Good riddance to bad rubbish Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and top executives of the Democratic National Committee are now proven by the Wikileaks e-mail release to have shown blatant favoritism to the Clinton campaign in her primary contest against Bernie Sanders. That’s just a fact and Democrats at all levels of the party from voters to elected …
Tag: ek Politics
Jul 24 2016
More about God and why He’s a bad idea.
I told you so. Look, I’m a flat out Atheist and I never try to hide it. I also never shove it in people’s faces in part because, frankly, it makes me a member of the most despised minority in the United States. Yup, folks would rather vote for and live in a neighborhood with …
Jul 23 2016
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It!!!
Perhaps you’re unconvinced that we live in the End Times and civilization is going to collapse like a House of Cards into a Zombie led Mad Max/Hunger Games Apocalypse despite the best efforts of the Justice League AND the Avengers (c’mon, of course the Justice League is first, Stan Lee never met a good idea …
Jul 22 2016
Things you should know about Tim Kaine
Hours Before Hillary Clinton’s VP Decision, Likely Pick Tim Kaine Praises the TPP by Zaid Jilani, The Intercept July 21 2016, 6:02 p.m. Hillary Clinton’s rumored vice presidential pick Sen. Tim Kaine defended his vote for fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Thursday. Kaine, who spoke to The Intercept after an event at a Northern …
Jul 21 2016
Be careful what you wish for.
So the Parliamentary Labour Party has enforced its Voter Suppression Edict. How, exactly, has that worked out for them? Labour sees huge surge in membership The Telegraph 7/21/16 4:25 pm BT The huge surge in new members signing up to join Labour ahead of the party’s leadership election has stunned Westminster. In the space of …
Jul 21 2016
With Cheese
That would be revenge of course. Chris Cillizza (who is an out-of-touch Billionaire bootlicking idiot as almost all of the Villagers are) illuminates the Beltway consensus in Pravda– Sen. Ted Cruz risked his political career Wednesday night when he pointedly decided against endorsing Donald Trump from the stage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. …
Jul 20 2016
New Labour
Just as the British Labour Party (in so far as you consider the Labour Party to be composed of its members and not its Quisling Tory-lite Neoliberal Blairite Parliamentarians) has turned decisively away (again, depending if you think a 22 point margin even among the voter suppressed for sure electorate is decisive) against its mis-Leadership …
Jul 19 2016
What IS The Matter With Our Elites?
That I choose to highlight pieces like this shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement of a particular candidate. Instead they’re an indictment of an arrogant and unwarranted by performance attitude of privilidge that is pervasive among our political and media class. The world is taking its revenge against elites. When will America’s wake up? by …
Jul 17 2016
You can’t help but chuckle.
While I have a real life of quiet notoriety (I’m not kidding when I say there are certain rooms where people are obligated to stand when I enter) I suppose most of my readers are familiar with me through my internet presence under the pseudonym ek hornbeck and involvement in Daily Kos. Not that it …
Jul 16 2016
The Ghost of Adolph
I come here not to praise Godwin, but to bury him. Misusing German History to Scare Up Votes for Hillary Clinton By Louis Proyect, Naked Capitalism July 16, 2016 Hitler is invoked as a kind of bogeyman to frighten liberals. He serves the same purpose as a warning from your parents when you were six …
Jul 15 2016
28 Pages
I wish I could include the 60 Minutes report from April 19th this year, but while the full episode is available on YouTube (in 3D no less, you have to change the settings to 2D or haul out your Star Wars glasses) the individual clip is hidden behind a registration wall at CBS and I …