131 thoughts on “One More Day”

  1. Sturg- There will be a celebration around the world if we can actually purge ourselves of Orange Julius.  Then, we must marginalize those in  q-ongress still backing him until they can be voted out.  Also,  media should start airing history and civics shows.  

  2. On the other hand, I’ll be so happy to see spring arrive.  I’ve lost several long-time friends this winter and the cold is just weighing me down.

  3. Sturgeone – On the downslope of the bell curve myself.  So far few have died of natural causes, I expect that to start changing.  My world we deal with suicide all the time.  These past five years have not been kind.  But, I have hope that the world will brighten for many.  Trans people are chronically under employed or unemployed.  Maybe there will be a change in how the U.S. deals with unemployment in this post manufacturing world. 
     
    With just about twenty-seven hours to go the anticipation of what stupid things the idiot and imbecile will do to finish off his political life is the question.  We know he got out his big Sharpie and has been scribbling something, but the few left at the WH are not telling us what.  We know the cable bill is paid for so the television is on but whether to Russia tv onnan or Russia tv fox or Russia tv ? it is tuned has to be the big one.  He is too stupid to enjoy life, so I am sure he is watching Russia tv.

  4. speaking of losing long time friends, has anyone heard how X-R and Flatus are doing?  craig, are you able to email either? if so, please let them know we’re thinking fondly of them & miss them. 

    be great to have all the trail together celebrating the big day tomorrow at high noon.

    that goes for solar, blonde wino, and a whole bunch more MIA

  5. 12news:

    Palm Beachers prepare for new neighbor Trump to move in Wednesday
    […]
    On Friday, the chief of police and town manager for the Town of Palm Beach sent a letter to the community about traffic patterns in the area when Trump comes into town.
    A press release from the Police Department said, “On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, we expect Secret Service to have a final road closure near Mar-a-Lago. The road closure will last several days for safety and security reasons. Beyond this, we do not foresee any future road closures related to the presence of a former President,” the statement went on to say.
    Traffic concerns aside, the president could be met with some resistance if he tries to move into Mar-a-Lago full time. 
    A 1993 agreement with the town of Palm Beach states club members cannot spend more than 21 days a year staying at the club and no more than seven consecutive days at a time. President Trump has bent his own rule in the past, but State Attorney Dave Aronberg tells CBS12 News that the Town of Palm Beach would have a “strong case” if they wanted to block the president from moving in.

    “His lawyer even testified before the town council to promise that Donald Trump would not be living at Mar-a-Lago,” Aronberg said. 

    There’s no telling how the town will react once Trump moves down, but Aronberg says if residents push back enough, he predicts that town officials might intervene. 
    “If they push back, there could be more of an enforcement of that agreement,” Aronberg said. 
    But to avoid a messy fight, Aronberg says a settlement is more likely. 
    “I think at the end of the day both parties will settle and they’ll enter into negotiation,” he said. “I don’t know what that will look like. But I think the prospect of years of litigation is probably not appealing to the Town of Palm Beach.”

  6. if you need a definitive answer on xr, patd, i can get to snooping, but i already poured liquor out for him, so if he isn’t dead, he owes me a shot of rye.
     
    Flatus said his eyes have problems with screens, plus, my irreverence annoyed him.  Sorry.

  7. bad news for palm bch but sounds good for NYC according to forbes:

    As Trump settles in Florida, Trump Tower in New York City will likely become more open. A New York Police Department official told CNN security measures around the 5th Avenue skyscraper will be loosened, though an NYPD spokesman confirmed they will still have a “robust presence” at Trump-affiliated buildings in the city.

  8. So a quick look at some of Joe’s priorities:
    Immigration:

    President-elect Joe Biden will roll out a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws the day he is inaugurated, including an eight-year pathway to citizenship for immigrants without legal status and an expansion of refugee admissions, along with an enforcement plan that deploys technology to patrol the border.

    Ethics:

    President-elect Joe Biden will ban his senior presidential appointees from accepting special bonuses akin to “golden parachutes” from former employers for joining the government, while putting in place other expanded revolving-door restrictions in his first days in office.
     

    The new ethics rules, which were described by transition officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the draft executive order is not public, will in some ways go beyond the guidelines for senior appointees that were put in place by the Trump and Obama administrations.
     

    The biggest shift is the new rule that will ban incoming officials from receiving compensation from their previous employer for taking a government job, a practice that has been a flash point for government reform advocates and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Under the Biden program, appointees would still be able to accelerate vesting for compensation they have already earned.

    Competence:

    President-elect Joe Biden has made his selections for his incoming Cabinet and top White House positions. Cabinet positions — with the exception of the vice president and White House chief of staff — will require Senate approval, which may face significant delays.
    [Tracking Biden’s progress filling nearly 800 key positions in government]
    Biden promised to be “a president for all Americans” and build a Cabinet that reflects the country’s diversity. If confirmed, his Cabinet will be more racially diverse than not only Trump’s Cabinet, but also Obama’s.
    Biden has faced criticism for installing women of color in mostly lower-level Cabinet positions while giving some of the most influential positions to White men with long Washington résumés. And for the first time in 20 years, there will no Asian American or Pacific Islander secretary, something lawmakers have expressed repeated concerns about, though Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, a daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, will be part of the Cabinet and first in the line of succession.
    While Biden’s Cabinet would include some appointees who have served in Republican administrations, it does not include a high-profile member of the opposite party or holdovers from the previous administration, as Trump and Obama’s Cabinets both did.
    And without links or quotes, He’s going to do what Trump did not with distribution of the vaccine and he is going to rescind Dumbass’ lifting of restrictions on air travel between the US and Europe – putting  the restrictions in place until it’s under control.  

    And grim milestone – at 399,008 deaths reported by Johns Hopkins tracking, we’ll hit 400,000 Covid deaths today.

  9. There is one pile of conspiracy crap going around that irritates the stuffings out of my dog’s squeeze toys.  The idea that Biden will resign in the first year or two to let Harris become president.  On the right it is because he has serious mental illness issues and can barely speak or think (like SFB is) on the left it is because he only ran and won so he could let Harris become the first female president.  I cannot come up with anything to say because both start with a premise, Joe will quit, and then fit the current wing meme on that. uck.

  10. This day can’t go by fast enough.  I too have had several friends leave this earthly plane this winter. I usually love winter…  but this year, I am waiting anxiously for spring.
     
    This blog has seen a lot of people come and go in it’s almost 16 years of being.  I think fondly of every one of them.

  11. One day, 1hour and 49 min.
    It is getting close enough I can calculate the end all on my lonesome. Don’t need a count down clock , calculator or pencil and paper. My head still works, mostly.
    Jack

  12. Pogo
    West Virginia is in the  news. Seem they are doing a superior job of getting people vaccinated. Why? It seems they are the only state that elected to run it inhouse and not let private industry (CVS, Walgreens) do it.
    Also, Senator Joe said might be open to a higher stimulus payment, then pivoted to 4 trillion for an infrastructure plan. If you and your neighbors have a pet construction project that needs done, might want to apply for fed money. Looks like Senator Joe is leveraging his new found power.
    Jack

  13. Jack, not from my perspective here on the ground.  WV has pushed the vaccination arrangements to the county health departments.  In some counties those orgs utilize local pharmacies, but here, the vaccination site is at the armory near our home.  I have tried for the past 3 business days to make an appointment for my 1st CV-19 vaccination dose and have gotten only the voicemail message, which does not allow us to leave a call back number or a message.  Literally just did that again and got the same response.   

  14. try “the” website, pogo.  i’m trying to get my elders signed up in another state and the whole process is online

  15. Bink
    Can you find xr. That would be great.  Craig has reached out but hasn’t had a response 

  16. Get ready for more “caravan” BS from Fox News. Their shows all covering a “new migrant caravan” from Central America, looping video, giving it “NEWS ALERT” treatment.

  17. Jack, update – got a person on the phone at the vaccine hotline – they don’t have any and aren’t making appointments.  They are establishing a wait list that I’m on now.  No idea when I’ll be scheduled.  Whatever excellence WV is supposedly evidencing , it ain’t around here.

  18. If President Biden wants to resign at some point making Kamala the new president I’m perfectly fine with it.   I figure he’s a big boy and is certainly free to do as he wishes, and Im certainly absolutely fine with VP  ‘Arris as president.   I do doubt he’s traveled this long and winding road just to give it up though.

  19. Bink, “the” website directs you to a phone number in your county. I can make an appointment for service on my car online, make appointment for my dog to get her Lyme’s disease shot online, can order groceries and schedule a pickup time on line, but in East Bumfuck, WV I can’t do a goddamn thing related to Covid vaccination online.

  20. They will need to partner with a business that understands logistics to roll this out before year’s end.  That is, once they ramp up production.   

    BB – A relative in California heard that about Biden, but the reason she was really fearful was that Harris would make Pelosi her VP “and then we’ll have socialism.”   GD Faux Noise!

  21. Pence is not expected to attend President Trump’s sendoff at Joint Air Force Base Andrews tomorrow morning, per White House officials. He is attending the inauguration later in the day, and aides say it would be logistically challenging for the vice president to do both.

  22. “The mob was fed lies,” Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government, which they did not like.”

  23. “it would be logistically challenging for the vice president”

    craig, it would be logically challenging too given the noose & gibbet event of 1/6

  24. Mitch is just trying to distance himself from the tyrant he propped up for 4 years.  Not buying what you’re selling, Yertle.

  25. 17 hours 50 minutes until our new mega Kroger opens.
    22 hours 50 minutes until our 4 years of hell closes.
    I’m excited about both.

  26. WSJ via msn:

    The White House hasn’t publicly announced Mr. Trump’s schedule for Wednesday. But the president is expected to fly from the White House to Joint Base Andrews on Marine One on Wednesday morning.
    At around 8 a.m., Mr. Trump is expected to participate in a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, according to an invitation to the event reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The invitation instructs guests to wear masks. It also says invitees can bring as many as five guests.
    More than 200 service members are expected to participate in Mr. Trump’s formal departure, which is expected to include a 21-gun salute, a color guard and other ceremonial units, U.S. officials said. Mr. Trump is likely to make remarks, officials said.
    But the exact program for the event is still in flux, officials said, adding that it was unclear how many people would attend.
    Following the event, Mr. Trump is expected to fly to his private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Trump’s presidency will conclude at 12:01 p.m. on Wednesday.

  27. mediaite:

    Vice President Mike Pence and numerous former employees of President Donald Trump’s White House are planning to skip his departure ceremony on Wednesday.

    Those officials include former Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, former Chief of Staff John Kelly, and former counsel Don McGahn. All three received invitations, according to a CNN report on Tuesday, and all declined….

    Republican leaders in Congress said Tuesday they planned to follow suit, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) telling reporters they planned to attend church with President-elect Joe Biden before his inauguration.

  28. He said the companies were acting in response to social media campaigns he claimed were being perpetrated by “leftist groups.”
    Lindell, Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s, Wayfair and H-E-B have been contacted for comment.
    Campaign group Sleeping Giants posted a tweet on Friday, asking WalmartAmazon, Bed Bath & Beyond and Lowe’s if they would continue to carry MyPillow products after the company’s CEO “called for the insurrection.”
    The tweet included a video of Lindell, reportedly filmed after Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol on January 6 following Trump exhorting them to “fight like hell” to overturn the election result.
    “This is the only time we have in history to beat these guys, to suppress the evil, and beat the evil,” Lindell says in the clip. “This is a fight for everything we’ve grown up with, everything we live for, everything this country stands for. The whole world is watching, and 100%, Donald Trump is going to be your president for the next four years.”

     
    https://www.newsweek.com/mypillow-products-no-longer-stocked-these-companies-1562510

  29. aaaaaaaahhhh….   poor trumpty dumpty…
    he never did get his military parade ala N. Korea style….   guess that’s why he doing a meaningless substitute for his departure.

  30. BiD

    Loved that parody,, but I immediately commented that he should have used another song from Rent and call it “The Tango Obscene”

     

  31. i’ve heard multiple times that loitering outside random vaccination centers might earn you a dose.  USA!  USA!  🇺🇸😭

  32. A rather large  turd enters the rotating device –

    President Trump helped provoke the swarms of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor.
    “The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people,” McConnell said.
    McConnell’s remarks came as he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hash out details on Trump’s impending impeachment trial.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/19/trump-provoked-capitol-riot-mitch-mcconnell-says.html

  33. dont know about his middle finger, but moscovite mitch is definitely not saying what crudz and hawgley want to hear right now.

  34. Harry Reid on CNN: “Maybe with all eyes pointed to McConnell, he won’t be the grim reaper he’s been in the past. But if that continues after whatever Biden thinks is a reasonable time, he may need to get rid of the filibuster.”

  35. Renee, you posted what I was thinking.  I wonder if he’s had a sash made for the occasion.  We know how he doesn’t like to put hats on that  … thing … on his head unless he’s playing golf, of course.

  36. Ha remember when mr and Mrs Dump went to the White House to meet the obamas after election in ‘16 and Dump just walked off and left the missus behind to get out and walk up by herself?   That was amazing.

  37. Impeachment-
    Claybern is right , let the bastard stew in his own juices till May.  A lot more evidence will have been gathered,  he will be up to his eyeballs in court battles. 
    His power is shrinking like the polar ice caps. 
    By May  he’ll still be a polar bear, but balancing on an ice cube with no teeth, and ingrown claws, 

  38. Trump’s and Melania’s childish and disgraceful treatment of the Bidens in this moment shows again why they didn’t deserve to be there in the first place. Good riddance!

  39. Hello Craig  ,  been thinking of you – hope you two are  ok.  It must be unnerving to be in dc  hope things improve shortly!  Xox

  40. The Arkansas  railroad  fight is about to go to the mattresses . Eagle county, and the town of Avon,  have formed a legal team to fight against running freight trains over the line.  This is the bedroom of Vail. 
    The entire line has had a lot of  homes built along the right of way  in the last 24 years.  They are not happy about tank cars running next to their white picket fences.  
    The rafting outfitters  have joined the fight . 
    Been blasting emails to the local governments, around Pete’s idea, with my propaganda broadside.
    Trying to offer a third way  forward, between the two sides. 
    Utterly interesting fight shaping up. 

  41. I have a question .  And here is my example –
     

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Wrote That Pelosi and Hillary Clinton Orchestrate School Shootings Like Parkland

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-pushed-parkland-false-flag-school-shooting-conspiracy-theory-on-facebook
     
    Why does Joe have to kiss these lunatics  fat asses ?  And tiptoe around them ? 
    I get the “healing trope” .  But we’re in a lifeboat  now.
    The US MAGA  has struck her berg , and gone down at sea.  Most of her surviving crew  are floating in the 40 degree water , and drinking it. 
     
    Joe Biden is now playing the role of Tyrone Power –
     
    Abandon Ship (1957) aka Seven Waves Away – Tyrone Power Commands This Lifeboat
     
     

     
     
     
     
     

  42. The TV ads for the pillow guy tick me off.  I think he’s gone into the sheet business, too, which is pretty on-brand for his klan.
    Is Tiff grifting the guy to bail out SFB and get some of Ivanker’s attention? 

  43. I think he’s gone into the sheet business, too, which is pretty on-brand for his klan.

    Buying cotton from Egypt, from Godless Muslims . 
    And having it spun into cloth God knows where.

     
     

  44. It’s  26 days to mid Feb.   Another 100,000 dead on the 14th . 
    So let’s take stock –
    500,000 dead  because of  incompetence , and a  failed 
    Beer Hall Putsch
     
    Without the benefit of beer. 
     
    That’s just great !
    The “Daddy Party”  has turned into  your pyscho nephew  cooking meth  in the basement of the  White House. 

  45. “Insider Attacks”  
    While each case is , very worrying .  When the total numbers are  taken into account , that oath to a piece of calfskin is holding up. 

  46. One of the pillars   the GOP myth  was wearing , ….  is that they are  “managers” , steely eyed  sober men who see the world as it is. 
    This myth lies dead on the steps of the Capital .  These boys and girls are not cut from Eisenhower’s cloth.
    Now they have become  “Viking Boy” , wearing coyote  pelts  , cheap Tandy horns , face paint, and a spear !
     
    That’s really going to bring in suburban white women voters. 
     

  47. I think fat ass is likely to pardon family members but not himself.  I think Rudeee might get a nod 

  48. Oh God how I wish I was  26 with a $130,000 dollars in student debt. 
    To re-brand the modern GOP.  To pull the fangs out of the viper. 
    The beauty of that idea , thay supplied all the tape. 

  49. Pundits  are talking about Trump’s re-branding. 
    Fools. 
    That was the modern GOP  attacking the  Congress , not a bunch of  old Trotskyites that have been hiding out in Mexico for the last 95 years. 
    They have been selling  this gruel   for 30 years. 
    Resentment, fear, outrage, ignorance,  hate, lies. 
     
    Why ? 
     
    Because it made a lot of money. 
    If you had bought flag futures in 2015   you would be rich.  Not Trump golf club money , but above coyote pelts , and  cheap Tandy cow horns. 
     
     

  50. Notice how no one in the big media has posed the question at hand. 
    How big will the GOP  explosion  be ?
    He should be nice  (Joe) to them , and brief. 
    The world has rolled over.  And he has more cards than we think. 
    The age of LeMay, and Goldwater is as dead as Buddy Holly. 

  51. Old man I’m not Old Sea, but tell Colorado Bob hello for me anyway.  Btw, your 6:10 comment is just…fucking…brilliant. 

    Btw, I minus 15 hours 58 minutes.

  52. Palar is being helped to come back up online by the fucking Russians. 
     
    Roll that marble around your head. 
     
    I am thinking about when the Germans sealed Lenin  in a box car , and shipped his ass back to Russia.  Along with God knows how much money. 
    It worked for them , Russia was knocked out of the war. 
    Every now and then , the “Right” of the world  finds it’s self sleeping with the Russians.  And getting them to pee all over what you believe. 

  53. … and your  7:16 – spot on.
    So Hawley (dumb fuck) is slowing down consideration of Joe’s DHS  pick. WTF is he thinking- that his bullshit on the 6th gives him gravitas? Mitch should strip him and Cruz of their committee assignments and let the Ethics Committee deal with their perfidy … beginning as soon as the mew Senators are sworn in. 

  54. payment for lawyer fees (if at all) will be in pardon currency 

    rudee doesn’t get a “get outta jail” card for free

  55. Pogo-
    All those mountains  in WV.  that have the tops chopped off.  Are  perfect places to  place wind farms.  
    I think Joe will give Joe  the money to  do that very thing.  And the support in your CC ‘s to train the workers. 
    And if he is really smart , he’ll do the same game plan in Wyoming. 
    Joe’s  new motto –

    I did not become president to turn the clock back 

  56. I had another  rather good idea  –
    Contact  all the golf courses in America  and ask them to plant butterfly plants in their planning, 

  57. “I was alive , and I waited waited   , I was alive , and I waited for this
    Right here right now there is no other place I’d want to be” .
     

     

  58. CB, we’ve got a reasonable crop of windmills here already – but they’re on the ridges in the Potomac and Tygart watershed ridges.  Getting those bases and blades to the top of the mountains in the Southern coal fields, which is the area you’re describing, would be a great trick without heavy lifting helicopters. The engineering of the assembly is way beyond my comprehension.

  59. CC 
    Please remove the endless loop  you have set up.  When I say too much. 
    I understand  your reasons  
     
     
     
    All my other windows won’t load., as well .
     

  60. Go, Scotland, go!  Salt that slug!  

    Maybe just re-name all roads leading to Ternberry, Biden Lane or Joe Blvd.

    Even better if they investigate his “unexplained wealth.”

  61. When you dry all your  polyester  garments ,  tiny little threads  are expelled into the dryer exhaust.  We are now finding xillions  of them in the Arctic. 

  62. Take a trip with a BIC .
    After 2 years  laying on the ground.  This spent lighter  has a  mission , to go down hill. And water is the messenger to carry all of it. 
    It may take 5 years.  But it gets there , to the ocean ,  it may have  fired  my life for one month , but it will kill a baby albatross  on Midway Island  after a 10 year trip. 
    Note the cheap lighter inact in the gut of this dead chick. 

  63. The real issue is solar   
    UV hitting plastic.  It shatters  the bounds , but it does not  decompose  Plastic , it just makes it all tiny. 
     
    When they say plastic is forever.  That is true.  50 years from now.  Tiny parts of plastic from a BIC lighter  will be eaten  by your grand children. 

  64. CC –
    If I post to much to fast , I am sent into an endless loop of never  loading .
    I am  OK with that , but this feature  freezes  all my other windows. 

  65. Go to sleep, folks.  When we wake up, it will be tomorrow!   Hope the media doesn’t really cover SFB departing DC.  Don’t give him a chance to lie even once more.  Maybe just one camera watching the chopper head off or a shot of the plane leaving, so we can all give him a one-finger salute.   Tomorrow belongs to Joe and Kamala. 

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