Covid Cruise Karen

 

This lovely Karen is Laura Franchi Angelo from the Bronx.

Harpo

 

Harpo Marx without his wig.  

maggat is "hate speech"

 I was put into facebook jail today for using the term "maggat".

Apparently it's hate speech.  Wonder if "libtard" is hate speech.

Whatever.  I will be posting things I can't share there over here.  I'll spread them over the next week (the time frame of my incarceration).  

#MoronMcCarthy from Twitter

 

RIP Ron Popeil

 

May 3, 1935  - July 28, 2021

Ron Popeil, the infomercial icon behind products like the Pocket Fisherman and Hair in a Can, died on Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press. He was 86.

Popeil gained recognition when he created the famous Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ, along with his trademarked catchphrase — “Set it and forget it!” Popeil’s creation of the product grossed more than $1 billion in domestic sales.

Born in New York City on May 3, 1935, Popeil started his long career working with his father at a manufacturing facility in Chicago, which produced kitchen appliances. At the age of 16, Pompeil started selling the same products his father’s factory produced in the flea market lining Maxwell St. in Chicago.

After discovering his passion for kitchen ingenuity, Popeil became a tireless salesman for Ronco inventions like the Chop-O-Matic in 1959 and the Veg-O-Matic in 1963, appearing on infomercials to enthusiastically tout the company’s products. His worldwide catchphrase has since been coined all over the infomercial world: “But wait, there’s more!”

Popeil’s other inventions under Ronco include the Rhinestone Stud Setter (which later became the Bedazzler), the first Karaoke machine Mr. Microphone, the Smokeless Ashtray and the Inside-the-Eggshell Egg Scrambler.

Popeil soon became a pop culture mainstay, and was even parodied on shows like “I Love Lucy” and “Saturday Night Live.” In the 1976 “SNL” skit, Dan Aykroyd depicts Popeil as a fast-talking, influential salesman with a knack for convincing the consumer to trust his products.

Popeil is survived by his wife, along with four daughters and four grandchildren. A fifth daughter, Shannon, died before him.

TMZ first reported the news of Popeil’s death.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/ron-popeil-dead-dies-infomerical-icon-1235029911/

Christmas in July

By: Newsy

Posted at 1:39 PM, Jul 28, 2021

 

and last updated 3:39 PM, Jul 28, 2021

This is when many people in the southern U.S. make preparations for hurricane season, but it's also the time of year when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service near New Orleans turns its eye to protecting marshland from storms.

Black Hawk helicopters are dropping bundles of Christmas trees into the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in New Orleans – about 15 minutes from the heart of downtown.

"All of this was open water just like you see out in front of us," Pon Dixon of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. "So here we are about 20 years later, and you see all the vegetation that has grown."

Dixon has been a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager for 16 years. He says this annual tree drop protects the city and its people.

"We built a series of fences out here to kind of like trap the sediments," Dixon continued. "It started to work so well that we decided, hey, let's try doing this with Christmas trees and stuff."

This year, 8,000 trees were collected, and a little more than half were used for this project.

Teach Your Children Sportsmanship

 

Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was only a few meters from the finish line, but got confused with the signs and stopped, thinking he had finished the race. BA Spanish man, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was going on, started shouting to the Kenyan to keep running. Mutai did not know Spanish and did not understand.

Realizing what was going on, Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory.

A reporter asked Ivan, "Why did you do this?" Ivan replied, "My dream is that one day we can have some sort of community life where we push ourselves and also others to win."

The reporter insisted "But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win. The race was his."

The reporter insisted and asked again, "But you could have won!" Ivan looked at him and replied: "But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor of this medal? What would my Mother think of it?" The values are transmitted from generation to generation. What values do we teach our children and how much do you inspire others to earn? Most of us take advantage of people's weaknesses instead of helping to strengthen them.

Fanone on Lemon

 Officer Michael Fanone appeared on CNN's Don Lemon tonight to talk about his testimony to the January 6 Commission.

He also shares a voicemail he received while he was testifying.   It's in this video below.

When asked how he felt about he voicemail, Fanone said "This is what happens to truth tellers in Trump's America".

They MUST Be Identified and Punished

Ofc. Aquilino Gonell Ofc. Michael Fanone Ofc. Daniel Hodges Ofc. Harry Dunn Bravely Fought  January 6th Insurrection Terrorists
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Snippets from their testimonies:

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FROM AXIOS.COM:

 1 big thing: Officers relive Jan. 6 terror

Photos (clockwise): D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges, D.C. Officer Michael Fanone, Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn. Credits: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP, Oliver Contreras via Getty Images, Jim Bourg via Getty Images, Chip Somodevilla/AFP.

As the House's Jan. 6 committee opened its hearings, carried live on TV around the world, four officers gave raw, emotional testimony that was shocking even to people who had closely followed coverage of the riot.

• Here's what the officers said (pictured clockwise above):

D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges: "The sea of people was punctuated throughout by flags — mostly variations of American flags and Trump flags. ... I saw the Christian flag directly to my front, and another had 'Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president.'" (Video)

D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone said he was "grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country." (AP)

Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, an Army veteran who served in Iraq, said on Jan. 6 he was "more afraid to work at the Capitol than in my entire deployment." (Video)

• "The rioters called me traitor, a disgrace, and shouted that I, an Army veteran and a police officer, should be executed."

Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, a Black man, said several rioters called him a "f--king n-----" after he said he voted for President Biden in response to protesters claiming no one voted for him. (Video)

• Dunn said he continues to get counseling: "Jan. 6 still isn't over for me."

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Monday Morning Smile

 

Vietnam History

 

from Facebook:  K.p. Kollenborn

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Remember the photo of a 7 year old girl running naked down the road during a South Vietnamese attack? This Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph titled, “The Terror of War” has an update. The girl, Phan Thị Kim Phuc, suffered sever burns from the attack. The very same photographer Nick Ut saved Phúc’s life by rushing her to the nearest hospital and demanding treatment holding his American press credentials. Phan Thị Kim Phuc is now 51 years old and now a doctor and mother of two. She has finally overcome the events of the photo. She told the Huffington Post, “I have a husband and a new life and want to be normal like everyone else.” Another interesting fact is that as a teenager, Kim Phuc was accepted into medical school but was forced to quit because of the new communist regime. Ultimately, in 1982, Vietnam’s prime minister sent her to Cuba to study medicine.