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Tag: ek Politics
Apr 08 2017
The Missing Minutes
Or, The Night Without A Sponsor No doubt you’ve heard about Bill O’Reilly’s ~$14 Million settlements of sexual harassment cases (still a drop in the bucket compared to the Billions municipalities across the United States have paid to settle and suppress cases of Police Murder) and sympathized as insincerely as you can but it is …
Apr 07 2017
First We Take Manhattan
What can I say? I’m a sucker for Technopop. Dear Brian Williams: Leave the rhapsodies to Cohen By Christine Emba, Washington Post April 7, 2017 Brian Williams is a student of the arts. We were reminded of this Thursday night as he waxed rhapsodic over the sight of 50 cruise missiles streaking towards Syria, an …
Apr 07 2017
The $94 Million* Circus
* Each Tomahawk costs about $1.6 Million, Trump fired 59. During Roman times Emperors would offer Bread and Circuses to assuage a restless population. Now Bread has immediate and obvious uses for the average citizen and to this day is heavily subsidized in most European countries. Circuses? Well first of all they didn’t mean what …
Apr 06 2017
So Nunes is out.
Surprise, surprise, surprise. Dog days after Devin Nunes: New GOP leaders of House Russia probe aren’t much of an improvement by Simon Maloy, Salon Thursday, Apr 6, 2017 While this represents a nice morsel of comeuppance for a politician who’d turned his own committee into a humiliating clown show, there’s little reason to believe the …
Apr 06 2017
Minneapolis
I look remarkably good for someone who’s 120+ years old, mostly blind, suffering from chronic anemia and fluid retention, and basically bionic on my left side. You see, like Clemens, I still have my hair. Now Sam attributed this to the fact that he washed it frequently with lye and lard soap, heavy on the …
Apr 03 2017
Voter Fraud Does Not Exist
Or at least to the extent that it does (which is statistically insignificant) it’s a Republican problem. What the Republicans would have you believe is that every single dead person not expunged from the voting rolls, every single person who neglects to unregister before registering in a new location, and every single non-citizen who registers …
Mar 30 2017
Snitchin’
First to sell out gets the best deal! Frankly it’s a classic Prisoner’s Dilemma. Game Theory says that over extended numbers of rounds Tit for Tat is the best strategy, in a constricted environment betray at the earliest opportunity and keep doing it. When I had to participate at a leadership conference I was already …
Mar 30 2017
Speaking of Consistent and Obvious Lying
2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ADAM GOLDMAN, The New York Times MARCH 30, 2017 A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that …
Mar 30 2017
Fake News (again)
Many news reports and columns recently have suggested that ‘Fake News’ is passe, a pre-election problem. Not co-incidentally most of them are from the very same publications and people who made it an issue. While somewhat equally divided between Left and Right in service of the false gods of objectivity, fairness, and balance, what the …
Mar 29 2017
Why We Fight
Hint: It’s not because “they hate our freedoms.” Behind Trump’s Bloody War in Yemen: A Saudi Offensive Against Iran By Jefferson Morley, AlterNet March 28, 2017 Saudi Arabia is seeking to oust a government dominated by the Houthi tribe, who are mostly Shia and more loyal to Iran than to Saudi Arabia. … The battle …