OK. I thought (a) Pit, so (b) Rule of Funny, and © it was NOT intended to distort the meaning of the quote in a deliberately snide, misleading, and obnoxious way.
No, it is the one where Atlas and Shiva hold down Sun WuKong (the monkey king) so that Thor can destroy him with Mjolnir, then the three of them fight over his magic staff, but Klickitat sends the great firebird to steal it away from them.
I’m fully aware of what the Onion is. But you’re right, they are often on point.
The Russians are definitely in the “I can’t fuck these guys” column…
Because they play for keeps.
Sergei Skripa and Daughter Attacked With Nerve Agent in Salisbury, England
The head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Mark Rowley, has announced that the Russian double-agent and his daugher were attacked with a “nerve agent” on Sunday. They are currently in critical condition in hospital. They were found slumped on a bench in the cathedral town of Salisbury in western England. A policeman who was first on the scene is also in hospital in a serious condition…
[INDENT]Mr Rowley would not confirm the exact substance identified.
He said: “Having established that a nerve agent is the cause of the symptoms leading us to treat this as attempted murder, I can also confirm that we believe that the two people who became unwell were targeted specifically.” …
The use of a nerve agent rather than polonium suggests that the origin of the poison was being muddied, giving Putin a degree of “deniability”. Skripa’s son died in unclear circumstances in Russia. The attack on him has also led to the opposition calling for an inquiry into 14 other suspicious deaths in the UK.
Russia has denied any involvement, but the case has put renewed scrutiny on a string of deaths in the UK in the past two decades. The chair of the home affairs select committee, Yvette Cooper MP, wrote to Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Tuesday calling for a review of 14 other cases.
Those cases were variously found to have been heart attacks, suicides, accidents, and deaths by natural causes, but some allege that they amount to a pattern of state-sponsored murder on British streets. …[/indent]
Stoneman Douglas students are not happy with Betsy DeVos’s visit today.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377181-devos-visit-draws-criticism-from-parkland-students’
How does this White House get things done, ever? I’m beginning to think this country doesn’t need a President. Here we are, still living our lives like normal while the Executive branch runs around like a chicken with its head chopped off.
“Let’s be clear. I think to say ‘arming teachers’ is an oversimplification and a mischaracterization, really,” DeVos told reporters. “The concept is for those schools and those communities that opt to do this … is to have people who are expert in being able to defend, and having lots and lots of training in order to do so.”
Hmm. Remind me again who her brother is.
Exactly. If these uppity kids don’t shut up, he’ll have them taken out.
All while trying to break their union and keep them as underpaid as possible.
Brilliant - Attorney General Beady-Eyed Little Fucker wants to sue California over how they’re handling immigration.
Swedish appliance manufacturer has put on hold their plans to build a new plant in Tennessee following Trump’s tariff announcement.
That is a hell of an imbroglio.
Electrolux plant? Wow, that sucks.
(someone was going to do it)
Seems appropriate, given the intellectual vacuum in which the current administration operates.
He is a guy who may have ‘misled’ congress.
It’s worth reading the Wikipedia page on Erik Prince. You’ll see a lot of familiar names, and the connections he’s established over his time start to fall in place with things that are happening now. I note he was an intern to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and also provided private security for UAE.
And of course, he founded Blackwater.
ETA: Looks like he won’t be providing that private security force for Trump, either.
I recall Erik Prince and Blackwater being in the news during Dubyah’s administration. Small world, isn’t it?
Got into a fair amount of trouble with it, too, with the Nisour Square Massacre. Small world, indeed.
And what is [del]Blackwater[/del] I mean [del]Xe[/del] goddamit, what is that company called? Should be a great one for school security with a name like that.
Thing about Eric Prince that always got me: he’s got one shitty haircut considering his wealth.