Comments on: Jeff Flake’s speech Today https://habitablezone.com/2018/01/17/jeff-flakes-speech-today/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2018/01/17/jeff-flakes-speech-today/#comment-40893 Robert Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:18:28 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=68855#comment-40893 Page is back, titled "The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards", which, if you allow that anticipation includes expecting a good laugh, is the last strictly accurate statement on the page. It twists and distorts and mischaracterizes and makes things up, and is petty and snarky to boot. In other words, The Fake News Awards are a self-parody. Page is back, titled “The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards”, which, if you allow that anticipation includes expecting a good laugh, is the last strictly accurate statement on the page.

It twists and distorts and mischaracterizes and makes things up, and is petty and snarky to boot.

In other words, The Fake News Awards are a self-parody.

]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2018/01/17/jeff-flakes-speech-today/#comment-40890 Robert Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:42:07 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=68855#comment-40890 Trump finally dropped that shoe, in a tweet, of course. So much for the long-anticipated ceremony--just a link to a page on the official GOP site: https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/ Don't bother clicking, after a couple of minutes you'll see the terse message "The site is temporarily offline, we are working to bring it back up. Please try back later.", and if you persist, "Timed out while waiting on cache-sjc3149-SJC". Gotta love it. It's behaving like either there's overwhelming traffic to the page, or it's undergoing a denial-of-service attack. I'm betting on the latter, because it's hard to imagine enough people giving a rats ass, to break the server. Trump is such a dumbass. Trump finally dropped that shoe, in a tweet, of course. So much for the long-anticipated ceremony–just a link to a page on the official GOP site:

https://gop.com/the-highly-anticipated-2017-fake-news-awards/

Don’t bother clicking, after a couple of minutes you’ll see the terse message “The site is temporarily offline, we are working to bring it back up. Please try back later.”, and if you persist, “Timed out while waiting on cache-sjc3149-SJC”.

Gotta love it. It’s behaving like either there’s overwhelming traffic to the page, or it’s undergoing a denial-of-service attack. I’m betting on the latter, because it’s hard to imagine enough people giving a rats ass, to break the server.

Trump is such a dumbass.

]]> By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2018/01/17/jeff-flakes-speech-today/#comment-40888 hank Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:51:08 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=68855#comment-40888 So what was the reaction of his colleagues to the speech? So what was the reaction of his colleagues to the speech?

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