Speaker Nancy Pelosi is tightening the rules on face masks in House committee meetings following Tom Rice announcing that he had been naked-faced at the capitol while he had tested positive for Covis 19.

Three congressmen have decided to test Speaker Pelosi and refuse to wear a mask anywhere ever.  They are Louie Gohmert, Andy Biggs, and Jim Jordan, who just coincidentally also happen to be three of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

They’ve got death, pestilence, and famine covered.  All they need is one of the cheap war hawks and they can head on over to the stables and get their horses.

John Bolton’s book had lackluster pre-sales.  Trump sued him and called him a liar.

Boom!

Oh, yeah.

“Trump’s opposition to publication vastly increases the book’s value, and reader interest around the world… And we’re told that Attorney General William Barr has a starring role in the book.”

Trump, bless his scrambled egg brain, is threatening criminal action.

Thanks to Dennis for the heads up.

So, Trump makes threats, former CIA Director under President Obama, calls upon Republican Party leaders to take a stand, and guess who answers … Anthony J Tata, retired brigadier general of the US Army who retired under suspect circumstances, Fox News commentator, and currently pentagon policy chief for Trump.

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So, I guess this whole officer and a gentleman thing is dead.  It died of vulgarity. I don’t know why I’m surprised.

So, “suck on your pistol” is the new “lock her up?”

Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.

I don’t know if it’s just me or if anyone else has noticed it, but it seems that I don’t get Breaking News Dings on my phone anymore.

North Korea and South Korea are blowing crap up to impress each other.  Kim’s little sister appears to be crazier than he is.   It’s a damn mess.  But no dings from my phone.

I think there’s a deal to quit sending them because people are already so overloaded that more bad news is all we do not need.

Wait, wait, wait. I just went to check and sure ‘nuf somebody who lives in this house turned off my phone alerts.  I guess somebody was tired of my phone going off at dinner time and me putting my hand over my heart so it will stay in my chest.  Then slowly pickup up my phone and look at it with one eye because that makes it easier to take.  Then hollering and clicking the read more button.

I’m not saying who, but checking the current population of my house does lower the possibilities.

A man in Austria has been fined $565 for protesting police.

Following an incident where the man behaved “provocatively and uncooperatively” during an encounter with officers, he … well, tooted.  The police reported …

He got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent,” they said. “And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”

The fine was imposed for “offending public decency.”

Oh, to live in a country that cares about decency.

Thanks to Carl, our Worldwide Tooting Corespondent, for the heads up.  

The Washington Post is reporting this afternoon that Christian conservatives are “rattled” that the Supreme Court dared to rule in favor of equality for everyone, even transexual and gay people.  At first I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion, and did a double take when I realized it was the Washington Post.  All the usual bible thumpers were quoted as shocked that their “religious freedom” to persecute others was being “eroded”.

This is the goddam 21st century, and we still have to put up with people who give themselves a wedgy when other people are acknowledged to have the same rights as their own dumb asses have?  Lord a’Mercy, give me patience. Oh, and BTW, I was actually shocked that it was a 6-3 decision with Gorsuch voting along with Roberts and Normal Judges to lock in that strong majority.  It must be a head fake for something really bad coming down the line, but I’ll take a victory when we can get it.