Open Thread For June 6, 2017
NSA Director Rogers Might Drop a Bomb During Wednesday Testimony: Might not have to wait for Comey on Thursday.
Trump Complains That Dems Refuse To Confirm Nominees He, Uh, Hasn’t Nominated Yet. Part 1: Defense appointees.
Trump Complains That Dems Refuse To Confirm Nominees He, Uh, Hasn’t Nominated Yet. Part 2: Diplomacy and everything else. BTW, the R’s control the Senate.
Financial Disclosures for Trump White House Employees. 349 of them collected by ProPublica. Enjoy.
Trump Is PO’d With Jeff Sessions. Trump is apoplectic that Sessions recused himself on Russia probe.
New Jersey Primaries Today: What to watch for. The D Goldman Sachs guy is gonna win.
What do you want to talk about?
I can’t make this stuff up. That $110 billion arms deal with the Saudis? Turns out it was fake:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/06/05/the-110-billion-arms-deal-to-saudi-arabia-is-fake-news/
Love to see Trump can Sessions, will not happen as I suspect he has his own dirt pile in reserve, as such we’re stuck with the evil elf from hell.
Top Lawyers Turned Down Trump Entreaties To Represent Him in Russian Investigation:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-top-law-firms-turned-requests-represent-trump-122423972.html
I like the one who said that Trump wouldn’t pay his bills. Not even Lanny Davis will defend him.
“Top Lawyers Turned Down Trump Entreaties To Represent Him ”
“The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen”
Chickens come home to roost! Even if they are just money grubbers, without any confidence that he’ll pay there is no upside for any of them who value their reputation.
Even so, Trump jumped the shark some time ago and reading posts like these, leaves one speechless or rather I was left speechless some time ago. I don’t have the language for my feelings now. It’s a struggle to find some coherent comment. Once upon a time you could have said “WTF!” but that retort was lost to us before the inauguration. Now I just shake and my head and go on to click bait like “10 Best Hamburgers In America” or look at ads for things like “Popeil Pocket Fisherman” (which is still being sold).
As an American, I am embarrassed and ashamed of the president. I didn’t vote for him, but how do I explain this to my friends in other countries? How do explain this to my grandchildren? When will this be over?
I had a few words on the heroes in Portland last week. We all need to be ready to stand up.
Here’s another exhibit. I’ve always liked Millwall because of this reason.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-bridge-terror-attack-fk-fuck-you-im-millwall-hero-roy-larner-football-fan-lion-of-london-a7775246.html
Sometimes you just need to stand up. Be not afraid.
Whatever happened to June 6? :((((((((((((((
There ya’ go.
I’m blaming this on, who else, my wife (hope she doesn’t read this). Who has now shifted me to a 50-50 regular/decaf coffee regimen. I need my caffeine, DAMMIT!
Uh oh John’s K’s idol is making a ton of $$$..
http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-made-1-million-2016-while-slamming-rich-people-campaign-trail-621131
Wow! So, Trump took credit for helping to isolate Qatar from other Middle East states due to alleged support of terrorism on the part of Qatar.
Turns out that it was a false news story planted by, wait for it, Russia:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-planted-fake-news-qatar-crisis/index.html
Looks like the Russians used Trump as a patsy.
Yup, TK. Over $800K in book royalties. What a greedy bastard.
While the environmentalists rally in Dover for clean water,one of our ‘valued tourist dollar beaches’ are under a swimming advisory.
Blaming it on birds. Again.
Fun fact: birds don’t congregate on dead beaches much.
http://www.capegazette.com/article/swimming-advisory-issued-dewey-beach/135122
If you run “Thomas Kline” through an anagram finder you get lots of interesting results, including “malt honkies,” “manlike host” and “a mole thinks.”
There’s an anagram finder?
Hoo-boy, hours of fun!
Just call me ‘Zest Veteran’ from now on. I think it kinda fits.
They should be able to differentiate sub species to identify the likely source of bacteria