Kitchen Sink Omelet

 

 

 Not my doing, but I wish it was.

Hopefully, with the experience he's just gained, Trump will be able to open a hot-dog stand next July 4th.

One problem with having lived for over 60 years is when I see something advertised as a bargain, I remember when it was much, much cheaper. Nothing is too petty for the 45 administration: Crooks and Liars : Red Painter: 'The White House was so worried about upsetting Donald Trump during his trip to Japan that they placed a TARP over the name of the USS McCain, the ship was "relocated" to obscure it from sight and the ship's sailors were given the day off.' A step forward is a step forward: Daily Kos: Laura Clawson:  New Hampshire abolishes death penalty, as state Senate overrides Gov. Sununu's veto .  Daily Kos : Gabe Ortiz: Maine has become the latest state to ban harmful, so-called “conversion therapy” for LBGTQ minors. “By signing this bill into law today,” said Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, “we send an unequivocal message to young LGBTQ people in Maine and across the country: We stand with you, we support you, and we will always defend your right to...

I had to turn on the heat pump last night. [Marshals crane backing up while hoisting Summer] "Okay, back a little more ... little more.... Right there! Okay, set 'er down easy--" BATHUMP. "Awesome; there's Summer right it belongs, just after Spring." Thank the gods: can we now kindly drive a wooden stake through the heart of Game of Thrones as an act of mercy? Why do we keep thinking bad fiction makes for good media? Think GoT is good fiction ? Read Mark Twain's Seventeen Rules for Writing . Made biscuits today since I'm not paying $$$ for a loaf of bread. I like how Trump is multi-tasking all the different levels of Dante's Inferno  Trump will occupy after he dies. Satan will need to install a light rail system just to shuttle Trump around to meet his just punishments. At least Trump will improve Hell's infrastructure.... Mock Paper Scissors : Little Kremlin-on-the-Potomac: tengrain: ' And then   Fox News had a nutty...

I've had it with Facebook. Invasive monitoring, nurturing neo-fascist hate speech to increase their revenue, selling our personal data to obviously Russian think tanks, who then put Trump into the Oval Office--I'm done with Facebook. Yes, Google has its problems as well, but seems a better choice to me for now. Let's see how this works out....

YOU CAN’T HAVE IT ALL by Barbara Ras But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back. You can have the purr of the cat and the soulful look of the black dog, the look that says, If I could I would bite every sorrow until it fled, and when it is August, you can have it August and abundantly so. You can have love, though often it will be mysterious, like the white foam that bubbles up at the top of the bean pot over the red kidneys until you realize foam’s twin is blood. You can have the skin at the center between a man’s legs, so solid, so doll-like. You can have the life of the mind, glowing occasionally in priestly vestments, never admitting pettiness, never stooping to bribe the sullen guard who’ll tell you all roads narrow at the border. You can speak a foreign language, sometimes, and it can mean something...

To Do Next for the #NeverAgain Movement: Settle on a Clear Demand Social Justice and Activism by Ted Rall | April 5, 2018 - 5:22am Adapted by Daffyd ap Morgen A huge turnout will not lead to new gun legislation. Victory is achievable when rallies sharpen their focus. Movements need enthusiasm and careful strategizing to sustain and grow. Congress and the president ignore one-off events of large groups of Americans carrying signs, and chanting slogans.  Sustained movements must be organized around a message. Social media can bring large groups of people together quickly.  But they also need a simple, coherent, bumper-sticker-ready demand message. The 10 printed demands for the March on Washington remind us of American society’s failure to address the needs of the poor and oppressed since 1963.  They had a clear, coherent set of demands, beginning with: “Comprehensive and effective Civil Rights legislation from the present Congress — without compromise or ...

From Daily Kos : ME-Gov: A huge mess is unfolding in Maine, after Secretary of State Matt Dunlap told legislators on Thursday that the state could not conduct its June primaries using instant-runoff voting (IRV) due to a legal issue first pointed out by the state attorney general's office. Confusingly, though, Dunlap later said his department would nevertheless proceed with implementing the new system, which was passed by voters in 2016, claiming that election officials "do not have time to do anything else."​ ​The legal dispute is highly arcane but it leaves the state in a precarious position. Both Dunlap and state Attorney General Janet Mills, who is a candidate for governor, urged the legislature to correct the problem, but that's simply not going to happen, since Republicans and a number of Democrats are opposed to IRV. That means the issue is headed to court, though it could play a role on the campaign trail, too: One of Mills' opponents in the Democra...

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"Maryland School Shooter killed by Armed School Resource Officer." Let's unpack this: A student brings a gun to school.  The armed student opens fire on other students, wounding two students.  The armed student specifically targets a young female.  An armed school resource officer intervenes.  Both fire at each other.  The armed shooter dies in EMR.  The armed school resource officer is lauded as a hero.  We shrug and say, "Too bad."  The armed school resource officer is now touted as proof that we need armed school personnel to counter the threat of rage-student-revenge shootings.  I can't go any further than this because the sheer insanity of this, the mass hysteria of this, is mind-numbing. We shrug, and this is the new normal . And of course the answer is more guns . The student doesn't have a gun to bring to school.  This horrible syllogism, this mad freight train of conservative mythology stops in its tracks. The...

This horrible, and part of the horror is it is so commonplace....

xkcd strikes again!