Monday, January 16, 2017

Why isn't this top news?

Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele's frustration as FBI sat on Donald Trump Russia file for months
Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who investigated Donald Trump’s alleged Kremlin links, was so worried by what he was discovering that at the end he was working without pay, The Independent has learned.
Mr Steele also decided to pass on information to both British and American intelligence officials after concluding that such material should not just be in the hands of political opponents of Mr Trump, who had hired his services, but was a matter of national security for both countries.



Got it. The GOP has deemed too many Americans having health insurance a bigger crisis than a foreign government meddling in our elections.- LOLGOP






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Welcome to America, where we can celebrate a man who fought racism on a Monday & inaugurate a racist that Friday.- John Fugelsang






I'd like to thank all the white men who are taking time out from their busy day to explain to black people the history of civil rights. - Tea Party Cat



Meanwhile, Trump Has Really Pissed Off China
Two Chinese state-run newspapers are warning President-elect Donald Trump against putting the “One China” policy up for debate.
"If Trump is determined to use this gambit in taking office, a period of fierce, damaging interactions will be unavoidable, as Beijing will have no choice but to take off the gloves," wrote China Daily, an English-language newspaper




Skinheads and Hippies, Piccadilly Circus, 1969.


Republican Shenanigans

GOP congressmen starting to be swarmed at town halls by GOP constituents who FINALLY figured out the ACA they love is the Obamacare they hate. - Kurt Eichenwald





GOP Wants To Fully Legalize Gun Silencers. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The GOP has just risen to a whole new level of crazy. Last week, it introduced the Duncan-Carter Hearing Protection Act of 2017, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Rep. John Carter (R-TX). The bill removes gun silencers from the scope of the National Firearms Act of 1934, and refunds the $200 transfer tax to applicants who purchased them after October 22, 2015.





Trump questioned President Obama's legitimacy based on a racist lie.
Lewis questions Trump's legitimacy based on verified intelligence. - Jesse Berney


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I'm thinking the use of the phrase "peaceful transition of power" is code for "please shut the F up while we set up our dictatorship." - Erik Bransteen



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Trump: "There is no conflict of interest. My sons will run my businesses as independent of me as my administration is independent of Putin!" - Tea Party Cat





Karaoke machine backs out of preforming at the inauguration. - Andy Borowitz

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I love Meryl Streep.


MSNBC to Preempt Trump Inauguration with Rerun of Obama's. - Andy Borowitz



Meanwhile, Science Believers Are Facing Reality
The British Antarctic Survey is to pull all staff out of its space-age Halley base in March for safety reasons. The highly unusual move is necessary because the Brunt Ice Shelf on which the research station sits has developed a big new crack.







Make sure to post all of your anti-Trump tweets this week.
Because by Saturday, the authorities will classify them as 2nd degree felonies.- Erick Bransteen





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Coast of Kau'ai, Hawaii. That's me at the top of the picture waving at you, obscured by clouds.
Not. But I wish it was.

Peace.

Friday, January 13, 2017

Back in the USSR

Donald Trump has persuaded Republicans to doubt the intelligence on Russia's hacking
Donald Trump this week finally came around (kind of) to the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in hacking in an attempt to influence the 2016 U.S.


Trump had paid staffers at his press conference cheer and clap for him. He still thinks he's campaigning. It's just so damned unseemly. - George Takei






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Good news!  Trump says the Russians who control him claim they don't control him, so that's the end of that!- Tea Pain


Yeah, Sure, Let's Tell China To Stay Out Of The South China Sea
Chinese state media has taken aim at Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, after he suggested a more aggressive strategy toward Beijing in the contested waters of the South China Sea.






Republicans Had 8 Years To Come Up With An Obamacare Replacement
Senate Republicans launched their effort to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law early Thursday morning, approving a budget blueprint that they've dubbed the Obamacare "repeal resolution.





Welcome to America, where people who call themselves Christian are praying that millions will soon lose health care.- John Fugelsang







Republican Shenanigans


Not fair to compare Obama's farewell address to Trump's press conference.  That's like comparing apples to corrosive festering tumors.- John Fugelsang




Paul Ryan Is Trying To Spin Himself Out Of This Self-Imposed Chaos
Speaker Paul Ryan is urging the GOP-controlled House to pass a 'critical first step toward delivering relief' from President Barack Obama's signature health care law.


Meanwhile, in our nation’s capital, our elected officials had a late night of work. After seven hours of debating, they voted to approve a resolution that would rid the country eventually of Obamacare. Can you imagine, the senators finally worked until 1:30 in the morning, and it was for this? How would Congress like it if we all met in the middle of the night and voted to take THEIR healthcare away? -Jimmy Kimmel




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Women's March Is Going To Be Yuuuuuuuge!
City parking permits for 200 buses are being sought for Inauguration Day. The number for the Women's March: 1200.

Far more parking permits are being sought for buses for the Women's March on Washington the day after inauguration than for the inauguration itself, D. C. Council member Charles Allen said Thursday.


That awkward moment when terrorists attack the US because Trump has the FBI busy hunting down everyone who didn't like or retweet him. - Tea Party Cat




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So Donald Trump endorsed L.L. Bean on Twitter — because if anybody represents the rugged great outdoors, it’s a spray-tanned germaphobe who goes to the bathroom on a gold toilet. - James Corden






Military Industrial Complex Is Having To Tighten Its Belt
Emerging from a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Friday, Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Marillyn Hewson told reporters Friday the Bethesda-based defense giant is close to a new contract deal that would cut the cost...


63 degrees in NYC in January but it's ok because our new president who can't spell says climate science is a Chinese hoax.- John Fugelsang





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Barrier Lake Kops, Austria. A great place to bring your drone.

Peace.

Thursday, January 12, 2017

The FBI Needs To Be Investigated, Namely Comey, And A New Election Must Be Held.



If true, this salacious dossier on Trump was gathered by a very experienced intel man, Christopher Steele, hired by Republicans opposed to Trump before he won the nomination. Let that sink in. 

Below are the last two paragraphs of an article by the Guardian.


...In the US presidential campaign Steele was initially hired by a Washington DC political research firm, to investigate Trump on behalf of Republicans opposed to his candidacy. He was kept on the assignment after Trump won the nomination and his information was circulated to Democratic party figures and members of the media, Reuters said.
Eventually he began dealing with the FBI regarding the dossier, sources told Reuters, but he became frustrated at the bureau’s slow progress and cut off contact. The material then circulated in political and media circles before ultimately making its way into the public domain.


So the FBI Director, James Comey, knowing of this dossier decided to intervene in the presidential campaign days before the election inferring that Hillary's emails were once again a problem.

How many more dots need to be connected that there was direct interference by the FBI and Russia all in favor of Trump?









UPDATE: Justice Dept is going to "review" the FBI


I am taking the day off. My friends have come by to paint the inside of my house. 😊

Peace and love to all.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

RICO Laws. Just throwing that out there.

Trump drops ‘no new deals’ pledge
'President-elect Trump should not be expected to destroy the company he built,' a Trump lawyer said Wednesday.


Trump has literally melded his personal businesses with the US government and has announced a pathway for foreigners to submit bribes. - Ryan Lizza






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Hope you enjoyed Obama's speech. You won't hear anything so cogent and kind for a long time. So, with complete sincerity: THANKS, OBAMA. - Stephen King



Trump's 1st Fully Orchestrated Press Conference
Donald Trump took questions from the media Wednesday for the first time since he was elected president on Nov. 8. And he quickly put to rest the idea that his rapidly approaching presidency would fundamentally change his tone, style or basic approach ...









Trump says fighting ISIS is "Number one tricky."
Which happens to be the name of the service he ordered from the Russian call girl agency. - John Fugelsang



I Wonder What Revenge Trump Will Take Out On McCain
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he delivered a dossier to FBI Director James Comey late last year containing unverified claims that Russia had gathered compromising information on President-elect Donald Trump.







Republican Shenanigans


"I guess I'm not so gross after all."
--Anthony Weiner
- Andy Borowitz.





The best part of the new Tump leak will be how everyone giggles when they say the word 'leak.'- John Fugelsang




That reminded me of a Soviet press conference. More speakers than questions, more flags than answers.- Garry Kasparov

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"To Joe Biden, the scrappy kid from Scranton who became Delaware’s favorite son: you were the first decision I made as a nominee & the best" - President Obama








I Guess That Trump Will Remove Hillary's Name 
Hillary Clinton made a rare and low-key return to Washington on Tuesday for the ceremonial opening of a new exhibition and museum area at the State Department that will be partly named for her.









FBI had both "Russians have blackmail info on Trump" and "There are irrelevant emails on Weiner's laptop."
Guess what they publicized.- Dante Atkins

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Rightwing pro-torture corporatist who threatens press that don't portray him flatteringly frets about Nazi Gemany.
Satan hi-fives Roy Cohn.- John Fugelsang





Tillerson Is In Vlad's Back Pocket
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked Rex Tillerson point-blank whether Vladimir Putin was a war criminal — and Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state blinked.
“I would not use that term,” said Tillerson, the longtime chief executive of Exxon Mobil who was awarded the Kremlin’s Order of Friendship in 2013 .



I'd like to publish a photography book of very recently born babies and call it 'Not Cute Yet.'- John Fugelsang





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After such an ugly day, I wanted to look at Claude Monet's "Water Lilies."

Peace.