Weber County Forum 2017 New Year's Eve Special

Taking all of the below into account, have a happy 2017, Weber County Forum Readers!

Thanks to our ever sharp-eyed and alert Facebook friend Michelle Palmer Hischi, here's an abbreviated list of the great "souls" of our "material world, who checked off the "Mortal Coil" ln the year 2016:



Yer blogmeister is rooting for San Francico, California, BTW::

• Top Places to Spend New Year's Eve

Added bonus, via the Washington Post:

• Trump has released a malevolent spirit upon the land. Happy new year!

So sorry, Trump nitwits, as you stand by your Crackpot Politics, and turn America spinning into ruin;

• Donald Trump declares 'Let it be a nuclear arms race' with Russia.

Great New Years graphic, by the way:

Taking all of the above into account, here's hoping your Mormon food supplies are fully in place!

And remember, people, the lessons of my generation, learnt back in the sixties,when we had "hide under your desk drills"  to avoid nuclear holocaust." It's all still relevant.  now that this saber-ratting Dumbass president-elect Trump is about to be annointed  as "Dear Leader" on January 20:

• How to survive a nuclear Attack

Otherwise... have a happy 2017, Weber County Forum Readers!

Breaking: Crackpot Republicans Just Banned The 1st Amendment On The Floor Of Congress

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard -- H. L. Mencken 

Bad news for democracy,via the Occupy Democrats website:

Here's the disturbing lede:

As if the American people needed any more warning that House Republicans were set to commit even more heinous acts of legislative terrorism once Donald Trump is sworn in, they just passed a bill to ban Democrats from filming or photographing the debates in the House Chamber. The proposed legislation would refer members of the House to the Ethics Committee and would levy [huge] fines against those who would record Congressional business.

And here's the gist:

It’s a clearly undemocratic move to shield the Republican-strangled House from the things they are already salivating at the thought of doing – like gutting Social Security and Medicare, and replacing them with a for-profit voucher system, repealing Obamacare, privatizing veteran’s healthcare, opening up our national parks for fossil fuel developers, cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, passing abortion bans, deregulating Wall Street, slashing taxes for the rich and the wealthy…the list goes on and on. So much is at stake here, and the public MUST be aware of just exactly what these spineless, honorless cowards are planning to do to the working people of this country.

Read up, people:

• Republicans Just Banned The 1st Amendment On The Floor Of Congress

As one of our Weber County Forum friends wisely opined this afternoon, "You know, I think a good rule of thumb is this: if you're a Congressperson or Senator doing something on the job you would be ashamed/embarrassed/damaged by if your constituents saw you doing it, maybe you shouldn't be doing it."

Prepare for an unprecedented onslaught on American civil liberties, people, as cretins like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell prepare to serve their corporate masters, and do their dirty deeds entirely behind closed doors.

Here's our sodden closing quote, as we contemplate all this:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard -- H. L. Mencken

Happy 2017, people.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. the Last Great Republican President

I liked Ike!

Dwight D. Eisenhower.. the last Republican President who gave a crap about the people he governed:

For my own part, I liked Ike!

Howbout you?

Tuesday Morning Technology Special: Miraculous Misfortune-Telling Trump Machine; Plus an Online Trump Inauguration Countdown Clock

Pretty cool, huh?

A Trump fortune-telling machine trolls New York with predictions of a Donald J. Trump Presidency:

Here's the grotesque raw picture:

Check out the full video, peeps:



And take look at this handy online utility WCF Readers:

• Trump inauguration Countdown Clock

This countdown clock displays the remaining time until GOD EMPEROR TRUMP is sworn into office as the 45th president of the United States of America.

Pretty cool, huh?

Merry Christmas, Everyone! - Updated

Dang! And for a wile there, we agreed with crackpot US legislative Republicans, and wrongly believed that Christmas was a "Christian" holiday:

• Adam Ruins Everything Explains the Pagan Origins of Christmas

Don't chafe your but with your bicycle seat, WCF readers, HAHAHA!!!!



Have a safe and sane Christmas holiday, folks!

And YES; have a Very Merry Christmas!

Update 12/26/16: It was a big job, but somebody had to do it! Hope you're having a beautiful Christmas Day!:

2016 Christmas Eve Special

Merry Christmas, etc.

Just a few Christmas eve -oriented items, peeps, via the ever-irreverant Daily Kos:

• Silent F*cking Night
• 21 Ayn Rand Christmas Cards
• Barack Obama's remarks at his last White House Hanukkah party are just exceptional
• Rick Santorum's campaign sent Hanukkah greetings with New Testament message
• Fox News dreams of a Very White Christmas
• Corey Lewandowski actually says Trump presidency means 'you can say Merry Christmas again'
• Good samaritan books hotel rooms for homeless on Christmas day, hotel cancels rooms
• It's not beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Dispatch From the War on Christmas
• My top ten obscure or semi-obscure Christmas songs</
• An alternative Christmas carol in case you're sick of the tape loops at the mall

Whew! after this barrage of uplifting Christmas items, hopefully revving  up your Christmas spirit, here's our Christmas Wish for YOU!

Merry Christmas, etc.

Update 12/24/16 3:15 pm:

• Weekend Update: Adam Sandler and the Hanukkah Song - Saturday Night Live

Remember, people.  Jesus Christ was also a jew, just like Adam Sandler, lol!

Weber County Forum Santa Wish-list

Here's my pre-Christmas wish list for Santa.  Please bring  somebody like this awesome world leader in our collective American Christmas stockings.

Justin Trudeau - Prime Minster of Canada:



Thanks in advance, Santa!

Standard-Examiner: Ogden Police Chief to Retire; New Chief to be Announced Wednesday - Updated

So who will Be Ogden's Next Top Cop?

BYE-bye Sheriff Arpaio

OGDEN — After more than 30 years serving the Ogden Police Department, Chief Mike Ashment is retiring and the city plans to announce his replacement Wednesday.
Ashment, who became chief in March 2012, plans to retire once the new chief is selected and approved. Though the announcement will be made this week, the Ogden City Council must officially approve the appointment during its meeting Jan. 3, 2017.

• Ogden police chief to retire; new chief to be announced Wednesday

So who will be Ogden's next Top Cop?

Sodden "prediction" from the ever-savvy Bob Becker down in the Standard-Examiner comments section

"I hear Joe Arpaio  is looking for work."

Update 12/21/16 12:46 a.m.: Looks like Jo0e Arpaio is S.O.L:

• Randy Watt named new chief of Ogden Police Department

Breaking: The World Keeps Making Fun of Donald Trump

Donald Trump hates his satirical portrayal on Saturday Night Live. Unfortunately for him, the rest of the world is making the same jokes.

Check out some great international Trump video parody, folks:

Absolutely priceless, no?

Don't laugh your asses off too hard, people, whilst America falls under the spell of the Trump "Iron Hand."

Breaking: Rob Bishop’s Utah Public Lands Initiative Defeated

The only pending question: How can can conscientious Utahns drive this fatass corporate-funded slut Rob Bishop outta the US congress?

Great news peeps

Here's the lede:

The 114th House of Representatives is history, taking its last votes of the year on December 8th. Unsurprisingly, Utah Republican Representative Rob Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative (PLI) did not come up for a vote. With only a single House co-sponsor (Jackass Utah Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz), and without a Senate sponsor, the bill failed to gain much-needed support, even among anti-public lands loyalists.

Thanks to solid and wide-ranging opposition from Native American tribes, the conservation and recreation communities, and two of the Utah counties the bill purported to represent, the PLI’s threat to Native American sovereignty and Utah’s wild public lands is, for now, put to rest.

Read up, peeps:

• Rob Bishop’s Utah Public Lands Initiative Defeated

The only pending question: How can can conscientious Utahns drive this fatass corporate-funded slut Rob Bishop outta the US congress?

Beaking: Sarah Palin To Give Trump Daily Unintelligence Briefings

And NO! we are not making this up:

• Sarah Palin To Give Trump Daily Unintelligence Briefings

Fake news? Maybe So; Then again,maybe Not.

We're filing this under the the heading of Humor and Parody, for the time being, Peeps.

Watch out however for further updates on this topic.

Crimson and Clover Redux

Out there in the ozone layer, your blogmeister became fascininated by this cute ditty:

We'd been haunted by this little ditty for years:

• Crimson and Clover:  Tommy James and the Shondells

Then we found this:

• Crimson and Clover Joan Jett

We're on the path to even greater renditions of Crimson and Clover, wethinks, LOL!

Say hello to Crimson Clover, in the flesh.

Hubba-hubba, no?

Breaking: Totally Uneducated Rick Perry Will Replace a Nuclear Physicist as Secretary of Energy

Total GOP dumbass Rick Perry will replace an actual  nuclear physicist as Secretary of Energy:

Donald J. Trump's nominee for Energy Secretary Rick Perry is banking on glasses and muteness to alter the perception that he is an idiot, aides say.

Here's the ridiculous main story: Rick Perry, Ex-Governor of Texas, concerning Trump’s Pick as Energy Secretary.

Rick Perry, Ex-Governor of Texas, Is Trump’s Pick as Energy Secretary

Idiocracy is NOT mere fiction, people, as we learned in the 2016 election...

Carrier Union Leader Receives Threats After Trump Smears Him on Twitter

The plot sickens, people. US democracy stands on the brink of destruction, we think, with Donald Trump poised to assume the mantle of "leader of the USA," fewer than 45 DAYS hence

US democracy is on the brink of destruction, we think, with Donald Trump poised to assume the mantle of "leader of the USA," fewer than 45 DAYS hence

Via my politically smart FB friend Steve Gurr who sez this: "Trump gets caught lying and immediately attacks the person who outted him. Then the StormTrumpers come out of the woodwork. Welcome to the new America."

Read up, peeps:

• Carrier union leader receives threats after Trump smears him on Twitter

And Mr Jones's terrible transgression against Der Fuhrer-elect Donald Trump? Here's the key story from the Washington Post, which set Mr. Trump's latest twitter lambasting afoot:

• He ‘lied his a– off': Carrier union leader on Trump’s big deal

The plot sickens, inasmuch as Trump will become the "Dear leader of the USA," fewer than 42 DAYS hence.

Check out our soon to be published countdown clock in the right sidebar, for the exact timing, people.

Here it is now, for the time being, however, just so's you can revise your Last Wills and Testaments, and get your plans made for when you move to Canada:

• Inauguration Of President Trump Countdown Clock

New Republic: Obama Can and Should Put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court

A word to the wise ought to be sufficient, we hope

Throw a wrench into the sytsem, Obama

Waiver: a very tantalizing legal concept, NO??? http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/waiver
I definitely concur with the politically savvy application of this tactic. Howbout you, WCF readers????

Read up:

• Obama Can and Should Put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court

Just do it, Obama: Come January, you will be consigned to the sidelines as Trump occupies the Oval Office and begins the work of dismantling your legacy. But there is one action that you could take on January 3, 2017 that could hold off some of the worst potential abuses of a Trump administration for a year or more, or perhaps indefinitely. You can lawfully appoint your nominee Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court,in between the two sessions of Congress.

A word to the wise ought to be sufficient, we hope.