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Welcome to Dean Riffs\u2019 Week in Review. Every weekday our panel of non-partisan judges (me) pick two or three weekday news items on which to comment \u2013 after careful pontification, of course. We riff responsibly here.<\/em><\/p>\n

MONDAY, JANUARY 15th<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hollywood celebs and others infected with acute Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) were quick to blame the president for Hawaii’s well publicized false missile attack alarm because…well, the Diss Trump show must go on and that’s what they do.<\/p>\n

I mean, who doesn’t appreciate getting unsolicited opinions from people paid to be anyone other than themselves.<\/p>\n

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Comedian Jim Carrey: “If we allow this one-man Gomorrah and his corrupt Republican congress to continue alienating the world we are headed for suffering beyond all imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis: “This Hawaii missle (sic) scare is on YOU Mr. Trump. The real FEAR that mothers & fathers & children felt is on YOU. It is on YOUR ARROGANCE. HUBRIS. NARCISSISM. RAGE. EGO. IMMATURITY and your UNSTABLE IDIOCY. Shame on your hate filled self. YOU DID THIS!”<\/p>\n

Judd Apatow: (Big time Hollywood producer whose name I had to Google): Great to know the button saying there is a nuclear war is right next to the one saying this is a test. This is a load of bulls#!%. This is not what happened. Keep digging. This isn\u2019t about a fu#@^!* shift change. ”<\/p>\n

Amazing that both Hillary and Obama were never held accountable for things like Benghazi (where people actually died), Hillary’s illegal email server (where identities of intelligence officials were hacked and some sources were killed) and where the personal online health and financial information of millions of federal employees and military personnel were compromised and the left said, “Meh.”<\/p>\n

What happened in Hawaii last Saturday was scary, but it was a regrettable accident caused by a state employee and had as much to do with the presidency as the rise of the oceans slowing and our planet healing – or being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize just 11 days into office.<\/p>\n

FYI – Hawaii was so upset by the state employee’s mistake<\/strong><\/a> that he was “temporarily reassigned” to other duties. Not fired. Not suspended. Temporarily reassigned.<\/p>\n

Maybe the employee with the itchy trigger finger can file for leniency with the Hawaii governor to have his record expunged so they can still win Employee of the Year.<\/p>\n

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“Mad Max” – Maxine Waters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monday was also Martin Luther King, Jr Day and what better way to honor the legacy of the civil rights icon than to have an “empty barrel”\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>like Maxine Walters replay the overdrawn race card.<\/p>\n

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have encouraged every responsible human being to march for justice, to march for peace, and most of all, to march for the impeachment of Donald Trump,” she tweeted. Similar messages were expressed by Georgia’s U.S. Representative John Lewis and Florida congresswoman Frederica “Mad Hatter” Wilson.<\/p>\n

Apparently they forgot the Dr. King quote: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On a lighter note, January 15th also marked the 126th anniversary since Dr. James\u00a0Naismith published the rules of basketball. Naismith invented the game in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1892. As we like to say in Indiana, basketball was invented in Massachusetts but perfected in Indiana.<\/p>\n

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

The media’s latest flavor-of-the-month, fake news charge against Trump is that he is mentally unfit. After witnessing some of the questions media members posed at today’s press conference, many Americans could question the media’s mental health – especially Jim Acosta, Joe Scarborough, etc.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a sample of some of the questions posted to White House physician, Rear Admiral Dr. Ronnie Jackson.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m wondering if you talked to the President about this \u2014 about the President\u2019s mental fitness?”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Are you ruling out things like early onset Alzheimer\u2019s? Are you looking at dementia-like symptoms?”<\/em><\/p>\n

“There was an incident recently where the President appeared to slur his words while giving an address.\u00a0 Did you look into what the cause of that might have been at all?”<\/em><\/p>\n

” Because of his age, will you conduct cognitive testing in the future?”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Do believe he is fit for duty? How can you determine that?”<\/em><\/p>\n