News you can use

Okay. Buzzfeed just came out with a lovely piece about yet another  Another current or former Trump advisor with a relationship with Russia  . And yes, Buzzfeed, purveyors of  dopy quizzes about what  your lunch "really means" and how your love of 80s sitcoms foretells how many kids you will have,  more and more often brings you kill peices on the Trump administration. They are not dealers in fake news.

Carter Page isn't on this graph, but he would belong under the nebulous "Trump Campaign". The graph, which I wish was easier to read, but I found several online and none of them are easy to read, I suspect because there are so many names on them, this graph is from last week and is not entirely up to date.

Earlier Monday came the news  that Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education's,  brother, Eric Prince of Black Water Fame was doing some back channel footsy with the Russians for Trump . In One Day  we learned all these things about the Trump administration friends and family plan and the Russians.

I don't have the knowledge or political science background to explain any of it to you. It confuses me and leaves me feeling dizzy. I do however suggest that you follow @20committee on Twitter immediately because he  does have the knowledge and the polisi background to explain all of this. He does speak in acronyms and spy jargon you will spend a lot of time on Google but it will make you feel much more worldly, for example: IC means "Intelligence Community". Go here , and read John R. Roberts collected work at http://observer.com , forewarned is forearmed, said mag is owned by Jared Kushner. Roberts is a safe bet however and he is strongly in the Never Trump camp of conservative Country Before Party writers that even a good lefty can read and learn from.

And then it was Friday.

Carter Page said on MSNBC that he met with Kislyak in Cleveland prior to election.

Sergie Kislyaks classified job title is Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the USA & SVR Liaison to the Trump Campaign and White House

Multiple sources report Jared Kushner along with Flynn met with Kislyak in Trump tower during the transition.

A current list via Robert Reich and multiple other sources, of who has been caught committing treason so far.

1. Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager. Forced out.

2. Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer;

3. Roger Stone, a longtime political associate;

4. Carter Page, an oil-industry consultant who acted as one of his foreign-policy advisers;

5. Michael Flynn, Trump campaign advisor and, briefly, national security advisor. Forced out.

6. Jeff Sessions, Trump campaign advisor and now attorney general;

7. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and top White House aide

8.J.D. Gordon - National Security Advisor Trump Campaign, rewrote RNC platform to be more Russia Friendly.

January 20, 2017. The end of life as we know it.

It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I ( don't) Feel Fine),  from REM

That's great! It starts with an earthquake,
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane.
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn.
World serves its own needs, dummy, serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no strength.
The ladder starts to clatter with fear fight, down, height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games
In a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry
With the furies breathing down your neck
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed,
Dummy, with the rapture and the rev-'rent and the right, right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I (don't) feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour.
Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return.
Listen to yourself churn.
Locking in uniforming, book burning, bloodletting.
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a motive.
Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed.
Uh oh, this means no fear, cavalier.
Renegade steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament,
A tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
I feel fine
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
The other night I dreamt of knives.
Continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line.
Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev,
Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (It's time I had some time alone)

Or if you are from a different generation,  from Bob Dylan

Come gather around people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
And if your breath to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changing

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no telling who that it's naming
For the loser now will be later to win
Cause the times they are a-changing

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's the battle outside raging
It'll soon…

Democrats in non-action

I went to a Moveon meeting of like minded progressive in Garner.  Gawd, what an awful place! But even with the awfulness, the library was still much, much nicer than the library in my neighborhood. It seems to help if the poor people over utilizing your library  are poor white people.

Anyway. I was the youngest person there. It was mostly affluent pink diaper babies with a smattering of  recently pissed off independents who were there to be angry about the union busting in the Midwest. We didn't talk about that much. Pity.

Instead we spoke of all we had in common with our Tea Party brothers! How the best way to win elections to to point out how the Democrats are nice people who the electorate should vote for because we're nice! Lets all hold hands and sing kum by ya while we talk about how much we have in common with the Republicans! Yay!

Bull Shit.

I mentioned that the only thing we had in common with the Tea Baggers is that we are bipeds - and got soundly voted down. They  want to get away from the "We're smart  people and they're dumb people" meme, they all said they feel uncomfortable with saying mean things about Tea Baggers. I think that if they feel comfortable putting our candidates in sombreros that we should feel comfortable putting their candidates in hoods. I said we should use fear as a motivator,  oh, they said "Fear is bad! Fear is so mean We don't want to scare people into voting for us!

 They didn't want to lower ourselves to their level, which is patent nonsense! The other guys won! They aren't lower than us, they are above us! If we want them to stay there we should just do what we do. We can continue to let them win because we don't want to be mean and we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and we can then keep whining and  polishing our good citizenship medals.

 We can hold hands and sing  kum by ya and  go to meetings where we whine about how unfair it all is. We're nice and yet people don't like us! Its not fair!  We need to educate the electorate about how nice we are.We need to make documentaries about our niceness! We need to write books about our niceness! And then invite them to go see them or we can lend them our copies! The other guys use a few words and simple images and are old meanies and they get elected. Its not fair! The other guys put our guys in sombreros. One of us got elected and in running the country while the other is whining about our feelings being hurt. Super. I wouldn't vote for a bunch of whinny, mopey, film makers either.

 We started out as a bunch of pussy, Democrats - totally  useless and then the guy with the camera showed up. Suddenly we're a dangerous mob of agitators! What we said and did  suddenly meant something! We got scared and suddenly we were important, not just a bunch of pussy Democrats with kum by ya as our ring tones.

He came to make us scared and ashamed to say what we were thinking. He came to do what the Rethuglicans always do, make us afraid to be Democrats, make us feel fearful and shamed.  He said he had a web site and he wanted to record it for his site. 

In the Name and Shame school that scum bags like him pioneered, He came form NC Renegade dot com, a libertarian, teabag friendly site. He came with his camera to scare us and make us afraid Oh, no other people might find out we're Democrats!. The Rethuglican party in action, he has a site, I have a site and facebook and twitter. I'm not posting his name because those people live for that and I won't give him the satisfaction. He came and we still spoke and spoke louder and more passionately than before he showed up. kum by ya ringtones got updated to The Marseille.

 Okay Kids, lets play Name the Party!

Here are your hints:

1. A  freshman lawmaker who suggested the mentally disabled should be shipped to Siberia.
2. He said he was kidding around with a female caller who supported funding for the homeless when he raised the issue of eugenics and the world's population growth.

Hint -  He resigned Monday from the state House and said he was sorry that his "big mouth caused this furor."  Not that he was sorry he said the handicapped should sent to Siberia, but that he got caught saying they should be sent to Siberia. Answer - If you had  The GOP you are right! Our Eugenicist is Rep. Martin Harty, a Republican from new Hampshire! A freshman lawmaker at 91 years of age. Tea Party City.

ON the Government not run amok, Last night post-shower, I noticed that the water was brown and more than a bit textured . I will admit that I did spend a lot of the weekend outside, even spent some time laying on my back in a field of clover. Hmmmm. Lovely, yes, dirty, debatable, that dirty, absolutely not.

Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, you know the party of "small government", well. Look what happens when you put them in control Take Over Law - There is nothing that says "small government" like taking over towns,  abolishing communities and putting your minions in charge of the towns you don't dissolve, without benefit of an election, crafty move, you can't recall what you never called for in the first place.. Again, the GOP.. I hate that I'll be there this summer and will spend money. On the upside, I'm in a union friendly city that will not be amused by all this.

On the Government not run amok, Last night post-shower, I noticed that the water was brownish orange and more than a bit textured . I will admit that I did spend a lot of the weekend outside, even spent some time laying on my back in a field of clover. Hmmmm. Lovely, yes, dirty, debatable, that dirty, absolutely not. I was concerned. I have to admit, I had noticed that the water upstairs as had a bit of a tint to it but I had chalked that up to bad lighting and that frankly, I didn't think that it was that big a deal.

When I realized I was standing in muddy water, it became a big deal. So I called the city water and sewer and mentioned that my water was yucky. And they jumped. I came home to a door hanger saying they had flushed the system in my area. I ran the water in the bathtub, hot and cold, they are different and you do have to test both, and it was brown, dark brown. I was sad - until I let it run some more and it ran clear. I then tried to shower and it was also tan until it ran clear. Tada! I called the city and they fixed it! Who knew?

Of course, I did find the door hanger notifying me of all this in the shrubs, but they did come by. Democrats, by the way.

Fox News scammed ignorant people.

Fox spent weeks promoting apparent tea party scam


December 31, 2009 4:00 pm ET by Matt Gertz

TPM Media's Zachary Roth reported earlier in the week that the political action committee that organized the Tea Party Express -- Our Country Deserves Better PAC -- funneled almost two-thirds of its spending from July to November back to the political consulting firm from which it was spawned, Russo, Marsh, and Associates. More than $850,000 of the money the supposedly grassroots PAC collected went to the firm of GOP political operatives who ran it.

Census Worker Lynched

Sparkman was found this month hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

census worker lynched?

Whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment? They are comfortable with "whether"?. He was hung from a tree and they wrote "fed" on his chest. I don't think "whether" is appropriate. He was lynched because he was from the government. And "they" called us unpatriotic. HA.

An ACORN office, one! Gets railroaded and liberals everywhere are whore mongers. The rightwing KILLS PEOPLE and nothing. Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin and FAUX News made this happen.

Shots fired at  Washington Holocaust Museum

Sources: Shooter is a white supremest