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Add your own photo caption, if you like (lemur)

If you like, have fun adding your own caption(s) for the following photo, or just enjoy the creative ones added by others. Your choice.

However, no mentioning anyone on CS.

My first offering for a caption is;

Oh my god ! Put some fur on.

Here's the photo of a lemur;

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Jul 2020
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OK. How well do couples getting married actually know each other ?

The Task is simple. A series of questions.
The bride & groom sit back to back and answer questions simultaneously
by holding either the male type object up, or the female object.
Do they agree, or not ?

Lets see;

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Jul 2020
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Yet another infectious scandal ? lol

Today in The New Yorker;

More play on Mary Trump's book reveals and tying it into other aspects of Dirty Don
from Andy Borowitz.

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Pence Accused of Taking Trump’s Coronavirus Tests for Him

By Andy Borowitz

July 8, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Borowitz Report)—In a scandal that threatens to upend Donald Trump’s Presidency, a new book accuses Trump of paying Vice-President Mike Pence to take his coronavirus tests for him.

According to the book, “Swapping Swabs: Trump’s Pandemic of Lies,” when the subject of being tested for the virus first came up, in March, Trump started casting about for a “good test-taker” to substitute for him.

Trump considered several candidates for the ruse, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the Attorney General, William Barr, but ultimately settled on Pence, who agreed to take the tests for the fee of twenty-five dollars per result.

Reportedly, Pence initially balked at the proposal, expressing concern that it “would look bad” if the truth about his taking Trump’s coronavirus tests came out, but Trump brusquely shut him down.

“I’ve never taken my own tests, and I’m not going to start now,” Trump allegedly snapped.

Andy Borowitz is a Times best-selling author and a comedian
who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes The Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.

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Looks like they were right.....sort of.

"The south will rise again !"

The following recent map (as of yesterday) shows a big rise in Covid-19 cases for all southern states, except New Mexico. Tap the 4 week change title.
Rushing to re-open = not a good idea.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/map-track-summer-2020-coronavirus-hotspots-united-states-n1231332

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Hail Yes !

Today it was 88 F. (~ 31 C.) here in New Jersey (NJ).
Then dark clouds rapidly floated in and it poured rain.
But, the surprise part, was that it also hailed.
I only saw hail the size of peas.
However, some places in NJ today got hail the size of acorns.

It's been a long time since I saw hail.
Was I surprised ? Hail yes !

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Song update - My Corona

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If you like pina coloda

I recently got back from a friend's house.
They invited me to a BBQ pool party this afternoon.
Good food, and lots of fun.

On the way back home I stopped by Walmart
and got several things, including some sherbet.

It is NOT pina coloda, as my blog title may have indicated.
It is "Margarita". Not bad. A lemon & lime flavor.
So, if you wanted pina coloda, you're s.o.l.

However, I do have plenty of extra Margarita sherbet, if you hurry.

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Your 'Favorite' Trump lies

There's been so many lies by Trump, one would have difficulty remembering them all.

For instance;

The virus is a hoax by the democrats.
Mexico will pay for the wall.
Russia had nothing to do with online interference with the campaign. I believe Putin.
I'm a stable genius.
The meeting with the Russian woman was about adoptions.
I hire the best of the best.
Nobody has done more for the blacks than me.
We're going to win so much, that you'll be tired of winning.
I fired Comey, because he mishandled Hilary's email situation.
Nobody understands this more than me.
I know more about the military than the generals.
I'm in great shape.
Sessions should not have recused himself.
The virus will be gone like a miracle when the weather gets warmer in March.
The reason California has fires, is because they don't rake the forest like they do in Finland.
The blacks love me.
I will eliminate the national debt.
I will drain the swamp.
There was no quid pro quo.
Lock her up.
I was only in the bunker to inspect it.
There were very fine people on both sides.
The hurricane was supposed to hit Alabama.
I will rebuild the infrastructure.
Nobody knew that.
The Middle East is simple. I'll get them together and negotiate. It's what I do.
This was the greatest witch hunt in history.
They loved me in Puerto Rico.
No president was treated as bad as I am.
It's Obama's fault.
Ted Cruz's father conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald.
I will re-build the infrastructure.
My inauguration crowd was huge. It set a record.
You're going to win so much, that you'll be tired of winning.

I know that there's so many Trump lies, about 12,000 so far.
And clearly he's not done. Unfortunately, his term doesn't end for about another 6 months.
So, lots more lies are likely on the way.

But, if you had to choose a few, which were your 'favorite' Trump lies ?

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Well, a Veterans group, Vote Vets, put out a new campaign ad for Trump

I have to admit, it's a good one. If you are like him, you may consider voting for him.
Take a look to see which side you are on;

Here's part of the transcript;

In response to:

“For the 244 years since we declared our independence, one name has stood as the very definition of the word traitor to the US military,”
“Benedict Arnold sold out our troops during our fight for freedom.
He tried to sell West Point to the enemy, before defecting to the other side.”

“No one has betrayed those in uniform like Donald Trump.”
“He consorts with a foreign enemy, who puts bounties on the heads of American troops.
He takes the word of Putin over the best American military intelligence.”
“To Donald Trump, Russian bounties on American troops is just another hoax.
This July 4th Benedict Arnold can step aside ... because Benedict Donald is America’s number one traitor.”

Russia if you are listening;

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Ok. This could be fun lol

Add you own punchline for this cartoon.

My first one is;

"Whose dumb idea was it to send all the king's horses ?
A doctor, or veterinarian, or even someone with crazy glue would have been helpful !"

Here's the cartoon (click on it to reduce size);

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Jul 2020
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Wow ! Just wow ! How out of touch with society !

2:27 pm today in New York Magazine;

In response to:

Trump Believes That He Is Losing Because He Hasn’t Been Racist Enough

By Eric Levitz

Over the past month, Joe Biden has opened up a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in national polls.

That same period witnessed the following milestones in American political life:

• For the first time since the movement’s inception, Black Lives Matter won the support of a large majority of voters — and a slim majority of white ones.

• The percentage of Americans who say that “racial discrimination is a serious problem,” that “police are more likely to use deadly force against Black people,” and that “white people are more likely to get ahead” all hit record highs in various tracking polls.

• For the first time in 55 years of polling the question, Gallup found more support for increasing immigration among the U.S. public than for reducing it.

• A Pew Research survey found that Biden boasts his largest advantage over Trump on two questions: Which candidate voters trust to “effectively handle race relations,” and which one can “bring the country closer together.”

• The Republican government of Mississippi voted to retire the last remaining state flag featuring a Confederate emblem. Five years ago, a white supremacist slaughtering African-American churchgoers at a Bible study wasn’t enough to get the Magnolia State to heed calls for removing a tribute to the slavocracy from its official symbol. In 2020, the murder of George Floyd proved sufficient.

• And Donald Trump concluded that the reason he is losing support to Joe Biden is that he hasn’t been nearly racist enough.

That last bit isn’t mere conjecture. On Wednesday, three Trump confidants told Axios that the president regrets heeding Jared Kushner’s advice to broaden his appeal by embracing milquetoast police and criminal-justice reforms; as one source summarized Trump’s thinking, he wants “no more of Jared’s woke shit.”

This account of Trump’s private reasoning comports with his public actions in recent days. Just this week, the president has:

• Described New York’s plan to paint “Black Lives Matter” down Fifth Avenue as a plot to affix a “symbol of hate” onto the city’s “greatest street.”

• Threatened to end an Obama-era policy that bars local governments from accessing federal housing funds unless they make affirmative efforts to track and reduce racial segregation in their communities. Trump said that he was reviewing this regulation on behalf of the “great Americans who live in the Suburbs,” and lamented that the policy is “not fair to homeowners.”

• Vowed to veto the Defense Authorization Act unless an amendment requiring the renaming of U.S. military bases that presently honor Confederate generals is stripped from the bill. (In announcing this position, Trump made sure to note that the amendment was sponsored by “Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren.”)

If one imagines Trump to be a rational political actor, it is difficult to make sense of these actions. According to Axios, Trump soured on Kushner’s calls for triangulation on criminal justice out of concern that indulging such reforms might be “seen as undercutting police” — as though anti-reform cops and Blue Lives Matter bumper-sticker owners were swing constituencies. George Floyd’s death has created plenty of political challenges for Trump. But one thing it absolutely hasn’t done is jeopardize the Republican Party’s grip on single-issue, “unshackle the police” voters.

(continued in my first comment below)

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Anthony Fauci pleads with you to NOT infect others or yourselves; social distance & wear mask

Yesterday in The New Yorker;

In response to:

Anthony Fauci Issues a New Coronavirus Plea

By Amy Davidson Sorkin

July 1, 2020

At times, in his Senate testimony on Tuesday, Anthony Fauci sounded as though he had pretty much given up on Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, Anthony Fauci sat in a Senate hearing room that had been reconfigured for social distancing and listened, mask at hand, as Patty Murray, of Washington, described the consequences of America’s failure to manage its pandemic. The tally of cases was soaring in a majority of states, particularly in the South and West; Murray, speaking by video, quoted a C.D.C. official who had warned that there was “too much virus to control in the U.S.” Murray stated the obvious: “Our strategy hasn’t worked.” What, she asked, did the federal and state governments need to do to turn the numbers around?

“I am also quite concerned,” Fauci replied. He reeled off some of the statistics that Murray had alluded to—“surges” in Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas alone, he said, accounted for half of the new confirmed cases, which now amount to more than forty thousand a day. Later in his testimony, in answer to a question from Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, Fauci said that he would not be surprised if the number of new cases reached a hundred thousand a day. (He declined to make a guess as to how many deaths that would amount to.) Perhaps, Fauci added, some states had reopened “too quickly”; even in ones where the governors and mayors had acted properly, he had seen “in clips and in photographs . . . individuals in the community doing an ‘all or none’ phenomenon”—by which he meant “either be locked down or open up in a way where you see people at bars, not wearing masks, not avoiding crowds, not paying attention to physical distancing.” To halt the pandemic, Fauci said, “I think we need to emphasize the responsibility that we have both as individuals and as part of a societal effort.”

Fauci is, of course, right about personal responsibility; everyone has a role to play in stopping the coronavirus. But he was less clear about how that rallying cry fits into any federal or even state-government public-health strategy. The great cause of confusion is that we have, at the moment, an all-or-none President, whose exercise of personal or political responsibility in dealing with this crisis is around the level of zero. At times, it sounded as though Fauci had pretty much given up on Donald Trump, and had no option left but to appeal directly to the American people. He could only hope that they would pay attention to his warnings rather than to Trump’s tweets mocking people who wear masks, or the clips and photographs of the people in the crowd, very few of them wearing masks, at the President’s indoor events. (At a rally in Tulsa, campaign workers reportedly removed labels encouraging social distancing from seats.)

That disconnect was not lost on Murray, who followed up by saying, “I assume that would mean that elected and community leaders need to model good public-health behavior and wear a mask.” Fauci, rather than simply saying yes, repeated the C.D.C.’s mask recommendations—wear one in public areas and crowded spaces. It is a depressing commentary on how distorted the Administration’s response has been that Fauci might regard a straightforward statement about what leaders should do as a matter to be handled delicately.

Even some Republicans are recognizing the destructive madness wrought by Trump’s hostility to masks. The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, has come around, and tweeted a call for masks. Lamar Alexander, of Tennessee, opened Tuesday’s hearing with an impassioned plea for mask wearing, which he credited with keeping him and others in his office healthy when one member of his staff tested positive......

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/

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Add your own photo caption, if you like (lemur)

OK. How well do couples getting married actually know each other ?

Yet another infectious scandal ? lol

Looks like they were right.....sort of.

Hail Yes !

Song update - My Corona

If you like pina coloda

Your 'Favorite' Trump lies

Well, a Veterans group, Vote Vets, put out a new campaign ad for Trump

Ok. This could be fun lol

Wow ! Just wow ! How out of touch with society !

Anthony Fauci pleads with you to NOT infect others or yourselves; social distance & wear mask

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