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August 15, 2017

Amazon Is Warning People Not To Use Some Solar Eclipse Glasses That Were Sold On The Site

"Out of an abundance of caution and in the interests of our customers, we asked third-party sellers that were offering solar eclipse glasses to provide documentation to verify their products were compliant with relevant safety standards," the company said in a statement.

Amazon only removed products that didn't provide the documentation. All other solar eclipse glasses that submitted safety information to Amazon are still listed on the site.

Amazon customers who purchased glasses can contact the company with any questions or concerns.


Pics of said glasses at lilnk.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/amazon-recalls-unsafe-eclipse-glasses?utm_term=.qebQlMzJYQ#.xgGGKaLybG
August 15, 2017

Leader of neo-Nazi group linked to Charlottesville attack was a US marine

Pic at link..

Dillon Hopper, the self-styled “commander” of Vanguard America, is a recently retired marine staff sergeant and veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Members of his white supremacist group marched in Virginia last weekend.

Hopper, 29, has been using his former name, Dillon Irizarry, when appearing in public for Vanguard America. But he officially changed his name to Dillon Ulysses Hopper in November 2006, according to court records in his native New Mexico.

Hopper’s active duty with the marines ended in January this year, according to a Department of Defense record. He has lived in California and Ohio since returning to the US. Hopper’s full service record could not immediately be obtained. His Facebook avatar is currently a cartoon image of Donald Trump building a wall.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/14/charlottesville-attack-vanguard-america-james-fields-dillon-hopper
August 15, 2017

Trump recorded a campaign robo-call. And it is soooo bad.

It sounds like someone's cheap phone recording, and Trump's voice fades in and out.
THIS is the help they are giving to a state Republican, in this case, for Ala.'s Luther Strange.

If you want to have a listen,

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/politics/despite-trumps-support-alabama-senator-struggles-to-a-primary-finish.html

August 14, 2017

Huge blowback on White Suprem. been happening all day, including THIS:

https://twitter.com/GoDaddy/status/896935462622957573

Twitter is aflame with people identifying the racists, and then reporting the results, which have
resulted in lost, jobs, lost Twitter accounts, etc.
Been glorious to see.

August 13, 2017

Need a photoshop for the tiki torch pic:

edited: found a better pic:

those torches are crying out for Hawaiian shirts.

whaddaya think?


August 13, 2017

An Influential Vet Just Put The Blame For Todays Violence Right Where It Belongs In Epic Rant



His powerful and harsh words should be read by every American and can be found below in their entirety:

I keep trying to get to a point in this insanity where I can write a piece, but it’s all going sideways

Snip......................
– Fuck Trump. Trump owns this. Republicans own this. This isn’t the Alt-Right, this IS the right. These sons of bitches are literally shouting “Sieg Trump” in the streets of Charlottesville right now. Fuck Trump.

These people are the vile residue, the foul distillation, of every failed hateful rotten-tooth inbred ideology in history. Don’t let them hide. Don’t make excuses for them. Get them out in the open. Make them own it. They have jobs — some of them. They have parents and kids and neighbors. They have churches. The Constitution gives them a right to their hate, but not a right to be free of the consequences. Publish their pictures. Publish their license plates. Get them out in the open. Pull their hoods off. They’re standing out there shouting hate, flying the flag of treason, their arms upraised in the Hitler salute. Make them own it. Make them infamous. Don’t let them hide.

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/12/influential-vet-just-put-blame-todays-violence-right-belongs-epic-rant/


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About dixiegrrrrl

Long time political activist, working to tint my lil "Mayberry" more blue. Collector of strays of various species and minds.
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