1/ A thoughtful, fascinating piece from the Philadelphia Inquirer - "How I Learned To Relax and Love Donald Trump"...
I am the son of an Air Force brigadier general and served myself to the rank of colonel. Of my 57 years drawing breath, I’ve spent 51 of them directly or indirectly serving this once great nation. So, as you might imagine, I found myself on Nov. 8, 2016, more than a little dismayed at the news we had elevated Donald J. Trump to the nation’s highest office — a man so clearly unfit to lead America.
2/ A powerful, moving ad - one of the best ads yet....."Vote For Our Lives"....the song "The Dangerous Ones" is
by Kasey Anderson....
3/ Andrew Sullivan with his perspective on the new evil China....or Chiner as the orange idiot says....
Photo: Dale de la Rey/AFP via Getty Images
Genocide is not measured simply by the number of human beings in a demographic group who have been killed. Such numbers vary. The pogroms in Europe of the 14th century killed far, far fewer Jews than died in the 20th-century Holocaust, but it would be crazy not to see a very similar eliminationist impulse.
4/ In case you hadn't noticed we are the pariah nation of the world - we are looked on with pity and horror....
On July 4th Weekend Chris Hayes gives us a five minute summary of how we got here...
5/ Better and better - the Lincoln Project with 'Comrade Trump"....it's in Russian with subtitles....clever and nails it...
6/ James Fallows, an investigative journalist uses the techniques the NTSB uses to investigate a plane crash to tell us, step by step, what happened to our response to Covid-19 and where it went wrong. It's a long story, but very informative and damning for Trump. It's entirely his fault....
coping with a pandemic is one of the most complex challenges a society can face. To minimize death and damage, leaders and citizens must orchestrate a huge array of different resources and tools. Scientists must explore the most advanced frontiers of research while citizens attend to the least glamorous tasks of personal hygiene. Physical supplies matter—test kits, protective gear—but so do intangibles, such as “flattening the curve” and public trust in official statements. The response must be global, because the virus can spread anywhere, but an effective response also depends heavily on national policies, plus implementation at the state and community level.
7/ Tom Tomorrow....
8/ John Oliver is worried homelessness and evictions are the new crisis coming to working people in America....
9/ Interesting look at The Villages in the Guardian....they are saying the anger and hate may be turning off some residents....
It promotes itself as “Florida’s friendliest hometown”, a retirement playground where seniors while away their golden years in a carefree world of golf, swimming, fine dining, drinking, and nightly line dances in the village square.
But one reckless and controversial retweet from Donald Trump, featuring some ugly racism from a resident in a golf cart, and The Villages’ carefully crafted image as a peaceful utopia for retirees began to dissipate.
10/ Randy Rainbow with 'Cover Your Freaking Face"....the lad can sing!
11/ A ray of hope in this horrible world....cheap self testing is the only way to defeat this menace.....excellent story in the Times....
Simple at-home tests for the coronavirus, some that involve spitting into a small tube of solution, could be the key to expanding testing and impeding the spread of the pandemic. The Food and Drug Administration should encourage their development and then fast track approval.
One variety, paper-strip tests, are inexpensive and easy enough to make that Americans could test themselves every day.
12/ Fox News attacks one candidate all the time, just the wrong one.....great Supercut from the Daily Show....
13/ Informative story about Ghislaine Maxwell....good background on what's to come....
For a party girl with no parties left to attend, Ghislaine Maxwell’s 20-mile journey from her mountain hideaway in Bradford, New Hampshire, to Merrimack county jail was the brutal, cinematic finale to a social highlife that stretched across decades and continents.
Taken by surprise at 8.30am last Thursday, and accompanied by officers from at least six US law enforcement agencies, the 58-year-old was taken to the medium-security facility and later arraigned via audio-only video conference, accused of luring underage girls, one as young as 14, for her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
14/ In the age of George Floyd and the July 4th hoopla, time for another look at Childish Gambino's "This Is America", where the American Dream
is different if you're black.....powerful video....
15/ The Guardian looks into why the US has so many billionaires....most interesting article...
It’s official: America has the most billionaires in the world, for yet another year. The US increased its share of billionaires by 12% in 2019 according to a report by Wealth-X, which annually takes stock on the world’s mega-rich.
But while US billionaires are waiting to find out whether Kim “I have 14 Freesian [sic] horses” Kardashian West will join their ranks this year, the rest of us have more important questions on our minds, such as: has any of this wealth trickled down yet?
The answer is no.
16/ Dumb blonde of the week, Jacksonville version.....this is a satire as this was made in Miami, but it
sure sounds true....amusing anyway....
17/ A good story from the Times - The Neoliberal Looting of America", about how private equity corporations have vulture
capitalized American business to death, destroying jobs while making themselves obscenely rich...
“It’s hard to separate what’s good for the United States and what’s good for Bank of America,” said its former chief executive, Ken Lewis, in 2009. That was hardly true at the time, but the current crisis has revealed that the health of the finance industry and stock market are completely disconnected from the actual financial health of the American people. As inequality, unemployment and evictions climb, the Dow Jones surges right alongside them — one line compounding suffering, the other compounding returns for investors.
18/ The best TV on Hulu....
High Fidelity, one of the many great shows available to stream on Hulu. Photo: Phillip Caruso/Hulu
Don’t have Hulu? You can sign up here. (If you subscribe to a service through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission.)
Picking and choosing the best television programs on Hulu is a little different from cataloguing the top-shelf choices available on Amazon Primeor Netflix. Unlike those two companies, Hulu’s main thrust has always been television. It started life as a way to watch last night’s shows today, and that’s still its purpose for a lot of people — meaning that its catalog is constantlybeing updated with new shows.
Today's Aging with a smilejokes
=========================HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD, AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE….
George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.George opened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?"
He said "No, but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me!"
Then the police dispatcher said, "All patrols are busy! You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available."
George said, "Okay."
He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again.
"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I just shot them both!” And he hung up.
Within five minutes, six police cars, a SWAT team, a helicopter, two fire trucks, a paramedic and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the policemen said to George, "I thought you said that you'd shot them!
George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
(True Story)
Don't mess with old people!**********************GETTING OLDERA distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor's office."Is it true," she wanted to know, "that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?”"'Yes, I'm afraid so," the doctor told her.There was a moment of silence b efore the senior lady replied, "I'm wondering, then, just how serious is my condition because this prescription is marked 'NO REFILLS’…."
***********************An older gentleman was on the operating table awaiting surgery and he insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon, perform the operation.As he was about to get the anesthesia, he asked to speak to his son.
"Yes, Dad, what is it?”"Don't be nervous, son! Do your best and just remember, if it doesn't go well, if something happens to me, your mother is going to come and live with you and your wife...."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aging:
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. This is so true.
I love to hear them say, "You don't look that old."
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The older we get the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
(Mostly because we forgot why we were waiting in line in the first place.)
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.------------------------------------------
One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.~~~~~~~~~
Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is (sometimes) comfortable.
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Two guys, one old and one young, are pushing their carts around Wal-Mart when they collide. The old guy says to the young guy, " Sorry about that. I'm looking for my wife, and I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I was going."
The young guy says, "That's OK, it's a coincidence. I'm looking for my wife, too...I can't find her and I'm getting a little desperate."
The old guy says, "Well, maybe I can help you find her… What does she look like?"
The young guy says, "Well, she is 27 years old, tall, with red hair, blue eyes, is buxom...wearing no bra, long legs, and is wearing short shorts. What does your wife look like? "
To which the old guy says, "Doesn't matter, --- let's look for yours."
Today's granny joke...
Three mischievous old Grannies were sitting on a bench outside a nursing home
When an old Grandpa walked by.
And one of the old Grandmas yelled out saying,
"We bet we can tell exactly how old you are." The old man said, "There is no way you can guess it,
you old fools."
One of the old Grandmas said,
"Sure we can! Just drop your pants and under shorts
and we can tell your exact age."
Embarrassed just a little, but anxious to prove they
couldn't do it, he dropped his drawers.
The Grandmas asked him to first turn around a couple of times and to jump up and down several times.
Then they all piped up and said,
"You're 87 years old!"
Standing with his pants down around his ankles,
the old gent asked,
"How in the world did you guess?" Grinning from ear to ear, the three old ladies happily
yelled in unison...
"We were at your birthday party yesterday!" |
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