Eye Rolls In The News. Sometimes you just gotta say, Huh?
The U.S. Postal Service has been ordered to pay $3.5 million to the sculptor of a Statue of Liberty replica at a Las Vegas casino after an image of it was mistakenly used on a stamp. https://t.co/JlgBGzevLH
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) July 5, 2018
It’s all a plot to deport Pelosi …
Trump administration looking to revoke citizenship from naturalized citizens: USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force https://t.co/K061e84GAk
— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) July 4, 2018
Can we bend a knee if the flag is made by communists?
A Chinese factory says its been hired to make flags for Trump's 2020 campaign https://t.co/if5xIca3nZ
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) July 5, 2018
more eyerolls in news from the guardian:
A veggie burger that “bleeds” fake blood has been accused of posing an “existential threat” to New Zealand’s beef industry, amid a growing row over synthetic meat.
The Impossible Burger, which is being served on the national carrier Air New Zealand, has drawn the ire of the acting prime minister Winston Peters, who has said he is “utterly opposed to fake beef,” and the airline should be using real animal products.
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In a statement, Air New Zealand said the company spent millions of dollars every year buying New Zealand beef and lamb, and the veggie burger posed no threat to the domestic red meat industry.
“In the past year alone, we proudly served around 1.3m New Zealand sourced beef and lamb meals to customers from around the world.”
“Air New Zealand makes no apology for offering innovative product choices for its customers and will continue to do so in the future.”
According to Juliet Sear of the BBC Good Food Guide, the impossible burger – which uses genetically engineered ingredients cooked up in Silicon Valley – was “simply delicious” despite the texture being “a tad too soft and mushy.”
Reviews on Treehugger.com said the burger smelt like liver and you “could definitely tell it wasn’t real meat”, while Revelist discovered the $13 lunch had “a hint of seaweed flavor”, and a “faintly wheat-y aftertaste”.
vlad still up to his old tricks
The World Cup final will include one of these teams — England, Croatia, Sweden, Russia. Really.
Seven greedy old perverts
celebratedspent the American Fourth of July in Moscow meeting with Putin’s people. Why? No real reason given to American media, but, once again RT was there. If there can be any more idiotic way to essentially prove you are a Russian agent is to do this stunt. No Dems were given visas by the Russians, but no word if any were invited in the first place.Today is July 5, 2018, I have not seen Civil War II. Perhaps the far right was wrong again?
To quote the great James Garner in “Space Cowboys”, “Oh, good lord.”
I’ll bet the denaturalization bunch will be captained by Peter Peachfuzz and will recommend denaturalizing people from countries populated by people who can trace their ancestry and language to Spain and will ignore people from countries and regions that pose actual threats to our country’s security.
Sturge, let me rephrase. Those were great American music choices. Oh , and it was the 4th when you posted them. (No brass bands, no JPS and no Lee Greenwood- and thanks for that).
That Air New Zealand burger doesn’t sound like my cup of tea so to speak. I’ve had the odd veggie burger I enjoyed but they didn’t have a hint of seaweed on the palate and a wheat aftertaste.
The postage stamp image issue caused quite a stir in the philatelic world as it had been vetted through committees, reviews and approvals. The $3.5M is for copyright infringement. It is also a reminder that when the government makes a mistake, it is a big mistake.
Will revoking citizenship be upheld? Depends on who is on the bench.
Melania getting sent back to Slovenia if she doesn’t support the great, orange putz?
Blue Bronc, and some had the gall to tweet July 4th messages (of course without revealing they were celebrating Russians).
The government should sue the sculptor for copyright infringement.
Wow…..got thru that whole bloomin’ day drunkern 40 hells and the worst thing that happened was I left the oven on all night…..
that’s amazing.
pog… I retract my objection…..they were definitely songs for the Ford of July ……..
I do like some rousing JPS every now and then though…..it just wasn’t in the cards……
Hope yours is electric, Sturg — those gas ones make a real mess when they get angry.
I sing the oven electric……
Now I think about it, the only gas oven I’ve ever had was when I lived 4 years in the camper down on Bohicket Creek…… They don’t like for Renters in Paradise to have gas appliances……my dad could have had one in the old house, but back in the fifties he thought electric stove was “wave of the future”. He must have got that from one of those Popular Science magazines.
I lost a big box full of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines in the grand conflagration at annex # 1.
Is that all there is to a fire?
The judge should have awarded plaintiff tuppence. And that is infinitely more than George III ended with.
It’s somehow pleasing that George III lived until 1820 and actually got to see the consequences of his dumb-assedness……Barbara W Tuchman wrote about that in her book THE MARCH OF FOLLY………great book…..
Sturge, artists aside, I think the most appropriate American music tribute to celebrate the country’s birthday – which would of course be broadcast on the 4th – would be a day of Jazz and Blues (and maybe gospel and the old “Negro” spirituals). Don’t know of any other music forms that originated here. Country music really arose from Scottish and Irish music tempered with a bit of blues, so I don’t really consider it to have originated here – but I’d guess that’s up for debate. And I got nuthin’ against JPS – I just don’t need to come here to listen to it on the 4th – it’s played by every military band and orchestra that plays music on the 4th.
Blue laundry
Cherry vanity
I hope the US doesn’t repeat England’s experience with Geo III.
Been chopping wood for 30 years now……..I’m just about sick of it.
That’s some pretty cabinetry, sturge.
I’m not liking what I’m hearing about the kids traps in the cave. Latest word was that they’re too tired to attempt to bring them out right now. That doesn’t sound good. My guess is they aren’t going to get a lot more relaxed & refreshed by staying in the cave.
I’d hate to be the soccer coach when he gets out of that cave.
Pogo – my question was what were they living on for nine days? Did they carry rations for that amount of time? I guess they drank the water that was all around them.
BB -They drank fresh water seeping in & it was warm enough to keep them from burning up all of their body weight for heat.
Two Democratic congressmen call for IG probe of Pruitt’s secret calendar https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/politics/pruitt-epa-beyer-lieu-inspector-general/index.html
Routine staff meetings to “scrub” or alter meetings.
It sounds like Scott Pruitt is allergic to sunlight. VAMPIRE
‘Trump Baby’ balloon gets green light from London mayor https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/europe/donald-trump-baby-trump-uk-intl/index.html
Yaay! UK!
Are Ivanker, Donny junior and/or Eric traveling to the UK with Trumpsky?
Maybe they can separate the kids upon arrival and put them in a holding pen.
Arizona Senate candidate’s husband, who is a top campaign surrogate, spread conspiracy theories online https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/politics/kfile-kelli-ward-husband-tweets/index.html
Jeezaloo. This is the GOP alternative to Joe Arpio. Which pooh pile do they want to run? The Repugz just have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to candidates.
No change since this began: HHS secretary’s conference call with reporters in last hour, says they have “11,800” minors, incl “under 3,000” separated from families, and 100 under 5yo. No number on how many reunited.
I doubt that all will ever be reunited.
It will be impossible to verify if any remain separated from their parent(s) because the Trump administration lies about everything.
From the leg chair, to the mooch, to the arms of junior, the former mrs. gavin newsom joins the family. faux news with a happy ending, fireworks on the fourth.
Mr. Mueller hires more investigators. The encouraging news from this story is the mention of hiring staff in Pittsburgh — the fbi data crimes unit works out-of-Pittsburgh.
So sorry to hear of the death of Big Ed, Ed Schultz.
https://www.wday.com/news/4468792-ed-schultz-local-and-national-broadcast-personality-has-died
Kimberly sleeping her way to the bottom. No empathy or feelings for anyone involved with any of them
I too am sorry to hear of Big Ed’s death. I used to watch him with some regularity when he had his MSNBC show. Always liked him. Damn. He isn’t old enough to have died. Hard to believe he was once on the conservative talk show crazy train – man, did he have an epiphany.
RIP Ed. I got a kick out of his programs, Air America and MSNBC. I never bothered with RT.
Ed Schultz brings back memories of fall visits to the Pacific Northwest and hours spent listening to Seattle radio. The first time I heard his voice was on a drive to Seattle: “Who is that?”
I love distinctive voices, and he had one, paired with a delivery that could yank me out of my seat.
After that, I watched his MSNBC show and listened to his podcast. Always had the suspicion MSNBC pulled him more for his age than his anything else. Sometime after the 2016 election and his move to RT, I lost track of him.
But he was yar for such a long time.
pruitt resigns.
the guardian:
Campaign groups and trade unions have organised a schedule of protests to follow Donald Trump on his visit to the UK next week, including a six metre angry baby balloon that will fly over Westminster from Parliament Square.
Demonstrations begin next Thursday evening at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, and in Regent’s Park, London, near to where the protesters believe the president will have dinner, and then at the US ambassador’s residence, where they believe he will stay the night.
The “Trump baby” balloon is due to fly on the Friday morning, after campaigners raised £16,000 to pay for it and the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, gave permission for it to fly. “The mayor supports the right to peaceful protest and understands that this can take many different forms,” a spokesman for Khan said.
Leo Murray, an environmental campaigner behind the balloon stunt, said the idea behind the protest was to play on Trump’s psychology. “He’s a deeply insecure man, and that is the only leverage we have over him. If we want his attention, we have to do something that humiliates him.”
[….]
Trump is then expected to head to Scotland, the birthplace of his mother and where he owns two golf courses. There will be demonstrations on Friday evening in Glasgow and again on Saturday in Edinburgh at noon, where organisers promise a “carnival of resistance” against Trump with stalls, talks, music and games such as “Toss the welly at Trump”, “Trump’s head coconut shy” and, of course, “Mini golf”.
[…]
A spokesperson for Together Against Trump said: “We regard it as a victory that Donald Trump does not appear to have any official engagements in London or anywhere with a large population. Instead he will stay hidden away in country estates and castles.”
coal lobbyist, wheeler, #2 at EPA now takes over.
Now that CoS Kelly has finally gotten rid of Pruitt he can hit the road. Supposedly that was his plan.
Do you think kirstjen nielsen will leave with him, Craig?
meant to post this yesterday to celebrate the 4th but now with Pruitt leaving it’s also fitting to celebrate the hopeful return of the epa & spacious clean skies and chemical free waves of grain
10/28/01: Ray Charles performs “America the Beautiful” prior to Game 2 of the World Series
Patd…baby balloon is the first of the ‘space cadets.’
So long, Ed. Another baby boomer gone and of natural causes at 64. I need to look that one up! I liked Ed until he went to RT…it is said he changed his outlook. From the daily beast in April —
While his former home MSNBC has hit ratings gold—due, in part, to its extensive coverage of the ongoing probe into Russian ties to the Trump campaign—the famously bombastic progressive Schultz has gone in the opposite direction since departing the network in 2015.
As The New Republic noted in 2017, since joining Russia’s state-owned television network, Schultz has repeatedly praised Trump’s political acumen while downplaying accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
bbc:
Lions eat ‘rhino poachers’ on South African game reserve
To Maxine? You were correct about confronting public servants…the Mom, teacher who confronted pruitt? She was effective!
Maxine is a hero.
Scotty gone!
Hopefully, Suckabee will be gone soon, too. Can anyone out-lie her? We’ll see. She must be employee-of-the month every month.
Would like to see Mnuchin hit the road, too.
Yes, Maxine had the right idea. The GOOPERZ want the opposition to be quiet. CALL ‘EM OUT!
Prime time Trumpsky. Barf. SCOTUS.
I don’t plan to help his Monday night ratings. I won’t be watching.
I wonder if Pruitt will fly home in first class or coach?
pogo, adrift on a golden parachute provided by his oil buds no doubt
Cohen tells friends he doesn’t think Trump would pardon him https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/politics/michael-cohen-friends-pardon-donald-trump/index.html
Mickey C is right about that. Trumpsky does not have his back…so take the Cheeto down…and the boys & Ivanker & Jar-jar, too!
It took this mother 55 days to be reunited with her young daughter https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/us/massachusetts-separated-families-reunification/index.html
Trumpsky’s immigration policy is bad enough, but they really should do psych tests on potential immigration officers to weed out asshats like these, who seemed to enjoy rubbing salt into the wound. Cruel bastards.
Trump mocks #MeToo movement in riff on Elizabeth Warren’s heritage during Montana rally https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/politics/trump-montana-rally-pruitt-resigns/index.html
Bloviatng bully.
This is is not what is meant by the term bully pulpit.
His empire is crumbling & he doesn’t know it.
Opinion: Trump’s wish for the Supreme Court may be his downfall https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/05/opinions/trump-supreme-court-pick-downfall-tusk/index.html
There is only one logical reason that Trump is traveling to Helsinki unattended for his tête-à-tête with Putin—he’s negotiating the terms of his defection.
Holy Mars! Up early here in the southwest to view the July night sky…super month for viewing the planets. The cloud cover from the monsoon is gone at this time and Mars seems so much redder, brighter than normal with the global dust storm. It could be my imagination. A “sol” in the life of Mars rovers? Curiosity is a nuclear powered unit and is surviving the dust storm. Opportunity, a solar powered unit, is on low power. Spirit? Dead under the dust somewhere.
Sol — A sol is a Martian day, which is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day.
July 6, 2018, the day the global trade wars started. I wish the congrussians would hurry home from their July 4th company picnic in russia to start tossing economic salvos on behalf of the American people.
Hold the divorce and separation, mel is headed to europe and promises to be by her hubby’s side when he visits the queen and king (putie). Only xi holds the title of emperor these days.
bw, she also plays the role of royal translator as she speaks many more languages than the twit (including English)