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May 28 2020
Think Like A Majority!
Our views are Super Majority Mainstream. Really. Republicans Think They Can Get Away With It. They Might Be Right. By Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, The New York Times May 27, 2020 Does the Republican Party have a death wish? Its most prominent leaders — particularly President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority …
May 28 2020
The Economist
The Economist is an incredibly conservative and conventional magazine about, Surprise!, Economics. If you are not familiar with it perhaps the best analogy is a glossy Wall Street Journal without Murdochs. And it’s very British. They are not sanguine. A decline in GDP of 10% usually has professional Economists debating whether it is a Recession …
May 27 2020
First Remote House Vote!
Also Democrats screwing up on privacy, again. FISA renewal in jeopardy amid resistance from Republicans and progressives By SARAH FERRIS, HEATHER CAYGLE, KYLE CHENEY and JOHN BRESNAHAN, Politico 05/27/2020 Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats are trying to salvage a contentious bill to renew expired surveillance tools Wednesday amid mounting opposition from Republicans and liberals …
May 27 2020
Good Indians
Comrade, I will make sure you receive the full extent of Revolutionary Justice. Do you smoke? Anti-Lockdown Protesters Now Calling for Dems to Die by Will Sommer, Daily Beast May. 27, 2020 As the head of Cowboys for Trump, Couy Griffin has led pro-Trump horse rides through Washington, D.C., and posed for a photo in …
May 26 2020
Jerks
Yeah, it’s all about Broadway but the situations apply to a lot of “real life” choices people are going to be forced to make soon. Oh, scare quotes around “real life”. Even though I live in Stars Hollow and as I say New York is right over there and Boston about the same in the …
May 26 2020
Where’s the Beef?
I don’t often shop for Beef since I prefer Pork or Seafood and I don’t think a chunk of meat is a necessary part of a meal. But I do notice things when I go to the Market and up until now the chief symptons of Coronavirus in the Meat Department is that prices have …
May 25 2020
How we do it downtown.
I have visited Staten Island (great free Ferry ride) and most of my interactions have been very pleasant, the place has a fascinating History, and some really excellent Restaurants. But there’s not a Hotel or a Motel on the Island that hasn’t seen a murder and Fresh Kills has it’s own special Chernobyl section where …
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