Bemused – according to ecowatch.com, a Russian tanker carrying liquefied gas recently made it through the North passage in 19 days, 6.5 of them actually spent breaking through the ice, at 14 knots an hour. It saved the company 30% in time normally spent going through the Suez canal. The ice was only 4 feet thick and the tanker, built to go through ice, had no need for an ice breaker to precede it. This is the first time a ship has made it through the thinning ice.

With a profit savings like that, is it any wonder that the climate deniers are so well funded and that corporate fascists in government are so hell bent on doing their bidding.

Well Stan, they weren’t traitors to the country who fought to preserve a slavery, for the wealthiest, most politically powerful Southerners, that existed for no other reasons then to keep the cheapest form of labor they had to they build and farm massive plantations.

All this rather than having their profits eaten into by paying poor white people to do the labor. A slavery that they wanted to take with them while moving into the Mid-west and West to expand their wealth built on evil.

A slavery based on the color of skin rather then the millenia old reasons of slaves being the spoils of a war victory. A slavery preserved by demonizing the victims of that slavery to the poor white people who were starting to grow bitter and resentful to the aristocratic class that excluded them.

A class that twisted and redirected those feelings towards the slaves themselves who by virtue of their skin color alone made them sub-human, unclean, stupid, lazy, and untrustworthy. Those reasons alone, wealthy white people with the help of the newly formed Southern Baptist church denomination, formed to uphold the conventions of slavery, pounded it into the heads of lesser whites, white trash as they were called behind their backs, were enough reasons to enslave the Black Africans.

The tired old argument that white Arabs caught and sold blacks is just that. Tired. The Arabs then would of caught anyone they could of made a profit off of, humans have always been a commodity that could be bought and sold. The Arab slavers were doing the bidding of the English plantation owners, who had discovered that white and Native American peoples couldn’t handle the heat and sun stroke and malaria that came with clearing, planting and farming in harsh sub-tropical conditions. The English sought to try a tropical people they assumed were better adapted.

So no Stan, you’re not going to find the outrage, except maybe among white suprematists/nationalists over Union war heroes statues. They helped end an evil that is still being visited on this country over 150 years later and may yet again still tear this country apart.

The Republican party has welcomed into their fold people from a region of the country who say they have changed their spots but are really still leopards underneath, if the way I overhear my Southern neighbors and co-workers talking about Blacks and now Hispanics, is of any consideration. The party has also welcomed and embraced the South’s predominate Southern Baptist religion, with all it’s built in ready made prejudices. It’s a party made in heaven. A party that can still pound away at White resentment, yell State Rights, gin up ©hristian victimization, and retain power while people happily vote against themselves as long as the perpetrators of their supposed misery don’t get anything either.

Fools.

“They don’t cover the amazing things this president has done.

Did I blink miss something???

In a comparison of big orange apes, Philo Beddoe’s sidekick Clyde (Every Which Way But Loose) would of made a better president than Donald. Cuter too.

Most people can fart with more eloquence then Komrade Trumpsky can speak.

EOF wrote: The most common of which was they’d rather die than take government health care.

As far as I’m concerned, to paraphrase E. Scrooge, then "they ought to get on with it and decrease the surplus population.

Hume was so taken with it, I’m surprised he didn’t stand up and call the whole Russia investigation a witch hunt.

He was just so taken with it that if he had stood up he coulda hosted a three ring circus in his pants.

Anita – I think reading big Baby Huey’s tweets is funny enough. Watching big Baby Huey stumble over forming complete sentences, look for his car, and pretend he’s entitled to play with the big boys in the hood while he tries to keep his big frilly bonnet from blowing off is priceless. I’m waiting for his diaper pin to pop and laugh when he falls flat on his duck bill MAGA hat with his diaper around his webbed feet.

Diane Stayton – Sorry to tell you this, but that kid’s mind is f**ked.

This restriction of the press is very very disturbing.

Before they died, my in-laws often related how Hitler and the Nazi party rose to power. My mother-in-law was in Hitler youth and my father-in-law fought in the German army.

The similarities between Hitler and Head full of Dippity Doo and his co-horts are chilling. (yeah, I’m old enough to remember Dippity Doo-from the 60’s)

Living on the Space Coast of Florida, I’ve also run into a lot of adult descendants of the Nazi rocket scientists living here that have also expressed concerns about the ascendancy of the right wing in this country.

This is all very troubling and I’m worried that all this will get out of hand if people don’t come to their senses and start to pull back from the brink. My father-in-law to his dying day thought that Hitler was a great leader despite the carnage and deaths of friends and family and my mother-in-laws forced walk through a death camp to view the remains of the ovens and mass graves. I truly believe that what Trump said is true. He could shoot someone and his supporters would not care. He’d still be a great leader in their eyes. Scary.

Claire – Kim might bow down so she’s level with Trump’s something, but it won’t be his ignorance.

…Goolsbee needled him: “You sound like my grandpa!“

Gee another old white guy watches Fox. What a surprise.

R Paris – Republicans are scared of clowns. Once we hit you in the face with that seltzer bottle of truth, your lies are all wet.

Now I know what the expression, ‘shit in your hat’ means.
If he stood on his head he’s suffocate.

Jan – the second day Bill’ll masturbate on air during a call in, the FCC will shut the whole show down, and we’ll never hear from either one of them again.

El 84 ‘Douche bag’ doesn’t take as long to type out.

Finally, ‘Fat Bastard’ has met his match. Twas Reaper killed the beast.
Sorry, but I don’t mind speaking ill of the dead if they really, truly deserve it, like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, my mother-in-law.
Remember in Ghost, when the two bad guys were killed and as their ghosts rose from their bodies, they turned around and found themselves horrified upon being dragged to down to hell by growling, snarling little demons?
I picture that look on Ailes face as he’s disappearing.
I know one thing, Charon’s gonna need a bigger boat if he thinks he’s going to float Ailes across the Styx.

Will the WH provide her knee pads or does she have to bring her own?

I would of liked a nostalgic vote for Huckleberry Hound Dog. My dad has been gone 20 years now and it sounds like something he’d say thinking he was being funny. I was thinking of him the other day because I saw a now very rare monarch butterfly flit past and he always said he’d come back as his favorite butterfly.

However, one person one vote, so…

My real vote goes to Carlson. Since I haven’t read or heard anything to the contrary, I believe Spain is still part of Europe. Spain stole Mexico and California, actually all of Central and most of South America, from the natives and interbred with them. Since CA has a large Hispanic population, it seems European descendants are still drawn to CA looking to make a decent living. And Carlson is still drawn to being a dick.

My invisible spirit thinks their invisible spirit is a pos and should stfu and myob. Or at least its followers should.

I saw this last night. I must confess I was hoping that Jon Stewart would of popped out of the cabin door, joining Colbert with them both gifting us with some kind of deliriously happy, hallelujah singing, happy feet dancing, arms a flapping routine.
I know that Stewart had wanted to retire because of family and, he said, he just couldn’t endure one more presidential campaign.
But after watching his few appearances on The Late Show since Colbert took over, I get the feeling he would of loved to have stayed on at the Daily Show another year if only anyone could of foreseen Diddle Diddle Dumpling in the White House.