5 Thoughts for January 12, 2017

1. Snow Week?: The snow showers have stopped, but the temperatures aren't supposed to get above freezing until Saturday. Does that make it a snow week in the Portland Metro area? We've got 10" of snow and it ain't going anywhere anytime soon. Trees coming down every other block. At least it's now sunny and bright!
   

   

   See the tree that fell from heavy snow?
2. The Emperor's Shift: Today, the Emperor conducted his first press conference in over two months. When faced with the leaks of Russian hacking, he finally acknowledged, "I think it was Russia." Progress! In another year, he'll acknowledge that the phone in his hand is a computer.
3. Jeff Sessions: There are many reasons to hate his appointment (racism, gender equality, etc.). In Oregon, Washington, and many other states, his threat of increasing marijuana criminal enforcement is probably the biggest reason to hate Sessions. I don't partake so it doesn't affect me, but it should be noted that this is yet another showing of the differences between a Hillary Administration and The Emperor's. I'm going to keep bashing this into your brains, Bernie supporters who said that The Emperor and Hillary were the same.
4. The Emperor's Cheering Section: This. When you need a cheering section during a press conference, you've got some serious problems and you're going to be in deep psychological funk when shit hits the fan. Being President is pretty darn tough -- just look at the explosion of gray hairs on every guy who has assumed office -- but if you can't handle the press without a cheering section, oh man.
5. The Republic of Plagiarists: Wow. Intellectual fraud, much? First, we had Melania Trump doing it, then it was Monica Crowley, and now it's Ben Carson. No wait, it's weirdly quite fitting of the incoming administration to be full of intellectual fraud.