Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, dismissed revelations that he briefed Donald Trump on new intelligence information regarding the Russian surveillance investigation before the information was even provided to his own intelligence committee. When confronted by our crack investigative team, Nunes clarified his position for us. “Look, this is no big deal. I play no favorites. When I get some new intelligence about Trump, I tell Trump. When I get some new intelligence about Putin, I tell Putin.”
I swear I was NOT watching Fox & Friends this morning purposely. I didn’t even realize it was on one of the televisions in the workout room in the hotel where I was staying. I was already into my treadmill run when I noticed it was on. When I run, I am barely able to continuously put one foot in front of the other. There was absolutely no way that I would be able to pause the treadmill, get off the treadmill, change the channel, get back on the treadmill, start the treadmill, and continue running. That was just not going to happen. Somewhere between pausing the treadmill and getting back on, I would end up sitting on the weight bench eating a candy bar, despite not even having a candy bar in my possession. So I plodded on while the blithering idiots on Fox & Friends blathered on.
They were discussing ancestry and exploring one’s heritage through DNA analysis. When thinking of the Fox & Friends hosts’ ancestry, this image flashed through my mind …
It appears that Meals on Wheels and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting may survive the new Trump budget plan, although in a new form. Both were originally identified as programs to have federal funding completely eliminated. Due to some creative thinking by leaders in both programs, it looks like they will merge and receive funding for the new …
Today Donald Trump clarified his claim of being “wiretapped” by President Obama by expanding the definition of wiretapping to include Obama watching Trump on The Apprentice.
Donald Trump should be thanking rather than verbally spanking Senate Democrats. Several of Trump’s confirmed Cabinet members actually have lower IQ’s than the empty Cabinet seats they filled. By delaying confirmation of the remaining Trump Cabinet nominees, Senate Democrats may be helping keep the average IQ of Trump’s Cabinet higher than if all seats were filled. Betsy DeVos, the only Cabinet member with an IQ in negative double digits, was available for comment, but unable to utter an intelligible sentence.
Rex Tillerson has been very quiet since being sworn in as Secretary of State. Sure, he gave an initial speech to State Department employees before getting rid of all of them. Since then, he’s been very, very quiet. There have been photo ops with Tillerson meeting and shaking hands with foreign visitors and dignitaries, but no Q & A. There have been no Rex Tillerson press conferences. And now we know why …
Now how the heck am I going to enjoy International Women’s Day without women around?
I did encourage my wife to wear red today. She didn’t, mainly because she was already dressed for work.
I did encourage my wife to take a day off. She didn’t, mainly because the school that our youngest child attends would close if all the women working there took a day off, and she believes in getting our daughter all the education she can get before the DeVos Effect takes hold.
I encouraged her to spend money today, hoping that the pattern of the first two would continue to the third.
But it’s not just me celebrating International Women’s Day. It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump tweeted his support …
First, travelers carrying these specific identifying carry-on items will be exempt from the additional security restrictions imposed by Travel Ban 2.0 and will be allowed free access in and out of the USA …
Team Trump has clarified that Trump’s new Executive Order Travel Ban is not specifically a Muslim ban, but a ban on any darker-skinned travelers, especially the ones with accents or “suspicious” names.
By the way, has anyone noticed that “Travel Ban” sounds like Taliban? Coincidence? I hear buy call for a full investigation due to rhyming an Executive Order with a terrorist organization.