Look what I had made up yesterday!
This will be hanging in my office on Kenny Loggins Day.
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Its about me.
Kenny Loggins Day
Kenny Loggins Day is approaching quickly. I’ll be working on my Kenny Loggins Day mailing this weekend. Shoot me a message if you in on the mailings.
2nd Grade Jokes
I like sitting with the kids in our school at lunch, they laugh and joke, play games, draw, whatever. It’s a great way to get to know all the kids and they feel so special when the principal is sitting with them playing around. It also helps keep them quieter than normal, which is good since our cafeteria echoes like crazy.
So I was sitting at lunch with a bunch of 2nd graders yesterdays and they were telling silly jokes that make no sense.
What do you call a person who jumps on a trampoline?
Squirrel
What do you call a guy jumping on the moon?
Spaceman
What do you call someone who runs fast?
Cheetah
Now I laughed at everyone of them. Mostly because it was neat to see these kids trying to make up jokes on their own and see where they would go with it. The next joke floored me:
What do you call a flying meatball?
(as he asked this he stabbed one of his meatballs from lunch with his spork and flew it threw the air)
A MEATY-ORE.
IT MADE SENSE!
Not only did it make sense but it sounded like an original joke. I was floored. I almost didn’t laugh at it because I was shocked at how much it made sense. It wasn’t his first joke, and none of his other jokes afterwards made any sense, but man…. that one good joke.
Color me impressed.
PS – Not my meatball drawing. I just snagged it from here: https://aworlddevoured.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/flying-meatball.jpg
WTF
I don’t want to rant about politics for the next four years…. but that may just happen anyways.
KellyAnne Conway and Sean Spicer just blew my mind with their weekend logic. Or lack of.
To see Spicer’s press conference, which wasn’t a conference because he took no questions, but rather ranted and flat out lied, was pretty appalling.
He just flat out lies. First off, that reporter corrected his mistake about the bust in under ten minutes. Which is quicker than Trump corrects his posts. He also is lying about the white tarps, and, well pretty much everything in the rest of the briefing. Even the numbers, the only facts he cites, are wrong. The comments about the CIA speech, well Trump on twitter compared the CIA to Nazis. That was Trump, not the press. And his message wasn’t about support of the CIA, it was patting himself on the back and rambling. With one line about supporting the CIA. Oh, and Trump tried to say god made the rain stop as soon as he spoke at the inauguration, when in fact it continue the whole time. Which is weird to lie about the weather, when the speech was broadcast, but Trump felt the need to.
KellyAnne Conway later went on Chuck Todd to say Spicer wasn’t lying, he had “alternative facts”. Which are just lies. Facts are Facts, not negotiable, not false. She said that we should be talking about a whole slew of other things. What Chuck Todd didn’t point out was that the President didn’t send out Sean Spicer to talk about those things, rather just sent him out to lie and rant about the mediocre size of his crowds.
Look, its hard to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, to believe he will be a good president fighting for all Americans, when he sends his team out there to lie for him, when he lies, even little ones, as president. I don’t want a president that lies, or is upset at the size of his crowds. I want a president that will reach out to the other side, have a conversation with them and try to find some middle ground. That’s what I want out of democratic president, republican president, or independent president. That is what should be expected out of any American President, because they are not beholden to just their base, they should be beholden to all of the American people.
Until Trump at least attempts that, I can’t respect him. So far in his 48 hours he has shown he is thin skinned, willing to lie to members of our intelligence agency, and pretty much lives in his own world where something called “alternative facts” exist.
Old Drawing
From November.
I need to get my scanner back out.
And just like that…
I’m concerned about Jeff Sessions.
Not that there weren’t things to be concerned about before. In fact for the majority of his confirmation hearing he answered how I expected him to answer. Yes I’ll uphold the law. If states laws conflict with Federal laws something needs to change. The AG will uphold Federal laws. Back peddle away from any race questions or questions about his past. Acknowledged that he would uphold laws that he doesn’t agree with as is the responsibility of the AG (Roe vs. Wade).
Sen. Whitehouse: “And a secular person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is religious, correct?”
Sen. Sessions: “Well, I’m not sure.”
Sessions went on to say “We’re going to treat anybody with different views fairly and objectively” but that doesn’t negate his previous comment.
As an atheist this really concerns me. Change the words secular and religious around, or to different religions.
“And a Christian person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Muslim, correct?”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
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“And a Muslim person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian, correct?”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
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“And a Jewish person has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian, correct?”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
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“And a Buddhist Monk has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian, correct?”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
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“And a Hindu has just as good a claim to understanding the truth as a person who is Christian, correct?”
“Well, I’m not sure.”
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Instant Outrage for any of these. At least their should be.
Part of Congressional Hearings is that we should take these people spoken at their word. What they say is what they believe to be the truth. So we should believe Senator Sessions when he says he’s not sure a secular person can understand the truth like a religious person, but he’s sure gonna try hard to believe them anyways. It is particularly worrying when you discover that in 2001 Senator Session rebuked Senator Leahy for swearing in a witness without requiring them to use the phrase “So help me God.” When questioned on it Senator Sessions said “95% of people believe in God.” Even if that is true, swearing on the Bible isn’t a constitutional mandate.
I want to take people on their word. That they will say what they believe. However, that doesn’t seem to be the outlook of this administration. Kelly Anne Conway admitted that herself this weekend. We need to look at people’s hearts, not the words that come out of their mouth. Just ignore those please.