Paul Horner: Humor Morphs Into Fake News Thanks to Don Trump and His Fans

His followers (Donald Trump's) don't fact check anything--they'll post everything, believe anything.

The late Paul Horner during an interview with The Washington Post

Paul Horner knew what he was talking about. That's because a lot of the crazed nonsense Donald Trump's fans were re-posting on places like Facebook--convinced they were spreading the terrible truth about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton--was shit he'd made up in order to prove them utter dunces.

They didn't let him down and appallingly, hordes of right wing wankers took his twisted satire as gospel, then went out and voted.  

Yes, the last and biggest joke was on him and the rest of us. In the same interview he regretted what he'd done and a prior claim, he'd made that he was the reason Don Trump ended up in the White House.

While even Horner recognized what he said was a bit overblown--hey, let's give Vlad's boy's some credit--no one can deny his scams were a little too sophisticated for our collective good. This despite their content, even on the surface, being so sick and bizarre no one, but the most demented inmates of state run asylums should have believed them.

He had been the lead writer for the site, "National Report." While there, using a pseudonym, he wrote things like, the anonymous British avant-garde street artist, Banksy had been popped for a DUI and his true identity had been revealed as one, Paul Horner. He also reported a man named Paul Horner had become the recipient of the world's first head transplant. 

As funny these sort of things were they remained far too outre for the loons who inhabit the Trump crowd. He found his political stride when he wrote a piece saying then Arizona governor Jan Brewer was implementing a mandatory program in state schools, grades kindergarten through 12, which would encourage students to become gay. The word spread among the local yokels and their outrage was so intense, Brewer was forced to go on TV in order to deny she had proposed anything of the kind. 

Seizing on his success, he wrote a piece which claimed that during the 2013 government shutdown, Barack Obama had personally funded an Islamic museum so it could stay open. Fox News reported the joke as true.

Another story concerned a former secret service agent named, yes, Paul Horner who had written a book that revealed Obama was not just gay, but a gay Islamic extremist. Right wing trolls pounced and spread the word over social media. This despite news videos showing ISIS troops throwing gay men from the roofs of buildings because they were, well, gay. 

Yes, the line was beginning to blur and Horner didn't let up. According to Wikipedia he left the "National Report," and started up the, "National Examiner." More darkly he established web sites with the names, "cnn.com.de, cbsnews.com.co, nbc.com.co, and abcnews.com.co," so his news releases would look more authentic.  

By the time the 2016 presidential campaign rolled around the despicable fools running Don Trump's campaign and others who should know better were biting hook, line, and sinker. His fantastical news stories were quoted as real by Trump's momentary campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski and his son, Eric. ABC News and, naturally, Fox did the same. Things went so far, a full month before Don Trump began accusing CNN of broadcasting, "fake news," Horner coined the term during an appearance on Anderson Cooper's show.

His intent, he later told the Post, was, "...to make Trump's supporters look like idiots for sharing my stories." Unfortunately for the nation those people not only don't mind looking like idiots, they revel in it. As Kurt Andersen said on MSNBC the other day, "The difference between truth and lies to Donald Trump and his supporters is irrelevant."

On September 18th Maricopa County sheriff deputies found Paul Horner dead in his suburban Phoenix residence. The general opinion is he od'd on prescription drugs, a habit he'd apparently cultivated for years. 

Or not. His death wasn't reported for over a week. Given the delay there can be little doubt conspiracy theories about his early demise will begin flying soon--be they perpetrated by Horner wannabes, or the actual psychotics who lurk in that murky world.

Which ever the case, before he died Brother Horner learned a lesson those of us who remain should keep in mind. The norm is never underestimate your enemy. However, the norm went out the window as soon as Don Trump glided down that shiny escalator to announce his candidacy.

Indeed, in these chaotic days the rule is never underestimate how stupid and insane your enemy is. The reason is simple. They are everywhere on the internet and, quite literally, they have no sense of humor or, more important, reality.

sic vita est

9-28-17

  

Donald Trump, the NFL, and the NBA

President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name--our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense!

Donald J. Trump on Twitter, October 8, 2013

Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. He is fired.'

The very same, Donald J. Trump at an Alabama campaign rally, September 22, 2017

My God, the man does love to start shit. He is either the dumbest fuck on the planet, or, in his own brutish way, the smartest. In nearly seven decades on this blue ball it is hard to think of any American--politician, or otherwise--who creates a seemingly endless stream of public chaos like Don Trump does. Hell, even Dick Nixon had to come up for air sometimes.

So far the NFL owners have stuck by their players during the peaceful and--yes--respectful protests which have taken place during the national anthem in stadiums across the land. No one has been fired, as Trump suggested, although it's worth noting no one has hired, free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who started the protests last year either.

Indeed, it would be nice to think people like Robert Kraft, who owns the New England franchise, truly believes their employees have the right to freely express their views. However, the real truth is it's a lot easier to be tolerant of a politically and socially aware receiver corps than it is to replace them wholesale.

Let's face facts, the bottom line is you can find scads of people who will stand during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. It's a bit tougher to find someone who can blow by a cornerback and consistently haul in deep out passes from Tom Brady.

Trump doesn't seem to get this simple aspect of competent labor availability. On Sunday he returned to Twitter and posted, "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag and Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire, or suspend!"

Actually in a couple of places, namely that great seething conservative cauldron known as Los Angeles, fans are staying away from games in droves. Their absence has nothing to do with players kneeling though. They aren't there because the Chargers and Rams are new to town, therefore haven't built any local loyalty and even more importantly, they both stink.

The truth is, thanks in large part to Trump's bellicosity and intolerance, anthem protests are going to continue during the rest of the NFL season. And they're going to spread. Just wait until the NBA takes the court in a couple of weeks. 

The divider in chief has already personally insulted Golden State's Stephen Curry and he didn't do anything, but say his team was undecided about meeting Trump at the White House. The affront to Curry prompted Cleveland star, LeBron James to publicly call The Big Orange Guy a, "bum."

All of which brings us to Oklahoma City, home of the NBA's Thunder and some of the craziest right wing wankers found in America. The first pre season home game is October 6th against New Orleans. It is almost guaranteed a majority of the Thunder players are going to take a knee during the national anthem. When it comes there will be gnashing of teeth, curses, and cases of spiked blood pressure.The threat of cerebral aneurysms among many in attendance will be real.  

Trust me though, despite the anger and because OKC's general manager, Sam Presti added Paul George and Carmelo Anthony to the roster, they will be back.

Hey, in this town and many more,  a real shot at a league championship out weighs a moment, or two of patriotic ire every time.

And as for El Don's current faux displeasure? Well, his base, as always, is happily outraged and no one is talking about the Russians right now are they?  

sic vita est

9-25-17

Enough of Russia and Obamacare, Let's Get Back to North Korea

Enough of this Russian intrigue and the Obamacare soap opera. That stuff is for political dilettantes and weenies. Let's get back to North Korea. After all it isn't every day--at least not until recently--the world is forced to deal with two separate, but equally bat shit crazy wankers who have control of nuclear weapons.

This week, Donald John Trump addressed the UN. His idea of cooling off the increasingly dangerous situation on the Korean peninsula was to tell the general assembly if Kim Jong-un  doesn't stop acting weird the United States will, "...have no choice, but to totally destroy North Korea." He added, "Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime."

Ah, quite the diplomat.

The problem is Kim Jong-un is so nuts he just might think a vast nuclear holocaust would be a great way to go out. In fact one can almost picture him standing on a huge, burning, chemical tank paraphrasing James Cagney in the film "White Heat." Made it, Dad! Top of the world! 

And while El Donald might think huge mushrooms clouds would be a fitting end to Kim, who he called a madman in a Twitter attack yesterday, the current resident of the White House doesn't seem to understand that wars as a whole tend to be messy affairs. They create a lot of spill over, collateral damage, and such.

All of which might include a large portion of the 51,000,000 South Koreans, 10,000,000 of whom live in Seoul which is a mere 35 miles from the North Korean border. They would be same the people we consider our friends, not to mention being the very ones we say we're determined to save.

Kim responded to Trump's words with his own insults. In short order he called The Big Orange Guy, among other things, "a frightened dog and a deranged U.S. dotard. This sent tens of thousands of United States citizens, not into a panic, but rather to their online dictionaries so they could find out what the hell, "dotard," means. (it's a noun meaning an old person, especially one who is weak, or senile.)

None of this school yard bull shit bothers Trump's base, because, quite frankly, they like it when their man acts like a bellicose psychotic. However there are others out there who are starting to sweat. You know, like the professional diplomats and scholars who specialize in studying Kim and the North Korean government.

One of them, Paik Hak-soon of the South Korean Sejong Institute was quoted by the New York Times as saying, "The way North Korea's supreme leadership works, Kim Jong-un has to respond more assertively as its enemy gets more confrontational like Trump has." He added, "There is no backing down in the North Korean rule book. It's the very core of their leadership identity and motive."

According to the Times article most analysts agree that because of Trump's insults and Kim's personal response to them North Korea is now, more likely conduct further nuclear and missile tests. Another expert, Lee Sung-yoon put it this way, "Trump shot himself in the foot with his unabashedly undiplomatic United Nations General Assembly speech. In effect Trump gave Kim Jong-un a freebie for another major provocation. Kim will oblige and claim that it was in self defense against Trump's unnerving threats."

The North Korean foreign minister didn't take long to ham handedly hint just that. The Times reports Ri Yong-ho told the media in New York, that while it's up to Kim, North Korea might conduct the, "biggest ever hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific."

Well, that will certainly calm everyone, Don Trump included, down won't it?

Today a 72 year old North Korean woman named, Ryu Ri Hwa was questioned by a foreign journalist as she stood in front of a giant screen TV in a Pyongyang public square. She told him,  "Trump is a lunatic, lunatic! A lunatic who knows nothing.!"

Honestly, it's hard to argue with that assessment right now.

Of course her observation doesn't mean Ms. Ryu isn't a little funny in the head herself--or immune from the Orwellian allure of her own savage cracked pot. She went on to say, "Now we have nuclear weapons so I am feeling very confident. We can win the war a hundred, a thousand times so long as we have our leader!"

Immediately after she said those words the crowd around her applauded.

Right.

Ladies and gentlemen, given the circumstances, the bar is most definitely open.



9-22-17

Donald Trump: Red Bull, Chugged, Not Sipped and Rank Amateurism

Nearly eight months in the only thing the entire world can be certain of is, Donald Trump loves chaos. In fact he considers it not just standard operating procedure, but a powerful political ally worth hundreds of thousands of votes among the rubes who despise Washington D.C. and the government for which it stands.

Proving once again the tweeter in chief has the intellect and emotional stability of a 14 year old boy, El Donald once again assailed the world with a storm of tweets yesterday morning. To be fair they weren't all his. Some were previously existing bizarre nonsense which he re-tweeted after careful late night research. You know, like the one showing a train plowing through a layer of snow while it's topped with a giant photo shopped, "Make America Great Again" cap. Never one for details when it comes to strident nationalism, Donald apparently didn't realize the train, in fact, belonged to the Canadian National Railway System and was rolling through one of their provinces. Perhaps, even, near the birthplace of Ted Cruz.

Another showed him hitting a tee shot which was so errant it slammed into Hillary Clinton, knocking her over. As we know, Secretary Clinton lost the election to The Big Orange Guy nearly a year ago. However, she is still loathed by his true believers almost as much as Barack H. Obama and remains a great go to villain when it comes to Don's fragile ego and leading cheers in sweaty halls located in places like rural West Virginia.

Various news outlets suggested these and other tweets were messages to those in his base. Many of them had become enraged after it looked like their man might back track on his anti-immigrant promises and make a deal on the issue with the globalist sonsofbitches in the democratic party.

Others, myself included, decided it was just Don Trump once again waking up then imbibing a weird and toxic combination of chocolate cake, a couple of toots of cocaine, and three, or four cans of Red Bull, chugged, not sipped.

Or, it could be, in the words of New York republican representative, Chris Collins, "He's just a fun guy."

In response to this madness, the republican mainstream, led by Senators Lindsey Graham, R-SC and Bill Cassidy, R-LA have decided, for what seems like the millionth time, to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Their replacement bill is so horrific at first glance the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, the March of Dimes, and the American Cancer Society have already declared they're against it. That's before the Congressional Budget Office has even looked at its ramifications.

On the other side, senator Rand Paul, R-KY says he's against it because not enough poor and sick people get fucked over. John McCain, R-AZ is reported to be wary, because it hasn't gone through republican controlled committees. Susan Collins, R-ME and Lisa Murkowski, R-AK haven't said one way or the other, but the Graham-Cassidy bill retains the same proposals which caused them to vote no the last time this experiment in abject cruelty hit the senate floor.

Meanwhile, last week, two of Trump's lawyers sat down to lunch at a popular Washington steak joint and got into a loud argument on how their guy should respond to the ever expanding Russian Investigation, headed by Robert Mueller. The two goofs, David McGahn II and Ty Cobb, didn't even take it inside, but rather sat down at a sidewalk table and proceeded to blab their differences in front of not only the wait staff and casual diners, but a NY Times reporter seated nearby.

Well that's the problem with relying on chaos isn't it? It not only leads to juvenile behavior, utter confusion, and social-political sadism, but also rank amateurism.

Indeed, that is what we are faced with now. Not only is Donald John Trump a crude and mentally defective buffoon, but he and his people are complete amateurs when it comes to politics and running the nation.

Of course, that's what the trailer park fascists who supported him wanted.

And tragically, it is what the rest of us got.



9-18-17

Ted Cruz Likes Twitter Porn

Yes, the weirdness continues.

Yesterday the person, or persons who own a Twitter account called, @SexuallPosts tweeted a two plus minute porn video, because apparently that's all they do. Hey, why not? At least it beats reading Don Trump's bilious rants doesn't it?

Shortly after the post appeared it was, "liked," by one, Raphael Edward Cruz. For those with short memories Mr. Cruz is currently the junior senator from Texas and a former candidate for the republican presidential nomination. He is also one of those fire breathing, self professed Jesus loving, anti gay guys who a few years ago voted against a bill which would assist the victims of what was called, Super Storm Sandy.

Of course that was back when the recipients of the relief were people living in New Jersey, New York, and other perceived liberal enclaves. At this particular moment, despite his fiscally conservative bombast, he has gone all big government. That's because the havoc wrought by Hurricane Harvey on the Texas Gulf coast devastated the homes of boat loads of people who are eligible to vote for him.

The, "like," was deleted, but not before the few, the progressive, and the suddenly gleeful began pointing it out to everyone who could see and hear. That would include the questionable souls in charge of the porn account who quickly added this to their profile, "Follow for the Same Porn @TedCruz Watches."

The shocking revelation came as no surprise to Mr. Craig Mazin, who spent time as Cruz's roommate at Princeton. He was the guy who reported Cruz used to roam the women's side of their dorm dressed only in a silk paisley bath robe. In fact the future senator did it so often Mazin said he had women come to his room begging him to make Cruz stop taking his strolls.

After the news broke, Mazin tweeted, "Now imagine Ted Cruz doing this four feet below you in the bottom bunk bed. Yes, my misery very much appreciates your company."

Actually we'd rather not imagine it, but I suppose we're now stuck with a couple of different revolting images.

Newsweek reports some wits even drug up a thoroughly impossible conspiracy theory which says Cruz is actually the unidentified California serial killer known as the Zodiac. One tweeted, "Ted Cruz has remarkably normal taste in pornography for someone who is the Zodiac Killer." As tempting as it is to identify the smarmy little shit as a murderer, the fact is Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, CN a year after the last Zodiac killing took place, so he is off the hook for those crimes.

That doesn't mean Brother Ted is immune to all things conspiratorial. During the primary campaign, Donald John Trump brought up the possibility Cruz's father, also named, Raphael, was a pal of Lee Harvey Oswald and was in on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The, "proof," came from a pro Trump supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer. It had run a fuzzy photo allegedly linking the two in New Orleans and as everyone knows, unlike MSNBC and CNN, The Enquirer never publishes fake news. Think not? Just ask the president of these United States of America.

Late Monday, the Cruz people, after some confusion and possibly a little gawking at the video, issued a tweet which read, "The offensive tweet posted on @TedCruz account earlier has been removed by staff and reported to Twitter."

Today the senator is blaming the entire episode on, "staffing issues." Newsweek says Cruz issued a statement which read, "There are a number of people on the team who have access to the account and it appears someone accidentally hit the, 'like,' button." Cruz elaborated by saying, "It was a staffing issue and it was inadvertent. It was a mistake; it was not a deliberate action."

Well, you have to say something don't you.

In the end Cruz seemed to regret not coming up with the idea of publicly liking porn sooner. He told the AP, "I will say that if I had known this would trend so quickly, perhaps we should have posted something like this back during the Indiana primary." The senator might have a point. Obscene sexual dialogue caught on tape certainly didn't hurt Don Trump during the campaign. And, let's face it, Ted Cruz does seem to be the sort of guy who will do anything in a pinch when it comes to looking for votes.

So why not endorse porn? After all, we're all capitalists here and it is a significant national industry.

Indeed. Who says America and the internet aren't great?



9-12-17

Oklahoma Republicans Running Amok: High Crimes and Misdemeanors All Over the Place

What is it with these ultra conservative--evangelical--law and order types who keep getting elected to the Oklahoma legislature? Are they predisposed to felonious behavior by genetics, or is there some behavior altering drug they must ingest during the secret initiation ceremony which ushers them into the society of radical right wing politics?

It all began, sort of, with state senator, Rick Brinkley-R, Owasso. He spent 10 years as the pastor of a Collinsville church before turning his spiritual endeavors to the Tulsa Better Business Bureau, the Oklahoma State Senate, and big time embezzling. In 2015 the BBB fired the soon to be former senator after it estimated there was about $1,000,000 missing from their treasury which he was in charge of.

Proving their accounting system was still in need of work, Brinkley ended up pleading guilty to skimming $1.8 million from the organization in order to pay for things like his home mortgage, a new pool cleaning machine, personal credit card bills, and his gambling debts. In April 2016 he got 37 months in federal prison.

Compared to Brinkley, former state senator Kyle Loveless-R, OKC was a small time grifter. He resigned in April of this year after the Ethics Commission began looking into his somewhat questionable use of campaign contributions. Early last month Loveless pleaded guilty to embezzling $100,000 from his own political war chests over a four year period. It was a series of acts which not only proved the senator's abject greed, but also the complete incompetence of the Oklahoma Democratic Party. Let's face it, in local legislative elections you don't siphon off cash like that from your campaigns unless you're utterly convinced the opposition is in complete disarray and stands no chance at all.

Ah, but then we get to the really ugly goings on.

In 2016 representative Dan Kirby-R, Tulsa found himself thinking about resigning when it became public knowledge he had to settle a sexual harassment case--or rather a wrongful termination suit, springing from charges of sexual harassment--brought by a former aide. The assistant, Holly Bishop, had alleged she had been fired without reason after accusing Kirby of preying on her during her time working for him.

Kirby was initially talked out of quitting by Senator Ralph Shortey-R, OKC who was a former Trump county coordinator, and apparently a volunteer advisor to the representative. The whole wretched affair would have probably blown over, because if conservatives nation wide have proven anything, it's they'll go with a sexual predator every time as opposed to a democrat, at least so long their candidate is hetro. Especially when the guy--in this instance, Kirby--claimed the incidents were nothing more than consensual behavior between two adults.However, when it turned out Bishop and her attorney had been paid off with $44,500 of taxpayer money the shit hit the fan.

Indeed, fucking her is one thing, but asking fellow conservatives to pay for it is another. Kirby resigned as outraged republicans howled about the tab they were picking up. As it turned out Shortey should have immediately followed his pal's lead.

He didn't though.

In March of this year, following a tip, Moore, OK police took a look inside a room at a Super 8 motel located hard by I-35. Inside they found Senator Shortey, one back pack with an open package of condoms, another with a tube of, "lotion," the stench of marijuana smoke, and a 17 year old boy.

Today, The Oklahoman reports a federal grand jury indicted the former senator on three charges of child pornography and one count of child sex trafficking.The story, written by Nolan Clay, says the grand jury accused Shortey of, "leading a double life," during his stay in the senate by using pseudonyms to author explicit homo-erotic emails, posts on Facebook, and ads on Craigslist. The former senator is married with two children. He is currently pleading not guilty.

Finally we get to Senator Bryce Marlatt-R, Woodward. According to another story in today's paper written by Clay, Marlatt was charged with sexual battery yesterday after a mis-adventure with a female Uber driver. The driver told police that back in late June, Marlatt began kissing her on the neck and shoulder while she was trying to drive him from a restaurant on Memorial Road in north OKC to a bar. The driver says Marlatt's first words to her after he climbed into the vehicle was, "Hey, you got nice tits."

Despite the urbane smooth talk and suave attempt at foreplay the unidentified woman told the senator to sit down and not touch her, or she would call the cops. His response was to begin kicking the back door of her car.

Clay writes Marlatt claims not to remember the details of the affair, to the point of not recalling he had a female driver on the night in question. He might have an argument. The Oklahoman story says the senator has been in the tank once before, pleading no contest in 2014 to a misdemeanor after Woodward authorities found him asleep and reeking of alcohol in his pickup truck on a rural road.

Honestly, when it comes to the ultra right, sometimes it isn't their cruel and unusual politics, or the smug conviction they are the only true patriots in America. Sometimes it isn't even their complete certainty the Christian God is firmly on their side as they spout rhetoric laced with barely concealed racism. No, sometimes, it is simply the heinous and blatant hypocrisy they indulge in with such unabashed fervor.

And it isn't going to change in this state any time soon. Republicans outnumber democrats four to one in the state senate and control 75 percent of the state house. That's after democrats won two recent special elections thanks to Messrs. Shortey and Kirby.

Ladies and gentlemen, as you can guess, the bar is open. Given the situation what else is there to do?


sic vita est


9-7-17

Returning From the Mountain: The Reason God Created Cruise Control, Communion Atop Pike's Peak, What a Crowd in Corpus Christi, Heeling to the Base, the Utter Chaos Remains Unquelled, and the Guy at the Wheel

For those hearty souls thinking of making the trip, be assured of two things. First, the 350 some odd mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Salina, KS and Limon, CO is the reason the Good Lord invented cruise control on automobiles. It is such a vacuum the distances between trees and the occasional grain elevator, or silo can best be described in terms normally reserved for interstellar travel. It also features the filthiest, most gut churning, McDonald's restaurant in the entire world, located in Hays, Kansas.

Second, once at the summit of Pike's Peak, it is best not to partake in a 60's/70's retro-esque version of communion consisting of a double ultra dry vodka martini and a chocolate chip cookie from Maggie's Farm. If you're a flatlander who hasn't spent any serious time in the mountains for decades, like some in the party, that shit will jump all over you in a hurry at 14,000 plus feet above sea level.

Let's face it, a few of us are simply not what we used to be and afterward--under those conditions--the down hill trip becomes an exercise in abject terror, even after you've given up the wheel to someone with more brains and restraint.

Of course while we were gone things in America continued to unravel at a rate even more unnerving than the aforementioned down the mountain glide and drift. Houston and much of the east Texas coastal region drowned in a witches brew of surging salt water, rain, chemical spills, and raw sewage.

The Big Orange Guy showed up in Corpus Christi and at least attempted to sound presidential. However, in the end, the old carnival barker reverted to form by ending his speech with, "What a crowd! What a turnout!"

Well, when your home is waist deep in toxic soup--something Trump failed to mention during his address, along with the horrifying loss of life--there isn't a whole lot else to do is there? Indeed, would you rather wade through two feet of muck in the den, or listen to the man who is promising you huge amounts of money to rebuild? Unfortunately for all involved, members of Trump's own party are already threatening to derail disaster relief if he ties it to raising the debt ceiling. And, as we've seen, El Donald's track record with the republican controlled congress is a tad lackluster.

Once unencumbered by the nightmare in southeast Texas, Brother Don returned home and reportedly has decided to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Also known as the, "Dreamer's" program, Obama's act protects the children of parents who brought them into the country illegally from deportation for at least two years. They can stay beyond the limit without looking over their shoulder for ICE agents if their status is renewed, which it will be so long as they are working, or going to school and haven't been charged with a crime.

The latest dispatches say the administration will stop taking applications, and cease renewals for six months before the program is terminated. The somewhat twisted theory floated by Trump's people is if those same republican clowns in congress want to extend DACA's life, or "improve on it," they'll have the six months to come up with the legislation to do so.

In some circles this is known as a win, win situation. On one hand, Trump, as democratic representative, Ted Lieu says, "...is heeling to his base." In other words, he's placating all the grotesque rubes who blame immigrants for everything that's gone wrong in their lives. On the other he is allowing himself room to publicly wash his hands and lay the crucifixion on a stone hearted congress. After all, if the legislative branch thinks DACA is a worthy program it is their responsibility to save it--from me.

By the way, this line of reasoning only makes sense if you are Donald John Trump, or throwing back large slugs of vodka while consuming cannabis laced confections at 14,000 feet.

Bernie Sanders, the white haired guru of the young and impressionable, said if  Trump pulls the plug, as rumored, he will have made, "One of the ugliest and cruelest decisions ever made by a president."

That takes in a lot when you consider what Andrew Jackson did to the Cherokees and other eastern Native American tribes and how FDR's administration handled the Japanese-American population at the start of WWII.

There is little doubt our man Don is up to the task though. He is, after all, the fascist in chief and possesses a mean streak so wide and petty it takes the breath away.

Yes, it is good to see that even after a week of Al fresco dining in Old Colorado City the utter chaos we left behind hasn't been quelled, or even muted.

But then why should it? Look who is running the show, for God's sake. It is a guy who was bequeathed the wheel at an early age and is loathe to give it up, no matter how grossly impaired and over matched he is by both the altitude and the road he is careening down.

Too bad the rest of us are stuck in the same car with him.



sic vita est




9-4-17