1/ Thomas Edsall with an excellent column which explains how the Republicans have become what they are.....his essential point is that the party is being driven by the extremists, a small percentage but very noisy, and the bulk of "reasonable" Republicans just fall in line because it's what their tribe wants.....
Quite a frightening story- who knows where this leads....
Roy Moore’s decisive victory over Luther Strange in the Republican Senate primary runoff on Tuesday in Alabama confirms — as I have reported before — that many Republican voters have a strong sense of white identity, that they harbor high levels of racial resentment and that they sometimes exhibit authoritarian leanings
At the same time, that’s not a complete picture.
A 2013 study of red and blue America, conducted well before the seismic events of the last two years, sheds additional light on the Republican electorate and provides a more complicated understanding of contemporary conservatism.
2/ A wonderful two minute Sam Bee on Trump and Puerto Rico....
Things are terrible in Puerto Rico following a direct hit with Hurricane Maria, and for many of the people who live there, problems are only mounting as time drags on without power, communication, or even clean drinking water. It’s a tragedy of incredible scale, and despite what imaginary grades Donald Trump imagines he’s getting, the response has been lacking, and Samantha Bee took him to task for just that—as well as seeming not to have any real idea what’s going on.
3/ The Jones act, which cripples Puerto Rico, explained.....
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The island of Puerto Rico is devastated, with millions lacking power, infrastructure destroyed, homes damaged, and an entire year’s worth of agricultural output essentially ruined. Like any disaster-struck place, it will be in need of supplies brought it from elsewhere in the country.
But getting goods from the US mainland to Puerto Rico is much more expensive than sending them to Texas or even to other Caribbean islands as a result of a century-old man-made disaster that’s been crippling the island’s economy for a long time.
Meet the Jones Act, an obscure 1920 regulation that requires that goods shipped from one American port to another be transported on a ship that is American-built, American-owned, and crewed by US citizens or permanent residents.
For most Americans, this isn’t a big deal — it enriches a small number of American shipowners while introducing some weird distortions into the overall pattern of economic activity in the United States.
For the residents of the island of Puerto Rico, though, the Jones Act is huge.
4/ Michael Che from SNL's Weekend Update with an amazing commentary on Trump for about two minutes.....plus the rest of the nine minute segment which is pretty good too...
“Last week on sports roundup, we were trying to figure out if the president is a white nationalist, which he clarified this week when he demanded that black people be fired for insufficient nationalism,” Bee said on Full Frontal. “If anyone knows about treating soldiers and first responders with respect, it’s the guy who decided to fire transgender troops and deport paramedics who happened to be DREAMers. ‘Thank you for your service, now get the f##k out.’”
Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Trump for backing the losing candidate in the GOP Senate primary in Alabama.
“Usually when Trump goes all-in on a loser, it’s a casino that has his name on it,” Kimmel quipped.
Kimmel called the election an “embarrassing blow to his ego” and mentioned how he deleted tweets that bragged about how much support Luther Strange got since the president endorsed him.
Seth Meyers tore into Roy Moore on Wednesday, trashing the former judge who wonAlabama’s Republican Senate primary for his “open bigotry and homophobia.”
Moore is known for his controversial beliefs, which include defying the 2015 Supreme Court ruling approving same-sex marriage in the United States and referring to Islam as a “false religion” that opposes the First Amendment.
“I’m starting to think that hat is covering up a massive head wound,” Meyers joked of Moore’s cowboy get-up.
President Trump’s mission to gut the Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead at full speed, with one curious exception.
The personal security staff of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is three times larger than that of his predecessors. Either Pruitt is three times more unpopular than they were, or he just enjoys the extra company.
According to the Washington Post, Pruitt’s round-the-clock security detail now numbers about 18 people. Beyoncé, eat your heart out.
Even as Trump pushes to whack EPA’s budget by 31 percent, its Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance is quietly seeking to waive the hiring freeze and add more bodyguards for Pruitt.
With this visually staggering film, director Denis Villeneuve brings us to a kind of Ozymandias moment. It just has to be experienced on the biggest screen possible. Blade Runner 2049 is a narcotic spectacle of eerie and pitiless vastness, by turns satirical, tragic and romantic.
This is the sequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic, directed by Ridley Scott and based on Philip K Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, starring Harrison Ford as a “blade runner”, a futureworld cop whose job is to track down and kill disobedient almost-human androids known as replicants. The 2017 follow-up simply couldn’t be any more of a triumph: a stunning enlargement and improvement.
Its mind-boggling, cortex-wobbling, craniofacial-splintering images are there to trigger awe or even a kind of ecstatic despair at the idea of a post-human future, and what it means to imagine the wreck of our current form of homo sapiens. Evolution has not finished yet, any more than it was finished 100,000 years ago. As so often in literature and cinema, we are reminded that science fiction is there to tackle big ideas, and makes realist genres look flimsy and parochial. This film delivers pure hallucinatory craziness that leaves you hyperventilating.
Todays guy joke
A young man moved out from home and into a new apartment.
He went proudly down to the lobby to put his name on his mailbox.
While there, a stunning young lady came out of the apartment next to the mailboxes, wearing only a robe.
The man smiled at the young woman and she started up a conversation with him.
As they talked her robe slipped open and it was obvious that she had nothing else on. The poor kid broke into a sweat trying to maintain eye contact.
After a few minutes, she placed her hand on his arm and said,
"Let's go to my apartment, I hear someone coming".
He followed her into her apartment, she closed the door and leaned against it, allowing her robe to fall off completely.
Now nude, she purred at him, "What would you say is my best feature?"
Flustered and embarrassed, he finally squeaked,
"It's got to be your ears".
Astounded and a little hurt she asked,
"My ears, look at these breasts, they are a full 38 inches and 100% natural.
I work out every day and my ass is firm and solid. I have a 24 inch waist.
I work out every day and my ass is firm and solid. I have a 24 inch waist.
Look at my skin, not a blemish anywhere.
How can you think that the best part of my body is my ears?"
How can you think that the best part of my body is my ears?"
Clearing his throat, he stammered,
"Outside when you said you heard someone coming, that was me".
Todays philosophical jokes
Todays married guy joke
After being married for thirty years, a wife asked her husband to describe her.
He looked at her for a while, then said,
"You're an alphabet wife..... A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K."
"You're an alphabet wife..... A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K."
She asks ..."What the hell does that mean?"
He said, "Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Fabulous, Gorgeous, and Hot".
She smiled happily and said ...
"Oh, that's so lovely, but what about I, J, K?"
He said, "Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Fabulous, Gorgeous, and Hot".
She smiled happily and said ...
"Oh, that's so lovely, but what about I, J, K?"
He said, "I'm Just Kidding!"
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