
…not everybody knows this…but today is a very important day…so forgive me if this seems a little rushed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/george-floyd-protests-nypd/2020/06/17/story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/18/atlanta-rayshard-brooks-walkout/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/18/data-privacy-law-sherrod-brown/
…it’d be just awful if someone were to get it twisted & miss the point
…or those priceless moments of almost sublime irony
…or dominic-grade ramming of foot into mouth
…after all…it’s no secret that a whole lot of shit is going down around about now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-what-is-the-true-death-toll-of-the-pandemic?
…& to be honest it seems like a whole lot of it deserves a whole lot more time & attention that anyone seems likely to have for it
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/trump-businesses-empire-tied-presidency-100496
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/us-employers-unions-pandemic-activism
…due to – as is so deplorably approximate to normal these days – the staggering volume of staggering yet somehow stultifyingly banal mewling of the mandarin mandarin as he once again shows his ass to the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/18/navarro-economic-stimulus-white-house/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/18/republicans-should-be-more-petrified-polls/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/18/trump-tweet-label-video/
a claim experts rejected.
…I’d go so far as to say the only truly shocking thing about Bolton’s “revelations” is how thoroughly predictable they all are
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/17/john-bolton-book-trump-china-dictators-saudi-arabia
…for clarity
…it’s a non-standard definition of reform…since apparently prosecuting them when they kill a man on video in circumstances most would agree to be unjustified is something he considers unfair treatment of the totally-reformed-&-like-super-great-not-at-all-militarised-or-overfunded police & their wonderful unions that aren’t like those other mean unions that call him an asshole
…still…at least he finally found out Juneteenth is a thing
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32908010/trump-juneteenth-masks-interview/
…& that the White House has even put out some sort of statement bearing his name to acknowledge and commemorate that fact for the last three years…as an aide had to inform him mid-interview…no doubt to his great relief
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/trump-juneteenth-holiday-meaning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/18/juneteenth-holiday-history-slavery-george-floyd/
…although, contextually speaking it’s maybe not the happiest of birthdays this go around
…here’s the thing though
…the importance of this date to many people…whatever the hairspray-king-of-mar-a-lago might tell himself to stave off the ever-lurking spectre of self-awareness…is a well-documented & oft-celebrated thing…but I’ll have you know in this particular backwater of the great & vasty deeps of the online universe there is perhaps one claim that might manage to give it a run for its money in our affections
…because it’s meg’s birthday y’all
Happy birthday, Meg! Here’s a special birthday song, just for you:
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Compared to a fossil,
You look like brand new!
Ha! Thanks!
Happiest of birthdays to you Meg!!!! Today would have been my father’s 102nd birthday, he lived ’til age 94 and was a very good man. Others who share your birthday include Aung San Suu Kyi , Anne Wilson of Heart, and Kathleen Turner – obviously a day for smart and talented ladies.
Cheers to that! Thank you!
Happy Birthday MegMegMcGee!
Thanks bb!
Happy Birthday Meg!!!
Love it, thanks!
Happy Bday Meg!!
It’s an early Fur Face Friday!
Good thing since FFF is late. 😡
because there was no gino last week so they didn’t know what to feature? :p
That must be it!
happy birthday meg 🙂
here have another new dutch artist i found the other day
i dont know what happened here but the current batch of artists we have is amazing….
It’s here, Meg doesn’t have to have a birthday with no Fur Face Friday!
https://backtalk.kinja.com/fur-face-friday-1844097224?_ga=2.110016716.819650420.1592514641-486301468.1589418632
…we wouldn’t want this special day going to the dogs
If you think I’m going along with the puns again you are barking up the wrong tree!
it has been a ruff day, though
And one more. Happy Bday
unrelated to everything…..but it sounds like a warzone in my garden atmo
i live near an army barracks/training ground…. i guess they finally got not stupid enough to play with the big guns…..damn thats a lot louder than the rifle practice i normally hear
Happy Birthday Meg!