The Isolated Political Blurt Thread

[gotsnowgotslush]

Another family removed from flight, after refusing to be bullied by Delta Airlines. Delta employees lied to the family, in an effort to try to steal a seat from a toddler. "Put the baby in your lap, for the flight from Hawaii to California."Threatened the mother and father with jail time, if they did not leave. Said "You might lose your kids."

Who told the attendants they had to say these things to a family with a baby and a toddler ? What they were looking for was a verbal crowbar to pry a seat free.

"As we were leaving the plane, there’s four or five passengers waiting for our seat. The bottom line is, they oversold the flight.”

Schear told the station that he had to eat the cost of the three airline tickets, rent a hotel for the night and then buy three more tickets the next day.

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/05/0...jail-after-refusing-to-give-up-toddlers-seat/

April 23, 2017

Schear can be heard in the video repeatedly saying that he paid for the seat in which his infant son was sitting. He said it "isn't right" that the airline was asking him to give it up.

He said he bought his older son a seat on a different flight so that his infant son could sit a car seat instead of his mother's lap during the overnight trip. "He can't sleep unless he's in his car seat," the father is heard saying.

An official can be heard telling the man that it's federal policy that whoever occupies a seat on an aircraft must be the person whose name is booked for that seat. The official also tells the man he will "go to jail" if he doesn't cooperate.

Delta says the flight was not overbooked, but there were passengers waiting to fly standby, which is why they were trying to make room on the flight.

http://www.wcvb.com/article/delta-sorry-for-booting-family-off-a-plane-over-seating-mix-up/9607792

 

[Bacigalupo]

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18198243_1344512265642181_6791257811523464030_n.jpg?oh=63612db416d6ffcfdf7d128f60055bf8&oe=598D1544

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Oh, dear. Dan Quayle clone, version 2.0, ready to join in the fun.

blarrggghhhh

 

[phrodeau]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rumps-executive-order/?utm_term=.83f764e5b1b2

Trump's EO attempt to repeal the Johnson Amendment is met with a lot of indifference.

President Trump shakes hands with a nun of the Little Sisters of the Poor during a National Day of Prayer event at the White House.

During a reception Thursday at the Rose Garden, Trump told the nuns, “Your long ordeal will soon be over, okay?”

A spokeswoman for the nuns said they were nervous when it appeared last week that the Justice Department didn’t seem to be changing direction on the mandate yet, but she said they were pleased with Trump’s words and the executive order.

“We’re taking him at his word until we can’t,” spokeswoman Constance Veit said. “We have to be happy with every step forward.”

How does anyone take him at his word any more?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"The wide margin of victory is not a record in French presidential politics – conservative President Jacques Chirac beat Le Pen’s father, National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, 82.2 percent to 17.8 percent in 2002 – but it does top all recent polling in a twist-after-twist presidential campaign.

http://m.france24.com/en/20170507-frances-macron-beats-le-pen-win-presidency-toughest-tasks-come

gsgs comment- With Russia involved, it is hard to hazard what the results might be.

But, still, it is a relief. (Luckier, than the USA was...)

 

[Hard_Rom]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39843468

Pepe the Frog 'is killed off to avoid being a hate symbol'

Online cartoon character Pepe the Frog appears to have been killed off by its creator in a bid to stop his image being hijacked by far-right groups. Furie lamented in a recent article for Time magazine that it was a nightmare that his "blissfully stoned... peaceful frog-dude" in Boy's Club - who enjoyed "a simple life of snacks, soda and pulling his pants all the way down to go pee" - was now being used as a symbol of hate by racists and anti-Semites.

*watch the alt-right and RWCJ claim Pepe as a martyr to PC*

 

[Bacigalupo]

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18222347_1020472484753778_3961841238721128809_n.jpg?oh=0bdd2d8c6c8ea9580fef9fe2865a8f86&oe=59868B11

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Martha Stewart has made it very clear, about where she stands on Trump. Visual proof. Martha stands in a corner, on her right side is a large portrait of Trump. One of her hands is aiming "the finger" at Trump. On her left hand side is Snoop Dog. Martha's fingers are throwing the peace sign at Snoop Dog.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/hero-martha-stewart-gives-the-finger-to-a-trump-portrait.html


"A role model is a person who serves as an example of the values, attitudes, and behaviors associated with a role. These persons distinguish themselves in such a way that others admire and want to emulate them.”

Martha Stewart
May 7, 2017

 

[neci]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39855519

where is the non profit that will provide these girls with adequate reintegration services? the cultural center to take them in and help give them their voices and lives back? the group that commits themselves to these women and the other survivors of horrific wartime abuses. who will watch over the program, to ensure it is not just another ngo into the ground with with corruption or mismanagement? at the same time, understanding the local customs and people enough not to do more harm. i wish i could give them an art studio, where they could come and go at will. where they could let their hands wander and strengthen, while letting their minds carry away into something else. releasing that energy into a physical creation.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Trump is in control of the investigation of Trump.

Men are in control of what will happen to women.

Being born a woman, is a pre- existing condition.

(Again.)

- Greater Boston May 11, 2017

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

After the Russians left, did they sweep for "bugs" ? Or, did the Russians leave some "bug," as gifts for Trump ?

(Plausible deniability- These are not our "bugs"! These are Russian "bugs"!)

Do the Russians have recordings of Comey ?

ps- "They tricked us !"

gsgs comment- Is anyone buying that nonsense ?

 

[Beco]

Martha Stewart has made it very clear, about where she stands on Trump. Visual proof. Martha stands in a corner, on her right side is a large portrait of Trump. One of her hands is aiming "the finger" at Trump. On her left hand side is Snoop Dog. Martha's fingers are throwing the peace sign at Snoop Dog.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/hero-martha-stewart-gives-the-finger-to-a-trump-portrait.html


"A role model is a person who serves as an example of the values, attitudes, and behaviors associated with a role. These persons distinguish themselves in such a way that others admire and want to emulate them.”

Martha Stewart
May 7, 2017

But god forbid someone should give the finger to the portrait of Hillary, or Michelle Obama or Obama himself.....ALL shit would break loose, see the difference????

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Overheard in D.C.:

May 12, 2017

Trader Joe's on 14th St., Saturday morning, produce section:
Elderly woman talking to her two shopping companions in an exasperated tone: "I just want a giant sinkhole to open under Mar-a-Lago!"

http://dcist.com/2017/05/overheard_in_dc_urban_chickens.php

 

[phrodeau]

But god forbid someone should give the finger to the portrait of Hillary, or Michelle Obama or Obama himself.....ALL shit would break loose, see the difference????

Been there, with Obama's last SOTU address.

http://www.snopes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/joint-chiefs-obama-finger.jpg

 

[phrodeau]

The minor-league baseball team, Saint Paul Saints, have announced the name of this season's official Ball Pig. Replacing last year's Little Red Porkette, will be Alternative Fats.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

* a team of Brit footie players, dressed in Paddington Bear costumes- tackles Emperor Caligula Carrot, as soon as his very first insult against Queen Elizabeth leaves his lips.*



A girl can dream, can't she ?

 

[Adre]

NYM: But beyond that it’s OK if the tax plan increases the deficit?

DT: It is OK, because it won’t increase it for long. You may have two years where you’ll … you understand the expression “prime the pump”?

Yes.

DT: We have to prime the pump.

It’s very Keynesian.

DT: We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world. Have you heard that expression before, for this particular type of an event?

Priming the pump?

DT: Yeah, have you heard it?

Yes.

DT: Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just … I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do.

It’s …

DT: Yeah, what you have to do is you have to put something in before you can get something out.


(Our Prez explaining to New York Magazine how he invented an expression. Truly you can't make this shit up.)

 

[JackLuis]

Why are the Religious Entitled to Special Treatment?

As Sam Harris phrased it in Letter to a Christian Nation:

Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence whatsoever.

In the Alternet column “An Insider’s View: The Dark Rigidity of Fundamentalist Rural America,” Forsetti’s Justice writes:

As the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump is being sorted out, a common theme keeps cropping up from all sides: “Democrats failed to understand white, working-class, fly-over America.”...

The real problem isn’t East Coast elites who don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is that rural Americans don’t understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. ...

In deep-red America, the white Christian god is king, figuratively and literally. Religious fundamentalism has shaped most of their belief systems. Systems built on a fundamentalist framework are not conducive to introspection, questioning, learning, or change.

Everyone is entitled to entertain his or her beliefs, no matter how implausible. But Americans’ deference to the delicate sensibilities of the religious is affecting public policy. It is abetting the reversal of decades of social progress and the systematic rejection of science and reason. Clearly, it is time to start thinking about the mess that belief in belief has gotten us into.

 

[Bacigalupo]

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18664542_10155229233365030_1805000111184023358_n.jpg?oh=27230f87f7d5c7277f176f2d99a3e657&oe=59BEB30B

 

[phrodeau]

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18664542_10155229233365030_1805000111184023358_n.jpg?oh=27230f87f7d5c7277f176f2d99a3e657&oe=59BEB30B

The rest of that picture also has a story to tell.

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170524112214-01-donald-trump-pope-francis-0524-exlarge-169.jpg

 

[sharingfantasies]

Although not required, Melania is wearing the correct headdress for a woman in the Vatican. Why is Ivanka wearing a wedding veil?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I have been thinking about the SNL parody sketches that included a woman with extremely small hands.

Janice, Janet, Peggy, and Clara, are attractive sisters ( in a parody of a singing group from the 1960s) The Maharelle Sisters. (I watched the Lawrence Welk re-runs on PBS. It is a cultural icon. The TV show included Liberace. And polkas!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec..._characters_and_sketches_introduced_2008–2009

Their sister "Dooneese" is very odd looking, and her behaviour is bizarre and inappropriate. She makes sexually inappropriate overtures toward unwilling and alarmed men, that are the group's costars. (Were they making fun of Donald Trump, in 2008, by featuring an over the top female version of him ?)

I am surprised that SNL has not teamed Alec Baldwin up with Kristen Wiig, to get Dooneese and Donald Trump together, onstage.

They could have a tiny hand slap- fight!

 

[Hard_Rom]

White House Excludes Gay First Spouse In Photo Caption

The White House Facebook page failed to acknowledge First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay, married to Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, in a post featuring the spouses of world leaders attending this week’s G7 summit in Sicily. The photo caption included the names of every other spouse, all of them wives, beginning with: "First Lady Melania Trump poses with Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, center, and other spouses of NATO leaders."

The omission of Destenay's name in the official White House post remained for at least six hours on Saturday before Daily Beast editor Scott Bixby shared a screenshot on Twitter, writing: "Is there a reason the White House didn't include the First Gentleman of Luxembourg in this photo caption? Like, a non-homophobic one?"

It remained unclear as of Saturday night why the post failed to include the first gentleman of Luxembourg, the only homosexual spouse included in the photo. The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world...ption/ar-BBBAGmc?li=AAggFp5&OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

wow

Jeremy Corbyn is a full grown adult, a mature mind, with good judgement, and a conscience that is in working order.

Could we please steal him away from the UK, to head one of our government offices ?(just joking! not serious!)

 

[magicalmoments]

Although not required, Melania is wearing the correct headdress for a woman in the Vatican. Why is Ivanka wearing a wedding veil?

I found it interesting that they went with the custom in the Vatican but not in Saudi Arabia.