Some Sunday Laughter

My son wanted to know what it's like opening a Twitter account so I asked him about his day then walked out of the room.

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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) June 18, 2015

CO-WORKER: Can I get your opinion? ME: Get a divorce CW: I was going to ask if you liked this shirt ME: Give that up in the divorce

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Jake Vig (@Jake_Vig) June 18, 2015

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The best way to mediate an argument is to listen to each person's side and then tell them they're both wrong and they need to shut up.

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  (@Sarcasticsapien) June 19, 2015

I became suspicious of Rachel Dolezal when I saw her listening to Iggy Azalea.

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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) June 16, 2015

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If Donald Trump becomes President, The rest of us should be able to just walk into any hospital & start working as doctors

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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) June 16, 2015

"Excuse me Mr President [whispering] your hair is fucked up again sir." http://t.co/tCbW22lEB7

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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) June 16, 2015

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[phone sex with a psychic] "Tell me what I'm wearing."

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  (@Tommytoughstuff) June 17, 2015

I’ll take PEOPLE WHO BEAT ME AT MINI GOLF for $1000, Alex “What?” Who is my former friend Gary? “I-” DEAD PEOPLE for $400 “Wh-” Who is Gary

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Bucky Isotope (@BuckyIsotope) June 18, 2015

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ME: what's w/the helmet SON: i'm on my bike ME: take it off you look like a pu- [wife walks out] ME: PUT THAT HELMET BACK ON YOU LITTLE SHIT

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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) June 15, 2015

I'm the perfect example of why women poison their husbands.

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Loco Eric (@ericsshadow) June 16, 2015

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Genie: you have 3 wishes, but can't wish for more wishes Me: I wish that I could wish for more wishes G:..... M: check and mate

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The Experiment (@XGibbons) June 15, 2015

[you can obviously hear me listening to michael buble on my earphones & you give me a weird look] [i start softly singing enter sandman]

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ryan (@Karate_Horse) June 10, 2015

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becky? "uh yeah" brent, panthers class of 2000 "no sorry" I asked you to prom "oh brent! how are you" as you can tell I haven't dropped dead

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brent (@murrman5) June 16, 2015

[ordering cake over phone] "and what would you like the cake to say?" [covers phone to ask wife] "do we want a talking cake?"

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k e e t (@KeetPotato) June 08, 2015

Chat Away

Yes, Scott. Running for president is the first part of "My plan for you". The second part: your humiliating defeat. http://t.co/zN2obSpJsb

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God (@TheTweetOfGod) July 13, 2015

In America anybody can grow up to believe I want them to be President.

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God (@TheTweetOfGod) July 14, 2015

West Wing Week

Rise And Shine

President Barack Obama works on his statement on the compromise reached to reduce the deficit and avert a default, in the Outer Oval Office, Aug. 2, 2011. Standing in the background are, from left: Director of Communications Dan Pfeiffer; Press Secretary Jay Carney; Jon Lovett, Associate Director of Speechwriting; and Senior Advisor David Plouffe. Photo by Pete Souza

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BREAKING: On Monday, @POTUS will release his #CleanPowerPlan—the biggest step we've ever taken to #ActOnClimate. amp.twimg.com/v/48ecc1f6-1ec…

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The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 02, 2015

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William Saletan: Not Fit To Lead

If Republicans win the White House next year, they’ll almost certainly control the entire federal government. Many of them, running for president or aspiring to leadership roles in Congress, are trying to block the nuclear deal with Iran. This would be a good time for these leaders to show that they’re ready for the responsibilities of national security and foreign policy. Instead, they’re showing the opposite. Over the past several days, congressional hearings on the deal have become a spectacle of dishonesty, incomprehension, and inability to cope with the challenges of a multilateral world.

When the hearings began more than a week ago, I was planning to write about the testimony of Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. But the more I watched, the more I saw that the danger in the room wasn’t coming from the deal or its administration proponents. It was coming from the interrogators. In challenging Kerry and Moniz, Republican senators and representatives offered no serious alternative. They misrepresented testimony, dismissed contrary evidence, and substituted vitriol for analysis. They seemed baffled by the idea of having to work and negotiate with other countries. I came away from the hearings dismayed by what the GOP has become in the Obama era. It seems utterly unprepared to govern.

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Calif. women's prison once praised for mental health care has four women commit suicide in 18 months: apne.ws/1gyC3N9

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The Associated Press (@AP) August 01, 2015

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Don Thompson: Suicide Spike Boosts Oversight Of California Women’s Prison

A spike in suicides and attempted suicides has prompted corrections officials to step up oversight at a California women’s prison as inspectors try to pinpoint the cause of the troubling increase. Four women have killed themselves at California Institution for Women in San Bernardino County in the last 18 months, according to state records. The suicide rate at the facility is more than eight times the national rate for female inmates and more than five times the rate for the entire California prison system.

In California, the Institution for Women is the only women’s prison in the state to have had any suicides in the last five years, and another 20 of the prison’s 2,000 inmates have attempted suicide during the last year and a half. It is a shocking turnaround at a facility that last year was cited as a rare example of California providing proper mental health treatment for inmates. All four women who died were receiving mental health treatment in the days before their deaths.

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March to Washington begins with civil rights rally in Selma reut.rs/1Dh7YMg

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Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) August 01, 2015

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Letitia Stein: March To Washington Begins With Civil Rights Rally In Selma

NAACP leaders launched a 40-day march across the U.S. South on Saturday with a rally in Selma, Alabama, drawing on that city’s significance in the 1960s civil rights movement to call attention to the issue of racial injustice in modern America. Organizers of “America’s Journey for Justice” want to build momentum behind a renewed national dialogue over race relations prompted by the killing of a number of unarmed black men by police officers over the past year.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leaders at the rally urged marchers to honor the memories of New York’s Eric Garner and Cincinnati’s Samuel DuBose, two of the unarmed black men killed in the police confrontations. The march, which would cover nearly 900 miles, began on Selma’s historic Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police beat peaceful marchers with clubs and doused them with tear gas in 1965. The infamous confrontation was a catalyst for the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act, signed into law 50 years ago this week.

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National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice helps Vice President Joe Biden with a spot on his suit jacket, in a hall outside the Oval Office, Aug. 2, 2013. Robert Cardillo, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration, watches at right. Photo by Pete Souza

President Barack Obama talks with diners at Lechonera El Barrio restaurant while waiting for his lunch order during a stop in Orlando, Fla., Aug. 2, 2012. Photo by Pete Souza

bt on a break saga continues ….

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