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| Lookit This Goddam Sign! I Mean LOOK AT IT!
(25 Signs From Around the US) Are you on Twitter? Follow this guy — he’s brilliant.
And this guy too — he’s probably done two dozen signs by now.
Denver signs brought to you by The Denver Sign Crew
How to Make Signs.
Colorado Springs... |
freewayblogger | 09/12/2018 | 88 | 295 | - | - |
| Congress's top Nazi, Rep. Steve King, retweets Nazis — then gets called out HARD by Dem challenger Iowa Rep. Steve King (IA-04), a Nazi who wraps himself in the American flag to hide his red swastika armband, is once again loudly and proudly quoting white supremacists on Twitter.
King on Wednesday retweeted a known racist, Lana Lokteff, and... |
Blue Tuesday | 09/12/2018 | 61 | 135 | - | - |
| A Must Read: TV Writer/Producer, Linda Bloodworth Thomason's Blistering Critique of Les Moonves. While never asserting that she was a victim of sexual harassment, the successful writer/producer, Linda Bloodworth Thomason, penned a compelling story of dealing with the extreme sexism brought to the CBS network by Les Moonves.
"People asked me... |
barskin | 09/12/2018 | 150 | 237 | - | - |
| Marine Le Pen Visits a Tiny French Village and It Doesn’t Go Well For Her This story is all over French TV right now, and, as they say in France, “Ca fait plaisir. C’est cool.” [It makes you feel good. It’s cool.]
Marine Le Pen stepped out of her limo today in the tiny village of Chateaudouble (population 470) in the... |
Mark Lippman | 09/12/2018 | 153 | 206 | - | - |
| Willie Nelson to Headline Beto Rally in Texas Came across this news on Billboard.
Willie Nelson is showing his support for Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke, headlining his rally in Austin on Sept. 29.
The event, which takes place at Auditorium Shores, will also feature Joe Ely, Carrie... |
ruscle | 09/12/2018 | 12 | 26 | - | - |
| “Get rid of the (expletive) braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower. Just do it.” Only the blind led the blind in Trump Tower, especially in June 2016. But more interesting is Barbara Res telling stories about her former boss, challenging the notion of the “adults in the room” and their agendas.
Trump looked at the panels... |
annieli | 09/12/2018 | 166 | 212 | - | - |
| Creator of Duolingo wins Lemelson-MIT prize Luis von Ahn has won the prestigious Lemelson-MIT prize for innovation, for co-founding Duolingo, the freemium platform for learning foreign languages. From Guatemala, he attended Duke University (math degree!) and Carnegie-Mellon University, and is a... |
AnnikaQED | 09/12/2018 | 22 | 54 | - | - |
| The (doctored) Trump photo that needs to hang in the gallery of presidential portraits Because it captures his essence so, so perfectly — like nothing else ever has:
I don’t know who’s responsible for this Photoshop tour de force, but if it happens to be you, step right up. You win all the Chuck E. Cheese game tickets in the... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 09/12/2018 | 46 | 186 | - | - |
| Senator Chris Murphy wins Twitter today and I mean, really, it’s awfully hard to do better than this:
You’ve got: important advice, a Trump put down, deftly delivered with good will, and on Trump’s most favored medium. Well done Senator!
Now people... get out of there!!!
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NYFM | 09/12/2018 | 122 | 507 | - | - |
| A decade after the financial crisis, economic scars remain, inequality thrives, and crooks roam free As we keep hearing on this 10th anniversary of the financial crisis that destroyed so many dreams and livelihoods, the economy is now “robust,” “booming,” “soaring.”
We have, indeed, come a long way from the acute pain of that crisis. But the... |
Meteor Blades | 09/12/2018 | 43 | 55 | - | - |
| N Carolina hog farmers spray feces around black communities, and Florence will spread it everywhere Hurricanes have some serious weaponry when they make landfall. There are the horrifying winds that can rip the structure apart where you seek shelter, and then there is storm surge, a tsunami-like phenomenon that can break bones while drowning anyone... |
Pakalolo | 09/12/2018 | 241 | 277 | - | - |
| Remember The Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump? She's Running for Office In Virginia. I’m sure you all remember Juli Briskman who peddled her way into our hearts when she gave the Mango Menace a one finger salute as he drove past her on his way to his Golf Club in Virginia.
Julia was rewarded for her act of extreme patriotism by... |
durrati | 09/12/2018 | 65 | 270 | - | - |
| The text messages that cost Jeff Fager his job at 60 Minutes Duncan reached out to Fager for comment after new sexual misconduct allegations against him emerged in Ronan Farrow’s most recent story that led to the resignation for CBS CEO Les Moonves. Ultimately, it was Fager’s response, and not those allegations,... |
MTmofo | 09/12/2018 | 7 | 28 | - | - |
| Louisiana teacher unemployed after posting racist rant in response to Kaepernick's Nike ad The responses to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protest of racial injustice in our country have been charged. The protest has effectively highlighted the racial divisions and ideologies of white supremacy in our country far beyond... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/12/2018 | 91 | 170 | - | - |
| Pharma chief says 400% increase in cost of essential medicine ‘is a moral requirement to make money’ Pharmaceutical companies use the weakest, and frequently the laziest, excuses for jacking up the prices of their life-saving drugs. In the end, no matter what they say, it is about money. Their job, as they see it, is to make money. If they keep 100... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/12/2018 | 144 | 109 | - | - |
| Rough few days though I seem to be back. Anyone have jokes/pictures/anything funny to post? Hi all.
As some of you know I had emergency abdominal surgery last Friday. The first few days I was doing OK post-surgery but then things took another direction. Monday night I spent in the ER due to pain from the incision sites though my gut... |
BFSkinner | 09/12/2018 | 8 | 11 | - | - |
| Russian Trolls Posted 10,000 Divisive Tweets About Obamacare Between 2014 and 2018 From Axios :
A newly-uncovered batch of 600 Twitter accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency — the Russian troll farm indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the ... |
ericlewis0 | 09/12/2018 | 53 | 131 | - | - |
| Trump makes a mockery of Puerto Rico's dead. May the souls of those thousands of people who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands haunt Donald Trump forever.
This was my first thought when I ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 09/12/2018 | 192 | 224 | - | - |
| PWBP Evening Open Thread: Too Cool For School?
Actually, nobody is too cool for school because school is cool! But all school work and no play makes Jack and Jill rather dull critters. And the critters are anything but dull. So, it’s time ... |
Dixiecollie | 09/12/2018 | 64 | 32 | - | - |
| RETRACTION of "Revealed In 'Fear': Pence Lied About Flynn" OK FRIENDS, I HAVE TO RETRACT THIS STORY!
As pointed out by txdoubledd below, the actual text of the Woodward book makes clear that the meeting between Pence, Priebus and McGahn in the Situation Room was AFTER Pence supposedly learned of Flynn’s... |
MediaFreeze | 09/12/2018 | 171 | 255 | - | - |
| Trump Tower, Manafort, and $20 Million from Russia. Breaking, Manafort in plea talks with Mueller. Meanwhile, following the money, this breaks “... an offshore company controlled by Agalarov wired more than $19.5 million ...” from Russia the day Manafort took over the Trump campaign.
A Series Of... |
jqjacobs | 09/12/2018 | 110 | 166 | - | - |
| Overnight News Digest:Typhoon,Hurricane,and Stormy Daniels, oh my! International News
Philippines: 10 million people in the path of Mangkhut
Al Jazeera
Thousands of people will be evacuated as the most powerful typhoon so far this year roars towards the ... |
Interceptor7 | 09/12/2018 | 8 | 13 | - | - |
| Trump's FEMA throws 1000 sick and elderly Puerto Rican hurricane victims into the streets On Friday, one thousand American families hit by Hurricane Maria will be made effectively homeless by the Trump Administration.
Currently, more than 1,000 families are still displaced and being housed in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)... |
Dartagnan | 09/12/2018 | 10 | 48 | - | - |
| Vile, racist Serena Williams cartoon gets condemned around the world Cartoonists who draw racist images often defend their rights to "free speech," artistic license, and satire. Those of us who have been the targets of their poison pen and ink over centuries have no sympathy for the perpetuation of racist stereotypes... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 09/12/2018 | 584 | 331 | - | - |
| Bookflurries-Bookchat: What About Elves? Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
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I am thinking about elves in so many stories. Not cute elves, but... |
cfk | 09/12/2018 | 144 | 28 | - | - |
| US Coal consumption declines again as coal shipments hit lowest level since 1983 This week brings a new report from the US Energy Information Administration, which provides a chance to check in on how Donald Trump’s rhetoric matches up with reality. Answer? About as well as expected. While Donald Trump was claiming that the trains... |
Mark Sumner | 09/12/2018 | 50 | 82 | - | - |
| Top comments: Carolina in My Mind No profound thoughts tonight. If you're in the path of the hurricane, I hope you’re somewhere safe tonight, with your loved ones and pets. And that FEMA figures out what they’re doing.
But first, a word from our sponsor!
Here at Top Comments... |
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker | 09/12/2018 | 19 | 25 | - | - |
| TX-Sen: On The Road Again! Willie Nelson To Headline Rally For Beto O'Rourke (D) Fuck yeah!
At his annual 4th of July Picnic near Austin earlier this summer, Willie Nelson welcomed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke onstage to join him on guitar for set-closing renditions of “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” and “Will the... |
poopdogcomedy | 09/12/2018 | 4 | 9 | - | - |
| Louisiana mayor bans Nike from city parks and rec due to Kaepernick campaign; city fights back The mayor of Kenner, Louisiana, has unleashed a political hellstorm after releasing an ill-advised memorandum declaring that, in the face of Nike’s Colin Kaepernick “Just Do It” advertising campaign, he was calling for a citywide ban on the global... |
Jessica Sutherland | 09/12/2018 | 181 | 234 | - | - |
| Bank of America is asking customers to prove citizenship to access their own money The past couple of weeks have seen a series of stories exposing some of the more fascistic powers our country has implemented—specifically, big banks’ ability to freeze the private assets of their customers, based on little to zero evidence of... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/12/2018 | 282 | 347 | - | - |
| Trump's top racist is told to repent by his childhood rabbi in Rosh Hashanah smackdown Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels heads the Beth Shir Shalom synagogue in Santa Monica—the little city where Trump aide and white-supremacist goon Stephen Miller grew up. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is upon us, and to mark it, Comess-Daniels gave a... |
Walter Einenkel | 09/12/2018 | 254 | 288 | - | - |
| Florence to stall, get stuck for days in Carolinas Hurricane Florence is still on course for the Carolinas, where it will make landfall somewhere between Myrtle Beach and Wilmington. The landfall time has shifted, as more data has come in. The storm most definitely will slow down and then stall, and... |
terrypinder | 09/12/2018 | 142 | 158 | - | - |
| 538.com Senate forecast now up: Dems rated 83% shot at House majority, 34% for both chambers. Many of you have probably used the FiveThirtyEight House forecast tool, which offers a race-by-race forecast based on polling and other data. The Senate model is now available in the same tool. And for dedicated politics nerds, I find myself going to... |
Davey1107 | 09/12/2018 | 26 | 24 | - | - |
| Republican congressman recorded suggesting orphanages would be better than gay adoptions Republican Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ-04) met with a group of high school students in New Jersey and appeared to be caught off-guard when one of the students ask him about his position on LGBTQ couples adopting children. From the Washington Blade:
The... |
Jen Hayden | 09/12/2018 | 34 | 57 | - | - |
| Minority Rule: How Republicans Took Control of the Federal Government with 25% of the Electorate Americans may not agree about much these days, but we all accept two basic tenets that underlie our democracy: majority rule and everyone’s vote counts equally. Without these two principles, it is hard to imagine how genuine democracy can exist. Yet... |
DJFord | 09/12/2018 | 12 | 14 | - | - |
| Off-duty Dallas officer who killed an unarmed black man in his own home offers conflicting details The story behind how and why Officer Amber Guyger entered the wrong apartment in the building where she lived and shot resident Botham Jean in his own home is hazy at best. Both Guyger and law enforcement officials are releasing details that seem to be... |
Jen Hayden | 09/12/2018 | 354 | 263 | - | - |
| PWB: Woozleday Storee & Play Tyme! Hello to Da Peeps!
I have no idea where I’ll be when this posts, so I trust you all to look after each other. Please keep all of us in Florence’s path in your thoughts. Prayers, good energy, |
The Marti | 09/12/2018 | 83 | 82 | - | - |
| 56 Years ago, We Chose to Go to the Moon Fifty six years ago, on September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave this historical speech to a crowd assembled at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, which included perhaps the most famous words ever uttered about space exploration — Why we choose to go to... |
AKALib | 09/12/2018 | 26 | 22 | - | - |
| Trump Smears 9/11 Memorializations With Absurd Hoax Picture. Trump has received some criticism for his 9/11 remembrances today. On this day, he tweeted about the “fake news” investigation first. In Pennsylvania he’s been criticized for celebratory double fist pumping as left his plane to visit the Flight 93... |
KeithDB | 09/12/2018 | 136 | 202 | - | - |
| This idiot can't even show respect on 9/11. One of the characteristics of sociopaths is that what we consider “normal” human emotions are often alien to them. They don’t know how to act in certain situations where certain norms are expected.
For someone wholly bereft of any sense of human... |
Dartagnan | 09/12/2018 | 280 | 290 | - | - |
| Happy birthday, Kos!!!!! Dear Markos,
Happy birthday! I wish for you all the happiness this day can bring. Looking back now since the time I found this BLOG, I think about all the people who have found purpose, opportunities, friends, missions, a place to write about... |
TexMex | 09/12/2018 | 142 | 307 | - | - |
| Trump's disgraced former EPA chief slithers into the swamp, seeks 'consulting' job for Big Coal Donald Trump released his embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief after more than a year of negative press, one story after another about how Scott Pruitt was wasting millions of tax dollars and embarrassing the Trump administration. From... |
Jen Hayden | 09/12/2018 | 15 | 19 | - | - |
| History Rhymes in Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith is a storied name in Maine politics. She was the first female elected to the Senate not by dint of being the spouse of a senator, and the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency of either... |
acadia | 09/12/2018 | 15 | 32 | - | - |
| Fueling Florence (and, Concurrently, Eight Other Major Storms): 'BradCast' 9/12/18 Guest: Meteorologist Guy 'Climate Guy' Walton; Also: NH Primary results...
On today's BradCast: A multitude of terrifying threats from Hurricane Florence loom large across at least four states in the Southeast, as millions of Americans hunker down... |
TheBradBlog | 09/12/2018 | 2 | 4 | - | - |
| Despite (or Because of) His Hysterical Smear Campaign, America Still Trust the Media More than Trump For more than two years now, Donald Trump has been attacking what he calls the "fake news" at every opportunity. He does it in interviews, on Twitter, and at his tedious cult rallies where he seems to be on auto-pilot, regurgitating the same old... |
News Corpse | 09/12/2018 | 7 | 13 | - | - |
| Even Mitch McConnel Is Worried About Ted Cruz Progressives around the country have been watching the senate race in Texas with bated breath, optimistic for the first time in years that they have a serious chance at unseating conservative radical Ted Cruz from the senate. This is all because of the... |
cathammond | 09/12/2018 | 12 | 11 | - | - |
| Hundreds of teachers are running for office, and they're already making waves The teacher uprising of early 2018 is poised to turn into teacher electoral wins in late 2018 and beyond. Hundreds of teachers across the country are running for office:
One of the country’s top teacher unions now says it has a comprehensive... |
Laura Clawson | 09/12/2018 | 7 | 28 | - | - |
| The president asserts, "If I think it, it's right" - What a loser We have a developmentally stunted president with a New York accent. Bigly.
That’s the president we have. According to Bob Woodward, who is a truth teller, the president we unfortunately have, who is not a truth teller, said that the World Trade... |
nancyjones | 09/12/2018 | 47 | 109 | - | - |
| A RANT This rant comes courtesy of someone who in middle age has decided it is time he do something, like vote, because those of us who voted in the past had let him down, and my having been informed I certainly could not be considered progressive because I... |
joe quigley | 09/12/2018 | 20 | 43 | - | - |
| Good News Round Up Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Hello Good Newsies! Tomorrow is Primary Day in New York. I am still stressing about who to vote for Attorney General. Other than that I know the D’s I will be supporting.
I wanted to start off a little off topic, although I consider this good... |
karij | 09/12/2018 | 66 | 91 | - | - |
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