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Mar 14 2019
Cartnoon
Winter – Off The Air Punxsutawney Phil tells us it should be over any week now. In light of Global Warming I hesitate to celebrate. Daylight Savings has come again (still recovering and by any rational scheme we would be on Atlantic Time permanently) and March Madness not far away. First Formula One Sunday. Hopefully …
Mar 14 2019
How It’s Done Downtown
Uhh… here on Sores and Boils Alley we’re hipper than you think. I live near a family that are distant relatives of some totally legitimate business people as far as I know and we never really feel the need to lock our doors at night. If you know what I mean. Frank Cali, Gambino crime …
Mar 14 2019
Democratic Iraq
First of all, it’s not that Democrats aren’t entirely complicit in Iraq, because they are. Still, it’s primarily associated in the public mind with W and the Republican Party. What Democrats have to own is their response to the financial crisis (Panic? Depression? Recession?) of 2007 – 2008 and their $10 Trillion+ Bailout of Banksters …
Mar 13 2019
Bananas
I think Mr. Mellish is a traitor to this country because his views are different from the views of the President and others of his kind. Differences of opinion should be tolerated, but *not* when they’re too different. Then he becomes a subversive. How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit By …
Mar 13 2019
Oh When The States…
Oh when the States come marching in. Can’t Pardon, your way, out of this one… When the States come marching in. And by the way, And by the way, And by the way, And by the way, We don’t work for your DoJ… And have to follow its stupid 1973 OLC guidelines on executive …
Mar 12 2019
Making Progress
Well, of a sort. Theresa May has once again been shot down by Parliament over Brexit, this time by a mere 149 votes instead of 230, so, umm… better? MPs ignore May’s pleas and defeat her Brexit deal by 149 votes by Heather Stewart, The Guardian Tue 12 Mar 2019 Theresa May has suffered a …
Mar 12 2019
Merc With A Mouth
Readers of my regular ruminations on Hessians perhaps think me ill disposed to those who foster and profit from Wars as professional murderers. Mea culpa. And there is no doubt Erik Prince falls in that category, death and destruction for a profit is what he sells and he is still trying to get Unidicted Co-conspirator …
Mar 11 2019
Paul Ryan’s Fever Dream
New ‘Dead On Arrival’ Budget today. It’s an aspirational document at best. Ok, so it makes Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio a liar but I’ve already got 6 cords of wood from chopping off his nose not to spite his face but just so it will fit through doors. What, hmm… amuses me more is how …
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