Posted tagged ‘current-events’

Heroes and zeros.

July 31, 2026


Headline today on Heavy sports:


” Blue Jays Open to Moving Stud Reliever Ahead of Trade Deadline”


I love that Tyler Rogers is considered a “stud reliever.”

Riley Gaines is now publicly attacking Dr. Fauci. She claims “. You’ve done more to harm science than anyone in my lifetime. “

And she’s an expert why?

Riley, do us all a favor and take the fifth. Again.

Infantino is trying to turn the World Cup into LIV golf.

As Trump just spent over $5 million taxpayer dollars to put gold gilding on statues in Washington DC, reminder, high quality gilding only lasts 15-20 years outdoors, while cheaper (or poorly applied gold leaf breaks down in a few years outdoors.

Wanna bet how long this will last?

Sometimes I love American ingenuity:

Trump ranting post defending his slush fund for January 6 parcticipants literally includes this “Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our nation’s history..”

Native Americans and slaves might like a word. For starters

Also, Japanese Americans during WWII,

WTAF?

GOP trying to make a big deal out of the fact that Maine Senate Candidate Troy Jackson’s partner is his second cousin. (ie same GREAT-grandparents..)

While they genuflect before a man who says “If she weren’t my daughter maybe I’d be dating her?”

Thinking back to Donald’s first term and all the people he hired then fired because they told him what he was doing was illegal.

What we have now in Trump 2.0 is just people with no moral compass and no limits.

Wonder what percentage of the SOBs attacking Dr. Fauci managed to jump the lines back in early 2021 to get THEIR Covid vaccines?

While I believe in freedom of the press,, at this point, why does ANYONE take any Fox News interview with Trump seriously?

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So did Donald grant the $22 billion plus contract to redo Dulles the same way he decided who should ‘fix” the reflecting pool?

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Your reminder that Auburn once paid Tommy Tuberville $5 MILLION to go away and not coach anymore.

Shame we as a country can’t get him out of the Senate for a bribe like that.

Fox News headlne “Ex-mistress exposes shocking step-by-step details of Gavin Newsom affair.”

In 2007 (!) , Newsom said “I want to make it clear that everything you’ve heard& read is true.. ‘I’m deeply sorry about that.”

Don’t always agree w/ Gavin but they’re hoping viewers don’t remember that?

Almost final

July 19, 2026

France and England combined to score TEN goals in their third place game.

Figured at the time probably a lot more than the SF Giants and Seattle Mariners will combine to score tonight.

(And even in 10 innings they only scored…)

Logan Webb pitched a one hit shutout into the 7th, and left after giving up only two hits. Alas, the 2nd was a home run after a walk and HBP. Giants baseball… nothing like it.

Things could have been worse with this World Cup.

Iranian team treated badly, Somalian ref denied a visa, along with many fans..

But no ICE killings or mass arrests. Though many stayed home in fear.

Event has been popular on television & stadiums filled up, eventually.

Not talked about enough, however,, many hotels, especially luxury hotels, took a bath on bookings.

Now at least two more dead in a war that should never have started…

And that Trump claims to have ended about 10 times.

When will even Republicans say enough and take the keys from this angry elderly man?

So Todd Blanche wants us to believe he doesn’t have power to indict anyone with the Epstein Files…

But he had power (and time) to indict James Comey over a photo posted on social media of seashells arranged to read “86 47”.

Meanwhile, in Maine, 12 candidates are running to replace Graham Platner as Dem nominee for Senate.

At least 6 have serious backgrounds in politics.

If you look at Fox News/right wing media, headlines are about trans woman who would be a fringe candidate regardless of gender

Wonder how Fox News is spinning Trump’s teleprompter operator being put on leave for using insider knowledge to bet and win on prediction markets about what the President would say in his speeches?

Surprise, they aren’t covering it. At all

It’s not on their website.

Fox doesn’t cover Donald’s naps either…


How long until one of these testosterone-fueled fly bys that Pete Hegseth loves ends up in tragedy? And when it happens, who will he blame?

John Fetterman has become the media’s new Joe Manchin.

Perhaps the most covered “Democratic” Senator, generally at odds with the rest of the party…

And someone who takes airtime away from good Democrats who are actually doing their jobs and trying to help the American people,.

If you try to take disability or paid leave from your job, there are procedures you or your family need to go through, along with generally plenty of paperwork.

So why aren’t we, American taxpayers, demanding Mitch McConnell or his wife go through those procedures?

But all Mitch has to do if he’s alive & conscious (which the pictures claim he is) is call Beshear to say hello. Facetime works…

Think we’d all trust Andy’s word on the call. Or Beshear should fly to DC and ask for a private hospita visit, no cameras.

I like the Kentucky Govenor a lot. But it’s time for Andy, however he wants to do it, to demand proof of life from his state’s senior Senator

GOP Rep Andy Ogles wants to modify the 22nd Amendment to allow someone to serve up to three nonconsecutive terms! Okay then #Obama2028


The same people who didn’t think Hunter Biden, a Georgetown and Yale Law graduate, was qualified to sit on a few boards have no problem with saying Darline Graham is qualified to win a six year term to be one of the most powerful Americans in the country

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Going down

May 19, 2026

As the SF Giants blow their sixth save of the season.

This time down to the last out, last strike…

Tyler Rogers has a 1.69 ERA in Toronto. Just saying

Even as a Spurs fan can understand OKC Thunder fans may still be shell-shocked from Wemby’s logo three with 30 seconds to tie the game in OT.

But at least they aren’t Cavaliers fans.

Cleveland had 20 point lead over the NY Knicks with just over seven minutes to play. And lost in OT.

Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to tie a great athletic achievement to himself. And yet crickets on Wemby’s performance last night. Or indeed on any of the NBA playoffs. I wonder why? #porvida

Donald’s newest plan…. 100 foot flagpoles in front of the White House?!

What’s next, the Trump used-car lot?


JD Vance: “You know who never, ever gets an ounce of sympathy when it comes to disproportionate sentencing? People who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6 protest.”


You know who JD Vance has never expressed an ounce of sympathy for? The 140 police officers injured by people who participated in January 6 “protest.”

GOP now stands for Grand Old Pedophiles #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

You know for all the attacks on California’s jungle primary, a jungle primary might have advanced Thomas Massie into the general election, and saved his seat in Kentucky

Doesn’t matter how many lies Trump and GOP tell.

Before the November 2024 election, the national average for gas prices for regular fuel was about $3.05

Now regular fuel is approximately $4.51 per gallon.

Where are all the “Back the Blue” Republicans on Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund for the January 6 insurrectionists who injured over 140 police officers?

Asking for a country

Bill Cassidy, just defeated in his Senate Primary, turned around today and voted with Democrats for the War Powers Act.

Since sooner or later Trump throws everyone under the bus maybe some other GOP members of Congress should considering doing the right thing now before they end up under the wheels.

Approaching medals?

January 22, 2026

Two weeks until the start of the Winter Olympics. That wonderful time every four years when people who can’t get across the ice at a holiday rink suddenly become experts on a triple or quadruple lutz.

Commissioners of the NBA, NFL, MLB & NHL are being called to the Oval Office by next week “to present activation plans for the 250th anniversary of the United States.”

Possible translation “He will demand all of them give him a trophy.”

Trump claims that federal workers instead of working were at the ballfield or out playing golf After he spent the weekend at taxpayer expense playing golf and going to a football game. SNL cold open writers are going “We give up.”

Minnesota, now Maine.

Could he find states further from the Southern Border? What’s next? ICE invasion of Hawaii?

Trump has become the man that if you’re visiting an elderly relative in a nursing home and you see him rambling and talking to himself, you try to get out of his sight before he comes in your direction.

Feb 2023. Fox News headline “Biden stumbles over word in Philadelphia speech: ‘Recalibration’

Jan 2026: President refers repeatedly to “Greenland” as “Iceland” Fox News – crickets

Wonder how many members of the Trump administration shorted the stock market for one day before his TACO on the tariffs?

Fox News headline:

“The era of liberal talk shows only inviting Dem candidates is over, FCC says” They’re upset that late night hosts have too many liberals. Waiting for GOP wannabes & current administration to accept being on Colbert, Kimmel & Fallon.

Bring. It. On.

Wrap your head around this one. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who thinks it’s normal for Americans to have 5 + homes for retirement, just called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “economically illiterate.”-

Jane Fonda tonight on Stephen Colbert. “They are kidnapping people, they are illegally deporting American citizens… all kinds of really bad things are happening. It’s not a question of right or left, I don’t care what party you belong to. It’s a question of right or wrong.”

So what crazy thing will Donald Trump do Thursday to distract from Jack Smith’s testimony? Sorry. No prize or trophy for the correct answer. But winning answer gets serious bragging rights.

A normally non-political friend summed it up So basically Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave the Hugh Grant from ” Love Actually” speech for real.

Usha Vance is pregnant.

To celebrate maybe her husband could push the Trump administration to ensure that ALL pregnant women have access to healthcare?

Oh, who am I kidding?

After this week’s press conference and speech in Davos it is increasingly obvious that the man in the White House with the nuclear codes is not a man most Americans would trust in their neighborhood to water their plants.