1/ Trump's dream is to make the US like Hungary.....most interesting article...
Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
For several years, Hungary has been the name American liberal intellectuals have given to their worst domestic nightmares. Hungary’s president, Viktor Orbán, has fashioned an apparently permanent majority for his conservative Fidesz Party by wielding the levers of the state to marginalize the social, political, and legal power of his opposition. American conservatives are now becoming fascinated in equal measure with Orbán’s Hungary. The liberal nightmare of an authoritarian America is becoming the conservative dream.
2/ Eddie Murphy hosted SNL this week, and here he brings back an old character - Mr Robinson.... a very funny four minutes...
3/ This will be the legacy of the Trump years - the incalculable damage these bastards have done to the environment.
This is a full list of what they have done, and it's horrifying....
95 Environmental Rules Being
Rolled Back Under Trump
By NADJA POPOVICH, LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS UPDATED Dec. 21, 2019
President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority. His administration, with help from Republicans in Congress, has often targeted environmental rules it sees as burdensome to the fossil fuel industry and other big businesses.
A New York Times analysis, based on research from Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School and other sources, counts more than 90 environmental rules and regulations rolled back under Mr. Trump.
4/ The Daily Show with a mashup of Trump's gaffes.....a funny but pathetic three minutes....
5/ Weekend Update is interrupted by....Gumby, another of Murphy's characters. Very funny, four minutes....
6/ A speech therapist tells us what's wrong with Trump.....most interesting, and explains a lot of his gaffes....like #4....
I am a retired speech/language pathologist. For more than two decades, I spent every workday diagnosing and treating language disorders. I have helped people with a wide variety of communication deficits. I was very good at my job.
That’s why, in spite of the fact that I’ve been out of the field for several years, I am completely confident when I write that Donald Trump is exhibiting a serious language disorder.
Let me explain.
A deficit in expressing and/or understanding language is called aphasia.
7/ James Kwak from the Baseline Scenario on why we need to take back the Democratic Party.....this is a summary, but if you have time click on "Take Back Our Party" Part 4 at the bottom of the story.....really interesting....
Ever since I finished Economism (and the 2016 elections, which happened about the same time), there has only been one thing I have wanted to write. I tried in “The Importance of Fairness: A New Economic Vision for the Democratic Party,” and in “A New Economic Vision, in 27 Words,” and again in “Hey Democrats, the Problem Isn’t Jobs and Growth.”
I wanted to write this thing because it has become clear to me not only that our economic world is screwed up in all sorts of obvious ways, but also that the only viable path to fixing it runs through the Democratic Party. The Republican Party is what it is; even if it weren’t currently in the grip of a madman, it would at best be the party of Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Lindsay Graham, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, … you get the point. The 1% will always have their party.
8/ Umair with a pretty good explanation of what happened to the British Labor Party in the recent election......
hint - it's exactly why the Democrats are in such trouble....
How exactly did Jeremy Corbyn and his merry band of idiots lost the most crucial election in a lifetime? There’s been a lot of noise about what can actually be learned from the spectacular failure of Corbynism. I think the lessons are much more pragmatic — and simple — than is thought.
They go like this.
Saint Jeremy and his crusaders chopped off the head of the Labour Party — and then gave it a lobotomy. But the result wasn’t a revolution. The result was a zombie politics. A party that spoke like it was on the left, really believed it was on the left, professed to be on the left — but wasn’t, really. Instead, it accepted and endorsed the goals of the hardest of the hard right. Corbynism failed because it was what I’ll call zombie politics. https://eand.co/how-
9/ The Weekend Update lads with some jokes....3 minutes....
10/ "Home for the Holidays" on SNL, with Eddie Murphy. Funny but also heartwarming....three good minutes....
11/ An article everyone over 60 should read.....how to rethink your health in your final years....
One of the paradoxes of this presidential campaign is that while many of the candidates are in their eighth decade of life, fundamental issues associated with the aging of American society are still receiving relatively little attention from the public, the press and politicians themselves. In 2031, the oldest baby boomers will turn 85, entering the land of the “old old” and facing exponentially higher risk for dementia, serious physical disabilities and long-term dependency.
Like climate change, the aging of America demands serious reconsideration of the way we live. Confronting the issue and its many implications, from Medicare’s failure to cover long-term care to the ethics of physician-assisted dying, requires what seems to be the most difficult task for human beings — thinking about the future.
12/ New York Magazine's Movie critics on the best of 2019....see if you agree!
A year on the big screen featured Brad Pitt, Little Women, Adam Sandler, Parasite, Robert De Niro, and The Farewell. Photo: Vulture and Courtesy of Studios
The year 2019 felt like one massive screen from which we couldn’t turn away. It wasn’t just that there was so much to watch, it was that
there was so much that it seemed like we should be watching: Amid it all, hundreds of movies flickered too quickly through theaters and platforms.
13/ Anyone remember Yeehaw Junction and the awful restaurant there?
Well it's gone, a truck hit it!
Todays sexes joke
Wife's Diary: Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird.
We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner.
We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner.
I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he
was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no
comment on it.
Conversation wasn't flowing, so I suggested that we go
somewhere quiet so we could talk.
He agreed, but he didn't say much.
I asked him what was wrong; He said, 'Nothing.' I asked him if it
I asked him what was wrong; He said, 'Nothing.' I asked him if it
was my fault that he was upset.
He said he wasn't upset,
that it had nothing to do with me, and not to worry about it.
On the way home, I told him that I loved him. He smiled slightly, and kept driving.
I can't explain his behaviour. I don't know why he didn't say, 'I love you, too.'
When we got home, I felt as if I had lost him completely,
as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore.
He just sat there quietly, and watched TV. He continued to seem
distant and absent.
Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed. About 15
minutes later, he came to bed. But I still felt that he was distracted,
and his thoughts were somewhere else.
He fell asleep; I cried. I don't know what to do.
I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with
someone else. My life is a disaster.
Husband's Diary:A two-foot putt.. who the hell misses a two-foot putt!
Todays redneck jokes
Rednecks have the lowest stress rate because they do not understand the seriousness of most medical terminology
Artery The study of paintings Bacteria Back door to cafeteria Barium What doctors do when patients die Benign What you be, after you be eight Caesarean Section A neighborhood in Rome Cat scan Searching for Kitty Cauterize Made eye contact with her Colic A sheep dog Coma A punctuation mark Dilate To live long Enema Not a friend Fester Quicker than someone else Fibula A small lie Impotent Distinguished, well known Labor Pain Getting hurt at work Medical Staff A Doctor's cane Morbid A higher offer Nitrates Rates of Pay for Working at Night,
Normally more money than DaysNode I knew it Outpatient A person who has fainted Pelvis Second cousin to Elvis Post-Operative A letter carrier Recovery Room Place to do upholstery Rectum Nearly killed him Secretion Hiding something Seizure Roman Emperor Tablet A small table Terminal Illness Getting sick at the airport Tumor One plus one more Urine Opposite of you're out
Todays Japanese sex joke
A Japanese couple is having an argument over ways of performing highly erotic sex:
Husband: “Sukitaki”.
Wife replies: “Kowanini!
Husband says angrily: “Toka a anji rodi roumi yakoo
Wife on her knees literally begging: “Mimi nakoundinda tinkouji!”
Husband replies angrily: “Na miaou kina tim kouji
Husband says angrily: “Toka a anji rodi roumi yakoo
Wife on her knees literally begging: “Mimi nakoundinda tinkouji!”
Husband replies angrily: “Na miaou kina tim kouji
I can't believe you just sat and tried to read this -- as if you understand Japanese!
You'll read anything as long as it is about sex. I worry about you sometimes!!!
