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#1 Parent MikeK - 2017-06-19
Re HOLDING HANDS!
#2 Parent expat hubby - 2017-06-12
HOLDING HANDS!

Trump's state visit to Britain put on hold

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/11/donald-trump-state-visit-to-britain-put-on-hold

Trump is an idiot. May is a lame duck. Trump would surely encounter large-scale UK public protests were he dumb enough to cross the pond!

#3 Parent Arthur - 2017-06-12
Re To slip on a banana peel

Funny!

And I can't not add my bit. Here it is, from the NYT:

"Trump and the True Meaning of ‘Idiot’


In a recent Quinnipiac University poll, respondents were asked what word immediately came to mind when they thought of Donald Trump: The No. 1 response was “idiot.” This was followed by “incompetent,” “liar,” “leader,” “unqualified,” and finally, in sixth place, “president.” Superlatives like “great” and a few unprintable descriptives came further down on the list. But let us focus on the first.


Contemporary uses of the word “idiot” usually highlight a subject’s lack of intelligence, ignorance, foolishness or buffoonery. The word’s etymological roots, however, going back to ancient Greece, suggest that, in the case of the president, it may be even more apropos than it might first seem.


The education scholar Walter C. Parker sought to invoke this original meaning in his 2005 essay “Teaching Against Idiocy.” In it, he writes that “when a person’s behavior became idiotic — concerned myopically with private things and unmindful of common things — then the person was believed to be like a rudderless ship, without consequence save for the danger it posed to others.” The idiot, then, was a threat to the city-state, to public life, and to the bonds that make communication and community possible. Parker continues: “An idiot is suicidal in a certain way, definitely self-defeating, for the idiot does not know that privacy and individual autonomy are entirely dependent on the community.” Parker also notes that the idiot has not yet reached “puberty,” or the transition to public life.

Given all this, the idiot can be defined as such: a prepubescent, parasitic solipsist who talks only to himself.

Curious - 2017-06-12
To slip on a banana peel

Oh the Huff is good!

Many of the teachers among us will enjoy this "slips on ban appeal" vs. "slips on banana peel" homophone.

For our European friends: today our dear 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected trump's ban on travel to the US from 6 Muslim countries. Because of something he recently tweeted!!!


President Donald Trump’s tweets have yet again hurt him in court.


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Monday upheld a block on Trump’s executive order that sought a 90-day travel ban to the U.S. for most nationals of six Muslim-majority nations and to suspend all refugee resettlement for 120 days.


In doing so, the court cited one of Trump’s tweets ― and the fact that the White House acknowledged last week that they can be considered “official statements” of the administration.


The judges then quoted a tweet from Trump on June 5, which said the U.S. needs “a TRAVEL BAN for certain DANGEROUS countries, not some politically correct term that won’t help us protect our people!”

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

trump keeps shooting himself in the dick, day after day, sometimes twice a day. Without the millions and millions of victims of his senseless politics, the news would be so funny to watch.

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