Random Musings

Irma. Seriously?

It looks, as of this morning at least, that it’s headed right to Smallville, though as a far less dangerous storm, which is a good thing. But ...

I MOVED OUT OF FLORIDA TO GET AWAY FROM THESE THINGS.

Rant over ... for now.

“President” _____ went to North Dakota, as Irma inched closer, and folks in Texas are still waiting to go home, to pitch his tax plan and he brought along Little Miss Complicit, Ivanka; and, as it does with these two grifters, it quickly became icky, with _____ saying:

“You know, sometimes they’ll say, ‘You know, he can’t be that bad a guy, look at Ivanka!’ Come on up honey. She’s so good. She wanted to make the trip. She actually said, ‘Daddy, can I go with you?’ I like that, right. ‘Daddy, can I go with you?’ I said, ‘Yes you can.'”

Ick. And then Ivanka took a page from ‘Daddy’s’ playbook and said:

“Hi North Dakota. We love this state so it’s always a pleasure to be back here. You treated us very very well in November…so we like sharing the love back. Thank you.”

The worm infested apple doesn’t fall far from the diseased tree.

On the other side, Linday West had this to say about Ivanka in a NYT piece:

“Ivanka _____ is never going to come through. Coming through isn’t her function. She is more a logo than a person, a scarecrow stuffed with branding, an heiress-turned-model-turned-multimillionaire’s-wife playacting as an authority on the challenges facing working women so that she can sell more pastel sheath dresses.

All that aside, even if Ms. _____ does sincerely care about the issues she purports to, the fact remains that her father is a stubborn, intractable toddler. No one has power over him. He doesn’t want to be moderated, even by his daughter.”

And that last bit comes on the heels of news that GOP leaders were “visibly annoyed” that Ivanka attended an Oval office meeting on Hurricane Harvey, and the debt limit. Perhaps she thought the meeting was about raising the heel on her new line of espadrilles?

It looks like the first termination letter _____ wanted to send firing Jim Comey—but didn’t—included _____’s complaints that Comey refused to publicly state the “president” was not under investigation. It was not sent to Comey because White House lawyers refused to allow it.

But now, drafted by _____ and his Hitler Youth Leader, Stephen Miller, is in the hands of Robert Mueller and "could now become key evidence for Mueller as he examines whether the Comey firing was part of an effort to obstruct the Russia investigation."

The walls are closing in ...

Warren Love, ironic name, that, a Missouri state Republican ... because, of course ... congressman  is facing calls for his resignation after he said, on Facebook, that he hoped those who damaged a Confederate monument would be lynched:

“This is totally against the law. I hope they are found & hung from a tall tree with a long rope.”

Lynching. In 2017 he’s calling for a lynching of anyone who tries to take down a monument to the Confederacy. And, naturally, when people in government began demanding his resignation, Love kinda, sorta walked back his stupidity:

“That was an exaggerated statement that, you know, a lot of times is used in the western world when somebody does a crime or commits theft. That’s just a western term and I’m very much a western man. … You know, I dress western. And, you know, I’m the cowboy of the Capitol.”

Except ... people in the West no longer lynch folks just because they have a different opinion ... asshat.

Christopher Cantwell, a white nationalist who claims he pepper-sprayed a demonstrator in self-defense during the Charlottesville riots says he hates being labeled “the crying Nazi”. 

Cantwell earned the nickname after he recorded a tearful video upon hearing he was wanted for arrest after attacking protesters at the University of Virginia:

“One minute I'm a f*****g white supremacist terrorist and the next minute I'm a f*****g crybaby,' I’m a goddamn human being!”

Um, no, you’re a Nazi who played the tough guy in videos showing off your guns and knives and then cried like a little bitch when the police wanted to arrest you.

You’re a tiny little boy with a hate-filled heart.

Deal.

So I made Carlos watch American Horror Story: Cult the other night—he does not enjoy the scary. And it was kind of scary and appears, for now at least, to be about how people who fear to keep others in line, to get their way, to become elected to public office.

But there are clowns ... scary clowns. And, as we watched, there was an actual storm outside, and the occasional lightning strike helped set the mood; as did an ad for Stephen King’s It, a scary clown movie, opening this weekend and me telling Carlos we’re going to see it. And that was followed by an ad for Mother which appears to be yet another kind of horror film, with me clapping my hands and telling Carlos we’re seeing that one, too.

All of which caused him to look at me and say:

“What are you trying to do to me?”

And I just smiled ... like an evil clown.

In the Some Religious People Are Idiots File comes the story about how Quebec offered to help Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey but when Minister of International Relations Christine St-Pierre spoke with Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, above, offering to send equipment and crews to help restore power and to provide blankets, beds, pillows and hygienic products Pablos declined the aid and instead asked for ... wait for it ... “prayers from the people of Quebec.”

People of Houston. Dry off with prayers! Dig out with prayers! Rebuild with prayers.

Seriously.

Marriage equality is on the move in Australia and those who are opposed to same-sex marriage have trotted out an old argument: the seatbelt argument.

An anti-gay mailer in Australia uses seatbelts to explain why marriage equality is bad.

Look! Two seatbelts with “outies” like two men! And two with “innies” like two women; and then two regular, normal ones that work together! And the text says:

“Only one of these is a REAL seatbelt. Only one of these is a REAL marriage. It’s biology not bigotry.”

It’s stupidity, and plagiarism, because the images are very similar to a KLM ad for Pride that was meant to be pro-LGBTQ.

Yup, the haters used an ad about LGBT equality to fight LGBT equality.

And a stupid hater ad to boot!

Okay ... time for a Palate Cleanser ... Alexander Skarsgård, right, brought his brothers, Gustaf and Bill to the Hollywood premiere of It last night.

Oh, they have “it” all right and I’m thinking of me in the middle of a Skarsgård  sammich.

Just sayin’.