pat-downs.

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Odd News

• U.S. regulators approve a vaccine to protect against the deadly Ebola virus, found to be 100% effective
• Two Carnival cruise ships just collided in Cozumel, Mexico
• Video shows speeding truck slam into Sarasota-Bradenton airport terminal
• Researcher uses electron microscope to etch tiny 'gingerbread house'
• British man eats world record 33 Brussels sprouts in one minute

Time To Deflate Photo

Living With Reindeer In Mongolia.

Peace.

Pelosi threatens to delay Senate impeachment

Pelosi threatens to delay Senate impeachment
Some legal scholars have suggested she could consider refusing to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate.

The senators who never gave Merrick Garland a vote and who’ve been cranking through the confirmation of unqualified judges can’t find enough smelling salts and fainting couches when Pelosi plays a little hardball on an impeachment trial. - Rep. Jim Himes

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Putin says Trump won’t be removed on ‘trumped-up charges’
• Trump team weighs ambassador pick for Ukraine as ties fray
• Trump slashed Puerto Rico’s Medicaid money as part of budget deal

What did America do to deserve Trump? It’s like we built the country on top of an Indian burial ground or something. - TDP tweet

Only Half of Active Military Don't Like Trump?
A new surprising poll from The Military Times surveying active-duty service members shows that about 50% of respondents have an unfavorable view of President Donald Trump.

Watching Fox News for more than 10 seconds makes perfectly clear how we’ve arrived here. - Clint Smith

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Jokes That John Dingell is in Hell While Mocking His Condolence Call With Wife Debbie Dingell
• Debbie Dingell Responds to Trump Slamming Deceased Husband: 'You Just Made My Healing Much Harder'
• Michigan GOP lawmaker calls on Trump to apologize for Dingell remarks
• Trump spokesperson defends comments about Dingell: "The president is a counter-puncher" 
• Trump gets vindictive at rally after House slaps him with impeachment
• Fiery clash ensues after Nadler accuses GOP rep of spouting Russian propaganda on House floor
• McConnell rejects Schumer’s opening offer on impeachment trial
• McConnell rips House impeachment as 'slapdash,' 'rushed and rigged'
• Chao’s team helped McConnell’s state win its largest DOT grant
• Trump Sends 'Giant' Christmas Cards With Wild Impeachment Letter to Democratic Senators
• FEC probes spending patterns on Kasich 2016 presidential campaign

The party that held a dozen Benghazi hearings and took over 50 show-votes to "kill" Obamacare complains about wastin' time. - Tea Pain

Another Republican Leaving the House
Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, one of President Donald Trump's most visible allies on Capitol Hill, is not seeking reelection in 2020, he announced in a statement Thursday. ... The North Carolina Republican was first elected to Congress in 2012

Mitch McConnell, the feller that promised to block every piece of Obama's agenda even before he was inaugurated, is now cryin' big horse tears because Dems opposed Trump from day one. - Tea Pain

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Rock The Voter News

• House swiftly advances behemoth $1.4T spending deal
• Biden maintains lead on Sanders, Warren: poll
• Court voids Obamacare mandate — but not the whole law
• Tonight's Democratic Debate: When It Is and What to Watch For

Trump Said Women Complain About Weak Dishwashers
With President Trump's impeachment, Wednesday was a historic day—and, fittingly, Trump made a comment that belongs in a different century. At his rally in Michigan that coincided with his impeachment on Capitol Hill, Trump started rambling about weak dishwashers. The president said that dishwashers don’t work as well as they once did, blaming regulations, and added that he’d found this out by talking to women.

Donald Trump could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and he would still be only the third president impeached in American history. - Randi Mayem Singer

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He finally got more votes than us

Business/Tech News

• Moderate Democrats call out McConnell on vote delay on Mexico-Canada trade deal
• A dozen groups challenge EPA decision to leave slaughterhouse regulations untouched
• Packaged hard-boiled eggs have been linked to a deadly Listeria outbreak, the CDC warns
• Direct deposits were delayed by Federal Reserve glitch

If Kellyanne and George Conway had a reality show it would be called Schmuck Dynasty. - OhNoSheTwint

Has Trump Taken Credit for This Yet?
Ford announced its plans Tuesday to create 3,000 jobs and invest $1.45 billion in two southeast Michigan facilities.
The U.S. car company said it would provide $750 million and 2,700 jobs within the next three years at a facility in Wayne, Mich., and $700 million and 300 jobs at a site in Dearborn, Mich., according to a release. 

Someone in their late 20’s has now seen two rigged electoral college presidential elections, an illegal war, the longest war, a financial collapse to rival the Depression, and now two impeachments. -shocks tweet

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Another actor ruined by drugs and alcohol.

Odd News

• The World's Oldest Forest Has 385-Million-Year-Old Tree Roots
• A 'cosmic candy cane' at the center of the Milky Way could hold clues to star formation, NASA says
• Stone Age chewing gum gives insights into life of young girl
• Police: Robber ‘face-planted’ into door, left DNA, arrested
• Department of Agriculture accidentally lists Wakanda on free trade list
• Firefighters rescue dog stranded in a tree after chasing cat

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I hope he's nearsighted.

Peace.