Via Tweet Today:
"The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA."
Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940)
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I've enjoyed a number of TV shows in the new golden age of television, notably The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Americans and the early years of Homeland. We finally caught the first episode of TNT's Animal Kingdom, four years after it premiered. Great cast, but disappointing. It tries too hard to be transgressive and in-your-face shocking, but it's fundamentally banal.
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Guy with thick chicago accent helps coyote pup pic.twitter.com/RJB9sqkrxl
— derek (@eedrk) August 15, 2019
What I'd like to know is how he got that pup into his truck.
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I've been averaging 5 or 6 robocalls a day on my office line, mostly from scam Google Business Listing services. Before deleting the messages, I have to at least listen to the beginning of every message to determine whether the call was from a patient or some other legit caller. I can block numbers, but the scammers spoof numbers so the numbers constantly change.
Two days ago I decided to try Nomorobo. Since our office lines are VOIP we can use Nomorobo for free. So far, it has blocked every robocall. The phone rings once, then Nomorobo picks up and hangs up and no message is left. I can see the scammer's number on caller ID, but I don't have to deal with sorting through messages.
Reviews on line are weighted toward the negative side, but so far I haven't had any of the problems some reviewers are reporting. We'll see. I hope this puts an end to these time-wasting messages.
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TRUMP: "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2019
(Article 2 does not in fact empower the president to do whatever they want.) pic.twitter.com/qIFP1AbHw6
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I heard that this is our longest heatwave and hottest real feel temps in 7 years. Be careful out there, and don't forget about the dogs. Limit time outdoors and exercise, avoid hot pavement and makes sure they've got plenty of water. Be especially careful with fat dogs, older dogs and the short-snouted pups.
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Did you know:
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 7, 2019
The FBI, under Robert Mueller, let child predator Jeffrey Epstein off with a weak plea deal
Dozens of young girls accused him of assaulting them
Maybe Mueller should have gone after Epstein as hard as he went after our President
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This is ridiculous. Neither police nor the FBI cut plea deals. Prosecutors cut plea deals with the defense, and we know exactly which prosecutor cut the deal with Epstein: Alex Acosta, who is now Trump's Labor Secretary.
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Where does one begin?
Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN, or Lyin’ Brian Williams (remember when he totally fabricated a War Story trying to make himself into a hero, & got fired. A very dishonest journalist!) and the crew of degenerate......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019
.....Comcast (NBC/MSNBC) Trump haters, who do whatever Brian & Steve tell them to do. Like CNN, NBC is also way down in the ratings. But @FoxNews, who failed in getting the very BORING Dem debates, is now loading up with Democrats & even using Fake unsourced @nytimes as....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019
...a “source” of information (ask the Times what they paid for the Boston Globe, & what they sold it for (lost 1.5 Billion Dollars), or their old headquarters building disaster, or their unfunded liability? @FoxNews is changing fast, but they forgot the people who got them there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019
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Trump also bonded with Putin over a scorn for journalists.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 28, 2019
“Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn't it? You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do.”
“We also have,” Putin answered, in English. “It’s the same.”
They shared a chuckle. pic.twitter.com/atGGYxnwfc
"Get rid of them"? "You don't have this problem in Russia"?
Opponents of Putin and journalists who look into corruption in Russia are often murdered.
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Sheila Kennedy on proposals to ban flag burning:
Since no one currently serving in this administration seems to “get it,” let me see if I can explain the way free speech jurisprudence works in language that thinking people (a category that rather clearly excludes the current occupant of the White House) can understand.
The Free Speech clause of the First Amendment protects the exchange of ideas against government censorship. All ideas. Even awful ideas. Ideas that piss people off. Government doesn’t get to decide which ideas get transmitted, period. (Your mother, on the other hand, can censor you. So can your boss. The Bill of Rights only restrains government.)
Government can prohibit actions for a whole host of reasons, but it cannot pick and choose among messages. If there is an ordinance banning outdoor burning in dry weather, for example, or laws criminalizing the theft of a flag belonging to someone else, people violating those laws can be punished, because those measures don’t implicate an exchange of ideas. They are what lawyers call “content neutral.”
The rules are different for actions we call “symbolic speech.” These are actions that are clearly intended to communicate ideas. A silent march by Neo-Nazis–or any group of activists– doesn’t require verbal expression to send its message. We get it.
Flag burning offends us precisely because it sends an unmistakable message of disrespect for the country.
Flag burning is a virtually non-existent problem, and it's a dumb way to send a message. It may draw attention, but it's more likely to turn off the recipient of the message rather than persuade the recipient toward the flag burner's views.
My first reaction--my gut reaction to flag burning--is "there's an idiot," even if I might agree with the burner's underlying political viewpoint. Still, the act is about sending a message and, as odious as one might find the message, I don't want government to decide which political messages I'm permitted to receive.
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What this massive leak of RNC docs show is Trump & most of his senior officials were unfit for office, the RNC & Trump's team knew it & put these people in the highest positions of power anyway. They put the country in danger & knew they were doing it https://t.co/HvFZ0xA2Bz
— James Miller (@Millermena) June 24, 2019
Many of the red flags are serious, but one shouldn't even be a red flag. The fact that it was deemed a red flag should be troubling:
One red flag for Gen. David Petraeus, who was under consideration for Secretary of State and National Security Adviser: "Petraeus Is Opposed to Torture."
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Javy Baez made a Starbucks run in his full #Cubs uniform
— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) June 21, 2019
📽️:@javy23baez on IG pic.twitter.com/WjovWZIVkg
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"I’ve heard and studied the Laffer Curve for many years in the Wharton School of Finance," @realDonaldTrump (@Wharton '68) said today at the White House as he honored Art Laffer, who famously drew the curve on a napkin... in 1974
— Margaret Talev (@margarettalev) June 20, 2019
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Stride pianist extraordinaire, Stephanie Trick, and her husband, Paolo Alderighi, performing The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise.
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