The actual question is- will they take it? I’m pretty neutral about whether Keith Ellison or Tom Perez would be better on the issues, Ellison is hardly a paragon of Left values and has only become more and more wimbly as the DNC Leadership contest has continued. He was never as Left as Corbyn, who …
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Feb 20 2017
Why Concentrate On Quislings?
First of all, it’s effective. I find it hard to believe that anyone with a political memory greater than a Fruit Fly (Goldfish have surprisingly long memories and can be trained using standard animal conditioning techniques, Fruit Flies’ entire lifespans can be measured in hours) doesn’t remember the over hyped but still effective Teabagger movement …
Feb 19 2017
Whose Ox?
You see, the thing about having principles and supporting policies and not personalities is that it frequently sets you athwart those more unmoored who float with the tides and currents of the moment. Like the nautical references? I have all the graces, among other things I sail and, now this is both funny and a …
Feb 17 2017
More Signs Of The Coming Apocalypse
Seriously. Time for the Shipping Container Bunkers. McDonald’s New High-Tech Straw Optimizes Your Shamrock Shake Experience by Rose Leadem, Entrepreneur February 16, 2017 We’re heading into March, and you know what that means… McDonald’s Shamrock Shakes are coming back. This year, McDonald’s is going above and beyond just offering the green sugary shake, adding a …
Feb 16 2017
#Resist All Of Them
Still waiting for my Soros check. The Democrats’ inept resistance: Party leaders want Bernie Sanders to save them from angry activists by Simon Maloy, Salon Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 The first month of the Donald Trump presidency has provoked a public backlash against the president and his Republican enablers in Congress. Massive protest marches against …
Feb 16 2017
Lots of Glenn Greenwald about Leaks and Leaking Leakers
Note: if you’re a hypocritical Institutional Democrat (and are there any other kind?) who was for leaks under W and against them under Obama but are now for them again under Trump I have two pieces of advice- first get yourself a a good Chiropractor for that whiplash neck and a Speech Therapist for that …
Feb 15 2017
Three Finger Salute
The sign is made by grasping your sinister pinky with your thumb, kissing the three erect fingers and raising them. I prefer the clenched right fist salute of The Internationale which represents the authentic voice of the working class and not some Hollywood construct but I’ll take what I can get, I’m a pragmatist. Besides, …
Feb 13 2017
Speaking Ill
Well poke me with a stick (it’s the only way to be sure). The atheist in me says that when you’re dead, you’re dead so it doesn’t much matter if they burn you, bury you, or eat you, you past parrot- you’re pushing up daisies in any event unless they nail you to your perch …
Feb 13 2017
Not The News They Want To Hear
As elections approach in Germany, France, and Italy (the 3 largest economies in the European Union if you take out Britain, which you should because of Brexit) parties of the Neo Liberal Center, Left and Right, seem destined to suffer electoral defeat at the hands of Populist Parties of the Right and Left. I’ll not …
Feb 12 2017
Voter Fraud!
Funny, isn’t it, how almost all the documented cases are Republicans. Republican green-card holder who voted illegally in Texas gets 8 years in prison By Amy B Wang, Washington Post February 11 at 5:54 PM A permanent U.S. resident living in Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting, a punishment …
Feb 11 2017
Clueless
In the dim recesses of their feckless minds Institutional Corporatist Democrats sense that something has changed. This week in Baltimore they had a meeting to try and figure out what it is. Even some reliably mercenary office holders like Chuck Schumer understand that voters are no longer buying their line of Republican-lite Neo Liberal crap …
Feb 10 2017
A Brief History Of Mass Surveillance
Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers by Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 2017-02-10 The controversy dates back to 1996, when Ed Loomis, then a computer systems designer for the NSA, along with his team worked to move the NSA’s collection capabilities from the analog to the digital world. The shift would allow …