Tuesday, April 18, 2017

FvC Follies

Gee, according to the AP and I'm sure other sources, the day Ivanka had dinner with Xi Ping, her company got approved for new China trademarks. What a "veryvery" strange coincidence! As Hollywood Reporter's Kim Masters put it, "Kleptocracy in action."

DHS Secretary Kelly, just two days ago, said marijuana was not a factor in the drug war. Today, he claims it is "a potentially dangerous gateway drug," and he's going to go full throttle in the enforcement of laws against it. Think Secretary Kelly received a "veryvery" stern phone call in between the comments to "explain" exactly the error of his ways? He's definitely his own man!

The White House a while back said that an armada ("Very powerful!") was steaming to North Korea to display our displeasure at what they were doing. Today we learned that the warships were actually headed in the opposite direction thousands of miles away! Can this cretin lead a country or what? All it did was "trigger hundreds of new stories/segments/TV discussions," according to CNN's Brian Stelter. Wow!

The next two items don't really pertain to FvC, but I think they are "veryvery" notable:

The Hollywood Reporter writes, "Bill O'Reilly used to leer at an African-American Fox News clerical worker and called her 'hot chocolate,' according to attorney Lisa Bloom, who helped the woman report the harassment to the network's hot line." Later today, there are unconfirmed reports that Fox is leaning toward ousting this sleazoid and are negotiating with him an exit package. What a douchebag! Good riddance...

And to cap it all off the cost of telecom services and telephone companies lobbying was north of $123 million in 2016. This year internet privacy has been legislated away, and next target: the free and open internet.

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