Monthly Archives: May 2017

ON THIS DAY: May 8, 2017

Posted on May 8, 2017 by wordcloud9

May 8th is Animal Disaster Preparedness Day * Coconut Cream Pie Day Student Nurse Day * Time of Remembrance & Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During WWII * World Ovarian Cancer Day * World Red Cross and Red Crescent … Continue reading →

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TCS: Paper Worlds

Posted on May 8, 2017 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading →

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Will democracy change on 8 May … #SallyYatesIsAPatriot

Posted on May 7, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The Scooter Flynn meme will get a workout because… #TrumpRussia, as Sally Yates finally makes her Congressional testimony on Monday. Will Mike Flynn go to the gray-bar hotel because he was willing to take one for Team … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: May 7, 2017

Posted on May 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

May 7th is International Bereaved Mothers’ Day * National Barrier Awareness Day * Cosmopolitan Cocktail Day National Lemonade Day Motorcycle Mass and Blessing of the Bikes Day * Roast Leg of Lamb Day World Laughter Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE!  Joan … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: May 6, 2017

Posted on May 6, 2017 by wordcloud9

May 6th is Crepe Suzette Day Free Comic Book Day Herb Day * Join Hands Day * National Homebrew Day * National Nurses Day * Start Seeing Monarchs Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Louis XIV,  Winifred Brunton, and John Steinbeck, click

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Will the Democratic party recuperate from Late Capitalism’s biggest joke

Posted on May 6, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Because you voted for Trump and regret it doesn’t mean you should disavow politics in the future and there may be hope for some transformational movement and/or candidates. Assuming you believe in an emancipatory left, you’ve stuck it … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: May 5, 2017

Posted on May 5, 2017 by wordcloud9

May 5th is Cartoonists Day * Cinco de Mayo Enchilada Day International Tuba Day * International Midwives Day * Revenge of the Fifth Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! John B. Stetson, Nellie Bly, and Sinclair Lewis, click

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Word Cloud: MAYHAPPENSTANCE

Posted on May 5, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There are over 40 poets on the May birthday list, and I already knew the work of of 27 of them, and the names of several others, before I began to look them up. So May … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: May 4, 2017

Posted on May 4, 2017 by wordcloud9

May 4th is Bird Day * Intergalactic Star Wars Day * International Firefighters Day * National Day of Reason * Respect for Chickens Day * World Give Day * World Password Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Horace Mann,  Audrey Hepburn and Ernest Hemingway, … Continue reading →

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Nearly nauseous Comey: “Concealing would be catastrophic” … more stochastic media effects

Posted on May 3, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers At the time, Comey probably knew that #TrumpRussia could be far more disruptive to the electoral process considering that they were in the midst of that investigation (see FISA) and couldn’t comment on it, whereas the FBI … Continue reading →

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