Today's Tweet

Yes - Barr actually said that.

when you hear any judgment Bill Barr offers, remember that he has publicly declared his belief that “militant secularists” in the media, higher education, entertainment and popular culture seek the “organized destruction” of “God’s eternal law” in the US https://t.co/vECvpVLYD0

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) December 10, 2019

Maybe he's speaking his mind on the subject, or maybe he's just trying to keep the god-knobbers in line. Either way it's a fucked up thing to say.

Today's Pix

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Today's Riddle

Q: What's considered lazy and stupid when you're poor, but smart and savvy when you're rich?

A: Getting money from the government.

Moose Fight

Hello, SPCA?  Hi - look, there's some National Geographic-type shit goin' on out front of my house right now, and I gotta leave for work - can you get 'em outa here? What? Sure, I'll hold.

How Great I Art

Woohoo

Homemade Music

Butter And Eggs --Josh Turner and Toni Lindgren

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Today's Tweet

Word

SHARE: This UK political ad skewers conservatives for always blaming immigrants — and Democrats should be taking notes pic.twitter.com/2qdHdLuY6J

— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) December 7, 2019

Biden's Ad

There was a right good bit of Press Poodling about how the Dems were up on their hind legs and fighting back yesterday.

In case you were wondering, yes, I'm saying, "Yay - good for those Dems." Cuz this is the part when George has to knock Biff on his ass so we can start making things better.

In 1988, Mike Dukakis - who made a shitload of other self-fucking mistakes - put the last nail in his own coffin lid when he looked monumentally wimpy on national TV because he couldn't come up with any fire when Bernie Shaw asked him how he'd react to his wife being raped and murdered.

One of the really sad things about the Dem primary so far is that Kamala Harris dropped out. She can bring that fire with the best of 'em. Maybe she'll be available for the Veep slot, or maybe AG.

I just hope she's with us for a good long time.

Bulletin

BREAKING NEWS:
The guy who said he'd have no trouble rushing, unarmed, into a school during an active shooter situation has run away from the NATO summit meeting because someone hurt his feelings.

To Put It Simply

From the House Intelligence Committee's report on their investigation of 45*:

Like ol' Doc Maddow said: All you have to do is look at the heading at the top of each part of Section 1.

• The President’s Request for a Political Favor 
• The President Removed Anti-Corruption Champion Ambassador Yovanovitch 
• The President’s Hand-Picked Agents Began the Scheme 
• The President Froze Vital Military Assistance 
• The President Conditioned a White House Meeting on Investigations 
• The President’s Agents Pursued a “Drug Deal” 
• The President Pressed President Zelensky to Do a Political Favor 
• The President’s Representatives Ratcheted up Pressure on the Ukrainian President 
• Ukrainians Inquired about the President’s Hold on Security Assistance 
• The President’s Security Assistance Hold Became Public 
• The President’s Scheme Unraveled 
• The President’s Chief of Staff Confirmed Aid was Conditioned on Investigations

45* knew what he was doing was illegal. He made sure to couch everything he said on the July 25 phone call in the kind of coded language that clouds the meaning of the words for anyone outside looking in, while allowing the target listener to get the message loud and clear.

And it's no stretch at all to surmise that one of Rudy's errands in Kiyv was to pre-interpret what Zelensky would hear so there'd be no misunderstanding between the two men, while maintaining plausible deniability of a quid pro quo.

Repubs love to scramble the timeline and to fuzzy up the Ukrainian names, knowing we don't pay enough attention to keep any of it straight.

So they know they can float some bullshit like "POTUS was only trying to get a handle on the history of Ukrainian corruption blah blah blah" - and we won't notice (eg) when they say Biden wanted the Ukrainian AG fired because he was investigating Hunter's bogus involvement in Barisma, when the truth is that the crooked AG was fired and that meant a new (more honest) guy came in to vet and investigate Barisma, and the new guy cleared the deal.

There's still a potential problem with Hunter Biden and how maybe his seat on the board constituted a conflict, but remember, Obama's ethics guys were voracious about making sure there was as little problem as possible. 8 years - no real scandals - no indictments - no pleas - no prison time.

Anyway, to make it even simpler: