Daily Gnuz

Wednezday, Humpf Day, and Here’z the Gnuz!

Senate GOP Hold-Outs Moving To ‘Yes’ On Tax Bill After Promises From Trump, Leadership
H/T TPM
Here we go, down the primrose lane…with thorns for the 99% and gilded lillies for the 1%

And,
North Korea’s latest missile test went more than 10 times higher than the space station
H/T Vox
Looks like they are almost nuclear capable…Scary sheiss considering the two leades are 40 years apart chronologically, but are mirror images of themselves egotistically and emotionally.
Trump retorts… “I will only tell you, we will take care of it”. Hopefully he will do something more productive than shatting himself.
Finally,

Trump Says He’ll Blame Democrats If The Government Shuts Down
H/T C&L
It doesn’t matter what the Prezidunce calls it, or who he blames for it. The Republicans control the government, and they will own it. All the way to November 2018.

Open Thread, Glad hand it, then put it back on the shelf!

RUCerious @TPZoo

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It be Tuesday, and herein be the gnuzes

A conservative group tried to plant a fake Roy Moore allegation in the Washington Post. It failed.
A woman said Moore got her pregnant at 15. Her story unraveled under scrutiny.
H/T Vox
James O’Keefe faceplants with another malicious attempt to undermine the free press

And

We Are Living in Perilous Times—And Yet There Is a Promising Movement Afoot
Citizens are not sitting idly watching our democracy go under.
H/T Alternet
A glimmer of hope yet shines…Resist!

Finally,

The Memo: GOP Fears Trump Turmoil During Tax Push
H/T The Hill
And well they should fear Turmoil. Isn’t that Donald’s middle name? All the insults, slanders, slights and arrogance come home to roost, as McCain, Flake, and others sink this effort.

Open Thread, if you must kick ass, please be nice to the donkeys.
RUCerious @ TPZoo

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Mundane Munday, and herein be the Gnuz…

States preparing for children’s health insurance program to run out of funding: report
H/T The Hill
Salient quote: Nearly a dozen states are readying for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides insurance to low-income children, to run out of funding, according to a report from The Washington Post.
Five states are at risk of running out of funding for their individual programs by late December, according to the report. Other states reportedly have enough money to keep their programs afloat for a few more months at least.

Tax cuts for the rich, lumps of effing coal for the children. Republican’ts

And,

Congress stares down shutdown amid December deluge
H/T Politico
Lessee, Tax reform, gummint shutdown over budget, CHIP, DACA, Hurricanes, all in a septic stew of sexual abuse and groping allegations, a special pervert election in Alabama, Corker, Flake, Johnson, McCain, Collins not happy, what could possibly go awry>?

Finally,
‘Some actions can’t be forgiven’: Strategist says GOP will pay dearly for supporting Roy Moore
H/T Raw Story
Salient quote: Republican strategist Rick Wilson published a blistering essay at The Daily Beast on Sunday in which he said the GOP is committing an unforgivable sin by supporting “child-molesting, law-breaking, edge-case whackjob” Roy Moore.
Moore, he said, “will stain the Senate and the Republican party with his creepy sexual predilections, his contempt for the rule of law, his thinly-veiled racial animus, and his role in the firmament of Bannonite political arsonists.”

Just another day in wingnuttia, as the sexual predator prezidunce gives the sexual predator candidate a lift. How low will the Alabama electorate go, that is the question.

Open Thread, chew thoroughly then take a cleansing breathe.

RUCerious @TPZoo

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For Sunday, from the Pacific Northwest, where the liquid sunshine will pour from the skies today. Stay warm and dry folks!

How to future-proof the West’s economies
H/T The Politico Cabinet
An interesting take, worth reading. I disagree with some of the positions taken, but in general it is food for thought. Ergo, Trumpistas need not apply their meager intellects.

And,
CNN fires back at Trump: It’s your job to represent the US to the world
H/T The Hill
Once again, the prezidunce flunks the basic exam question, ‘whose job is it to represent this country to the world’. A great big effing “F”.

Finally,
Time On Trump’s ‘Person Of The Year’ Claim: ‘The President Is Incorrect’
H/T TPM
Prezidunce Tweeters:
Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!
The Preziduncial Ego runneth AMOK.

Open Thread, chew on it then spit it out!

RUCerious @TPZoo

The Sechny-Schneider Thanksgiving, 2017

Some scenes from our Thanksgiving, courtesy of friend and prolific photographer Lisa Nagy Isaacson:

Some of the food:
While we mostly drank champagne/mimosas, we also test-tasted this not-at-all-bad “Covfefe” wine Our niece Emily with Wayne’s sister Judy.My brother Bobby with one of his oldest friends from the neighborhood, Saul Isaacson.Mike and Emily, slaving away in the kitchen.

Mike and his mother, Mary.

Saul and Judy perusing, as far as I recall, DIckens.

Saul and his wife (and now our family photo archivist, as I told her) Lisa.

Wayne and I melting into the couch.  Those plush ‘drumsticks’ you see in the foreground were actually Thanksgiving-themed ‘party’ headgear, which we were forced to wear for a photograph later, and which I will NOT post here (or anywhere else!)

Several (many many) Mimosas later, after some wonderful NY cheesecake over which some of us drizzled a maple/cream/pecan sauce, Wayne and I headed home to our hungry kitties.  It was an enjoyable visit that, now that we’ve gotten more used to the newer ‘family and friends’ dynamics, we’re looking forward to more and more each holiday.

I hope that all of our Zoo family and friends enjoyed just as comfortable – and tasty! – Thanksgiving.

Daily Gnuz

It’s Friday, and there’z nothing Black about it… Here’z the Gnuz!

Why a leading political theorist thinks civilization is overrated
H/T Vox
An interesting take on the origins of civilization and our assumptions about it.

And,
‘Bread and circuses’ could strike down America like it did in Rome
H/T The Hill
Parallels about how poorly served constituents can be placated by reality tv, empty promises and slogans…quite a few examples of the symptoms

Finally,
Flynn Lawyers Break Off Contact with Trump Team In Possible Sign of Plea Deal
H/T TPM
As the wheel turns, the noose closes tighter and tighter…

Open Thread, enjoy it with your morning coffee/tea/beverage!

RUCerious @TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

Thurzday, Thangzgizzing Day 2017 and here’z the gnuz

Daily Gnuz for

Trump Organization Reaches Deal To Walk Away From SoHo Property
H/T TPM
Salient Paragraph(s)
The project was troubled from the beginning. The SoHo development was also the subject of complaints from private investors who accused the Bayrock Group, a frequent Trump partner, of failing to disclose fraud convictions of two Bayrock partners.
The New York Times reported that the development also took “financing from questionable sources in Russia and Kazakhstan.”
Buyers in the development were angry that the Trumps allegedly inflated claims of the project’s success, and the Trump Organization ultimately settled a civil suit in 2011, admitting no wrongdoing and agreeing to refund much of buyers’ deposits.

ProPublica, WNYC and The New Yorker reported in October that the Manhattan district attorney’s Major Economic Crimes Bureau had opened an investigation into Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., the President’s eldest children, in 2010.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr’s team reportedly acquired emails in which the Trump siblings discussed how to coordinate misleading information to give to people interested in condo units.
Marc Kasowitz, one of Trump’s longtime personal attorneys, donated $25,000 to Vance Jr.’s reelection campaign in 2012. According to the report, Vance Jr. returned the donation. He dropped the case against the elder Trump children several months later, and Kasowitz reportedly helped raise an additional $50,000 for his campaign.

If Rotten fruit falls to the pavement in Manhatten, is there fraud in the mess?

And

The theory behind Trump’s tax cuts is exactly what gave us the failed Bush economy
An influx of foreign hot money isn’t what we need.
H/T Vox
This isn’t about what we need. This is about unbridled greed and avarice. It’s the gold, stupid!

Finally,

37 of 38 economists said the GOP tax plans would grow the debt. The 38th misread the question.
H/T WaPo
Whatever happened to “Mortgaging our children’s Future”? Oh, right, that was when Democrats were asking for a safety net…

Open Thread, stuff your TurDuckEn with it..
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

It’s Monday, and here’z the Gnuz.

What Uwe Reinhardt taught me about health care
HT Vox
It’s the prices, stupid! Or, it’s the Stupid Prices!!

And

Dems eager to use tax bill against GOP in ’18
HT The Hill
Label it ‘The Rich Get RICHER bill, and hammer it every day, each week, until the election.

Finally,
The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow
HT Politico Magazine
This is a very good read. Highly recommended. Read the entire article. The last sentence is a doozy.

Open Thread, sew something good today.
RUCerious @ TPZoo

What he said…

It’s has been almost forever since I posted something. 😏  Forgive me if I mess this thing up.

This is going to be short and to the point.  It’s time for the media to move past Senator Franken.  There is no comparison between Franken’s poor behavior and the sexual assault of teenagers by Roy Moore.

I agree with Bill Maher when he stated that we can’t be more offended than the victim.

Don the Con’s victims are STILL waiting for an apology and for their day in court.

Music Night: Don’t hold back

Such a sexy song…

Daily Gnuz

Here’z the gnuz for Friggaday the XVIIth of No-vember (who wants any vembers anyway)

Fox News poll: Jones beating Moore by 8 points
H/T The Hill
I guess it’s possible that the people of Alabama might elect a democrat and reject a lifelong pervert, but I’m not holding my breath and turning purple.

And

There is 210,000 gallons of oil leaking out of the Keystone Pipeline over South Dakota land
H/T Raw Story
Congratulations, Trumpians, your leader allowed this to go through, and South Dakota gets to deal with it. Nebraska, are you watching this?

Finally,

Report: Trump’s Panama Resort Took Money From FARC Money Launderer
H/T TPM
The grifter-in-chief strikes again. RICO please.

Open Thread, you made it through the week, have a fun weekend!
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

It’s Thurzdaze and here’z the Gnuz…

Senate Confirms Former Mine Executive To Be In Charge Of Mine Safety
H/T HuffPo
Dear Coal Miners, please don’t die on the job. Thank You. Oh, and btw, the cost of cleaning up your carcass will be equal to your last paycheck.

And

The first official Republican “no” on the Senate tax plan is Ron Johnson
H/T Vox
Will McCain, Murkowski, Corker, Flake or Collins join in and shitcan this giveaway to the richest 1%??

Finally,

Trump to allow imports of African elephant trophies
H/T The Hill
Let’s see what the Dept of Fish and Game says…
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said it has determined that hunting African elephants in Zimbabwe and Zambio ‘will enhance the survival of the species in the wild,’ which is the standard by which officials judge wheter to allow imports of parts – known as trophies – of the animals”
Holy F**k. Kill them to save them. It must still be 1984.

Open Thread, get a firm grip, and resist.
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

Welcome to Wednezday the median day in the workweek.
Here’z the Gnuz

Trump’s Trip To Asia Is Great If You Like To See U.S. Weak
H/T C&L
Make Amerika Grate (shred us like a sharp loaf of cheddar)…

And

Trump caught tweeting about the wrong mass shooting
H/T Raw Story
Fumbduck Prezidunce obviously keeping a library of insta-tweets to choose from. Sad!

Finally,

GOP targets health mandate in tax reform
H/T The Hill
They need to carve out more money to get this mess fillibuster proof. Only fifteen million or so will stop buying insurance, so that’s OK by them…Amerika the fumbduckable.

Open Thread, enjoy one byte at a thyme
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

A lovely stormy Toozday morning to ya, and here’s the Gnuz…

Sessions raises specter of special counsel on Clinton and uranium
H/T Politico
As the USA governmental apparatus rushes headlong into autocracy and dictatorship, taking lessons from Stalin, Hitler, Duterte and others…Fascista

And

Pence Denies Knowledge Of Dotard (sic) Trump Jr. Contacts with Wikileaks
H/T TPM
Ship, Sinking, Rats…

Finally,

GOP mobilizes against Moore
H/T The Hill
Amazing that some R’s are getting a conscience!.. Wait, that’s not what’s happening, it’s just another Todd Akin moment, they’re pants are on fire…

Open Thread, stay strong, but use deodorant…
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

Another Monday and here’z the Gnuz…

‘They Want to Know If Trump’s Crazy’ – Inside the secret back-channel North Korea talks
H/T Politico
And the answer is a blatant, obvious YES, affirmative, you got it. Any other questions?

And

The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
H/T Alternet
Follow the money…

Finally,

Ivanka says she’s pushing tax reform so every family can enjoy a Mandarin Chinese tutor like her kids have
H/T Raw Story
Clucking Fooless…

Open Thread, survive the week, the month, the next three years…
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Ain’t Nature Grand?

Amazing what about a dozen wolves can do.

This is truly incredible.

pic.twitter.com/221RFxHOI7

— Life on Earth (@planetepics) November 12, 2017

Feel free to discuss whatever tickles your fancy. Posting pics of your fancy is not required, and might even be illegal.

Music Night: We are the 99%

This country is resembling a clusterfuck every single damn day:

“Wall Street’s doing great!!”  Yay, we rich people are still doing well.

“ObamaCare, MediCaid, MediCare, Section 8, food stamps, heat assistance, etc., are socialist programs and the most horrible things that ever happened on the planet!”  Seriously, I worked hard for my trust fund/inheritance, and only took a piddly million dollar loan from my dad once or twice.  You losers need to get jobs.

I could go on, but you get the picture.  WHAT. ABOUT. US?

Daily Gnudze

For Thurzdaze, Octobris the Novem

GOP faces wrenching call: Running with or away from Trump
H/T Politico
Damned if they do and double-dog-damned if they due.

And

‘Never coming on this show again’: Fox guest leaves in disgust after host rejects standard arithmetic
H/T Raw Story
My question would be, ‘Why the f**k were you on Faux Snooze in the first gawdamned place?

Finally,

China Lavishes Red-Carpet Treatment On Trump As He Arrives For Talks With Xi Jinping
H/T NPR
Xi Jinping knows that where the Prezidunce is concerned, flattery will get you whatever the hell you want.
Notice picture of dummy sitting there looking ever so much like a, well…dummy
And the First Rich Lady looks absolutely bored out of her skull.

Open Thread, take it or leave it or do something valuable with it.

RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

For Wednezday, Octobius the Octh

Daily Gnuz for

Dems win from coast to coast
H/T The Hill
Feels good to see the nation start the long road back to sanity.
Quote about my great state of Washington:
In Washington, Democrat Manka Dhingra (D) appeared headed for victory in a special election to fill an open state Senate seat. Dhingra’s win, in a formerly Republican district, would give Democrats control of all levers of government in the Evergreen State

And

Charges dropped against woman who laughed at Trump nominee Sessions
H/T Raw Story
Here’s some more dadblamed good gnuz!

Finally,

Virginia elects Danica Roem, the first openly transgender state legislator
H/T Vox
The trifecta of good gnuz for this Wednezday

Open Thread, take it or leave it or do something gross with it.

RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

Did Carter Page just confirm some key details from the Steele dossier?
H/T Raw Story
And it just keeps getting better and better and betterer…

And

Trump: ‘Hundreds more’ would have been killed in Texas with stricter gun laws
H/T Yes, Mr. Prezidunce. If every single churchgoer had been locked and loaded with their own AR-556, especially with tracers, no one would have been injured in the crossfire, and the baddy guy would have been smoked before he had a chance to fire a single round.
The man is insane.

Finally,

Despite Trump Campaign Promise, Billionaires’ Tax Loophole Survives
H/T C&L
Of course it does. This is by the rich, of the rich and for the rich. Others need not apply.

Open Thread, have a nice Toozday
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

Morinin, Zoo. Thank You Zooey for a wonderful Music Night last Friday eve!!

And now, back to reality with the Daily Gnuz

Lax Texas Gun Laws, the NRA and Another Horrendous Deadly Mass Shooting
H/T Alternet
Yes, gun rights are more important than human rights. At least in Texas…

And

The Republican tax plan’s original sin. A giant, unpopular, unworkable business tax cut.
H/T Vox
I must relucantly admit, that a small, mean part of me wants the R’s to steamroll this through. By 2020 America will be on its knees as more and more services are dismantled. Then we may get another 40 year run of Republican minority representation.

Finally,

Russia Puts the Squeeze on Don Jr.
H/T TPM
This is also known as C O L L U S I O N.

Open Thread, enjoy A moronic Monday
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Music Night: Post ’em if you got ’em

It’s my birfday, dammit!!  And you guys playing your favorite songs makes me happy, so get on with it!  🙂

Daily (Almost) Gnuz

It’s Friday! Or, perhaps fry day. I hear some Taco joint is going to start selling fried potatoes to keep up with the other greasy taco joint. Cardiologists everywhere freak out…
Anyhoo, here’z the gnuz

Daily Gnuz for

Donna Brazile’s bombshell about the DNC and Hillary Clinton, explained
H/T Vox
And some folks wonder why the Berniers were pissed, and rightly so. The Clintonistas rigged the nomination. Surprise surprise.

And

Winners and losers in the GOP tax plan

H/T WaPo
Blue States, (Some) small-business owners, lower and middle class, regular folks = losers,
Big corporations, The super-rich, People paying the AMT, “Pass through” companies = winners
No real surprises… Income distribution favoring the uppers

Finally,

BREAKING: Jeff Sessions Suddenly ‘Remembers’ Rejecting Plan For Trump To Meet With Putin
H/T C&L
Convenient recovery of the missing ‘memory’. Oh, yeah, that coffee boy. What Meeting?

Open Thread, take it or leave it or do something gross with it.

RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

Welcome to Thurzday, here’z the Gnuz…

Trump: repeal the individual mandate in tax reform. Top Republicans: oh no, please no.
H/T Vox
Open Mouth, spew chaos, rinse with acid, repeat.

And

House GOP waffles on Trump’s promised permanent cut in corporate tax rate
H/T The Hill
House turns into IHOP. Waffles for Thursday breakfast. Idiots Hanging On Prezidunce

Finally,

Don’t buy the latest spin. The GOP tax plan is still a huge giveaway to the rich
H/T Greg Sargent – Plum Line via WaPo
Wait till they announce the brackets today…Holey Hades breaks out as every negatively affected interest group that’s donated shitload of moolah to the political cesspool demands that everybody but them gets screwed.

Open Thread, enjoy your Thurzday
RUCerious @ TPZoo

Daily Gnuz

Welcome to Wednezday, here’z the Gnuz…

House GOP struggles to unite on tax bill
H/T Politico
Struggle, trouble, toil and bubble…Perhaps the morrow will bring some clarity to the proposed Screwing of America to give the rich the tax break they so richly undeserve

And

Trump After NYC Attack : We Must ‘Step Up’ Our ‘Extreme Vetting Program’
H/T TPM
If only the American electorate had stepped up their extreme vetting of the presidential candidates…hmm.

Finally,

Psychology study finds Trump stands out as a ‘low analytic’ thinker
H/T Raw Story
Hoodathunk that the prezidunce is a thinker at all, let alone an analytic thinker at any level.
An anal thinker, perhaps, but without the ytics..

Open Thread, enjoy your Wednesday
RUCerious @ TPZoo