Crazy times.

There was a lot going on in America today.

America wouldn't be America if there wasn't a mass shooting somewhere. And, right on cue, there was one out in California.

Some deranged animal decided to head to a elementary school and kill folks at random before being killed by law enforcement authorities. 

There must be something in the air with some people. Maybe it's the holiday seasons causing folks to lose their minds. Or, maybe it's just the trump presidency. Citizens taking after their leader. 

Anyway, these lunatics among us are not just killing random strangers, they are killing their own family members as well.

Crazy.

Meanwhile, down in Washington....well, let me sum it all up with a brilliant tweet that I found on my twitter timeline.

1. "So in the finale we strip Americans of health care to enrich the yacht rock class and elect a mall pedophile to the Senate while the klansman AG lies to Congress about Russian election tampering." "Wow. That's quite an act. What do you call it?" "The Republicans."'

Shout out to @JuliusGoat for that brilliant piece of analysis. 

Here is one thing we do know: Jeff Sessions is almost as good a liar as his boss. Almost. He says that he doesn't remember, while his boss just says that it never happened. Fake news. Believe what I am saying, not your lying eyes. 

Here is another thing I know: this Russia story is no t going away. Every day there seems to be a  new revelation. 

You did have communications with the Russians last year, isn’t that right? Just yes or no,” Lieu stated.

Sessions responded, “I had a meeting with the Russian ambassador, yes.”

“That’s exactly the opposite answer you gave under oath to the US Senate,” Lieu shot back. “So again either you are lying to the US Senate or you’re lying to the US House of Representatives.”
After being told by the committee chairman that he could respond though time had expired, an incensed Sessions lashed out at Lieu for accusing him of lying:

“I won’t repeat it, Mr. Chairman, but I hope the congressman knows, and I hope all of you know that my answer to that question I did not meet with the Russians was explicitly responding to the shocking suggestion that I as a surrogate was meeting on a continuing basis with Russian officials and the implication was to impact the campaign in some sort of nefarious way. And all I did was meet in my office with the ambassador in which we didn’t discuss anything like that. So I just want to say I appreciate the congressman’s right, I guess he can say free speech, he can’t be sued here. So that’s just my response." 

Mr Mueller, for the sake of our country, please hurry. This craziness is starting to get to all of us.