ThePrettiestOneLiking for the title.
According to internal agency documents obtained by the Washington Post, the US Secret Service has requested an additional $60 million in funding to better protect a man who, with every ill-advised tweet, colors in another ring in the target painted on America’s face.
ThePrettiestOne*doom voice*
deeeeeep staaaaaate
Former (sigh) Vice President Joe Biden spoke at a rally to defend Obamacare in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, and, being Joe Biden, he took on a couple other major issues as well. Most importantly, Biden laid out just what’s wrong with Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare:
“Eliminating the Affordable Care Act means eliminating an awful lot of things that people badly need in return for what?” Biden asked. “So the .9 percent in taxes for people making over 250,000 couples can be returned to them? So drug companies and insurance companies and medical device companies can benefit?”
Biden also had two things to say that a lot of people will be happy to hear:
“I’m not going anywhere,” Biden said. “This bill isn’t going to pass.”
Though his focus was on health care, Biden also spoke briefly on a couple other hot-button topics.
Biden declined to comment on an FBI probe of possible links between Russia and associates of President Donald Trump, but said "the whole notion that there's still this romance with Putin" was worrisome.
Asked about Trump’s insistence that former President Obama had him wiretapped, Biden asked “Are you joking? Are you serious?” Unfortunately it is a serious question, because, as he also noted, Trump should “understand that the president's words matter a great deal”—so even Trump’s most outlandish claims are going to draw serious questions.
Welcome back, Joe. Please don’t stop talking.
ThePrettiestOneThis isn't the worst way to convince Mexico to pay for it...
So not even Mexicans in Mexico can get a breather from Donald Trump’s racist supporters. A Yucatan paper reports that as horrified Mexican passengers watched on, a group of probably drunk American spring breakers chanted “Build the wall!” during a cruise just off the coast of Cancun. Maybe these kids should have spent more time in geography class:
Passengers were reportedly stunned this month when a group of U.S. college students burst into chants of “Build the wall!” on a spring break cruise off the coast of Cancun, Mexico.
It’s just one example of a growing number of problems with increasingly “haughty” spring breakers, according to a Mexican newspaper.
The Yucatan Times couldn’t miss the hurtful irony of privileged young Americans calling for keeping Mexicans out of the U.S. with President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall while they were traveling in Mexico for vacation.
Several Mexican tourists on the ship expressed their anger about the chant, but “the Americans did not stop” and continued their “racist hymn,” the paper reported Friday.
“This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancun that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country,” wrote the paper.
“How arrogant they are,” wrote one passenger, a Peruvian man married to a Mexican woman. “And with that same cretinism they praise and support the decisions of their new fascist president.”
Tell us about it. No word if the fratboys wanted construction to begin before or after they left the nation they think is so terrible they want to wall off but spent their spring break in anyway.
Mr. Rogers once sued the Klan.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/us/3-to-stop-racist-talks-in-mister-rogers-tone.html
I can barely comprehend the image of an angry Mr. Rogers, and yet if you had asked me what could possibly produce this effect, I would’ve guessed something like this: targeting young children with messages of hate.
Bath time is the best time!
Me at the beginning: What the fuck is that thing?
Me at the end: What the fuck was that thing? It was being such a good boy.
Red Tegu Lizard named MacGyver. Male Tegu apparently grow those jowls. I think it makes them look like they swallowed a hamburger whole.
Tegu are apparently some of the smartest and most sociable lizards. They recognize their owners, can be trained to some degree and show affection.
He wanted her to pick him up I can’t believe this what a good boy
ThePrettiestOnePlease, please let these fools go Galt.
That shit is wild to me though. ‘This doesn’t benefit me personally, so why should I pay taxes for it?’
The VA doesn’t benefit me, so fuck those 25 year olds with traumatic brain injuries. Medicare doesn’t help me out, so grandpa can get bent. I don’t watch Sesame Street, so PBS? Fuck em.Like, listen you putrid chuckleheads, we’re trying to have a fucking society here, and part of that is taking care of your fellow fucking human beings. Paying taxes for things you might not use is part of that. And if you view that as theft, you’re a dumb shit who can go live on your own in the tundra and see how well you do.
Wasn’t Peter Thiel making a libertarian island for them all to go live on? Can they hurry it up with that so they can go bioshock it up and leave everyone who paid attention during the kindergarten lessons on sharing here to get on with things?
They’re currently at “We’ve arranged a thing with the government of French Polynesia”
The proposal for a seastead – an autonomous oceanic colony; think homesteading, but wetter - took a significant step on Christmas Day, when a Silicon Valley group announced it had reached an agreement with the French Polynesian government, with officials poised to explore serving as the group’s host.
They teamed up with a government to make a libertarian paradise…
This is as good as when the atlas shrugged movie tried to get crowdfunding handouts.
Can we call dibs on Atlantis Shrugged for when the inevitable tropical storm beats the paypal out of the seastead and they demand government help?
ThePrettiestOneWait, he made a deal with a billionaire sex criminal who ISN'T Trump?
It’s certain to be one of the more attention-grabbing cases Alexander Acosta, Donald Trump’s labor secretary pick, ever worked on. Jeffrey Epstein was a billionaire money manager with a list of high-profile friends who was accused of raping or otherwise sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, but he pleaded guilty to significantly more minor charges and spent just 13 months in jail under very favorable terms. Now the question is whether Acosta, then a U.S. attorney, let Epstein off easy.
Prosecutors in Acosta’s Miami office who had joined the FBI in the investigation concluded, according to documents produced by the U.S. attorney’s office, that Epstein, working through several female assistants, “would recruit underage females to travel to his home in Palm Beach to engage in lewd conduct in exchange for money … Some went there as much as 100 times or more. Some of the women’s conduct was limited to performing a topless or nude massage while Mr. Epstein masturbated himself. For other women, the conduct escalated to full sexual intercourse.” [...]
Federal prosecutors detailed their findings in an 82-page prosecution memo and a 53-page indictment, but Epstein was never indicted. In 2007, Acosta signed a non-prosecution deal in which he agreed not to pursue federal charges against Epstein or four women who the government said procured girls for him. In exchange, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to a solicitation charge in state court, accept a 13-month sentence, register as a sex offender and pay restitution to the victims identified in the federal investigation.
Acosta’s office faced a formidable lineup of defense attorneys—billions of dollars will get you a very solid legal defense.
It is done! The Modern Male Witch: Kitchen is here! :D
He is a bit messy, but he can always find what he’s looking for, even when some things in his kitchen get a mind of their own. There’s a different fragrance in the air every day
This is the third piece in my Modern Male Witch Project.
😱😍😍😍
yooo this is so dope
ThePrettiestOneA Memoir
ThePrettiestOneReally, really sad puppies.
Amazon blocked sales for The Corroding Empire, a scifi book from Vox Day’s conservative publishing company Castalia House, because the cover bore an uncanny resemblance to John Scalzi’s latest book, The Collapsing Empire. And it wasn’t a coincidence.
ThePrettiestOneNO!!!!!
Man I gotta get there. They sell awesome men's dress shoes. (I either have duck's feet, or men's feet. And nobody makes shoes for ducks.)
There are certain givens when it comes to mall shopping: There’s always parking at Sears, and there’s a darn good chance you’ll find a Payless Shoesource store. However, the discount footwear retailer could see its roster of 4,000 locations slashed if reports of an impending bankruptcy filing are to be believed.
Back in February, the chain was reportedly considering shuttering about 1,000 stores, but sources tell Bloomberg News that the chain is looking to close 400 to 500 stores, then reorganize.
What would a reorganized Payless look like? It would definitely be smaller, and might leave some of the 30 countries where it does business. The retailer’s mall neighbors have been closing their doors, too. Stores ranging from big anchors to small RadioShacks have already left malls. Stores that sell clothing and accessories have been hit especially hard. The convenience and discounts from shopping online now apparently outweigh the inability to try things on.
Payless also happens to have significant debt, with a term loan of more than half a billion dollars coming due in 2021. The retailer would have to sell a lot of BOGO glitter ballet flats to cover that payment, if it can’t somehow restructure its debt. That could mean filing for Chapter 11 and reducing its footprint.
ThePrettiestOneSo, so glad my apartment comes with a dishwasher. I mean, I have muffin recipes that I literally mix in the food processor, and transfer directly into muffin cups. How does that become such a mess?
when you make a giant mess whenever you cook
Tumblr posts can be pretty unique, but if you had an infinite number of monkeys sitting at an infinite number of typewriters… I forgot where I was going with this. [via ebaumsworld]
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ThePrettiestOneUsing a tuba for a dog whistle
ThePrettiestOneOK, but for real, why does it look like every room in that house had the floors raised two feet after it was constructed?
$59,900/3 br
Lyndon, KS
This house is definitely haunted as hell
Shit, I was thinking the same exact thing when scrolling through the photos.
Looks great. Wallpaper’s gotta go, but the ghosts can stay.
Pretty sure it’s the wallpaper that’s haunted
The wallpaper does look pretty yellowed.
it’s the Fifth Element song that almost nobody can actually fucking, like you’re not really supposed to be able to sing from alto –> high F above high C
just
even if you know nothing about music this is fucking iMPRESSIVE???
OMG she has INCREDIBLE voice, this just doesn’t happen!
Holy fuck
lol as soon as you make something that’s like “x was made to be impossible for a human to do,” you KNOW someone just made it their life mission to do it
ThePrettiestOneOK, so most white dudes look alike to me, but that is some creepy shit.
i say pick all four of em and rotate them out daily until the viewers/contestants realize they’re not all the same man
ThePrettiestOne*singing "lalalalalala I can't HEAR you" while clutching SuperButtButt.
Amanda Jones has dedicated the past 20 years to an incredible photography project which aims to show just how fleeting the lives of our beloved pets are.
Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel, in 1973, 1992 and 2011. Photos by Francis Khoo (1, 2) and Jean-Pascal Deillon (3).
