Bernie Endorses

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Monday April 13, 2020 · 11:25 AM PDT

2020/04/13 · 11:25

Sanders Endorse Biden!

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Did Trump shove someone off the stage again?

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Monday May 27, 2019 · 6:36 AM PDT

2019/05/27 · 06:36

Who could forget the shove heard round the world?

Did he shove someone again in Japan at the sumo match? Is it just me or did it look like President “It’s All About Me” just shove the assistant who helped him lift the oversized, compensatory, President’s^* Cup in Japan?

If so, it was not his only pause-giving moment at the venue. Trump,with BeBest in tow sat on chairs (as did the Abe’s) instead of cushions, which is apparently the normal practice at sumo matches. I suspect this was at Trump’s request so that he could be sure and get up when it was time to present the trophy. According to the AP by way of Business Insider:

Trump's visit to the wrestling match broke several traditions. Foreign leaders do not usually give presentations between matches. And while viewers generally sit on cushions on the ground, called zabutons, Trump and his wife, Melania, were given chairs. The Japan Sumo Association also banned the practice of throwing zabutons into the air as a security precaution, according to the Associated Press.

Watch for the “back-pat” at the 20 second mark...

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Was it a "get off my stage" shove or a simple locker room back pat?

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Was it a "get off my stage" shove or a simple locker room back pat?

Definitely a shove

93 votes

Can't tell

50 votes

Nah, just a "thanks for helping me" pat on the back

105 votes

Bring Your Toothbrush to Work Day

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Thursday June 14, 2018 · 3:40 PM PDT

2018/06/14 · 15:40

ABC News summarizes tomorrow’s Manafort action.

On Friday, Mueller filed a superseding indictment against Manafort that included Kliminck and new charges for obstruction of justice. Manafort faces two indictments in Washington, D.C., and Virginia on charges related to tax fraud and other financial crimes.

The special counsel has asked a federal judge in Washington, DC, to revoke Manafort's current $10 million bail. A hearing on Manafort’s bail is scheduled for this Friday.

I propose we declare tomorrow “Bring Your Toothbrush to Work Day”.

Writing Style Request (I'm talking about quotingTwitter)

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Saturday June 09, 2018 · 6:42 AM PDT

2018/06/09 · 06:42

I’ve been on this site since the original Ned Lamont days. I rarely write much but occasionally let go with some inane comment.

On the other hand, I’m a voracious consumer of all the good stuff that you folks are contributing. It helps shape my outlook, gives me points of view that I may not have considered and keeps me current.

Having said that, I need to briefly rant/complain about a writing style that is pervasive on such sites as HuffPo, CBS News, and others, and is creeping in here. Here’s the deal. It drives me nuts when someone is quoting the content of a Tweet in their piece and then immediately afterwards includes an image of the Tweet with the same content. Examples: (please understand I’m not calling anyone out; I just want to illustrate the problem)

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While there are certainly many more important things going on, I find this very disruptive to my reading, a waste of space/time and, perhaps, even bandwidth if carried to extremes (every byte adds up).

I would love to see Twitter disappear completely for unrelated but obvious reasons. Notwithstanding that, how about including the text of the tweet or the image but not both? Please.

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What do you think?

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What do you think?

It drives me nuts too

19 votes

No big deal

7 votes

What a crybaby

2 votes

Another NBC Journalism Fail

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Friday September 27, 2013 · 7:58 AM PDT

2013/09/27 · 07:58

While Chuck Todd has been rightly excoriated for his failure to practice journalism while impersonating a journalist, NBCNews.com seems to be taking lessons from him. This morning, they published the results of a CNBC poll in which "half of the 812 poll respondents were asked if they support Obamacare and the other half if they support the Affordable Care Act."

Link to NBCNEWS.com article

Journalism fail below...

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Friday March 02, 2012 · 6:24 AM PST

2012/03/02 · 06:24

Yesterday elwior posted this great diary about the reprehensible racist, misogynistic Rush Limbaugh. Follow me below for an offer that hopefully someone can't refuse.

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Thursday November 05, 2009 · 11:36 AM PST

2009/11/05 · 11:36

In August, I read this diary by JR about Todd Willingham, the Texas inmate executed in 2004. The diary linked to an ABA Journal article that said in part:

... Craig Beyler, reviewed the case of Cameron Todd Willingham for the Texas Forensic Science Commission, created to investigate allegations of forensic mistakes, the Chicago Tribune reports. The newspaper obtained a copy of his report.

Willingham was convicted of murder for the deaths of his three children who perished in the fire. Beyler is one of nine top fire scientists who have reviewed the case and found that the original investigators relied on outdated theories and folklore, the story says.

Beyler wrote that the state fire marshal investigating the case "seems to be wholly without any realistic understanding of fires and how fire injuries are created."

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