America’s Life And Death 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…
Two Week Reminder
Monday Ménage
John Stuart Mill. Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Kenneth Galbraith. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a…
Don’t Let Them Take It. The Replay
Monday Ménage
Albert Einstein. Oscar Ameringer. Larry Hardiman. For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest…
The Debacle: Winners And Losers
2020.09.29 (more…)
Monday Ménage
Frantz Fanon. John F. Kennedy. Karl Marx. Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be…
Story Remains The Same: Chapter Portland
Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…
Don’t Let Them Take It
REPOST: The Extremely Dangerous ‘What If…’
In March of 2019, Mehdi Hasan writes in his article at The Intercept about the possible scenario where Donald Trump is impeached or defeated in the 2020 election and refuses to leave office. Hasan…
Monday Ménage
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Stacey Abrams. Albert Einstein. There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because…
One Last Chance
Equality . Justice . Press Freedom . Democracy . What Do We Get On 3 November 2020??? (more…)
The Warnings: Vote Like Our Democracy Depends On It
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former National Security Advisor, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that the current president ‘has drifted away from the constitution’. “We have a Constitution…
Story Remains The Same: Part Deux
Christian nationalism is a political ideology. It says that what makes the United States distinctive is not our democratic system of government, or our Constitution, or our history of assimilating diverse people in a…
Story Remains The Same
Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as the man of action who decides what is…
America, We Hardly Know Ye
In the midst of a world-wide pandemic that has already killed over 85,000 Americans and on track to kill well over 100,000, Donald Trump continues his obsession with anything Obama; William Barr continues his…
Reading History
America's End Story? (more…)
Wait! What? Whose Government?
The whole structure of [Hitler’s] government has been aptly dubbed “authoritarian anarchy”. (more…)
Monday Ménage
H.L. Mencken. Abraham Lincoln. Groucho Marx. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series…
Definitions As Reminder
Why Is The World Laughing At Me
NATO Leaders Mock Trump. Leaders of UK, Canada, France and the Netherlands appear to be laughing at Donald Trump at a Buckingham Palace reception on Tuesday evening. Video of the laugh-around here: Read…
Monday Ménage
Elmer T. Peterson. George Eliot. George Orwell. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the…
News Network Creates ‘Alternative Reality’. Does Fake Takes On Real, Stunning, Scary Stories
“...firewall is holding even in the face of devastating new revelations about President Donald Trump’s abuse of power, as the network’s hosts continue to shield their audience from damning revelations and instead tell them…
Full Force Of Patriot Act In The Hands Of Trump & Barr. What Could Possibly Go Wrong. WTF, Dems!
Buried in a stopgap government funding resolution unveiled by House [Establishment] Democrats Monday is a provision that would reauthorize the notoriously abusive Patriot Act for three months, a move privacy advocates warned would ensure…
Monday Ménage
Issac Asimov. W.E.B. Du Bois. Brendan Meyers. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its…
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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