On this week’s episode: Carl the Pugapegacorn starts shilling for the US government … Fox News pines for the good old Olympic days of 1936 … And Donald Trump calls “Memo tag, no backsies, no double stamps, timeout I twisted my ankle.”

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Headline Sources:

Nunes memo gets released; rebuttal memo gets blocked: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/02/582666768/trump-leans-into-attack-on-fbi-as-clock-ticks-toward-release-of-nunes-memo https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/09/donald-trump-blocks-democrat-nunes-memo-russia

That’s 4 school shootings in the US in 2018 alone: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/us/school-shootings-in-2018/index.html

Fox News column about too many negroes and gays in the Olympics: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-spt-fox-news-olympics-diversity-column-pulled-20180210-story.html

Michael Cohen’s new story about the Stormy Daniels payment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-clear-the-air-about-stormy-daniels/2018/02/14/15803f4e-11be-11e8-9065-e55346f6de81story.html?utmterm=.cf91fae3bbee

Trump’s infrastructure plan is stupid: https://slate.com/business/2018/02/trump-infrastructure-plan-you-pay-for-it.html

Trump wants to replace SNAP with Blue Apron for poor people: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/opinions/trumps-blue-apron-type-plan-is-crumbs-to-the-poor-filipovic/index.html

Roundup Sources:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43092085

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/bermuda-repeal-same-sex-marriage

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-iran/israel-shoots-down-iranian-drone-strikes-iranian-targets-in-syria-army-idUSKBN1FU07L

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43091248

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-20180206-story.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/police-recommend-israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-be-indicted-corruption-bribery-n847616

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/cold-poor-south-korean-mountains-winter-olympics-begin-52952010

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43039928

http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-impersonator-walks-through-north-koreas-olympic-cheer-squad-2018-2

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42976858

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/29/news/companies/chief-wahoo-cleveland-indians/index.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/17/americas/mexico-helicopter-crash/index.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ireland-politics-sinnfein/mcdonald-succeeds-gerry-adams-as-sinn-fein-president-idUSKBN1FU0QV

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/think-commas-don-t-matter-omitting-one-cost-maine-dairy-n847151

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/egypt-bans-satirical-saturday-night-live-arabia-tv-show-for-being-inappropriate

http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/13/son-concorde-plane-fly-london-new-york-three-hours-7309260/

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42942921