HAPPY BIRTHDAY to @MichelleObama, a First Lady who inspired me like no other. Who cherished kindness and community. Who led a generation of young children to good health and leadership. THANK YOU. pic.twitter.com/vSDHuGhlZz
— meta (@metaquest) January 17, 2018
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Insert your own jokes about those Trump administration members who don’t expect to end up serving prison sentences:
Scoop by @taydolven: Jeff Sessions is blocking Jared Kushner's attempt to reform mandatory minimum sentencing laws https://t.co/CJbl24dRi3
— Keegan Hamilton (@keegan_hamilton) January 17, 2018
A serious rift between the people who use racism to help rich people and the people who genuinely believe in racism, which only helps rich people. https://t.co/g07UBqeT6P
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 17, 2018
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And finally, a well-considered opinion on Trump’s health issues:
Donald Trump is racist feet tall and weighs 21 allegations of sexual abuse putting his overall health at white supremacist.
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) January 16, 2018
WaterGirl
I posted this at the end of the thread just below this, then saw that a new thread was up.
From OzarkHillbilly in the morning thread. How awful.
edit: Then found this later in the thread, posted about an hour after the first one Hopeful, anyway.
MomSense
That photo of Michelle Obama is stunning.
Sigh.
Mnemosyne
Today is also the birthdays of two Star Wars actors: James Earl Jones and Kelly Marie Tran.
A butthurt MRA dude decided to re-edit The Last Jedi to take out all of the chick stuff and is getting righteously dragged for it on Twitter.
?????
I hope getting personally mocked by Mark Hamill will help him re-think his life. Probably not, though.
Lapassionara
@WaterGirl: Thanks. I was wondering if anyone had heard anything more. Such sad news.
satby
@MomSense: It is! One of my favorites of her.
Barbara
@WaterGirl: How awful. Fingers crossed for someone who sounds like he might be overdue for some good luck.
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: They loved her in India, when she danced with the school kids who were performing some sort of a welcome dance for her. Unlike most celebrities she can actually dance!
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Mnemosyne:
You’re right. He won’t rethink his life.
“Hamill has bought into feminazi agitprop” is what he’ll probably think. He should try editing out Leia from the original film. I guarantee it won’t make sense without her.
Aleta
-from The Guardian, also in Jezebel
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Not an MRA dude, but I was thoroughly bored while watching the Last Jedi, too much action and too little of anything else. YMMV.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: @satby: It really is. She is stunningly beautiful, inside and out.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Aleta:
If the story is true, then the Border Patrol, like ICE, is out of control. That spokesman is lying and CYAing.
Aleta
@WaterGirl: Thanks.
Lyrebird
@WaterGirl: Wow. Thanks for spreading the word. Sending good thoughts to the whole OzarkH family, wishing for more and more better news!
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
Meh. I’m only annoyed with the dudebros who are whining that there are too many chicks in it. If Star Wars isn’t your thing, no biggie. I enjoyed it, but I’m an old-school fan who saw the first one in its original release back in 1977.
(IIRC, so did efgoldman, and he was deeply bored by it even then, so … ?)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
That’s awful news. I hope the good side keeps coming up for OzH jr
donnah
Michelle Obama, so beautiful, so smart, such a great woman! And she does look stunning in that photo. I got the Obama, An Intimate Portrait book by Pete Souza for Christmas. It’s a ray of sunshine in this stormy political climate. Seeing the best President in my lifetime captured in countless situations and maintaining poise and dignity…it’s heartbreaking compared to what we have now. Obama and Michelle stand head and shoulders above the current occupant and his occasional wife, and they will never be diminished in my eyes.
dmsilev
Reuters interviews Trump…
Is he going to be bragging about SAT scores next?
Aleta
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: I have faith it’s true, esp since there’ve been other reports. Bet they’re doing it under unofficial orders supported by pack behavior. Threats to anyone who would report. Is this where police officers who are fired for breaking the law find work?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@dmsilev:
He’s overcompensating now that everyone is fully aware of how mentally adled he is
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev: at the risk of being accused of retroactively normalizing Dumbya, I will say with confidence that he could, at most hours of the day, draw a clock and explain what a banana and an orange have in common.
geg6
@Mnemosyne:
I saw the original the first weekend it came out, too. And I loved TLJ.
Not quite as much as I love and adore Michelle O. Man, she truly is stunning and that photo says it all. Happy birthday, Forever First Lady.
JPL
This is from CBS new twitter feed. Thank you Michelle and Happy Birthday
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/953689808987140097
Kay
Are we ever going to get any transparency or accounting on why the Stormy Daniels story was spiked? Maybe voters wouldn’t have cared but shouldn’t they have been let in on the “secret” everyone knew, in case they did care?
The fact that they were under criminal investigation was kept from us, and the fact that Trump was paying hush money to his friend Stormy was also kept from us. A year into this clusterfuck we’re finally getting some news and all of it was known to thousands of people but somehow wasn’t reported.
dmsilev
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: He apparently didn’t understand, or is hoping that other people don’t understand, what a low bar “acing” that particular cognitive test is. It’s a screen for dementia, not a PhD oral.
JPL
@dmsilev: His followers will believe him, because he is a star.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: I am not a huge Star Wars person, more of a Trek person.
ETA: I did like the original for its originality as a kid but that’s about it.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: Oh, gosh. Thanks for re-posting. I missed that in the morning thread. Sending good thoughts to OzH, Jr and family. Doesn’t lahm36 live in New Orleans? Maybe she could be a local contact if he needs help with something.
Happy birthday to Michelle Obama. She’s so inspiring and amazing. How lucky we were to have her as our First Lady for eight years.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
There’s a broadcast channel here (“Heros and Icons”) that runs all of the Star Trek series on weeknights. If nothing else is on, it’s fun watching them again.
HeleninEire
@MomSense: She. Is. Gorgeous.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
I like both, but “Star Wars” is the one that was big during my childhood and adolescence. Many afternoons of running around pretending to be chased by the Empire.
“Trek” is definitely more cerebral and thoughtful. We got totally sucked into First Contact when it was on cable the other night.
I knew that the whole TLJ kerfuffle was a Gamergate thing when the “Star Wars” obsessed guys my own age all loved it.
schrodingers_cat
@dmsilev: Naval dude is going to tell us, how T set up and solved Schrodinger’s equation for the H atom, next. His uncle was at MIT so he has the best genes for physics.
Jack the Second
@schrodingers_cat: I enjoyed it, but thought it had too many climaxes. At several points in the movie, I thought it was almost over, because they had some big climactic moment. Then, nope, more stuff happens.
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat: On further reflection, I doubt Trump would boast of acing a PhD exam. Too pencil-necked-geeky for him. No, he’d claim to have a higher IQ than Obama.
raven
@WaterGirl: Like I said, let’s shoot for alive. If he made it past the golden hour chances are vastly improved.
raven
@dmsilev: What’s a PhD exam, comps?
randy khan
@dmsilev:
So apparently he has no idea what kind of test it was that he took.
schrodingers_cat
@raven: He probably means the qualifying exam, where they can ask you question and all you have is your pencil and your brain.
Yep the same.
Yarrow
@randy khan: Well, to be fair, having to identify animals from looking at drawings of them might be right up there with the last kind of test he took. Like in elementary school.
raven
@schrodingers_cat: We got a week and 5 questions.
Mnemosyne
@geg6:
Laura Dern is only a couple of years older than I am, and I got a vibe that getting to play a Rebel general opposite Princess Leia was a dream come true. ?
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Horrible–worst thing a parent can endure. We’re with you, Ozark and CJ!
schrodingers_cat
@raven: To do what, exactly. I am not up to speed on the medical test thingie. All I know is the Navy Doctor gave a weight that many BJers find hard to believe.
WaterGirl
@raven: Had to look up golden hour. Yes, you are right about that. Everything that matters is so damn fragile.
Gin & Tonic
@dmsilev:
Kinda dumb and OT, but I had a professor who had refused to take his orals. Said he found the concept demeaning.
Steve in the ATL
@randy khan: was it that “is the photo a chihuahua or a blueberry muffin test”? Because that was hard.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
Oh, thanks for the good news.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
I’m going with “didn’t understand”. FWIW, I don’t think his failure to understand is a result of cognitive impairment; it’s a result of an overinflated ego.
dmsilev
@raven: Whichever one you prefer. Qualifiers, the actual defense, etc. Doesn’t really matter.
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: So no insanity defense when BM hauls him before the grand jury.
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
IMO, people are tired of the rich and powerful having “open secrets.” Real tired. That’s what the whole #TimesUp thing is about in the entertainment industry.
kindness
Jefferson Beuregard Sessions…..now that’s a grave I could pee on. If I’m ever in Alabama. Which means it’ll never happen. Sounds like a future Craigslist job to some lucky person with an extended bladder.
chris
@schrodingers_cat: Two things seen today. First, this tweet showing Jeb! and Frump together. Jeb! is 6’3″.
Second, a sentence from Fire&Fury saying that Frump lies about his height to beat the “obese” BMI category.
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
That’s not guaranteed. This test is for dementia, not for sanity. So he’ll have a hard time pleading diminished mental capacity, but it’s possible that he’s not legally sane.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
Nah. Legal insanity is a very high bar to cross, and narcissism is a personality disorder, not a mental illness. He’s hosed.
Yutsano
What? 54 comments in and NO ONE is gonna mention it’s also the birthday of that great jewel (and former pin-up girl) Betty White? I am disappoint.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: I’d have paid money to do it. I had major issues with parts of the film, but I’m a fangirl through and through. I just want to work on the next, thank you.
Sending good thoughts to Ozark & fam.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
We’ll have to arm-wrestle over it the next time we’re in the same town at the same time. ?
raven
@schrodingers_cat: Our comps.
Mnemosyne
@Yutsano:
If you look at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Facebook page, they have photos of Betty feeding a sea otter and petting a penguin. ?
JeanneT
@Steve in the ATL:
I think it was the same test my father took every time he saw his gerontologist and his motor disorder specialist. It is a clue to diagnosing neurological and cognitive problems and their progression – for example, when my dad (who had Parkinson’s disease) drew the clock at each visit, you could see the big changes in his ability to draw the circle and to number the dial as his disease progressed. But I have to admit even when I was in my 20’s and 30’s I would have struggled with remembering lists and counting backward!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: Back when I was in grad school(back in the Dark Ages), my Micro principles prof gave the same question on the final to us and his Micro survey class; we(the grad students) did much worse on the question, we over thought the question.
Yarrow
@Yutsano: I saw it was Betty White’s 94th birthday today. Happy birthday to her! She’s so amazing. I hope she’s doing okay. I haven’t seen much of her recently.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: There’s some on their Twitter feed too! Have a friend who works at one of the So Cal aquariums (don’t recall which one off the top of my head) but that’s right up his alley.
He’s also a dead ringer for Daniel Dae Kim.
@Yarrow: I so want some kind of TV show/movie with her and James Earl Jones now. Especially since they’re both getting up there in the age department.
And I’m not too surprised Betty is (finally) slowing down. She’s had such an amazing career.
Yarrow
@Yutsano: They could just do a short series–a few episodes of something. It would be awesome. I loved watching her on “Hot in Cleveland.” The show itself was okay, but they’d get some great guest stars and Betty White owns every scene she’s in. She’s such a gem.
Kristine
@WaterGirl: So many good thoughts headed Ozark’s son’s way.
debbie
@dmsilev:
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Someone call bullshit to his face already:
debbie
@Yutsano:
They could interview each other and swap stories.
Gelfling 545
@dmsilev: If you look at the test, you see that it is only meant to detect the presence of senile dementia. It does not rule out mental illness, stupidity or just plain jackassery. Of course, no one felt the need to suggest that either Clinton, Bush or Obama was in need of such a test. He’s got nothing to brag about.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie:
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
To quote Church Lady (no, the other one), “Isn’t that convenient?”
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
I am stupidly proud of the fact that Betty White and I share a home town.
(Bob Newhart, too, for that matter.)
Manyakitty
@Mnemosyne: ?
schrodingers_cat
@raven: Oh, I thought that’s what the President got for his cognitive test. Thanks for clearing that up.
J R in WV
Glad to hear any positive news about the younger Hillbilly spawn. Ozark is going to have a hard time, I hear it’s frozen over down there. He’s used to it… but still, no one else is. Plus the worry.
We Hillbillies (and by We I mean Democratic ones!) have to stick together~!
Hang in there, Ozark!! Not many of us old cavers still around.
J R in WV
And that picture of Ms Obama in the White House in the original post is wonderful.
She is a stunning beauty in that picture, and in life. And a scary smart lawyer, too. Great combination … I miss them so much.