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Dec 18 2014
Muse in the Morning
Dec 18 2014
The Breakfast Club (Ruby Are you Mad at Your Man?)
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 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
Breakfast Tune: Carolina Chocolate Drops – Ruby Are you Mad at Your Man?
Today in History
U.S. Supreme Court upholds the relocation and detention of Japanese-Americans during World War Two; U.S. begins 12 days of heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets; Steven Spielberg is born; Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ – publicly premieres.
Breakfast News, Blogs, and Cuban Two Step Rag below
Dec 16 2014
TBC: Morning Musing 12.16.14
I have 2 articles for ya this morning!
First, the torture argument framed in a food for thought way:
A useful way of looking at torture: the bank robbery analogy
The comparisons between bank robbery and torture don’t end there. Our government and media have made the phrase “enhanced interrogation techniques” sound perfectly acceptable, when we all know it is simply a euphemism for torture. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley parodied this phrase when he pointed out that waterboarding is no more an enhanced interrogation technique than bank robbery is an enhanced money withdrawal technique.
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Dec 15 2014
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Dec 08 2014
TBC: Morning Musing 12.8.14
I have 3 articles for your perusal this Monday morning.
First up, a great piece about what will happen if we stay on our current trajectory:
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
Many of us think we’re special because “this is America.” We think we’re immune to the same forces that started the Arab Spring-or the French and Russian revolutions, for that matter. I know you fellow .01%ers tend to dismiss this kind of argument; I’ve had many of you tell me to my face I’m completely bonkers. And yes, I know there are many of you who are convinced that because you saw a poor kid with an iPhone that one time, inequality is a fiction.
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Dec 07 2014
The Breakfast Club (Judge Cliff Davis Blues)
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 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.
Breakfast Tune: Papa Charlie Jackson – Judge Cliff Davis Blues
Spoken: Oh yes, oh yes
I now declare this court, City of Memphis open
Lets have it quiet in the court room pleaseEverybody be seated
Open the courts Mister Officer
First case on the docket is the case against Mr. CrewThe other afternoon I was sitting, in the court house room
I was listening, to what was going onAfter every case was tried, The prisoners were all led inside
As they passed by, I thought somebody criedI’m on my way to jail, that’s why you hear me wail
I’ve got the Judge Cliff Davis bluesI’m through with doing wrong, just listen to my song
I’ve got the Judge Cliff Davis bluesI told the judge my tale of woe, he heard that fairy tale before
That’s why you hear my wail, I’m on my way to jailI’ve got the Judge Cliff Davis blues
Memphis gave usThe Judge Cliff Davis blues
Good lawd save us
Today in History, Breakfast News & Blogs Below
Dec 05 2014
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Dec 03 2014
TBC: Morning Musing 12.3.2014
I have 3 articles for you loosely related to Ferguson via racism, protest, and police murders.
The first is a law I think all states should have, in addition to police having to wear cameras that are on when they are on duty.
What I Did After Police Killed My Son
It took six years to get our wrongful death lawsuit settled, and my family received $1.75 million. But I wasn’t satisfied by a long shot. I used my entire portion of that money and much more of my own to continue a campaign for more police accountability. I wanted to change things for everyone else, so no one else would ever have to go through what I did. We did our research: In 129 years since police and fire commissions were created in the state of Wisconsin, we could not find a single ruling by a police department, an inquest or a police commission that a shooting was unjustified. There was one shooting we found, in 2005, that was ruled justified by the department and an inquest, but additional evidence provided by citizens caused the DA to charge the officer. The city of Milwaukee settled with a confidentiality agreement and the facts of that sealed. The officer involved committed suicide.
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