Not even president yet and already fucking up

 Joe Biden*, who on Wednesday will be inaugurated as president of the United States, decided not to wait to take office to fuck up. In fact, he is going for a two-fer. He will be harming our energy independence and pissing off one of our closest allies, all at the same time:

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to CBC News on Sunday.

A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming president's team with U.S. stakeholders.

The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden's presidency. 

The list shown to stakeholders is a lengthier version of a list already reported in the media based on a memo released publicly over the weekend by Biden's chief of staff Ronald Klain. That publicly reported memo from Klain did not mention Keystone XL, but cautioned that the memo was not a complete list of planned actions.

Canadian officials already are asking the Biden team not to do this. He talks big about rebuilding our relationships with allies, but I don't think we're going to like the "allies" he wants to rebuild relationships with. (Hint: Iran.) He clearly doesn't give a fuck about Canada if he does this.

Weird how nobody talks about this

 Lots of "peace" groups bitched about Presidents Bush, 41 and 43, but never bitched about Clinton or Obama. And nobody lauded Trump for not getting us into any new wars, and reducing or eliminating our  presence in our existing wars. Weird.

Go Pack Go!

 All I got to say.

So this was interesting

 Just before Christmas, I was in Walmart helping Santa get some candy for stockings. Because I didn't have much stuff, I went in the self-checkout line, as the regular checkouts were quite busy. I fell in behind some dude, who promptly turned around and said "six feet." I said, "Nice guess, but I'm actually six foot one." He said, "No, get six feet away." So I told him, "You're so concerned, you get six feet away." He let me know that as soon as the person in front of him moved forward he would. Dude was wearing a cheap-ass cloth mask, which does no good, same as me. When the line moved, he quickly moved six feet away, and I moved up. He turned around and told me to move back to six feet away. At which point I told him, "If you were actually concerned about this shit and not just posturing, you would buy a decent mask and you wouldn't come to Walmart, which is packed with people. So fuck off."

Oddly enough, he had nothing further to say.

Happy New Year!

 Gotta be better than the last one. Or, you know, maybe not.