What in the world happened today?

[Laelth]

I've been procrastinating on a brief that I really do not want to write, so I have been reading DU off and on, and I feel like I've landed in Bizarroworld.

1) The Pope said atheists can get into heaven,

2) The President delivered an excellent speech in which, heaven forbid, he sounded like a liberal (so much so that I actually believed it),

3) On a 97-0 vote, the Senate confirmed Sri Srinivasan to the D.C. Court of Appeals,

and

4) The House self-fellated by voting to approve the KXL Pipeline for the 8th time.

The only one of those events that even marginally gives me a sense that I am living in the real world is #4. Otherwise, it's like I've died and gone to heaven.

Was there an instantaneous, global revolution that I missed? What gives?



-Laelth

[MFM008]

1. The end is nigh

Hey the Mayans could have only been off by 5 months or so.....
It could happen.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. dogs and cats dancing in the streets together,

Michelle Bachmann making sense,
Rush bitching about how that Ni---- in the White House, ("HEY, it is a WHITE house, listeners. Doesn't that say it all, my friends?&quot

[Lady Freedom Returns]

9. What so unbelivable about Dogs and cats dancing together?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. so sorry. I bow wow to your catlike reflexes and insight.

[Laelth]

4. I'm beginning to wonder ...

-Laelth

[AndyA]

3. A Grandmother sued Donald Trump and lost

She bought two condos from him in a building in Chicago in the mid-2000s. The deal was, she would get a cut of the profits later. The contract stipulated that the profit sharing offer could be removed at any time, so she never should have signed it. But she did.

Of course, greedy Trump (he of the rreeeaaaallllllyyyyyyy bad hair) cut the profit sharing part after the deal to buy the condos was complete. She thinks he deceived her. He thinks she's trying to cheat him.

What a complete and total jerk. Really, that's the nicest way I can describe the man.

[Laelth]

16. That one, I give you, sounds par for the course. n/t

-Laelth

[whistler162]

5. For the second one I would suggest

you actually started listening instead of believing the crap that others spread!

[Laelth]

6. Sorry, my friend.

I have been listening. But something was different today ... I would swear to it.



-Laelth

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Pennsylvania Judges Sentenced For 28 Years For Selling Kids to the Prison System

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022891989

The judges and the owners of the for profit prisons got caught and are in jail or heading to jail.
4200 kids are suing.

[Laelth]

12. There's even some justice in the world? What gives? n/t

-Laelth

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. That, however, is from 2011

While the blog daated it May 1st, 2013, and the Independent in the UK reported it on April 30th:

http://blog.blacknews.com/2013/05/judge-mark-ciavarella-sentenced-selling-kids-prison-system101.html?m=1#.UZ-UrcWts_h

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-judge-receives-28year-jail-term-for-his-role-in--kidsforcash-kickbacks-8598147.html

it all appears to come from August 2011: http://standardspeaker.com/news/ex-judge-awaits-transport-in-philly-1.1188079#axzz1Uw91rqxz

Another instance of old news getting kicked back up somehow. The Independent ought to have caught that, and not reported it. Sloppy work on their part.

[randome]

8. Have a couple more glasses of wine and it all makes sense.

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[We People]

11. Here's one for #5: "Boy Scouts vote to allow gay members"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022892820

[Laelth]

14. Even more evidence. Good catch. n/t

-Laelth

[Hekate]

13. All I can say is: Cherish the day

It's weird when it happens, isn't it?

I like the additions that some other posters have made to your list, too. >shakes head<

[Laelth]

17. Quite. It is weird, and I do value the additional contributions.

05-23-13 was a weird and beautiful day.

-Laelth

[GeorgeGist]

15. Full moon rising.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. If you need some other news from yesterday to balance the optimism:

Amnesty says refugees face rising dangers

Pakistan Quetta bomb attack kills police

Stockholm restaurant torched as riots spread

Niger suicide bombers target Areva mine and barracks

Silvio Berlusconi sex trial prosecutor 'sent bullets'

Global stocks markets hit after Chinese data and Fed comments

Darfur conflict displaces 300,000 in five months - UN

US could see seven to 11 hurricanes in 'active' season