Tag: ek Politics

Digging a Hole

Feeling kind of Boris The Spider. I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in And stops my mind from wandering Where it will go I’m filling the cracks that ran through the door And kept my mind from wandering Where it will go And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong I’m right Where …

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Hello! We Still Kidnap!

Y’know. If you’re Brown. Still separated: Nearly 500 migrant children taken from their parents remain in U.S. custody By Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post August 31, 2018 More than a month after a court deadline passed for the government to reunite families divided by President Trump’s border crackdown, nearly 500 children remain in U.S. government-funded shelters …

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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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Move along.

Chaos, Is A Ladder!

What is this Game of Thrones thing? Oh… well, you know, new episodes of American Pickers. ‘Winter is coming’: Allies fear Trump isn’t prepared for gathering legal storm By Philip Rucker, Carol D. Leonnig, Josh Dawsey, and Ashley Parker, Washington Post August 29, 2018 President Trump’s advisers and allies are increasingly worried that he has …

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No NAFTA?

There is probably much less here than meets the eye. Readers know I’m no fan of Neo Liberal Trade Agreements for the benefit of Multi-National Mega Corporations, particularly those which detract from a Country’s Sovreignity and ability to regulate for the benefits of its citizens. On the other hand I wouldn’t trust Trump to know …

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Oops, John’s Bad

John Oliver’s next episode is September 9th. Stephen has new episodes starting September 3rd. Seth Meyers returns September 5th as does Samantha Bee.

Democrats Democratic?

People forget that the debacle of 1968 led to serious Democratic Party reforms that included among other things the wholesale replacement of Caucuses (notoriously corrupt) with Primaries. Then Dr. George “DFC” McGovern, B-24 Liberator pilot who flew 35 combat missions over German-occupied Europe, lost in a landslide to Richard “Not A Crook” Nixon because being …

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My Sister’s Catholic Wedding

In youth and folly my sister married someone I can hardly characterise as a gentleman who happened to be at least ‘socially’ Catholic (my activist brother married Catholic too, I’ll have to tell you that one sometime) and as was customary in his family it was a full bore, sanctified, butts in the pews Church …

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Mildly Encouraging News From The Democratic National Committee

Huzzah. Good news if true, but I’ve never seen anything the Institutional Democrats couldn’t manage to screw up. ‘We’re going to fight it like hell’ By DAVID SIDERS, Politico 08/23/20 Democratic Party officials are on the verge of greenlighting a Bernie Sanders-endorsed plan to weaken the influence of superdelegates in the presidential nominating process. But …

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