06/18/2019 archive

9/11: The Human-Hybrid Turtle v Jon Stewart

Senate Majority Leader Mitch “The Human-Hybrid Turtle” McConnell (R-KY) offhandedly dismissed former host of “The Daily Show” and 9/11 first responder healthcare bill activist, Jon Stewart’s anger, wondering why he was “all bent out of shape” over the bill’s slow progress through congress. As Karoli Kuns, at Crooks and Liars, points out, “This isn’t life …

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Social Sciences

A big problem with Social Sciences is that the phenomena they want to describe are in many ways unique and unduplicateable. This is less true in History which purports to be the story of what is and one can, with a reasonable degree of confidence pick up an incised lump of dirt off the desert …

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Pondering the Pundits

Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from> around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …

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How Can You Live Downwind…

And pretend nothing’s happening? Do you think these statements are anti-Semitic and a denial of the reality of the Holocaust? Ocasio-Cortez presses case that U.S. is running ‘concentration camps’ at border amid Republican outcry By John Wagner, WashingtonPost June 18, 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pressed her case Tuesday that the Trump administration is running “concentration …

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Cartnoon

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian Is America a Christian Nation? Cooking with Christ

The Breakfast Club (Still Not Dead)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …

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Six In The Morning Tuesday 18 June 2019

    Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps (video) The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang. Authorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the …

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