Okay, so I got this in an email today from the United States Postal Service.  Go take a look.  It says you can see your mail before it arrives.  I assume they mean the outside of the envelope.

Okay, so what keeps Boris in Moscow from seeing my mail?  Or Crazy Fred down the street so he’ll know exactly when my Ladies Home Journal arrives?  I mean, couldn’t I just get an account at anybody’s address and spy on them?

Has anybody else got this figured out?

To be honest, my thinking mechanism is running on fumes lately.  I need a new president.

Okay, a couple of things are bothering me.

First, this is something I need to tell you about.  Jones Day law firm has been paid millions of dollars by the Trump campaign to keep Trump out of jail. Millions. You’d think they’d love Trump. That’s a lot of money. But ….  

Lawyers at Jones Day, which has earned millions as outside counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, have donated nearly $90,000 to the campaign committee of Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden. Contributions to the Trump campaign by Jones Day lawyers totaled just $50, records show.

Okay, so I’ll admit that most lawyers (at least the good ones) are Democrats because they’ve read the Constitution. But, these are lawyers who have Trump to thank for putting food on the table.  But, they are also the ones who know all Trump’s secrets but are bound by attorney/client privilege not to talk about it.  But, they know.

The other thing I find very telling is Lindsey Graham is clutching his pearls over Act Blue.  He wants Act Blue investigated because he simply does not believe that people give so many small donations like that. Democrats do that, Lindsey.  

I’ve been watching fundraising for many years and what I’m fixing to tell you is the truth.  Republicans don’t donate. They don’t. They know their candidates get rich people money or corporate money so their $25 contribution might seem pathetic. So, they don’t donate.  I’m not jacking with you. Your Republican neighbor with the Trump yard sign more likely than not has never donated a damn dime to a candidate.

We Democrats think our $25 is big stuff when it’s combined with your $25 and Mary’s $25.  Let me tell you a true story about my friend Judy.  At the beginning of the election season, Judy sets aside $500. That’s what she can afford to spend. But instead of giving it to one candidate, she doles it out $25 at a time, maybe even $10. When some Republican says something that pisses her off, Judy sends their opponent $25.  “It’s like getting to punch them in the mouth,” she says.

That keeps Judy sane through the election season. She decided to work early voting because she already went through her $500 a month ago. Now, she’s got more money and more faces to punch.

Plus, look how those small contributions coming from all over the country have Lindsey headed for the faintin’ couch. You gotta feel good about that.

So, if you haven’t donated to Jamie Harrison yet, right now would be a real good time. And when the click the button, holler, “Hi, Lindsey!”

First, the Pope announces that he favors civil union between gays.

“Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family,” the pontiff said in “Francesco,” a documentary about his life. “They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it.”

“What we have to create is a civil union law,” he added. “That way, they are legally covered. I stood up for that.”

And then, and then …. The National Catholic Reporter steps in.

What disqualifies Barrett is the extreme moral relativism she displayed in her confirmation hearing. Not so long ago, moral relativism was the war cry of cultural conservatives, at least since then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enounced the “dictatorship of relativism” at the last Mass before the cardinals entered the conclave of 2005 from which Ratzinger emerged as Pope Benedict XVI.

It is her bad faith in discussing the law that warrants disqualifying her. About the evils of climate change, access to health care and voter intimidation, Americans deserve better than a relativist dressed in originalist drag. The Senate should vote no on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

If you have some free time this afternoon, you might want to scamper over and read the whole thing.  It’s good.

Jesus and the Crystal Ball, huh? Televangelist Pat Robertson reported on The 700 Club that he had been told by God that President Trump will be reelected… and his reelection will bring about the start of the End Times.  Okay, well, I don’t believe in the End Times but I have no doubt that something pretty much awful will happen if Trump is reelected.

I thought the End Times were brought about by the Anti-Christ and the Mark of the Beast on your forehead.  Well, Orange Trump and his his MAGA baseball caps pretty well seem to fit that.

Robertson mumbled on, “without question, Trump is going to win the election,” but it will result in widespread civil unrest, during which there will be at least two attempts to assassinate the president.

There’s the comforting thought that if the End Times come if Trump’s reelected, it’ll be better than having Trump, right?

A few nights ago, the first grader in my life Facetimed me with a You Tube that’s the new best thing in first grade. His Dad picked him up from school and the little guy couldn’t wait to show his Dad. He cannot even watch it without howling with laughter.

https://twitter.com/shrimpjaj/status/1296892397951922176?s=21

My first grader does imitations of this guy imitating Donald Trump, but his imitation is interrupted with giggles.

And then this morning, one of my favorite cartoonists jumps in.

And the other cool thing in first grade? A jingle that goes like this:  “Donald Trump? Let’s kick his butt all the way to Pizza Hut.”

First grade is cool.

A new Republican billboard in Pennsylvania.

It used to be that they only misspelled their signs all on their own. Now they do it by committee.  With irony.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.