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Jan 29 2019
Are Democrats Too Worried About Howard Schultz?
Umm… Yes. First, Institutional Democrats overestimate the importance of the Independent/Third Party Vote. They did it with John Anderson, they did it with Ross Perot, they did it with Ralph Nader, and they did it with Jill Stein. Blaming your failures on Third Parties, Gerrymandering, and Foreign Interference are simply excuses for under performance and …
Jan 29 2019
How Would A Wealth Tax Work?
Now this is the kind of pissing contest I like. Hard on the heels of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% marginal Income Tax on Incomes over $1 Million, Professor Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing a Wealth Tax on Net Worth over $50 Million. The difference between Income and Wealth is that Income is what you get in …
Jan 28 2019
Is ‘Centrism’ Inherently Racist?
As I pointed out in my piece about Tom Brokaw below, since the Status Quo is an Institutionally Racist system, those who support it are endorsing Institutional Racism, the more so because they also are in favor of Wealth Inequality and a Class System without advancement or escape. These Old White Guys (and I say …
Jan 28 2019
Tom Brokaw- Racist
I’ve never been one of those that venerated Tom Brokaw as a paragon of a ‘Golden Age’, or at least a Silver or Bronze one, of “Objective Journalism”. So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here–not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible …
Jan 27 2019
Going To The Dogs
As Atrios says, not everyone can do a Philidelphia accent. Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute Just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air In west Philadelphia born and raised …
Jan 26 2019
Stoned
Not in the good way. What the Stone indictment doesn’t say is what you need to know about Mueller’s Trump Russia probe by Lucian k. Truscott IV, Salon January 26, 2019 By now, everyone on the face of the earth knows that on Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted Roger Stone for committing seven felonies, …
Jan 26 2019
House
The thing about YouTube is that once you click on something, even if you’re just curious and it turns out to be a vile piece of trash (oh, none of these are trash, don’t get me wrong), all kinds of similar things turn up forever.. You have no idea how much Jodi Whittaker/Alexis Bledel/Kelly Marie …
Jan 25 2019
Big News Day
As you know I don’t attempt to keep up with breaking and things are. Stone arrest, LaGuardia shutdown, Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s second cave in as many days (this one on the Shutdown). No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Well, that will take a while and in the meantime there is this- …