Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Finally, some good news


Austin bomb suspect Mark Anthony Conditt blows himself up as SWAT team approaches
The suspect in a spate of bombings that terrorized Austin, Texas, died early Wednesday after detonating an explosive inside his vehicle as a SWAT team tried to apprehend him on the side of a highway, officials said.


Mark Anthony Conditt was homeschooled and grew up in an Amway family. I'm not sure if anyone's ever been duped into going to an Amway presentation, but they're cultish and extremely conservative. It should be no surprise that Amway is how the DeVos family made their cash.- Kara Calavera




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Trump actually congratulated Putin on his re-election. Either he's in Putin's pocket, he's incredibly stupid, or both. I vote for both. - Stephen King




Even Inspector Clouseau Would Say No To This Russian Request
A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow wants to take part in an investigation into the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain, saying Russia's involvement is essential to finding the truth.
Britain has blamed Russia for poisoning Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent, accusations Moscow has denied.











To recap yesterday: a child obtained a gun, just as our founding fathers intended, and brought that gun to school, just as our founding fathers intended, at which point he shot two students before being shot to death by a resource officer, just as our founding fathers intended. - Jeff Tiedrich



Vladimir Putin has been re-elected to a fourth term as president of Russia. The final vote tally was: 76% Putin, 24% shot this morning.- Conan O'Brien


Republican Shenanigans

"We're playing three dimensional chess and these guys are playing Tic Tac Toe." - Stormy Daniels' Lawyer, Michael Avenatti, on Trump's lawyers






Fox Analyst Comes To Senses
Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a longtime analyst for Fox News, told colleagues he is done with the network he says has become "a propaganda machine" for President Trump.
Peters said in an email first reported Tuesday by BuzzFeed that he chose not to renew his contract as a paid contributor with Fox News on March 1 because he was "ashamed" of the network.




If us Jews actually controlled the weather, New York would be Hawaii. - Alex Edelman





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Donald Trump, Jr. has brought shame to his family name by only having one divorce. - Conan O'Brien


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What, Bernie? Income Inequality Is More Important Than Russia & Stormy? If We Don't Stop Trump There Will Be Nothing That's Equal.
Enough about Russia and Stormy Daniels. The leaders of the progressive movement want to talk about growing income inequality in the US.
At a live-streamed town hall event on Monday night, Senator Bernie Sanders once again circumvented cable news to host a 90-minute panel discussion on poverty, the decline of the middle class and the consolidation of corporate power.






Trump has become such a divisive figure, I’m afraid he’s ruined that hairstyle for other men. - Conan O'Brien




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Trump made people in the White House sign non-disclosures? The only thing close to transparent with this guy is his very thin skin. - Bette Midler


Business/Tech News





Former FBI director James Comey’s memoir has already topped Amazon’s list of best-sellers, almost a month ahead of its release, due to preorders. Or you can find it in your local bookstore blocking Hillary Clinton’s book. - Seth Myers



Trump, Venezuela & Putin
President Donald Trump may not have realized on Monday that his executive order would step on Russia’s toes. Its official target was Venezuela, specifically the country’s plan to create the world’s first state-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, which went on sale Tuesday.
But behind the scenes, the petro was in fact a collaboration—a half-hidden joint venture between Venezuelan and Russian officials and businessmen, whose aim was to erode the power of U.S. sanctions, sources familiar with the effort told TIME.



“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.” - Hunter S. Thompson




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I somewhat disagree. I'd be very lonely without my computer and phone.

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A USGS scientist in Hawaii collects lava samples for chemical analysis, which can give insight into changes in the magmatic system also known as hot feet. Photo by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Peace.


Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Apparently, nepotism is contagious

A family affair: Susan Pompeo's active role raising debate within the CIA
Susan Pompeo, wife of Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo, has taken on an unusually active role for a CIA spouse in agency affairs since he started the job in January 2017, regularly spending her days at the agency, traveling with her husband, and attending agency social


Seth Meyers: ‘Trump is Freaking Out Like a Final ‘Jeopardy’ Contestant Who Knows the Music Is About to Stop’



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Today's press briefing: 
Were Russian elections free and fair? 
Sarah Sanders: "Look, we don't get to dictate how other countries operate."










UK Expels Russian Diplomats. Trump Congrats Putin On Election. I Bet Theresa May Didn't Congratulate Putin.
Russian diplomats, ordered expelled by Britain over a nerve agent attack on British soil, left the country Tuesday.
They were transported from the Russian embassy in London to Stansted Airport for a flight home.
Britain ordered the 23 diplomats expelled last week, after blaming Moscow for the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury earlier this month. 






One thing you can say about Hillary when she was Secretary of State she wasn't scared of Putin, she called his ass out for cheating. - Pam Forrest





Please tell me Donald Trump calling Vladimir Putin on his “victory” is fake news. They are one step away from getting a place together.- Rob Reiner


Republican Shenanigans





John McCain: “An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election...”






Man. Crazy sh*t happens so fast in this presidency, sometimes it feels like I’m binge-watching it.” - Seth Meyers






You'd Never Know Abortion Is Legal In The USA. Another Attempted Barrier.
Supreme Court justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum expressed skepticism Tuesday about California's "truth-in-advertising" law requiring anti-abortion clinics to more fully disclose what they are.
The anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" objected to the law on free-speech grounds.





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If Hillary bought an AR-15 we'd have full gun control tomorrow. - Jeff Tiedrich




Rock The Voter News

After DiGenova and his wife and law partner Victoria Toensing did all they could to aid the impeachment of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, Toensing kept up her crusade against the Clintons by being one of the primary perpetrators of the fake (and now-debunked) "Uranium One" canard. - Seth Abramson



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Business/Tech News

Mark Zuckerberg donated $5,000 to Trumps campaign and his board member Peter Thiel donated $1.25 million to Trump's campaign. I wonder if that was done in rubles. - irishygirl





Always remember that people on welfare are just "gaming the system" but Mr. Trump merely "took advantage of all available loopholes." - John Fugelsang



Google Trying To Filter Out Fake News By Pumping Up Media Publishers
Google is making its grandest overture to the news business yet. Alphabet Inc.’s search giant is providing a new suite of tools to help media publishers grow subscriptions, advertising sales and readership -- an attempt to resuscitate an industry the search giant helped decimate. And it includes another shot at stamping out fake news.
Under the Google News Initiative, the company pledges to dole out $300 million to support digital journalism globally over the next three years.






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Namib Desert from Space. It looks so angry but beautiful at the same time.
Photo: European Space Agency

Peace.


Monday, March 19, 2018

And the beat goes on

Where is Mark Zuckerberg?’ Reporter nails Facebook for data ‘scandal’ that helped deliver Trump and Brexit
British journalist Carol Cadwalladr has been sounding the alarm on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for more than a year, and her investigative work helped reveal a massive data breach exploited by the Trump campaign.


FUN FACT: Steve Bannon, Trump's Campaign CEO and WH Chief Strategist, was VP of Cambridge Analytica, which is under an active search warrant at this very moment. - Tea Pain






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Mueller rents giant warehouse to store evidence against Trump. “It’s like a city all its own,” one warehouse worker said. “There are people working in the Michael Flynn section who’ve never met the people working in the Paul Manafort section.” - Andy Borowitz






More On Cambridge Analytica
A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.










Republican Shenanigans


Please. If this was a real witch hunt, Donald Jr. would be posing in a selfie with a witch head and broken broom. - Erik Bransteen





Yep. I Knew It, Religious Fundamentalists Are Coo Coo.
A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. The findings suggest that damage to particular areas of the prefrontal cortex indirectly promotes religious fundamentalism by diminishing cognitive flexibility and openness—a psychology term that describes a personality trait which involves dimensions like curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness.



If Trump ever had to take a lie detector test, he’d probably just draw the crazy lines himself. - Seth Myers





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“Hillary Clinton deliberately plotted to put me in the White House, and the American people should be very angry about that,” Trump said. - Andy Borowitz





Rock The Voter News

According to Politico, the publishers of former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming memoir are taking extreme precautions to prevent the manuscript from leaking. Yeah, it would be a shame if something got out at the wrong time and ruined everything for him.- Seth Myers



My My My, This Explains Why Kentucky Keeps Reelecting Mitch McConnell. They're All Drunk!
Kentucky’s rate of binge-drinking has been one of the highest in the nation, according to a new study.
The state ranked third, at 652, in the total number of alcoholic drinks consumed annually during heavy drinking episodes by people who reported being binge drinkers, according to the study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.








Trump warned that the people who wrote the Constitution could be fired “very soon.” - Andy Borowitz


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I'm a Crisis Actor but what i really want to do is Crisis Direct. - John Fugelsang


Business/Tech News

Elon Musk has announced that his company SpaceX will be ready to fly an unmanned rocket to Mars and back by 2019. And shortly thereafter, they’ll be able to send people there to colonize the planet. You know, just in case you-know-who is re-elected to the you-know-what.- James Corden






Kroger Alters Gun Policy
Kroger announced it will no longer sell print magazines featuring assault rifles.
The supermarket retailer said it is now starting to implement the new policy in stores across the country, USA Today reported.



Trump is suing Carly Simon for writing a song about him.  - irishygirl tweet




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They both just received the news that the groundhog saw his shadow.

Peace.