Left Coast Sports Babe

Could be worse, in England soccer teams who do as badly as #SFGiants are doing this year get dropped down to equivalent of Triple-A.

-Just got a Facebook ad for SF Giants fidget spinners… . Sorry, Giants fans need a lot more than a fidget spinner to reduce stress in 2017.

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Reality star Savannah Chrisley (who?) said on Instagram that she’s dating Luke Kennard, who was just drafted by the Detroit Pistons. Well, and dating reality stars has worked out so well for NBA players with the Kardashians.

Markelle Fultz, Philadelphia’s #1 draft pick, said he thinks the 76ers are now a playoff team. Well, in the Eastern Conference, all they need is to win about 30-40 of 82 games.

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Three teenagers were handcuffed yesterday in DC by plainclothes police for selling bottled water without permits on the National Mall. Don’t think we have to guess their race. No charges were ultimately filed, but supposed the kids should be grateful they weren’t shot.

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A woman complained on Yelp that that she found a dead frog in her salad at BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse in West Covina, California. Good thing she wasn’t in San Francisco. For the frog they’d have charged extra.

A Florida college student accused of stabbing a couple to death last year says he wants to “be a normal kid again.” The young man, then 19, not only killed them, he attacked a neighbor who tried to help, and chewed on one victim’s face. I believe that “normal” ship has sailed.

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Week after the Virginia shooting,  Johnny Depp joked about assassinating Trump. And we thought his stupidest idea ever was making “Pirates of the Caribbean 5.”

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Friday was #BringYourDogToWorkDay. GOP senators don’t need to do that, they already have the Trumpcare bill.

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Trump said repeatedly “we’ll have to see,” about potentially firing Mueller. Translation “if he gets close to an indictment.”

-At his Iowa rally this week, Trump received cheers when he called for a new law barring immigrants from receiving welfare for at least five years. Okay, but Bill Clinton signed a law doing exactly that in 1996.
How long until Trump claims credit for the Civil Rights act? Or Social Security?

Open question to working class @realdonaldTrump voters – can you name 1 thing he’s done as President that actually benefits you?

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From TC:    Trump took credit this week for building Panama Canal, which occurred over 100 years ago. If nobody challenges him then next week… Great Wall of China?

Pope Francis met with a NFL Hall-of-Fame delegation that included Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones. Did his Holiness thank Jones for all the years Tony Romo had fans on their knees praying?

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Dwyane Wade will pick up $23.8 million player option for 2017-8. Asked why? “24 million reasons.” Who says there’s no honesty in sports?

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In Colorado, the fine for texting while while driving has increased from $50 to $300.” But the fine does not apply if texting isn’t done in a “careless or imprudent manner.”
Uh, does anyone who texts and drives think they are being careless or imprudent? #nottheonion

JetBlue is testing facial recognition software to replace boarding passes. Sounds interesting, but what are they going to do in Los Angeles where faces are regularly surgically altered?

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One problem for Dems with GA-06 is that race was treated like a possible slam dunk when it was always a half-court shot.

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A friend points out that Jon Ossoff looks like a guy who doesn’t know what pimento cheese is….

Trump today, attacking Obama for not doing enough in North Korea. “Look at Otto, beautiful Otto. Went over there a healthy, beautiful boy.”.
Fair enough, but Portland hero and stabbing victim Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, was a healthy beautiful boy too.

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Uh-oh, terror subject at Flint Airport is from Quebec. Time to put Canada on the travel ban list?

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Today is #NationalSelfieDay And millennials are going “Isn’t every day National Selfie Day?

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Jared Kushner arrived in the Middle East today trying to restart talks between Israel and Palestine. He will return home tomorrow.. Well, sure, Mideast shouldn’t take more than 24 hours.

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Home Depot being sued for selling 3 1/2″ by 3 1/2″ lumber as 4” x 4″s. Maybe they figure, well, male buyers always overestimate inches.

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Leaked copy of Senate #Trumpcare bill plans to eliminate #PlannedParenthood funding So more unwanted pregnancies & abortions. #prolifemyass

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So what exactly does a police officer have to do to be convicted of manslaughter in fatally shooting a black man?

An Alabama couple was arrested when they brought their baby to an Indiana bar – and mom was drinking and smoking while breastfeeding. The best part, the woman’s occupation is life coach. Your move, Florida.

Just when watching the SF Giants was beginning to be the classic definition of insanity…. an actual win.    And there’s good news on the horizon for the team when they return home -also known as the NY Mets.

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Cavs fire GM.    If this is how dysfunctional the  team is  WITH Lebron & with a good team, imagine the franchise if  King James leaves Cleveland.

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All this drama with Cavs in Cleveland. If Lebron wants a peaceful life thinking Gregg Popovich might take his call.

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GOP is having a contest where winner will dine with Trump in DC this month. Runner-up is Melania who gets the night off.

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Think we can all agree the guy in Brussels was the best kind of suicide bomber – the kind who only gets himself killed.

So can anyone from the NRA tell me how Philando Castile’s having a gun made him safer?

#TravisKalanick has resigned as CEO of Uber. Wow. What’s next? A position with Fox News or the Trump Administration?

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Let me get this straight,  Steve Bannon, who works for Donald Trump, is fat-shaming Sean Spicer. Talk about fat round pots and kettles….

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Warner Bros says that they investigated “Bachelor in Paradise” when an “female cast member” was allegedly too drunk to consent to a sexual act with a “male cast member” and the findings did “not support any charge of misconduct.”
Translation, all our hookups are consensual. Please watch. Ratings! $$$$

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Trump – #OttoWarmbier “should have been brought home that day.” So what about 3 Americans Reuters says are still detained in North Korea.

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Six members of Trump’s Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS have resigned. One member said in an Newsweek op-ed that the “president simply does not care.”
Wrong, the President does care. It’s just that he only cares about himself.

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Those moments you remember why John McCain used to be every moderate and liberal’s favorite Republican: Bloomberg reports he was asked today if he has seen a copy of Trumpcare legislation. He said no and “Nor have I met any American that has. I’m sure the Russians have been able to hack in and gotten most of i

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The London Bridge-Borough Market attack killed seven in London. The Grenfell Tower fire killed at least 58. Both stories are awful. But a sad reminder that negligence and lack of regulations can be as deadly as terrorism.

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NFL may pull future Super Bowls from Texas over the state’s bathroom bill. Is football developing a social conscience? Or do they realize that LGBT”s and supporters spend a lot of $$$?

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Roger Goodell on Colin Kaepernick not having a job, teams are going to do “whatever it takes to make their football team better. So those are football decisions. any other player, is going to improve that team, they’re going to do it.”
Translation, if you’re going to be a pain-in-the-a**, or even a criminal, you’d better be a star.

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Newt Gingrich,”Technically, the President of the United States cannot obstruct justice,” Yep, still the same high-minded guy who was having an affair himself when he pushed to impeach Clinton on charges of…. obstruction of justice.

Three Florida men have been arrested forr allegedly stealing $300,000 worth of avocados. Holy Guacamole Batman

Sad news.   Stephen Furst,  ,  Flounder in Animal House, has died. Will his first act in heaven be to throw up on John Vernon? #DeanWormer

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A matador was gored to death at a bull fight in France. Sad. But on other hand, how many bulls are stabbed to death at fights annually?

Good thing Barack didn’t introduce Donald to Melania. Trump would have to divorce her just to undo another Obama accomplishment.

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SF Giants are doing their best to get fans ready for 49ers season. When everyone will be thrilled if the team wins a game most weeks.

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Apparently the Warriors will reimburse the city of Oakland the $4 million it cost to hold their championship parade. Which is a cool thing. Although it helps that the team made an extra $12-15 million by losing game 4 for that second home game.

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Draymond Green & Lebron James arguing over who started “superteams.” Meanwhile, 25+ teams w/ no chance to win @NBA title thinking STFU.

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Amazon buys Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. Wow. For that amount of money a family could shop at Whole Foods for a year.

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A woman has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for sending her 18 year old boyfriend texts encouraging him to commit suicide, even telling him not to back out when he had doubts while filling his truck with carbon monoxide. Somewhat shocking…why wasn’t it wasn’t at least voluntary manslaughter?

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Now Alex Jones is accusing Megyn Kelly of double-crossing him over their interview and is releasing secret recordings of their phone calls. What is that old adage about lying down with dogs….

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Kellyanne Conway decrying heated rhetoric said “If I were shot, some would applaud.” She’s right
But Kellyanne didn’t have a problem with her boss saying this. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks Though the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Similarities to #Watergate with Trump administration are an insult. Nixon had real accomplishments.

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In Florida, after another court ruled against them, the state is dropping a 2011 law that would sanction or imprison doctors for -get this -discussing gun safety with patients. But apparently the GOP is talking about trying again. Once again, four words ‘pro life my ass.”

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Trump says he is “canceling Obama’s deal with Cuba” but apparently the changes are minimal and mostly posturing. So by “cancel” does he mean take Obama’s name off of it?

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Let’s get to the real important stuff for many Americans.  Can we continue to drink Cuban rum and smoke Cuban cigars,  and can MLB teams still sign Cuban ballplayers?

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Trump says he is ending tourism to Cuba except for “educational” trips. Travelers will be subject to Treasury audit and will have to keep records of all their transactions in Cuba for five years.
So cruises to Cuba will be under much tighter scrutiny than Trump’s tax returns….

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That moment when Ted Nugent decides “hateful rhetoric” is a bad idea before the President of the United States does….

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White privilege in 140 characters or less – -knowing even if your son gets pulled over by police officer for cause, you won’t be planning his funeral. #PhilandoCastile

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Trump tweeted “regulations way down, enthusiasm and jobs way up.”   Now, the US currently bans cladding used on London’s Grenfell Tower for safety reasons. Is this another regulation he will get rid of as unnecessary? #jobkillers? #peoplekillers?

Another liberal media type heard from – “This jackass is really ticking me off. And today…Cuba? F—ing Cuba? If he’d run a campaign promising to do everything he’s done in the last 6 months, he’d never have been elected.”
The writer, Ann Coulter. Actually if the two of them want to do something good for the USA, you might get bipartisan agreement on a charity-supporting debate on pay-per-view.

Despite today’s shooting at the GOP Congressional baseball practice, Thursday night’s charity game will go on as scheduled between Democrats and Republicans.

One way to fight terror is not to give into it.

It’s hard to call something a nice story in the midst of such a terrible story. But apparently the death toll at London’s Grenfell Tower could have been much higher. But Muslim residents in the building stay awake until 2am or so because of Ramadan for their last meal and prayer. Many of them were able to alert others to get out.’

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A Wisconsin GOP lawmaker on today’s Virginia shooting “This media frenzy and absurdity MUST STOP! There are people crazy enough to carry out these heinous acts.”
I don’t remember hearing the same Republican outrage after Gabby Giffords was shot after that ad showing Democrats in cross-hairs. Or when “crazy” people have gone after abortion doctors assailed as baby-killers

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GOP position: guns don’t kill people, Shakespeare kills people.

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So where is the demand that all older white men disavow acts of terrorism committed by an older white man? #Alexandria #VAshooting

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#SanFranciscoUPS mass killer reportedly had “history of mental illness.” But let’s make it easier for people like him to get guns.

I really would like to know WHEN GOP thinks it’s a good idea to have gun control debate. “Between mass shootings” doesn’t leave open dates.

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Fox News is dropping their “Fair and Balanced” slogan. Are they going to change it to “Alternative Facts?”

Got invite as an SF Giants fan to join team a “Giants Vacation” to Hawaii in late November. November? Why wait, this year’s team will be free in October.

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Johnny Cueto seems like he might want a trade from the SF Giants to a contending team.  But if he doesn’t start pitching consistently better, no contender will want him.

Special counsel Mueller apparently investigating Trump for #ObstructionOfJustice. Too soon to start a pool on what date Trump will fire him?

A United flight from Newark to Venice was canceled today after a a wing leaking fuel on the runway. The airline provided passengers with hotel rooms But oh the horror – not only missing out on a day in Venice, but needing to spend another night in Newark.

So the NBA postseason is finally over. NBA 2017-18 preseason starts next week.

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Congrats Golden State Warriors, but announcers calling it “redemption? Great win but “redemption” when team with three all-Star starters and the best record in 2016-17 then adds  Kevin Durant?

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Unknown buyer paid $133,000 for 2 courtside seats for tonight’s #NBAFinals game 5. Did they vote Trump thinking they needed a tax cut?

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Some unknown buyer paid $133,000 for a pair of courtside seats to tonight’s Warriors-Cavs game. Well, guess they don’t think they need to save money this year for SF Giants World Series tickets.

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Madbum Bumgarner has started throwing off a mound and hopes to be making rehab starts sooner. Which is good news for SF Giants, except that his replacement Ty Blach might be their best pitcher.

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Anyone remember who won the Belmont Stakes this weekend. Yeah, me neither. #noDerbywinnernoPreaknesswinner

Monday and already have the first world problem for the week: Local Starbucks has a broken machine & can sell you “anything but coffee.”

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Look, Julius Caesar isn’t my favorite Shakespeare play, but using a US president as Caesar is old news. It’s happened frequently, and  in 2012 with a Minneapolis production with Obama.

And have any of these conservative snowflakes actually read the play so they know the point?

While GOP is so upset about #JuliusCaesar, remember this line from the play – “What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

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The first new U.S. coal mine since Trump’s inauguration opened in Pennsylvania today. (Even though it was started last August during the Obama adminstration.) All of 70 jobs.
Assume a parade of dignitaries rode in with their horse and buggies.

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Reports that Trump is considering firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. As soon as he decides whether to replace him with Ivanka or Jared?

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This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Trump has now tweeted “What has happened in Orlando is just the beginning. Our leadership is weak and ineffective. I called it and asked for the ban. Must be tough.”
Uh, first, the Pulse shooter was born in the US. And second, what about the five innocent people murdered last week by a disgruntled white guy with a criminal history and gun?

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Where are people screaming about a lack of decency in a Shakespeare play on subject of NBC giving Alex Jones an interview?

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Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte pleaded guilty today and avoided jail time for body-slamming a reporter. He will have to serve 40 hours of community service, attend anger management courses, and pay a $385 fine. Gianforte would have paid more had he run a red light in California.

RIP Batman. And there goes a big piece of my childhood. Biff Bam. Pow

So will Adam West’s funeral be spread over two days? And mourners be told to come back tomorrow “same bat time, same bat channel?”

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So how about that Belmont Stakes win by a long shot after both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner skipped the race. ..

Yeah, me neither.

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What’s the next SF Giants giveaway in 2017 – homage to the 1962 Mets?

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Draymond Green post-game 3  “I don’t pay that much attention to anybody in Cleveland, honestly. They don’t seem to be the sharpest people around.”
This should be entertaining the next time the Warriors play in Quicken Loans Arena.

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Apparently James Comey’s testimony was watched by 20 million people, more than who watched any game in the NBA finals. To be fair. until game 4, Comey looked a whole lot more competitive than the Cavs.

The number 3 story on ESPN today was  about Lavar Ball? WTF. It’s enough to make you wish for more substantive news on the Kardashians.

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Latest rumor is Lebron James trying to form a super team in Los Angeles. Maybe we should just disband @NBA & cut down to 4 All-Star teams

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Meanwhile, tonight SF Giants lose a game 4-0 to Twins where the giveaway item was a “Buster Hugs” blanket. Thinking Buster Hugs might be what the team needs to start giving for any fans showing up to games.

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Getting sense that if Comey stands up this morning and flatly says Trump told him to obstruct justice GOP will say Trump is vindicated.

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Some DC bars are offering free drinks in the morning during Comey testimony every time Trump tweets about it.  So if these words are blurring, cheers.

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ESPN reports that a Golden State sweep in the NBA finals would cost the Warriors’ owners more than $22 million for games not played at Oracle. “I feel so sorry for them” said nobody.

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Pro-Trump group to run attack ad against Comey during former FBI director’s testimony. Not much gratitude for making their guy President

Think I just watched Buster Posey’s first non-solo home run since about 2014. #SFGiants

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After 18 seasons, Bob Stoops said today that he is retiring as Oklahoma’s football coach, and it is not for health reasons. Too soon to start a pool on possible Sooner scandals?

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Apple is going to have a new iPhone feature called “Do Not Disturb While Driving” that will block texts and other notifications.. But passengers who are just riding will be able to disable the tool. So wonder what percent of people will just claim they are always passengers?

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Seeing many complaints against Democrats for not articulating a positive message. Point taken. But it is difficult to talk about about a nice remodeling project when someone is trying to burn the house down.

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Maybe this is another reason why Trump likes Putin so much? Vlad in an upcoming Oliver Stone documentary “I am not a woman, so I don’t have bad days I am not trying to insult anyone. That’s just the nature of things. There are certain natural cycles.”

More Chris Christie, defending Trump ahead of Comey testimony “And quite frankly, in these kind of conversations everybody hears what they want to hear.” So that’s going to be Christie’s defense when his official misconduct case in Bridgegate finally comes to trial?

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Those in GOP complaining about waste of time & money on #SenateIntelHearing didn’t have a problem with all those hearings on Benghazi

So if we Democrats aren’t people what are we? Would be okay with saying I’m a cat but then Eric Trump might shoot me?

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On a lighter note, got  a message the BBC had quoted my Amal and George comment from yesterday  “What, George and Amal Clooney gave their new twins nice normal names? Ella and Alexander. Isn’t that a violation of celebrity rules?”

Glad to be one American on Twitter who’s not offending the Brits. 🙂

Confused.  So what post position does Reality Winner have in the Belmont States?

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But hey, who  wouldn’t give a top security clearance to a young woman named Reality Winner?

With tonight’s win the #SFGiants climb to within 10 games of the second Wild Card.  But hey, had almost forgotten that the Giants could walk off the field smiling.

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Michael Buttacavoli, a pro-golfer trying to qualify for the U.S. Open, had to withdraw because American Airlines lost his golf clubs. United Airlines is no doubt chuckling a bit – “What a drag.”

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QB Malik Zaire transferred from Notre Dame to Florida after the SEC adjusted their transfer policy for graduate students. Per ESPN the new rules are less restrictive and reduce penalties for programs whose graduate transfers fail to meet academic requirements.
Shocking. Quarterbacks who transfer in the SEC HAVE academic requirements?

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From an anonymous friend.  Now  try to get this song out of your head.

#TheBachelorette now makes us long for those innocent days when the most surreal reality show in US was on ABC and not in the White House.

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The man who allegedly killed 5 co-workers then himself in Orlando had previously been accused of battering a co-worker. He also according to the Orlando Sentinel had a DUI and some minor drug offenses. No problem getting a gun. But hey, he was white. Move along, nothing to see here.

And we’re certainly not having a “”gun debate.”

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Wrap your head around this: The President of the United States is trolling the Mayor of London two days after a terrorist attack. #MAGA?

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US visa applicants now apparently can be asked to fill out a new form – DS-5535. They will have to list social media and email accounts going back 5 years, and 15 years of employment and home addresses.
Can’t wait to see what country is the first to ask this of visiting Americans.

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Another crazy liberal complaining about Trump’s tweets “These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won’t help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad.”
The tweeter? George Conway – husband of Kellyanne.

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Trump on privatizing AirTrafficControl; we “can look forward to cheaper faster & safer travel.” If planes don’t move they’ll be dragged off?

So if Trump does succeed in creating a new non-profit to run Air Traffic Control who will he put in charge – Ivanka or Jared?

So as far as I can figure – Jeff Sessions is a racist bully & an a**hole. But he isn’t enough of an a**hole for Donald  Trump

NBA Finals game 2 – looking like only competitive playoff game involving #Warriors will be Western Conf. Finals before Kawhi went down.

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If the league knew the Warriors were going to look this good they might have scheduled games one  through four  with a week between them to stretch this thing out.

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SF Giants and Phillies played a series where both teams look like they richly deserve their 2017 records.

I’m sure Trump would have trolled the mayor of London even if his name was still  Boris Johnson instead of Sadiq Khan.

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Wonder who besides me was disgusted by Bill Maher’s casual use of the “n” word, but even more disgusted by Trump’s tweets on #LondonAttacks.

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#Stayclassy. That’s usually a hashtag for some athlete or celebrity. Or a minor political figure. Not a President. But, Trump tweeted today “Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck!”
And just imagine the death toll in London if they DID have guns.

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Do I care if Trump golfs, no, but when you’ve got a guy who repeatedly trolled President Obama for golfing, and has now played his 22nd round in less than 150 days…. This is after he said said if elected he wouldn’t have time for golf, but rather “stay in the White House and work my ass off….”
As far as i can tell with pictures, his ass is still attached. Growing even.

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In Turin, over 1,500 were injured, fortunately only three seriously, after a bomb scare apparently caused by some people freaking out over fireworks. This triggered a stampede at a soccer match. Fear itself is winning.

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The Secret Service says they will use the “whole-person concept” and will no longer automatically disqualify an applicant who has used marijuana repeatedly in the past. Well, it’s high time.

According to the Harvard Crimson, at least 10 students admitted to Harvard in 2017 had their admissions rescinded after posting offensive things in a Facebook group titled , “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.”  (We aren’t apparently talking just un-pC jokes, this stuff included abusing children,  jokes on rape, the Holocaust etc.)

Two reactions here – first, how can you be smart enough to get into Harvard and stupid enough to post this kind of crap publicly on line. And second, this year there are some happy people on Harvard’s waitlist.

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Just wondering what Trump would have said if a foreign leader responded to the fatal stabbings in Portland by tweeting an attack on him and his policies.

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As Trump prepares to focus on infrastructure this week – while he’s not golfing or insulting our allies, this is an important reminder (via the NY Times) “The federal government would make only a fractional down payment on rebuilding the nation’s aging infrastructure. Trump would rely on a combination of private industry, state and city tax money, and borrowed cash to finance the rest.”
Wonder how much of the proposed money will go to corporations run by Trump family and donors.

Light bus to hell moment from TC  “Anyone notice that French Prez Macron held Trump’s hand longer than Melania???