Curt Schilling Says Those Offended by Antigay Slurs Are ‘Snowflakes’
To the retired major league pitcher and conservative commentator, Matt Joyce’s use of such a slur toward a fan Friday was no big deal.
www.advocate.com/sports/2017/8/07/curt-schilling-says-those-offended-antigay-slurs-are-snowflakes
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One Million Moms want to boycott Disney because of this same-sex cartoon couple
They give hate a bad name.
Peter Thiel, iPhone 8, Kayleigh McEnany, Martin Shkreli, Josh Brolin, Eric Bolling, Sea Lice, Idina Menzel: HOT LINKS
LET IT GO. Young boy rocks song in front of Idina Menzel.
LATEST TRUMP LIE. “This is not a vacation.”
Working in Bedminster, N.J., as long planned construction is being done at the White House. This is not a vacation – meetings and calls!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2017
This group ran into President Trump himself at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey
(?: wigstagramsr/Instagram) pic.twitter.com/1T7KUR1l05— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) August 6, 2017
PETER THIEL.Rethinking his support for Trump: ‘While Thiel told Trump that he is off to a “terrific start” at a White House event in June, his previous statements to friends and associates did not reflect that sentiment. In half a dozen private conversations with friends that were described to BuzzFeed News dating from spring 2016 to as recently as May, Thiel, who served on the Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, has criticized Trump and his administration and developed increasingly pessimistic feelings about the president.’
ERIC BOLLING. FOX News host suspended for sending dick pics.
MELBOURNE. Sea lice devour teen’s legs.
Junior footballer Sam Kanizay bitten by flesh eating creatures at Melbourne beach. t.co/KVlo5VVjdd @jodilee_7 #7News pic.twitter.com/B3znRaWwKl
— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) August 7, 2017
KAYLEIGH MCENANY. Former CNN Trumpbot to be RNC spokesperson: “Kayleigh McEnany is joining the RNC as its national spokesman, bringing in house a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump. McEnany is expected be a major presence on television for the GOP. She recently left CNN, where she was a contributor.”
COWARDLY ACT. Minnesota mosque bombed.
CONVICTED. Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli found guilty: “A Brooklyn jury deliberated five days before finding Shkreli guilty on three of eight counts. He had been charged with securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors had accused Shkreli of repeatedly misleading investors about what he was doing with their money. Mostly, he was blowing it with horrible stock picks, forcing him to cook up a scheme to recover millions in losses, they said.”
BARCELONA. Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black share photos of European honeymoon.
MALE MODEL MONDAY. Nicolas Simoes. More here.
JOSH BROLIN. First photos of the actor as Cable in Deadpool 2.
THE IPHONE 8. Our best look yet?
TRAILER OF THE DAY. The BBC drama Man in an Orange Shirt. “Man in an Orange Shirt (BBC2) is the handsome heart of the BBC’s substantial Gay Britannia season, commemorating the 50th anniversary of homosexuality being decriminalised in Britain. It is written by the novelist Patrick Gale and loosely based on a discovery he made about his own parents’ relationship, and tells the gently wrenching story of a secret romance between soldiers Michael and Thomas, and the increasingly frayed marriage of Michael and his new wife Flora, whom he marries because, well, it’s the 1940s and that’s just what people did. ”
MONDAY MUSCLE. Trevor Bell.
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One day after coming out as bi, Aaron Carter’s girlfriend dumps him
It looks like the freshly out bisexual is back on the market.
Meanwhile, In Westeros: Everything Goes Up In Flames On Last Night’s Epic ‘Game of Thrones’ [RECAP]
Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, titled “The Spoils of War,” holds two distinctions: It is the shortest episode of the series, and it also holds the record for the most stuntmen simultaneously set on fire, which is an insane thing to even track.
It certainly paid off, because the stunning sequence was ablaze with drama and visual spectacle, creating one of the memorable scenes in Game of Thrones history.
In addition to that fiery action, there were more reunions, more scheming, more swordplay and more hot Tarly brothers to enjoy and pick over. Let’s dive in with our recap below!
Meanwhile, in King’s Landing …
Cersei is having a pretty smug chat with a rep from the Iron Bank about how she’s about to pay back their full debt in one swift payment, thanks to the gold she’s swiped from Highgarden. The banker is practically tripping over himself to court more of Cersei’s business. Sure the Golden Company is great, heard great things, but if you take out another loan with the Iron Bank today, he can lock her in at an unbeatable rate, plus no service fees and she can use whatever ATM she wants!
Enjoy feeling like a winner while you can, Cers!
Meanwhile, at Winterfell …
Littlefinger knows better than to put all his manipulation eggs into one impressionable Stark child basket. He finds Bran chilling by the fire in a Westerosi wheelchair, and he offers him a sort of strange gift. It’s the dagger that nameless assassin tried to kill him with in season one. You remember. Catelyn intervened and his direwolf ended up saving them both. Then Catelyn confronted Littlefinger about it, and he tried to claim he lost that dagger to Tyrion, and then Tyrion was captured for trying to get Bran killed even though he totally didn’t, and then it basically started the wheels in motion for the War of the Five Kings. But you knew all that already, didn’t you, BRAN? Of course, he did. He knows everything. And to prove it, he parrots back one of Littlefinger’s signature lines/my favorite Prince lyric that never was: “Chaos is a ladder.”
Before Littlefinger can shake the Stark boy down for how he knows about that, Meera enters. She’s there to tell Bran that she needs to be with her family (or what’s left of it) when things really get real. He’s like, “Cool, smell ya later,” and that’s not exactly the sort of send-off Meera was hoping for. After all, she dragged his ass through the snow when he was all Nick Cannon Presents: Wargin’ Out and her brother, Hodor and even poor Summer died protecting him. The least he can do is feign like he’s sad to see her go. Now that Bran’s become the Three-Eyed Raven, though, he’s not really a person anymore, let alone Brandon Stark. “You died in that cave,” Meera tells him before walking her fabulous furs and badass self right out of there.
Outside, there’s a visitor at the gate, and it’s none other than Arya Stark! Only problem is there are two bouncers taking their job a little too seriously. “Ooh, sorry, we’re at capacity.” She tries to explain that this is her home, she is Arya Stark, and they’re like “Hmm, you’re not on the list.” After a little more “Don’t you know who I am?” namedropping, they agree to let Arya in if she just stays still while they check in with Sansa. Of course, the second they turn their backs, Arya disappears.
Sansa finds her in the crypt, and their long-awaited reunion is sweet. They don’t dwell on all the misfortune that’s hardened them both since they’ve last seen each other, but it’s clear they also have both matured. “It’s a long story. I imagine yours is too,” Arya says. “Yes, not a very pleasant one.” “Mine neither, but our stories aren’t over yet.”
Indeed they’re not.
Sansa takes Arya to see Bran hanging out with his tree friends. Bran gives the dagger to Arya, which makes a lot of sense. She’s sure to get more use out of it. (Plus, anyone with a Valyrian steel weapon — including Brienne, Jaime, Sam Tarley and Jon Snow — will need them when the White Walkers descend.) Sansa’s suspicions are raised when Bran tells them he got the dagger as a gift from Littlefinger, because that is not a man that ever has purely altruistic intentions.
Arya spots Brienne training Pod and requests Bri starts training her. They spar, and it’s seriously one of my favorite sequences ever on the show. It’s thrilling, but tender all at the same time. There’s a mutual respect and understanding there that transcends so many levels. Here’s Arya, filled with admiration for Brienne and beaming with pride over her own mastery. And then Brienne is treated with someone who not only doesn’t see her as a freak, but she sees her as a hero. As they fight to an apparent draw, Brienne asks who taught her to fight like that. “No one,” is Arya’s reply. Clever girl.
As Sansa watches on, she’s less impressed. Or is she? It’s hard to tell, but she’s certainly feeling something. Before their scrimmage ends, Sansa storms off, leaving Littlefinger lingering, no doubt wondering how he can exploit this.
Meanwhile, at Dragonstone …
Dany is waiting for news from the Unsullied over at Casterly Rock, when Jon Snow comes up all “Look what I found! Look what I found! Come look! Come look!” While mining for dragonglass, he stumbled upon some old cave drawings of the First Men and Children of the Forest working together against the White Walkers back in the day. Daenerys is all, well, that certainly sounds serious. We definitely should team up … once you bend that knee.
Jon Snow, despite giving this whole speech about working together and trusting each other in the face of a common enemy still won’t be the first to budge on this. Ugh, men, right?
Before the debate can rage on, Tyrion and Varys have news. They took Casterly Rock! Hooray!
Wait, hooray?
They explain that although technically they took Casterly Rock, the Unsullied are now stranded there, and also while they were busy with that, the Lannisters seized Highgarden and all the supplies from the very fertile Reach. This, of course, does not please Dany.
Later, Jon and Davos play a little 20 questions with Missandei. They want to know how she came to work for Daenerys. It feels a little like gotcha journalism with each follow-up question, but Missandei makes a clear case for what a benevolent and fair ruler Dany is. Maybe this will be what sways Jon to finally bend that damn knee.
That’s about when Theon Greyjoy comes ashore to ask Dany for help rescuing his sister. Jon resists the urge to beat him to death, because he did save his sister from Ramsay (but also he’s sort of partially to blame for Ramsay rising to power in the first place) (but also also he has suffered a lot for that sin already). Anyway, Jon doesn’t have time to parse out the ethical dilemma here. Plus, Dany’s not home anymore.
Which brings us to …
Meanwhile, at the Reach …
Jaime and Bronn are leading their caravan back to King’s Landing. Bronn wants that castle Jaime promised him, but he’ll have to settle for this satchel of gold for now. Don’t worry though, Lannisters always repay their debts!
Later, they get word the rest of their gold has made it safely to King’s Landing. Now they just need to get these supplies back.
What’s new with Dickon Tarly? Well, for starters, he’s still super hot, and secondly, he’s a little shook over the whole battle they just had with his former allies. Poor thing. Come here, Dickon, let mama help.
Before I can really get started on my Dickon/Jaime slashfic, Bronn hears something thundering in the distance. Why it sounds a little like a hoard of Dothraki soldiers …oh! It is a hoard of Dothraki soliders! And Daenerys flying on the back of Drogon. Eep!
What happens next is quite possibly the most stunning Game of Thrones conflict ever. The dragon descends and burns right through the Lannister phalanx. The Dothraki ride their horses through the men, slashing and screaming as they go. Dany does another pass, torching more men and more supplies. This is bad. Very bad.
Jaime is almost too stunned to process what’s happening around him. He sends Bronn to go to Qyburn’s giant crossbow thingy (it’s maybe called a scorpion, sorry too busy worrying about Dickon to look it up!). Bronn barely escapes a Dothraki and fires a bolt right into Drogon. The dragon is down, but certainly not out. As Daenerys goes to assist Drogon, Jaime sees an opportunity to take her down. He charges at her, but Drogon sees him coming. We see Drogon’s throat begin to glow (which is SO cool), but Bronn knocks Jaime into a lake just in the knick of time.
The last image we see is Jaime, weighed down by his golden hand and armor, sinking into the depths.
Is this the last we’ve seen of Jaime? (No, absolutely not.) But if (when) he emerges from this literal baptism by fire, will shedding his golden adornments help him shed some familial ties as well?
What did you think of last night’s episode?
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Meanwhile, In Westeros: Everything Goes Up In Flames On Last Night’s Epic ‘Game of Thrones’ [RECAP]
Young boy in the front row out-divas Idina Menzel, and she’s living for it
He’s got something.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal Fires Back at Trump: ‘Your Bullying Won’t Work Now…No One is Above the Law’
Senator Richard Blumenthal fired back at Donald Trump on Monday after Trump called him “a phony Vietnam con artist.”
Blumenthal appeared earlier this morning on CNN’s New Day (above) to talk about the White House’s crackdown on leaks, warning of the danger of “weaponizing” the Justice Dept. for “personal end.”
Tweeted Trump:
“Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist! Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal. He told stories about his Vietnam battles and…….conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. Now he judges collusion?”
Blumenthal responded on Twitter, saying, “Mr. President: Your bullying hasn’t worked before and it won’t work now. No one is above the law….This issue isn’t about me – it’s about the Special Counsel’s independence and integrity.”
Mr. President: Your bullying hasn’t worked before and it won’t work now. No one is above the law.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) August 7, 2017
This issue isn’t about me – it’s about the Special Counsel’s independence and integrity.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) August 7, 2017
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal Fires Back at Trump: ‘Your Bullying Won’t Work Now…No One is Above the Law’
