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I admit that I was wrong about Trump. He's not a clown, and he is delivering on his promises.

The comic magazine's ability to rib culture, politics, and business shaped the boomer mentality, and we should be grateful.The comics community is abuzz with the news that Mad magazine will, after two more issues, cease publication of original material and abandon newsstand distribution, becoming a reprint title available only in comic book shops (with the exception, Hollywood Reporter reports, of one special issue a year of new content). Mad began life as a comic book in 1952, the brainchild of then-obscure New York cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, published by William Gaines' E.C. Comics. Through his work in Mad's formative years and...

More Ravelry members are voicing their objections to Ravelry banning President Trump supporters by posting videos on YouTube. Well-spoken, moderate, and reasonable, these women provide some unexpected points of view concerning their reasons for departing. That said, it seems that a significant number of Ravelry members have launched an ad hoc WalkAway movement. But this time, it’s WalkAway from Ravelry.

Piqued by a Fox video news report concerning the banning of Trump supporters by the popular online knitting site, Ravelry, I checked things out late last week. After all, I’ve been a member of Ravelry since 2011. Obviously, I wanted to find out what was happening. Here’s what I viewed on the main page of Ravelry: “We are banning support of Donald Trump and his administration on Ravelry. We cannot provide a space that is inclusive of all and also allow support for open white supremacy. Support of the Trump administration is unambiguously support for white supremacy.

Smarting from assessments that he lost the first debate of the 2020 presidential campaign, former Vice-President Joe Biden offered to “roll up my sleeves and fight for the right to lead this country. You know, there are many tribes whose traditional culture calls for contenders to physically fight for the right to lead. I think that approach has a lot to recommend it compared to the pander-fest I was forced to participate in last week.” “My suggestion is that President Trump be required to defend his office by meeting each challenger, in turn and at suitable intervals between now and...

When Google needed government sign-off on a 2007 acquisition that would tighten its grip on the digital advertising market, the company turned to antitrust attorney and lobbyist Makan Delrahim to help get the job done. Now, as the Justice Department’s top antitrust enforcer, Delrahim could be the one to undo it all.

f you have ever watched the Tour de France or even been a casual cycling fan, you have heard the voices of Paul Sherwen and Phil Liggett on commentary. Liggett on play-by-play and Sherwen on analysis and color commentary, were one of the great announcing partnerships in sports. The two worked together on many cycling races, including 33 editions of the Tour de France. That partnership sadly ended as Paul Sherwen died of heart failure last December at the age of 62. Before getting into broadcasting, Sherwen was a pro cyclist throughout the 1970s and 80s and specialized in climbing...

The news media and Trump-haters everywhere are on DefCon1 over Trump’s latest supposed verbal confusion, in which he reveals the long-held secret that the Continental Army of 1775 secured the nation’s airports from the British. They haven’t had this much outrage since the infamous “covfefe” tweet. It prompted Jim Acosta to embarrass himself once again (I know—a daily occurrence). Now I think this just shows the far-sightedness of the Founding Fathers in anticipating the rise of the airplane and travel lounge, but also the brilliance of Trump, as the anti-American left now has one more injustice—America’s horrible airports—to blame on...

Keep your eyes on Deutsche Bank on Monday. The Banks has never fully recovered from the financial meltdown in 2008......they have been suffering huge losses in the investment banking division and have been accused multiple times for financial shenanigans.....several large hedge funds and other corporate clients have quietly been moving funds out of Deutsche Bank to other Banks, creating a slow but steady run on the bank... The question is, will Deutsche Bank elect to stretch out the pain over time or use an axe to cut off all the dead weight at one time... Potentially 15,000 to 20,000 US...

VIDEO This video is from four years ago when my niece , Genesis, who was age 6 at the time became and instant mermaid. Only a couple of weeks previous to this video did she learn how to swim. I taught her, not so much the technique of how to swim but really to not be afraid of the water. As soon as she lost that fear she immediately became a very good swimmer. I then got her a mermaid tail and told her how to swim in the water with it based on what I saw on the web....

REJOICE IN THE LUSH GLOBAL GREENING CO2 is plant food. The greening of the earth means more food for animals and greater crop yields for humans. Why is no one talking about it? Amid all the talk of an imminent planetary catastrophe caused by emissions of carbon dioxide, another fact is often ignored: global greening is happening faster than climate change. The amount of vegetation growing on the earth has been increasing every year for at least 30 years. The evidence comes from the growth rate of plants and from satellite data. In 2016 a paper was published by 32...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) We should not be at all surprised if, at some point between now and September, we see our nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator, Joe Biden, withdraw from race to become the Democrat Party’s 2020 presidential nominee due to some unspecified “health” reasons. Why? Watch this clip from an interview with Chris Cuomo: This guy is simply not capable of enduring the long, grueling, race he faces. He proved in the first debate last week that he is unable to think quickly enough on his feet to adequately respond to an attack from just...

Have you ever had food poisoning and not know how you got it? Boy, I sure have, three times within the past few years. Each time I suspected a salad that I had “enjoyed” either at home or in a restaurant. Fortunately Raj, who isn’t big on salads, (his motto: “always order the soup”) was spared. I have decided to follow his recommendation. I now resolutely refuse to order salads in restaurants and I’m very selective about produce I buy. I save most of my salad cravings for summer when I can get greens at the farmers market.I have no...

This post was updated 5JUL19, when I received word that the FDA approved Bremelanotide PT-141 under the name Vylessi. I updated this post, and subsequently added the name Vylessi to all mention of Bremelanotide PT-141, and added updated histories and commentaries at the end. We have a tendency to think inside the box. We try to improve what we know. We try to work within the framework of what we have. We actually do need to think "outside the box"... As a man gets older, your body changes. Your hair starts receding, and starts to fall out. You start to...

There's a book called "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Stop Cows from Farting." https://www.amazon.com/dp/1796936030 #aoc #ocasiocortez #alexandriaocasiocortez #books #politics #environmentalism #trump #donaldtrump #news

"There is no free press" Those just some of the words spoken by Tommy Robinson following the guilty verdict at his contempt trial in London Friday.... In Norway a secret verdict in a sexual abuse trial Wednesday inolving a prominent politician.... A civil lawsuit against actor Kevin Spacey has been dropped by a man who accused Spacey of groping him.... An earthquake Friday evening in the same general area as Thursday's tremor in California, this one stronger... Justice Department lawyers told Maryland US District Judge George Hazel on Friday that the Trump Administration is exploring options to add a citizenship...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton abruptly canceled her scheduled appearance at the FireEye Cyber Defense Summit set for this coming October. Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill explained that "this conference is for the world's leading security experts. It was decided that an appearance by the Secretary would undermine her claim that she used an unsecured email server and destroyed a dozen communications devices that were under subpoena out of ignorance and unfamiliarity with using computers and cell phones. We felt it would be better for her to adopt a position that as an aging person who grew up before such...

Well, that was something. Over the course of about 28 minutes of airtime (including commercials) following the President’s Fourth of July event A Salute to America, CNN’s The Situation Room put on one of the most disgraceful displays of liberal media bias, Trump hatred, and slights at America you’ll ever see. Attacking the President like bitter preschoolers, a cast of CNN personalities bashed the Trump speech as a “rudimentary” “eighth grade history” report ripping off of Schoolhouse Rock and Wikipedia to create a work of “jingoism and militaristic virtue.”Here’s the Worst Moments from CNN’s Deranged Assault on Trump’s Fourth of...

It appears that CNN can't take a holiday from its constant bashing of President Trump, as a panel on Thursday ripped the "Salute to America" speech he had just given to a huge Fourth of July crowd. Following remarks that celebrated America's history and honored the U.S. military, the liberal news network launched a firing squad beginning with former President Obama official and CNN analyst John Kirby saying he was "troubled about the militaristic tone" of the event. "We were treated to essentially eighth-grade history that was fairly sepia-toned and saccharine in its depth and context. In fact, it was...

Censorship is the first step toward liberal tyranny. First, liberals came for the Confederate Flag. Then the statues of our Confederate leaders. Classic literature is being censored (10 Literary Classics That Have Been Banned). Now, like-minded liberal groups who defend Robert Mapplethorpe or Andres Serrano’s artistic images of the Christian Crucifix submerged in urine, want to destroy the Americana art of the 1940’s. Victor Arnautoff is one of the foremost muralists in the San Francisco area during the Depression. His work of art The Life of George Washington is from the “New Deal” era. Its erasure is just the next...