The last couple of weeks of fifth grade were spent helping Moss Welch, the teacher - a big, tall gal with a booming voice, winningsmile, and terrific attitude who really liked kids - prepare for her annual pilgrimage from Southern CA to Hawaii, where she'd lose herself for the summer. During prep time we learned about and how to hula and sing the hukilau song:

A huki huki huki huki hukilau
Everybody loves the hukilau
Where the laulau is the kaukau at the luau
We throw our nets out into the sea
And all the amaama come a swimming to me
Oh, we're going to a hukilau
A huki huki huki hukilau

"Free Fallin''"

Twas at Gettysburg, on the River of Dreams in Vineland ... New Jersey. People don't know this, maybe they don't teach it, the commies, no, it's real. I read, a lot. A very much a lot. So Vineland. That's the place where in New Jersey those big, blond, strong, and ... ahhhhhhhhhhh ... handsome Vikings settled. Why does nobody know this? In adobe huts built by illegal Aztecs. In Vineland and Teaneck and Hoboken and some other places. I'll give you a list. Not now. Later. And so it was a dark night. Very dark. Very, very, much more than just dark dark. So dark that when Apollo Creed pulled himself up out of the water and onto the dock, well, have you seen that guy's muscles? Anyway, they were black. His muscles. They were black. And so I think maybe that day I was riding with one of Apollo Creed's muscles. Or something. That's what some people are saying.
~ Donald "Who You Gonna Believe?" Trump

Coming from the Trump outfit?

Trump himself is a bit weak in this area.

"When approached by a Post reporter, Jeremiah declined to comment, citing the sensitive nature of family matters. Instead, he requested to pray over the reporter, thanking God for her desire for the truth' before veering into a personalized prediction: She was meant to help small children.'"

"He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason"
Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry

Just setting the record straight.

A few months back: "Claims that Jan. 6 rioters are political prisoners' endure. Judges want to set the record straight."

Corporal Wite-Out blowing it out his pie-hole again, between dabbing on his eyeliner?

Jeez, Louise, you can't make this clown flukery up.

Three people.
Two-and-a-half brains.
One worm.

It will be calibrated, carefully. The Dems are running a serious national campaign. The GOPers? They're waiting for old Norma Desmond down at Mar-a-Lardo to get over the sulks and get to work. Good luck with that.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That helicopter Orville and Wilbur Wright put together for the 2048 Olympics in Tijuana was a beaut, I'll tell you. I worried about how we would do against the land sharks right down to my genes. Levi's, beeg poosie model, triple-x lardo, tight fit but, boy, do I look sleek or what, huh? Oh, right, that UFO ride with James Brown. Man ... but now that I'm making it all l up again I wonder: maybe, was it Tina Brown? Or Joe E. Brown. Well, I remember it like it was tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow. Which would be ... today. Still got it, huh? Huh?"

#30
"Commies"

Lol

Nothing was actually "deciphered" at Gobekli Tepi, as the piece suggests. There are, however, some informed guesses, which is pretty good this early in the game. Gobekli Tepe is an astonishing place, very early and loaded with mojo, destined to be the site of excavations for many years to come.

Exactly.

Fake hillbilly and failed Eddie "Gee, Your Kitchen Always Looks So Clean" Haskell cosplayer is a stalker? Who knew JayDee could become so supine before Trump he has to attempt to emulate him by playing half-arshed Leetle Poosie to uber-stalker Beeg Poosie?

A grubby fake hillbilly techbro playing second banana to Fat Liberace, the thirty-four times convicted felon, really isn't a good look.

That's the worm talking.
~ The Worm

Trump won't voluntarily step away from the campaign. Without it, he's nothing. Just a fat old loon hanging out with a bunch of other self-congratulatory fat old bores in Palm Beach - about as claustrophobically retro a place as it gets. No, he'd have to have someone coax him into the rubber room or actually drop a net on him while he's meandering along in search of his next Big Mac. And nobody around him has the stones for that. Remember, they're just leetle posies; he's the beeg poosie.

Fat Liberace is frustrated that the old lounge act is so tired, as motheaten as Mar-a-Lardo's frayed, sun-faded fools-gold colored drapery.

The old boy has really slipped whatever was left of his moorings. Guess nobody in that dysfunctional family is either capable of or interested in organizing an intervention to save him further embarrassment. From the article:

George Conway ... tweeted a question to Trump's campaign staff and his children: "Are you guys gonna get this guy the help he so obviously needs, or are you all just there to cash his checks?"

Conway recently launched a new political action committee, the Anti-Psychopath PAC, which he says will "highlight the existential threat Donald Trump poses to democracy and remind voters of the former president's mental unfitness for office."

Rick Wilson, founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political organization, tried to explain the Trump post: "I promise you, Trump is watching this rally and throwing --- against the wall, absolutely losing his [bleeping] mind," Wilson tweeted. "He hates how good she's getting. He hates that the audience that looks like America instead of a convention of inbred catalytic-converter thieves."
...
"These are the ravings of a madman,"tweeted Democratic political strategist Simon Rosenberg. "We are here now everyone. Trump is gone. It's a serious matter and we cannot look away anymore. After his disastrous week last week, where he repeatedly embarrassed himself, his campaign has taken him off the trail. His campaign knows."

What a bunch of weirdos.

AU
The Republicans have so neutered themselves in service to Trump and his whims that they can't mount a serious effort to expand their vote beyond their existing base.

Ellis seems like a pretty decent catch for the prosecutors. There was no way they'd latch onto any of tne "brains" of the enterprise - Giuliani, Meadows, et. al. - who have other, enormous problems to deal with. But she probably saw and heard quite a bit involving that band of bozos. Should any in the AZ crop ofthose indicted have anything of interest to offer the prosecution, now's the time.