Remember, Conservatives, liberal scientists said you can't look at the sun today

Science is a plot to sell sunglasses

https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/899648111177420802

The Role Of Solar Eclipses In Religion

Throughout human history, solar eclipses have been seen as having great religious significance, often as omens or signs of divine warning or punishment. Major and minor religions alike have their own understandings.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/18/544523271/the-role-of-solar-eclipses-in-religion

Kushner's firm seeks arrest of Maryland tenants to collect debt

The real estate company owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law and top adviser to President Donald Trump, has been the most aggressive in Maryland in using a controversial debt-collection tactic: getting judges to order the arrest of people who owe his company money.

Since 2013, the first full year in which the Kushner Cos. operated in Maryland, corporate entities affiliated with the firm's 17 apartment complexes in the state have sought the civil arrest of 105 former tenants for failing to appear in court to face allegations of unpaid debt, The Baltimore Sun has found.

That's more than any other landlord in the state over that time, an analysis of Maryland District Court data shows. Court records show that 20 former Kushner tenants have been detained.

Industry professionals say such arrests, called body attachments, can be the only way to get tenants to pay the money they owe. Kushner Cos. officials say the New York-based firm employs the tactic as a last resort, and follows industry standards and state law.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/investigations/bs-md-kushner-arrests-20170812-story.html

Bannon pledges to 'go nuclear': target Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

Steve Bannon, the ousted White House chief strategist, is reportedly considering starting a television network which would allow him to "go nuclear" as he settles vendettas with moderate advisers in the White House and pressures President Donald Trump to pursue a populist agenda of economic nationalism.

Allies of Mr Bannon compared him to a "tiger freed from his cage," suggesting things would get "ugly" as he targets the Republican establishment and what he calls "West Wing Democrats".

The departure of Mr Bannon came amid one of Mr Trump's worst weeks as president.

He and first lady Melania Trump decided not to participate in the annual Kennedy Center Honours event celebrating American culture after a backlash from those being honoured. The White House said the first couple were pulling out to "allow the honourees to celebrate without any political distraction".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/19/steve-bannon-go-nuclear-west-wing-democrats-may-start-tv-network/

Mattis re Afghanistan

POTUS "has made a decision" & "wants to be the one to announce it to the Am. people so I'll stand silent until then"

BRACE FOR IMPACT!

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/899251918069010440

Photo of Important day spent at Camp David

with our very talented Generals and military leaders. Many decisions made, including on Afghanistan.

https://twitter.com/jdice03/status/898939169522597889

wild four weeks in the White House summed up in minutes

Trump has finally lost one member of his Evangelical advisory council

Brooklyn megachurch pastor @ARBernard. #AMJoy

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/898879775942615041

Chteau Trump tasting notes

ACLU Will No Longer Defend Gun-Carrying Protest Groups

SNIP

On Thursday, the ACLU made a statement specifying that it would not defend groups that wanted to incite violence or march “armed to the teeth,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

“We review each request for help on a case-by-case basis, but take the clear position that the 1st Amendment does not protect people who incite or engage in violence,” the statement, from three California ACLU affiliates, said.

“If white supremacists march into our towns armed to the teeth and with the intent to harm people, they are not engaging in activity protected by the United States Constitution,” the statement continued. “The 1st Amendment should never be used as a shield or sword to justify violence.”

Waldo Jaquith, a former member of the ACLU Virginia board, had already resigned over the group’s decision to defend far-right activists. “I just resigned from the ACLU of Virginia board,” he wrote on Twitter. “What’s legal and what’s right are sometimes different. I won’t be a fig leaf for Nazis.”

http://www.newsweek.com/free-speech-hate-speech-aclu-civil-liberties-donald-trump-652050