Day: October 15, 2018
Again, I assume it’s not a wardrobe design flaw, since she is a fashion designer, so I assume she designed this so we could see her nipple. (Unless she’s an incompetent designer, which may be a good possibility.)
The Cherokee Nation press release did not pull any punches:
“Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens.”
The Cherokee Secretary of State also pointed out that the DNA tests do not distinguish between tribes or even between natives of North and South America, so when the reports read “Native American” it might be Inca or Mapuche or any other indigenous group from South America.
Moving from lowly MSNBC to ABC didn’t really help.
Baldwin’s show pulled in a rating of .4 – on a major network
To put that in context, I once produced a cable access show that had a higher rating that that – competing AGAINST network shows.
To be fair, he had some tough competition. I think there was a re-run of My Name is Earl on one of the cable channels, and a mid-major crappie-fishing tournament on the Outdoor Channel.
But he was crappier than the crappies.
Hey, that would actually make a nice slogan for his show.
Oh, I kid. He really did get jammed by his time slot. He was competing against Sunday Night Football, which had a great match-up for a change. But even so, Baldwin’s .4 was the lowest broadcast rating of the evening. He even lost to the shows on the CW network.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has gone permanent Blue Screen at age 65.
He was also an owner of multiple major sports franchises (the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks).
Jennie was one of the pitching stars of the powerhouse Olympic team that won softball in 2004 and took the silver in 2008. They were 7-0 in the prelims both years, but in the 2008 Olympics they dropped the final game (3-1) to Japan, a team they had easily bested (7-0) in the prelims.
That 2004 team was one of the most dominating squads in the history of sports. In the preliminary rounds they never allowed a run, outscoring the opposition 41-0.
They also shut out the opposition in the semi-finals, but their bid for perfection was spoiled in the second-last inning of the finals, when their pitching ace Lisa Fernandez, pitching on no days of rest, finally allowed a run to the Aussies in the second-last inning of a blow-out victory.
Jennie Finch pitched two shut-outs for that 2004 team, then duplicated that feat in 2008, giving her a lifetime Olympic ERA of 0.00. In her junior year of college she was 32-0 for Arizona, leading them to a national championship. SI picked her as the #2 D-1 softball player of all time, behind only the aforementioned Lisa Fernandez.
Nikki looks very curvy in this clip from Run Ronnie Run (2002)
Ah Sim-Wise, always attractive, and always a good friend to Frodo.
Full-frontal nudity from Tara in Sirens (1994) – in a church, during a service.
This dress code could persuade me to become religious.
Warning: this is not a Hugh Grant-free zone.
Despite two layers of clothing, Courtney cannot be contained. It’s from an episode of According to Jim. (s4e3)
Jessica Parker Kennedy in Black Sails [S01E08]
I miss my pirates! The final season of Black Sails was a disappointment. They rushed through plot developments that were probably originally intended to stretch over several seasons. And I didn’t like the fact that the screenwriters seemed to wimp out from the cold reality of the previous seasons and allowed some of the characters to come to mawkish, unrealistic endings. Oh, but that second-last season! The last 2-3 episodes of that penultimate season were some of the best television I’ve ever seen.
(And of course there were the nude scenes with Jessica Parker Kennedy, Hannah New and others.)
Elizabeth Warren announced the result of a DNA test that showed she has Native American ancestry.
The press has magnified the significance of this finding. The test showed that she seemed to have one Native American ancestor eight generations ago! That would about about the time of the Revolutionary War. It may have been as far back as ten generations, which takes us back to the very founding of San Antonio and New Orleans. If she could just get it back maybe three more generations, she might be a descendant of the REAL Pocahontas!
Exaggeration aside, Trump did say, “I will give you a million dollars, paid for by Trump, to your favorite charity if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian … we’ll see what she does.”
Warren tweeted Monday morning that Trump could “send the check to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center.”
Trump said Monday that he “didn’t say” he would pay Warren $1 million for showing her test results. “I didn’t say that. You better read it again.”
Trump is correct in not paying up. The test doesn’t “show she’s an Indian,” and that’s exactly what he said he would pay for.
In fairness, the National Review had this take:
Earlier today, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren released DNA test results that confirmed that she misled employers, students, and the public about her Native American heritage for years. Bizarrely, all too many members of the media treated the results as vindicating her. Down is up. Black is white. The imperatives of the resistance apparently dictate propping up a liar — as long as she might be able to beat President Trump in 2020.
Here are the facts. For an extended period of time — at a key point in her professional life — Warren identified herself as a Native-American woman. She listed herself as Native-American on a key legal directory reviewed by deans and hiring committees. Former employers — such as the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School — listed Warren as a minority faculty member. Harvard Law School even trumpeted her as the school’s first tenured “woman of color.”
Warren contributed to a Native-American recipe book called — I kid you not — “Pow Wow Chow.” She has told people that her parents eloped because her father’s parents said he couldn’t marry her mother “because she is part Cherokee and part Delaware.”
Of course the National Review is a publication with a conservative slant, but all opinions aside, they went on to point out an important scientific fact: Warren is no more Native American than the average North American of European descent.
In 2014, the New York Times reported on the results of a massive DNA study and found that “European-Americans had genomes that were on average 98.6 percent European, .19 percent African, and .18 Native American.”
That’s pretty much the same percentage as Warren. If she had a Native American ancestor eight generations ago, then she is 1/256th Native American. That’s .39%. But her ancestor may be as remote as 10 generations, which is .10%. In other words, she’s just about exactly as Native American as the average white European-American.
