Friday, September 1, 2017

Smoke seen pouring from Russian consulate in San Francisco

Smoke seen pouring from Russian consulate in San Francisco
Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure amid escalating tensions between the United States and Russia.

September is Donald Trump Awareness Month. Please help find a cure. - Jeff Tiedrich





Senators John McCain, Jeff Sessions and Lindsey Graham voted against Hurricane Sandy relief and so did Rep.Paul Ryan, plus all those dumb Texans.


The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump


Trump Loses Another White House Aide And Longtime Friend
President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people he intends to leave the White House, three sources familiar with the decision told CNN.


Anybody seen that $1 million Trump pledged to Houston yet? Or this going to be like Sandy, where he makes a pledge and then doesn't give it? - Kurt Eichenwald





Republican Shenanigans

So in addition to being investigated, Jared is facing bankruptcy. I wonder where Ivanka came up with the idea of marrying someone like that. - Andy Borowitz





Yesterday Sanders said Trump was donating "a million dollars of personal money" to Harvey aid
Today, she says she's not sure now. - Steve Kopack, CNBC


There Are Texas Republicans And Then There Are Texass Republicans
A platoon of Texas lawmakers who voted against aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy in 2013 are scurrying to explain their votes in advance of being asked to vote for the same relief in the wake of Hurricane Harvey...Don’t believe them. According to an incredibly detailed analysis performed in 2013 by the Congressional Research Service, virtually every cent of the Sandy relief bill was related to damage from that storm.




BREAKING: Thoughts and prayers miraculously dry Houston and restore damaged property to pre-hurricane state, FEMA sent home. - Tea Party Cat

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Look Where Hurricane Irma Is Headed


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Subject: If Harvey Hit Florida And Stalled

Enjoyed your blog on crap Texas building laws. I've lived in FL and Texas and mostly agree.
If Harvey hit south FL the way it hit Texas, it would've been underwater, everything. FL is about 4 feet above sea level. Hell, a big wave surge would run across the whole bottom of the state washing everything in its path if it hit during high tide. I lived in Miami when Cat 5 Andrew hit and we were incredibly fortunate not to have suffered more deaths. 65 people did die from the storm. But nothing like the floods in Texas from Harvey. nothing.

As a geologist, I feel south FL's days are numbered as it is so overbuilt and there is no building code that can stop the ocean or the gulf. #globalwarming

Sam in LA


Thanks for writing Sam. I agree. I'm so old, I remember when being an environmentalist in Florida wasn't cool, it was for our survival, Democrat or Republican. Not anymore. #sciencedeniers




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The most predictable thing about 2017 is the constant revealing of how often GOP opposed something Obama did just because Obama did it. - LOLGOP




My. My. My. Lindsey Graham Just Can't Give Up Hillary
Former FBI Director James Comey began drafting a statement rejecting the idea of criminal charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her private email account about two months or more before Clinton was interviewed in the FBI probe, according to partial transcripts of interviews released Thursday by two Republican senators...Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Lindsey Graham...


Fox News reports floodin' is linked to to a secret Clinton server in the basement of a D.C. pizza place with ties to Seth Rich's murder. - Tea Pain




Trump's tweeting about Comey, Hillary and emails again.
I guess Mueller found those laundered Russian money bank transfers. - Erik Bransteen


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Trump to Donate 58 Million Rubles to Texas Recovery. - Andy Borowitz


Business/Tech News



Eclipse Injured Couple Suing Amazon
A South Carolina couple is suing online retailer Amazon over what they claim were faulty pairs of eclipse glasses that resulted in eye injuries, headaches and blurry vision.


Serena Williams just had a baby girl. They're on the practice court now. - Andy Jacobs







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Time To Deflate Photo
Bromo volcano, Java. Which reminds me, I felt the 5.3 earthquake at 1:45 am today. It felt like a car hit hit my house. No damage except to my nerves.

Peace.


Thursday, August 31, 2017

So what is Special Counsel Mueller doing?

Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe
The cooperation is the latest sign that the investigation into Trump's former campaign chairman is intensifying.

This is the first Presidency where the citizens are the ones that look like they age 5 years every month. - HITEXECUTIVE tweet


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If emboldening white supremacists or threatening nuclear war doesn’t violate Twitter's community standards, what does?- Valerie Plame Wilson






Is Mueller Sharpening His Knives?
A grand jury used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller has heard secret testimony from a Russian-American lobbyist who attended a June 2016 meeting with President Trump's eldest son, the Associated Press has learned.
A person familiar with the matter confirmed to the AP that Rinat Akhmetshin had appeared before Mueller's grand jury in recent weeks. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the secret proceedings.



New Fox News poll finds 56% of Americans think Donald is 'tearing the country apart.' Accurate.
Not even they can put lipstick on this pig. - George Takei





As a TX resident, & as a chem plant exploding, I'm so comforted that deregulation allowed those plants 2 keep secret what they have inside. - Kurt Eichenwald


Republican Shenanigans



The USA was a traitor to England in 1776. We're friends now.
The South was a traitor to the USA in 1861.  CONFEDERATE FLAG IN YOUR FACE! - AllHatNoCattle



Filthy Rich Televangelist: But The City Didn't Ask Me!!
Celebrity televangelist Joel Osteen said Wednesday that social media created a “false narrative” over the apparent decision to not open the doors of his megachurch to Hurricane Harvey victims...Osteen said that as floodwaters hit the Houston area, Lakewood Church was not initially asked by the city to open as a shelter.




What Would Jesus Do?


I try not to have hate in my heart, but Osteen always struck me as the worst sort of refried-Jesus-wheezing huckster BS artist.
Which he is. - John Schindler


Walmart Undercuts Trump's Hats By $30.01
President Donald Trump never shies away from marketing his famous Make American Great Again hat, but during his trip to Texas this week, he switched to a simple USA hat, and one seller over at Walmart seems to have undercut the President's business by selling a similar hat for a quarter of the price.The superstore store is selling the hats for $9.99, but they retail at $40 over at Donald Trump's official online store.

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Hurricane Season Peaks On September 10, My Birthday.
Irma has quickly intensified into the fourth hurricane of the 2017 season in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
For now, Irma presents no immediate threat to any land areas, but that is increasingly likely to change by next week.


BREAKING: Trump pardons Hurricane Harvey, saying "he didn't damage any of my properties, and distracted from Russia for a few days. Thanks." - Tea Party Cat





I'm visualizing the future where Ivanka and Jared are bankrupt and Ivanka has to spend the rest of her life wearing hideous unsold Ivanka Trump shoes, and so does Jared. - Andy Borowitz


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The GOP runs government like a toxic, under-regulated chemical plant doomed to explode repeatedly in floods supercharged by climate change.-LOLGOP



Obamacare Popularity Is Surging And Trump Hasn't Tweeted?
Underscoring the adage that you don't know what you've got until it's (almost) gone, the popularity of Obamacare is surging.
Only weeks after Republicans in Congress failed to repeal the landmark health reform law, 52 percent of respondents hold a favorable view of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation August poll. That's up 10 percentage points since June of last year and nearly 20 points since November 2013, when public support for the ACA was at its nadir. 


The one silver lining to Hurricane Harvey is its providing plenty of inspiration for new statues to replace all those Confederate ones. - Matt Oswalt


"I do not go by the rule book ... I lead from the heart, not the head." -Princess Diana

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Time To Deflate Photo

Too close for comfort for whale watching. Does the guy on the left have a fishing pole?

Peace.


Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Trump Tells Hurricane Victims: WOW WHAT A CROWD!

Trump didn’t visit with Harvey victims while in Texas
President Donald Trump visited Texas to offer his support after Hurricane Harvey, but he didn't meet with a single victim of the storm,


Hey Donald J. Trump it's actually in poor taste to brag about the "turnout" at your event in Houston when the people in the audience have been flooded out of their homes.- Andy Borowitz




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Everyone, stop criticizing Melania's stilettos. Maybe they weren't appropriate footwear for visiting a flood zone but they are perfect for kicking her husband. - Andy Borowitz




Russia Is All Over Trump Like White On Rice
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Wednesday he got an email from Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's lawyer, asking for help moving a Moscow real estate deal forward, but said he did not respond and did not pass it to Russian President Vladimir Putin.






Trump Should Send The Army Corp Of Engineers To Fix Houston. Then Send Them The Bill. 
Houston has been dealing with flooding since at least 1937, when local officials complained the city was “at the mercy of the relentless water.” But over the years the need to control flooding was overwhelmed by another burning desire — to develop into what is now the fourth largest city in the United States.


Republican Shenanigans

I guess "Make America Question the President's Sanity on a Literally Daily Basis Again" wouldn't fit on a hat. - John Leguizamo


Presidents offering comfort during times of tragedy
Yep, This Sums Up Trump's Relationship With Regular Folks
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Wednesday it has been difficult to work with the White House because the faction that agrees with union leaders on trade "turned out to be racist" while the other faction is "Wall Streeters" who care little about working people.


Trump went to a hurricane disaster area and a campaign rally broke out.- FrankTheDoorman tweet




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It's that time in the political cycle when Republicans trot out tax cuts for the rich masqueraded as relief for the middle class.- Peter Daou





What was Obama doing during Katrina? He was at the Astrodome helping out and wasn't even president yet.


Trump Administration Puts on Hold an Obama-Era Desegregation Effort. Gawd, Trump Hates Him.
The rule would have helped poor Americans move to more expensive neighborhoods with better schools.


Joel Osteen doesn't get enough credit for being Tim Allen if he never discovered cocaine. - Jesse McLaren





A guy who got rich talking about being Christian was just forced to act like one.   Score one for peer pressure.- John Fugelsang


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Business/Tech News

Report: Some Sh*thead Out There Makes So Much More Money Than You  - The Onion





YIKES! Giant Email Hack
More than 700m email addresses, as well as a number of passwords, have leaked publicly thanks to a misconfigured spambot, in one of the largest data breaches ever.


If your unflooded Houston church isn't open to help hurricane victims, it's time to find a new church. - AllHatNoCattle





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Odd News


Time To Deflate Photo
A horse-drawn cart passes through a section cut out of the base of a giant sequoia at Yosemite Park, CA, circa 1879.

Peace.