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August 26, 2024

Cadet Bone Spurs is at Arlington.

Honoring all those losers and suckers. Of course the MAGA twits are extolling his patriotism.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 service members.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is expected to visit Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to the service members killed in the bombing outside the Kabul airport. Trump will then go to Michigan to address the National Guard Association of the United States conference.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-expected-tie-harris-chaotic-093958764.html

I so want Kamala to kick his ass!!!

August 26, 2024

FOX anchor Matt Vereen is arrested on child porn charges

A sexual predator working for FOX? Color me surprised.

Matt Vereen, 28, a weekend anchor and sports reporter for the network's affiliate WACH FOX 57 in South Carolina, was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, the state's Attorney General announced.

Disturbing arrest warrants obtained by WIS-TV detail how investigators with the Columbia Police Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the state's Internet Crimes against Children Task Force found child pornography on his laptop.

One arrest warrant shows that officers found a digital photo on his MacBook of a girl, between the ages of 11 to 13, in a sexually suggestive pose.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/us/article-13778863/Fox-WACH-anchor-Matt-Vereen-arrested-child-porn-charges.html

August 19, 2024

What photo editing software do you use?

Came across this article regarding Adobe, seems some users are getting pretty pissed off with them.

What you use/recommend?

In this case, my feelings are tempered by the fact that I get it: Adobe is not beloved. Far from it, actually. The shift to subscription pricing has been wildly unpopular and seems to color almost every response to any step the company takes. Photographers have long memories, so it doesn’t even matter that the choice to give up perpetual software was made more than 10 years ago; some photographers are still mad now.

The past few years of minimal communication with the community at large followed by the tidal wave of bad press over the past six months has left Adobe’s standing with many photographers in shambles. Adobe couldn’t explain why it let its once excellent relationship with photographers and media lapse, only that it is sorry that happened.

https://petapixel.com/2024/08/15/photographers-vitriol-for-adobe-feels-insurmountable/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3NzfAWWPB70wWo4v5bCtFFXvjCDDQ_y5wobozi5s2-5dElfaWN41wKgtI_aem_0HE2oO7NeLW6MBdraXIvBg
August 1, 2024

Incredulous laughter, audible gasps: Trump's performance at NABJ left him exposed

The former president snapped and snarled through his interview – and looked for all the world like an old crank.

When ABC’s Rachel Scott opened the proceedings by asking the former president his impetus for addressing the Black journalists, women and Chicagoans in the crowd who have been regularly subject to his hostility, Trump dismissed the question as “horrible” and called Scott “nasty” before turning his bluster meter up to 11.


He declared himself the best president since Abraham Lincoln for “the Black population”. He pushed back on the idea that Kamala Harris would identify as Black. (“She was Indian, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went.”) He enunciated the word with such contempt, as if coughing up a hairball – buh-LAAAAA-kuh. All the while, crowd reactions whipsawed from incredulous laughter to deep groans. At one point the discussion shifted to Sonya Massey, the latest Black person to be unlawfully killed by Chicago police. “Are you talking [the one] with the water?” Trump asked to audible gasps.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/31/trump-nabj-black-journalists-chicago
May 31, 2024

Donald Trump, Felon



In a humble courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Thursday, a former president and current Republican standard-bearer was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The jury’s decision, and the facts presented at the trial, offer yet another reminder — perhaps the starkest to date — of the many reasons Donald Trump is unfit for office.



In the end, the jury heard the evidence, deliberated for more than nine hours and came to a decision, which is how the system is designed to work. In the same way, elections allow voters to consider the choices before them with full information, then freely cast their ballots. Mr. Trump tried to sabotage elections and the criminal justice system — both of which are fundamental to American democracy — when he thought they might not produce the outcome he wanted. So far, they have proved resilient enough to withstand his attacks. The jurors have delivered their verdict, as the voters will in November. If the Republic is to survive, all of us — including Mr. Trump — should abide by both, regardless of the outcome.



https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/trump-trial-guilty-felony.html

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