Chuck Blazer agreed to go undercover at Fifa to avoid potential 75-year sentence http://t.co/UL44LPcu6c
— Lauren Gambino (@LGamGam) June 15, 2015
There’s a George R.R. Martin joke in there somewhere, but I don’t know either Game of Thrones or soccer well enough to make it.
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Apart from rich veins of snark (helloooo, newly-declared GOP candidates… ), what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Germy Shoemangler
Cartoon du jour
Escaped NY Criminals
srv
Both are mostly about penises and balls, interspersed with fouls.
Baud
Can’t help. Don’t know the first thing about snark.
David Koch
Osama bin LadenWhitey BulgerAndrew BreitbartMitt RomneyBob NovakDavid BroderDennis HasterttFIFABAMF
srv
Already in moderation.
It really is amazing that the left doesn’t get Donald. He’s such a genius:
Would you rather him not run? Someday you will appreciate his sacrifice.
NotMax
Donald Trump is a Snarxist plot.
tulip
Going to watch the Warriors beat the Cavs.
Go Dubs!
Tree With Water
“Today I signed HB 483 to provide a secure facility for the State of Texas, state agencies and Texas citizens to store gold bullion and other precious metals and precious bodily fluids”.
The governor forgot to add the “fluids” bit, so I did it for him.
Abbot is playing in same the ballpark as Jeff Davis did all those blinks of an eye ago, when he began stockpiling arms and munitions in southern armories. One thing is certain: The governor of Texas has never seen the movie Goldfinger.
Joel
Chuck Blazer is Santa.
dmsilev
Hard to top John Oliver’s description of Blazer as an “actual Bad Santa”.
Mary G
I am becoming convinced that the Donald is really an undercover Democrat . The Republican debates are going to be crazy this time.
dmsilev
@Mary G: As opposed to the modern versions of the Lincoln-Douglas debates that they were back in 2012?
raven
Since the hoop won’t be on until 9:10 I’m going to watch the US Women and catch the b-ball bright and early.
shell
Now THAT is first class snark!
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Damn. I could really use a good movie tonight, but the cupboard looks pretty bare.
raven
@Tree With Water: And Col Jack D Ripper!
raven
Look at these 3D floors!
raven
Dr. Strangelove – Precious Bodily Fluids
Baud
@raven:
Cool beans.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: What channel is it on?
scav
Reality shows, once scripted, have really begun to infiltrate reality from the other direction. Too many believed all those B&W family shows and movies were of actual ‘Mercan life, organized elections around them and now their convention and debates are going to be pure reality-show gold. Will there be punches thrown? Live snails eaten? Masked men doing body slams? How many adulteries paraded?
srv
@shell: Derp
raven
@Gin & Tonic: The soccer? Whatever your local Fox network is.
burnspbesq
@Gin & Tonic:
USA – Nigeria is on Fox. Not Fox Sports 1. The Mothership of Evil. Crappy pre-game show on now.
Apparently B.C. Place, which is a BIG stadium, is sold out.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: No, the hoop.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: ABC
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Thx.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Yo
satby
Just beginning to feel human again after days of rain, high heat and higher humidity… and I don’t have air conditioning. Today was perfect, sunny, low 70s, lower humidity with a nice breeze as a chaser.
Tomorrow is more rain…sigh. I’m going to have to get a window air unit just so the soap I make cures, the humidity doesn’t let it dry properly. Not sure if that counts as a first world problem, but probably.
rikyrah
MEDIA ALERT:
TYRANT fans..
It returns tonight at 10pm EST on F/X
SiubhanDuinne
@David Koch:
I always give Urban Dictionary a real workout when I come here.
Tree With Water
Republicans are all stark raving lunatics:
“According to The Hill, former aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sidney Blumenthal was giving his deposition before the House Select Committee when Issa attempted to barge into the closed-door session…. Witnesses said that Issa was only allowed to remain in the room for a minute or so before current chairman of the Republicans’ Benghazi investigation, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) led the California congressman from the room”.
They’re all walking, talking cuckoo clocks.
Howard Beale IV
@dmsilev: Jon Oliver is having a field day with this. First, he had to eat crow.
Oliver’s crew actually bought time on Trinidad TV to go after Jack Warner. Jack Warner responded. Hilarity ensued.
Howard Beale IV
Please approve #32. You’ll love it.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: You need to play more hoop.
NotMax
Noting an anniversary: 800 years ago, at Runnymede.
raven
@NotMax: Uh, shit ain’t available.
YOU’VE REACHED A SUBSCRIBER-ONLY ARTICLE.
Germy Shoemangler
dmsilev
@Germy Shoemangler: Well, that will certainly ruin Trump’s chances of winning the GOP nomination.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
That’s easy:
MomSense
@burnspbesq:
It is a super crappy pre game show. I have the tv on nearly mute so I will hear when the game starts.
Germy Shoemangler
@dmsilev: They’ll call him a dern soshulist.
NotMax
@raven
Odd, as I had no problem there.
However, an alternate article.
The original link above makes special note of 750 U.S. lawyers attending, including Loretta Lynch.
raven
@NotMax: I searched it out, thanks!
Phylllis
Turns out HRC will be in my neck of the woods tomorrow. I, alas, will be finishing another damn grant application.
burnspbesq
@rikyrah:
That would be me. Can’t wait to see how Barry gets out from in front of the firing squad.
burnspbesq
@MomSense:
I left to pick up the dogs from the vet, but I am not all surprised that it was bad.
raven
Aite Randinho!
Misterpuff
@Mary G: Other than the racism…But republican oppo is like chum to this guy. He will cut the legs out at the knees of Bush, Rubio, Walker, and any other frontrunner. The best thing is that people that don’t listen to the news very hard, well they listen to Trump “The Winnah” and this is what he is saying about his Republican competitors, all the good dirt that the MSM will overlook….Winnah!
Tripod
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/the-rise-and-fall-of-chuck-blazer-the-man-who-built-and-bilk#.ujvzrM8dV
srv
It doesn’t get better in NC:
Except it didn’t end there.
Iowa Old Lady
@scav: Are you talking about the R convention?
SiubhanDuinne
Completely off-topic: I need a little help from someone who understands Facebook.
I have an FB friend who has been on an extended European trip. After about the third day of his travels, I decided to stop following him (I did not unfriend him, just asked to stop seeing his posts). He was putting up scores of photos every day along with interminable narrative, and I just didn’t feel like scrolling through all that stuff.
Well, now he’s back, and I want to start following him again but I can’t figure out how to do that! Any assistance gratefully received and acknowledged!
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Ha! You funny, funny man.
Tommy
@srv: I went through to the story and it did get worse.
SiubhanDuinne
@srv:
That almost made me cry.
In between cursing, screaming, and kicking things.
Sometimes I really hate people.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tommy:
Sure did. See my #55.
Origuy
Oracle Arena in Oakland is sold out tonight. Yes, the game is in Cleveland. They sold 17,000 tickets at $15 each so that fans could watch the game together on the big screen. The tickets are being scalped.
Smiling Mortician
@SiubhanDuinne: You can select “follow” the same way you selected “unfollow.” Or at least you could last time I tried . . .
Origuy
@SiubhanDuinne: Can’t you just search for his name and click Follow? You’ll probably have to make sure it’s the right person, but FB probably remembers the people you used to follow.
SiubhanDuinne
@Smiling Mortician:
@Origuy:
No, that doesn’t seem to be an option. When I pull up his name it shows we are friends but has no further choices.
Mandalay
Below is the list of Senators who today voted to opppose John McCain’s Senate amendment “To reaffirm the prohibition on torture”. Even Ted Cruz supported it, yet Lindsey Graham opposed it, and little Mario (who missed the vote) said he would not have supported it.
So there you have it: two people running for President, Lindsey Graham and Mario Rubio, refused to reaffirm the existing prohibition on torture.
NAYs —21
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Vitter (R-LA)
Not Voting – 1
Rubio (R-FL)
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Go to your friends page. Find and hover over the person’s name. It will bring a box of options, one of which is follow. Click on it.
Fixed.
Tommy
@Origuy: Good for Golden State. I am a Cardinals fan. My mom jokes she put headphones on her belly when I was a fetus to hear Jack Buck call a Cards game. There is that much of a pull for sports. Go Golden State. I so see then filling up an arena when they are playing across the nation.
SiubhanDuinne
@Smiling Mortician:
@Origuy:
@SiubhanDuinne:
Aha! I finally figured it out!
(You go into Settings and open News Feed Preferences and scroll to the name and click on “follow.” Easy, once you know how.)
I do appreciate your suggestions, though. I tend to be very timid about clicking on things, and it wasn’t quite as intuitive to me as I expect FB thought it would be.
Tree With Water
For the first time since he oozed onto my radar, I have something positive to say about Donald Trump: timing his thunder-in-the-outhouse presidential announcement just two days after Jeb! reflects well on NYC*. He could have waited but he didn’t, and I applaud him for it.
*”America’s Rome” per J. Lennon
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I had earlier tried that, and didn’t get that option (might be a mobile thing). But, see my #64, I did finally figure it out.
Major Major Major Major
Go Warriors!
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, my solution works on a desktop. Obviously that doesn’t work on a mobile.
rikyrah
a comment from the transracial adoption article posted earlier (h/t TOD)
http://www.thelostdaughters.com/2015/06/transracial-lives-matter-rachel-dolezal.html?m=1
Suzanne
Gooooooooo Warriors!
SiubhanDuinne
@Suzanne:
Love ya, but hope the Cavs come back and tie it up tonight.
Gvg
@rikyrah: Sigh. I was a foster mom until cancer made me take a time out. we almost adopted a biracial child until the state put him back with his white mother. I think they made a mistake. the family situation was not stable enough and last I heard….well things weren’t going well. he was never being raised black. The Vietnamese child you gave as an example wouldn’t have been either and would have been treated badly if not adopted too. the state is reluctant to remove children even when the conditions aren’t good. part of the problem is there just aren’t enough foster homes nor adoptive homes. adoption across racial lines is better than no real home at all and that happens a lot.
Case workers are well aware of the statistics and feelings of loss of identity. they teach that we should try to make connections to help the children. that’s not always actually followed through on but it is pushed. if there were actually an excess of homes for non infants especially those with complicating issues, then case workers would place more kids. as it is I think more kids of all colors should not be left in bio homes but then what? Noticing the problems with cross ethnic adoptions is a kind of purity pony demand. I actually think identity issues when they grow up are minor compared to the problems they escape. of course the horrific cases I get told about stick in my mind more than the more ordinary ones but they are cases that happened right here. there are problems for kids not adopted. limiting the options is a bad idea. Now encouraging more POC to foster and adopt would help. it’s easier said than accomplished but that is the only useful help I know of.