Saturday, September 30, 2017

What It Really Means When Black People Who Protest Are Called 'Ungrateful'

To be black and to be conscious and to have a voice flies in the face of white supremacy.

In a series of tweets posted Sunday, Donald Trump, The President of the United States of America, condemned the protests of black athletes like Colin Kaepernick during the National Anthem. He suggested that NFL players and other professional athletes (American citizens) should be fired or suspended for peacefully protesting racism and police brutality. One might say this is outrageous, but then, given everything that has transpired over the last several months, it is hardly surprising.

In mid August, the President implied that some of the Nazis who marched in the name of white supremacy in Charlottesville were “very fine people.” One month later, he declared that black athletes who protest white supremacy are sons of bitches. There is an obvious disconnect in the way many people in this country who have commended President Trump’s tweets view the freedoms that come with the 1st Amendment: Nazis and white supremacists deserve freedom of speech, but black athletes who peacefully protest deserve derision, ridicule, and the loss of their livelihoods.

At the heart of this absurd double standard lies the real issue here, which has very little to do with patriotism or freedom of speech or propriety and everything to do with white supremacy and the perceived ownership of black culture, black entertainment, black athleticism, and black bodies.

Long but worthy read

Making Medicare: The History of Health Care in Canada, 1914-2007

Sneaky toddler steals Prince Harry's popcorn

Cadiz, Spain.

One of the oldest towns in Europe. Water on all sides. It was Sunday , stores were closed , but there were restaurants and people all over the place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ wiki/C%C3%A1diz

Old and new.

Thanks Ivan

Boobs v Willies.......True Story

An East Vancouver Chinese family is at the dinner table. The son asks his father, 'Dad, how many kinds of boobs are there?'

The father, surprised, answers, 'Well, son, a woman goes through three phases.
In her 20s, a woman's boobs are like melons, round and firm.
In her 30s to 40s, they are like pears, still nice but hanging a bit.
After 50, they are like onions'.
'Onions?'

'Yes, you see them and they make you cry.'
This infuriated his Asian wife and daughter, so the teenage daughter said, 'Mum, how many kinds of 'willies' are there?'

The mother, surprised, smiles and answers, 'Well dear, a man goes through three phases also.
In his 20s, his willy is like an oak tree, mighty and hard.
In his 30s and 40s, it is like a birch, flexible but reliable.
After his 50s, it is like a Christmas tree'.

'A Christmas tree?'
'Yes --- dead from the roots up and the balls are just for decoration.'

Thanks Randy

Friday, September 29, 2017

Friday's Ride - Norton Dominator 99

President "Shit for Brains" has no class and is not a friend of the people.

'F--k you!' George Clooney blasts Trump for 'Hollywood elite' comment

'This idea that I’m somehow the 'Hollywood elite' and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable'

George Clooney may be one of the biggest movie stars around, but that doesn’t mean he’s a part of the Hollywood elite – depending on how you define that term.

Ahead of the release of his new film, Suburbicon, Clooney sat down with The Daily Beast to talk about the movie. Of course, the conversation quickly turned toward the current political climate and the President of the United States, whom Clooney noted has a tendency to pit “coastal elites” against “Middle America.”

Clooney said, “Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I’m somehow the ‘Hollywood elite’ and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

“People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of ‘coastal elites’ living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble? He lives in a gold tower and has 12 people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people! When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say ‘Hollywood elite.’ Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! F–k you!”

Good for him

97-year-old WWII vet goes viral after 'taking a knee' to support NFL players

Kevin Kaduk

NFL players have the support of a member of the Greatest Generation.

John Middlemas, a 97-year-old World War II veteran from Missouri, went viral on Sunday after his grandson Brennan Gilmore tweeted a picture of his grandfather kneeling on the ground.

“Those kids have every right to protest,” Gilmore quoted his grandfather as saying.

Rex Ryan is PISSED at Donald Trump

Stranded orca saved by volunteers

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Thursday's Ride - Amazingly Original 1956 Nash Metropolitan for Sale

Victims of ISIS want and deserve justice

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen: what is shocking here is not just the brutality of ISIS but how long those who know about it can remain passive. If we do not change course, history will judge us, and there will be no excuse for our failure to act. We cannot say that ISIS’ crimes were not serious enough; we cannot say that the interests of powerful states stood in the way; or that these crimes are too hard to prove. That’s why I am asking you today: to stand up for justice. Every conflict reminds us that there can be no lasting peace without justice. A lack of accountability simply leads to continuing cycles of vengeful violence. So killing ISIS on the battlefield is not enough: we must also kill the idea behind ISIS by exposing its brutality and bringing individual criminals to justice. Justice is also what the victims want – ask the families of the American hostages Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff who were beheaded by the ISIS militant known as Jihadi John. When Jihadi John was reportedly killed by a drone strike in Syria, the hostages’ families said they would have preferred it if he had been arrested instead. Steven’s family said they wanted to “sit in a courtroom, watch him sentenced and see him sent to … prison”. Yazidi women like Nadia say the same: they want the chance to face their abusers in court; they want legal judgments to be published, to prevent their genocide later being denied. And they deserve nothing less. But justice will forever be out of reach if we allow the evidence to disappear: if mass graves are not protected, if medical evidence is lost, if witnesses can no longer be traced.

George Clooney’s Muslim Wife Stuns Hollywood, Says 7 Words at UN That Shock Everyone

An excellent read

Can you name the location of the two most deadly US mass shootings of 2017? And, can you identify what the two events had in common?

The answers?

The Sept. 10 killing of eight in Plano, Texas, and the May 27 killing of eight in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi. The link? Both were acts of domestic violence.

Were the mass murders covered by portions of the US media? Yes. Were they given the same level and intensity of coverage as instances of national and international ”terrorism” with far fewer, or even no, fatalities? No. Not even close. In fact, many people in the US could be forgiven for not having heard of what happened in Plano or Bogue Chitto, let alone that these were instances of domestic violence.

The Silent Terrorism on Our Doorsteps

Why is Trump ignoring Puerto Rico

3.5 million Americans face disease & death in Puerto Rico. What the hell is Trump doing?

Read more: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/24/1701125/-3-5-million-Americans-face-disease-death-in-Puerto-Rico-What-the-hell-is-Trump-doing?utm_content=buffer2606f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

‘If anyone can hear us … help.’ Puerto Rico’s mayors describe widespread devastation from Hurricane Maria
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/if-anyone-can-hear-us--help-puerto-ricos-mayors-describe-widespread-devastation-from-hurricane-maria/2017/09/23/7ef5f6c4-a069-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.fbe21fddbe55

Trump tweets on Puerto Rico.... mad man

This sheds a whole new light on taking a knee

Stephen A. Smith Points Out NFL's Paid Patriotism Problem

NFL players only started appearing on field for the national anthem in 2009, which puts the whole Colin Kaepernick controversy in a new light.

Late last month, as the country was only just becoming consumed by Colin Kaepernick, Tom E. Curran of Comcast Sportsnet New England reported that, actually, NFL players did not typically stand for the national anthem until 2009. Somehow this escaped many of us until, uh, Stephen A. Smith highlighted it this morning on First Take.

Responding to a tip from one of his "boys," Smith brought up the fact that until 2009—eight years and a new Presidential administration after 9/11—players weren't on the field for the national anthem and instead generally remained in the locker room. According to Smith's boy (and the researcher at ESPN who checked it), the switch happened "because it was seen as a marketing strategy to make the athletes look more patriotic."

(FULL) Spurs coach Gregg Popovich press conference | 2017 NBA Media Day ...

For the ladies

When God created
Adam and Eve, He said:
I only have two gifts:
One is the art of peeing standing ...
And then Adam stepped forward and shouted:
ME!, ME!, ME!,
I would love it please ... Lord, please, please!
Look, it will make my life substantially easier.
Eve nodded, and said those things did not matter to her.
Then God gave Adam the gift and he began to shout for joy.
He ran through the garden of Eden and used it to wet all the trees and
bushes, ran down the beach making drawings with his pee in the sand ...
Well, he would not stop showing off.
God and Eve watched the man crazy with happiness and Eve asked God:
What is the other gift? '
God answered:
Eve,..... a brain ... and it is for you ...!

The Largest Salt Flat in the World.

The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 4,086 sq. mi. and is a major tourist destination in the South American country of Bolivia. The Salar is virtually devoid of any wildlife or vegetation, but is home to an estimated 10 billion tons of salt.

But what is no less incredible, is where people who visit this amazing place stay, and how does one build something in the middle of the vast emptiness. The answer is quite remarkable.

Anyone arriving to visit this exotic part of the world is in for a real treat and a stay in one of the world's most unique hotel experiences. Due to a lack of conventional construction materials in this area, many of the hotels here are built entirely with salt blocks cut from the Salar itself. The most famous one is called Palacio de Sal, Spanish for "Palace of salt".

That is NOT water! The salt flats are shiny and reflective!

The hotel is made of about 1 million 14-inch salt blocks, which were used for the floor, walls, ceiling, and furniture, including the beds, tables, chairs and sculptures. The hotel even has a dry sauna and a steam room, a salt-water pool and whirlpool baths in which guests can relax and fully enjoy this unreal place.

Imagine what it feels like, sleeping on salt beds, sitting on salt chairs and even eating at salt tables.

And while no one can deny how beautiful everything in this hotel is, that beauty is nothing compared to the view.

The salt flats are so white and clear they often show a perfect reflection of the sky and the objects above them. In fact, because the Salar is so flat and has such a strong reflection, similar to that of ice-sheets, it is used for calibrating the distance measurement equipment of satellites in space!

The white, endless flats also offer visitors a unique opportunity to take some truly mind-bending pictures. With no other objects in sights, the human eye loses its ability to establish a proper field of depth. The results are some of the most creative and bizarre pictures you will ever see.

Thanks Randy

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Wednesday's Ride - Test Drive: 1966 MGB convertible SOLD at the Sun Valley Auto Club

Well done Stevie

Stevie Wonder Interrupts Concert To 'Take A Knee' For America

The blind music legend took a knee in wake of Trump's 'sons of bitches'

Stevie Wonder just expressed his solidarity with Colin Kaepernick’s protests against police brutality and racial injustice against black people.

Before performing at the annual Global Citizen Festival in New York City on Saturday night, the 67-year-old music legend took the stage and then took a knee, mimicking a gesture of protest first used by Kaepernick, a former San Francisco 49er quarterback, during national anthems.

“Tonight, I’m taking a knee for America,” Wonder said to the audience.

“But not just one knee, I’m taking both knees, both knees in prayer for our planet, our future, our leaders of the world and our globe. Amen.”

Steve Kerr comments on President Trump saying Warriors are not welcome a...

“How about the irony of, ‘Free speech is fine if you’re a neo-Nazi chanting hate slogans, but free speech is not allowed to kneel in protest?'” Kerr added. “No matter how many times a football player says, ‘I honor our military, but I’m protesting police brutality and racial inequality,’ it doesn’t matter. Nationalists are saying, ‘You’re disrespecting our flag.’ Well, you know what else is disrespectful to our flag? Racism. And one’s way worse than the other.”

Michael Rapaport Takes A Knee For Donald Trump On NFL Sunday

Actor Michael Rapaport Takes A Knee, Unloads On 'Dumb Motherf--ker' Donald Trump

In a fiery video posted to social media, the "Boston Public" actor spoke in support of football player Colin Kaepernick and the NBA's Stephen Curry.

In defiance of the White House bigot

Todays cartoons

All "BULL"

Driving the southwest corner of Spain, I thought we might be in TRUMP country at one point. because it was all "BULL". At least on all the signs, looked like it.

Thanks Ivan

Joke

One day in the future, George Bush has a heart-attack and dies.
He immediately goes to hell, where
The devil is waiting for him.

"I don't know what to do here,"
Says the devil. "You are on my
List, but I have no room for you.
You definitely have to stay here,
So I'll tell you what I'm going to
Do. I've got a couple of folks here
Who weren't quite as bad as you.
I'll let one of them go, but you
Have to take their place. I'll even
Let YOU decide who leaves."

George thought that sounded
Pretty good, so the devil opened
The door to the first room.

In it was Ted Kennedy and a
Large pool of water. Ted kept
Diving in, and surfacing, empty
Handed. Over, and over, and
Over he dived in and surfaced
With nothing. Such was his fate
In hell.

"No," George said. "I don't think
So. I'm not a good swimmer, and
I don't think I could do that all
Day long."

The devil led him to the door of
The next room.

In it was Al Gore with a sledge-
Hammer and a room full of rocks.
All he did was swing that hammer,
Time after time after time.

"No, this is no good; I've got
This problem with my shoulder.
I would be in constant agony if
All I could do was break rocks
All day," commented George.

The devil opened a third door.
Through it, George saw Bill
Clinton, lying on the bed, his
Arms tied over his head, and his
Legs restrained in a spread-eagle
Pose. Bent over him was Monica
Lewinsky, doing what she does
Best.

George looked at this in shocked
Disbelief, and finally said, "Yeah
Man, I can handle this."

The devil smiled and said...........

"OK, Monica, you're free to go."

Thanks Sylvia

TUESDAY or 2's DAY

* If you attempt to rob a bank you won't have any trouble with rent/food

bills for the next 10 years, whether or not you are successful.

* Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned?

* What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like

throwing it?

* If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?

* Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C?

* Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be

called double V?

* Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and It just takes 75-100 years

to fully work.

* Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty

* The word "swims" upside-down is still "swims".

* Intentionally losing a game of rock, paper, scissors is just as hard

as trying to win.

* 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars.

Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.

* Your future self is watching you right now through memories.

* The doctors that told Stephen Hawking he had two years to live in

1953 are probably dead.

* If you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get

the answer to each of them.

* Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it.

* If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than

there were before.

* If 2/2/22 falls on a Tuesday, we'll just call it "2's Day".

(It actually does fall on a Tuesday!!)

Thanks Randy

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