The Trump campaign, in the form of a letter to the editor in the Tampa Bay Times.
How Could I Have Known That Murder Could Smell Like Honeysuckle?
h/t JeffreyW
if this cat told me to murder someone I would pic.twitter.com/A8WMq514Jv
— keri online (@joanofdarkness) August 6, 2016
Looks like we could use an open thread….I’m off to clean up after three hours of gardening – which for now is mostly deconstruction, but I’m am beginning to see how beautiful it has the potential to be. What are you up to this afternoon?
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But he can’t be wounded ’cause he’s got no heart
Everyone who’s not an idiot knows that the primary cause for the rise of Trump is right-wing media. I don’t know how different things would have been without Roger Ailes, but he’s certainly had 10 times the influence of any Republican office holders. The stories coming out about him since his fall are amazing:
But with Ailes gone, Fox executives are now looking closely at how Ailes spent Fox money. And what they are discovering is that, beyond the sexual harassment claims, Ailes was also able to use portions of the Fox budget to hire consultants, political operatives, and private detectives that reported only to him, according to a senior Fox source.
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According to one highly-placed source, Solivan worked out of what Fox insiders called “the Black Room,” an operation Ailes established around 2011 to conduct PR and surveillance campaigns against people he targeted both inside and outside the company.
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Targets of the campaigns included journalists John Cook and Hamilton Nolan, who have aggressively covered Ailes for Gawker. According to one source, private detectives followed Cook around his Brooklyn neighborhood and Fox operatives prepared a report on him with information they intended to leak to blogs
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Sunday Morning Open Thread
Not exactly a garden — unless one wanted to believe this is the kind of landsape into which the fallen Adam & Eve were exiled — but pretty impressive. Images via commentor Prescott Cactus.
Speaking of valued commentors, Schrodinger’s Cat has had me falling down YouTube trails of Sufi-inspired subcontinental popular music. It’s very soothing…
Apart from watching the Olympics, what’s on the agenda for the day?
These Guys
I dunno what is going on lately, but I am in a struggle with Steve to retain my status as alpha male of the house, and Thurston is taking advantage of the leadership void. I stood there for thirty seconds saying get out of my chair at louder increments until I went and got my camera, took this picture, yelled at them to get up, and all I got was a look from Thurston before putting his head back down and going back to sleep. I had to dump them to get my chair back.
I had a prolonged argument with Steve earlier, too. I was washing dishes and heard him meowing at the front door, and I went and let him in and he immediately started bitching for dinner. I told him it was his fault he missed breakfast because he was outside the perimeter wilding, and he was having none of it bitching louder and louder until I finally yelled “Fuck you, you’ll eat when I’m done” at my cat. He huffed off out the dog door giving me the stink eye.
I’m losing control and I’m scared.
*** Update ***
Great, he knows I have been talking about him online.
Open Thread: To Strive, to Seek, to Find…
Virginia native Ginny Thrasher, 19, shoots her way to first U.S. gold medal in Rio https://t.co/sAY5DTYEae
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 6, 2016
GIRLS RULE THE WORLD. Or at least the Olympics.
There are some pretty awe-inspiring stories this year. From the Washington Post, “Ten athletes representing 60 million people”:
… For the first time, a refugee team will compete at an Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. It will comprise those two Syrian swimmers, an Ethiopian marathoner, two Congolese judokas and five South Sudanese middle-distance runners. They will represent more than 60 million refugees across the world, the highest total since World War II, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency. They will provide a human story to a worldwide crisis. They will walk into Maracana Stadium during the Opening Ceremonies on Friday night under the same flag not as victims but as competitors.
“When they march into that stadium, there are 60 million people marching right behind them,” U.N. Foundation spokesman Aaron Sherinian said. “And the world needs to acknowledge those 60 million people.”
The International Olympic Committee formed the team with the assistance of the United Nations. It identified an original list of 43 candidates to make the team, a process that included a tryout camp at a Kenyan refugee camp. The IOC winnowed the list to 10 based on the status and ability level of the athletes…
[Yusra] Mardini escaped Syria on a small motorboat from Turkey, bound for Greece. The motor failed on the way, and she leaped out and, with another passenger, pushed the boat while swimming. Her body felt empty by the end, but she made it safely to the island of Lesbos. She does not look back on the journey as traumatic. It is, for her, an accomplishment: Sports saved her life.“I remember that without swimming, I would never be alive,” Mardini said. “It’s a positive memory for me.”…
Ibtihaj Muhammad is the 1st Muslim woman in a hijab to represent Team USA. https://t.co/QQflg63VlQ pic.twitter.com/9v9r77fUXd
— Morning Edition (@MorningEdition) August 5, 2016
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Lest We Forget Open Thread: Meanwhile, Among the “Sane, Grown-Up” Republicans…
Fuck you very much, RNC PR BS:
Today @gop commemerates the 51st anniversary of the #VotingRights Act https://t.co/ydk2vDIC8o
Every American has #Right2Vote #VRA— Reince Priebus (@Reince) August 6, 2016
@Reince @GOP Aw, Reince. You don't mean EVERY American. At least until the courts force you to.
— HarleyPeyton (@HarleyPeyton) August 6, 2016
Wow. Just … wow. (Reince, you do know GOP is blocking the restoration of the VRA, right?) https://t.co/zHpM8K3vmQ
— Barbara Morrill (@BarbinMD) August 6, 2016
Trying to make a list of all the things I’ve celebrated by actively trying to destroy them and coming up empty. https://t.co/B8A1d2zg2X
— James Hupp (@jameshupp) August 6, 2016
And you can share some with your ol’ friend Mitch McTurtle…
McConnell: "one of my proudest moments" was when I told Obama "you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy" pic.twitter.com/t8uzEnJN9i
— Greg Giroux (@greggiroux) August 6, 2016
So one of McConnell's proudest moments is predicated on trusting Donald Trump to do something presidential. https://t.co/rgisDyREaL
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 6, 2016
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