EpicProgress.com - Damage Report February 8th, 2017

http://www.epicprogress.com/daily-trump-damage-report-282017/ 

Here is your recap of the ongoing catastrophe and biomedical waste dumpster fire that is the Trump administration.

• Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions, has been confirmed. Sessions opposed civil rights, was against prosecuting lynchings, and is what you might envision an Alabama Senator to be like if you closed your eyes and imagined the worst, most stereotypical Alabama Senator.

• In opposition to naming Jeff “Ominous Banjo Music” Sessions Attorney General, Senator Elizabeth Warren wanted to read a letter from the late wife of Martin Luther King Jr. She was silenced on the floor of the Senate. She was told to keep quiet. Nevertheless, she persisted.

• Trump lashed out at a private company for deciding to drop a product based on a lack of sales. The product in question was profiting his daughter, Ivanka. He decided to use the power of his office to attack the company in the interest of the financial stakes of his daughter.

• Spicey Boy, his press goon, immediately informed us that the private company seeking to drop a product for sale that was marketed as the personal line of Trump’s daughter was, in fact, a direct attack on the President.

• Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court, Gorsuch, finds Trump’s tweets about the judicial branch to be disheartening. We agree with Mr. Gorsuch.

• Sean Spicer, Minister of Truth, makes us aware of a terrorist attack in Atlanta that never occurred and didn’t happen. Three times.

• Thanks to Trump’s Muslim Ban, a Canadian woman is turned away from the U.S. border after questioned regarding her faith. She was not permitted to enter.

• Sean Spicer, Trump’s fourth fetich soul and demigorgon of weaponized deceit, insists that critics of the Trump-ordered raid in Yemen that resulted in the death of a U.S. soldier and an 8-year old American girl should apologize.

• Trump is revealed to communicate entirely in slogans during diplomatic calls with international heads of state. Almost as if he were a baby-handed imbecile incapable of formulating rational thought and then verbalizing it.

• Evangelicals are turning on Trump with an ad buy, as the full breathtaking scope of his refugee ban becomes understood. Evangelicals are a religious sect of Christianity, a religion founded by a refugee who later became an innocent victim of capital punishment.

• Trump jokes about “destroying” a Pennsylvania State Senator.  The Pennsylvania State Senator politely responds with “Come after me, you shit-gibbon!” 

• Trump “is not bound by all the facts” according to Rick Santorum, whose name shares a fate similar to what will shortly occur with Trump’s.

• The Pope condemns Trump’s planned wall. And how he plans to pay for it.

• Meanwhile, President Steve Bannon is working behind the scenes with a virulently anti-gay cardinal to undermine the Pope.

• Melania Trump, who lives in a golden tower at taxpayer expense, has expressed through her legal team her desire to rake in millions in cash as a result of being First Lady.

ORly Radio Show 53 - Send in the Clowns

ORly Radio Show 53 for Friday April 10th, 2015 - Send in the Clowns

Hosts: Andy & the Usual Suspects: David and Jess!!!
Music: "Rocket and Pamgaea” by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)


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The Good

  1. http://www.popsci.com/aluminum-makes-flexible-fast-charging-batteries-wont-catch-fire

  2. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/california-approves-bill-banning-child-vaccine-exemptions

    1. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277&search_keywords=

  3. http://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-first-head-transplant-volunteer-could-experience-something-worse-than-death

  4. http://www.sciencealert.com/lab-grown-burger-patty-cost-drops-from-325-000-to-12

  5. GLBT:

    1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-end-to-conversion-therapies-for-gay-and-transgender-youth.html

    2. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/04/president-obama-calls-for-an-end-to-conversion-therapy/

  6. CUBA:

    1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/us-cuba-removal-terrorism-sponsor-list

    2. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/tourism-central-florida-blog/os-orlando-international-airport-cuba-flights-20150409-post.html

  7. Activisim: http://www.mintpressnews.com/police-remove-snowden-bust-in-ny-park-hours-later-activists-replace-it-with-snowden-hologram/204134/

  8. Terrorist Itch: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-militants-reportedly-being-attacked-by-serious-skin-disease-396336

  9. Holy Crap: http://drudgereport.com.co/nancy-reagan-i-want-hillary-to-win/ “,,,Hillary had no interest in running until both Laura and Barbara Bush cornered her at their get-together in May 2013 and talked her into at least thinking about it! So, in a sense, if Mrs. Clinton does run and win, you can blame the Bush family.” - Ron Reagan

The Bad

  1. New Texas Bill Would Prevent Bystanders From Recording Cops http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/new-texas-bill-would-prevent-bystanders

  2. Former atheist congressman tells current atheist congressmen to D.A.D.T. http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2015/04/ex-congressman-tells-atheist-politicians-to-stay-in-the-closet

  3. RAND PAUL: 2010 Reminder: http://www.examiner.com/article/rand-paul-concedes-he-will-cut-medicare-and-social-security-to-pay-for-tax-cuts  

  4. Paul Meltdown: So far, Paul has hit the 2016 campaign trail and fallen flat on his face.

    1. http://www.vox.com/2015/4/7/8360691/rand-paul-budget-president

    2. http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/08/paul-presidential-campaign-crashes-burns-rand-melts-today-show.html

    3. http://video.foxnews.com/v/4161841047001/rand-paul-charles-krauthammer-is-just-wrong/?playlist_id=2694949842001#sp=show-clips Andy Has Audio

    4. http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/10/watch-rand-run-paul-cuts-flees-live-interview-questions-hard.html

  5. Right Wing Persecution:

    1. http://www.politicususa.com/2015/04/07/religious-leaders-threaten-rise-up-persecute-gays.html

    2. http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/12/rick-santorum-separation-of-church-and-state-a-communist-idea-not-an-american-one/

  6. Old Bad News: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/iowa-grants-gun-permits-to-the-blind/2780303/

The Ugly

  1. Food:

    1. http://www.break.com/article/taco-bell-will-start-offering-delivery-end-of-the-yea-2843679

    2. http://uproxx.com/webculture/2015/03/soon-you-might-be-able-to-get-mcdonalds-breakfast-all-day-long/

  2. Science: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/05/scientific-truth-genetics-darwin-adam-rutherford
    Our senses and psychology perceive the world in very particular ways that are comically easy to fool.
    We humans are awful at perceiving objective reality. We come with inbuilt preconceptions and prejudices. We’re dreadful at logic, and see patterns in things that are not there, and skip over trends that are. We attribute cause and agency to chance and coincidence, and blame the innocent as the root of all manner of evil. We use the phrase “common sense” as an admirable quality for scrutinising the world in front of us.
    ...it is tricky to challenge someone’s opinion successfully if it is based on their learned experience. But that is exactly what science is for. It is to extract human flaws from reality; it is to set aside the bias that we lug around. Our senses and psychology perceive the world in very particular ways that are comically easy to fool. But the great strength of science is that it recognises the human fallibility that cripples our view of the universe.

    1. Silver lining? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/04/06/the-science-of-why-you-really-should-listen-to-experts/

  3. GREECE:

    1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/06/greece-puts-figure-of-279bn-on-claim-for-german-reparations

    2. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/germany-divided-over-greek-demand-for-2787bn-in-war-debt?CMP=fb_gu

  4. LAW:

    1. Police still shooting people… over and over again. https://thenib.com/surviving-a-police-encounter-308ed3ca3dbb

    2. http://www.wsls.com/story/28770340/california-sheriff-investigates-disturbing-video-of-suspect-being-beaten

    3. http://www.wncn.com/story/28664509/first-woman-in-us-sentenced-for-killing-a-fetus

    4. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/07/creepy-judge-reduces-pedophiles-sentence-suggests-little-girl-caused-her-own-rape/

  5. Environment:

    1. Selling off federal land with a “Spending Neutral reserve fund” - then why? http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/republican-senators-just-voted-to-sell-off-your-nationa-1696862450

Entertainment/Reviews/(Nit)Picks

Andy’s: http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/chi-cards-against-humanity-science-stem-deck-bsi-story.html https://store.cardsagainsthumanity.com/  
Jess: http://sketchypandagames.tumblr.com/. Aberford: a 50’s Housewife Zombie Game!  Kickstarter coming soon!