Trump touts his 55% approval rating – from a poll in which he polled at 55% UNfavorable
His actual approval rating on that poll was 43%
Month: April 2019
Does this hurt or help his Presidential bid?
Gabriella Vergani in O Negocio
She appears to be having sex with Ahmadinejad. I wondered what happened to him.
“Alessandra Ambrosio’s first and only topless photo shoot – ‘Into the Best Light’ by Marcos Mello Cavallaria “
French-Tunisian model Carla Guetta Cohen: ‘Spring in Ibiza’ by Rosa Scipion for RektMag (March, 2019)
“Dan Aykroyd donned blackface in the classic Trading Places, and did so for basically no reason at all.”
“Woman stole Walmart scooter to drive to Waffle House”
I am completely out of touch with today’s country music, but I assume that all those old references to pick-up trucks, hound dogs and slow-movin’ trains have been replaced by frequent mentions of Waffle House.
Such a cute booty on Audrey Tautou in Le Libertin (2000) [direct link, alternate link]
Ashley Judd in Norma Jean and Marilyn (1996) [direct link, alternate link]
Cool!
The apparent diameter of Phobos is about a third that of Earth’s moon, so no full solar eclipse is possible from that configuration, despite the fact that the sun itself appears smaller from Mars. It’s still mighty spooky, because Phobos is not very close to spherical.
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It’s one of the great marvels of our existence on this planet that our moon and our sun are so similar in size when viewed from Earth, thus creating solar eclipses of dramatic beauty (and, to the ancients, impenetrable mystery).
Is it really Demi Lovato? Where did it come from? I honestly have no idea.
(Looks like her.)
“The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point”
“Experts say the president is not wrong when he says that ‘legal loopholes’ in America’s immigration system are partly responsible for encouraging migrants to bring children on a dangerous journey that in some cases ends in tragedy.”
Of course, Trump is not correct about the fact that these people are drug lords, terrorists and criminals. They are almost all just poor people, often ill people, desperate for a better life. The only real danger they represent consists of the diseases they carry.
“The majority of our agents get sick. Infectious disease is everywhere. There’s always scabies in there. Usually we have chickenpox. We have tuberculosis in there. You name it, it’s probably been through that building. So it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous for our agents. It’s dangerous for the detainees that don’t have anything.”
The distinction between Trump’s perception and reality seems irrelevant, because the real point is just that there are too many of them and our system can no longer process them effectively. As the FNYT reports: “The flow of migrant families has reached record levels, with February totals 560 percent above those for the same period last year.” Trump may be confused about the nature of the danger, but he seems to be correct that the danger is real.
And the most depressing element of this situation is that nobody seems to have a solution, and the few ideas that might be tried are rejected by one side of the aisle or the other, so the backlog just keeps piling up.
Heads-up in advance: I am not kidding …
“Filings by the department since June 2017 reveal a new interpretation that ‘would permit the president – and all federal officials – to accept unlimited amounts of money from foreign governments, as long as the money comes through commercial transactions with an entity owned by the federal official.'”
Yup, that’s right. Our government officials can take all the foreign bribes they want as long as the foreign governments don’t actually hand them the checks. According to this interpretation, it is literally true that if Joe President owned a bank, he could accept unlimited amounts of “interest payments” from foreign investors.
Eddie Murphy’s daughter Zola Murphy suffering a wardrobe malfunction for a full nip slip