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* 45 is openly musing about a "military option" for Venezuela.

* "Beijing warns Pyongyang: You’re on your own if you go after the United States:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-warns-north-korea-youre-on-your-own-if-you-go-after-the-us/2017/08/11/a01a4396-7e68-11e7-9026-4a0a64977c92_story.html?utm_term=.2af156d539f6

"It would intervene if Washington strikes first."

* "Business is booming at the Trump hotel in Washington:"

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* "The conspiracy theory memo Trump loved:"

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* "Rare look at Trump bookkeeping: 'Extraordinary flim-flammery':"

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* "Manafort switching legal team as feds crank up heat on him:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/10/hold-manafort-switching-legal-team-as-feds-crank-up-heat-on-him-hold-241507

* "Freedom Caucus to try to force vote on Obamacare repeal:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/19/house-freedom-caucus-obamacare-repeal-vote-240728

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* "Infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli found guilty of securities fraud:" https://mic.com/articles/183363/infamous-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-found-guilty-of-securities-fraud#.Bj2G1L3QH

* "Death of First Nations man handcuffed and stepped on by police was accidental, inquest says:" http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/romeo-wesley-verdict-1.4221069

* "Meet The Badass Peshmerga Women:"

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* "Weekend Update: Anthony Scaramucci FaceTimes the Show (Bill Hader):"

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* Yesterday the sky was actually mostly blue. (More blue inland, fading to gray over the bay, but much improved. There was a pall of matte grey smoke over eveything still, making the sky look painted and flat. It is better for breathing than it was, but still not great.

We went swimming anyway, and the temperature was perfect for that, the cool of the lake the perfect antidote for the muggy heat. All this was a lot of driving. I am slightly more hopeful it is belts and not breaks due to the subtleties of how it drives. My hope is to take it in Monday and talk them into checking their work. Tires and wipers are likely to be 80ish and absolutel need doing this month and i am slowly bleeding money. I'm rather scared to check, but i will have to before monday. I suspect I won't be servicing the medical debt this month which will put me further behind, but at least the lights are staying on.

Want to help replace bald front tires and dead wipers? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* I keep dreaming of the ocean.

* Tyrion's Complicity: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/164055083842/why-hasnt-jon-asked-tyrion-about-the-red-weeding

* "White Men Writing About Slavery Is Weird: A Response to HBO's "Confederate":" https://www.thefandomentals.com/white-men-writing-about-slavery-is-weird-response-to-hbo-confederate/

* "Chaos Is A Catch-All:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/chaos-is-a-catch-all/

* "Preacher, Season 2, Episode 8: Holes:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/08/preacher-season-2-episode-8-holes.html

* "How different is show Davos from book Davos?:" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/163868227892/how-diffrent-is-show-davos-from-book-davos

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* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

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* "Elections watchdog group seeks answers after Georgia drops 590,000 from voter rolls:" https://mic.com/articles/183253/elections-watchdog-group-seeks-answers-after-georgia-drops-590000-from-voter-rolls#.x7OlmLHag

* An "Alt-Right" Terrorist murdered one person and injured nineteen when he drove his care into counter protesters at the neo-NAZI hate rally in Charlottesville. "Virginia governor to white nationalists: 'Go home ... shame on you':" http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-white-nationalists-rally/index.html

* "Hermes and Loki and Tricksters Part 2: Crash Course World Mythology:"

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* "Experimental and Documentary Films: Crash Course Film History #16:"

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* "War In Guam! Wait, Where Is That Again?:"

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* "Stephen Doesn't Want The Earth To Blow Up:"

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* Want to help replace dangerously bald front tires and dead wipers? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* During last month's car excitement, we had occasion to lift the rear seating compartment, something I had literally forgotten we had and had never used since I bought the car. To my horror, there were several inches of rusty water in there, which would explain the mold issue. My assumption is years of rain water. *Shudder* Something had to be done. Today I went out and tried to siphon it, which is nasty as siphoning means you get it in your mouth. The water having completely saturated the padding, It takes two hands to left, and you have to hold it up, as all the internal mechanisms had rusted, which means putting down equipment where one can reach while propping it open with a forearm. This is terrible design. If water is prone to gather in there, they should have put a drainage valve. It turned out that siphoning wasn't going to work as it wasn't quite deep enough for the siphon, so I had to hand bail a couple ounces at a time out of the wide shallow chamber. Exhausting and time consuming, painful for the propping arm. Water continuously drained from the padding. Luckily I wore one of the two brown shirts I own as I was quickly covered in rust. I did the trick were you lean on a corner of the bumper to make that corner a little deeper and did manage to get a lot out, but there is an inevitable limit. I went to the recycling, but this being 2017 there wasn't even one newspaper in thee for the whole complex. I did find two scholastic catalogues with phone book like pages, and sopped up what I could with that. I left it with cardboard on the bottom, propping it partially open for airing while sopping up more rust water. I came in and washed myself, did dishes, sorted out the plants, ate and lunged. A proper grown up would go change the cardboard, but I am exhausted and I'd have to change again and... Yeah.

Update: Squirrel has agreed to change the cardboard before and after work. Yaaaayyyyy!

* "The Homophobia of The Mist:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/08/the-homophobia-of-mist.html

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/

* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com