Thank you for supporting DU, and for acknowledging me.

Deal with it. Celebrate it. And notice that with admirable humility, I will make no reference whatsoever to the Red Sox World Series triumph.

While North America shivers painfully with the deadly cold of a freaking Polar Vortex, Down Under they are setting Heat Wave records.

Roads are melting from heat Down Under. Roads are shattering from cold up north.

Still, the republicans lie. And lie. And lie. republican lies about climate change are profoundly dangerous for America. For you. For me. For the world.

republican lies about climate change are profoundly dangerous.

Washington Post story about Aussie snakes seeking toilet refuge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/01/29/its-so-hot-australia-that-snakes-are-seeking-refuge-peoples-toilets/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4d78a0d49723

Fire and Ice BY ROBERT FROST

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

I wish Starbucky would run in the D primary and rise or fall according to his merits. I cannot support him running as an I - which I regard in this case as handing a free ticket to the KGOP republican syndicate as it continues darkside collusion with the frikking Evil Empire* of russia.

That said, Starbucky did get off a deadpan zinger last night in his 60 Minutes TV segment. The reporter asked him how he would reckon with Dirty Donny**s skanky republican Tweets. He said, approximately: "Like most Americans, I'm bored with his tweets."



* per ronald freaking reagan (R)
** republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

From Successful Farming: By Chuck Abbott 1/25/2019

U.S. farmers may receive noticeably less in Trump tariff payments than originally expected, a senior USDA official said on Thursday...

...An estimated two thirds of the Trump payments were made by the start of January, said Agriculture Undersecretary Bill Northey on the Adams on Agriculture program, “a little over $5 billion of the maybe $8 billion that we expect we’ll make in mitigation payments.”

The payments, officially called the Market Facilitation Program, were created by the administration to offset the impact of the trade war on U.S. agriculture.

Link https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/trump-tariff-payment-total-maybe-8-billion

TRANSLATION: KGOP Comrade Dirty Donny* & his republican cronies took and used our hard-earned tax dollars to bribe farmer corporations with freebie handouts to keep them in the republican herd after the republicans screwed them by starting a pointless Trade War and LOSING bigly. The repubes are gaily handing out our money to pacify the farmers, thereby continuing to treat our farmers (and us taxpayers) as Super Suckers. And of course, as the story makes clear, the farmers are not getting what they were promised by the republicans. Typical cheat job (R).

By the way: republicans need to shut up about squandering our hard-earned tax dollars on the impotent medieval wall they want to build. They promised Mexico would pay. Republicans lied about Mexico. They lied to our farmers. And they lied to us.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief & Casino Hustler

Dirty Donny, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, will have his GLORIOUS moment at the podium in America's House, or he will have his evil empire* russian debt holders smash the door and US democracy and rule of law. He's not lying**

* per ronald freaking reagan (R)
** for once

I'm just sayin...