Well poke me with a stick (it’s the only way to be sure). The atheist in me says that when you’re dead, you’re dead so it doesn’t much matter if they burn you, bury you, or eat you, you past parrot- you’re pushing up daisies in any event unless they nail you to your perch …
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Feb 13 2017
Not The News They Want To Hear
As elections approach in Germany, France, and Italy (the 3 largest economies in the European Union if you take out Britain, which you should because of Brexit) parties of the Neo Liberal Center, Left and Right, seem destined to suffer electoral defeat at the hands of Populist Parties of the Right and Left. I’ll not …
Feb 12 2017
Voter Fraud!
Funny, isn’t it, how almost all the documented cases are Republicans. Republican green-card holder who voted illegally in Texas gets 8 years in prison By Amy B Wang, Washington Post February 11 at 5:54 PM A permanent U.S. resident living in Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting, a punishment …
Feb 11 2017
Clueless
In the dim recesses of their feckless minds Institutional Corporatist Democrats sense that something has changed. This week in Baltimore they had a meeting to try and figure out what it is. Even some reliably mercenary office holders like Chuck Schumer understand that voters are no longer buying their line of Republican-lite Neo Liberal crap …
Feb 10 2017
A Brief History Of Mass Surveillance
Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers by Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 2017-02-10 The controversy dates back to 1996, when Ed Loomis, then a computer systems designer for the NSA, along with his team worked to move the NSA’s collection capabilities from the analog to the digital world. The shift would allow …
Feb 10 2017
Negative Framing
I trust you understand I’d not normally quote National Review, a fountain of ‘Fake News’, lies, and bias, but I found this piece instructive in understanding the magnitude of the victory in the Ninth Circuit yesterday. The Ninth Circuit’s Power Grab National Review Editors February 10, 2017 1:04 PM The Ninth Circuit’s decision against President …
Feb 09 2017
Institutional Democrats
I think I’ve made it clear enough that I think Republicans are reprehensible representatives of the bigoted, misogynous, rascist authoritarians that make up the 30% of the United States population who think the War Against Slavery was a War of Northern Aggression, and greedy parasitic Plutocrats that feel dispossessed and robbed now that that it’s …
Feb 08 2017
‘National Security’ Really Means Protecting the Status Quo
Edward Snowden on The Real News
Feb 06 2017
Optimism, if you like.
Personally I think Institutional Democrats are too vacuous, venal, and vain to take anything like the positive steps outlined in this piece. I would suggest instead scorched earth Teabagger style primaries to make them fear us since they have refused on numerous occasions to act in our interests and indeed continue to do so. The …
Feb 03 2017
The 100,000 Year Stain
Fukushima nuclear reactor radiation at highest level since 2011 meltdown by Justin McCurry, The Guardian Friday 3 February 2017 The facility’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said atmospheric readings as high as 530 sieverts an hour had been recorded inside the containment vessel of reactor No 2, one of three reactors that experienced a meltdown …
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