Today is Independence Day in Costa Rica

 Celebrations included no Internet  for 8 hours and no power for a couple of hours. Pura vida.

Not to leave you empty handed, here are a few memes. Thank you for stopping by!

On this day in 1862, Union scouts find a discarded copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field near Frederick, Maryland. The discovery sets the stage for the Confederate defeat at Antietam the following week. They were dumbasses then and they are dumbasses now. 

Peace and see you tomorrow.

Sean Spicer says he is suing Biden administration for kicking him off board of U.S. Naval Academy

Sean Spicer says he is suing Biden administration for kicking him off board of U.S. Naval Academy

Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, said at his anchor desk at Newsmax on Wednesday that he plans to join a lawsuit suing ...

Biden really should've PAY-PER-VIEW'd the firings of Kellyanne Conway & Sean Spicer, and used the money to cover the cost of the *entire* infrastructure bill. - Jake Lobin

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Biden to Mandate Vaccination for Federal Workers
• Sturgis motorcycle event produced 600 percent surge in COVID-19 cases
• Don Jr. Says Taliban Respected His Dad's 'Strength': He 'Had the Brainpower' to Negotiate Like a Businessman
• Capitol police on alert ahead of ‘Justice for J6’ rally

All Members Of Congress To Be Tested For Covid And IQ. - Andy Borowitz

Arrest Is A Dish Best Served Cold
All three members of an Arizona trio who barged into an elementary school principal’s office with zip ties and threatened to place her under citizen’s arrest for following public health guidelines have instead been arrested themselves, the Tucson Police Department confirmed.

Horrified Anti-Vaxxer Discovers Every American Who Got Smallpox Vaccine In 19th Century Now Dead. - The Onion

Republican Shenanigans

• 'I Ain't Takin' That Sh*t!"' CNN Reporter Questions Unvaccinated People in Rural Missouri
• Rand Paul Calls for Dr. Fauci to Face '5 Years in Jail' For Lying to Congress
• Chris Wallace Says He Deliberately Kept Election Deniers Off His Show Because 'I Don't, Frankly, Wanna Hear Their Crap'
• Megyn Kelly Rips NFL for Shoving 'Race Based' Messaging on Fans: 'Average Americans' Don’t Want the 'Black National Anthem'
• Rubio knocks CIA over consideration of TikTok presence
• GOP leader taking proxy voting fight to Supreme Court
• Elder ends tour of California homeless camp early after confrontation
• Michigan officials demand pro-Trump lawyers reimburse state for costs of election case
• Fox Host Says She’s ‘A Little Bit in Awe’ of ‘How Seriously’ China’s Taking the Future by Announcing Crackdown on Video Games, ‘Sissy’ Men on TV

Every Republican running for office in 2022 will use the same slogan: "If I lose, they cheated." - Middle Age Riot

Arkansas Deserves Better Than Another Huckabee As Governor
Conservative political action committee Maggie's List formally endorsed former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Arkansas governor on Thursday along with a number of other Republican women running for office in 2022. 

Reminder:

Liz Cheney doesn't like Trump but she's 100% on-board with GOP voter suppression bills which are inspired by Trump's baseless lies about the 2020 election. - Pé tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Admin Sues Texas After SCOTUS Wipes Its Hands of 'Unconstitutional' Abortion Ban
• Psaki Defends Mass Firing of Trump Holdovers Like Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer: They Stood By Trump as He ‘Supported an Insurrection’
• Fact check: Image of Taliban members in a truck with a Biden-Harris bumper sticker was altered
• Ocasio-Cortez fires back after Palin labels her a 'fake feminist': 'Call 1-800 CRY NOW'
• Environmental groups call for immediate restoration of national monuments shrunk by Trump

Legislators regulating the female reproductive system should first have to pass a test about it. - Andy Borowitz

California Leading The Way, Again.

The California Senate approved a bill on Wednesday setting up a process to revoke licenses from problematic police officers, according to records from the state legislature.

State Sen. Steven Bradford (D), who co-sponsored the bill, which passed by a 26-9 vote, said in a statement that its progress was “a major victor for advocates of public safety.”

The President’s executive order on vaccines is the natural next move.  He tried the carrot. Now is time for the stick. - Joe Lockhart

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Business/Tech News

• Amazon to pay for workers' bachelor's degrees
• Brazil's Bolsonaro blocks social networks from deleting posts
• Patton Oswalt Cancels Florida, Utah Shows After Venues Reject His Covid Safety Requests
• Fans Alarmed By 58-Year-Old Evander Holyfield Flailing Away in Sparring Session Ahead of Saturday Fight: 'How is This Legal?'

How dare the government tell me not to spread a deadly pandemic. What is this, BIG BROTHER? - Jeremy Newberger

Ford Ceases Operations In India, Apparently Few In India Can Afford A Ford
Ford Motor Company announced on Thursday that it will stop manufacturing vehicles in India after losing more than $2 billion over the past 10 years. 

This is part of the media problem. immediately following Biden address, CNN features 4 political voices, one medical voice. - Eric Boehlert

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Hey, Folks, could you spare a dollar or two?

Thank you so much!

I will return on Monday!

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Odd News

• First Came A Quake In Mexico, Then Strange Blue Lights. People Feared The Apocalypse
• Russian cosmonauts spacewalk after smoke alarm on International Space Station
• Midnight military parade in North Korea features marchers in hazmat suits
• Fallen tree causes hundreds of bees to swarm at Florida house
• Company seeks candidate to make $1,300 by watching 13 horror movies
• Naked Woman Driving Golf Cart Interrupts Tense Standoff

Time To Deflate Photo

Navy Beach, Algarve, Portugal. That aqua and terra cotta color combination is stunning.

Peace.

Trump to offer commentary at heavyweight fight on 9/11

Trump to offer commentary at heavyweight fight on 9/11

Former President Trump is set to offer live commentary at a boxing event from Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., that falls on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 

Trump didn’t make people stupid or racist. They’ve been stupid and racist for a long time, he just convinced them it was something to brag about. - OhNoSheTwitnt

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• More Americans in new poll say 9/11 changed the US for the worse
• Number of children and teens with COVID-19 exceeds 250,000 for first time since start of pandemic
• 'Never knew Canada would tolerate this': Justin Trudeau, Canadians respond to aggressive attacks from 'anti-vaxxer mobs' across country
• EU: Provisional Taliban government does not fulfill promises
• 3 Troopers Probed by FBI for Allegedly Making Fake COVID Vax Cards

Jimmy Kimmel on how hospitals should treat the unvaccinated:

“Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right in, we’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.”

 

Surprise, Surprise. China Fueling Anti-vaxxers
A wide-ranging pro-Chinese influence group is attempting to use social media platforms and other forums to mobilize physical protests around COVID-19 concerns in the United States, research released Wednesday found.

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump set to back attorney in primary challenge to Cheney
• Donald Trump Is Reportedly Giving Himself a Makeover to Prep for Possible 2024 Presidential Run
• Fauci slams DeSantis for "completely incorrect" claim that COVID vaccination a personal choice
• DeSantis: Talk of 2024 presidential bid is 'nonsense'
• Judge: Florida can't enforce ban on school mask mandates
• 'This Has Witch Hunt Written All Over It': Jason Miller Describes Being Detained By Secret Police in Brazil
• Ex-prosecutor charged in Ahmaud Arbery case booked at jail
• Robert E. Lee statue removed from Richmond

Trump Buys Robert E. Lee Statue From Virginia For His Bedroom. - Andy Borowitz

Texas Is Going To Be An Election Audit Free-For-All
Texas Republican legislators coming off a successful effort to overhaul the state’s election procedures are preparing new legislation that would dramatically expand the rights of candidates and political party bosses to force mandatory audits of future elections. 

Ron DeSantis can try to deflect all he wants.We know he’s sacrificing the lives of Floridians on the altar of his ambition.

--Chris Hahn

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Rock The Voter News

• Pelosi, blaming Trump for debt, vows to raise borrowing limit
• Schumer rejects Manchin's call for pause on Biden plan
• Democrats hit the gas on Biden's multitrillion-dollar safety net bill

Flashback to 5 years ago

Abbott Says Texas Could Reduce Unwanted Pregnancies If People Would Think of Him Before Having Sex. - Andy Borowitz

Idaho Rationing Health Care
Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.

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Business/Tech News

• AmeriCorps partnering with CDC to recruit, train public health leaders
• Energy Department says solar could produce 45 percent of electricity by 2050
• Australian court rules news publishers liable for readers' comments on Facebook pages
• New Studies Find Evidence Of 'Superhuman' Immunity To COVID-19 In Some Individuals

A barista at my neighborhood coffee shop on the Upper West Side asks a couple who are about to sit down: “Can I see your ID’s and vaccination cards?”

Music to my ears!

If every retail establishment in America asked this question, a lot of lives would be saved. - Max Boot

Dershowitz Continues Whining About Larry David

After getting yelled at in a grocery store by Larry David, Alan Dershowitz has come to the conclusion that Democrats may lose the next two elections.

The attorney spoke with Megyn Kelly about recently being confronted at Martha's Vineyard by the Seinfeld co-creator, who reportedly blasted him over his ties to former President Donald Trump

Went to costco today where a woman took her mask off to sneeze fully unencumbered, and that’s when i knew for sure that we will be in a pandemic for the rest of my life. - beth boudan tweet

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Thank you!

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Odd News

• Rare Tasmanian Tiger Footage Found in Restored Film
• New study details 'mind-boggling' sea creature that lived half-a-billion years ago
• Jar of Elvis Presley's hair auctioned for $72,500
• Man called 911 to report a Tesla hit him, but the vehicle's cameras told a different story
• A Florida man fed up with repeated potholes planted a banana tree in one

Time To Deflate Photo

A Mission Golden Eyed Tree Frog in the Amazon rainforest.

Peace.