42 thoughts on “Bah Humbug”

  1. “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

    gop’s scroogecare

    nytimes:
    Senate Plans to End Obamacare Mandate in Revised Tax Proposal

  2. their grand old tax plan also reminiscent of henry f. potter (it’s a wonderful life) sentiment: “George, I am an old man, and most people hate me. But I don’t like them either so that makes it all even.” 

  3. at least mr scrooge and mr potter didn’t diddle little girls… as far as we know that is.

    Stephen Colbert used Tuesday’s “Late Show” to dissect GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore’s reported banning from an Alabama mall.
     
    The comedian broke down a report in The New Yorker which alleged that Moore was known for “badgering teenage girls” at the Gadsen Mall in the 1980s and rumored to be on a list of people banned from entering the venue.
     
    “The only place in the mall the girls were safe was Forever 21 because that is way too old for Roy Moore,” said Colbert.

  5. At lease we get a new film on the subject later this month with The Man Who Invented Christmas.  Craig may like its theme of writer’s block.

     

    The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol. Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day), the film shows how Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.

  6. OK, now I’ll be straight up about it. I don’t believe in hell. But if I did, there would be a special little place down there with extra goodies for those idiots that are in SF’s administration and in the Republican Congress who somehow believe that only people with a lot of money should be able to be well.

    Just watching Morning Joe this morning about the discussion of the lack of diversity in SFF’s Justice Department nominees for DoJ and judicial posts. I suppose that SF’s concern really is not MAGA, but MAWMA.  Make America White and Male Again. 

  7. Awkward … from presser yesterday:

    Q: Do you also believe the women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment?

    McConnell: “Look, we’re talking about the situation in Alabama, and I’d be happy to address that if there are any further questions.”

  8. craig, they missed their chance here to follow up likewise

    cnn:

    “I have no reason to doubt these young women,” Sessions told Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, as she held up visual aids during a hearing of the House judiciary committee.

    [….in response to…]

    “Do you believe these young women?” Jackson Lee asked Sessions

  9. abcnews
    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-allegations-roy-moore/story?id=51115658
     

    Though Senate rules make it possible for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be appointed to his old Senate seat by the Alabama governor if a victorious Roy Moore is voted out by his colleagues — an idea several officials close to President Donald Trump have floated — Sessions isn’t in favor, three officials told ABC News.
    An official in the White House insisted that even though the plan has been floated, Trump continues to have confidence in Sessions as attorney general. One official close to Sessions told ABC News, “This is wishful thinking from people who probably don’t even know Jeff Sessions and certainly haven’t spoken to him.”

    But Sessions’ return to that chamber is unlikely, multiple sources told ABC News.

    If Moore, the Republican nominee, wins in the upcoming special election, the Senate, with a two-thirds vote, could decide not to seat him. That would mean another vacancy in Alabama and an opportunity for the governor to name a replacement, possibly Sessions.
    […continues…]

    the article goes on to mention Alabama’s “so-called sore-loser rules”…. wonder if they have any sore-winner rules.

  10. I am thoroughly disgusted with the gop this morning….   ASSHOLES!

    On a good note…   I have some repub friends that are beginning to feel the same way.

  11. There is something in the tax plan for all of the gopenis!  Not only do cash-rich coporations (who are people, too, under citizens united) get more cash?   Now out-of-the womb humans will lose their health care and those on Medicare?  Expect more cuts to care than sequestration is currently accomplishing.  But, the beauty of the tax cuts?An anti-abortion provision to please the evangelicals while the gopenis hand is in their pockets and elsewhere.  Remember, conception begins at erection for this gang.  529 and the American fetus.

  12. As I cling to my science and humor, I notice Hawking is at it again.  His alarm of the human race ending, AI killing us and get off of the planet while you can!  is a headline is being ‘hawked’ by rt, sun, ny post to keep humans eye-off of the regression-du-jour Americans are experiencing.

    Humans will turn Earth into ‘sizzling ball of fire’ by 2600, Stephen Hawking warns
     
    PS  Hey hawking?  Our machines will already be in space with embryos from humans and many other living creatures we select from our planet.   The ark to a new world won’t be planned by us!  We need to concentrate on the trumpence junta and stay in the now, thank you.

  18. So Poobah, do you think in light of the Senate’s modified tax bill any thinking person would need to be told the importance of putting aside any STOOPID thoughts of doing anything other than voting for dems in Congress in 2018 and in Congress and POTUS in 2020?  If so my message is simple – get your head out of the clouds (or out of your ass if that’s where it is) and vote FOR someone who can be elected instead of the asshole republicans on the ballot. (~~Is that too harsh?~~)

  19. pogo, we can’t even hold a thought as long as 20 seconds let alone 12 months.  all will be forgotten and/or forgiven by next election rolls around.

    take jeff sessions for example… he can’t recall any number of things that took place just months ago.

  21. cnn:
    Murphy: We are concerned Trump is unstable
    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there is concern President Trump is so unstable that he will order a nuclear weapons strike.
     

  25. OMG Roy Moore’s atty was on Rule and Velshi and said Velshi comes from a culture of dating young girls just like Roy.  Rule went justifiably beserk

  26. Buzzfeed: Alarmed By “Unstable” Trump, Congress Questions President’s Nuclear Authority For First Time In 40 Years
    But the experts said there was really no way to prevent a president from launching a nuclear strike.

  27. the guardian: Christopher Steele believes his dossier on Trump-Russia is 70-90% accurate

    The respected ex-MI6 officer told Guardian journalist and author Luke Harding that his FBI contacts greeted his intelligence report with ‘shock and horror’

    Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled an explosive dossier of allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, believes it to 70% to 90% accurate, according to a new book on the covert Russian intervention in the 2016 US election.

    The book, Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by Guardian journalist Luke Harding, quotes Steele as telling friends that he believes his reports – based on sources cultivated over three decades of intelligence work – will be vindicated as the US special counsel investigation digs deeper into contacts between Trump, his associates and Moscow.

    “I’ve been dealing with this country for thirty years. Why would I invent this stuff?” Steele is quoted as saying.

    [….]

    Steele delivered a total of 16 reports to Fusion between June and early November 2016, but his sources started to go quiet from July, when Trump’s ties to Russia came under scrutiny. According to Harding’s account, he was shocked “For anyone who reads it, this is a life-changing experience,” Steele told friends.

    Steele flew to Rome in June to brief his FBI contact with whom he had shared his Fifa report, and returned in September to meet a full FBI team of investigators. He described their response as “shock and horror”, and they asked him to explain his methods and to pass on future reports.

    However, as the weeks went by leading up to the 8 November election, the FBI told him it could not go public with material involving a presidential candidate, and then his FBI contacts went silent altogether. Steele told a friend it was clear he had passed on a “radioactive hot potato”. by the extent of collusion his sources were reporting.

     

  31. With each new revelation about Moore I am taken back to my college days, getting stoned, listening to Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung”.

    Sitting on a park bench
    Eying little girls with bad intent
    Snots running down his nose
    Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes, hey, Aqualung

    Drying in the cold sun
    Watching as the frilly panties run, hey, Aqualung

    Feeling like a dead duck
    Spitting out pieces of his broken luck, oh, Aqualung

    Sun streaking cold, an old man wandering lonely
    Taking time, the only way he knows

  32. pogo, did aqualung have any connection to  sen. rant’s aqua Buddha? above and below are from  a blogger waxing eloquent on rant’s latest event:

    The Aqua Buddha Gated Community Blues

    I’ve missed having Rand Paul aka Senator Aqua Buddha to kick around. The early days of his failed run for the White House were like spun satirical gold to me.  Just call me Rumpelstiltskin.

    What other recent politician had their own comic book? I miss the halcyon days of the MSM swallowing his brogressive credentials. For some obscure reason, GOPers have stopped feigning racial tolerance. I cannot imagine why. #sarcasm

    Apparently,  Aqua Buddha’s next door neighbor felt like kicking him around last weekend. Literally, not figuratively……

    He was knocked down like a Bowling Green bowling pin. Surely, there’s a bluegrass song in that…..

    ….   [continues]

  33. anyone notice the odd body language of the twit during his weird self-patting atta boy speech yesterday? curious as to what an expert on such movements would say… also what’s with the snorting, the unusual thirst and seeming unpreparedness?

    abc news Trump roasted by late-night hosts after he stops mid-speech to search for water

  34. The thirsty pging potus has struck again by allowing trophies to be imported.  What a deal maker, he just reverses everything Obama did and takes the credit.   Hurting the living and kicking the living shit out-of-decency.

    I burned the candles on the altar last night and there is a ray of sunshine —  feds may have flipped zarrab.

    A man who may be at the heart of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged misdoings by President Donald Trump’s campaign and administration was secretly removed from a federal prison earlier this month.

    Now it appears Zarrab, whose trial for allegedly cheating U.S. sanctions by facilitating gold-for-gas deals between Turkey and Iran is scheduled to begin in just days, may be working with federal prosecutors.

    Flynn was reportedly offered upward of $15 million if he could help Turkey win the extradition of cleric Fethullah GĂźlen as well as the release of gold trader Reza Zarrab.

     

  35. Patd…trump looked amped-up on drugs again to combat his jet lag and heartache over the junior.  In fact, both juniors, trump and flynn (the fake junior) are getting closer to fbi bracelets.    Things are closing-in for the trumpence junta.  Expect more regression.  The junta knows this is coming as they get much of the info from pompeo.

    I remember during the election, trump was accused of walking-in on semi-naked teen pageant contestants, on purpose.  Same as moore, except the evangelicals do not care about sex with young women or birth control.  Women are chattel.

  38. It’s about time someone showed the “evangelicals” how to just go to church and STFU .

    bunch of dumbass ignorant assholes any way you slice it.

    And regular old Christians OUGHT to be leading the effort—–to avoid the wide tar-brush.

  40. Where do we get one of these?  Order in the court, here come da judge, here come da judge, here come the judgmental with a badge.  —

    Sheriff Troy Nehls in Ford Bend County told the Houston Chronicle that he had received many complaints about the sticker, which read: “F— TRUMP AND F— YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM.”

    “I have received numerous calls regarding the offensive display on this truck as it is often seen along FM 359. If you know who owns this truck or it is yours, I would like to discuss it with you. Our Prosecutor has informed us she would accept Disorderly Conduct charges regarding it, but I feel we could come to an agreement regarding a modification to it.”

  41. From 2015, Fiji water contains more arsenic than cleveland’s city water.

    In 2006, Fiji Water ran an advertisement stating, “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland“. This was taken as an insult by the Ohio city’s water department.[26] The Cleveland Water Department ran tests comparing a bottle of Fiji Water to Cleveland tap water and some other national bottled brands. Fiji Water reportedly contained 6.31 micrograms of arsenic per litre, whereas the tap water of Cleveland contained none.

    More on Fiji water.

    In December 2010, Fiji Water’s Fiji plant had 400 employees.[23] Fiji Water has also established a foundation to provide water filters to rural Fiji communities, many of which lack access to clean water.

     

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