Nigel Farage To Tell ‘Brexit Story’ At Trump Rally In Mississippi

He said that just as Brexiteers mobilised a “people’s army”, so too can Mr Trump in the United States.

Mr Farage told the show: “I’m telling a story about Brexit, and it’s a story that if the grassroots Republicans pick up, and if they understand that what they’ve got to do is not just sit in their armchairs, they’ve got to get out, put their walking boots on, deliver leaflets, go out and meet these people in the communities.

“In a sense what I’m saying is that we mobilised a people’s army in the United Kingdom that went out and spoke to everybody and got them down the polls, the same thing can happen here.”

1) Trump shouldn’t be in Mississippi.

2) Foreign politicians should not campaign in American elections. Even if no “endorsement” per se.

3) Presidential nominees should not invite foreign secessionists into Confederate States. Ever.Photo by Gage Skidmore

{Disregard the tweet its attached to}

Tfw people starting arguing in your mentions and you have no escape pic.twitter.com/GYGuolC7lm

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) August 24, 2016

Add to these atrocities some of the worst recorded baby names of last year: Particularly enchanting were “Elizabreth” (no, really) and “Mhavrych” (pronounced “Maverick”). Parents across the U.S. are either flinging together random collections of letters or, more unsettlingly, looking to product manufacturers for inspiration. In 2014, 73 sets of parents put “Lexus” on their baby girl’s birth certificate documents. In the same year, seven boys were called Disney. And in 2015, exactly 100 girls were named Tesla.

Please make it stop. I’ll go to Donald Trump if I have to. The one despotic law change I could get behind in that lunatic’s neo-fascist America is an officially sanctioned list of names. Of course, if Trump were actually to design a law federally mandating a name list, it would likely consist of less than 10 choices, all of which would be Anglo Saxon and most of which would be variations on Donald. That’s not really what I’m after. I’d just like a law that says, at its heart, “Don’t call your baby Meldor or Little Sweetmeat or Beberly.” (Those are actual real baby names.) Fail to act, America, and today’s babies will grow up harboring the sort of issues that will make our current hypersensitive crop of safe space-seeking, easily triggered teens seem well adjusted.

Source: Why the government should regulate baby names

These left clearer marks, but less swelling overall. Once again I definitely felt it when it happened. Also, found a wasp nest. May be unrelated, but I’m thinking not. Clancy and I are debating what to do. 

Source: Van Gogh Documentary To Be First Fully Painted Feature Film Ever Made

So… uhhh… is there anything we can do with all that extra water? A large straw or something?

Source: What Earth Will Look Like 100 Million Years from Now | Open Culture

CNN scrubs report on protester ‘calling for peace’ (she called for violence)

CNN has quietly removed an inaccurate and out-of-context portion of a report it posted online Monday, which said a woman calling for violence in the suburbs of Milwaukee was actually calling for peace.

Violent protests erupted over the weekend in Milwaukee in reaction to a police shooting of an armed black man. CNN’s initial report on the protests referred to the man’s sister, Sherelle Smith.

“Smith’s sister Sherelle Smith condemned the violence, saying the community needs the businesses affected,” CNN’s report said. “‘Don’t bring that violence here,’ [Kimberly] Neal, his other sister, said while sobbing.”

Sherelle is seen in a video posted elsewhere online, however, directing any rioting in Milwaukee to “the suburbs.”

I watch these videos, which are just amazing, and I wonder what his blood pressure is.

Weekend vibes
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— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) August 13, 2016

ok we have reached peak alex jones. peak alex jones pic.twitter.com/0XkEbJlyDh

— ███.██ (@immolations) August 13, 2016

The line about wanting to have lots of children is odd because, as far as I know, he has none. (He apparently divorced last year. Much is being made of the fact that his wife was Jewish.)

El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis

Okay, I’m going to say it: The heroin epidemic was caused by the legalization of marijuana.

We wanted legal weed, and for the most part, we got it. Four states have legalized it outright, others have decriminalized it, and in many jurisdictions police refuse to enforce the laws that are on the books, creating a de facto street legalization. {…}

In a single year, the cartel suffered a 40 percent drop in marijuana sales, representing billions of dollars. Mexican marijuana became an almost worthless product. They’ve basically stopped growing the shit: Once-vast fields in Durango now lie fallow.

More good news, right?

Yeah, no. Guzmán and his boys are businessmen. They’re not going to take a forty-point hit and not do something about it. They had to make up those profits somewhere.

So, perhaps the solution is to ban the most harmless subject imaginable, play a lot of cat-and-mouse trying to keep that out, and keep the cartels busy with the harmless stuff so they don’t get to the most harmful stuff.

I’m not sure what we could pick.

Wait a second, I don’t like this plan at all.