1/. Ron DeSantis and the Woke Act - there's a method to this madness......
‘As Orwell knew, historical revisionism is always a project for the future.’ Photograph: Dave Decker/Rex/ShutterstockMon 6 Feb 2023 16.03 EST
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been grabbing national headlines with his relentless attacks on so-called “woke”. In addition to his Stop-Woke (Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees) Act, which prohibits educational institutions and businesses from teaching students and employees anything that would cause anyone to “feel guilt, anguish or any form of psychological distress” due to their race, color, sex or national origin, he has barred University of Florida professors from giving evidence against the state’s voting law, claimed that professors at public colleges have no right to freedom of speech, and organizing a “hostile takeover” of the New College of Florida, one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country. But he is far from the only Republican politicians to attack the education system.
2/. This is the 60 Minutes interview with Mark Pomerantz, the prosecutor in New York who investigated Trump.....wow....
3/. Umair says Ron DeSantis is the new face of American Fascism....
By now, if you’re a sane and thoughtful person, on the side of democracy, you’re probably a little worried. About a fellow called Ron DeSantis. He’s emerged as the GOP frontrunner for President, currently beating out evenTrump, causing him to go into an enraged commotion. Why, exactly, is DeSantis so troubling, though? I’m going to suggest that he’s the spearhead of the Third Wave of American Fascism.
4/. Ordering wings for the Super Bowl?
Check out these SNL deals from Wing Pit.....very, very, very funny.....
5/. Really interesting story behind some of the weird decisions from the judiciary....judge shopping....
For the 26th time in two years, the Texas attorney general Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging a Biden administration policy. The suit, which seeks to wipe out a new Labor Department rule about the investment of pension trust assets, wasn’t filed in Austin, the state capital, or in Dallas, where the Labor Department’s regional offices are, or anywhere else with a logical connection to the dispute.
6/. Florida's approved books.....
7/. The Congressional roll call, from Bad Lip Reading....very cleverly done.....
8/. After reading #6, this isn't so amusing.....
9/. Weekend Update #1 - pretty good, some decent zingers.....
Weekend Update #2 - they're on a roll!
10/. Disappointing that Google is complicit in letting the disinformation thrive out there.....
Google announced a policy in October 2021 prohibiting climate crisis denial ads, but The Daily Wire paid Google for this, new research shows. Photograph: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/REX/Geoff Dembicki in New York
A media outlet founded by conservative influencer Ben Shapiro paid Googleto advertise on search pages questioning whether the climate crisis is real, according to new research from a disinformation watchdog group.
The Daily Wire bought ads on search terms over the past year such as “climate change is a hoax” and “why is climate change fake”, meaning that when people Googled these phrases, stories from Shapiro’s outlet were some of the first results that appeared, the research found.
11/. Randy Rainbow skewers our new Speaker of the House.....
12/. The Supreme Court has taken up a case that will upend our lives as much as the Roe Vs Wade decision, all in the
name of Christian Nationalism.....get ready....
Federal civil rights law requires employers to accommodate their employees’ religious needs unless the request would impose “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” Congress didn’t bother to define “undue hardship,” so 46 years ago the Supreme Court came up with a definition of its own.
An accommodation requiring an employer “to bear more than a de minimis cost” — meaning a small or trifling cost — need not be granted, the court said in Trans World Airlines v. Hardison. In that case, an airline maintenance worker claimed a legal right to avoid Saturday shifts so he could observe the tenets of the Worldwide Church of God, which he had recently joined. Ruling for the airline, the court noted that if one worker got Saturdays off for religious reasons, the burden would fall on other workers who might have nonreligious reasons for wanting to have the weekend off.
13/. Umair with a very interesting [and restrained] post.....not the usual OTT doom and gloom.....
There’s a conversation which takes place between my American and European friends. Predictably, so much so, that it’s become a regular kind of event. There we are, having a nice lunch, or dinner, or what have you, and inevitably the subject of money comes up. My American friends, the well-to-do ones, say something like: “We’re making 200K a year!” Or “300K a year!” They hold their heads in their hands in despair. My European friends look on, baffled. They look at me, as if to ask…”but why are they depressed about being rich?”
14/. Trump held a rally in South Carolina last week, and of course Jordan Klepper was there....
You won't believe these people....
15/. A painfully amusing SNL game show about TV.....
16/. Believe it or not Iraq once had some of the most fertile wetlands in the world, an incredible ecology.....but no
more, they've been destroyed along with tens of thousands of jobs....
Small gangs of buffaloes sat submerged in green and muddy waters. Their back ridges rose over the surface like a chain of black islets, spanning the Toos River, a tributary of the Tigris that flows into the Huwaiza marshes in southern Iraq.
With their melancholic eyes, they gazed with defiance at an approaching boat, refusing to budge. Only when the boatman shrieked “heyy, heyy, heyy” did one or two reluctantly raise their haunches. Towering over the boat, they moved a few steps away, giving the boatmen barely enough space to steer between a cluster of large, curved horns
17/. Wow - a massive black hole devours a star.....the Hubble telescope caught this event....
18/. How do these vicious prosecutors sleep at night, torturing innocent people.....just awful....
At first, Judge Scott Cupp was a resolute, hard-core, you-gotta-be-joking skeptic. During his years as a defense lawyer, he had heard from dozens of inmates who swore they had been wrongly convicted, and he never believed a single one. So in 2002, when he learned about a guy named Leo Schofield, who by then had already served 13 years of a life sentence for murdering his wife, he didn’t need to hear the details.
“I thought if this guy’s innocent, I’m the Queen of Sheba,” he said in a recent interview.
19/. Desi Lydic from the Daily Show goes on the street to see if people can spot the fake Fox News story, no matter how stupid they sound.....
20/. On the Republican side 2024 is going to be a race to the bottom between Trump and DeSantis.....interesting story....
Former President Donald Trump has been on a tear in the past two weeks, working to convince his supporters that he’s the only one who can save their children. He’s pledged to purge “the radical zealots and Marxists” from the Education Department, vowed to have federal agencies “stop” gender-affirming care for minors across the country, and called for parents to be allowed to elect their children’s school principals directly.
21/. Remember Sarah Cooper? She was viral for mocking Trump....
Here's her "How To medical"
Way back in 2020, when Donald Trump was still in office and many Americans were stuck at home, Sarah Cooper became Internet-famous in a most idiosyncratic way: by lip-syncing some of the president’s more inartful musings.
Using tools she had at hand — her wit, her phone — she built an enormous audience for her short-form videos mocking Trump’s remarks on everything from the coronavirus to crustaceans.
22/. Can't wait for this to come out.....unless of course "they" bury it.....
Brett Kavanaugh. ‘The people that chose to participate in the movie are heroes,’ Liman said.Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty ImageBenjamin Lee in Park City
A secretly made documentary expanding on allegations of sexual assault against supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh has premiered at this year’s Sundance film festival.
Justice, a last-minute addition to the schedule, aims to shine a light not only on the women who have accused Kavanaugh, a Donald Trump nominee, but also the failed FBI investigation into the allegations.
23/. Cunk On Earth - looks like fun if you like sarcasm....
On her BBC show investigating the history of humanity, Philomena Cunk interviews Martin Kemp, a professor at the University of Oxford, about the Renaissance period.
“Which was more culturally significant, the Renaissance or ‘Single Ladies’ by Beyoncé?” she asks the academic with all seriousness.
24/. The 25 best shows on Netflix.....
We’ve all been overwhelmed by streaming TV choices, only to give up and watch something you’ve already seen. But this curated list of the best shows on Netflix is here to narrow down your choices and help you figure out exactlywhich titles you want to sample next.
Today's marital joke....
A woman, cranky because her husband was late coming home again, decided to leave a note, saying, "I've had enough and have left you...don't bother coming after me"
Then she hid under the bed to see his reaction.
After a short while the husband comes home and she could hear him in the kitchen before he comes into the bedroom. She could see him walk towards the dresser and pick up the note...
After a few minutes he wrote something on it before picking up the phone and calling someone... "She's finally gone...yeah I know, about bloody time, I'm coming to see you, put on that sexy French nightie. I love you...can't wait to see you...we'll do all the naughty things you like."
He hung up, grabbed his keys and left.
She heard the car drive off as she came out from under the bed.
Seething with rage and with tears in her eyes she grabbed the note to see what he wrote..."I can see your feet. We're out of bread: be back in five minutes."
Another marital joke....
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office.
After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone.
He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined with horrible stress. If you don't do the following, your husband will surely die."
Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant, and make sure he is in a good mood.
For lunch, make him a nutritious meal.
For dinner, prepare an especially nice meal for him.
Don't discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse.
And most importantly, you should satisfy his every whim sexually several times a week."
If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely.
On the way home, the husband asked his wife. "What did the doctor say?"
"You're going to die," she replied.
Today's religious joke
A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, 'Father, I have a problem.
I have two female parrots, But they only know to say one thing'
What do they say?' the priest asked.
They say, 'Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?'
That's obscene!' the priest exclaimed,
You know,' he said, 'I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible...
Bring your two parrots over to my house, and we'll put them in the cage with Francis and Peter.
My parrots can teach your parrots to pray and worship, And your parrots are sure to stop saying... That phrase... In no time.'
Thank you,' the woman responded, 'this may very well be the solution.'
The next day, She brought her female parrots to the priest's house....
As he ushered her in,
She saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage holding rosary beads and praying..
Impressed, She walked over and placed her parrots in with them...
After a few minutes, The female parrots cried out in unison: Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?'
There was stunned silence... One male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and says,
'Put the beads away, Frank, Our prayers have been answered! ...
Today's guy jokes
Why Men Are Happier
Men can play with toys all their life.
Men can wear shorts no matter what their legs look like.
Men have one wallet and one pair of shoes which are good for every season.
Men can choose whether or not to grow a mustache.
Men can "do" their fingernails with a pocket knife.
Men's bellies usually hide their large hips.
Chocolate is just another snack.
The whole garage belongs to them.
Weddings take care of themselves.
Men's last name never changes.
Everything on a man's face stays its original color.
Men only have to shave their faces and necks.
Men can keep the same hairstyle for years, even decades.
Men can do their Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on Christmas Eve in 25 minutes.
For men, wrinkles add character.
Men can go on a week's vacation and pack only one suitcase.
Men's new shoes don't cause blisters, or cut or mangle their feet.
Men don't have to stop and think which way to turn a screw.
Men have one mood all the time.
A wedding dress cost $5000. A tuxedo rental - 100 bucks
Men can open all their own jars.
Today:s engineer joke
A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude! "The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greenskeeper. Let's have a word with him." [dramatic pause]
"Hi, George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"
The greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."
The group was silent for a moment.
The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"
"Hi, George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"
The greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."
The group was silent for a moment.
The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?"
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