Sid Miller on the Facebook Machine:

Yeah, but will he respect that flag in the morning?

So, attempting to make whoopie with the American flag is the new sign of respect.

Damn, Sid, you’re an idiot.  Tic Tac, anyone?

U.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker of Cedar Hills, Texas, went to Chili’s on Veteran’s Day to partake of their free meal to veterans.

Walker, accompanied by his service dog Barack, said he believes an elderly man wearing an American flag shirt and Trump sticker told the restaurant manager that Walker was wearing his cap indoors and was not a U.S. veteran and should not receive the free meal.

Okay, we have a lot of stupid laws in Texas, but wearing a baseball cap indoors ain’t one of them.  Otherwise, you’d have to arrest the entire VFW on most bingo nights.

… the manager asked for Walker’s military ID, which he provided. Walker also provided his discharge paperwork.

Walker said the manager then took his to-go meal.

“I looked around and I’m embarrassed at this point,” Walker said. “People are looking. I’m a soldier. I’m a person and everybody’s looking like I stole food.”

The manager also indicated the service dog was not a service dog, despite having a red service vest and certified service tags.

Chili’s has apologized all over themselves.

By the way, Texas now has a veteran designation on veteran drivers licenses so they don’t have to carry around their discharge paperwork to get their discount.  I appreciate that.

Thanks to Old Mayfly for the heads up.

We innerupt dis broadcast of “Da Blaming of Da Shrew” in order to bring ya our next episode of Unintentional Consequences T’eater. I am yer host wit’ da most, Primo’s Uncle, James Tiberius Grobnik. Wit’ me as always, dat corner purveyor of Old Style Beer, my frien’ Pete.

[Tiberius?]

Pipe down, Primo, it’s a stage name. You said we could do dis ourselves. In tonight’s episode, we are lookin’ at da unintended consequences of da dog dat caught da car (h/t Lyntilla!).

Pete: How come I gotta play da girl part?

Barstool: Because Primo is MY nephew. Shuddup and read.

Pete: Fodder, you have won da Presidency despite great odds, what are you gonna do now.

Barstool: Well, my darling daughter Ivanka, I am gonna President from Monday t’ru T’ursday, and den I’m gonna golf or somet’in’.

Pete: But my Fodder, you know not how to… Primo! Can I be yer uncle, just fer da purposes a’dese T’eaters?

[I dunno, Pete. What’s my bar tab?]

Pete: Zip! Zilch! Zero! My cuff is now clean.

[Good enough for me. Uncle Tiberius, grab his girl parts.]

Barstool: No way! I ain’t dat kinda guy, and I especially ain’t Dat Guy.

Pete: Like hell yer not! Say’s right dere on da scrip’: “DAT GUY….Uncle Jimmy.”

Barstool: Uh-uh, no way.

Pete: Den let me be Dat Guy. Gimme da scrip’.

[Ya know? In retrospect, I don’t think any of us wants to be Dat Guy. Give me the scripts.]

Barstool: I especially now don’t wanna be Dat Guy. He spent da whole election puttin’ off bad stories, avoidin’ embarrassin’ trials, hidin’ ties to da Russkies, buryin’ his finances, and runnin’ away from da Press. Don’t he know dat, now, dey got four years of deep, intense, painful scrutiny not of just him, but everybody aroun’ him?   By winnin’ he just ensured dat everybody wit’ a word processor is gonna be sniffin’ t’ru his whole goddamn life. Plus dose of his Cabinet o’ Deplorables an’ his family.

[“Word Processor?”]

Pete: So da Unintended Consequence is dat his fragile little ego will continue to get da crap beat outta it for four more years?

[That’s right, Uncle Pete! Tiberius, take us out.]

Barstool: We are gonna renegotiate da roles before da next one a’dese, I promise yuz bot’. In da meantime, dis concludes dis episode of Unintended Consequences T’eater, Dog Catches Car Edition. We now return yuz to yer regularly scheduled program, already in regress.

Donald Trump has asked for top security clearances for three of his adult children.  Melania doesn’t need one – she’ll just plagiarize someone else’s.

The Trump Royal Family is also finding entertainment is the usual ways — pitting people against each other to disgrace themselves and snitch on each other.

Donald Trump’s transition is being marked by sharp internal disagreements over key cabinet appointments and direction, both for internal West Wing positions and key national security posts, sources involved in the transition team tell CNN.

One source with knowledge of the transition described it as a “knife fight.”

I suspect that most of the knives are in the backs of the fighters.

And to everyone’s absolute expectations …..

Another source tied to the transition described the resulting confusion as “buffoonery.”

So if you bet on calm, cool, professional, adult leadership in these perilous times, you lose again.

In Name-That-Cabinet, today’s leading contender is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a man named after a Civil War general and President of the Confederacy, for Attorney General.  Alabama’s contribution to the Build A Wall movement, Sessions was also turned down for a federal judgeship during the Reagan administration for racist statements while prosecuting African Americans in Alabama.

Hey, at least they are fighting each other instead of playing the with Nuke button.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Utah.

A 64 year old man accidentally shot himself in the abdomen while cleaning his Glock .45 caliber handgun, according to the Cache County Sheriff’s Office.

Michael Lee Lockhart told the police that he was cleaning his .45 caliber Glock.  He reassembled it and loaded it with a full magazine but can’t for hell figure out why it hates him enough to shoot him in the damn stomach.

Here’s my favorite part:

Investigators won’t file any charges in the shooting, calling it an “unfortunate accident.”

Okay, I can go with the accident part.  But unfortunate? Nah, not really.  After all, he did shoot himself.

So, it turns out, the Transition is not exactly going smoothly.  From the WSJ:

During their private White House meeting on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and [Dat Guy] seemed surprised by the scope, said people familiar with the meeting. [Dat Guy’s] aides were described by those people as unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama’s term.

I don’t mind so much that they’re unfamiliar with ALL the intricacies of the Federal Government. I do mind that none of them has ever watched a West Wing episode. Or Schoolhouse Rock.

There’s a song? This job is hard!

After meeting with [Dat Guy], the only person to be elected president without having held a government or military position, Mr. Obama realized the Republican needs more guidance. He plans to spend more time with his successor than presidents typically do, people familiar with the matter said.

Seventy years of blithering ignorance. I appreciate your attention to duty, Mr Last Real President For Awhile Obama, but do you really hope to change that in him in 70 days?