Monday, August 21, 2017

Save those eclipse glasses

U.S., South Korea start military drills amid 'second war' threats from Pyongyang
The U.S. and South Korea started their annual joint military exercises Monday amid threats from Pyongyang that the drills could spark a “second Korean war.”


I experienced a total eclipse in Tallahassee, Florida in 1970. It was not visible due to thick cloud cover. But as I drove down Tennessee St. as the total eclipse neared, all the street lights came on. That was it. 


The sun never went out when Obama was president, is all I'm saying. - Oliver Willis



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What Is Going On With Our Highly Sophisticated Warships??
Another US Navy warship accident in Asian waters took place early Monday, the fourth this year.
The USS John S. McCain, a Navy guided-missile destroyer, collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore.





Our ships never collided until we elected a President that loves sharin' classified information with the Russians. Coincidence? - Tea Pain




If your fantasy ends with Trump leaving the presidency willingly and easy, consider that his hair hasn't even left the 50s. - LOLGOP


Republican Shenanigans

The Secret Service has spent $60k on golf cart rentals alone — which goes into Trump's pocket. - goldengateblond






Ancestors Of The Money Changers Defend Trump
Two prominent religious conservatives defended U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday after he was widely criticized for blaming both white nationalists and counter-protesters for last weekend's violence at a Virginia rally organized by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.







Hey Donald J. Trump, you seemed to have misspelled "heal" as "heel" in your tweets today, so let me help you out by using both in a sentence:
This nation will heal after that f*cking heel Trump is impeached.
Glad to help! - Andy Borowitz



Trump's Son-In-Law Wants To Jail People Behind In Their Rent
The real estate company owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law and top adviser to President Donald Trump, has been the most aggressive in Maryland in using a controversial debt-collection tactic: getting judges to order the arrest of people who owe his company money.






You know, it's really not that hard to get through life without being identified with the Ku Klux Klan. - David Corn


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“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” - Shirley Chisholm



Slowly Trump Turned, Step By Step, Inch By Inch Dismantling The U.S.
The Trump administration has decided to dissolve a federal advisory panel that contributes to a report that measures the current and future impacts of climate change on the U.S...







Really, the best solution would be to replace every Confederate statue with one of Barack Obama. - Andy Borowitz

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Jerry Falwell Jr, son of a segregationist who built whites-only schools & defended Apartheid, assures you DT is not racist. - Jerry Falwell




Business/Tech News

President Trump is having a historically bad week, which he kept going strong with a string of combative tweets this morning. He makes one good point. If we’re going to start taking down every monument that pays tribute to racists, we should probably take down every building with the name “Trump” on it. - Jimmy Kimmel







A Call To Ban Killer Robots
Some of the world’s leading robotics and artificial intelligence pioneers are calling on the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots.
Tesla’s Elon Musk and Alphabet’s Mustafa Suleyman are leading a group of 116 specialists from across 26 countries who are calling for the ban on autonomous weapons.




"People don't remember who the critics were." –Robert Redford




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Time To Deflate Photo
A game of human chess with actual soldiers. St. Petersburg, Russia (1924)
Who won?

Peace.


Friday, August 18, 2017

Steve Bannon Resigned -- er -- Fired

Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon fired
President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon has been fired, multiple White House officials told CNN on Friday.

So, who will replace Bannon? Rasputin?


So basically Himmler got fired today, but his boss is still on the job. - Andy Borowitz




With Steve Bannon out, there's only the VP left in Donald Trump's original suicide squad. Guess it's family first from now on, right, Don? - Vicente Fox Quesada, Presidente de México de 2000 a 2006

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Dear "Christian" white supremacists: Your Savior is a dark-skinned Jewish man from the Middle East who spoke Aramaic. His mom was Jewish too. - James Martin, Jesuit priest





ACLU Says No To Hate Groups With Guns
The American Civil Liberties Union took a new stance on firearms Thursday, announcing a change in policy that it would not represent hate groups who demonstrate with firearms. 





Heather Heyer's mom says she won't speak to Trump. "I saw a clip of him equating the protesters with the KKK & the white supremacists..." - Kaitlan Collins, CNN




Republican Shenanigans

We could eliminate the national debt by making Trump's trial pay-per-view.- Andy Borowitz





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There Are 1500 Confederate Symbols In The USA
On Saturday, Aug. 12, a white nationalist rally erupted in violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the pending removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The statue is one of more than 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in the United States, according to an April 2016 review by the Southern Poverty Law Center.



Trumpets: You're trying to erase our history!
Me: You can have it back for free. Go to one of those temples of the liberal elite. A library. - BitchestheCat tweet





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Bannon being forced out is good news. But people keep putting their hopes in staff changes to fix things. They can't. The problem is Trump. - Brian Klaas




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The lesson of Scaramucci and Bannon seems to be this: the only person who can get away with telling reporters totally insane things that indicate he is wildly unfit for his job is the President of the United States. - Andy Borowitz



Is The White House On Fire? Why Yes. Yes It Is.
Another advisory group is walking away from President Donald Trump after his equivocation on neo-Nazis and white supremacists, with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigning en masse Friday morning.







In a new interview, Kim Kardashian revealed that she did karaoke with former President Obama. Said Obama, “That was just the National Anthem…” - Seth Myers


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Business/Tech News

Florida, with 18% unemployment, passed an anti-bestiality Law.  - John Fugelsang



Florida Wastes Time Passing Law.
Wisconsin: Hold My Beer!
Wisconsin lawmakers vote to pay Foxconn $3 billion to get a new factory. State taxpayers could end up paying Foxconn $500,000 per job, or more.










Twenty-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has been accepted to Oxford University. When she puts her Nobel Prize on the shelf, her roommate will quietly put away all her youth soccer trophies. - Jimmy Fallon




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Time To Deflate Photo


This is the Mummy Cave located in Canyon de Chelly, Chinle, Arizona, and is what remains of an ancient settlement. Those eyes, eyebrows and the hair on his forehead is another amazing artwork by Mother Nature.

Have a peaceful weekend.


Thursday, August 17, 2017

Only a racist would think that Confederate Memorial Statues are beautiful

‘Can’t change history’: Trump sides with white nationalists and praises ‘beautiful’ Confederate statues
President Donald Trump followed up his early morning tweet storm on Thursday by lamenting that Confederate statues are being taken down all across the U.S. and saying it’s “sad.”


Imagine if right now Angela Merkel was whining on twitter about removing "beautiful statues and monuments" of Hess, Goebbels, & Eichmann. - Mary Beth Williams





The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

Any White House staff resign today? Or did they all show up this morning to work for a guy who thinks the confederacy is getting a bad rap? - Dan Pfeiffer






Russia Doesn't Like Nazis, Either
Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has been booted from the Russian internet.
The country's media watchdog asked for it to be taken down because of extremist content.
"The Daily Stormer website promotes neo-Nazi ideology, incites racial, national and other types of social discord,"




Donald Trump you have an ego as big as any historic monument, perhaps it's time for America to rip it apart as well. - Vicente Fox Quesada, Presidente de México de 2000 a 2006






Republican Shenanigans

 This wasn't even supposed to be about Charlottesville. Apparently, Trump went off script and improvised all of these remarks during a press conference about infrastructure, which is terrible because I'm pretty sure the first rule of infrastructure is whatever you do, don't burn bridges. - James Corden



The Alt-Right Knows Photoshop?
An image that appeared to capture a member of an anti-fascist group beating a U.S. police officer with a club during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is fake.









The only person who's happy right now is Sean Spicer. He's doing backflips, wherever he is. - Jimmy Kimmel


Cleveland Clinic Cancels Fundraiser At Mar-a-Lago
The Cleveland Clinic, a health care network frequently praised by both Republicans and Democrats for its patient care, has decided to not hold its annual fundraising gala at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as planned.






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Trump's 7 months of disaster show why the popular vote should decide the Presidency. (See also: George W. Bush) - Richard Hine


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But His Emails!
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, forwarded an email to associates that expressed support for Southern secession from the Union in the 1860s.
Dowd's forwarded email was sent Wednesday to conservative journalists, government officials, Dowd's friends, and others




The White House event I'm really looking forward to: Trump hosting Obama for the unveiling of Obama's official portrait. - Ryan Lizza


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My Proposed Confederate Memorial Statue



Take down the statues. If Confederacy fans want to see a monument of a loser they can visit Trump Tower. - Andy Borowitz




Business/Tech News

Costco has to pay Tiffany’s $19 million for selling 2,500 fake Tiffany rings. Husbands don’t know what’s worse, having to tell their wife her ring ISN’T from Tiffany, or that it IS from Costco. “I’ve got bad news and worse news...” - Jimmy Fallon







Racist Judge Outs Himself On Facebook, Gets Suspended
A judge in Georgia has been suspended for Facebook posts in which he compared protesters of Confederate statues to members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Gwinnett County Judge Jim Hinkle called protesters opposing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee in Charlottesville, Va., “snowflakes.” He said they had "no concept of history" and should “leave history alone.”




A Florida man who accidentally fired a gun in a strip club restroom while trying to take a selfie has been sent to prison. The weird thing is everyone else at the Florida prison is there for the exact same reason. - Conan O'Brien





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Time To Deflate Photo

When I saw this photo I thought of my grandmother, who used to slit dates. stuff them with peanut butter and rolled them in sugar for a holiday treat. She did not climb a palm tree for the dates.

Peace.