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2. Democrats take over the Senate, and reduce the Republican margin in the House to just 3 votes.
3. Elizabeth Warren announces she’ll challenge Hillary in the 2020 Democratic primaries if Hillary isn’t sufficiently progressive and bold during her first term.
4. The Democratic National Committee issues new rules eliminating “superdelegates” and requiring open primaries.
5. In her inaugural address, Hillary Clinton promises to “wrest back control of our democracy and economy from the moneyed interests that have taken over both.”
6. President Hillary Clinton nominates Barack Obama to the Supreme Court, who immediately pledges to reverse “Citizens United.” Senate Democrats make a rule change that allows Obama to be confirmed with 51 Senate votes. He is.
7. President Clinton nominates Bernie Sanders for Treasury Secretary and Michelle Obama for Attorney General. Both are immediately confirmed.
8. The chairman of the Republican Party officially repudiates Donald Trump, saying “shame on us for having nominated him.” Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Pence appear in a joint news conference in which they apologize for having ever supported Trump.
9. Disgraced and with his brand in tatters, the value of Trump’s properties drops 80 percent. His creditors demand that his personal assets – homes, planes, furniture, all he possesses – be liquidated to pay his bills.
10. Rupert Murdoch fires Sean Hannity from Fox News.
I made a comic about every comment thread under any content involving a fat person existing. Ever. This counts as my inktober #1 because I spent way more time on it than I should have.
Happy World Octopus Day! The giant Pacific octopus explores its world using touch and smell, thanks to the thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors that line the rims of its suckers.
I mean there’s a pretty big difference between being petty, and making a strong environmental and economic statement, and making people listen to that statement, by using the tools and authority at your disposal.
I could see calling this petty if it was a decorative garden populated with resource intensive, nonnative, ornamental plants and flowers.
But this is the woman who has been nothing but firm that every child in this country deserves healthy, high quality food and that we have a responsibility to give it to them. That we can all do something for that purpose, even in small and unexpected ways. And that this responsibility is permanent.
This is an underlining of some of the important work that Michelle Obama has done in her time as first lady.
It’s less petty, and more demanding to be taken seriously.
Do you guys ever get that feeling where nothing is exciting anymore?
Like, the holidays just seem like another day.
My 16th birthday that I had been looking forward to forever was just a school day.
New episodes of my favorite show don’t get me pumped anymore.
Everything is kind of dull and I can’t really like anything anymore.
this, ladies and gentlemen, is a top-notch sign of depression. this is not supposed to be a normal thing to feel.
Other sings of depressions can be:
No hunger. Like, you eat because of the pleasure of it or because you have to, but you aren’t hungry anymore.
Procastrination, even of things you like.
Feeling no sympathy for anything. You begin to question if you love something or someone at all.
Feeling like you are in a dream (depersonalization)
Having trouble sleeping. It can be nightmares, it can be difficulties falling asleep, difficulties waking up, waking up in the middle of the night, etc.
Being really tired without reason.
Intrusive thoughts (that may say that your family doesn’t love you, or that what you are feeling is completely normal, for example. It’s never true)
Not caring about your own security anymore, not because you want to die (most of the depressed people don’t want to commit suicide) but because you just forget it. You forget to look both ways before crossing, wearing your seatbelt or even you can forget about eating.
Desire of isolation. You just want to be alone, and anyone feels like a friend anymore.
One of the many things about this campaign that surprises me is the degree to which some set of my fellow citizens are convinced that Donald Trump is a hero questing against the powers that have shaped their lives in ways they don’t like: political elites, banks, international trade partners, immigrants. In this narrative, Trump is the lone strongman, the sheriff facing the bad guys in defense of a town full of mostly cowards underserving of his heroism. He is HERO.
However, unlike the western sheriff facing down the gang of bad guys in the street, Trump isn’t actually defending weaker, less capable people against the strong. No, Donald Trump punches down. He mocks the weak and less capable and exploits his position of relative power to maintain and expand his privilege – whether privilege in the tax code, or privilege in abusing women at will.
Trump is thus a classic bully, a thug who identifies the weak and uses power to satisfy his own needs for dominance. But presented with an opponent with similar resources and capacities – say Hillary Clinton, for example – he wilts. He’s the guy who screams of his greatness and then explains, when his hat is handed to him, that the fight was rigged.
That might make him a good TV star. (I wouldn’t know: I never watched a millisecond of his show.) But it makes for a terrible president.
I’m deeply betrayed that she wouldn’t keep reading long enough to send me more quotes.
I was curious if Amazon Kindle carried this book, but in the process I found out that David Unfred’s stab at the subject has a WAY better cover
“All flesh” included dinosaur flesh, meaning that by this time even dinosaurs had been corrupted.
NOT THE DINOSAURS
Paleontologists makes careers out of inventing species names, but there were really only about 60 different basic dinosaur kinds.
this just makes me think of that hogwarts spoof that goes “as we all know there are only four kinds of kids: brave, smart, evil, and miscellaneous.”
A rapid overview of some more highlights because I really need to stop reading this book before I hurt myself on it:
“These creatures went extinct, as far as is known.” why do I get the feeling this is leading somewhere AMAZING
discussion of which part of the holy trinity is responsible for which part of the dinosaur
“gotcha” statement about circular logic setting up the entire book’s premise starts with “Isn’t it true that…” No. No it isn’t.
series of frequently asked questions about how the dinosaurs could have been on the ark fails to ask any of the questions I have right now
FAQ includes discussion of Noah’s T-Rex-wrangling skills and the phrase “Noah could have fed the dinosaurs vegeterian diets” – worth it.
“Some dinosaurs laid eggs. Maybe they all did.” this is the kind of gripping material I look to an educational book to provide
a novel argument: plants can’t die because they don’t have nostrils
“dragons went extinct in China sometime after Marco Polo visited” I can’t believe I am actually reading this sentence in an actual book, what a great day
this chapter is titled “How to Examine Evidence” …i’m dying
fossils are apparently not as informative and unbiased as “reliable eyewitness accounts [of dinosaurs]” more on this revelation as it progresses
now we are pondering why nothing ever fossilizes anymore–a bold question that boldly bears no particular relationship to reality
“Whereas the Flood offers a reasonable scenario for large-dinosaur fossil tracks, secular scientists still need to explain them.“ I just texted my mom ‘provide an explanation for dinosaur tracks.’
Is a behemoth a hippo or a dinosaur? Discuss for at least 8 pages.
Is a leviathan a crocodile or a fire-breathing aquatic dinosaur? Discuss for 4 more pages.
Is a… wait. Are you just naming things you see and saying that they’re dinosaurs?
Observation 1: a lot of people killed by serpents. Observation 2: but rattlesnakes are easy to dodge. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
Apparently, care must be taken not to confuse dinosaurs with angels.
“Belon knew how to draw a snake, showing that he could distinguish between flying and crawling reptiles.” good for Belon!
interesting argument for the death and resurrection of Jonas inside a fire-breathing sea wolf which was a type of dinosaur
“If armadillos have gone extinct in Turkey within human memory, then why not flying reptiles from other regions?” I just texted my mom ‘explain the armadillo extinction.’
The last chapter of this book is titled “Two Questions About Dinosaurs and the Bible” and frankly I have a *lot* more than two questions about this book.
(Starting with ‘oh my god why did I just sit and read the whole thing what is my life?’)
One of our awesome volunteers brought in this submarine as enrichment for the octos, and this little sea monster has had a fantastic time sinking the ship, causing chaos, and finding food while doing so! I love the simplicity of this little vessel as a form of enrichment, and the potential it holds for more complicated activities.
