Stonepounder
Stonepounder's JournalThe kindness of strangers.
This was posted on Facebook by a friend of mine. She lives on Sanibel Island and was forced to evacuate (with her husband, dogs, and parakeet) to Pensacola:
Talk about the kindness of strangers. David and I were having dinner tonight at Pot Roast and Pinot in Pensacola tonight and mentioned to the server we were evacuated from the hurricane. Apparently, the young couple the next table overheard our tale of the difficult drive up, worry of our home and Sanibel, prep to brace the traffic back. When we went to pay the tab, which was not light, to our surprise, (you know what's coming), the couple who had already left had paid the bill! We are amazed and heartened to have such kindness.
Researchers Identify Gene for Awfulness (Borowitz)
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/researchers-identify-gene-for-awfulnessLEEDS (The Borowitz Report)In a finding that has wide-ranging implications for society, British researchers at the University of Leeds announced on Saturday that they have identified the gene for awfulness. The study, which focussed on one adult male and three of his adult children, makes a persuasive argument that there is a powerful dominant gene that makes people heinous.
Additionally, certain subtraits of awfulness, such as an inability to tell the truth, appear to be genetically mediated, Dorrinson said. If the father is unable to explain honestly why a meeting took place, for example, the son who carries the same gene will also tell crazy lies about that meeting, he said.
Hopes that the gene for horribleness might eventually become diluted as its carriers mate with the general population were dashed when the scientists studied the mating history of the adult daughter in the sample group. Unfortunately, those who carry the gene for awfulness are more likely to reproduce with other carriers of the same gene, the scientist said.
Messaging at White House reaches Biblical Proportions
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=480Coast Guardsmen Share Emotional Reunion With Kids They Saved During Harvel
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coast-guardsmen-share-emotional-reunion-with-kids-they-saved-during-harvey_us_59adbf95e4b0354e440be1b6Coast Guardsmen Share Emotional Reunion With Kids They Saved During Harvey
During the height of the flooding in the Houston area caused by Hurricane Harvey, the Coast Guard and Texas Childrens Hospital coordinated mission impossible, a plan to rescue 33 children with kidney failure who were stranded throughout southeast Texas.
They needed immediate transport to the hospital for dialysis; without it, they might die.
Zaiden lives in Bryan, Texas, about 100 miles from the hospital where he receives treatment four times a week. Gardner, alongside three other Coast Guard personnel, planned and executed the boys rescue by Blackhawk helicopter last Tuesday, Aug. 29.
By Wednesday morning, all 33 children in need had made it safely to the hospital, thanks to the daring mission.
Full story at link, with pictures. Worth a look.
Obama Cruelly Taunted Trump in Letter Riddled with Multisyllabic Words (Borowitz)
http://bit.ly/2gDySoJWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Barack Obama used the occasion of Donald Trumps Inauguration to viciously taunt the incoming President by writing him a letter riddled with multisyllabic words, sources revealed on Sunday.
According to those familiar with the letter, Obama packed it with intentionally challenging words such as reflections, adventure, and ladders, in order to bewilder and infuriate Trump.
Sources said Trump attempted to read the first line of the letter but, realizing that he was the victim of Obamas cruel prank, crumpled and discarded it in a rage.
Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the President, said that the letter episode revealed a very ugly side of Barack Obama. The media is obsessed with the feud between these two men, but Obama totally started it by using words like international, .
Dear God, how long are we going to continue to let this monster */rant mode on/*
go on destroying our country? Seven months and look what he has managed to do. He has destroyed our standing as the leader of the free world, put us on a nuclear collision course with North Korea, he is stirring up racial hatred, giving aid and comfort for Neo-Nazis and the KKK, making our allies nervous and our enemies comforted. He has no policy except those dreamed up on the spur of the moment, he is wiping out an entire generation of civil servants and destroying institutional memory, messing with out economy, fucking with our climate, fighting with Congress, obstructing justice, making his personal fortune by using his position to basically extort money from foreign governments and raid our own treasury.
When are we going to put politics aside and say ENOUGH! When is Congress going to start putting country ahead of their damn jobs and just DO their damn jobs? Do they really think that winning another term is more important than the country they took an oath that says, in part: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
We have a bloody domestic enemy in the White House. Just his overt ignoring of the Emoluments Clause should be enough to impeach him. They are NOT supporting the Constitution when they let him leech off the government teat! But, oh well, they have to be concerned about their base. What the hell would happen of their 'base' decided it would be a good idea to bring back slavery? And Trump agreed. If they felt that slavery was popular enough in their districts would they support that as well?
What is it going to take? We keep saying 'this is it' and it never is. Adios America. It was a good ride while it lasted.
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