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1. A chuckle for engineers:

   Seattle’s $52M Streetcar Fiasco the Latest Setback for City’s Anti-Trump Mayor
   Fox News | 7/26/2018 | Lukas Mikelionis

   Seattle’s anti-Trump mayor, Jenny Durkan, may be on track for a political backlash: Her city’s $52 million money splash on public transit appears doomed because new taxpayer-funded streetcars apparently won’t fit the existing tracks.

   Durkan’s office has braced city residents for the possibility, the Seattle Times reported.

   The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) reportedly ordered 10 new streetcars last year, to help expand the Seattle Streetcar system by linking the two existing streetcar lines.

   But the new streetcars also are reportedly heavier and longer than the ones currently in use, raising concerns about whether they’ll be used at all.

   “It appears the error will require either a change order for design of the streetcars or incur new costs for construction of new or retrofitted maintenance barns,” City Councilmember Lisa Herbold wrote in the city’s blog post last week.

   Durkan had to temporarily stop work on the project after revelations that it may cost 50 percent more than previously estimated, the Times reported. The estimated total cost has already increased from $150 million to $200 million.

   It’s just the latest of several setbacks for Durkan while her national profile continues to rise amid fervent attacks against the Trump administration over immigration, climate change and abortion.

   . . . .

   “As woman mayors, we are doing our part to protect our citizens against the all-out war that the Trump administration has waged against safe, inclusive communities, clean energy, and bold climate action,” she wrote in a tweet.

   “Further evidence that Trump’s administration is founded on cruelty and callous disregard for immigrant lives. Seattle stands with Salvadorans against this unjust decision,” she wrote in another tweet, referring to the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador.

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2. I’m still confused. Democrats supported Lexington, Virginia restaurant, The Red Hen, for refusing to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

   What’s odd is that they have been spending years arguing the government should force businesses to serve everyone – except, apparently, Republicans.

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3. ♩

   Hold a press conference, hold it fast
   The past Apprentice cast
   This is La Vie Omarosa

   Why you dissed me, heaven knows
   And though the lie’s disclosed
   NBC’s La Vie Omarosa

   When the Pres rips me apart
   I’m in a world of hurt
   In the Situation Room

   And when I speak
   The angles from above
   Everyday words seem to turn into such wrongs

   Give your hardened soul to me
   And life will always be
   La Vie Omarosa

   ♩

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4. The Democratic Party today announced that it is changing its symbol from the Donkey to a Condom because it more accurately reflects the Party’s political stance.
   A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of dicks, and gives you a sense of security while you’re actually being screwed!

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5. One thing people who want to limit CO2 levels seem to forget is that CO2 is literally (and I mean “literally” literally, not figuratively) plant food. Extra CO2 in the atmosphere means that our plants grow bigger, and who doesn’t want their plants to grow bigger?

   Except, maybe, bonsai tree farmers.

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