Ah, 40 years of spam emails. (Grokked from Dan)
"Lava continued to spew out of cracks in the ground Sunday night after increased activity at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano last week, which destroyed at least 26 homes and forced more than 1,700 people to evacuate." Volcanos essentially remind us that nature doesn't give a damn for us. It just does so in real time instead of decades and centuries.
"In a desperate attempt to make up for years of aimless planetary wandering, the Curiosity Rover spent most of Monday frantically driving around the Red Planet in order give the impression that it had been busy before the impending arrival of NASA’s InSight Lander." Ah, the Onion, don't ever change. (Grokked from Dan)
"They came to see Universal Judgment: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel — a surround-sound show with live performances by actors, dancers and acrobats, orchestral music and high-definition projections that highlight the Renaissance master's depiction of Genesis and the Last Judgment." While some deride the spectacle (and I can't talk to the actual production), but being a multi-media event sort of was the original task of the frescos. Much is made of the statuary, paintings, and frescos in churches were there because of the illiteracy of the time (both of the populace and of some of the officiants, JK Rowling wasn't the first to mumble latinate sounding words) the Sistine Chapel is the private sanctuary of the Pope (while it's argued some Popes were illiterate, most weren't). Sorry, while they could be used as teaching tools, all of these were originally designed to be something akin to laser light shows in the 70s and 80s (if you doubt this, early Gothic aesthetics eschewed decoration as an impediment to accessing the divine, so these churches are stark when compared to Romanesque churches).
"It's a tradition for culturally black sororities and fraternities to 'stroll' across the graduation stage and perform their Greek organization's signature dance, but that tradition was interrupted Saturday at the University of Florida by an 'aggressive' graduation marshal."
"The four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger last October were trying to capture or kill a senior ISIS terrorist, but the two officers in charge of their 12-man unit misled their higher-ups by reporting they were going on a far less risky mission, according to two U.S. officials and a congressional official familiar with the classified investigation of the deadly ambush." Somebody went cowboy. (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)
"Paul Ryan appeared at a financial conference to warn that, if Democrats win control of either the House or the Senate in the November elections, “you’ll have gridlock, you’ll have subpoenas.” The gridlock part is true, but it is basically the case already… What really would change with Democratic control of a chamber is the subpoena part. But it’s worth spelling out just what it is Ryan is warning will happen — and what, by implication, he is confessing." (Grokked from Joy Reid)
While it's being overshadowed by the abrupt resignation of New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the Southern Baptists are having their own problems. "A prominent Southern Baptist leader faces demands for his dismissal after women from his own denomination reacted angrily to the news that he once advised abused women to pray for their husbands and gave a sermon in which he defended a lewd remark about a teenage girl as 'biblical.'" As so often is states, one side removes those who have hurt others, the other side promotes them to the highest offices.
"Mr. Pruitt takes a different approach. The emails show agency officials defining prospective guests at events as friendly or unfriendly, and reorganizing events at the last minute if there were concerns that people who are considered unfriendly might show up." Administrator Pruitt is skating awfully close to the edge of the law and it exposes that his security detail is more of a barrier to the general public than as a needed measure. (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)
The NRA skips the middle-man and elects an illicit gun-runner as it's president. Hey all you Marines, remember when Good Ol' Ollie defiled the uniform by wearing it to Congressional hearings into the Iran-Contra scandal when he was specifically told by the brass not to (as it was against regulations)? Also interesting on this day when the current president may back out of the nuclear arms agreement with Iran that the NRA elevates the man who illegally sold arms and spare-parts to the Iranian government to help fund the Contras (which was also against the law).
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security will partner to prosecute anyone illegally crossing the southwest border and separate children from parents." Yep, when parents bring their children we'll charge them with "smuggling" the children and separate families. The word you're searching for is "heartless". Unseemingly cruel for no apparent reason also works.
"When last we heard from Donald Trump legal adviser and freelance public-relations chaos agent Rudy Giuliani, he was explaining on Friday that his own May 2 assertion that Trump reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen for a payment to Stormy Daniels did not necessarily reflect the president’s understanding of what happened…" And these are the smart ones in the room. Dear news media, if you book this asshole to speak for the president when he's just stated he has no frickin' clue as to what the president knows or wants to say then you're participating in the cover up. (Grokked from Vincent O'Connor)
Get your programs here, can't tell the players without a program. "Since Rudy Giuliani claimed to Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week that President Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for his hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels, the former New York City mayor’s explanation of the matter has evolved several times over." (Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)
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