This fucking clown is going to be deciding people's fates.

Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee, denouncing “Hillary Rotten Clinton” and pledging support for the National Rifle Assn.

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on a party-line vote, approved him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.

Talley, 36, is part of what Trump has called the “untold story” of his success in filling the courts with young conservatives.

Butter y males.

I noticed links here from posts back to older posts had stopped working. After fighting WordPress for an hour I decided to go nuclear and start messing with my .htaccess file - which feels like deciding to (eh, what the hell! hold my beer!) replace my car's gas tank.

It looks like I fixed the immediate problem, but there's no way I didn't break something else.

So, if you see something, say something.

The electric toothbrush has two minute cycles, broken into 30s intervals. That means I spend four minutes a day brushing my teeth. That's 120 minutes a month. I spend a full two hours brushing my teeth every month.

That's 24 hours, 20m of tooth brushing, every year.

The United States is now the only country not on board with the Paris agreement.

Syria, which has been engaged in a bloody civil war for six years and was the world's last holdout, announced it would sign up to the 2015 climate accord, delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, said Tuesday.

...

Nicaragua, which initially rejected the agreement because the government thought it didn't go far enough, announced last month that it would join.

We're #1, in this list of 1.

Let's say you had a bunch of people counted by the census - thus counted for determining the populations of Congressional districts - who were all located in one small space, and yet none of them could vote. A prison, for example. Would you think one could cleverly use such places to help shape Congressional districts to one's favor? You'd be right!

"Himself": it's clearly a blend word of "him" and "self". But in what situation would those two words in that order make any sense at all? None that I can think of. He killed himself => He killed him self. Convention ensures that we know what that means but, grammatically, it is a ridiculous sentence. He killed him? Sure. He wrecked him truck? He found him keys? No, and no.

Now consider "Herself", "Yourself", "Myself". Those make perfect sense; it's her self and your self and my self. The self in question belongs to her or you or me. She can laugh at her self. You can see your self in the mirror. I burned my self. Yes. All fine. He touched him self. No! Wrong!

The object form of "he" - "him" - doesn't show possession of the "self". "Her", "Your", "My", "Its" - all possessive. "Him" - objective.

What we mean to say, but are discouraged from saying is "his-self". He threw hisself off the cliff. Yes! It was his self that he threw off the cliff. But "hisself" is non-standard and should only be spoken by ignorant people who don't know that the non-grammatical "himself" is the correct. Follow the rules, except for the ungrammatical exceptions.

Also wrong: themselves (theirselves).

A white guy walks into a Walmart and kills three people. CBSNews web site has a single story.

They have sixteen stories about the NYC truck attack.

Protests and counter-protests in Texas in May of 2016 were in fact orchestrated by Kremlin trolls some 5,000 miles away from the US border, a US Senator revealed on Wednesday.

Facebook pages controlled by Russian trolls organized both a protest and a counter-protest in 2016 where fewer than 100 people showed up, according to Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC). During a Senate hearing on social media influence in the 2016 elections on Wednesday, Burr revealed that a protest and simultaneous counter-protest in Houston on May 21 of last year were organized by Facebook groups under the control of the infamous Internet Research Agency. This troll farm allegedly works for the Russian government and was responsible for wide-ranging influence operations on social media platforms in the lead-up to the US presidential elections.

The first protest, called "Stop The Islamization of Texas," was organized by a Facebook group with more than 250,000 followers called Heart of Texas, as previously reported by CNN and Business Insider. As it turns out, a counter-protest on the same day, at the same time, and at the same location was also organized by Russian trolls, this time using another Facebook group called United Muslims of America, which had more than 300,000 followers.

"What neither side could have known was that Russian trolls were encouraging both sides to battle on the streets and create division between real Americans," Burr said during the hearing.

Burr also quoted a person who attended the event, who said that "Heart of Texas promoted this event but we didn't see ONE of them."

"We now know why. It's hard to attend an event in Houston, Texas when you're trolling from a site in St. Petersburg, Russia," Burr said to the head counsels of the three leading American internet companies, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. "Paying for the ads and causing this disruptive event in Houston cost Russia about $200."

We're doomed.