This is the front page of my local newspaper.

I am not jacking with you, and they didn’t mean it in the really ironic kind of way.

Click the little one to get the big one.

They have no idea who Manafort, Gates, and Papadopoulos are.

I’m keeping this to cover the dish of crow they will have to eat sooner or later.

They are praying that Barack Obama’s second cousin twice removed gets arrested for DWI on the day Trump is removed from office.

I subscribe to a Republican newsletter that originates in Texas.  It’s generally entertaining but more so today.

Yep – that’s the news from yesterday.  And emojis. I think Fox was covering emojis.

Honey, if Mueller is coming coming after Trump with intent to barbeque, then Chief of Staff John Kelly should at least be the potato salad.

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Monday called Robert E. Lee “an honorable man” and said that “the lack of an ability to compromise” led to the Civil War, once again thrusting himself into the public spotlight on an emotionally charged issue.

Robert E Lee was not an honorable man.  He was guilty of treason, and he did not behave like an honorable man in other areas of his life.

“I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man,” Kelly told Ingraham. “He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which 150 years ago was more important than country. It was always loyalty to state first back in those days.”

You ignorant, self indulgent piece of uneducated crap.  No, it was not that way. Many truly honorable men like General Sam Houston left their state and the governorship when their state was wrong.

What is this idea about “lack of compromise”?  How do you compromise slavery?  Free 3/5th of all slaves?

Okay, Kelly, you’ve got me staying up nights again. Lord have mercy, it’s the uneducated leading the damn dumb.

Both Klein School District and Cypress School District require their students to stand and recite the pledge or be punished.  Both district are north of Houston.

Two students have fought for their right not to pledge allegiance to a flag because they feel, “We live in a country where there isn’t justice and freedom for all, and so I’m not going to stand for a pledge that says there is.”

They are both African American and both are female.

Oddly, in a journalism class one of the students was told to change classes to get another teacher.

At one point, a guidance counselor suggested that the student switch out of a journalism class whose teacher had insisted she stand, according to the lawsuit. This year, a teacher told the teenager’s class that those who sat through the pledge were comparable to Soviet communists, pedophiles and Islamist extremists, the lawsuit said. Classmates harassed the teenager online and in person, including as recently as last week, Mr. Kallinen said.

The other was suspended for refusing to stand while in the principal’s office.  The school secretary told her, “This is not the N.F.L.” The student was told that if her mother did get to the school within 5 minutes, she would be escorted off campus by police.  She is 17 years old.

It seems to me that teachers should be the bulwark of education and open mindedness.  Maybe we should have teachers be required to read the Bill of Rights every morning or at least quit messing with students who have read it.

Thanks to Sam in Minnesoooota for the heads up.

Long-time customer Deb caught a good one:

I’m certain it’s just a coincidence that the FBI interview where Papadopoulos lied about his Russian contacts came on the same day, Jan 27, that Trump asked Comey for his loyalty pledge.

I am thinking how easy it would be for Papadopoulous to get word to Trump about what questions were being asked.

I’m waiting for Sarah Huckabooboo’s press conference.

I dunno, maybe I’m missing the point here, but it seems to me that the George Papadopoulos story isn’t getting enough attention.

So, Papdopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to Trump, admits lying to the FBI about his connection to the Russian government and Hillary’s emails. You know, how the Russian government influenced the United States election.

The plea represents the most explicit evidence connecting the Trump campaign to the Russian government’s meddling in last year’s election.

Papadopoulos was arrested last July at Dulles International airport. “He pleaded guilty on October 5 and now appears to be a cooperating witness in Mueller’s investigation.”

He knows about the Russians trying to influence the election.  The question is – who knew it was happening and how high did it go in the Trump campaign?

I predict this guy is gonna flip like a gymnast with an Olympic itch.

Okay, this is interesting.  On page 8 of the Papadopoulos Statement of Offense, this appears.

“We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips. It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal.”

Flipping like the fry cook at the Waffle House.