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Tag: ek Politics
Apr 19 2018
A Car, But With Black People In It
Police: Trust us, the black man we gunned down outside a Walmart deserved it by Alan Pyke, Think Progress Apr 19, 2018 Barstow Police Department officers shot and killed 26-year-old Diante Yarber on April 5 in his cousin’s black Ford Mustang. Yarber and three others were parked outside a Walmart in the southeastern California city …
Apr 18 2018
Problems in Tortureland
You see, the thing to remember about Gina Haspel is that she’s a murdering, torturing War Criminal who not only supervised those acts herself at the CIA Black Site in Thailand but also, when returned to Langley, advocated, performed, and wrote the justification for destroying the evidence of her crimes. She is no better than …
Apr 18 2018
West Side Story
Only it’s not just the West Side IT’S THE WHOLE DAMN ISLAND AND THESE PEOPLE ARE UNITED STATES CITIZENS EVEN IF THEY ARE TANNED AND SPEAK SPANISH! Officials probe cause of island-wide blackout in Puerto Rico Associated Press 04/18/2018 An island-wide blackout has hit Puerto Rico, which is struggling with an increasingly unstable power grid …
Apr 17 2018
Cherchez la Femme
Of course I mean this in the literal “look for the woman” sense and not the more sexist (but perhaps historically accurate) meaning of “blame the woman”, after all it’s not their fault that the more chromosome damaged members of the species tend to think with two things- their dick and their wallet. Which brings …
Apr 16 2018
The Neo Liberal Instinct
Charlie Pierce calls them “death funnels” and he’s exactly right. He’s referring to pipelines designed to transport Alberta Tar Sand, the dirtiest fuel on the planet, to refineries or ports to refineries that can turn it into technically more usable types of oil. It never gets very good, more the type you can lubricate heavy …
Apr 16 2018
Death And…
Waffle House– was conceived and founded by Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner. Rogers started in the restaurant business as a short-order cook in 1947 at the Toddle House in New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven is also the home (though not the birthplace of) my favorite traitor, Benedict Arnold, as well as being the most …
Apr 16 2018
Waiting for 2 pm? It’s already over. (Now With Exciting Update!)
Michael Cohen is in Contempt of Court. He has refused to release a list of clients to Judge Kimba Woods by the 10 am deadline for his written filing because… Well, just because. Judd Legum at Think Progress reports– From 2007 to 2017, Cohen said he only worked for Donald Trump and the Trump organization. …
Apr 14 2018
Wag The Dog
We seem to have gone with Option 1, Limited Punitive Strikes. Such action is meant to impose a modest cost on Mr. Assad or to send a message that future chemical weapons use will not be tolerated. At the same time, it is meant to avoid any risk of changing the course of the war, …
Apr 13 2018
Wow! Marcy “Big Time” Wheeler!
Better known to us as the hard working, hyper-intelligent, humble, and funny emptywheel, she’s been banned from most networks for her propensity for uh… earthy ejaculations of the type that sends prissy puritans to their fainting couches (“But what about the children!”) that will surprise no one with the vocabulary of a mildly advanced toddler …
Apr 13 2018
Alexander Butterfield
Alexander Butterfield was a student at UCLA where he was a friend of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. He joined the Air Force in 1948 and was a gunnery instructor before transferring to the 86th Fighter Wing out of Germany where he became a member of their aerobatics team. He was an operations officer …
Apr 12 2018
The Interview That’s Never Going To Happen?
I’m sorry. It’s just stupid that anyone in D.C. believes that. Robert Mueller has the power to compel Donald Trump to appear in front of any of his three, count ’em, three Grand Juries. This is settled law having been decided in Jones v. Clinton by a unanimous ruling of the United States Supreme Court. …