One time this BEE almost got our Simone Biles!
Good luck today, kiddo. Open thread!
PS: You can live stream the women’s all-around final here. Biles and Raisman are representing the U.S.
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One time this BEE almost got our Simone Biles!
Good luck today, kiddo. Open thread!
PS: You can live stream the women’s all-around final here. Biles and Raisman are representing the U.S.
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Trollhattan
Now what scamp prepared that bouquet?
Paul Wartenberg
that poor bee just WANTED HER POLLEN
kindness
Too cute.
Mike J
Twelve foot seas for the Finn race today, so of course NBC shows the windsurfers on a sheltered, pretty flat course. The American Finn sailor split from the fleet and worked his way up to 4th before a header made his side of the course untenable. Live by the shift, die by the shift.
pseudonymous in nc
You can live stream the women’s all-around final here.
…if you pay for cable TV. (Cord-cutters, look in the usual NBC-disapproved places.)
OGJamie
Don’t forget the Garden State’s own Laurie Hernandez! She’s the one who first noticed the stinging insect.
She’s got this:
http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/essential-olympics-gif-from-laurie-hernandez.html
Mnemosyne
@srv:
True story: Texas is the only state where Latino voters were under the same Jim Crow voter suppression restrictions as Black voters were.
OzarkHillbilly
On the morning thread today somebody (I forget who) commented that Trump was saying Obama created ISIS. I replied that Trump was just using standard political rhetoric to blame Obama for ISIS’s gains thru Obama’s “feckless” ME policies.
I was wrong. Trump is saying that Obama actually created ISIS. My apologies to that person. I should know by now that no matter how stupid a thing may sound, if it comes out of Trump’s mouth one can be certain that he wants you to believe it actually is true.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
That pivot’s coming anyday now.
Punchy
Samantha can be a real bitch sometimes. Takes her schtick too far.
The Ancient Randonnuer
Guess who:
And by the way, I have the greatest legs, far greater legs even than Garbo. I have the greatest leg of any human being who ever lived.
Chyron HR
@srv:
You mean “God-Emperor Trump” might not lose Texas after all? This calls for a celebration! Crack open a box of Trump Wine and throw a Trump Steak on the grill!
Waldo
@rikyrah:
Trump is great at pivoting. The trick is when you get to sane, you’re supposed to stop pivoting.
OzarkHillbilly
Florida man convicted in road rage death shot and killed after new roadside confrontation
I’m beginning to reconsider my life long atheism. God may be alive and well after all and she has one wicked sense of humor.
Peale
@The Ancient Randonnuer: Yep. Clearly his “opposition” to the Iraq war is from the same principals as Bill Ayers. Unlike that bloodthirsty Hillary, who is a hawk.
Peale
@efgoldman: Bah. Michelle Pfeiffer singing “Making Whopee” on the piano – actually was inspired by Trump’s many late night croons at the Atlantic City Marina.
raven
I don’t know if you can access this special NYT report or not but it’s worth a try
FRACTURED LANDS: HOW THE ARAB WORLD CAME APART
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@OzarkHillbilly: @rikyrah: The Guardian’s lead paragraph on this:
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do journalism.
bystander
@OzarkHillbilly: Michael Hayden was on saying that. Nobody bothered to ask why Hayden actually helped create the mess in the ME.
On top of the scandahlllll that a wealthy Clinton Foundation donor asked to meet an American ambassador, the program was a pip. No one seemed to recall that he didn’t get to meet the ambassador because it was too important to start the “pay for play” smear.
Mnemosyne
@bystander:
We should all know by now that Hillary Clinton obviously told the guy to ask that, because she’s personally responsible for every conversation at the Foundation despite deliberately setting it up with a wall between herself and its donors. Don’t you know how this conspiracy works?!
Iowa Old Lady
CNN ran another fact check chryon today: “Trump Calls Obama Founder of Isis (He’s Not)”
Peale
@Mnemosyne: And it you can’t pin it on her, its only because she’s crafty and covers up her crimes.
Peale
@raven: So the next time there is a massive prison break to provide soldiers for a radical group we can expect the Iraqi army to fall apart and flee, leaving their weapons and piles of cash for the radicals?
slag
@Iowa Old Lady: If they really ran that, that’s hilarious. I’d love to see further chyron fact-checks:
“Trump calls Hillary a ‘she-wolf straight outta Transylvania’ (She’s Not)”
“Trump calls Elizabeth Warren a ‘deadly amphibian fungus decimating the forests of South America’ (She’s Not)”
So many opportunities!
Iowa Old Lady
@slag: I know it’s hard to tell what’s a joke and what really happened. I saw a screen grab of this fact check on Digby. It’s the real deal.
Miss Bianca
@slag: Oh dear God, you got me laughing now!
catclub
@rikyrah: Josh Marshall and Trump’s razor: The stupidest thing you can imagine is the most likely explanation.
catclub
@The Ancient Randonnuer: But that was 2008. IN 2009 Obama was President and everything was different.
Just One More Canuck
@Peale: the fact that there’s no evidence is evidence that she did it
slag
@Iowa Old Lady: Haha! That only brings up further questions. Did CNN actually fact-check this? Like, did they look at Obama’s LinkedIn profile just to make sure he doesn’t list “Founder, ISIS” on there? Inquiring minds!
Seriously, though, the Donald has really boxed the news media in on this and so many other things. They really don’t know what to do with him, and it’s hard to blame them sometimes. In this case, the chyron was probably their best option. Another option is for them to stop putting his winged monkeys on their payroll, but then, the winged monkey population would lack representation.
Jack the Second
@slag: That would infringe on their first amendment rights to be a paid on-screen personality on CNN.