Seldom Balanced – Usually Fair
From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:
Afterward, Pelosi summmed it up perfectly:
“It’s like a manhood thing for him. As if manhood could ever be associated with him. This wall thing.”
And that, Scissorheads, is how you counter-punch with a bully.
Yeah, I know we talked about this yesterday, but the Pelosi quote is just perfect, and it would be remiss of us to not include it in her Permanent Record.
From Iron Knee at Political Irony:
If you really want to see someone as dumb as a rock, consider that Trump decided to hold a negotiating session on live TV with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Which he not only lost badly, but he spent a bunch of time mansplaining to Pelosi. Yeah, that will surely win back women voters!
Next, Schumer set a simple trap for Trump and he fell for it. Yup, dumb as a rock.
But Trump is not just dumb.
From Julian Sanchez of Cato Institute:
THE WALL IS ONE MILE HIGH AND 100 FEET THICK. IT IS MADE OF PURE STEEL. THE KING OF MEXICO GAVE ME GOLD BULLION TO PAY FOR IT. THERE IS NO NEED TO CHECK THESE EXTREMELY TRUE FACTS.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) December 13, 2018
From Neil Bamforth at MadMikesAmerica:
Brexiteers wish everybody well except for Remainers, as Remainers wish the same except to Brexiteers. American Democrats wish everyone well except for Republicans and vice versa. Kim Jong-Un wishes everybody well except for anybody he is about to execute. The Saudi’s wish everybody well except for journalists they decide to murder.
Islamic State wishes everybody well except for everybody they are planning to blow up or decapitate. Vladimir Putin wishes everybody well except for anybody on the list for being poisoned by Russian agents who are really just sightseeing.
China wishes everybody well except for those pesky dissidents who they have locked up and anybody in Tibet. President Trump wishes everybody well except for anybody who he doesn’t like, which is an alarmingly long list it seems. Christian fundamentalists wish everybody well except for anybody who isn’t a fundamentalist Christian as, of course, do religious fundamentalists everywhere.
Everybody wishes the Scots well except on New Year’s Eve when everybody has to sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’, regardless of not having a clue what it means or what the words are.
From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:
The top official of the top abortion provider in the state of Wisconsin will continue to advise Governor-elect Tony Evers on “health care” despite a demands for her removal from a health care committee.
On Tuesday last week, Evers appointed Tanya Atkinson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin, to his Health Care Advisory Council. The committee, according to parries release from Evers, “will help our transition team put together a comprehensive health care plan that takes steps to increase access to health care coverage, like taking the Medicaid expansion dollars, while bringing down costs.”
The twelve members of the council will advise on policy matters affecting the Department of Health Services, the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, the Department of Employee Trust Funds, and “numerous state boards focused on health care,” according to the Evers press release announcing the appointment of Atkinson and the other members.
The appointment of Atkinson was strongly criticized in a statement by Sen. Dave Craig (R-Big Bend) on Thursday.
From The Journal of Improbable Research:
Broccoli and coffee may be an unusual combination, but so was the combination some decades ago of Broccoli and James Bond, which turned out to be appetizing and lucrative for many people.
From The Onion:
“It’s been a great honor to serve my country and the Trump administration, but nothing is more important than the strong bond shared by two longtime friends, not even a job, so rather than jeopardize that deep connection any longer, I have decided to leave my post,” said Kelly, noting that lately his relationship with the president has been strained due to the boss–employee dynamic they’ve been trying to keep professional over the last year and a half, adding that he looks forward to returning to the days when he and his best friend would spend hours talking on the phone or taking day trips to go antiquing.
From our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit:
Apollo 17 left for the Moon just after midnight, 46 years ago. It was the only night launch and it was the last manned flight out of Earth orbit and to the Moon.
Any hope of continuing died when Nixon was elected. He was as implacably and irrationally hostile to anything championed by John F Kennedy as Trump has been vs Obama.
The Saturn production line was shut down and the expertise lost.
From Chad Orzel, writing for Whatever:
Quantum mechanics is one of the most amazing theories in all of science, full of stuff that captures the imagination: zombie cats, divine dice-rolling, spooky actions over vast distances. Maybe the single most amazing thing about it, though, is that we think it’s weird.
That probably seems a strange thing to say, because quantum physics is so weird, but that’s exactly the point. These are the fundamental principles governing the behavior of everything in the universe, and yet they run completely counter to our intuition about how the world works. If these are the basic rules underlying everything, shouldn’t they make sense? How can the entire universe behave according to strictly quantum laws, and yet we’re not intuitively aware of it?
The answer is that quantum behaviors only become obvious when you’re looking at really small things: the behavior of electrons within atoms, say, or smallish groups of atoms moving slowly. As the things you’re looking at get bigger, their quantum-ness sort of blurs out, and we’re left with objects that, to an excellent approximation, behave according to the rules of Newtonian physics. The everyday, human-scale world, is just too big for us to see quantum physics in action.
At least, that’s what we think
From Andy Borowitz:
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Pushing back against criticism of her lack of diplomatic experience, Donald J. Trump’s choice to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Heather Nauert, said on Friday that a memorable visit to the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disney World made her eminently qualified for the U.N. post.