In TPV land the week starts now and then, and mostly then, lately. But here comes what fell through the hole these past seven days:
Tuesday, January 19, the rest of the American space outside Flint, Michigan, learned that Governor Rick Snyder, spent a lot of time ignoring the plight of people who do not vote for him.
“Dead or alive, they are the same to me and my dreams of betterment,” Governor Rick was heard telling friends and family.
Wednesday, January 20, filmmaker Michael Moore asked Snyder to resign and move to jail. As of today, Moore was still waiting for Snyder in front of the jail.
Thursday, January 21, Hillary Clinton became very upset when she was accused she was in cahoots with the big banks.
The big banks are bigger than ever. They are in no cahoots with them. I am too small for them. As a result of mergers coming in the crisis, the six biggest banks now have more than $10 trillion in assets, an amount equal to 60 percent of GDP. Today no one expects Dodd-Frank to end the problem of too big to fail. Who is that stupid to believe in fairy tales? No government would allow JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs to go under today. Of course, unless you are the Bernie administration, but my friends will keep that option unlikely.
Friday, January 22, Iran banned the use of the word “wine” as well as the names of “foreign animals” and “certain foreign presidents”.
The Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is imposing the ban to counter a “Western cultural onslaught”.
Mohammad Selgi, head of book publishing at the ministry, said:
“When new books are registered with us, our staff first has to read them page by page to make sure whether they require any editorial changes in line with promoting the principles of the Islamic revolution, effectively confronting the Western cultural onslaught and censoring any insult against the prophets. Those insults are: pig, wine, laugh, joke, smoke, Santa, clown, Bush, bush, Denmark, Van Gogh, Dutch, white, woman, naked, beautiful, young, horny, rubbish, nonsense, ass, donkey, asinine, and prof.”
Saturday, January 23, Donald Trump invested $10 million in a demonstration of a-grammatical English performed by a native speaker, Ms. Sarah Palin, who no one remembered how she got hired in any position in the first place.
Sunday, January 24, the Northeastern blizzard was gone. Dogs were able to poo and pee out in the streets again.
Monday, January 25, 2016, President Obama talked to Politico’s Glenn Thrush and said,
“I feel the pain of the Republican voter. In 2008, John McCain was a conservative, but he was well within, you know, the mainstream of not just the Republican Party but within our political dialogue,” Mr. Obama told Politico. Today the Republican rhetoric and Republican vision has moved, not just to the right, but has moved to a place that is unrecognizable. It has moved into Trump’s hair, and there, you just don’t go.”
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