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Internet patriots! Are you as tired as I am of the very shameful display of disloyalty that the NFL has become? This has nothing to do with race or anything else. The issue of NFL kneeling has nothing to do with race. It has to do with respect for our country, our anthem, and our flag. Major League Baseball has a better moral character, a deeper concern for mankind, and a spirit of charity. It's alternative sports, without all the Black Identity Extremists, the BIE. And for the first time ever, the World Series is coming to the Internet, on YouTube TV. Tune in to Fox or YouTube TV on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8:09 p.m. Eastern for game 1, the Houston Astros going up against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers used to play in my home town, in New York City. I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young. Said to be the best baseball player in the state of New York. Ask coach Ted Dobias. He said I'm the best he ever coached. I always knew I was good. I was always good at it. I was always the best athlete. Always the best player. Not only baseball, but every other sport too. Everybody wanted me to be a baseball player. But I also knew that it was very limited, because in those days you couldn't even make a lot of money playing baseball. But I was good at other things too. I was good at wrestling. I was really good at football. I was always good at sports. I was always the best at sports. So I know what I'm talking about when I tell you, it's going to be great. Tune in to the World Series. And tune out the NFL. Switch to baseball, and our country will win. We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go "Please, please, we can’t win any more." You’ve heard this one. You’ll say "Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win any more. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else." And I’m going to say "I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning." Let's Make America Great Again! 🇺🇸

The failing @NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. Total disrespect for our great country! If you stand for our Flag, Anthem and Country, sign my petition. www.gop.com/stand-for-anthem-petition 🇺🇸

From the probably-watched-too-much-Cheech-and-Chong-as-a kid dept.

The strangest dream that i can remember that woke me up laughing went like this:

I took a glass and filled it with water
I took a tampon by the string and dipped it in the water, then dipped it in cocaine.
Then i dipped the tampon into the water.

In my dream i said, "I've invented coca-cola!" and started laughing. Woke up laughing and had a great day after that.

I need a few more dreams like that, i tell you what!

Remember when Republicans cared about the deficit? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

U.S. Posts Its Largest Budget Deficit Since 2013

GOP Congress Presides Over Highest Spending Since Obama’s Stimulus

It's October 19. Big and historic day -- and big week -- ahead for our stock markets! Stocks going 📈up tremendously! A bull market the likes of which this world has never seen. Blowing through many, many milestones. Great, great things happening on #WallStreet. Get ready for the Dow to go to 24,000 and more!💸 #Dow24K#MAGA pic.twitter.com/GQ5f2eVvEI 🇺🇸

There's a big rally coming up for white folks and select supporters & allies. It's TODAY, Thursday the 19th at the Phillips Center for Performing Arts, on the University of Florida campus. 3201 Hull Road in Gainesville. @RichardBSpencer, President of the National Policy Institute, CEO of Washington Summit Publishers and founder of Alternative Right, will be speaking. http://www.alligator.org/news/article_e86f4a88-b2b6-11e7-8c07-3fce95cf484b.html

@ThatEliMosley, Leader of Identity Evropa and Mike Enoch of The Right Stuff and The Daily Shoah will also be speaking.

You'll need a ticket to get in. Unfortunately there are plans by "anti-fascists/anti-racists/liberals/social democrats" to sabotage. A lot of liberal bars said they would trade free beer for tickets, and give those tickets to very bad and disruptive people. So the tickets will be given out outside the Phillips Center, around 1:00-1:30 on the day of the event. The National Policy Institute wants this to be a safe space for white people. Meaning it's going to be selective so the tickets only go to white and white-supportive people. @CameronVPadgett (a young man who is a student) explains it in a video. pic.twitter.com/PNCSDRl5eo

Governor Rick Scott made a very smart move. He declared a state of emergency. Trust me, it isn't an emergency. It's so rules & regulations won't apply, so we can have law & order. Like Cameron says, it's "just a formality." So law enforcement can stop any sabotage.

"The emergency declaration — requested by Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell — allows state agencies to suspend rules and regulations, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Scott also activated gubernatorial authority to spend surplus money when he deems it necessary." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/16/state-emergency-declared-in-florida-county-ahead-richard-spencer-speech.html

"Okay so basically: this means the cops are going to be allowed to do whatever they want." https://dailystormer.ai/wat-florida-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-five-days-ahead-of-richard-spencer-event/

This is a reminder for me (or you) to check back in a week, assuming it is overshadowed by other news:

The JFK Document Dump Could Be a Fiasco

Trump, no stranger to conspiracy theories, including totally unsubstantiated theories about a link between Ted Cruz’s father and JFK’s death, has not yet revealed his plans for the documents. His friend and political adviser Roger Stone, the Republican consultant who is the author of a book claiming that President Lyndon Johnson was the mastermind of the Kennedy assassination, said last week that he has been informed authoritatively that the CIA is urging Trump to delay the release of some of the JFK documents for another 25 years. “They must reflect badly on the CIA even though virtually everyone involved is long dead,” Stone said in a statement on his website.

The CIA has not confirmed or denied reports that it has appealed to Trump to block the release of some of the files on grounds that the documents might still somehow endanger national security if made public. In a cryptic statement last week, the spy agency said only that it “continues to engage in the process to determine the appropriate next steps with respect to any previously unreleased CIA information.”

As it stands now, the document release this month will be a logistical nightmare, with the public suddenly flooded with a huge online library of documents—tens of thousands in total—that will be, at first, mostly incomprehensible even to experienced students of the assassination. The National Archives, abandoning its plans to release the documents in batches over the course of several months, said this week that it will instead release everything at once—all on the same day—sometime between now and the deadline on October 26.

I'd sub but it's pre-news again.

• Donald Trump’s Unseemly Condolence-Call Bragging Game
• The Memo: Gold Star controversy consumes White House
• Five reasons Trump's widow story stings
• Trump’s Condolence Call to Soldier’s Widow Ignites an Imbroglio
• Today in Conservative Media: Trump’s Gold Star Comments Might Be the Stupidest Controversy Yet
• How did consoling Gold Star families become political?
• Trump's Unforced Error
• Gold Star father: Trump's words misconstrued
• Making a military widow cry: that is a classic Trump move
• https://twitter.com/AlyssaMastro44/status/919988497976582144

Big, big win against ISIS today! My guys conquered Raqqa, the capital of ISIS. And killed the White Widow, a MAJOR British terrorist who was on my kill list. Killed Sally Jones, I call her the White Widow. "Zapped" her while she was fleeing from Raqqa. A huge, huge victory. Which you can read about from Fox News. But the Dem #MSM doesn't want you to hear about it. Fiction writers at @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC and @CNN won't tell you. And Dems running Internet sites don't want you to know.

Regional Indicator Symbol

I am adding some flag emoji to the Soylent Upgrade extension. It seems to work although they don't render as anything other than letters or boxes on my main system. I'm sure that 95% of them will work on my Chromebook, however.

I don't want to include every possible flag on the list (sorry Lesotho, New Caledonia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen...). I included the ten that were proposed as part of a draft standard in 2007, flags of the ten most populous countries (Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Indonesia OMG), the EU flag, Puerto Rico, and a number of other territories that are in the news often or are amusing.

Fun fact, separate emoji for England, Scotland, and Wales were added to Unicode in 2017. Good timing! I added England to my list below, but it renders very differently from the other symbols, showing up as one box instead of two boxes, "GBENG", or whatever.

Should the flag of Antarctica be orange?

Here's what I have included so far:

🇦🇫 - \uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDEB - AF / Afghanistan
🇦🇶 - \uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDF6 - AQ / Antarctica
🇦🇺 - \uD83C\uDDE6\uD83C\uDDFA - AU / Australia
🇧🇩 - \uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDE9 - BD / Bangladesh
🇧🇷 - \uD83C\uDDE7\uD83C\uDDF7 - BR / Brazil
🇨🇦 - \uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDE6 - CA / Canada
🇨🇳 - \uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF3 - CN / China
🇨🇺 - \uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDFA - CU / Cuba
🇩🇪 - \uD83C\uDDE9\uD83C\uDDEA - DE / Germany
🇪🇬 - \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDEC - EG / Egypt
🇪🇸 - \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDF8 - ES / Spain
🇪🇺 - \uD83C\uDDEA\uD83C\uDDFA - EU / European Union
🇫🇷 - \uD83C\uDDEB\uD83C\uDDF7 - FR / France
🇬🇧 - \uD83C\uDDEC\uD83C\uDDE7 - GB / United Kingdom
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - \uD83C\uDFF4\uDB40\uDC67\uDB40\uDC62\uDB40\uDC65\uDB40\uDC6E\uDB40\uDC67\uDB40\uDC7F - GB-ENG / England
🇮🇩 - \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDE9 - ID / Indonesia
🇮🇪 - \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDEA - IE / Ireland
🇮🇱 - \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF1 - IL / Israel
🇮🇳 - \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF3 - IN / India
🇮🇶 - \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF6 - IQ / Iraq
🇮🇷 - \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF7 - IR / Iran
🇮🇹 - \uD83C\uDDEE\uD83C\uDDF9 - IT / Italy
🇯🇵 - \uD83C\uDDEF\uD83C\uDDF5 - JP / Japan
🇰🇵 - \uD83C\uDDF0\uD83C\uDDF5 - KP / North Korea
🇰🇷 - \uD83C\uDDF0\uD83C\uDDF7 - KR / South Korea
🇲🇽 - \uD83C\uDDF2\uD83C\uDDFD - MX / Mexico
🇳🇬 - \uD83C\uDDF3\uD83C\uDDEC - NG / Nigeria
🇵🇰 - \uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDF0 - PK / Pakistan
🇵🇷 - \uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDF7 - PR / Puerto Rico
🇵🇸 - \uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDF8 - PS / Palestinian Territory
🇷🇺 - \uD83C\uDDF7\uD83C\uDDFA - RU / Russia
🇸🇦 - \uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDE6 - SA / Saudi Arabia
🇸🇪 - \uD83C\uDDF8\uD83C\uDDEA - SE / Sweden
🇹🇷 - \uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDF7 - TR / Turkey
🇺🇸 - \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDF8 - US / United States
🇻🇦 - \uD83C\uDDFB\uD83C\uDDE6 - VA / Vatican City
🇻🇪 - \uD83C\uDDFB\uD83C\uDDEA - VE / Venezuela
🇿🇦 - \uD83C\uDDFF\uD83C\uDDE6 - ZA / South Africa

If you think a country should be included, comment and make your case.

South American representation is looking particularly bad.

Antarctica, England, and Puerto Rico and others should probably be removed if they just don't render anywhere.

One stupid thing is that there is currently no way for me to add a tooltip that identifies the flag your are hovering over. I will think about the best way to add this.

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New ordered list buttons will be added. Now the type attribute can be changed (discussed here). Clicking the "1. List" button will output <ol type="1">. "A. List" adds type="A", and "I. List" adds type="I" (Roman numerals). I could make two more buttons for the lowercase versions, but that seems excessive. Having the two new options should be a good enough reminder that you can change the look of your ordered list.

Too bad we can't access the incredible variety added by CSS3 and later's list-style-type.

Also on the agenda:

• Title case fix(es) such as "IPhone" to "iPhone".
• Fix so the title case button appears even after you have previewed a journal.
• Recognize the poll results/comments page so commenting features are added. The URL in question is https://soylentnews.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=110&aid=-1 where QID is the number of the poll.
• Take a look at *New* comment cycling. The button appears on some individual thread pages where there are no actual new comments (but there were new comments on the overall story).

These are just ideas:

Maybe a "Now" button on admin.pl?op=edit so editors can set the story release time to the current time. Not sure about this, would entertain other ideas about the release time field, such as manipulation of the time using [+60m] and [+90m] buttons (including correct handling of the date change). The only thing the extension currently does with this field is add a check to make sure whether or not you want to post a story in the past (typically because you forgot to add a day).

If I missed anything or you have any ideas, let me know.