The Trump Presidency in a nutshell...

I am laughing out loud at the fiasco that is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Back in March, Dementia Donny handed a no-bid contract to a company named Atlantic Industrial Coatings to "repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool". Trump chose them without looking at proposals or bids from any other contractor. He said that he consulted with three companies that had worked on his swimming pools, but chose one that had performed work at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va.

“I have a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools. He looked at it. He called me up. He said, ‘Sir, we can do something on it.’”

On May 7, Trump was asked about cost and he said,

"We had estimates to fix it of about $355 million and it was going to take 3.5 years, you can see by the size of it. And so we're going to be able to do it for about ($1.8 million), and it's going to take one week."

He did not say who gave him that $355 million estimate.

On May 21, Trump said,

"I originally thought I'd do it for $2 million or $3 million, just do a base. But now we're fixing up the exterior of it we're doing. So, we'll probably be in it for less than $20 million."

When questioned about handing out a no-bid contract to someone he knew, he said,

"Also, I didn’t give out the contract, ‘Interior’ did, to a contractor I did not know, and have never used before."

So to recap, Trump handed $14,000,000 to a guy that he may, or may not, have known to do a job he said would take 1 week and cost $2,000,000 but ended up taking 6 months. And this is the result...

I can't wait until the "Trump Ballroom" collapses into a pile of rubble...

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With last nights loss, the Red Sox are creeping up (or is it down?) on last place in the American League:

I do not understand how Breslow still has a job...

Anyways, there will be no baseball for me tonight or tomorrow since the Red Sox are in Seattle and the games don't start until 10:00.

I will be sound asleep by then.

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I caught this giant rodent eating the plants my wife has worked hard to grow in her garden.

After I took the picture, I went outside and said, "You kids get off my lawn!" which caused the cheeky bastard to look at me and challenge my authority.

I walked up to him and said, "Git!" and he got. He got as far as the side of the driveway where he stopped and stared at me as if to say, "You wanna go? Cause we can go. We can go right now old man. You don't frighten me."

So I started walking towards him and he sauntered over to my neighbors house where he promptly started eating all their plants.

Giant rodents...

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Here are some links:

• What are they going to do? Bomb them?



• How's that peace agreement going there Donny Boy?



• Looks like European soccer fans like ranch dressing.



• Remember yesterday when I said, "There are a lot of people that think homosexuality is an affront to God and their religion. Forcing those people to participate in some corporate event that is designed so the company can say, "Look at us! We're great!" is wrong"?
  Well, looks like I'm not the only one who thinks that.



• Key line in this story: "When the driver lit his cigarette, the lighter ignited the mixture, causing the explosion."



• Apparently pickleball is not the sedate sport I thought it was.