They are. 99.99% is not just an Occupy slogan, it’s a fact. America’s billionaires take center stage in national politics, colliding with populist Democrats By Jeff Stein, Washington Post November 8, 2019 The political and economic power wielded by the approximately 750 wealthiest people in America has become a sudden flash point in the 2020 …
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Nov 09 2019
Dumb da Dumb Dumb
You know the problem with being old? People don’t get your jokes anymore because they lack the cultural references you think are so relevant and act like you’re senile, treating you as a bubble wrapped fall risk. Dragnet gosh durn it. AND GET OFF MY LAWN! In Virginia, Republicans confront a fearful electoral future By …
Nov 09 2019
House
I admit when I was first exposed to this song I dismissed it as a piece of lightweight fluff that had reasonable musicality (nothing as challenging as the guitar riff in Badge for instance, let alone the 5/4 break in Dancing Fool) and questionable lyrics that apparently endorsed unrealistic expectations of women which, while not …
Nov 09 2019
The Breakfast Club (Berlin)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …
Nov 08 2019
If I had all the money in the world…
Oh hell, let’s just do what we always do. Hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage. Yeah? Good! Gentlemen, it has come to my attention that a breakaway Russian Republic called Kreplachistan will be transferring a nuclear warhead to the United Nations in a few days. Here’s the plan. We get the warhead …
Nov 08 2019
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 …
Nov 08 2019
Greetings Comerades!
We are so very pleased and excited your Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio has decided to join us celebrating the great successes of the Soviet Working Classes Rapacious Oligarchs Benevolent Capitalist system under our virile and handsome leader, Vladimir Putin. You see, May Day is not just a parade of potentially Potemkin propaganda but probably not …
Nov 07 2019
A Good Night
Did I mention we had a Dem blowout in Stars Hollow? Being civilized we have minimum minority representation (ok, if you must know I’m philisophically against it because I consider it a barrier to Third Parties) and the Thugs are dead stop against the limit. TMC asked me what would have happened if I had …
Nov 06 2019
Oak Island- 2019
Ok, so Oak Island is back. Dan Blankenship is dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his …