July 2019 archive

The Breakfast Club (The War Racket)

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 30 July 2019

  Brain drain claimed 1.7 million youths. So this country is scrapping its income tax By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Updated 0658 GMT (1458 HKT) July 30, 2019 Being young and Polish has never been this lucrative. A new law that comes into effect in Poland this week will scrap income tax for roughly 2 million young workers. It’s an attempt …

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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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Mating Foxes

“I paint busses.” It’s not misspelled. It was the standard plural until 1961 and has the additional meaning of kiss which makes it punny. True Tinder material. The English Major writes you are a hopeless audience, but he’s only drawing a light bird pension.

Cartnoon

Sometimes they are funny. Trump slams ‘rat-infested’ district – but his own restaurant had a rodent problem by Edward Helmore, The Guardian Sat 27 Jul 2019 Donald Trump attacked the House oversight committee chair, Elijah Cummings, on Saturday, claiming his congressional district in Baltimore was a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”. But Trump has …

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The Breakfast Club (Bribery)

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 Monday 29 July 2019

  Hong Kong protests: China condemns ‘horrendous incidents’ China has condemned the recent anti-government protests in Hong Kong as “horrendous incidents” that have caused “serious damage to the rule of law”. “We hope that… people will stand firm in defence of the rule of law,” a spokesman for the government’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs …

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Not A Rant

From Black Weed Smoking Sharks to Brain Eating Ameoba it’s Sum, Sum, Sum, Summertime. Umbrella Uprising? We always thought it would be the Robots. Happy Summer everybody.

Poor Ms. MoDo

People on the Intertubz is mean. Spare Me the Purity Racket By Maureen Dowd, The New York Times July 27, 2019 After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good …

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House

Nothing to see here at all Did Norman murder the girl in the Bates Motel? Yes, or No? To understand the case, you have to go back to the time ten years ago when the young Norman murdered his mother and her lover. Matricide: perhaps. The most unbearable crime of all. Norman refused to come …

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