Good morning, my dad had surgery yesterday…they removed his gallbladder. He has been in the hospital for several days now. So I do not know what is going on in the world…this is just a quick post.
What the fuck?
What the fuckity fuck?
Cartoons via Cagle…I think you will notice a similar thread running through these:
Take it easy, and stay safe.
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Hope your Dad feels better soon, JJ. At least we still have Medicare for now.
Enheduanna
I’m glad your dad is getting the care he needs. Be sure to get some rest for yourself! Love you!!!
I could put no dollar value on all the childhood vacations spent camping and staying in our country’s national parks, historic monuments, historic houses, and wildlife refuges. It taught me more about history, biology, and botany, improving my sketching and watercolor skills and having fun. I immediately started taking my oldest child via baby backpack to the Indian pueblos and sites in and around Arizona, then Yellowstone and a cabin in the Rocky Mountain National Park. I could see her mind sparkle and shine and her joy whenever we went on a new adventure. I took her to the Dinosaur National Monument because, like me, she had a keen interest in dinosaurs. It’s one thing to have a plastic model; it’s completely another to watch paleontologists carefully clean a dig site. Also, every trip I took to every site for Indigenous people and black history and culture expanded me so far beyond the nasty Omaha Suburb I was stranded in most of the year that it could never brainwash me with revisionist history. I experienced the real stories. Battle sites are equally enlightening. Stealing all this from the American people and the world is a crime beyond crimes. It’s stealing who we are, what was done to some of us, and the grandeur of the land we should foster as lovingly as our children. I was born on the Cherokee strip and I’ve walked parts of the Trail of Tears. Charleston Heston movies about Andrew Jackson revolt me. Being a Park Ranger was always and still is my dream job.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/national-parks-rangers-musk-doge-b2701193.html
Fired rangers warn of chaos at national parks as Musk’s sweeping cuts remove vital services
The Trump administration laid off 1,000 National Park Employees last week, a move rangers say will cause chaos across the country.
I binge watched Obi-wan Kenobe last night. I rejoined the spirit of defeating the Dark Force and the Evil Empire.
https://www.starwars.com/databank/obi-wan-kenobi
I hope your Dad will be recovering at home soon.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr42r2gw5wzo.amp
Most USAID workers placed on leave, Trump administration says
The Trump administration has placed most USAID employees back on administrative leave from midnight on Sunday.
Some 2,000 employees are also being laid off in a “reduction in force” effort, the Office of the Administrator said in an email to employees obtained by CBS News, the BBC’s American news partner.
The move comes weeks after President Donald Trump initially attempted to eliminate thousands of USAID employees, but the move faced a legal challenge.
A federal judge had temporarily halted the administration’s plan to gut America’s foreign aid agency, but ruled on Friday that the pause would not be permanent.
“Trump names right-wing commentator Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwd2qrn1e2o
US President Donald Trump has appointed right-wing commentator Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI.
Trump posted on social media that Bongino was “a man of incredible love and passion for our Country” and would serve under newly confirmed FBI director Kash Patel.
Bongino, 50, is ex-NYPD and Secret Service and also worked as presidential protection for two presidents – George W Bush and Barack Obama.
He hosts a self-titled podcast whose Facebook posts often attract more attention than those of Fox News and CNN combined.
“Thank you Mr President, Attorney General Bondi, and Director Patel,” Bongino wrote on X in a post after Trump’s announcement.
Trump said in his social media announcement on Sunday that Bongino is “willing and prepared to give up” the podcast “in order to serve”.
“Fairness, Justice, Law and Order will be brought back to America, and quickly,” Trump added.
He said Bongino would do an “incredible job” at the FBI.
Bongino, who has run for Congress three times, hosted the now-president on his daily podcast, The Dan Bongino Show, ahead of last year’s election.
Episodes of his programme from the last week include titles such as “Trump Keeps Delivering And The Libs Are Seething” and “The Only People Who Love Crime Are Criminals!!!”
Talking about his career as a prolific conservative political commentator, Bongino said in 2018: “My life is all about owning the libs now.”
Bongino’s new FBI boss Patel was last week narrowly confirmed by the Senate to the lead the law-enforcement agency that he has long attacked.
Democrats had warned he would seek retribution against Trump’s enemies, although the former prosecutor has denied any plans to pursue political vendettas and has promised to “rebuild” the bureau.”
Just when you think he couldn’t find any more less qualified whack jobs to do jobs that are important and over their head.