From the awesome holiday CD – A Pentatonix Christmas.
If you don’t like this, you may be dead.
Love, love, love this.
Christmas Music: Pentatonix “O Come All Ye Faithful”
CNN To Trump: It’s Your Job To Represent U.S. To The World – Not Ours
After his fifth day in a row on a golf course, Donald Trump took to Twitter today to attack (yet again) CNN News and pump up Fox News.
“Fox News is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly,” the president wrote. “The outside world does not see the truth from them!”
.@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2017
Not sure exactly what set that off, but CNN was ready to clap back at the Trumpster, tweeting that it isn’t the network’s “job to represent the US. to the world.”
“That’s yours,” the network’s comm team wrote. “Our job is to report the news.”
It’s not CNN’s job to represent the U.S to the world. That’s yours. Our job is to report the news. #FactsFirst 🍎— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) November 25, 2017
Amid Sexual Misconduct Rumors, Rep. John Conyers To Step Down From Dem Leadership Role
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From the New York Times:
Representative John Conyers Jr., the House’s longest-serving lawmaker, is stepping aside as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee amid an investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed former aides.
“After careful consideration and in light of the attention drawn by recent allegations made against me,” Mr. Conyers said in a statement on Sunday, he is stepping aside on the Judiciary panel “during the investigation of these matters.”
The announcement came five days after the revelation that Mr. Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, had settled a complaint in 2015 by a former employee who had said she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances. The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into the matter.
“I deny these allegations, many of which were raised by documents reportedly paid for by a partisan alt-right blogger,” Mr. Conyers said in the statement. “I very much look forward to vindicating myself and my family before the House Committee on Ethics.”
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this morning, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Conyers deserved “due process” and advised she believed he would “do the right thing.”
Just Because: Sunday Edition
News Round-Up: November 25, 2017
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Some news items you may have missed:
• ICYMI, Dancing with the Stars/America’s Next Top Model champ Nyle DiMarco served up quite the Thanksgiving meal, but I’m not sure which meat Instagram fans were checking out…
• Four Democratic U.S. senators have introduced the LGBT Elder Americans Act, which seeks to expand services for LGBT seniors. The legislation would designate LGBT seniors as a vulnerable population as well as establish the National Resource on LGBT Aging.
• Authorities estimate that a record 10,000 shiny, happy LGBTs and allies marched in this year’s Hong Kong Pride parade.
Thank you to all who joined forces with us to be Super Allies at #HKPride #HKP2017 #HongKong #Pride #PlanetofAllies pic.twitter.com/5USHr9CC1g— Planet Ally (@PlanetAllyApp) November 25, 2017
• Transgender healthcare facts: 31% of transgender Americans lack access to regular healthcare. 22% of transgender American avoid doctors out of fear of discrimination.
• This Reddit user tells the world he hooked up with a “10,” and since he sees himself as a “6” he couldn’t handle it. I remember experiencing this myself once. Read his story here.
• A new docu-series coming to HBO, 15: A Quinceañera Story, follows five Latina girls from different backgrounds as they celebrate their 15th birthdays. The first segment chronicles the story of Zoey, a transgender girl, who lives in Los Angeles and dedicates her Quinceañera to her trans-godmothers, who never got to have one of their own.
Premieres December 19 on HBO. Watch the trailer below.
Daily Dance
I love this. Homeboy is in full throw-down mode 🙂
Trump Tangles With Twitter Over TIME Magazine’s “Man Of The Year”
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Friday evening, Donald Trump stirred the Twitter pot by announcing “Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!”
Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2017
Of all things, TIME Magazine trolled back saying that’s not how it works:
The President is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year. TIME does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6.— TIME (@TIME) November 25, 2017
Of course, if you really want to know why a TIME Magazine cover is important to Trump, perhaps this is a clue:
And then the Twitterverse simply had to join in:
Bbc just called to say I was PROBABLY going to be named sports personality of the year but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) November 24, 2017
.@nytimes just called to say I was PROBABLY going to be named comedienne of the year but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway! @andy_murray— Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) November 25, 2017
Hollywood just called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named the next James Bond but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 24, 2017
“Good Boy Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Dog of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway” pic.twitter.com/z4pDhvoJ23— Vanessa Ramos (@thatRamosgirl) November 25, 2017
Mr. President, just to clarify things, I wanted to offer a few statistics. Number of times you were Person of the Year during the 7 years I was editor of Time: 0. Number of times you were on the cover: 0. Number of times you made the Time 100 influentials list: 0. Thanks anyway!— Richard Stengel (@stengel) November 25, 2017
For the love of God will someone please get this man a coloring book. https://t.co/7nS1jlCDaU— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) November 24, 2017
I don’t know who’ll be Time’s 2017 Person of the Year, but I must say it would be nice if Robert Mueller turns out to be Time’s 2018 Person of the Year.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 25, 2017
This really is one of your most breathtakingly tragic posts. Imagine if the actual, legitimately elected POTUS posted something like this.— Mark Banker (@themarkbanker) November 25, 2017
It should be noted that a TIME Mag photo shoot gave us one of the great Trump GIFs pic.twitter.com/7KYMlSRl9v— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) November 24, 2017
Tweet Of The Day
Daily Dance
From Apple, who wants to remind you to “move someone” this holiday season.
Featuring out singer/songwriter Sam Smith’s “Palace.”
I wish they’d listed the choreographer – beautiful, atmospheric, romantical, creative 🙂
Watch below.
Trump Tweets: I’ll Play Golf (Quickly) Before Getting To Work Today
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It looks like Donald Trump is getting a bit defensive about the inordinate amount of golf he plays.
In an early morning tweet today, the Donald wrote,”After Turkey call I will be heading over to Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, to play golf (quickly) with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson. Then back to Mar-a-Lago for talks on bringing even more jobs and companies back to the USA!”
Today is the third day in row that Trump has spent on the golf course and his 101st at a Trump property since taking office.
After Turkey call I will be heading over to Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, to play golf (quickly) with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson. Then back to Mar-a-Lago for talks on bringing even more jobs and companies back to the USA!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2017
You’ll note that Trump also gets a mention in for his golf club there.
As I’ve said many times before, I have no problem with a president playing golf.
But Trump was extremely critical of Barack Obama for playing golf during his administration. He also made a point to say there would “be no time for golf” during his time in the White House as he would be so busy fixing the country.
All of that makes him fair game to note his current golf activities.
Here’s just a handful of examples of Trump’s critical golf tweets:
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