Friday June 12 Reads

If this upcoming book on Melania Trump is to be believed, she is no doormat and can be every bit as ruthless as her husband.

Out on Tuesday, excerpts from the 286-page book appeared in The Washington Post on Friday, confirming a longtime rumor that Melania renegotiated her martial agreement with Donald Trump before she moved into the White House after he won the presidency.

Melania Trump's office blasted the book as 'fiction.'

'Yet another book about Mrs. Trump with false information and sources. This book belongs in the fiction genre,' Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's chief of staff, said in a statement to DailyMail.com.

We will see.
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What the hell is wrong with people?

According to a probable cause affidavit cited by The Denver Post, Simon told investigators he and Thallas were taking his dog, a rescue named Rocco, out for a walk in the 3000 block of North Huron Street at around 11.42am when he told the pooch to poop.

Simon said he then heard a stranger's voice from a ground-level apartment asking if they were going to train their dog to go to the bathroom, or just yell at it instead.

The dog owner said he tried to ignore the man's comments but then saw him point a gun at him, which he initially mistook for a pellet gun.

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Since more than a few on the political left (as well as the right) are anarchists, "defund the police" is a slogan sure to play right into the hands of the GOP.

It is the stupidest slogan I have heard in ages. For some it means more than reform but abolition.

Lotsa luck getting any support for that horseshit in Middle America.

Speaking of abolition, this moron actually wrote something along those lines in the NYT.  The Newspaper of Record is becoming a mouthpiece for crackpots.
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J.K. Rowling's ex-husband, surely paid a bundle to talk to the UK's The Sun tabloid, says he isn't one bit sorry for being such an asshole to her.

But he said on his mum’s doorstep in Porto: “I slapped Joanne — but there was not sustained abuse. I’m not sorry for slapping her.”

The ex-drug addict, dad to Rowling’s daughter Jessica, said of the writer’s claims: “If she says that, that’s up to her. It’s not true I hit her.”

But he was then quizzed about his own admission ten years ago that he had hit her on the night she left him.

The former TV journalist said: “Yes. It is true I slapped her. But I didn’t abuse her.”

As if there is a difference.
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Jim Bakker is continuing his battle in the courts over his quack Silver Sol cure-all for coronavirus.
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Anybody with half a brain should stand with J.K. Rowling.
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Obituary:  Welsh singer Ricky Valance, 84, known for his version of the death rock classic, "Tell Laura I Love Her," has died.

Valance was lead soprano in his local church choir as a child, before joining the air force, where he saw active service in north Africa before returning three years later.

It was then he started performing in clubs in the north of England, before being signed and recording Tell Laura I Love Her.

The song tells the tragic story of a boy called Tommy and his love for a girl called Laura.

This was not the original version.  It was a cover of the Ray Peterson classic recorded some time before Valance recorded it.  Peterson died in 2005.

Valance suffered from dementia.
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