Just in time for holiday gift-giving you can now own a Trumpy Bear.  It’s only gonna cost you $50 but, hell, the bear is wearing a flag and is unable to assume the kneeling position.

But, hey, what’s fifty bucks when this thing “commemorates the United States of America,” and for no extra charge it will “show your patriotism.”  I mean, just look at the beauty of this.  Just looking at it will make you want to bomb North Korea and cut food stamps to hungry children.

It has a flag, y’all, and only Donald Trump owns the flag.  This sucker comes with a certificate of authenticity that “confirms you own the original Trumpy Bear.”  It also some with a secret pouch where you can hoard everybody else’s health insurance.

Helluva deal.

Thanks to Vickie for the heads up.

The Biloxi, Mississippi, school districts got complaints about “the wording in “To Kill A Mockingbird” — an American classic being taught in 8th grade English Language Arts.  So, they banned it.

Kenny Holloway, vice president of the Biloxi School Board said, “There were complaints about it. There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable, and we can teach the same lesson with other books.

Call me silly, but I think it was more than just the “language” that made people in Biloxi, Mississippi, feel uncomfortable.  The damn purpose of the book is to make you feel uncomfortable.  Art is supposed to make you uncomfortable.

However, this banning thing may be a good idea.  Can we ban white supremacy in Mississippi because, holy cow, that make me uncomfortable?

As if we needed yet another example of Trump’s pathological lying, I feel compelled to bring this one up because it was easily disproved and stands as a remarkable example of the magnitude of Trump’s lies for everyone to see on national television.

Now, stay with me here; this is Renoir’s Two Sisters on the Terrace, painted in 1881 and bequeathed from the estate of Mrs. Lewis Larned (Annie Swan) Coburn to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1933.  It has been in the Institute’s permanent collection since, traveling the world, loaned to museums for exhibitions.

Now looky here; over Pence’s shoulder during a national television interview in Trump Tower shortly after the election is…wait for it…Renoir’s Two Sisters hanging right there on the wall.  How can that be?  Yes, that’s right; Trump the “billionaire” has a counterfeit painting right there in his home and shown on national television.

Likewise, nude model Melania Trump used the fake Renoir as a backdrop during a television interview with Gretta Van Susteren:

Oh, but it gets better; it gets a lot better.  Is he just ignorant enough to think he bought a masterpiece when he actually bought a fake?  Does he expect people to not know the difference?  Or just he not care?  Like so many issues surrounding the dumpster fire of the Trump administration, the answer is not that simple.  Vanity Fair reported a story about the painting this week in an interview with Tim O’Brian, who recently published TrumpNation, a biography of his orangeness.  O’Brian recalled two conversations with Trump years ago when he rode on his plane for an interview.  The fake Renoir was hanging on the wall of Trump’s plane.  He asked Trump if it was an original, to which Trump answered yes.  O’Brien corrected him that it’s not real since the actual painting is owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.  O’Brien reports that Trump simply argued that this was the original.  O’Brien dropped the subject.  More telling, the very next day when they boarded the plane again, Trump said, “You know, that’s an original Renoir”. Wisely, O’Brien chose to just let it go.

The torrent of lies that issues forth from Trump’s mouth is simply not normal.  It’s also exhausting to have to keep pointing out those lies, but it is something we must continue to do.  When the lie is so easily debunked it mandatory that we point out such outrageous falsehood.

Just like his cheating at golf, erecting fake historical markers, selling cheap Made in China clothing, and swindling partners, investors, and contractors, displaying fake paintings as original opens a window into Trump’s soul.  The problem, of course, is that when you look through that window, there is no soul to see.

Y’all, we are in big trouble now.

Trump said he met with the president of the Virgin Islands.

Trump is the president of the Virgin Islands.  That can only mean one thing — he cloned himself.

And if he did it once, he can do it again.  Over and over and over.  Then he can become president of every state. And then Hawaii.  And Iran.

This is not good.

The Freedom Of Information Act is meant to keep government open and honest.

So, praise the Lord, somebody is trying.

On Thursday, a legal group filed three separate Freedom of Information Act requests to learn if President Donald Trump is a “moron” and must be removed under the 25th Amendment. Seriously, that’s how they titled their statement, obtained by Law Newz: “Legal Advocacy Group Files Urgent Freedom Of Information Act Request Of Government Information On Whether President Trump Is A ‘Moron.’”

They say that even cabinet members and high ranking government officials question Trump’s ability to govern.  Yeah, and me, too.

They are requesting any documents being held by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke, and former Security of Homeland Security John E. Kelly that suggest they ever questioned the president mental capacity.

I think moron is likely to include any evidence of idiot, jerk, ignorant twit, bean dip dumb, blockhead, nincompoop, nitwit, dope, ninny, chump, and blockhead.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is already under investigation for extravagant personal expenditures of taxpayer money.  We’ve paid for hockey games, ski lodges, steakhouses, and snorkeling, but what are these and a few charter jet rides to a guy who has his own damn flag and coin?

At the Interior Department’s headquarters in downtown Washington, Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal government.

A security staffer takes the elevator to the seventh floor, climbs the stairs to the roof and hoists a special secretarial flag whenever Zinke enters the building. When the secretary goes home for the day or travels, the flag — a blue banner emblazoned with the agency’s bison seal flanked by seven white stars representing the Interior bureaus — comes down.

Yep.  Zinke: the Queen of Damn England.

Nobody can remember this ever happening since about 1917.  Maybe it’s a 100 years of sanity celebration.

He also commissioned his own coin that he gives to who … I dunno, maybe taxpayers because they paid for the damn thing in the first place.

Nice of him to follow Trump’s gold theme, right?

Have a nice weekend thinking about ways the Trump administration is saving you money in Puerto Rico.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.