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Apparently 5 of the 10 worst weather-related disasters in Canada's recorded history have happened in the Calgary area and the recent rain/hail storm is expected to be the costliest insurance payout in Canadian history. Some advantage.

"Bad optics" means it looks bad, but does not imply or deny culpability.

The Washington NFL team has annouced that they will be releasing the new name for their team later today. Washington Warriors, maybe?

"The rats are leaving the sinking ship": Lindsey Graham agrees to let Robert Mueller testify Mueller published an op-ed in The Washington Post expressing displeasure with Donald Trump commuting Roger Stone. Senate Judiciary Committee Charman Lindsey Graham (R-Sc) stunned political observers on Sunday by siding with Democrats to allow former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before his committee about his investigation into the Donald Trump administration. Following a Mueller op-ed published Saturday in The Washington Post expressing displeasure with Donald Trump commuting Roger Stone's sentence, Graham tweeted, "Apparently Mr. Mueller is willing – and also capable – of defending the Mueller investigation through an oped in the Washington Post," before adding, "Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have previously requested Mr. Mueller appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about his investigation. That request will be granted." (A threatened rodent bails out, soon to be followed by many others)

Top Mueller Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Announces Yet Another Explosive Trump Book This week, Mary Trump’s tell-all book about her uncle will be released despite President Trump’s best attempts to block its publication. But, as if that wasn’t enough to upset him, another potentially explosive book about Trump was announced Monday morning. One of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top prosecutors is set to release a book on the two-year investigation into the alleged ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign, the Associated Press reports. Andrew Weissmann’s Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation will reportedly be published Sept. 29. “I felt it was necessary to record this episode in our history, as seen and experienced by an insider,” Weissman is quoted as saying in the announcement. “This is the story of our investigation into how our democracy was attacked by Russia and how those who condoned and ignored that assault undermined our ability to uncover the truth. My obligation as a prosecutor was to follow the facts where they led, using all available tools and undeterred by the onslaught of the president’s unique powers to undermine our work.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-weissmann-top-mueller-team-prosecutor-announces-yet-another-explosive-trump-book?ref=home (Another nail in Trump's and the GOP's coffins But the sad truth is that to Trumpites this will make no difference at all in their fanatical zeal)

Trump's psychopathology is such that he simply cannot understand the concept of selflessness. I have met these, but only about three have had the degree of dysfunction that Trump constantly manifests. You can explain to such an individual that what they are doing is wrong and will have negative consequences if they repeat those behaviours........and then they will go right out and do it again. Then they will be surprised at the consequences and not understand how it come to this. If it comes to whether he or one of his children goes to jail, Trump will not hesitate to sacrifice one or all of them

I am mildly surprised Trump didn't get lost between the first and second green.

No doubt this will cost Trudeau support if there is any proof he or the PMO were involved in the awarding of the contract, but it remains to be seen how bad the damage will be.

ITS NOT TRUMP'S FAULT!!!! EVER!!!! Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theory That Doctors Are Lying About COVID-19 to Damage His Re-Election Chances President Trump is pushing a ludicrous theory that doctors are purposefully lying about the novel coronavirus pandemic because they want to harm his chances of re-election later this year. Early Monday, Trump retweeted the conservative conspiracy theorist and former game-show host Chuck Woolery as he dismissed medical experts as politically-motivated liars. The incendiary tweet read: “The most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think it’s all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I’m sick of it.” Neither Woolery nor Trump explained exactly what aspect of the raging pandemic doctors are supposedly lying about, nor did they provide any evidence to back up the vague, unproven claim. Last week, the U.S. repeatedly broke its own daily record for new COVID-19 cases, and the nation’s death toll now totals more than 135,000. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-pushes-unproven-theory-that-doctors-are-lying-about-covid-19-to-damage-his-re-election-chances?ref=home (And it sure as spit looks like Trump and his sycophants are settling up Fauci to take the fall and get canned. They are posting edited clips of Fauci's comments to make it seem that he wasn't aware of the seriousness of the pandemic.)

But no COVID patients in hospitals, and that is possibly the best news of all.

A 7% mortality rate is close to double what it has been overall. Still very concerning.

IT APPEARS THAT A PARTICULARLY LETHAL VARIANT HAS HIT PENNSYLVANIA AND............

And look how he is wearing the mask. Truly, Trump does not have the smarts of an average house plant.

Maybe, just maybe, the tide of opinion among GOPers is starting to turn. Should Trump somehow stay in offce, at the end of another four years with him, it will be difficult to tell the US from North Korea or Russia.

What- you do not think this will turn his image and prospects of re-election around?

Trump Wanted to Sell Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, His Former Homeland Security Head Says President Donald Trump raised the possibility of selling hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico to his Secretary of Homeland Security in late 2017, The New York Times reports. Elaine Duke, a Republican who served as acting head of Homeland Security from July to December 2017, told the Times in an interview, “The president’s initial ideas were more of as a businessman, you know: Can we outsource the electricity? Can we sell the island? You know, or divest of that asset? https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted-to-sell-puerto-rico-after-hurricane-maria-former-homeland-security-head-says?ref=home?ref=home

This just might be a perfect metaphor for the coming Goldeyes' season.

Trump and cronies have devolved to the point where they do not care any more about public perception or the law. They have absolutely proven that they can do anything up to and including treason and get away with it without losing the support of either the GOP, the stacked courts or their 38 million or so lunatic fringe base. This may have given them the final incentive to go for the brass ring- seizing power in defiance of the sane electorate.

Given the mass stoopidity in the US and parts of Canada, I am doubtful this will be an object lesson.

Given the mass stoopidity in the US and parts of Canada, I am doubtful this will be an object lesson.

Durex now makes condoms for those guys who don’t wear masks properly in public. 296 points · 27 comments

We can only hope that the Biden administration will break with precedent and send the slimy bastard to jail for the next 100 years or so- in Guantanamo. Or have him held in one of those cages that he is putting kids into.

Stupidity does not confer invulnerability.