1/. Matt Taibbi on Russiagate from the Russian perspective......interesting and there are always two sides to every issue....
Last Wednesday, former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton Paul Begala stepped out of his usual milquetoast centrist costume and made a chest-thumping pronouncement on CNN.
"We were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power," he said. "We should be debating how many sanctions we should place on Russia, or whether we should blow up the KGB."
Begala's is the latest in a string of comments from prominent pols and pundits suggestingwe are (or should be) in a state of war with nuclear-armed Russia.
Former DNC chair Donna Brazile tweetingthis week, "The Communists are dictating the terms of the debate" – and not bothering to delete the error – is another weird example of what feels like intense longing in the Beltway to reignite the Cold War. (Begala wanting to blow up the long-dead KGB is another.)
2/. The excellent Tom Tomorrow on Donald Jr......
3/. Samantha Bee on the Voter Fraud commission.......all of them seem like evil bastards....a funny and informative eight minutes....
With President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission demanding sensitive details on American citizens, Samantha Bee thought it would be a good idea to examine exactly who was sitting on the panel.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “Full Frontal,” Bee explored the previous work of three of the commission’s members: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Hans von Spakovsky and Christian Adams.
As you can imagine, Bee didn’t like what she saw.
“Guys like this have been playing the long game, methodically chipping away at the Voting Rights Act since the moment LBJ signed it and then left the room to expose himself to the steno pool,” said Bee. “And now this president has handed them the keys to the candy shop so they can run in and purge all the chocolates.”
4/. If there is one thing that makes me depressed, it's the idiots in senior positions in the Democratic Party who
Just. Don't. Get. It......
(Credit: Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
For most of this decade, Democrats have not understood why they keep losing the U.S. House and state legislatures to Republican super-majorities. It’s not because American voters have moved to the right. The biggest single reason the GOP has that outsized grip on power is because they outsmarted Democrats when drawing political maps in 2011 for U.S. House races and state legislatures. Those maps last a decade and set the stage for our increasingly extreme politics by segregating reliably blue and red voters into non-competitive districts.
That strategy, called gerrymandering, has typically given the GOP an edge of 6 percent or more of the reliable voters. (In these same states, Democrats are packed into fewer seats but typically win by much bigger margins.) The GOP’s voter suppression strategy, like stricter ID rules to get a ballot, builds on this uneven baseline.
Extreme redistricting has become a hot topic. Former President Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder are focusing on it. Democratic Party officials in Washington say the GOP’s 2011 gerrymander won’t happen again. In 2016, the seminal book on the topic, “Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind The Plan to Steal America’s Democracy”, by David Daley, explains this starting-line advantage, how it came to pass and its effects.
5/. He's a good boy.....
6/. Seth Meyers with an excellent and probing 12 minutes on Russiagate, and proves how stupid Sean Hannity is......Meyers is very good....
Fox News’ Sean Hannity has been supportive of President Donald Trump since the 2016 campaign, but Seth Meyers noticed he has a strange way of showing it.
The “Late Night” host on Thursday discussed a recent New York Times interview the president gave in which he accused former FBI Director James Comey of using a dossiercontaining unconfirmed, damaging information as leverage. Meyers said he would not repeat the details of the dossier, since they haven’t been corroborated.
Instead, he let Hannity do the sharing ― something the Fox News host seems to do fairly often.
7/. A heartfelt cry to Bernie from a frustrated Democrat.....what he suggests is impractical under our hopelessly corrupt political system, but most of the points he makes about the Democratic leadership are true....
Bernie Sanders (Credit: Getty/Alex Wong)
Poor Bernie Sanders. He’s by far the most popular politician in the United States — more so than the president by a long shot — and yet, at 75, he’s likely too old to run for president again. Polls show that, compared to Democrats’ or Republicans’ platforms, Americans overwhelmingly prefer Sanders’ policy proposals, and yet the Democratic Party, with whom the independent senator from Vermont caucuses, won’t explicitly profess its support for any of them. Sanders’ frenemies in the Democratic Party refuse to learn any lessons from his popularity. Instead of adopting some of the septuagenarian’s ever-popular rhetoric, the Democrats have turned their backs on him, promoting a big donor–approved platform characterized by ideologically vacant opposition. Anti-Trump yet pro-nothing.
So as the de facto leader of the American left, reviled by his cousins in the Democratic Party, what’s a democratic socialist to do?
8/. Stephen Colbert was in Russia last week, and found an oligarch willing to talk to him, with a glimmer of a sense of humour too!
An interesting 11 minutes....you get the point after seven or so....
“The Late Show” is countering the White House’s “Made in America Week” with one of their own, themed weeks. Stephen Colbert recently went to Moscow where he filmed some field pieces for “Russia Week.” He had the opportunity to meet one of the world’s wealthiest people on the trip, Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, known in the U.S. for being the owner of the Brooklyn Nets.
Prokhorov invited Colbert to meet with him at his mansion outside Moscow. Colbert has made clear throughout the week that he did not feel very safe during his visit to Russia, and that anxiousness came out in his interview with Prokhorov.
“Tell me how to oligarch,” Colbert said to start the interview. “And is that an OK term for you? Nothing negative about the term ‘oligarch’ for you, is there?”
“It’s a bad word,” Prokhorov answered candidly.
“Is it offensive to you that I use the term ‘oligarch?’ I want to get out of here with all of my toes,” Colbert said somewhat jokingly.
9/. You may think I am a little OTT with the stories about ticks, but it's a serious issue....
With a Tick Boom, It’s Not Just Lyme Disease
You Have to Fear
Everybody knows about Lyme disease. But experts say the Northern United States may be in for a bad tick season this summer, raising concerns about Lyme and other scary tick-borne diseases, including the Powassan virus, which causes encephalitis and can leave people with permanent neurological damage.
“This spring definitely seems worse than others I remember,” said Dr. Catherine Wiley, chief of general pediatrics at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. “People are coming in from the yard with numerous ticks on them.”
When we think of ticks, we tend to think of deer, but Richard S. Ostfeld, a senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., said it’s really all about mice. He has been studying white-footed mouse population ecology for the past 25 years. Every four or five years, he said, there’s a bumper acorn crop, so more mice survive the following winter, breed and reach what he called “mouse plague levels” in the summer.
10/. Give this a chance - it's a four minute op-doc from the Times that argues pro wrestling is a sport telling a story to middle America....well directed, and fascinating....
I was first exposed to wrestling by my dad, whose favorite wrestler was Dusty Rhodes. When I was growing up, he’d surprise-attack me, hollering, “I’m the American Dream,” then lift my 7-year-old body into the air, slam me on the couch and go for the pin. I’d escape after the second count and triumphantly rebound to victory, leaving my dad defeated on our green living room carpet as I paraded around the house with my hands in the air.
Fast-forward a few years: My cousins persuaded their mom to let us record our wrestling matches with her Sony Handycam. It was the first video camera I ever used. We had entrance music, costumes and special moves. A few years later, in my early teens, I’d stay up half the night with friends playing WCW vs. nWo: World Tour for Nintendo 64. I always selected my favorite wrestler, Macho Man Randy Savage. By this time I was becoming aware of professional wrestling’s being “fake.” But Macho Man said every word with such conviction, with a thought process that sounded nearly insane. I wondered: So if wrestling is fake, does Macho Man know?
11/. Did you know there is are specialist groups of lawyers who are experts in helping you adjust your assets so you qualify for Medicaid? Thought not....
At any given moment, there is a large group of citizens who want nothing more than to make absolutely certain that they are impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid sooner rather than later. Someday, you might be one of them.
Welcome to the (perfectly legal) world of Medicaid planning, the plain-vanilla term for the mini-industry of lawyers and others who help people arrange their financial lives so they don’t spend every last dime on a nursing home. Once properly impoverished under the law, then Medicaid, which gets funding both from your state and the federal government, picks up the tab.
Whatever twists and turns the health insurance debates in Washington take, Medicaid will be at the center, and the program will probably affect you and your family more than you know. After all, if you run out of money in retirement, it is Medicaid that pays for most of your nursing home or home-based care.
12/. "Stranger Things" was one of the best shows of 2016, so it's coming back in October for a new series on Netflix....can't wait.....
Have a look at the new trailer....
The Season 2 trailer for “Stranger Things” is finally here, and it’s already turning the internet upside down.
Netflix released the trailer at San Diego Comic-Con in California on Saturday, showing us the Upside Down perhaps creeping into the human world and Eleven officially coming back!
Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler on the show, told HuffPost earlier this year that series creators, the Duffer Brothers, “nailed it” in the upcoming season, while Caleb McLaughlin, aka Lucas Sinclair, teased that Season 2 is “gonna be better and darker.”
Whatever happens, your day just got “stranger” in the best way.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
An amazing bike video of a Kawasaki H2 outrunning a trooper - the twist to this one is the camera is mounted backwards.....
For every one of these videos there has to be another one where they kill themselves.....
Todays blond joke
A man got on the bus with both of his front trouser pockets full of golf balls and sat down
next to a beautiful blonde.
The puzzled blonde kept looking at him and his bulging pockets.
Finally, after many glances from her, he said, "It's golf balls."
The blonde continued to look at him for a very long time, thinking deeply about what he had said.
Finally unable to contain her curiosity any longer, she asked, "Does it hurt as much as
tennis elbow?"
Todays pregnancy jokes
How long is the average woman in labor?
~Whatever she says, divided by two.
Is there any reason I have to be in the delivery room while my wife is in labor?
~Not unless the word “alimony” means anything to you.
What does it mean when the baby’s head is crowning?
~It means you feel as though not only a crown but the entire throne is trying to make its way out of you.
What are forceps?
~Giant baby tweezers.
Does labor cause hemorrhoids?
~Labor causes anything you want to blame it for.
I’m modest. Once I’m in the hospital to deliver, who will see me in that delicate position?
~Authorized personnel only - doctors, nurses, orderlies, photographers, florists, cleaning crews, journalists, etc.
Where is the best place to store breast milk?
~In your breasts.
What does it mean when a baby is born with teeth?
~It means that the baby’s mother may want to rethink her plans to nurse.
What are the terrible twos?
~Your breasts after your baby stops nursing cold turkey.
What is the best time to wean the baby from nursing?
~When you see teeth marks.
What is the grasp reflex?
~The reaction of new fathers when they see a new mother’s breasts.
What causes baby blues?
~Tanned, hard-bodied bimbos.
What is colic?
~A reminder for new parents to use birth control.
What are night terrors?
~Frightening episodes in which the new mother dreams she’s pregnant again.
Our baby was born last week. When will my wife begin to feel and act normal again?
~When the kids are in college.
Is there anything I should avoid while recovering from childbirth?
~Yes, pregnancy.
When choosing a name for your baby, go to the back door and shout it out a few times.
~Whatever she says, divided by two.
Is there any reason I have to be in the delivery room while my wife is in labor?
~Not unless the word “alimony” means anything to you.
What does it mean when the baby’s head is crowning?
~It means you feel as though not only a crown but the entire throne is trying to make its way out of you.
What are forceps?
~Giant baby tweezers.
Does labor cause hemorrhoids?
~Labor causes anything you want to blame it for.
I’m modest. Once I’m in the hospital to deliver, who will see me in that delicate position?
~Authorized personnel only - doctors, nurses, orderlies, photographers, florists, cleaning crews, journalists, etc.
Where is the best place to store breast milk?
~In your breasts.
What does it mean when a baby is born with teeth?
~It means that the baby’s mother may want to rethink her plans to nurse.
What are the terrible twos?
~Your breasts after your baby stops nursing cold turkey.
What is the best time to wean the baby from nursing?
~When you see teeth marks.
What is the grasp reflex?
~The reaction of new fathers when they see a new mother’s breasts.
What causes baby blues?
~Tanned, hard-bodied bimbos.
What is colic?
~A reminder for new parents to use birth control.
What are night terrors?
~Frightening episodes in which the new mother dreams she’s pregnant again.
Our baby was born last week. When will my wife begin to feel and act normal again?
~When the kids are in college.
Is there anything I should avoid while recovering from childbirth?
~Yes, pregnancy.
When choosing a name for your baby, go to the back door and shout it out a few times.
Todays golf joke
Got home really late last night after a full day of golfing and hanging out drinking with
the guys, and Mary left a message in the kitchen.
I think she wants me to eat more fruit, bless her heart!
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