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Sleep in Saturday

FWIW, guy at work has bro-in-law in Philly who says rumor is Phiilly trades Foles, Wendell Smallwood, and Philly 1st to Buffalo for Cordy Glenn, one of Bills 1st, and Bills 3rd from Browns.

I was OK with it. It’s expected that extra time would be given to the death of a character whose been there from the start, and who is the most consequential death for Rick. All he has left is Shane’s kid.

I never realized that all those years of kneeling in church, I was actually disrespecting Jesus. If the owners don’t like it, they can bench or cut those players. Let’s see just how important it is to them if it costs their team some wins.

I used to enjoy when Jerry Sullivan was on WGR. I think at some point WGR management decided to stop having local newspaper media on. Don’t know why. Do they get an appearance fee? Regardless, Jeremy was right about the tank and made a tough time enjoyable. Those that try to conflate the tank with the rebuild and the attitude of current players, most of whom weren’t on the team for the tank, are wrong. Harrington must be trying to get people to reply to him by continuing this false narrative.

Had one on my back that had changed color, but turned out non-cancerous. The shots to kill the pain hurt the worst, a burning feeling. Doctor went a bit deep with the cuts to make sure he got it all. A few of stitches and it left a small scar.

That’s good, he took 2 steps

Not Billsy but Ballsy.

BIllsy

If that’s the Bills on D they’d throw a flag.

It's a nice city to walk around near the lake. Marquette University has a nice campus right on the main street just outside of the downtown business area.

I made chili.

AT&T laid off 4,000 Macy's 10,000 GE 12,000 Carrier's laying off 215 more after Trump promised to protect them Walmart's laying off thousands Toys R Us is closing 180 stores 40,000 tourism jobs lost in #TrumpSlump Kimberly-Clark's using their tax cut to pay the costs of laying off 5,500 #ThatsWinning?

Congressmen should invite all the women who Trump sexually harassed to the State of the Union as their guests. Trump thought it was OK to do for Bill Clinton for one of the debates, so it would only be fair.

Oh boy, Jell-O man is going to be spanked with a Forbes magazine by President Kelly and VP Miller when he gets back to the empty White House (Melania is in seclusion in Florida to avoid “Stormy” weather). Trump went off his handler’s message by saying he’d be for a path for citizenship for Dreamers. They’ll remind him that empathy is counter to his base’s groupthink, and he’ll send a contradictory tweet as he does weekly.

A former Steelworkers union leader has blasted Donald Trump as a “con man,” an “idiot” and a “liar” as Indianapolis air-conditioning and furnace company Carrier Corp. laid off 215 more workers Thursday. The company has sent a third of its jobs to Mexico since Trump boasted a year ago about a $7 million state tax incentive deal for the company to keep jobs in the U.S. “I think everybody ought to respect the president of the United States and the office he holds. But Donald Trump is a liar and an idiot,” Chuck Jones, former president of United Steelworkers 1999, said at an Indianapolis town hall meeting on Wednesday that was streamed live on Facebook. “When he was saying these jobs would not be leaving this country, not at any point in time did he say, ‘I’m bringing back my jobs I’ve got outside the country. I’m going to bring back my daughter’s jobs,’” added Jones, referring to overseas manufacturing for Trump and Ivanka Trump products. “He’s a pure and simple con man ... and I’m sorry people bought into his message. He sold us a bag of ****, and now we’re stuck with it,” Jones added, The New Yorker reported. “He got up there and for whatever reason, lied his ass off,” Jones said at the time. “Trump and Pence, they pulled a dog-and-pony show with the numbers.” Jones was joined at the Good Jobs Nation town hall by several angry Carrier workers. “We all didn’t expect 100 percent [of jobs] to be saved,” said Duane Oreskovic, master assembly worker. “That was a given. But we expected a lot more to be saved than what was told, that he promised.” Speakers also questioned why no one in the administration seemed concerned about the loss of other Steelworker union jobs. One speaker asked about Carrier’s other 700 jobs in Huntington. Rexnord Corp., also in Indianapolis, closed in November. Jobs from both of the companies were sent to Mexico. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a57e57ee4b0720dc4c59342

Now that the #TrumpShutdown is over, hopefully the Republicans finally learned that the best way to get a bipartisan agreement is to keep Jell-O man and his minions on the sidelines. Still ridiculous that with control of WH, Senate, and House, the Republicans still can’t come up with a budget, and keep kicking it down the road with CRs, which the military has said is harmful. Now we’ll see if McConnell can keep his word and get legislation on Dreamers by the time the CR expires, or else the Democrats will have to again force the issue that 80% of Americans support. Of course the White House had to take some despicable actions. The Trump campaign committee ran an ad conflating the Dreamer issue by saying Democrats would be responsible for any murders committed by illegal aliens. By that logic, Republicans supported by the NRA would be responsible for any domestic gun related deaths. And Pence made the despicable speech in front of troops in the Middle East saying Democrats were keeping the soldiers from being paid during the #TrumpShutdown, when in fact the Democrats offered resolutions to continue pay, but McConnell blocked it. This past week has shown Americans that the Republicans, with control of the WH and Congress, can’t be trusted and are incapable of running the government.

Played first chair cowbell in his high school orchestra.

5 Republican senators voted against the CR. Even Republicans can’t tell from day to day what Jell-O man is willing to support. He’s been MIA this weekend, leading from behind. After Trump met with senators and agreed to a deal, acting President Kelly and VP Miller whispered in his ear that his base is more important than the 80% of Americans and Congressmen who support Dreamer protection. Even some of Trump’s supporters are for it. Graham and Durbin should get a bag of cheeseburgers and a Stormy Daniels DVD, and invite Trump to a slumber party so they can keep him from being misled by his far-right advisors. A stand-alone Dreamer protection bill would easily pass in both houses with bipartisan support, but the Republicans insist on appeasing their far right members with the pedophile Hastert rule. And shame on McConnell for denying payments to the military. Democrats have twice proposed continuing payments, but he won’t allow it to be voted on, thus holding the military hostage. #TrumpShutdown

Covers himself with honey and seeds, and walks around his neighborhood as a mobile squirrel feeder.

GOP controls WH, Senate & House. Trump unnecessarily ended Dreamer protections. Trump promised The #DreamActNow. GOP let #CHIP expire. GOP tried to use CHIP as blackmail. Trump REJECTED bipartisan bill to #ProtectDREAMers. GOP now trying to blame DEMOCRATS for a #RepublicanShutDown. Make no mistake this is a #TrumpShutdown.

Campaign Trump: "Mexico will pay for the wall!" President Trump: "I will shut down the government until America pays for the wall!" #TrumpShutdown

Trump allowed the government to shutdown due to his inconsistent positions, and inability to stick to agreements made with Democrats. He’s trying to blame Democrats, when in fact he previously said it was the president who was ultimately to blame for a lack of an agreement to fund the government. https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/administration/369756-trumps-comments-blaming-obama-for-2013-government-shutdown-resurface%3famp President Trump's comments about the 2013 government shutdown during the Obama administration have resurfaced as the federal government races toward a shutdown of its own. Trump spoke to "Fox & Friends" in 2013 and was asked who would be fired during a government shutdown, as shown in a clip posted by "Morning Joe." "Well, if you say who gets fired it always has to be the top," Trump said. "I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top and the president's the leader. And he's got to get everybody in a room and he's got to lead." He said that further down in history, "when they talk about the government shutdown, they're going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the president was at that time." "They're not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head the Senate, who's running things in Washington," Trump said. "So I really think the pressure is on the president," he added.