"It's news to me!"

[Canoe]

Driven by news,

America is a Confederate Monument
https://www.theroot.com/america-is-a-co ... 1844249576

[Simon of the Playa]

“ Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraising official for the Trump campaign and the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., tested positive for COVID-19, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill on Friday.

Attendees at both events flouted social distancing recommendations and largely did not wear masks, both of which are recommended by federal health officials to slow the spread of the virus. Trump has personally eschewed wearing a mask in public, even as GOP leaders urge him to do so.

Guilfoyle is the latest individual in proximity to the president to test positive for the virus. One of the president's military valets tested positive in March, as did the vice president's press secretary.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... oronavirus

[Simon of the Playa]

To see if cannabis could help prevent that problem, researchers focused on the anti-inflammatory effects of THC. The team provided the drug to mice with ARDS to see if it could help stop inflammation in the lungs.

Results showed that 100 percent of cases or all animal subjects were able to avoid lethal symptoms after taking THC. The drug helped prevent severe damage in the lungs by blocking pro-inflammatory cytokines and slowing down any inflammation.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/study-find ... vel-454906

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Simon of the Playa]

The Supreme Court is set to unveil its decision on Thursday about whether Congress gets to see President Donald Trump’s tax returns and financial records, a ruling that could reshape the balance of power between lawmakers and the White House in the most dramatic way since Watergate.

The court’s final opinion day of its 2019-20 term also includes a related dispute about whether New York prosecutors can similarly access Trump’s financial records, held by his accounting firm and banks.




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/0 ... rds-353428

[some seeing eye]

Andres Guardado is the cousin of a burner friend. I guess that's 2 degrees of separation.

Coroner: Andres Guardado was shot 5 times in the back. Sheriff condemns disclosure.
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... er-autopsy

The official autopsy was conducted June 22. Today is July 10. The sheriff commanding the officers who shot has withheld the autopsy on "security hold." After the independent family autopsy was released, the LA coroner overrode the sheriff and released the original autopsy.

Our burner network surely has many more wrongly perished in close degree.

[Canoe]

... Coroner: Andres Guardado was shot 5 times in the back. Sheriff condemns disclosure.
... the LA coroner overrode the sheriff and released the original autopsy. ...

• the manner of death was certified as homicide, the coroner’s office said.
• Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas commended the coroner’s disclosure in a statement Friday and called it “deeply troubling” that the Office of Inspector General, which provides oversight of the Sheriff’s Department, has still not received documents related to the investigation.
• “I commend the coroner for upholding the autonomy and integrity of his office by releasing the autopsy report of Andres Guardado, despite attempts to block its release,”
• [the sheriff] also criticized Ridley-Thomas for praising the coroner’s move.

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Canoe]

Washington Redskins announce: "We are announcing we will be retiring the Redskins name and logo ...".
It took advertisers dropping them and sellers dropping their merch to finally get them to move on this.
Some twits on twitter didn't like this:

• I felt having the redskin name and logo in the NFL was a tribute/ honor to the native Indians.
  honoring....jpg
• How about the Washington No Balls. Caving to this cancel culture... I’m no longer a fan, of the Redskins or the NFL. I’m out
• And I'm done with whatever this abomination of a Football Team cones up with. My beloved Redskins have been ripped from me by this PC culture
• I’ve been a fan for over 40 years and this is the last straw. I was just getting over the kneeling fiasco and then ownership drops this shocking act of cowardice on the fan base.

Hi, I'm a postgraduate from Cambridge University doing a Masters Dissertation on people who have never satisfied anyone sexually.
Do you mind if I use some of your tweets?

New name... Given all the politics in that town, how about the Tighty Whities?

[Simon of the Playa]

https://www.theonion.com/trump-administ ... 1844367647

[Canoe]

Washington Redskins announce: "We are announcing we will be retiring the Redskins name and logo ...".
It took advertisers dropping them and sellers dropping their merch to finally get them to move on this.

Texas Rangers - "Team Name Must Go"
Not what I thought they were...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... e-must-go/

[Simon of the Playa]

At the end of his show, Carlson announced that he was heading on a "long-planned" vacation to do some "trout fishing." While it may be true, it's worth noting that there is a long tradition of Fox News anchors going on supposedly pre-planned vacations when they spark controversy. Think Bill O'Reilly (whose vacation was, it turned out, actually pre-planned, even if he didn't return from it), Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, and even Carlson himself in the past...


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/media/tu ... index.html

[Miura-7]

Oops!!! Wrong about that! Number 3 on the contagious charts. Wish I left South Coronaville sooner.

[Simon of the Playa]

"If you're in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?" ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos asked her in an exclusive interview.

"Resign," Mary Trump responded.



https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/message ... d=71779486

[Simon of the Playa]

BREAKING NEWS : THIS JUST IN FROM WHATHEFUCKISTAN

[Simon of the Playa]

"We currently have 85 babies under the age of one year in Nueces County that have all tested positive for Covid-19," said Annette Rodriguez, director of public health for Corpus Christi Nueces County.
"These babies have not even had their first birthday yet.”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/health/t ... index.html

[Simon of the Playa]

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/89401481 ... he-conspir

[Simon of the Playa]

"Serious threats against me, against my family ... my daughters, my wife — I mean, really? Is this the United States of America?" Fauci told the host David Axelrod.


https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-g ... ily-2020-7

[Simon of the Playa]

one American died nearly every 60 seconds (about every 58.9 seconds) on Thursday.


https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-ki ... ds-1521917

[Simon of the Playa]

“Reporters will not be allowed on site as RNC delegates vote to formally nominate President Donald Trump.”


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/01/politics ... index.html

[Popeye]

“Reporters will not be allowed on site as RNC delegates vote to formally nominate President Donald Trump.”

I wonder what they are trying to hide this time?
Pence instead of Trump??

[Ugly Dougly]

“Reporters will not be allowed on site as RNC delegates vote to formally nominate President Donald Trump.”

I wonder what they are trying to hide this time?
Pence instead of Trump??

Maybe they don't want to share the free Koolaid.

[some seeing eye]

https://www.kqed.org/pop/102027/we-used ... n-the-mail



We should boost the postal service by making them banks, notaries, liquor stores and pot stores, state by state.

[Simon of the Playa]

[Simon of the Playa]

Documents newly reviewed reveal that a shipment of 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate arrived in Beirut on a Russian-owned vessel in 2013. The ship, named the MV Rhosus, was destined for Mozambique -- but stopped in Beirut due to financial difficulties that also created unrest with the ship's Russian and Ukrainian crew.
Once it arrived, the ship never left Beirut's port, according Lebanon's Director of Customs, Badri Daher, despite repeated warnings by him and others that the cargo was the equivalent of "a floating bomb."


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/europe/l ... index.html

[Ugly Dougly]

Documents newly reviewed reveal that a shipment of 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate arrived in Beirut on a Russian-owned vessel in 2013. The ship, named the MV Rhosus, was destined for Mozambique -- but stopped in Beirut due to financial difficulties that also created unrest with the ship's Russian and Ukrainian crew.
Once it arrived, the ship never left Beirut's port, according Lebanon's Director of Customs, Badri Daher, despite repeated warnings by him and others that the cargo was the equivalent of "a floating bomb."


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/europe/l ... index.html

If they stayed with organic fertilizers, this wouldn't have happened...

[Popeye]

Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/08/2 ... ed-english
For over six years, one Wikipedia user -- AmaryllisGardener -- has written well over 23,000 articles on the Scots Wikipedia and done well over 200,000 edits. The only problem is that AmaryllisGardener isn't Scottish, they don't speak Scots, and none of their articles are written in Scots. From a report:
Since 2013, this user -- a self-professed Christian INTP furry living somewhere in North Carolina -- has simply written articles that are written in English, riddled with misspellings that mimic a spoken Scottish accent. Many of the articles were written while they were a teenager. AmaryllisGardener is an admin of the Scots Wikipedia, and Wikipedians now have no idea what to do, because their influence over the country's pages has been so vast that their only options seem to be to delete the Scots language version entirely or revert the entire thing back to 2012. This ridiculous situation was discovered by a redditor on r/Scotland who happened to check the edit history of one article. By the redditor u/Ultach's count, Amaryllis was responsible for well over one-third of Scots Wikipedia in 2018, but Amaryllis stopped updating their milestones that year.

[Ugly Dougly]

Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/08/2 ... ed-english
For over six years, one Wikipedia user -- AmaryllisGardener -- has written well over 23,000 articles on the Scots Wikipedia and done well over 200,000 edits. The only problem is that AmaryllisGardener isn't Scottish, they don't speak Scots, and none of their articles are written in Scots. From a report:
Since 2013, this user -- a self-professed Christian INTP furry living somewhere in North Carolina -- has simply written articles that are written in English, riddled with misspellings that mimic a spoken Scottish accent. Many of the articles were written while they were a teenager. AmaryllisGardener is an admin of the Scots Wikipedia, and Wikipedians now have no idea what to do, because their influence over the country's pages has been so vast that their only options seem to be to delete the Scots language version entirely or revert the entire thing back to 2012. This ridiculous situation was discovered by a redditor on r/Scotland who happened to check the edit history of one article. By the redditor u/Ultach's count, Amaryllis was responsible for well over one-third of Scots Wikipedia in 2018, but Amaryllis stopped updating their milestones that year.

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
I think the joke is that many people consider it a dialect rather than a language in its own right.

[Simon of the Playa]

Parscale’s public meltdown happened while he is reportedly under investigation for stealing from the Trump campaign and the RNC. According to the source close to the campaign, the Trump family is worried that Parscale could turn on them and cooperate with law enforcement about possible campaign finance violations. “The family is worried Brad will start talking,” the source said.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09 ... oil-mounts

[Simon of the Playa]

“For all of you on Twitter who are hammering me for asking that question — I don’t care,” Roberts said in a live shot from the White House lawn. “Because it is a question that needs to be asked, and clearly, the president’s Republican colleagues a mile away from here are looking for an answer for it too. So stop deflecting, stop blaming the media. I’m tired of it.”

https://deadline.com/2020/10/john-rober ... 234589482/