In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.Authentically stupid is more like it.
“Leave it to Minnesotans to be too stable and even-tempered to deprive us of the early train wrecks that have been so satisfying in previous seasons,” Laura Yuen, a columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune, wrote last month.
I don't do reality TV. Not even TV news, which is, in the end, still TV. If you've ever been on a TV location shoot, or in a TV editing suite, you know how unreal reality can be.
But I did all my most important growing-up years in Minnesota, so that.
Some train wrecks take a lot longer than others, is all. Maybe it's the cold.
"Anyone can put numbers and words on a website," Gimbel said in an interview. "In order to be transparent, the numbers and words have to be accurate. They've already been shown not to be accurate so why should I trust it?"
Someday this might be funny, maybe material for a Broadway show like The Music Man or a movie like Tin Men. Who knows?
But it's not funny now.
Even Putin’s most hawkish advisers have been surprised by the speed with which the tone coming from the White House has changed in recent weeks, according to people who travel to Moscow and speak with Russian officials.
But otherwise…
At both state and federal levels, the Kennedy-led Make America Healthy Again movement is backing efforts to prevent people from spending food-aid benefits on sugary, carbonated beverages. Now, they are gaining momentum with an administration led by a man who enjoys soda so much that he had a red button installed on his desk for a valet to bring him a Diet Coke.
"Beverage companies are nervous," reports WSJ.
OK, maybe Diet Cokes are only diet poison.
“The president has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution,” a White House official said in a statement.
In 1938 then English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich to discuss with Adolph Hitler a plan Adolf had to annex just a little part of Czechoslovakia.
Hey, Hitler said, they already speak German there. They ought to be part of Germany. That's all we want to do, really, just bring them home.
Well, OK, said Chamberlain. If that's all you want to do, we won't stand in your way,
That's all I want to do, Hitler replied. Trust me.
So Chamberlain flew home and, landing in London, announced that he had achieved. "peace in our time"
What followed is what we came to call World War II.
