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The ad hoc Nuremberg trials of the Trump Administration have begun and are being taken to the public streets.

viva la culinary résistance!

Shortly after Homeland Security Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled at a Mexican restaurant over the ongoing family separation crisis mere days ago.  Now this...

mediaite.com -    Sarah Sanders kicked out of restaurant because of her ties to Trump

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1010536237457924096

The waiter at The Red Hen said, "I just served Sarah Huckabee Sanders for a total of 2 minutes before my owner kicked her out along with 7 of her other family members."
Others say the owner didn't want Huckabee Sanders in the restaurant out of "moral conviction."

Not so fast... it's not over until the fat lady sings.

The root of Dave's ignorance is a mental health issue; his anxiety disorder(s) and the resulting defence mechanisms he employs.

NY AG files big lawsuit against Trump crime family for illegal activities related to the Trump Foundation

https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1007280285480837121

I would like to imagine the NY AG deliberately waited a day or two to drop this on Trump's birthday today, June 14th.

Happy birthday, President Trump.  May this be the beginning of many more years of lawsuits & indictments, you crusty bloated geriatric.
 

history ~ 47 years ago...
June 1971 - Congress votes to withdraw all US troops by the year's end

Club Penguin in The Vietnam War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-8wTiho4g&t=0s

For most people, life often has a way of derailing/detouring their own particular dreams & pursuit of happiness.

Two deaths in the 21st century had a personal effect on me.
Perhaps because I felt they were living the perfect life... profoundly talented, doing exactly what they loved & being well compensated for it, while still being genuine & approachable. 

One was Steve Irwin, who tragically died being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The second was Robin Williams, who was a casualty of his own physical/mentally health issues.

I now have to add Anthony Bourdain as the third name on my list.

ok.
Have it your way...

Bart's a tranny.

If there is a God, Dave would have been born in some century long long ago, where his ideas would have been valued.

Instead, Dave has to meander on,  in his antiquated backwards ways,  into the modern 21st century.
Or perhaps there is a God and he has a sense of humor.

05.31.2018  retail/economy update:
72 more Sears stores to bite the dust as sales plunge and loses mount


Just think,  if  Sears had the long-term vision to make an early pivot from their archaic catalog operation to an innovative online presence, they would have become Amazon.

I think when Dave says 'freedom of religion', he means 'freedom to practice some version of fundamentalist Christianity'. No other religions need apply.

You're an admin. Use your powers to change Dave's username to Myopic Bête Noire.

Meanwhile, another POV...

Memorial Day

Scholars,[64][65][66][67] following the lead of sociologist Robert Bellah, often make the argument that the United States has a secular "civil religion" - one with no association with any religious denomination or viewpoint - that has incorporated Memorial Day as a sacred event. With the Civil War, a new theme of death, sacrifice and rebirth enters the civil religion. Memorial Day gave ritual expression to these themes, integrating the local community into a sense of nationalism. The American civil religion, in contrast to that of France, was never anticlerical or militantly secular; in contrast to Britain, it was not tied to a specific denomination, such as the Church of England. The Americans borrowed from different religious traditions so that the average American saw no conflict between the two, and deep levels of personal motivation were aligned with attaining national goals.[68]
Memorial Day has been called a "modern cult of the dead". It incorporates Christian themes of sacrifice while uniting citizens of various faiths.[69]