Diamond_Dog
Diamond_Dog's JournalDid anyone watch any speed skating?
Man, that looks like it would kill your back!
Oh well, they're young ...
Tonight's Vinyl Selection
Aja
Steely Dan
1977
Flawless pop, jazz, and blues, from the duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen.
This album is another one of my personal favorites!
Contains "Peg," "Deacon Blues," "Josie".
Adam Rippon on Quiet Starvation in Men's Figure Skating
"Kelly Rippon, Adam’s mother, remembers when his first coach, a woman, informed her that her son, then 10, would never be able to execute advanced jumps because of his “heavy bottom.” The coach suggested that Rippon be steered toward speedskating.
The coach’s critique did not sit well with Kelly Rippon, a former dancer who remembers subsisting on sandwiches that consisted of two lettuce leaves wrapped around a tomato slice. She began to change her eating habits, she said, after the singer Karen Carpenter died from complications of anorexia in 1983.
It was 2016, and Rippon was subsisting mostly on a daily diet of three slices of whole grain bread topped with miserly pats of the spread I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. He supplemented his “meals” with three cups of coffee, each sweetened with six packs of Splenda."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/sports/olympics/figure-skating-adam-rippon.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
NJ Deputy Mayor compares undocumented immigrants to raccoon infestation
“You’ve been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons,” Blood wrote in part. “Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately. You call the city, 4 different exterminators, but nobody can handle the job. But there is this one guy and he guarantees you to get rid of them, so you hire him.”
“Here’s why we want Trump… The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republicans and Democrats can be two-faced & gutless, and illegals are everywhere,” Blood went on. “We want it all fixed!… This country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights… The raccoons have got to go.”
https://thinkprogress.org/roxbury-deputy-mayor-rich-blood-immigrants-raccoons-0ea723788922/
************* It's bad enough that these repulsive idiots think this way, but then they post their shit on social media? Why do they think this is anything close to acceptable? GAH!!!!!!!!!!
Tonight's Vinyl Selection
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Elton John
1975
Contains the hit "Someone Save My Life Tonight".
Sir Elton and Bernie Taupin at their peak!
Thanks to mr_lebowski for the recommendation!
Military rushed to add 4,000 to gun ban list
Since an ex-US airman shot more than two dozen people in a Texas church in November, the US military has added more than 4,000 names to the nation's list of dishonorably discharged military personnel banned from owning firearms -- a sign of what has been a massive hole in the nation's gun buying background check system.
The gunman in the Sutherland Springs massacre had been kicked out of the military for assaulting his wife. By federal law, that should have prevented the shooter from purchasing his semiautomatic rifle, but the US Air Force later admitted it had not submitted his records to the FBI's background check system.In the months since, the US Department of Defense has scrambled to ensure all of its branches have properly updated the FBI's system to track personnel kicked out of the military who are barred from owning firearms.
That push, a CNN review has found, has uncovered a backlog so significant that the FBI's tally of dishonorably discharged former service members has ballooned by 4,284 names in just three months, a 38% leap.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/military-rushed-to-add-4000-to-gun-ban-list/ar-BBJ1EV1
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