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I’m a 29-Year-Old Pregnant Virgin

"This is me giving a middle finger to the people who told me I couldn’t do it because I’m not married yet."

Thoughts and prayers with the families of the 71 Saratov Airlines passengers & crew who died. ✈️💥 No survivors.⚰️⚰️⚰️

And with the survivors, and the families of the victims, of the firey helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon. 🚁🔥

Very sad for me personally. Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. So there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record. 2018, not so great. We must work much harder and get very, very tough on the airlines. Jimmy Carter, President Carter, was a DISASTER for our airlines! Our airlines have been in the shitter since he signed the Airline Deregulation Act.🚽 pic.twitter.com/y8vikN1akP

Today, I was greeted with this FS...

The House That Spied on Me

...which contained the following error...

Both are observable by the companies they report too to

...as I stared at this, I thought, "I should let them know"... then I realized there was no conveniently associated way to let anyone know without posting a message in the actual comments, a message that really didn't belong there, other than, well, that was the easiest thing to do.

So I suggest that at the end of each FS, there be a small link such as...

Tip the Editor(s)

...which, when clicked, would give you a form to report whatever it is that they missed, fouled up, or otherwise need to know. The form would provide the person who clicked with a copy of TFS to work with, and when submitted, the editors with the link to TFS automatically, a copy of the content, raw, ready for editing in another form field, and the remarks from the submitter.

The user of this link would copy the text, click the link, paste, make the appropriate remark(s), and submit. Easy.

I submit that it is better for the site in general if we all have the opportunity to improve it, and if that process is as painless as possible. Readers, and that includes new readers, that are not stabbed in the eye with obvious grammar, spelling and other errors, will both be more engaged with the actual story and less inclined to think poorly of the site.

Russians are mocking their space program after the SpaceX launch

Some dove head-first into Russia's rising inequality and the excessive wealth among the country's billionaire elite. One user noted the millions of dollars and years of effort Musk has plowed into pioneering space technology, and lamented the comparison with the kinds of things Russia’s notorious 96 billionaires tend to spend their own money on.

His example: Roman Abramovich, the Russian oil-and-metals magnate who spent some $233 million buying the U.K. soccer team Chelsea.

Abramovich, who’s worth $11 billion according to Forbes magazine, also splashed out some $400 million for the world's second-largest yacht in 2010, which he named Eclipse, ironically enough.

Others used the SpaceX craze to poke fun at Moscow’s standard tit-for-tat diplomatic approach to disputes with Washington, with one user photoshopping a mobile missile launcher flying through the cosmos as Russia’s “symmetrical response.”

How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program

The Soviet Union tried something similar in the 1960s and early 1970s. Sergei Korolev, the rocket designer who launched the first satellite and the first man into space, began the development of what came to be known as the N-1, a 30-engine superheavy rocket capable of taking a 75-ton space station to orbit and perhaps to the Moon, Mars and Venus. Finished after Korolev’s death in 1966, the N-1 was test-launched four times. Each of the launches failed, largely because of the difficulty of running so many engines at the same time.

Now SpaceX has pulled off a similar task, and even though it’s not clear yet who will contract for the Falcon Heavy’s services, SpaceX founder Elon Musk now has the most capable missile in the world: It can deliver up to 64 tons into orbit. Russia’s plans to build such a rocket, capable of flying to the Moon or to Mars, aren’t even complete yet, and certainly not fully funded, though Igor Komarov, head of Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, has promised a first launch in 2028. Even China is likely to have a superheavy launch vehicle before Russia. But it’s the success of upstart Musk that smarts. Roskosmos has the full power of the state behind it, after all. And yet here’s this boyish-looking showman launching his roadster into space, David Bowie blasting from the car’s speakers and “Don’t Panic” -- a quote from Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” -- lit up on the central console.

Some very DISLOYAL folks in Congress shut down our government again. Not so you'd notice, you didn't notice did you? They couldn't miss their lunch, the cafeteria was open in time for lunch. No brown bags. ❄️ No Wolfgang Puck Express. Chuck & Nancy looking very foolish again -- still.

Just signed Bill. Our Military will now be stronger than ever before. We love and need our Military and gave them everything -- and more. First time this has happened in a long time. Without more Republicans in Congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we do not like or want in order to finally, after many years of depletion, take care of our Military.

To renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal so it's even more awesome. With very special, very small bombs. So we can take out a bad dude, take out his family, and nobody else gets hurt. And very special missiles that work underwater. We can launch them from a submarine, the submarine doesn't have to come up. It stays hidden. Much nicer than Trident, we'll put very special, very small bombs on the end. On the tip. And maybe sell them to Saudi Arabia, so they can protect themselves. To Japan and the UK, these are islands, surrounded by water, big water, ocean water. That means JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!

And we have parade money now. I want a parade like the one in France, like the one in North Korea. President Macron, Little Rocket Man, they look very strong. Because they put on tremendous parades. They're not so strong, we're much stronger. But we don't do the parades, nobody knows how strong we are. We spend money on our Military, people say, "where did all that money go?" They don't see our Military out there, on the street. President Erdogan, so many other countries, they have guys in the street, we don't. That ends now.

Sadly, we needed some Dem votes for passage. Costs on non-military lines will never come down if we do not elect more Republicans in the 2018 Election, and beyond. Doug Jones, we needed that seat. We could have had Senator Moore or Senator Strange in that seat. But we screwed up. We didn't work as ONE TEAM.

This Bill is a BIG VICTORY for our Military, but much waste in order to get Dem votes. Fortunately, DACA not included in this Bill, negotiations to start now.

The Memo: Knives come out for Kelly

Kelly’s most vehement critics even suggest the episode could herald his demise within the administration.

“We’ll see this as an inflection point when he is fired,” said one source within President Trump’s orbit. The source, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, blasted Kelly as “tone deaf and politically inept.”

A second source close to the Republican Party complained, regarding Kelly, that “everybody knows he limits access and information flow to POTUS on a daily basis; this could be the beginning of the end of that — and maybe Kelly as chief.”

Trump's self-imposed shackles are coming undone!

Banned From Election, Putin Foe Navalny Pursues Politics By Other Means

He said he doesn't have any doubts that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because similar methods have been deployed against members of the Russian opposition: hacked emails, the publication of false personal information and attacks on social media accounts by armies of bots.

"Putin is conducting a creeping expansion into the Internet — extremely effectively and cheaply," Navalny said. "Of course he had fun hacking those servers and meddling, but it didn't have any significant effect on the elections."

Amid all the hostility between the U.S. and Russia, Navalny said the affinity between Putin and President Trump is inexplicable, especially considering that the Kremlin has based even its domestic policy on anti-Americanism. "This makes no sense, and there is no rational explanation for it. But maybe one day there will be a new Watergate and we'll learn a lot about these amazing ties," he said.

Beyond the personal relationship of presidents, Navalny said that the strategic interests of Washington and Moscow are largely aligned, and that instead of squabbling the countries should be pursuing nuclear non-proliferation and fighting terrorists together. A key move to bettering relations would be for Russia to stop its involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, he said.

"We're a Western country," Navalny said. "Russia — based on its size, population, nuclear weapons and intellectual potential — should strive to be a leading European country."

Russia should aim to join the European Union and work on participating in a joint security system with NATO members like the U.S., Britain and France, he said.

Navalny's only job is to keep doing what he is doing now without getting assassinated, and eventually mount a real attempt at winning the Presidency after Putin retires from politics.

The administrators have asked for my help with the growing problem of Cyber Spam. Believe me, I'm honored.

We're losing a lot of people because of Spam. And we have to do something. I'm treating it as an emergency, without declaring an emergency. I'm going to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. The cyber folks at the RNC, we had a very strong cyber defense system. And China, they put a Wall around their Internet. No Cyber Spam in China, folks.

It's time to get very strict. The sentences for spamming are much too short. We’re going to be bringing them up, and bringing them up rapidly. I'm talking death penalty. And the families, with the spammers, you have to take out their families.

All options are on the table, folks. All options.

Folks, we're having two tremendous rallies today. In the capitals of Florida and California. In Tallahassee, it's so close to Georgia. And in Sacramento. We need to send a very strong message to Governor Moonbeam -- Jerry Brown -- and Governor Rick Scott. They don't understand our Make America Great Again movement. Or they don't agree. Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly don’t seem to love our country very much! Because they don't like our oil drilling. I said before, let's knock out Hillary Clinton. And we knocked her out overwhelmingly. Now it's their turn.

Our economy is booming, it's EXPLODING. We need a lot, a lot of energy to keep it running. We need all the energy. Oil. President Bush went into Iraq for the oil. Very expensive, very FOOLISH. And President Obama promised to finish the job. He didn't finish it, he created ISIS. And left a horrible mess for me to clean up.

We don't want to make another big mistake like that one. We want America to be energy independent. For that we need a lot more oil, we need the offshore drilling. But Governor Scott and Governor Brown don't care. They're very selfish, they say "don't drill for the oil." We need that oil. More than we need them.

Let them know! Come to the rallies today -- they call them hearings -- from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific & Eastern time. RALLY FOR OIL! Here are the addresses:

Four Points by Sheraton Tallahassee Downtown
316 West Tennessee Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301
(850) 422-0071

Tsakopoulos Library Galleria
828 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 264-2800

More rallies to come, the ones today are the big ones. Watch my website, we have to change these every time the Dems shut down our government! And you can write in too. I want all my folks from the great MIDDLE of the country to write in! boem.gov/National-Program-Participate

What's behind the Justin Timberlake backlash?

Timberlake must be wondering what went wrong. Because, truth be told, there's nothing egregiously bad about either Man of the Woods or his Super Bowl performance. They're just... slightly disappointing.

The backlash feels bigger than a commentary on his music. There's a mockery and a cruelty that feels personal - as though people had a lingering resentment towards the star, and they've suddenly been given licence to express it.

For some, it goes back to his relationship with Britney Spears. After they broke up, he made music and videos that traded on their story and told several interviewers he'd taken her virginity - a personal detail that wasn't his to share.

For others, it's about his failure to support Janet Jackson after exposing her breast to millions of TV viewers at the 2004 Super Bowl.

Timberlake's half-hearted acknowledgement of that moment at this year's show did not go unnoticed.

"He chose to perform the song Rock Your Body, during which the famous wardrobe malfunction took place, and yet he didn't mention Janet: He didn't shout her out, and he stopped the song right before the line during which he ripped off her costume," pop critic Ann Powers told NPR. "It was almost like he was trying to erase what had happened in the past, but that is just not flying in 2018."

"The Super Bowl performance invited people to reflect on the time Justin threw Janet Jackson under a bus, and what that said about race and gender," agrees Peter Robinson, editor of Popjustice.

As The Pop World Seeks Accountability, Justin Timberlake Seems Lost In The Woods

You say "not right for this moment." Explain what you mean by that.

Justin Timberlake's entire career and art is based on his ability to be smooth — his ability to be easy, to create music that seduces us with references to the past, with appropriations, with artful mixes, and never quite shows any struggle. But we are living in a moment of struggle, and we want our pop music to also reflect that struggle. And frankly, Timberlake now embodies that phrase so often spoken today: white male privilege. It's just not a good look for 2018. And it's really, in some ways, not his fault — it's just who he is.

Why Prince fans are bashing Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl halftime performance

In a 1998 interview with Guitar World magazine, Prince was asked directly about the use of digital editing to "create a situation where you could jam with any artist from the past." He was not a fan.

"That's the most demonic thing imaginable," he said. "Everything is as it is, and it should be. If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing ... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon. Also, what they did with that Beatles song (Free as a Bird), manipulating John Lennon's voice to have him singing from across the grave ... that'll never happen to me. To prevent that kind of thing from happening is another reason why I want artistic control."

Last one could plausibly form the basis of a tech-related submission, although it is a little late.

Paul Ryan, our Speaker of the House, shared some tremendous news. About the massive Tax Cut we gave our Middle class. Which means so many can now afford those things they only dreamed of before. "A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week. ... she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year." Amazing!

"'I have heard time and again that the middle class is getting crumbs, but I’ll take it!'
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