Hello Gnus...haha! Had to try that just once, sorry Goodie.
Happy Wednesday!
Jeesh, it seems like Tuesday evening is becoming the “Debbie Downer” day. You get all pumped up from the late week good news and then BAM!, it is Tuesday evening and the old low feelings come around again. It’s like the roller coaster is making me more and more nauseous because it just won’t stop.
Let me just say, before we move on that no matter what, I support the accuser of this evil Supreme Court nominee. One never forgets when one has been scarred in such a way.
Ok, enough….onward.
TeeHeeHee:
Trump’s Penis Looks Like Toad From Mario Kart, Says Stormy Daniels
Well sorry that’s just gross. Hope I didn’t make you spit out your coffee.
I am severely off track today forgive me.
Onward I say:
Once You're Done Retching, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Is $15 Off
I said onward! I think maybe the air is too thin in here.
Awww:
Longtime Sesame Street writer says Bert and Ernie are a couple
In an interview with Queerty (via The New York Post), longtime Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman has revealed that he always envisioned Bert and Ernie as a “loving couple” in a relationship, not just a pair of dedicated roommates/best friends. Saltzman, who is gay, says it wasn’t a “huge agenda” he was trying to push when he wrote for the characters, he just “didn’t have any other way to contextualize” Bert and Ernie than to drawn inspiration from his own relationship with film editor Arnold Glassman. He said Glassman—like Bert—was always very straight-laced and organized, while he—like Ernie—is more of a “jokester.” So, without directly acknowledging it in any way or really admitting to anyone that he was doing it, Saltzman based the characters on his own life and wrote Bert and Ernie as a gay couple living together. In fact, he says more than one person used to refer to him and Glassman as Bert and Ernie since their dynamic was clearly represented on the show.
Are we cheering up yet? Close?
Precocious 10-year-old launches snack-vending company with single machine
Owen Lefkovits will probably grow up to run a Fortune 500 company, mark our words. The precocious Georgia 10-year-old has already created his own business—O.L. Vending—and overcome start-up costs, inventory issues, and equipment troubles to create a profitable business. Except that he donates those profits to his local Humane Society rather than keep them for himself. What a kid!
Let’s hear more from the Forsyth County News about this little gem, shall we?
The paper brings us a wonderful profile of Lefkovits, which I insist you read if you need a break in your regularly scheduled doom-and-gloom news programming.
Go Read The Whole Thing. Really, it will be your smile for the day.
I don’t know about you but I feel a little better.
Anderson Cooper Thoroughly Wrecks Donald Trump Jr. For Spreading Lies About Him
Allow me to set the scene for you: In one corner we have Donald Trump Jr., idiot firstborn son and namesake of the president of the United States. In the other, Anderson Cooper, a famous journalist and scion of the vast Vanderbilt empire. It’s something of an “unstoppable force, immovable object” situation, except instead of being unstoppable, one of them runs straight into a brick wall and smashes himself flat like Wile E. Coyote.
On Sunday, Trump Jr. tweeted a picture of Cooper standing waist-deep in floodwaters while a camera crew stood nearby, with water only coming up to their calves, adding that CNN needed to “Stop Lying to make @realDonaldTrump look bad.” Given that Hurricane Florence had just pounded the Carolina coast, the insinuation seemed clear: CNN was faking its coverage of the storm’s damage.
Cooper was having none of it and spent a long time on his Monday night show dragging Donj directly to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Noting that, actually, the picture in question was taken during 2008's Hurricane Ike, Cooper explained that he had been standing in the deeper water because he didn’t want to be roaming on the roads, where emergency vehicles were attempting to pass.
“I don’t expect the president’s son to ever admit that he was wrong or one of the president’s advisers or frankly anyone else who’s retweeted any of these pictures,” he concluded. “But I at least thought that they and you should know the truth.”
Are we getting there...I can feel that I am on the verge of Good News cheer, how about you?:
GOP Reportedly Panicking That Voters Are Buying Trump's 'Red Wave' Bullshit
To hear President Donald Trump tell it, Republicans are in great shape ahead of November’s midterms, despite poll after poll after poll favoring the Democrats. In fact, he’s predicting a “red wave” that will keep the GOP in power. And now, much to the Republican National Committee’s dismay, the president’s most die hard supporters are starting to believe him.
While most voters expect Democrats to take control of at least the House this fall, half of Republicans—57 percent of whom are self-described “strong” Trump supporters—don’t see any threat to their control of Congress and aren’t hugely motivated to vote in November…
Generic ballot polling over the past two weeks shows Democrats with anywhere from a five to a 12 point lead over Republicans for the midterm election—
The RNC’s internal memo, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and completed on September 2, concludes that “We need to make real the threat that Democrats have a good shot of winning control of Congress.”
To do so puts the RNC in the unenviable position of having to ring the alarm bells loud enough to drown out the president’s seemingly baseless bravado—an impossible task given that the memo itself confirms that Trump’s cult of personality has essentially subsumed the Republican party.
Have fun with that in November.
And now for something completely different:
Oscar-winning actor Brie Larson plays the lead role in the film, which also happens to be Marvel Studios' first full-length feature based on a woman superhero.
In case you missed it, during the end credits scene in Avengers: Infinity War, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) are two of the many heroes who met their end when Thanos snapped his finger and destroyed half of life throughout the universe.
But before Nick fully disappeared into the atmosphere, he made contact with Captain Marvel, as the character's insignia showed up on his beeper-like device before the screen went dark.
Basically, this movie is a BIG DEAL.
I know this diary has been a little different, a little light on “news” but holy cow I do not want to post half the crap that has been going on the past few days. It is just depressing and frustrating and this is not what this group is about. You can all read the gloom and doom, as I have, but I wanted to lighten hearts and keep us all in “the good place”. Feel free to share any other good news you have in the comments. We can all use it!
OK, This is good news, I feel such sisterhood with this brave woman:
599 alumnae from Christine Blasey Ford’s high school sign letter saying they support her
Nearly 600 women from Christine Blasey Ford’s high school have signed on to an open letter saying that they support her and believe her account that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school.
“Dr. Blasey Ford’s experience is all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves,” the letter reads. First circulated by a group of women who do not know Ford and who graduated from Holton-Arms, a private all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2005, the letter has 599 signatories from students who attended between 1962 and 2018.
“A connection we all have is that in hearing her story, each and every one of us, resonated immediately, knowing that the situation she described could have happened to any one of us or our friends, and sometimes similar situations did,” Gold told Vox in an email.
She continued: “As far as Dr. Ford’s specific allegations, it is inconsequential/irrelevant to us whether anyone has heard them before, and in no way affects our belief that she is telling the truth. What we are referring to in our letter is the nearly ubiquitous experience of high school girls as they try to navigate coming of age in a society dominated by toxic masculinity.”
Take us out:
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An update:
Over 700 Holton-Arms alumni release letter in support of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
We demand a thorough and independent investigation of these charges before any vote on Brett Kavanaugh. The fact remains, Brett Kavanaugh has shown himself to be a liar, so taking his “word” for anything at this point is suspect.
One more before I call it:
Good Good News. Respect and Love you all. It has been a hard couple of days but we will persevere. Is that really spelled right...Jeesh.