So Laura Ingraham of Faux Noise thought she could Twit with impunity David Hogg of #MarchForOurLives fame. Laura- David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) Well, first of all she got his Grade Point Average wrong (though …
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Mar 28 2018
One Reason Why #MarchForOurLives Is So Effective
There is no doubt that the Gun Control Movement that has arisen in the wake of the Parkland School Murders has sent Republican Gun Extremists (and their fellow traveling Democratic NRA A+ supporters) into a frothing rabid rage. Paul Waldman of the Washington Post identifies two “Fake News” memes- a doctored picture of Emma González …
Mar 22 2018
Dow 23,000
So the Dow closed down 724.42 (or 2.93%) First of all the Dow Jones Industrial Average is only 30 Stocks and a terrible Economic Indicator, it doesn’t even relate well to the general Stock Market. Most professional traders look at the S&P 500 which, as the name implies, includes 500 firms (that is down 68.24 …
Mar 22 2018
Bernie, Liz, and Mike: Inequality
You may ask why I feature Bernie Sanders a lot and there are two principal reasons. First, he’s certainly the most popular Democratic (Socialist) Politician nationally by a mile. Second, I think the Democratic Party is controlled by an Elitist Neo Liberal group of Republican-Lite Conservatives that like to style themselves “Progressive” who want to …
Mar 21 2018
Connect The Dots
Rogue individuals with mental illness. Who Is Mark Conditt, the Suspected Austin Bomber? By MICHAEL GOLD, The New York Times MARCH 21, 2018 Mr. Conditt created a blog about his political views as a requirement for a political-science class he took at Austin Community College, according to McKenna McIntosh, a classmate of Mr. Conditt’s. In …
Mar 21 2018
BBC 4: Cambridge Analytica
It seems that everyone is pretty much acknowledging that BBC 4 got the scoop on the Cambridge Analytica story, at least as far as the video presentation. I like to present original sources, there is already a ton of commentary about the information that has been revealed, check Google News for a wide sampling. After …
Mar 19 2018
Marlon Bundo
Unsurprisingly John Oliver, who brought down the FCC website with his call for comments on Net Neutrality (Ajit Pai has provided absolutely no evidence of his mysterious because it didn’t happen DDoS attack), is #1 on Amazon today for the children’s book written and illustrated by some of his staff which he promoted on his …
Mar 19 2018
Doing Whatever They Want
Bad News, Worse News, and (Yay!) Good News Despicable Human Beings Who Pretend To Be Democrats Prosecutors
Mar 18 2018
Just a thought.
Inspired by this. So how hard could it be to put a Stingray near Trump and shut off his Twits?
Mar 16 2018
What “Yes” Is
Crap. I don’t do “Breaking” and I have more than enough to do to get my Basketball pieces up on time but I happen to be up and this was just on- As they say, the important bit is at the end. “Was she threatened in any way?” “Yes.” “Was she threatened physical harm?” “Yes.” …
Mar 12 2018
Cryptocurrency
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you guys will all know about cryptocurrencies. We have talked about it before, we have invested in it, we use awara to get crypto price notifications and we hope we’ve helped inform you guys about it in the past. But there’s still a big issue for cryptocurrency and …