Australian TV destroys Trump in comments about G20

President Donald Trump skewered as ‘friendless’ and ‘awkward’ in viral take-down
July 10, 20171:56pm
Bronte Coy and Liz Burkenews.com.au

THE ABC journalist whose savage take-down of Donald Trump’s G20 performance went viral has doubled down on his scathing assessment.

Political editor Chris Uhlmann pulled no punches when he delivered his wrap-up of Trump’s appearance at the conference on Sunday, calling him an “uneasy, lonely, awkward figure” who was left “isolated and friendless” with “no desire and no capacity to lead the world”.

But even after the brutal commentary was shared thousands of times across the world and caught the attention of Washington heavyweights, Uhlmann was not deterred to further critique the President’s performance.

In a cross to ABC radio’s AM program on Monday morning, the reporter again railed against Mr Trump’s leadership style while discussing his lack of commitment to addressing the situation in North Korea at the weekend’s summit.

Full video at link: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/president-donald-trump-skewered-as-friendless-and-awkward-in-viral-takedown/news-story/cd92a7a425e8126e01b9c5bdb9143688
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Absolutely brutal take down of Trump and his inability to lead. Well worth watching.

NOTE: I almost never watch Morning Joe but I could not take any more of Kellyann Conway lying to Chris Cuomo on CNN. I turned over to MSNBC and caught this and I am so glad that I did!

Attention North Florida - help needed for rescued animals

Over 80 animals rescued following owners death

By Erin Lisch |
Posted: Fri 10:48 PM, Jul 07, 2017 |
Updated: Fri 11:40 PM, Jul 07, 2017

TALLAHASSEE, Fla (WCTV) -- Almost 90 dogs and cats now rehabbing after they're rescued in Washington County this week.

68 dogs and 19 cats of all ages infested with fleas and left in declining health after their owner, a former Great Pyrenees breeder, passed away.

Several rescue organizations and shelters saving the animals from a house in Vernon, Florida - less than 100 miles from Tallahassee.

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Along with the {Alaqua Animal Refuge, Freeport, FL} refuge, 12 organizations are working with the rescue effort:

• The Humane Society of the United States
• The Lucky Puppy Rescue (Bonifay, FL)
• Florida State Animal Response Coalition
• Big Bend Disaster Animal Response Team (Tallahassee, FL)
• Great Pyrenees Club of America
• Tri-County Animal Rescue (Boca Raton, FL)
• Big Fluffy Dog Rescue (Nashville, TN)
• Tallahassee Big Dog Rescue (FL)
• Leon County Humane Society (Tallahassee, FL)
• Great Pyrenees Club of Western Pennsylvania Rescue (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team (West Mifflin, PA
• Florida Great Pyrenees Rescue & Club (Lakeland, FL)

More: http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Over-80-animals-rescued-following-owners-death-433192843.html
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If anyone is interested in adopting any of these animals or assisting in any way, contact the organization nearest to you on the list.

Why Teachers Drink

Sent to me by a friend:

Why Teachers Drink

The following questions were set in last year's GED examination.

These are genuine answers (from 18 year old students)


Q. Name the four seasons?
A.. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Q. How is dew formed?
A.. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.

Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on?
A.. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed.

Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections?
A.. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election.

Q. What are steroids?
A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs. (Shoot yourself now, there is little hope)

Q... What happens to your body as you age?
A.. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.

Q. Name a major disease associated with cigarettes?
A.. Premature death.

Q. What is artificial insemination?
A... When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow.

Q. How can you delay milk turning sour?
A.. Keep it in the cow. (Simple, yet brilliant)

Q. How are the main 20 parts of the body categorized (e.g. the abdomen)?
A.. The body is consisted into 3 parts - the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity.

The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal

cavity contains the five bowels: A,E,I,O,U

Q. What is the fibula?
A.. A small lie.

Q. What does 'varicose' mean?
A.. Nearby.

Q. Give the meaning of the term 'Caesarean section.'
A.. The caesarean section is a district in Rome.

Q. What is a seizure?
A.. A Roman Emperor.
(Ah yes, Julius Seizure: I came, I saw, I had a fit)

Q. What is a terminal illness?
A. When you are sick at the airport. (irrefutable)

Q. What does the word 'benign' mean?
A.. Benign is what you will be after you be eight. (brilliant)

Home Depot, Menards face lawsuits over lumber size description

Home Depot, Menards face lawsuits over lumber size description
USA Today Network Rick Romell , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published 12:17 p.m. ET June 21, 2017 | Updated 7:46 a.m. ET June 22, 2017

MILWAUKEE — Two home improvements stores are accused of deceiving the buyers of four-by-four boards, the big brother to the ubiquitous two-by-four.

The alleged deception: Menards and Home Depot (HD) market and sell the hefty lumber as four-by-fours without specifying that the boards actually measure 3½ inches by 3½ inches.

The lawsuits against the retailers would-be class actions, filed within five days of each other in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois. Attorneys from the same Chicago law firm represent the plaintiffs in both cases. Each suit seeks more than $5 million.

“Defendant has received significant profits from its false marketing and sale of its dimensional lumber products,” the action against Menards contends.

More: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/06/21/home-depot-menards-lumber-size-lawsuit/415874001/
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I've known since I was ten years old that dimensional lumber was not the stated size - and I knew WHY! The lumber is rough cut to the stated size then planed to make smooth sides. While rough cut lumber can be purchased for some things - like fence boards - you would not want it for most home projects.

At ten I planed and constructed a shelf-desk for a summer project. I had to educate myself about the actual sizes of the boards to make the project fit in the corner of the room where it was to be placed. That meant learning that 1x6" boards were really 3/4" x 5-1/2" so I could make everything the size I needed.

Besides, Home Depot gives the actual dimensions for 4x4s" on their site as actual dimensions: 3.56 in. x 3.56 in.

I wonder what profits Menards makes from the sawdust and shavings left over from planing the lumber to it's final sizes?

BREAKING NEWS -Little Hawk just fledged in Sidney Eagle Nest

Is anyone here into vintage computer stuff?

I'm helping my sister clean up my Mom's house. Among the clutter are LOTS of books and manuals for older computer operating systems and programs. I don't have a list, but the subjects covered start with Windows 3.1 and go through Windows 2000, maybe even Windows 8. There is at least one book on Red Hat Linux.

Programs covered are Word, WordPerfect, Corel Draw, and more.

We brought home two computers - not sure if they work, not sure what vintage they are. I will have to remove the harddrives before I can pass them along to any one to protect any information left on them.

If I don't find a home for this stuff it will all go into recycling. If any one is interested, let me know. We hauled some stuff home this trip and will be unloading it today. Another carload is still at my Mom's house and I will have to bring it home next trip - or maybe I can get my sister to ship stuff out from down state.

Any takers?

Important new research project on the Holocaust - History Unfolded

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Help tell America's story

Together, we can uncover what ordinary people around the country could have known about the Holocaust from reading their local newspapers in the years 1933–1945. We need you to join our team of citizen historians uncovering new knowledge that will be shared with scholars, curators, and the public.
https://newspapers.ushmm.org

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About History Unfolded

History Unfolded is a project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. It asks students, teachers, and history buffs throughout the United States what was possible for Americans to have known about the Holocaust as it was happening and how Americans responded. Participants look in local newspapers for news and opinion about 32 different Holocaust-era events that took place in the United States and Europe, and submit articles they find to a national database, as well as information about newspapers that did not cover events. History Unfolded raises questions for scholars and will inform the Museum’s initiative on Americans and the Holocaust.


Your Role

Participants search in newspaper archives online and at libraries for articles about the Nazi threat in the 1930s and 1940s. As of June 16, 2017, 1,677 participants from across the country had submitted more than 10,400 articles from their local newspapers. The articles were published in newspapers located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and represent news articles, editorials, letters to the editor, political cartoons, and advertisements. Through their work, these “citizen historians” have learned about Holocaust history, used primary sources in historical research, and challenged assumptions about American knowledge of and responses to the Holocaust. Their findings prompt us to reflect on America’s role in the world today.


It's easy to participate
Sign up today so we can keep in touch and provide help when you need it
Find a newspaper archive near you
Browse the historical events and choose one to research
Upload your findings to the database
https://newspapers.ushmm.org/about/project
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I think this is a brilliant project that will help us understand how a horror such as the Holocaust can happen with average people not realizing what is going on or how things got to such a point.

A Physics Expert Had Her Own Theories Mansplained OnstageUntil One Person Stood Up

A Physics Expert Had Her Own Theories Mansplained Onstage—Until One Person Stood Up
By John Bonazzo • 06/06/17 6:45am

One woman. Six men. You know, a typical science panel discussion.

Veronika Hubeny, a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of California, Davis, was barely able to speak during the first hour of a panel she was on at the World Science Festival. When the conversation finally turned to string theory, her area of expertise, all eyes in the sold-out audience were on her. But as she prepared to speak, the moderator started mansplaining, describing her theories in detail without letting her talk.

That is, until a woman’s voice cried out from near the front of the dark auditorium: “Let her speak, please!” The room erupted in cheers.

Such was the scene at John Jay College in New York this past weekend, during a panel on “Pondering the Imponderables.” The Saturday afternoon discussion featured a male moderator (Jim Holt of The New Yorker), five male panelists and Hubeny.

More: http://observer.com/2017/06/sexism-science-facebook-mansplaining/
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Mansplaining around an hour into the video:

I have to agree with you and with HRC - the database had been neglected

I did a lot of work with the VAN database during the 2008 campaign. After the campaign I offered to volunteer to help keep the database up to date - I knew there were still sections of our area where calls had not been made, voters had not been verified, information still needed to be updated, and tools to improve the database needed to be added. The last was beyond my capabilities, but as a power user I could work with programmers to help them decide what was needed and to beta test them.

I was unable to do much during the 2012 campaign so I am not sure how much had been done in those four years. When I hosted phone banking events at my house in 2016 and made calls myself, I was appalled at how out of date the database was. MOST of the time we spent calling was to verify phone numbers and mark disconnected or wrong numbers. A good third to half of the calls I made ended up being disconnected or incorrect numbers. When we did contact registered Democratic voters all we did was try to get them to volunteer. We did absolutely no campaigning, no discussion of issues, just recruitment.

When I tried to volunteer in 2008 I thought it would be good to keep voter databases up to date and while doing that we could push voter registration - but the Democratic Party does not seem to care about either of those between elections. If we had volunteers working on those two items ALL THE TIME we could contact every unregistered eligible voter. We could work with felons to regain their right to vote. We could keep volunteers trained and engaged and not have to rebuild our teams for every single election. And lastly we could have the teams and enthusiasm for interim elections and not lose those every time.

The VAN database only includes registered voters - we need to expand it to include people who are not registered to vote so we can try to engage them. That is a major failing. With such a poor percentage of eligible citizens not registered, and with such an abysmal percentage of registered voters turning out, we are losing our democracy. The Democratic Party should be the leaders in pushing voter registration and voter rights, and fighting voter suppression. We make token efforts every four years but in between presidential campaigns it gets ignored.

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