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Archives for June 2016

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

by John Cole|  June 26, 20166:00 pm| 49 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

We never learn anything ever:

Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials.

Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, F.B.I. officials believe after months of investigating the attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The existence of the weapons theft, which ended only months ago after complaints by the American and Saudi governments, is being reported for the first time after a joint investigation by The New York Times and Al Jazeera. The theft, involving millions of dollars of weapons, highlights the messy, unplanned consequences of programs to arm and train rebels — the kind of program the C.I.A. and Pentagon have conducted for decades — even after the Obama administration had hoped to keep the training program in Jordan under tight control.

The Jordanian officers who were part of the scheme reaped a windfall from the weapons sales, using the money to buy expensive SUVs, iPhones and other luxury items, Jordanian officials said.

I still have no idea how Brennan has a god damned job.

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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Fun with Numbers

by Anne Laurie|  June 26, 20164:44 pm| 161 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Hillary Clinton 2016, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Good Morning. pic.twitter.com/DrAHUDYTmU

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 26, 2016

Obama approval in WaPo/ABC Poll: 56% its highest level in Post polling since after the killing of bin Laden https://t.co/gZ5ME7R1nz

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 26, 2016

Apart from that, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?

If you didn’t see this coming last month, during the “OMG Trump surge,” congrats! You’re dumb. https://t.co/ocYwCa7rhV

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) June 26, 2016

Look at the Trump number. 39 in one poll, 41 in the other. You can't win with that.

— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) June 26, 2016

When your entire primary campaign was quoting poll numbers, this is going to get awkward. pic.twitter.com/s4PMpYcmxn

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 26, 2016

@Phil_Mattingly @washingtonpost Even Rasmussen who leans way right has Trump losing by 5. Maybe some day Trumpets will find one they like.

— Matt Aaron (@BronxLaugher) June 26, 2016

looking forward to america's TRUMPXIT this november https://t.co/i0SLrCR953

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 26, 2016

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Euro 2016 Round of 16 Belgium v Hungary Open Thread

by Randinho|  June 26, 20162:57 pm| 28 Comments

This post is in: Sports

A favorite versus an upstart. Who comes out ahead?

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Euro 2016 Round of 16 Germany v Slovakia Open Thread

by Randinho|  June 26, 201611:57 am| 27 Comments

This post is in: Sports

I’m inclined to favor the Deutschers. How about you?

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Bubbles, Bastids and Birds

by Betty Cracker|  June 26, 20169:36 am| 262 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Open Threads, Assholes, General Stupidity

My sis and I went to the St. Pete Pride street festival and parade last night. References to the Pulse nightclub massacre were everywhere — lots of rainbow-script t-shirts with “We Are Orlando” and “We Are Not Afraid.” The parade included a mobile candlelight vigil and people carrying signs with the names of those killed.

Some folks said attendance was down a bit due to fears of copycat violence. That honestly never occurred to me until we got there and I heard someone mention that possibility. But mostly the event was about coming together as a supportive community and having fun doing things like…dancing in a bubble pit:

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Some gaping asshole in a truck emblazoned with slogans like, “Got AIDS yet?” and quotations from Leviticus circled the perimeter of the street party and shrieked about hellfire and damnation over a PA system. I was one of thousands who flipped the sanctimonious prick off.

I rarely feel an impulse toward violence, but damned if my hands weren’t itching to heave a brick through that fart-huffer’s windshield. Oh well. Fuck him. If there really is an afterlife, the FSM should put that god-bothering goober in charge of Port-O-Let sanitation.

Anyway, early this morning — way too early after the bubble rave, honestly — hubby and I went birding. We saw these black-bellied whistling ducks and also this noble osprey and many of his or her kin:

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We saw several gorgeous roseate spoonbills feeding in the shallows at a distance, but my photos of them look like a kindergartener’s attempted finger-paint forgery of a Monet, so I’ve mercifully spared you that. As I say after every birding excursion, I’m going to have to break down and buy a decent camera.

Open thread!

PS: In case you missed it, our host put up a post with a link to a GoFundMe page last night to help flood-stricken West Virginians.

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Euro 2016 Round of 16 France v Ireland Open Thread

by Randinho|  June 26, 20168:54 am| 13 Comments

This post is in: Sports

Who do you like? My heart says Ireland, but my brain says France.

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Summer Unfolds

by Anne Laurie|  June 26, 20165:08 am| 83 Comments

This post is in: Garden Chats

marvel jul16 Pear

A small pear with Big Dreams
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From faithful garden correspondent Marvel:

Summer’s had a ‘soft opening’ here in the Willamette Valley. Not too hot, a cool drizzle here & there — it’s made the heavily front-loaded tasks of the season pretty pleasant.

I’ve included here snapshots from the garden — there’s plenty out there that’s reached its prime (kale, artichokes, strawberries & peas, I’m talking about you) and much that’s starting to put on heavy growth (cabbage, cauliflower, tomatoes, popcorn, beans among them). With any luck, the hardest-working part of the season’s behind us.

marvel jul16 Shastas

Shasta Daisies — low maintenance, high entertainment value.

marvel jul16 Borage

Borage — so fuzzy. These cucumber-scented blossoms keep the bees happy from Spring to Fall.

marvel jul16 Chokes

Artichokes, Year Two — yummy little Martians.

marvel jul16 Zuke

Summer Squash — the first zuke flower peeks its golden head out.

marvel jul16 Peas

The last of this year’s peas — they were champs!

To be continued…

What’s going on in your garden(s) this week?

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