THAT’S NOT NEWS!
Americans Like Their News. They Like To Get Their News From Social Media. They Don’t Expect Their News To Be Accurate. (more…)
China: Thanks Google, We’ll Take Good Care Of The Internet
In demonstrating that a company as mighty as Google was unable to resist the allure of the Chinese market, despite the terms of entry, Beijing will advance its campaign to remake global internet governance…
Re-Gifting 2020
America has received many nice gifts from many nice people. Nice. But there's one... (more…)
Monday Ménage
Martin Luther King Jr. Michel Templet. Plato. (more…)
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
That all beings are great and all are part of and responsible to the Whole is a world view based on the concept of Reciprocity and one which is fundamental to the Haudenosaunee of…
10 Years. Congratulations!
Really, How Hard Can It Be…
We're supposed to stand up to bullies, not follow them. How hard can it be to... (more…)
Kavanaugh: Birth Control Is ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’
On the third day of Senate committee hearings, Trump’s pick for a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Brett Kavanaugh, called women’s birth control ‘abortion-inducing drugs’. Dawn Laguens, executive…
Unidentified Top Admin Official: The Root Of The Problem Is The President’s Amorality. UPDATED
In a blistering Op-Ed in The New York Times, an anonymous “Senior Administration Official” claims he/she is part of an inside ‘resistance’ working in opposition to Trump’s impulses. The root of the problem is…
It’s Closer Than You Think
[junkie-dropcap]A[/junkie-dropcap]ny person who has taken the oath of office of President of the United States of America and then has their electoral legitimacy questioned every week as consequence of a federal investigation into a…
History As Reminder: GOP and Jobs Edition
[junkie-dropcap]P[/junkie-dropcap]resident Barack Obama presented his deficit reduction plan today (19 September 2011) which includes a modest increase in taxes on millionaires and billionaires, closes tax loopholes for profit-heavy corporations and is supported by the…
Monday Ménage
Issac Asimov. Frantz Fanon. Tina Fey. (more…)
Labor Day 2018. Stand Proud
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation…
Choices
America is standing at the abyss. Do we fall in? Do we jump in? Do we continue with eyes closed, minds lost in the chaos, allowing our nation to be simply pushed over the…
Is Sen Schumer ‘Utterly Useless’? For Dems, Yeah, Pretty Much
"Schumer is utterly useless" - A shared response to the Senate Minority Leader’s dealmaking with Mitch McConnell. So useless, this: "Is there a way to impeach Schumer?" (more…)
Ol’ Abe Has Had Enough
The Day Begins: An Image
Free Expression A Human Right. And Then There’s Trump
“His attacks are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts” (more…)
The Green Thing: A Story. A Lesson
[junkie-dropcap]C[/junkie-dropcap]hecking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment. The woman apologized…
Monday Ménage
Niccolo Machiavelli. Robert Elliott Gonzales. Edward de Bono. (more…)
Heroes And Cowards
While we salute the heroic life of John McCain we must also not forget the cowards living among us. "But I'm good at war. I've had a lot of wars of my own. I'm…
John McCain 1936-2018
R I P
Pastor John: ‘I Don’t Know If You’re Going To Believe Me When I Tell Ya This’. Ya Think…
Rev John A. Kilpatrick begged, I say b e g g e d, his church to pray for Donald Trump because it’s not the president’s fault for the mess the country is in, "It's…
MediCare For All: Americans Think That’s A Good Thing
New Reuters poll out Thursday shows support for 'Medicare for All' at all-time high with 70 percent of all Americans now in favor of a such program, including 84.5% of Democrats and 52% of…
N E X T…
Cohen Bombshell: Trump Directed Hush Money Payments. Manafort Found Guilty On 8 Counts: Faces 80 Years in LockUp. (more…)
Politics & Policy
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
Black, Native, Latino Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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Project 2025 & The Military
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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid …
In a meeting with hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals: “It’s unacceptable seeing ‘fat generals and admirals’ in the halls of the Pentagon, and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ebony McMorris, reporter for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN): “Mr. President, what are your plans for—” McMorris began (one of the few Black reporters in the WH Press Corps). “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious,” said Trump. “I’m not obnoxious, but I’m trying to ask you what about your plans for Memphis, Mr. President?” “You are really obnoxious,” said Trump (president of the USA).
“I think she’s a disgraceful person, you know, I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know. They got here and they vote her in. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe. But I think she’s a disgusting person.”
That’s the President of the United States of America making remarks about seated member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to reporters in the Oval Office.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Simple Reminder
Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Kane’s Clinic
Wheel In The Sky
Journey From their album, Infinity – the first album with Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released January 1978.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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