Category: News

Inherent Contempt

My feeling is mutual and could easily be extended. Democrats are badly blowing it against Trump. A brutal new TV ad shows how. By Greg Sargent, Washington Post Opinion writer May 16 at 10:12 AM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has succeeded in stifling impeachment talk. The Post reports that the speaker privately told Democrats …

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Birds and Samanthas

When a Senator loves a Page very, very much. A man becomes preeminent, he’s expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms… Enthusiasms… What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. …

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Windpower

Six In The Morning Thursday 16 May 2019

Water every 10 days: The families on the front line of India’s environmental crisis By Helen Regan and Omar Khan, CNN Updated 0740 GMT (1540 HKT) May 16, 2019 Hundreds of empty plastic jugs wait in rows on the cracked, dry, dusty earth. Hovering expectantly nearby, the residents of Vasant Kunj slum in South Delhi, one of the …

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Not Pragmatic

Among my many personal failings is that I rarely resist the opportunity to say ‘I told you so.’ When on the 9th, a little less than a week ago, I drew your attention to the Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders 15% Usury Cap out of a recognition of its fundamental justice and economic sanity. I am gratified but not …

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Cs And Ds Make Degrees

Four Yorkshiremen You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When …

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Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian From the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verse 16. Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.

Six In The Morning Wednesday 15 May 2019

Alabama passes bill banning abortion Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill to outlaw abortion in almost all cases, the strictest such US law. The state Senate approved the law by 25 votes to six, rejecting exemptions for cases of rape or incest. It will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey. She has not said whether …

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Kristallnacht

Y’all stop being Fascist and I’ll stop talking about it. Kristallnacht was- a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians. The German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows …

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Fully in the 75th percentile or to give it a letter grade, a solid ‘C’. Oh, that’s the United States Ranking in Gender Inequality. Desi Lydic: Abroad Sweet Georgia Brown

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