Greg Sargent: These quotes from Republicans give away their game on Kavanaugh (Washington Post)
The Republicans' strategy to get Brett Kavanaugh confirmed is to do the absolute minimum necessary to appear as if they are taking the sexual assault charges against him seriously - while doing all they can to limit the ability of the American people to make a fully informed judgment about those charges themselves.
Wax Lips are the common name of a candy product made of colored and flavored food-grade paraffin wax, molded to resemble a pair of oversized red lips. The lips have a bite plate in the back; when the plate is held between the teeth, the wax lips cover the wearer's own lips, to comic effect. Invented by the American Candy Company in the early 20th century, they became a popular novelty in the United States for many decades, especially during the Halloween season. Their popularity among children can be attributed mainly to the comedy of wearing the lips. Although they were intended to be used as a sort of chewing gum after the novelty of the gag wore off, the lips were often simply discarded rather than eaten.
The original design of wax lips is proprietary. The patent was obtained by Concord Confections, Ltd. in 2002, and that company was in turn acquired by Tootsie Roll Industries in 2004. The lips are now produced under the Wack-O-Wax brand name. Other designs include the wax fangs design, which depicts open lips with a mouthful of bloody vampire teeth, black wax moustaches, and lips with protruding buck teeth.
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Nik-L-Nip is a brand of confectionery juice created in the early 20th century that comes in a variety of fruit flavors, marketed by Tootsie Roll Industries. The Nik-L-Nip brand name is a combination of the original cost of it (a nickel) and the preferred method of opening wax bottles, which is to nip (bite) the top off. Once the top of the small, bottle-shaped wax containers has been bitten off, one can drink the fruit-flavored syrup inside. Afterward the wax can be chewed like gum. The wax in Nik-L-Nip wax bottles is food-grade and non-toxic, although it is meant to be chewed and not swallowed.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Wax.
Stephen F said:
Wax
mj wrote:
I remember getting stuff like this
From the corner store about a block from my grandmother's house. They
were made of wax (paraffin).
Alan J answered:
Paraffin Wax.
Mac Mac replied:
Wax
zorch responded:
Wax bottles with fruit flavored juice.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
wax
Randall wrote:
wax
Dave responded:
Wax. Food grade wax that could be chewed, if the kid consumer was into chewing wax, and could be swallowed without harm although it had no food value. Inside the wax container was some sweet fruit flavored sugar water- but not much of it. Kids chewed the top off the wax bottle, 'enjoyed' the liquid then chewed the wax until they got tired of that and spit it out. Same deal with the wax lips and lips with vampire teeth except those were hilarious (in theory) because kids could put them in their teeth and it looked like they had different mouths. I probably got some of those for Halloween. Back in the '60s you could buy a 10 oz bottle of Coke for 5 cents so I don't know who would want a Nik-L-Nip instead? I guess they are still sold somewhere.
Deborah replied:
Oooh, wax lips! So much fun we had with them, and they were cheap. Parents must have loved them.
Kevin K., in Washington, DC, said:
Those products are made of wax. Seeing the pics, I can taste it in my mouth. Very strange, when you think about it. Wax is Whack!
Ed K wrote:
CnH2n+2, obviously.
Dave in Tucson replied:
Green Gene, Motor Mouth & nik-l-nip are all made from wax.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Alice Cooper."
"Wax."
Daniel in The City answered:
Wax
Cal in Vermont responded:
Wax and sugar and water. They were (are?) cheap fun!
Billy in Cypress said:
WAX was used for those products. I remember them without any affection or disaffection, only as a novelty.
Michelle in AZ answered:
wax
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame, replied:
Wax is the answer. I remember those wax lips and wax "juice" bottles from my youth.
These days, Tootsie Roll Industries makes wax lips and Nik-L-Nips, among other familiar brands of candy.
Since we are talking about trivia, I have included a screen shot from Tootsie's website showing the various brands of candy they make. Looks as though they have purchased a bunch of other brands over the years.
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Roy "Blue Texan" Adams, in LouieGohmertstan, TX, took the day off.
• While appearing in the Greenwich Village Follies early in her career, modern dance pioneer Martha Graham's solos stopped the show each night; however, the stage manager was still not satisfied. He insisted that Ms. Graham appear on stage with the other dancers, wearing a fancy, low-cut gown. The gown disgusted Ms. Graham, and she declined to wear it. Therefore, the stage manager gave her an ultimatum: Either wear the gown, or have your solos cut from the show. Ms. Graham pointed out that her solos were the audience's favorite part of the show, and she still declined to wear the gown. Her solos were cut, but only for a short time. The show was much weaker without her solos, so the stage manager quickly restored them and stopped requesting that she wear the gown.
• Edith Head was a costumer to Hollywood stars for decades. Her most embarrassing mistake occurred in a movie starring Dorothy Lamour, who wore a sarong as her costume. In real life, a sarong is a piece of cloth that is wrapped around the body and is not held on by any sort of fastening. However, a scene called for Ms. Lamour to dive into a pool. She did, and she came to the surface-and eventually so did her sarong, a few feet away. After that, Ms. Head used hooks and eyes-and safety pins-to make sure the sarong stayed on Ms. Lamour's body.
• In the early 20th century, Frank Craven scored a notable acting success in the role of Jimmy Gilley in George Broadhurst's Bought and Paid For. The critics applauded his performance and admired his attention to detail in his choice of costume, even noticing his threadbare socks. Mr. Craven, who had been down on his luck before landing the part, didn't let the critics know that the socks were the only pair he owned.
• At times, costumes create problems on stage. Ballet dancer Anthony Dowell was once dancing with Antoinette Sibley when the hook of his costume caught on her tutu. They had to run offstage to get unhooked. While he was dancing with Natalia Makarova, the same thing happened. Afterward, the stage manager said that he was tempted to pour a bucket of water over them because they looked like two dogs in heat.
• While dancing for the Harkness Ballet, Jimmy Dunne once was required to wear a veil attached to the mask that was part of his costume. The choreographer wanted more color to the veil, so it was painted without anyone notifying Mr. Dunne. Unfortunately, it's impossible to see through a veil that has been painted, so midway through the dance Mr. Dunne was forced to rip it off his mask.
• Peter Ustinov wore a toga in the movie Spartacus, a costume that he declared had significant disadvantages: "To handle a toga properly you have to watch a woman very carefully and notice how she walks and sits down. This type of attention can be grievously misunderstood."
• Early in her career, Suzanne Farrell was dancing in a ballet in which the lead ballerina's skirt accidentally fell off. After witnessing this, whenever Ms. Farrell was required to wear a skirt as part of her costume, she always knotted it three times as well as sewed it in place.
Why does no one talk about the penis shape in the middle of Kavanaugh's big forehead right between his eyebrows? I've never seen anyone with a penis on his face before. And having seen it, penis is all I see when I see pictures of him.
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Visited the eye doctor - need new glasses (well, yeah -- that's the reason I made the appointment).
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'TKO: Total Knock Out', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nik Dodani.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/8/18) are Ray Romano, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Lord Huron.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'I Feel Bad', followed by another RERUN'I Feel Bad', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Chrissy Teigen, Ryan Eggold, and Dan White.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 9/12/18) are Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, and Dominic West.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/5/18) are Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Amen Dunes, and Lana Condor.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Fresh Off The Boat', followed by a RERUN'Speechless', then a RERUN'Child Support', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Olivia Wilde, Noah Centineo, and Jungle.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', then a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Resident', followed by a RERUN'The Orville'.
MY recycles an old 'American Ninja Warrior', followed by another old 'American Ninja Warrior'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'xXx', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow', then the movie 'Hancock'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 15-Piper Maru
[7:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 16-Aprocrypha
[8:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 17-Pusher
[9:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 18-Teso Dos Bichos
[10:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 19-Dod Kalm
[11:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 20-Humbug
[12:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 7-The Walk
[1:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8-Oubliette
[2:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 9-Nisei
[3:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10-731
[4:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 19-Hell Money
[5:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 20-Jose Chung's From Outer Space
[6:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 21-Avatar
[7:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 22-Quagmire
[8:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-Wetwired
[9:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 24-Talitha Cumi
[10:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-Herrenvolk
[11:00PM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 7-The Walk
[12:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8-Oubliette
[1:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 9-Nisei
[2:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10-731
[3:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 19-Hell Money
[4:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 20-Jose Chung's From Outer Space
[5:00AM] THE X-FILES - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 21-Avatar (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by the movie 'Bride Wars', then the movie 'Bride Wars', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Pardon My Scotch
[6:30AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Dr. Ruth Good Sex Special
[7:00AM] GRINDHOUSE PRESENTS: PLANET TERROR
[9:15AM] ROGUE
[11:15AM] GRINDHOUSE PRESENTS: PLANET TERROR
[1:30PM] SINISTER
[4:00PM] HALLOWEEN
[6:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Winky-Dink Time
[6:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Rough Night in Hump Junction
[7:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Look at Me, Mommy, I'm Pretty
[7:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Fish in a Drawer
[8:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-If My Hole Could Talk
[8:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Waiting for the Right Snapper
[9:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Taterhead Is Our Love Child
[9:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Pie Hole, Herb
[10:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Damn You, Eggs Benedict
[10:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-The Flavin' and the Mavin
[11:00PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-A Jock Strap in Hell
[11:30PM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-It's Always Nazi Week
[12:00AM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Best H.O. Money Can Buy
[12:30AM] TWO AND A HALF MEN-Pinocchio's Mouth
[1:00AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Iconic Horror and D.C. Punk
[1:15AM] HALLOWEEN
[3:15AM] SINISTER
[5:45AM] NIGHT FLIGHT-Heavy Metal & Punk (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:10am] the andy griffith show
[6:45am] the andy griffith show
[7:20am] the andy griffith show
[7:55am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the shining
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] law & order
[2:59am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo
[3:59am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo
[4:59am] hap and leonard: the two-bear mambo (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith', followed by a FRESH'Wynonna Earp', then a FRESH'Killjoys'.
Actor Brad Pitt's foundation has sued a New Orleans architect, saying defective design work led to leaks and other flaws in homes built for residents of an area that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday says damages caused by architect John C. Williams could cost Pitt's Make It Right foundation more than $15 million, news outlets reported. The foundation paid Williams' firm millions of dollars to produce architectural drawings for more than 100 homes under the program, which was supposed to provide Lower 9th Ward residents with sustainable and affordable new homes.
Enlisting award-winning architects, Pitt founded the venture two years after Katrina devastated the city and essentially washed away what would become the Make It Right enclave. Construction began in 2008, working toward replacing the lost housing with 150 avant-garde dwellings that were storm-safe, solar-powered, highly insulated and "green." But water intrusion began cropping up in the first homes within a year of their completion and construction was discontinued in 2016.
The foundation says Williams was responsible for several failures to adequately waterproof the structures, including insufficiently sloped roofs. The lawsuit says Williams' attempts at repairs were largely a failure and that he kept Make It Right management in the dark about the defects.
A derelict 7-year-old home was so rotted that it was demolished at the insistence of neighbors in June. Williams had been granted a permit to replace the flat roof on the leaking home in 2015. He had acknowledged in a June interview that one or two of the Make It Right buildings "may be falling apart." Williams didn't immediately return a request for comment, news outlets reported Wednesday.
KISS is going to rock and roll all night for one last tour.
And the explosive band apparently means it this time.
The group announced its final series of live shows, called End of the Road, on "America's Got Talent" and social media Wednesday. Details are forthcoming, KISS said on its website.
KISS launched a farewell tour in 2000 - but this time Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons will be saying goodbye without fellow original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss.
KISS, the makeup wearing crew that churned out hits such as "Rock and Roll All Nite" and "Beth," seized its national television platform on "America's Got Talent" to make the announcement ? and play "Detroit Rock City" to open the season finale.
A staple of summer - swarms of bugs - seems to be a thing of the past. And that's got scientists worried.
Pesky mosquitoes, disease-carrying ticks, crop-munching aphids and cockroaches are doing just fine. But the more beneficial flying insects of summer - native bees, moths, butterflies, ladybugs, lovebugs, mayflies and fireflies - appear to be less abundant.
Scientists think something is amiss, but they can't be certain: In the past, they didn't systematically count the population of flying insects, so they can't make a proper comparison to today. Nevertheless, they're pretty sure across the globe there are fewer insects that are crucial to as much as 80 percent of what we eat.
Yes, some insects are pests. But they also pollinate plants, are a key link in the food chain and help decompose life.
Last year, a study that found an 82 percent mid-summer decline in the number and weight of bugs captured in traps in 63 nature preserves in Germany compared with 27 years earlier. It was one of the few, if only, broad studies. Scientists say similar comparisons can't be done elsewhere because similar bug counts weren't done decades ago.
The Department of Health and Human Services is diverting millions of dollars in funding from a number of programs, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, to pay for housing for the growing population of detained immigrant children.
In a letter sent to Sen. Patty Murray, D.-Wash., and obtained by Yahoo News, HHS Secretary Alex Azar outlined his plan to reallocate up to $266 million in funding for the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, to the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
Nearly $80 million of that money will come from other refugee support programs within ORR, which have seen their needs significantly diminished as the Trump administration makes drastic cuts to the annual refugee numbers. The rest is being taken from other programs, including $16.7 million from Head Start, $5.7 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program and $13.3 million from the National Cancer Institute. Money is also being diverted from programs dedicated to mental and maternal health, women's shelters and substance abuse.
According to data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement obtained by Yahoo News, there were 13,312 immigrant children in federal custody as of Wednesday, Sept. 19, with ORR's existing facilities at 92 percent capacity.
So far this month, discharges from custody have been running at a rate of around 0.6 to 0.7 percent per day, less than half the 1.5 percent shown in reports obtained by Yahoo News from early April and from late July. Meanwhile the intake of unaccompanied immigrant children into ORR facilities has remained relatively steady, with average daily referrals from Customs and Border Protection in the range of 100 to 200.
The mysterious closure of a solar observatory in New Mexico earlier this month happened after the FBI opened a child pornography investigation involving a janitor's computer found at the observatory, and agents tracked wireless signals used to access child porn, according to an FBI search warrant affidavit.
The mountaintop Sunspot Solar Observatory closed from Sept. 6 to Sept. 17, but the research association that manages it has said only that an unspecified security issue was the reason for the closure.
The facility employs a small group of scientists, researchers and students to capture some of the sharpest images of the sun available in the world.
The search warrant filed last week in federal court in Las Cruces said the facility's chief observer, who was not identified, told FBI agents in August he found a laptop computer with child pornography several months earlier but did not immediately report the discovery to authorities because he was "distracted" by an unspecified urgent issue at the observatory.
The search warrant provided to a judge the justifications for agents to search computers, cellphones or tablets owned by the janitor, Joshua Lee Cope, and the house trailer where he lives.
After Cope could not find his laptop, the court documents said, he began to act frantically and told the chief observer that there was a "serial killer in the area, and that he was fearful that the killer might enter the facility and execute someone."
The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of September 19, 2018:
1. Ed Sheeran; $11,384,458; $92.30.
2. Taylor Swift; $10,863,710; $127.13.
3. The Rolling Stones; $8,968,275; $155.26.
4. Jay-Z / Beyoncé; $6,453,138; $112.29.
5. Celine Dion; $4,808,263; $215.30.
6. Guns N' Roses; $4,127,170; $96.46.
7. U2; $3,820,676; $141.44.
8. Eagles; $3,119,623; $154.42.
9. Pink; $2,889,274; $128.35.
10. Kenny Chesney; $2,686,903; $84.64.
11. Justin Timberlake; $2,388,949; $119.13.
12. Roger Waters; $2,125,315; $104.67.
13. "Springsteen On Broadway"; $2,048,977; $508.74.
14. Dead & Company; $1,851,279; $71.04.
15. Iron Maiden; $1,696,737; $80.16.
16. Journey / Def Leppard; $1,558,021; $92.14.
17. André Rieu; $1,532,505; $90.79.
18. Depeche Mode; $1,498,295; $94.93.
19. Katy Perry; $1,374,311; $81.22.
20. Paul Simon; $1,271,886; $90.29.
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