See how I worked a pun on the time change into a comment on our current political situation. Don’t forget to change your clock today so you and all of us can enjoy that extra hour of Trump. He is our greatest president ever, if you ignore all the others. 

Since Republicans are in charge, set your clocks back to 1897.

Here’s a little something about time to break your brain and use up that extra hour. (11.5 minutes)

Remember as we approach a black hole time slows to nothing. And speaking of black holes, I see Randy Feenstra is officially running for governor. I wonder how that will work when he can’t even do his present job, nor will he hold town halls. If he gets elected will he show up to work? Maybe he doesn’t have the time?

Well, I see it’s time for the quiz. Remember FIWH is Felon In the White House (or what is left of it).

A) Oh where to start – Yesterday the FIWH and Republicans cut off money for what program that 42 million Americans depend on for food?

B) The FIWH promised as much as $40 Billion to Argentina’s Javier Milei if his party won parliamentary elections last Sunday. Did Milei’s party win?

C) Who is Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and what did he do?

D) Playing the FIWH like a fiddle, what Asian leader agreed to buy some soybeans from the US?  

E) Let’s talk time. The reason we “fall back” in November is primarily due to the lobbying of what industry?

F) Oh man, did Ontario Premier Doug Ford ever light up the FIWH last week. What did Ford do?

G) What major population center in Jamaica got mostly spared as the massive hurricane Melissa tracked to the west when it hit the island?

H) As Republicans cut off money for food and jack up health insurance rates, what Democratically led state begins a program of state paid for child care?

I) What administration official used a government airplane to go on a date last week?

J) What two US states do not participate in the madness of twice-a-year time changes?

K) What stinks? say restaurant patrons when what cabinet officer comes in with his ever-present bag of sauerkraut?

L) The hearing for Surgeon General nominee Casey Means was postponed for what reason last week?

M) The economy is chugging – er -sputtering along. What huge company laid off 14,000 workers last week?

N) Not to be outdone what delivery service announced they will have jettisoned 48,000 in 2025?

O) When did the concept of time zones become a reality in the US? 

P) While the FIWH was in Asia last week what national leader that the FIWH is often linked with did not meet with the FIWH?

Q) Unusual Machines – a drone company based in Florida – saw its government business and its stock price soar after it did what?

R) They are sort of like toys, donchya know? The FIWH said he will resume testing (or actually demonstrating) what?

S) Another major shakeup in the US military ranks as Adm. Alvin Holsey resigns from his position as the head of what command?

T) Some may remember that from 1945 to 1966 the US had a patchwork system of daylight time known by what descriptive name?

Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million  to help pay the $9 billion monthly cost to cover military salaries, is currently in litigation over his financial connections to the Epstein Sex Trafficking Ring. 

What did Timothy Mellon actually buy for $130,000,000? – The Maine Wonk

Answers:

A) SNAP 

B) Sadly yes – BTW that money could feed a lot of Americans who lost SNAp

C) The former (as of Friday) Prince Andrew of Britain. His brother, King Charles, stripped him of titles and privileges due to his past association with Jeffrey Epstein.

D) Xi Jing Ping of China

E) The candy industry whose sales go up if kids can trick or treat in some light

F) Ran an ad during the World Series in which Ronald Reagan discussed how bad tariffs are

G) Kingston

H) New Mexico

I) Kash Patel

J) Arizona and Hawaii

K) RFK, jr. – his diet is meat and sauerkraut or other fermented veggies

L) She went into labor

M) Amazon

N) UPS

O) November 18, 1883 at the behest of the railroads to whom standard times were essential

P) North Korea’s Kim Jung Un

Q) put Donald Trump, jr. on its board

R) Nuclear weapons. O gawd

S) The Southern Command that is currently bombing Venezuelan fishing boats

T) local option daylight savings. 

California and 20 other states are suing the Trump Administration for suspending next month’s SNAP benefits despite having funds ready for this kind of situation. 

This is cruelty. The federal government is abandoning the 5.5M Californians relying on this critical program. – Governor Gavin Newsom

E. Jean Carroll on Donald Trump: “I don’t understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds”