- Via The Daily Beast: The Incredible 37-Page Guide for Staffing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
- Via The Bulwark: Ronna Romney McDaniel Might Be in Trouble.
- More on the RNC race via Politico: McDaniel faces furious campaign from right in race for RNC chair.
- Via The Bulwark: Putin’s Useful Idiots: Right Wingers Lose It Over Zelensky Visit. I mean, if you want to have a debate about cost, fine (for the record, I think the costs are more than justified) but the whining and weird commentary is just ridiculous. And the obsession with clothing is juvenile at best.
- Along those same lines via Mediate: Tucker Carlson Rips Zelensky Speech, Says It’s ‘Humiliating’ for Congress to Give Aid to a ‘Ukrainian Strip Club Manager’
- And what about this guy? Via CNN: Incoming congressman’s claims his grandparents fled the Holocaust contradicted by genealogy records. Is anything about his bio true? Is his name actually George?
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And what about this guy? Via CNN: Incoming congressman’s claims his grandparents fled the Holocaust contradicted by genealogy records. Is anything about his bio true? Is his name actually George?
I know! In fact, I just wrote a post on that: https://drjjoyner-cmlud.wpcomstaging.com/the-unintended-consequences-of-shrinking-newsrooms/
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Ukraine is dealing a vast, humiliating blow to a hostile nation that claims to be a superpower, and they are paying the butcher’s bill.
The US is spending money.
This tells you what the priorities of the unhinged right are.
BTW, very little of the aid money will wind up in Ukraine. Most, especially the military aid, will be spent to pay weapons manufacturers to replenish depleted supplies. The amounts as compared to the US military budget should get the world to accept the Jake Grafton principle: It looks like we’ve priced ourselves out of the war business.
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@CSK:
I’ve heard many times* that the instruction to remove a color of M&M was a test. That if they spent time uselessly removing a color of candy, then they did observe even the tiniest detail that made no sense at all, and the rock stars could be confident everything else had been taken care of.
1) it’s humiliating for the staff involved.
2) Giving attention to detail in one thing does not imply the same level of attention in all things.Me, I’d refuse, citing the Homer Simpson Principle: Green M&M, blue M&M, they all wind up the same color in the end.
*I’ve heard it so many times in connection with different famous people, that I’m sure it’s an urban legend.
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@Kathy:
Possibly, but I recall Joan Rivers once saying that performers made these demands as revenge for being treated like garbage earlier in their careers. -
The brown m&m thing started with Van Halen. Details here: https://www.thewrap.com/van-halen-brown-mms-remove-concert-rider/
Tl;Dr: it’s pretty much what Kathy said.
