
Life Hack #42

Jim Flanigan Looks at the World
Turning the Mundane into Fundane Since 2015

This morning, the blithering and blathering idiots hosting Fox & Friends asked UN Ambassador Nikki Haley to comment on their Fox story reporting that spy satellites detected that North Korea is moving more missiles in place for testing. That sounds like pretty sensitive stuff. To her credit, Nikki Haley responded this way …
Although I love music, these are not Tom Petty thoughts. I wish. I’m afraid they are more Trump petty thoughts. Am I petty to be thrilled at the forecast today in Bedminster, NJ where Trump is vacationing?




Yesterday, Donald Trump signed the first major piece of legislation passed in his first 6+ months in office. No, not healthcare. No, not infrastructure. No, not tax reform.

I want to thank Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci for his profanity-laced 11 days of service to this great nation.




Wake up! Do not be lulled into accepting as normal what is going on in Washington, DC. We have gone from an Obama nation to an abomination. Reject what we are being fed as the new normal. It is not. Here is just some of what is being forced upon us as normal that is not.
I watch the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. I like her style. She doesn’t curse. She uses documented facts. She cites sources. She allows viewers to draw their own conclusions. She is very smart and often uses words I have heard before, but may be just a bit hazy on the definition. Tonight she used a word I had never heard before. Never. Tonight she used the word “vituperative.” It is a real word. Look it up. I am glad that I am on Rachel Maddow’s side. Rachel Maddow is very, very smart.


When Trump was speaking to the Boy Scouts, Trump seemed way too comfortable to me while making a fiery political speech to a crowd of brown-shirted people.
I find it interesting that Trump continually rails against White House “leakers,” but in one of his first TV interviews on Sunday, Trump’s new Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci revealed that Trump himself was the “anonymous” source for one of the leaks Scaramucci was quoting.
Only Donald Trump can make POS Attorney General Jeff Sessions appear to be a pitiable character.