PUT THE WEIGHT RIGHT ON ME
PUT THE WEIGHT RIGHT ON ME: It’s been a week since I last posted. In the past seven days, my wife was in an automobile accident (rear-ended by a hit and run driver; she’s OK, but our insurance company is still debating whether her car is worth repairing) and our dog died (he was 14 and failing, but we miss him a lot). I apologize for being AWOL while so much is happening. I’ll use this post to catch up on some political news.
I love a good conspiracy theory. They’re usually more interesting than the boring facts. It’s no surprise, then, that I’ve become a “Girther.” I am absolutely convinced that there’s something fishy about Donald Trump’s medical exam, which lists his height as 6’3” and his weight at 239 lbs. Tim Tebow, who played both professional football and professional baseball, is also 6’3” and weighs 236 lbs. If they’re the same height, or even if Trump is an inch or two shorter than he claims, Trump sure looks more than three pounds heavier than Tebow.
At that same physical exam, Trump reportedly also aced the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Good for him, but the MCA is a pretty low bar – check it out at the link below. If you have trouble with those questions, you’re ready for an assisted living facility.
BRING BACK THAT SUNNY DAY: Donald Trump’s porn star paramour has confirmed the Wall Street Journal’s story that she was paid $130,000 in hush money right before the election. Trump’s lawyer set up a shell company in Delaware to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence. The most important question remaining is where that money came from. The least likely option seems to be that Trump paid out of his own pocket. He never spends his own money if other sources of income are available. And even though this is a minor peccadillo compared to conspiring with Russia to steal the election, I hope Robert Mueller’s team investigates the bribe to determine whether Russian money was involved. Another possibility is that he used campaign donations, which might also land him in legal trouble.
YOU KNEW DAMN WELL I WAS A SNAKE BEFORE YOU TOOK ME IN: I’m enjoying one piece of the fallout from the whole sordid Stormy Daniels affair. By continuing to support Trump, Evangelical Christians forfeit any claim to the moral high ground, including their right to criticize Bill Clinton for his liaison with Monica Lewinski. People like Franklin Graham, James Dobson, Robert Jeffress, and Jerry Falwell Jr. stand exposed as godless hypocrites. Jesus (Matthew 23:33) referred to hypocritical religious leaders as a “generation of vipers.”
CAN’T DO SIXTY NO MORE: Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are trying their best to blame Democrats for their failure to fund the federal government. Trump has repeatedly tweeted complaints that it takes 60 votes in the Senate to pass a budget. But the Constitution requires only a simple majority. The 60 vote requirement is just a Senate custom. It has been waived in the past (the so-called “nuclear option”), and it could be waived again.
BUDDY GONNA SHUT YOU DOWN: The truth is that Donald Trump and the Republican Party are responsible for this shutdown. Democrats like government, and want it to work. Republicans, going back to the Newt Gingrich era, are the ones who thump their chests and brag about wanting to blow up the bureaucracy. Their attempts to shift the blame show that they know this shutdown is going to be unpopular. Unfortunately for them, everyone knows that Republicans control the Senate, the House, and the presidency. If they can’t come up with a budget, the weight of that failure should land squarely on them.
http://dementia.ie/images/uploads/site-images/MoCA-Test-English_7_1.pdf