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femmocrat's JournalToday's Google Doodle: Yuri Kochiyama's birthday.
Kochiyama left a legacy of advocacy: for peace, U.S. political prisoners, nuclear disarmament, and reparations for Japanese Americans interned during the war. She was known for her tireless intensity and compassion, and remained committed to speaking out, consciousness-raising, and taking action until her death in 2014.
It is Perry Como's birthday: (I love Perry Como.)
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/perry-como.htmlhttp://old.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20010513como4.asp
Julius La Rosa has died. (Sorry if this is a dupe.)
Julius La Rosa, the celebrated 1950s singer who reinvented himself as a television, stage and nightclub performer after his young career was thrown into turmoil by a bizarre and humiliating on-the-air firing by Arthur Godfrey before a national audience, died on Thursday at his home in Crivitz, Wis. He was 86.
More at link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/arts/television/julius-la-rosa-dead-86-singer.html
Not exactly, but I can turn it off and on.
I can speak Pittsburghese like a "yinzer" or choose not to, depending on the company I keep! 
"Diaper Don"
That came to me after Jon Stewart called him a "man-baby". And it sounds like "Dapper Dan" or "The Dapper Dan"! 😏
I agree with you, kentuck.
We are probably in the minority here, but I think Obama could have handed this off to the Secretary of Education. You're right.... now the wingnuts have an issue to get their poorly-educated base all riled up and come out to vote. This is the "gay marriage" wedge issue all over again. 
We have seen this hair-on-fire scenario over and over and now the democrats have handed it to them on a silver platter. It is almost the end of the school year. This could have waited until after the general election, IMO.
True.
And now we can be on the alert for the MSM covering this. In fact, yesterday I heard someone shout a question to Bill Clinton about the CGI at some event. After seeing this, it puts it into context. With him out on the campaign trail, I expect more CGI scrutiny.
It is kind of a risk for the Clinton campaign to put him out there, although they think he is the one who can relate to the "working class". Anyhow, I bet trump is behind the mud-slinging. Bring out the shovels, hoses and boots.... we are going to need them!
The problem with trash like this is...
that it gets repeated. Before long the MSM will be showing it -- allegedly to discredit it -- instead of just ignoring it. They won't be able to help themselves.
It is probably a trump maneuver to deflect attention from his very bad week. And once in a while, the Enquirer gets it right.
On edit: By showing it and discussing it here, we are probably contributing to its dissemination. 
This was so funny: Colbert making fun of trump's rally with coal miners:
The worst part of Trump’s coal miner endorsement over the weekend came when Trump told a crowd full of people not to worry about voting Tuesday in the West Virginia primary. “Save your vote for the general,” Trump told the audience, obviously, forgetting that there are more elections than his.
“Yes! It’s an inspiring message,” Colbert mocked. “It reminds me of Patrick Henry’s immortal battle cry, ‘Give me liberty, or don’t. Forget this one. I don’t give a crap.'”
Trump followed the audience’s requests to put on the West Virginia Coal Association hardhat and then he pretended to shovel coal. “Wow, he really looks like a miner. Right down to that orange soot all over his face from years in the Dorito mines. And I’m sure all the coal miners there related to this motion,” Colbert said mocking Trump’s attempt at pantomiming a shovel. “Then they go out after work and play lacrosse.”
More at link: https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/colbert-mocks-trump-for-telling-coal-miners-not-to-vote-and-then-obsessing-about-his-silly-hair/
Watch the video if you haven't seen it! I was
My favorite Billy Joel song:
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