Linkee-poo, you house proud town mouse, ha ha, charade you are

Alligators overboard.

"Stephen Colbert honored President George H.W. Bush, who died Friday at the age of 94, with some old clips…" (and while taking a swipe at Trump).

"Olivera was in her last semester of nursing school, and she was assigned to visit a support group that had meaning for her life. She chose a support group for polio survivors, since her son's disease (AFM) and polio are similar."

"A rare polio-like disease is affecting more people around the country, in fact there are six cases in Wisconsin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of November 2018, there are 116 confirmed cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) across 31 states. Studies on the disease began to ramp up in 2014 though the CDC, thus, not enough definitive information is available." Only 90% of AFM cases are children. (Note, several typos in the article.)

"Be it fate, or a stroke of good luck, Daniella Anthony and John Drennan are soon to be reunited with their precious piece of jewellery." Hint to those proposing, get the exact ring size first.

"Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges related to a corruption case involving Israel’s telecom giant, prompting immediate calls for his resignation."

"France’s prime minister on Tuesday suspended planned increases to fuel taxes for at least six months in response to weeks of sometimes violent protests, the first major U-turn by President Emmanuel Macron’s administration after 18 months in office."

Just keep this in mind when conservatives say "elections matter." "Wisconsin Republicans, just weeks away from losing control of both the governor and attorney general's offices, planned dramatic lame-duck votes Tuesday on a sweeping attempt to limit the powers of incoming Democrats, a move that opponents decried as a last-gasp power grab and attempt to invalidate the election." They don't believe it at all.

"In a letter sent to the board of elections, North Carolina's Democratic Party made claims of wrongdoing. The Washington Post reported that the State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has already collected at least six sworn statements from voters in Bladen County alleging that people came to their doors and urged them to hand over their absentee ballots." Heinous fuckery most foul. (Grokked from Kelly Link)

"Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. paid her between $75 and $100 to pick up completed absentee ballots for North Carolina's 9th District, the results of which are being officially investigated… Dowless… has been named twice in sworn affidavits as someone who worked for Republican candidate Mark Harris's campaign against Democrat Dan McCready." Looks around for the usual suspects shouting "Voter Fraud" and alls I sees are crickets (to mix my metaphors).

"Former FBI James Comey retreated from his demand for an open hearing before the House Judiciary Committee and reached a deal to testify in private, his lawyer said Sunday."

"Special counsel Robert Mueller is set to reveal the extent of Michael Flynn's cooperation and insights into the dealings of Russians with the Trump campaign and administration… In the court filing due by midnight Tuesday, Mueller's team could also nod toward the next criminal indictments in its sights."

"An angry President Donald Trump on Monday called for his ex-personal lawyer Michael Cohen to receive a stiff prison sentence for his admitted crimes, as he accused Cohen of making up 'stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself… Trump in a Twitter tirade also accused special counsel Robert Mueller of seeking 'lies' from witnesses about Trump — and praised his longtime associate Roger Stone as having the "guts" to withstand pressure from Mueller's prosecutors to 'make up stories' about the president." Michael Cohen, if what he has said is true and can be backed up, implicates the president in campaign finance fraud (as well as corroborating the stories about Trump's deals with the Russians to build a hotel in Moscow). I'm sure there's more that "the president's fixer" knows, which is why Trump is acting frightened. It's because he is. Stone has been skirting the legal system for decades, my guess is Mueller will come after him with a sheaf full of indictments should he refuse to cooperate. And my guess is, Mueller might just throw Stone to the courts first and wait until he begs to cooperate. The circle tightens.