Top of the week to everyone in my reading path of destruction. I thought I'd jazz up my intros a bit in order to seize your attention and keep you reading. I have yet another rather evil plot in mind to seduce you into continuing to peruse this page.
Before I let loose about things of a rather urgent nature, I shall first fill you in on the battle of the Fitbits which has been unfolding here for about a month. For those just tuning into this dreck for the first time, I will give a super quick overview, which is not in my nature.
The Child (my son – not President Trump, although that is a TREMENDOUS description) purchased Fitbits for Perpetual (life partner) and me. These are watch-like “deals” that one wears in order to ascertain just how lazy or active he/she is.
That's enough background information. I wrote about this a few weeks back and thought I should bring everyone up to date on the whole sordid situation.
As you might imagine this has led to a major competition, which I covered last time. It has now reached levels of total absurdity, which I shall now explain until you reach for a revolver. The SECOND Perpetual whips through the door—wait, I'm wrong—it's directly AFTER he asks in a nervous manner, “where's my boy?” meaning Todd the Cat, (TTC) of course. OK, after he is assured that TTC has not been murdered in cold blood out of sheer jealousy, he then unloads whatever he has in his hands followed by a dramatic wrist flip (this enables the reading to be taken).
He then begins to blurt out statistics with machine gun firing rapidity. Wow, that was quite a sentence. Anyhow, I hear things like: “35,876 steps! 4.8 miles and 74 flights of stairs!” on a nightly basis.
Mind you, this generally unfolds as I'm plopped on the couch either typing this column, designing an ad, watching my NON corporate online media, listening to something insane coming out of the mouth of President Agent Orange, reading a hideous headline about said president or just generally nesting in one place.
I then feel compelled to leap to attention, scattering cats in the process, and give him every last detail about what MY device on MY wrist has to say. (Picture that being said in the manner of Nellie Olson of Little House on the Prairie fame. I'm really dating myself tonight—not wining and dining or whining and dining, in my case, but referring to old TV shows hence revealing that I'm ancient. Does this count as a digression? I hope so.)
So, there is the update on the battle O the bits, so to speak. I shall now move along to something else and reveal my above-mentioned evil plan. Actually, it has been unveiled because the point was to start bloviating madly about something goofy like the Fitbit jazz, thereby luring you into a false sense of security so that I can talk politics once again! I am fabulous, aren't I?
I'm not really going to discuss politics but I do want to bring just a few things to your attention because I'm certain that most of you have actual lives outside of the home and cannot take in information consistently. Because I work from home, I have the luxury (?) of being kind of stuck with info pouring into my brain in the manner of, well, something involving swift moving water.
If you read last week's piece you should have gathered that we are no longer permitted to identify as right, left, center, progressive, conservative, pinhead, patriot and/or any other political label. Did I forget Democratic party and Republican party? Well, that goes without saying.
While everyone was busy freaking out, clutching pearls and carrying out other acts of outrage, due to what the president tweeted or declared, some serious *&^% has taken place in one of the governmental agencies. Actually in “many, many a tremendous amount of agencies” but this one affects/effects us all. (I still have trouble with those so just go along.)
No matter your affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, hair color, pant size, etc., this will be HIDEOUS for humanity and the animal kingdom. Again, I remind you to drop your love for that stupid political identity because it will literally be the death of us all. I don't use the word “literally” unless I mean it literally so keep that in mind. We are in a dangerous era in our history and the environment is crumbling. Other than that, all is delightful.
This creature named Scott Pruitt the new HEAD of the EPA, who was RUSHED through by awful, loathsome, terrible, uncaring, owned members of the Republican machine, will destroy that agency and our AIR and WATER.
You see, my fine brothers and sisters in humanity, no matter what we think of this or that party, etc., we all are forced to live on this planet. (Although several others have been discovered this week so there is still hope of escaping the madness.)
I'm actually going to copy and paste info about this; believe it or not, I shall grab said info from the only agency President Agent Orange loves and admires, which would be the propaganda arm of the Republican party, aka Fox News. They actually got this right (in print version anyway) which happens from time to time to give that air of legitimacy.
Before I proceed, I must say something pertaining to this “fake news” hysteria. “Fake news” doesn't mean any headline with which ardent “Trumpsters” disagree. Just because So and So reports on something accurately but offensively, in terms of the current swamp—I mean administration, does not mean it's phony.
As I've made abundantly clear, I have total issues with corporate media and do not partake in such. However, there are plenty of independent journalists (and outlets) in the field that do NOT qualify as “fake news.” Not to mention but I will, I find the words fake and news to be unimaginative, boring and not very clever. The Trumpsters use it every other minute along with the word “snowflake” just proving how cult-like they are. (Can we talk about snowflakes? I've never seen such an avalanche as President AO. I mean thinned skinned doesn't even begin to describe. I've done it again and in parenthesis.)
Whew, I'm done and will now plunk the info from FAUX so-called News here:
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt worked closely with major oil and gas producers, electric utilities and - See Rants page 15
Rants - from page 3
political groups to roll back numerous environmental regulations during his time as Oklahoma’s attorney general, new records reveal.
An Oklahoma judge ordered the release of thousands of emails between Pruitt and fossil fuel companies like Koch Industries and Devon Energy last week -- after he and the state AG's office were accused of ignoring multiple records requests.
The group that sought the emails, the Center for Media and Democracy, pointed to the messages to accuse Pruitt of being too close to the industries he'll now regulate.
“The newly released emails reveal a close and friendly relationship between Scott Pruitt’s office and the fossil fuel industry,” Nick Surgey, research director at CMD, said in a statement Wednesday.
The emails were released days after Pruitt was narrowly confirmed by the Senate to lead the EPA. Pruitt was an outspoken critic of the agency's policies during the Obama administration, and the emails shed light on how he fought against its regulations.
One email showed that American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers coordinated opposition in 2013 to both the Renewable Fuel Standard Program and ozone limits with Pruitt’s office.
CMD said the group provided Pruitt with "template language" for an Oklahoma petition, under the assumption that the argument "is more credible coming from a State."
Pruitt filed opposition to both the RFS and ozone limits in 2013.
Other emails highlight the apparently close relationship Pruitt had with Devon Energy. The company helped Pruitt draft language in a letter he sent to the EPA about the limiting of methane from oil and gas fracking, according to CMD.
Devon also helped organize a meeting between Pruitt, coal industry lawyer Paul Seby and Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society to create a “clearinghouse” that would “assist AGs in addressing federalism issues.”
Devon defended its relationship with Pruitt, telling Fox News that its ties were "consistent -- and proportionate -- with our commitment to engage in conversations with policymakers on a broad range of matters that promote jobs, economic growth and a robust domestic energy sector."
In another email dated August 2013, Matt Ball, an executive at Americans for Prosperity, sent Pruitt an email thanking him and his “respective bosses and all they are doing to push back against President Obama’s EPA and its axis with liberal environmental groups to increase energy costs for Oklahomans and American families across the states.”
Pruitt was confirmed to head up the EPA after a lengthy floor debate in the Senate. Democrats blasted him for vowing to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations and took issue with past comments he made where he challenged the science behind climate change.
*Republicans, fed up with over-regulation, argued Pruitt was the right candidate to scale back the size and reach of the EPA.
Pruitt delivered his first remarks to EPA employees on Tuesday, urging them to "avoid" regulatory "abuses" and balance economic and environmental needs.
“We as an agency and we as a nation can be both pro-energy and jobs and we can be pro-environment, and we don’t have to choose between the two,” Pruitt said.
It was on the eve of his confirmation that Pruitt was ordered by the judge to turn over more than 2,000 documents. Democrats used the development to push for a delay in the vote, but did not succeed.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed efforts to postpone the vote as another delay tactic by Democrats that was “unprecedented, harmful and pointless.”
Arn Pearson, general counsel for CMD accused the AG's office of trying to "evade public scrutiny" by releasing the emails Tuesday night.
Calls to the EPA for comment were not returned.
OK I'm back and wanted to end by saying something about the line before which I put an asterisk (*) at this time. Go back and look so you'll know of what I speak. Boy, I'm getting bossy in my advanced age.
*Republicans being “fed up” blah, blah, blah, is because they are OWNED by “Petro-billionaires” and care not about anything but the bottom line. It is now perfectly fine for coal waste to be dumped near streams and rivers, by the by, which was an executive order signed by Agent Orange about two weeks ago. Nobel-Peace-Prize-Winning-Drone-Dropping Obama had at least tried to prevent such shenanigans by signing an order which would have gone into effect this spring. That is now out the door all because there is a useful idiot in the oval office. Republicans coated with oil with coal dust as a garnish, due to their love fest with their masters in the fossil fuel industry, - See Words page 19
Words - from page 15
will get rid of the EPA, mark my words. In fact, a congressman from Florida has introduced that legislation already.
Buckle up and kiss future generations goodbye. This is what happens when BOTH parties are corporations with one being paid to lose and the other having to gerrymander themselves into victories or purge voters off of rolls in order to win. This has resulted in a giant infant named Donald *&%$# Trump occupying the oval office.
THE END & CROSSCHECK (I'm never letting it go ladies and germs, until those who don the white coats whisk me off into the sunset. Visit: trumpstoleit.org)
P.S. I plead with you to replace the word “regulations” with “consumer protections” in order to fully grasp the reality. The Repubs are TREMENDOUS at PR and have a TREMENDOUS amount of money being poured into right-wing-brainwashing “think tanks.” Remember, I speak from experience as I was able to break free of the Faux News CULT and that's exactly what it is. WOW, I'm really done. XO Peace, love, reach for the gas mask, etc.