“Patricia and Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis homeowners who pointed guns at protesters earlier this summer, are scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention next week, an aide familiar told CNN on Monday.” — CNN, 8/18/20
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Monday, August 24
9:00 pm The Creatures From Beyond the Mist scream the national anthem.
9:05 pm Morgon, Devourer of Children, discusses his proposal to drastically decrease education spending.
9:20 pm Marjorie Taylor Greene, QAnon congressional candidate, explains why COVID-19 can’t be transmitted through the air because there is no such thing as “air.”
9:40 pm Scott Baio triggers libs from his hot tub.
10:20 pm Silicon Valley CEO Peter Thiel shares a PowerPoint about how minimum-wage workers can balance their budgets by scavenging for edible weeds and building traps to catch small rodents.
10:40 pm Keynote speech: Axulythor, Sorcerer of Darkness, on the importance of restricting women’s access to reproductive healthcare.
Tuesday, August 25
9:00 pm The Creatures From Beyond the Mist howl “God Bless America.”
9:05 pm Grog, Harvester of Souls, details how the GOP is the real big-tent party.
9:20 pm Round table discussion on the 13th Amendment with Sean Hannity, Stephen Miller, David Duke, and the exhumed corpse of Strom Thurmond.
9:40 pm Pangoloth, Guardian of the Cave of Doom, lays out his plan to privatize the US postal system.
10:00 pm Ben Shapiro recites the lyrics to “Thong Song.”
10:10 pm Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. release a million spiders into a nursing home.
10:20 pm The roll call of state delegates commences with each delegate taking the traditional blood-oath at the foot of the Altar of Reagan.
10:40 pm First Lady Melania Trump reads her speech titled, “Going High Is the Only Thing That Works, Because When We Go Low — When We Use Those Same Tactics of Degrading and Dehumanizing Others — We Just Become Part of the Ugly Noise That’s Drowning Out Everything Else. We Degrade Ourselves. We Degrade the Very Causes for Which We Fight.”
Wednesday, August 26
9:00 pm The Creatures From Beyond the Mist and Lee Greenwood bellow “God Bless the USA.”
9:05 pm The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre shares his vision to keep schools safe by arming all teachers with bazookas.
9:20 pm Rozhar, minor demon, on the virtues of the invisible hand — the unseen but powerful force that drags corrupted souls to the netherworld.
9:40 pm Laura Loomer chains herself to a mail truck.
10:00 pm The Sirens of the Haunted Lagoon discuss why limiting showerhead water pressure is a slippery slope towards communism.
10:30 pm Vice President Mike Pence.
10:31 pm Ted Nugent kills a moose.
10:40 pm Jon Voight starts a brush fire.
10:50 pm Clint Eastwood makes love to a lamp.
10:55 pm Ivanka Trump eats six cans of Goya black beans.
Thursday, August 27
9:00 pm The Creatures From Beyond the Mist shriek “Turkey In the Straw.”
9:05 pm Zorcrax the Unstoppable, destroyer of worlds, and ruler of the Land of Shadow, shares how he and his legion of death-knights are ridding cities and towns across America of violent crime by ridding them of people.
9:20 pm Roger Stone gets a lower back tattoo of President Trump.
9:30 pm The Gremlins From the Bog of Despair discuss how tax subsidies are helping swamp things like them harvest the bog’s toxic sludge in order to meet America’s growing energy needs.
9:45 pm James Woods yells at his cat.
9:55 pm Judge Jeanine Pirro yells at her maid.
10:05 pm Rudy Giuliani yells at a parking meter.
10:20 pm The My Pillow Guy snorts 5000mg of hydroxychloroquine.
10:30 pm Jared Kushner live-streams himself evicting residents of a low-income housing development.
10:40 pm President Donald Trump accepts nomination while walking down a ramp and drinking a glass of water.
10:55 pm The Hellmouth finally opens and consumes us all.
Woman Style
Your Personal Guide to Timeless Fashion
Feldon
1979
Have some Womanstyle, circa 1979. It’s timeless assuming time stops in 1985. The book itself is a basic fashion planning guide. It has all the info on fabrics, style, wardrobe planning, etc. The photography is something else. Soft focus seems to be the photographer’s favorite look for some pictures. Also, since it is about fashion, some of the pictures are not good at showing off the actual clothes.
I was in college at the time of this book and the basic wardrobe was jeans and a t-shirt. Cowl neck sweaters were a thing, but I think that is as far as my friends and I ventured for fashion in the late 1970s. I would have been all over the final picture of the boots and skirt. As you peruse the choices, I better warn you of the picture of the highly decorated reddish/pink room. (ALB is not responsible for any trauma related to looking at this picture.)
Months after the coronavirus pandemic spread worldwide, social media platforms are still dealing with misinformation. In May a video titled Plandemicspread across Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, despite containing false information loosely attached to wider conspiracy theories targeting people like Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Now, after a short build-up, a group of people have put together a “sequel,” Plandemic: Indoctornation that continues the misleading and false themes of the original. As The Verge notes, Twitter and Facebook have been more proactive this time around.
Facebook
On Facebook, sharing a link to the video’s website is blocked straight away, as opposed to their initial steps with the first video that just limited its reach. Using Twitter the link is posted without a warning on the site, but clicking it takes viewers to an interstitial warning that link is “potentially spammy or unsafe” because it could fall into a list of categories that includes “misleading content that could lead to real-world harm.” YouTube is taking down copies of the video, while TikTok has blocked searches for the term.
Twitter
If you must know what is in the video, a number of reporters watched during its live unveiling earlier, noting its anti-vaccine rhetoric and other rumors. It does not significantly feature Dr. Judy Mikovitz, the discredited scientist from the first video, and largely pushes the same unfounded rumors about Bill Gates that have been seen before. According to Buzzfeed News, “As a piece of journalism, it is Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. As a piece of entertainment, it is Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.”
Attorneys for Mark and Patricia McCloskey say they'll speak at next week's nominating convention for President Trump. They both face a felony charge for waving guns at protesters in June.
(Image credit: Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via Getty Images)
Untitled Goose Game? More like Untitled Geese Game. House House’s adorably annoying bird simulator is getting a free two-player update on September 23rd across all platforms. Untitled Goose Game is also heading to Steam and Itch that same day, with the multiplayer mode built-in.
The update allows you to play through the entire game with two geese, causing more havoc than ever before. Here’s how House House describes the new, cooperative mode on YouTube:
● New goose, new honk, still horrible
● Play through the entire game with two players
● Work together as two geese to make even bigger trouble
● A free update for all owners of Untitled Goose Game
The update will hit Steam, Itch, the Epic Games Store, Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game at the same time. Additionally, iam8bit is producing physical versions of Untitled Goose Game for Switch and PS4, and they’re available for pre-order now. They both come out on September 29th, alongside the game’s vinyl soundtrack; the Switch version costs $40 and the PS4 edition costs $35.
House House developers will participate in an hour-long Q&A session on the Nintendo Indie World Twitter account on August 20th beginning at 4pm ET.
The United States Postal Service today suspended measures that caused mail-delivery delays across the country in recent weeks, including an initiative designed to remove hundreds of mail-sorting machines from active rotation. There are no public plans to reinstate machines that have already been taken offline, but starting today, no additional units will be removed from service until after the US presidential election in November.
Vice reported last week that the USPS had begun retiring mail-sorting machines across the country “without any official explanation or reason given,” significantly slowing employees’ ability to organize and send mail. A total of 671 machines, or 10 percent of the postal service’s stock, were scheduled to be taken offline, according to The Washington Post.
This was part of a larger initiative to “strengthen the Postal Service” by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who joined the USPS in June after 35 years as an executive at a large supply-chain logistics company. DeJoy is a noted ally of President Donald Trump, who has been attempting to discredit the USPS ahead of the November election. Trump admitted on August 13th that his recent rhetoric against the USPS was designed to curtail the country’s mail-in voting process.
When DeJoy took over the USPS in June, he implemented hiring freezes and organizational rules that caused delays in the delivery of some prescriptions and mid-summer primary ballots across the US. Alongside the forced retirement of mail-sorting machines, DeJoy instituted rules that limited the amount of overtime employees could earn, and banned extra trips that would ensure on-time deliveries.
Today in a statement, DeJoy said, “To avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, I am suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded. I want to assure all Americans of the following: Retail hours at Post Offices will not change. Mail processing equipment and blue collection boxes will remain where they are. No mail processing facilities will be closed. And we reassert that overtime has, and will continue to be, approved as needed.”
DeJoy's statement, which says nothing about remedying the damage he's already done and asserts @USPS is ready for an influx of election mail despite all evidence to the contrary, cannot be taken in good faith. House Dems will do our job and pass leg. protecting @USPS on Saturday. https://t.co/hRlig3BgQM
Democrats — and some Republicans — have been railing against attacks on the Postal Service for weeks, and on August 12th, Postal Service Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb launched an investigation into DeJoy’s new policies. DeJoy will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday, and he’ll appear before the House Oversight Committee the following Monday. House Democrats plan to pass a funding bill aimed at the USPS on Saturday, August 22nd.
While today’s promise from DeJoy halts ongoing efforts to handicap the USPS, it doesn’t address any damage that’s already been done — notably, it doesn’t reinstate the mail-sorting machines that have already been taken offline. Democratic lawmakers have pledged to include reparative measures in the Saturday bill.
The former first lady used her prime-time speech during the opening night of the Democratic convention to rebuke President Trump and urge Americans to vote for Biden "like our lives depend on it."
(Image credit: Democratic National Convention via AP)
Former first lady Michelle Obama stole the show, as Democrats tried out a glossy, highly produced, made-for-TV special to replace the energy of a live crowd at a convention.
