July 2019 archive

La Marseillaise

Vive Le Quatorze Juillet! (An Annual Tradition) Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us of the tyranny The bloody banner is raised, The bloody banner is raised, Do you hear, in the countryside, The roar of those ferocious soldiers? They’re coming right into your arms To slit the throats …

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The Breakfast Club (Oeufs en Cocotte)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …

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Formula One 2019: Silverstone

Re-thinking So two weeks ago Mercedes seemed on the verge of a shutout season, racking up 8 – 0 of 21 total after what was arguably one of the dullest races in the last 20 years at Circuit Paul Ricard. And then, appropriately enough Red Bull Racing won at Red Bull Ring. For Silverstone the …

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Six In The Morning Sunday 14 July 2019

  New leak claims Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’ Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK’s former ambassador to the US. Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of “diplomatic vandalism”, according to the Mail on Sunday. The paper …

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It’s A Gravelanche!

It’s not so much that Joe Carson is a misogynous, transphobe, racist as it is that he champions the failed Neoliberal Agenda of the last 40 years. Mike Gravel’s 2020 campaign to launch ad attacking Joe Biden on MSNBC by Shira Tarlo, Salon July 12, 2019 Former Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel’s presidential campaign announced Thursday …

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House

ST:TOS Captain, My Captain! Blinking and Flashing Sheer Poetry What Is Real? You Better Run. You Better Take Cover. Galileo? Galileo! I will brook no discussion of who was the best Captain (it was Sulu actually, his board controlled everything and nobody ever seemed to realize it). Bill Shatner is as “American” as Selena Gomez …

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The Breakfast Club (Karma)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …

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Six In The Morning Saturday 13 July 2019

  Facebook ‘to be fined $5bn over Cambridge Analytica scandal’ US regulators have approved a record $5bn (£4bn) fine on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations, reports in US media say. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been investigating allegations that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained the data of up to 87 …

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‘The kidney has a very special place in the heart’

That’s where your smartness is (stable genius taps Temple knowingly), kidneys. I spel gud 2 covfefe. One of the great benefits of being on the road is you can’t watch much Cable News. Of course what you do get is CNN which barely qualifies as news and makes me appreciate MSNBC more, not that MSNBC …

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Cartnoon

Martin Frobisher, Renaissance Man

The Breakfast Club (Spaceship Earth)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …

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Six In The Morning Friday 12 July 2019

  US census 2020: Trump retreats on citizenship question President Donald Trump will no longer pursue adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 US census questionnaire. Instead, he said officials would obtain the information through an executive order for government agencies, as court challenges would have delayed a census. The retreat follows a long …

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