I got my test results back today, and Megan was very happy with them. My A1C is 7.0 and everything else is in the good range. The weather is horrid with 100° forecast, 52% humidity, and severe haze from the many wildfires in Oregon and southern Washington. The picture below is a color picture from 8 AM here. Take back Fitzwalkerstan!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:05 (average 5:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): The movement to protect LGBTQ people from conversion therapy
From what I can understand, as an outsider, LGBTQ kids are exactly the way God made them. Ban conversion therapy! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Despite All The Scandal, Carl Paladino Is Back
Whether Collins or Paladino, I see little difference between them. In different ways, they are equally deplorable. Go Nate McMurray! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From The New Yorker: Blasting his former colleague Omarosa Manigault, Donald J. Trump said on Monday that “the White House is no place for a lying lowlife from a reality show.”
“People were impressed by Omarosa because they saw her on a TV show,” Trump told reporters from his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. “Well, I’ve got news for you: being on a reality show does not qualify you to work in the government.”
Explaining why he considered her a “lowlife,” Trump said, “She’s rude, abrasive, and offensive. Having someone like that in the White House is an embarrassment to our country.”
But worst of all, Trump said, was Omarosa’s lying, which he called “constant.”
“She can’t go a day without lying, and what’s more, she’s narcissistic and paranoid,” he said. “A psycho like that shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the Situation Room.”
Dang, Andy! If that’s straight news, he’s right! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From Alternet: British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has once again punked right-wing America spectacularly on his show, "Who Is America?" This time, his mark — pro-gun activist Dan Roberts — was tricked into aggressively sucking a sex toy on camera.
Roberts, who is the founder of Youth Shooters of America and who has accused the Parkland shooting survivors of "emotional blackmail," was being instructed on how to survive being captured by terrorist militants, with Cohen disguised as his Israeli anti-terror expert character, Erran Morad.
Here’s the video:
LMAO!! I suspect that Republican Ammosexual, Dan Roberts, thought Sacha was his Fuhrer, Trump, in disguise. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
Unanimously ratified by our Founding Fathers to flummox Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the opposite of real authentic Christians.
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5:19 One doesn’t often see it up close like this, but then, this doesn’t show how spectacular a viny varietal can look when it takes over a wall. The sap can cause skin irritation, so I wouldn’t recommend eating it.
From “Crashing Vor” at Daily Kos –
MMC – “LGBTQ kids are exactly the way God made them.” You bet. But Talibangelical “Christians” think they know better than God (or possibly that their “God” knows better than the real God.) I don’t know why humans have to dog on other humans for some difference! Anyone bsides me remember left handed persecution? And even in my lifetime, that was much reduced from a hundred years prior, two hundred years prior, five hundred years prior. Things are getting faster, even if not better.
MSNBC – Methinks he should have said, “You won’t have Paladino to kick around any more.” Now that would have been a warning rattle.
TNY – Yeah, Orange Judas is indeed just dumb enough to say all that and not see how much more it applies to himself.
AlterNet – The humor of humiliation is just not funny to me, even when the subject richly deserves is (as Baron Cohen’s victims do0. But I am really, really glad he is doing it. It definitely helps comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Cartoon – That was a very good treaty. How long did it take us to break or repudiate it?
That t-shirt sure seems to be getting popular amongst republicans:
Conversion Therapy: what a load of horse manure! One might as well use therapy to convert people from being redheads.
A gun nut tricked into sucking on a sex toy? TOO FUNNY!!! I can think of quite a few NSFW puns and quips – not that this is no place to write them.
As far as I know, the Treaty of Tripoli is still in force – which means that its declaration the USA is “not founded on the Christian religion” should still be in force.
Joanne, to those bozos wearing the “I’d Rather Be a Russian than a Democrat,” I really would like to say “OK, then move to Russia! Delta is ready when you are.”
MMC: Kids have a hard enough time growing up. Gawd, leave them alone to enjoy their partner(s), and life!!! Love them as they are!!
MSNBC: Bat Sh-t crazy and threatening. I’m sure der Führer will welcome him with open arms.
NYer: Word, Andy. He described himself. He called her a ‘dog; in one of his tweets, today, geesh!
AN: One finds out what they REALLY think (and do) on his show. Unreal. Here’s “All the notable people and politicians Sacha Baron Cohen has ‘duped’ for his new TV series, ‘Who Is America?’
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-politicians-sacha-baron-cohen-has-duped-on-who-is-america-2018-7
Glad that your test results were good !! We’re in the high 90’s here. First day of school is tomorrow, will seem weird not hearing the neighbor kids playing and having fun outside. Hope that you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
*Joanne: Good video, but I’m passing on the invite. ‘Hell NO, I won’t go’… Черт, НЕТ, я не буду идти!
Oh, but Pat, I don’t think that invitation is for you (or me) anyway!
Conversion therapy ? ?
MMC: As a practicing,licensed mental health provider, I find it sickening that this is still going on. It is just one more instance of the cruelty imposed on, even believers, by their own religious institutions. That former congresswoman from Wisconsin (?), Palin’s friend, is her husband still billing Medicare for this garbage?
MSNBC: Paladino is probably hoping Dumpy remains in office, is re-elected with him as VP!!!!!! One POS, to another, perfect together!
New Yorker: The dog whistler is portrayed perfectly!!
Alternet: We do live in the Twilight Zone! But, he was not sucking, he was biting.
MM: “It is estimated that in 2018 20,000 LGBT kids ages of 13-17 will receive conversion therapy from a licensed healthcare professional before they turn 18.” Professionals? Licensed in what? Ban conversion therapy and have every not-so-professional lose his or her license as a healthcare professional. If they only have a conversion therapy “license”, then throw them in jail for malpractice. Kids need to be protected against these talibangelist snake-oil men.
MSNBC: I so wish that I’d not remember who Carl Paladino is or that his prediction we’d hear from him again had fallen on its ass. I pity the voters in his district having to live with his campaign until November and Nate McMurray’s win puts an end to their misery.
TNY: “…the White House is no place for a lying lowlife from a reality show…”. You got that right, Andy. Shall we help him pack?
So glad your test results were so good; it all made you starving yourself worthwhile.
I am glad your test results were good!
Thanks and sweltering hugs!