IKEA MonkeyI am surprised its 2016 and this is the first time Thomas has done this?!
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FINALLY, Priyanka wears a gown that’s worthy of her tremendous genetic assets. And she’s clearly feeling it — she worked this on the red carpet, and it was awesome. Read More ...IKEA MonkeyThe gold dress reminds me too much of Brie Larsen's custom Calvin Klein from the Oscars
Y’all, I think I might have gotten hold of some Homeland spoilers. Apparently season 6 finds Carrie Mathison embedded in Oompa Loompa Land. We’ve been whingeing about Claire’s overzealous tanning/bronzer habit since June, so maybe it is for work. It’s distracting, though, especially because it makes her look like a cross between Heidi Klum and an Read More ...IKEA MonkeyI'm going to miss him
IKEA Monkeythis is amazing.
“Rock shrimp is so generic. Anyone I go to Nobu with who gets rock shrimp, I freak out on them. Every novice is like, Can I have the rock shrimp? Then I’m always like, Don’t order rock shrimp with me. It’s such a bad look on the table. It cheapens me. I’m embarrassed about it. That’s the stuff I ordered for the first 10 years eating at Nobu.”
Jonathan Cheban, a carbon-based being who has somehow lucked into the profession of Kardashian Friend, was interviewed by GQ’s Joshua David Stein. The interview went very well.
IKEA MonkeyThis shit makes me SO MAD
The cover of this week’s National Enquirer features a wan, gray Hillary Clinton, looking like she has been drained of all her vital fluids. The photograph, if you can call it that, is a perfect visual artifact of the recent storm of right-wing rumormongering over Clinton’s health, which spilled into the mainstream media this past weekend when Clinton revealed a pneumonia diagnosis that would keep her off the campaign trail for a few days while she underwent treatment.
IKEA MonkeySo... they'll be the majority, then?
The majority of Illinois children will be of a minority or mixed race by 2020, according to projections recently released by demographers at two public policy institutions.
It's a forecast that signals a more racially diverse America in the coming decades, as the country is expected to become minority-majority...
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The good news for the crew of a Hanjin ship left stranded by the company’s abriupt bankruptcy is that it has plenty of food and water, something that their union worried about. Crew members even have local prepaid cell phone cards so they can stay in touch with their families. They would prefer to be at home with their families, and to know whether they’ll still have jobs or be able to find jobs once they’re finally allowed off the ship.
Their ship, if you’re wondering, is full of a variety of cargo, including frozen meat. The Wall Street Journal explains that they’ve been stuck in place since the shipping company Hanjin filed for bankruptcy, as local ports don’t want to unload ships that could be seized and that belong to a bankrupt owner that may not be able to pay.
On the ship now, their lives sound a little bit like prison with Internet access. They watch movies, they work out, they play games (card games, not video games) and they miss their families a lot.
A company based in Hamburg, Germany has started proceedings to seize the ship, which is why it can’t unload or leave. The crew members aren’t allowed to leave the ship, but they can get supplies. There are security guards posted to the ship to make sure it doesn’t take off while courts around the world sort out whether it’s been seized or not.
The crew consists of 13 Indonesians and 11 South Koreans, including the captain. It’s a holiday in South Korea this week, the same harvest festival that made exchanges of the defective Galaxy 7 Note extra urgent in Samsung’s home country.
The captain told the Wall Street Journal that he hopes the situation is resolved before the fuel runs out, sometime in November.
Stuck on Ship, One Gloomy Hanjin Crew Waits to Learn Its Fate [Wall Street Journal]
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In an excellent interview with Cosmopolitan published Wednesday, Ivanka Trump addresses the Trump campaign’s recently-announced child care and maternity leave policies with the evasion and quietly-simmering panic that colors every interaction her father has with the press.
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Not trying Federal Donuts should be a federal crime. 📷: @phillyfoodforeal /📍: @federaldonuts #forkyeah http://ift.tt/2cgG35t
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James Balcer asked a City Council committee to require the general public to remove hats and cover their hearts during renditions. [ more › ]
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Donald Trump is in Flint, Mich. today to broadcast that he is at least aware of the city’s ongoing clean water crisis—many, many months after it became a full-fledged disaster. Trump’s hastily arranged stopover has already been condemned by Flint’s mayor and its residents, and this afternoon he got owned like never before during a speech at Bethel United Methodist Church.
IKEA MonkeyOh man these look good. I fucking love crackers.
IKEA Monkeythat's so nice
A Michigan nonprofit for at-risk youth just got a whole lot of pie.
IKEA MonkeyI am in LOVE with these casting choices
IKEA MonkeyThis guy is where I am going to focus all of my hate and anger today. Right at you, sir!
IKEA MonkeyLast year I watched 0 football games. I am gonna try to maintain that record this year.
For millions of Americans, fall begins with the first kickoff of the NFL season. Like many children growing up in the U.S., I tossed a football around with my dad in our backyard and rooted for our beloved team (in our case, that came with the disappointment familiar to every Chicago Bears fan). I remember years based on which team won the Super Bowl, signifying the warm nostalgia I held for the sport.
But something changed recently: I don’t like the game anymore.
There’s been enough reporting by now to know that constant collisions in football cause traumatic brain injuries. New rules and public statements from the NFL promising to curb these dangers are an annual routine. Every time I’ve forgiven the league, more players take major hits to the head and more former athletes go public about their brain damage.
In early May, shortly after I covered a series of lawsuits by former college players allegedly suffering from permanent brain damage, I got an email from a reader who said he played college football in the 1980s and sustained at least four concussions. He never thought about the long-lasting damage until he began having suicidal thoughts in recent years. “I have never told my wife or kids of this, as I didn’t want them to worry,” he wrote me. “However, I want to admit that I think about suicide weekly, if not daily.” He eventually wants to donate his brain to research head injuries. His email was the last straw for me.
I’m not the only fan turning away from the sport. After this season’s opening game between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos, where Panther quarterback Cam Newton’s head was repeatedly targeted with helmet-on-helmet hits, I noticed a group of college friends on Facebook discuss their waning interest in football—surprising, considering I’ve seen them all root zealously for their hometown teams. The conversation started when my friend and fellow Bears fan Mark Micheli posted a video compilation from Deadspin showing the repeated hits to Newton’s head without a single penalty. Here’s the most brutal hit:
After watching the video, Mark wrote, “I have a harder and harder time caring about this game anymore.” Other friends joined in:
“We’re watching men get brain damage for our enjoyment.”
“Modern-day gladiators. My guess is we as a society will look back in the future and view this game in a similar way.”
“First year in ages I’m not doing Fantasy Football.”
Could this be a turning point? Are other Americans turning away from football?
IKEA MonkeyThis is heartbreaking. And absolutely no consequence for the boy who ruined her life and other underage girls' lives? And people say rape culture doesn't exist?
She crunched the cookies in her mouth, carefully mashing them into chunks. She spit. They made a plunk sound as they hit the toilet water. The worst, the absolute worst thing had happened, and now, Maureen was sure, this was her only option.
"Moommm," she called down the stairs. "I puked!"
She...
IKEA MonkeyWish I could do this, except *womp womp* I am LITERALLY the only woman on my team.
In the early days of the Obama White House, nearly two-thirds of Obama’s senior staffers and advisors were men. The Washington Post reports that the “women complained of having to elbow their way into important meetings. And when they got in, their voices were sometimes ignored.”
IKEA MonkeyAt first glance of the thumbnail I thought this WAS Kate Middleton and was like, "YES KATE start getting WEIRD WITH IT" but its just the lovely Rachael Weisz. Who is lovely, and I think she looks fine.
Rachel has a spotty history with a) vaguely filmy dresses at TIFF, and b) McQueen gowns. Even that chipper Middletonian grin doesn’t have me completely convinced here, although I WOULD love to see QEII’s face if Kate wore this to an event. “ONE DOESN’T WEAR ONE’S NIGHTIE ON THE TOWN,” she might sniff. “AND ONE FAVORS Read More ...IKEA Monkey"9 squares per order" - 1 square = 210 calories. Entire pan: 1,890 calories
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On Thursday, the presidential candidate and reality TV star Donald Trump is slated to appear on The Dr. Oz Show. The program, which has seen ratings decline of late, announced that Trump and the show’s host, Mehmet Oz, will engage in an hour-long, one-on-one interview.
According to the program’s publicists, “We’re asking him the questions you want answered regarding your well-being, security, money, and more.” They promise “a no-holds-barred conversation you’ll be talking about.”
But on Tuesday, Oz took a more perverse journalistic tack in an interview: “The metaphor for me is it’s the doctor’s office, the studio. So I’m not going to ask him questions he doesn’t want to have answered …”
It is a studio, though. And many would say that Oz is not a journalist, but an entertainer taking part in the increasingly common practice of having politicians as guests on their ostensibly non-journalistic shows. Just for fun. But if Oz’s intent is to foster accountability among people in power and seeking power, then he is operating as a journalist. If his intent is to give Trump a platform for campaigning, then what he is doing is propaganda for a dangerous man, and that would dwarf the infractions committed by Oz in the past (which include being chastised by the Federal Trade Commission for shilling dietary supplements as miracle cures and—people are saying—trading his integrity and credibility for TV ratings and wealth).
Trump has been criticized for much the opposite, passing off high TV ratings and wealth as evidence of integrity and credibility. Both men are constantly afforded opportunities to redeem themselves, but for Oz, this is a unique chance. The U.S. is faced with the possibility of being ruled by a man whose own biographer says “wants to be Putin, a despot and dictator.”
For all the times that Oz has chosen to use his enormous platform in ways that do little to advance scientific literacy, social justice, or public health, he has an opportunity to redeem himself. Here is one way he might.
Oz: Welcome to the show, Donald.
Trump: Honestly, Mehmet, it’s a pleasure. Huge fan. I think what you’re doing here is just so great. It’s really great.
Oz: It is. Hey, let’s get down to business. You want to “repeal and replace” Obamacare with something that you say will be “absolutely fantastic.” Can you give us a little sneak preview of what that might look like?
Trump: Honestly, Obamacare is a disaster. We’re going to repeal it. We’re going to throw it in the garbage—
Oz: I’m clear on that, yes. And I think what the American people are wondering is, how would you do that, and then what would you do with the 22 million Americans who would instantly be uninsured?
Trump: Honestly, it’s absolutely a piece of cake. Let me tell you. Obamacare is total trash.
Oz: [Addressing audience] This guy is a tough cookie! [Laughter] You got me, Donald. I absolutely concede that Obamacare hasn’t driven down health-care costs in this country. We still spend a fifth of our GDP, more than $10,000 per person per year, and what do we have to show for it? Some of the poorer health outcomes of any developed country. But if you repeal it, what then? You’ve said you’re going to “replace it with something terrific?”
Trump: We’re going to make sure that the American people have something so totally excellent, they won’t even believe it. It’ll be like, like meeting God and having him say, “You know what? You are the best.”
Oz: Meeting God, as in?
Trump: Obviously no, not in the sense of dying. No one is going to die in this country. Not when I’m president. As long as you belong here.
Oz: But—and I’m going to press you on this, Donald—how do you do it?
Trump: Honestly, we’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare—
Oz: You’re angering me, Donald! [laughter]
Trump: We’re gonna stomp all over it like a piece of garbage. It’s been naughty, Mehmet. Honestly, it’s a naughty piece of garbage.
Well for one thing, as it says on my website, I have a plan called “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again.” It’s 1089 words, and they’re all great. For one thing, let me tell you, it says we’re going to allow individuals to use health savings accounts.
Oz: People have been able to do that since 2003. … Let me help you out, okay. Because I think you’ve posed a reasonable idea or two. And one is transparency of health-care costs. If I’m going to get a heart surgery [points to heart] or an MRI scan [points to brain], I should at least know how much that costs. A gauze pad in a hospital shouldn’t cost $308. Right now, those numbers can be insanely inflated and people have no idea. That sort of transparency is something everyone wants, including President Obama. So you’re on the same page there. But it has been politically very difficult to make happen. Along the same lines, you propose letting Americans buy medications from other countries, namely Canada. By increasing competition, you think people could save a lot of money.
Trump: Yeah, and let me tell you, we’re going to do that, and it’s going to be amazing.
Oz: That’s what President Obama wanted to do with the Affordable Care Act, as you know. But again, that didn’t make it into the bill because the U.S. pharmaceutical industry was too powerful. [Flexes arms in jokey strong-guy impression.] Those companies stand to lose a lot of money if they lose their monopolies on American consumers.
Trump: Well another thing we want to do, let me tell you, is allow Medicare to negotiate with the pharmaceutical industry.
Oz: Right, yes. Medicare is the country’s biggest purchaser of pharmaceuticals. If it could leverage its size to negotiate more reasonable drug prices, that could cut a lot of costs. But again, Obama wanted that. He promised it in 2008. It proved politically impossible because of industry lobbying.
Trump: Honestly, Mehmet, I’m going to make it happen.
Oz: I wish I had time to ask you how. But I need to get to the other issue, the other part of this health care “tree,” [air quotes] if you will, which is not health care costs, but health care access. You said in 1999 that you “believe in universal health care.” Last week you said of your opponent, “Hillary Clinton wants to have completely government-run health care, which would be a disaster for the liberties and freedoms of all America. ... That’s what Obama wanted. He didn’t quite get there, but he got this, and you see how bad this has been.”
So you want the things Obama couldn’t get into Obamacare, but you hate Obamacare, is that right? Do I have that right? Maybe I need my glasses.
[Audience makes that “ohhhhhh” sound that people make when someone has just insulted someone else.]
Trump: Look around you, do you see it working?
Oz: I see it as a start. You said in a Republican primary debate that “we have to take care of the people who can’t take care of themselves.” And that a single-payer system works well in Canada and “incredibly well” in Scotland. Of course, Scotland has socialized medicine—the government owns the health care system— as opposed to Canada’s single-payer system, where the government serves as a unified insurance company. The latter is the one that works well for so many counties. Yet you don’t want that. And you propose to repeal Obamacare which—if it can be said to have been indisputably successful in one domain, it was in expanding health-care coverage to millions of people.
Trump: Well I—
Oz: Kill his mic for a second, Jerry. You know, when the Affordable Care Act finally passed, after years of negotiation, you remember that Obama wasn’t fully satisfied either. We have the most expensive health-care system in the world, and yet we have these unimpressive health outcomes. Obama knew that we needed to do something radical—that our economy and prosperity as a country depended on it. Ultimately the Affordable Care Act passed, he said, “This is not radical reform, but it is major reform. … This is what change looks like.” He meant that change is slow and incremental, and by getting people access to health insurance, and beginning to call attention to health-care costs, the Affordable Care Act was laying a groundwork. It’s fundamental flaw is that it brought more people into an untenably expensive system—but keeping health-care sector profits high was the only way, politically, that the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, and the medical-device industry lobbyists would let the bill pass. No one has said it’s perfect, but if you start by taking away people’s insurance—and you don’t move to a single-payer system—then it just seems like that would be disastrous at this point. And yet an entire political party seems obsessed with doing just that, ripping up this framework, and then doing little else. So all these uninsured people would show up in emergency rooms.
Even if you could get drug prices down by a large margin, say 20 or 30 percent, those costs would still bankrupt a lot of Americans. Convince me that you have a cogent plan for how to get affordable health care to Americans, because I think you’re just spouting whatever random talking points you think people want to hear. I think you see real problems like the level of care we provide our veterans through the VA system, and instead of proposing a practical solution, you say that veterans should be able to choose any private doctor or hospital and promise that the federal government would “pay the bill.” How will you cover the cost of such an expansion?
Trump: Honestly, Mehmet, I’d like to talk about my own personal health for a moment. Because, Lyin’ Hillary, she—
Oz: Okay, let’s talk about your health! Do you work your core?
Trump: Honestly, I do—
Oz: Show me.
Trump: Show you! How? [Forcing laughter] I don’t know if you have any weights around here that are heavy enough.
Oz: Get on the floor.
Trump: Excuse me?
Oz: Either you can hold a plank for two minutes or you’re a liar.
Trump: Well, actually, I could hold it for two hours I’m sure, but we’re here to talk about—
Oz: You can talk while you plank. Get on the floor.
Trump: We won’t be doing—
Oz: I said get on the floor.
[Trump stands indignantly to exit stage.]
[Oz’s handlers and Oprah block his exit, then force him into plank position]
Oz: I’m going to shave your head while you’re down there.
Trump: Get off my back.
Oz: If you can get me off your back, you get to keep your hair.
Trump: I’m planking, Mehmet. I’m planking.
Oz: I know. That’s what I told you to do. If you hadn’t lied about working your core, this wouldn’t be an issue. We’d be sitting in those chairs right now making jokes. But instead I’m taking your hair.
Trump: I have to say, Mehmet, I don’t know why you’re doing this.
Oz: Because you represent a threat to the health of Americans. And I am America’s Doctor®. I literally have a copyright on that.
Also, ratings.
IKEA MonkeyHmmm, I wonder how Hannity etc are going to spin this into something they support after VEHEMENTLY decrying people who get "freebies" from the government
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Expressing regret over its reckless decision to infect the Democratic presidential nominee, the virus causing Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia was reportedly terrified Monday after remembering what the Clintons were capable of. “Oh shit, what the hell was I thinking—you don’t get on the wrong side of these people,” said the infectious agent, which became increasingly worried while recalling just how far the Clintons were willing to go to get what they wanted, as well as what often happened to those who dared to cross the powerful politicians.
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