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.

Trump is hoping for a position as a book reviewer once this White House gig is over.

President Trump on Monday said it was “highly inappropriate” for his former national security adviser John Bolton to write a memoir about his work in the White House and claimed the book contains classified information. 

Trump also suggested the details contained in the book may not be truthful, telling reporters Bolton has “been known not to tell the truth, a lot.”

Rumor has it that Trump is planning to file a lawsuit to prevent the publication of the book.

Lemme say something.  Screw John Bolton. He’s a horrible man and just screw him.  But if that sumbitch has information that would have impeached Trump then screw him on top of a fire ant hill on the hottest day in West Texas, because 110,000 people have died since then.  I hope when those two guys go to hell that Bolton and Trump live in connecting dumpsters.

However, I do acknowledge that Trump calling someone a liar is pretty damn funny.

Holy cow, Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts voted today to uphold Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.  They said someone cannot be fired from a job based on being “homosexual or transgender.”  And, damn, Gorsuch even wrote the majority opinion.

Now if we can just the Supremes to uphold the LGBTQ community’s right to health care, we’ll be doing some good.