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Jul 10 2019
Deader Than A Door Nail
I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not …
Jul 10 2019
Cartnoon
Canadian Lewis and Clark U.S.? A few guys (some soldiers and others not) and a pile of “money” to buy what you need along the way. Brits? A Thousand Soldiers with Baggage Train. If that was all you knew you’d think the U.S. more likely to have good relations with the First Nations. You would …
Jul 09 2019
Tired Of Waiting For Nancy
After crushing the Republicans in 2018 and beating them on the Government Shutdown over Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s Giant Penis Wall of Hate, why has she turned into such a lying coward? Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It’s With Her Own Party’s Future by Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept July 7 2019 In the …
Jul 09 2019
Why does any of this surprise you?
The man cheats at Golf. Donald Trump’s origin story suffers another severe blow By Aaron Blake, Washington Post July 8, 2019 The Washington Post’s Michael Kranish reported that Trump’s admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance — one of Trump’s go-to brags to play up his credentials — was hardly the feat …
Jul 05 2019
The Internet Is Forever
Unlike some of my contemporaries I’ve been reluctant to embrace the Internet because as a Computer Technician I have long and well understood the Privacy Problem and the tangential Permanence of Ephemeral Photons. Unless you are clever and well disciplined (and most people aren’t) your on screen activities, even conducted under a pseudonym, are easily …
Jul 05 2019
Waiting for Samantha
Well, not actually. Truth is what we’re waiting for is the Government filing in Kravitz v. U.S. being heard by Judge George J. Hazel who, until the Supreme Court Ruling rendered his decision moot, had ruled that the damaging (to the Government) evidence found in the estate of Thomas Hofeller (who said in correspondence redrawn …