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November 17th, 2015 - 7:41 pm § in Misc.

How come no one here is flying the Nigerian flag at half mast?

Leonard Lawrence FACEBOOK WHILE EVERYBODY IS MAKING NOISE OVER WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE , LET US ALSO PRAY FOR THE 2000 SOULS THAT WAS MURDERED AND BURNED IN NIGERIA IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. BUT YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT BECA– USE IT DIDN’T MAKE THE NEWS[...]

November 17th, 2015 - 7:34 pm § in Uncategorized

Bobby, we hardly knew ye

Bobby Jindal, saying this isn’t his time, has dropped out of the GOP nomination race. (The PC terminology is that he “suspended his campaign.” Off what, a bridge? a radio tower? Is his campaign a pinata?) That’s an understatement; he never broke 1% in the polls, and never mad[...]

November 17th, 2015 - 5:11 pm § in The Ave Scene

Hanauer Needs Better Grammar

So Nick Hanauer is a local billionaire (he says he is almost a billionaire) who has a hired crew to write speeches and promote ideas. So cool. But you ,might think for a few bucks he could get better writing?[...]

November 17th, 2015 - 3:29 pm § in Misc.

African Dictators

Chinazor Onianwa  FACEBOOK This has the makings of a dictatorship. Once a dictator has fulfilled his maximum two-term limit, rather than bow out whilst the applause is loudest, his ego kicks in. Then he can do no wrong. Next he begins to silence opposition. And he ends up becoming another Mugabe. A[...]

November 17th, 2015 - 12:29 pm § in Misc.

Why I write so much about South Carolina

Bill Quick is upset that I write about South Carolina. I write quite a bit about South Carolina. In part this is motivated by a troll here on TA, my brother in law Bill Quick.  He lives there and has been a pretty nasty troll … going so far as to attack me by filing […][...]

November 17th, 2015 - 11:58 am § in Misc.

Billionaire’s Supersonic Jet Advances With Factory Plans, Seattle?

BLOOMBERG: Aerion, the supersonic-jet maker backed by Texas billionaire Robert Bass, plans to choose a manufacturing site during the first half of next year as it targets delivering the first faster-than-sound business aircraft in 2023. The timeline unveiled Monday fleshes out how Aerion and partne[...]

November 17th, 2015 - 10:46 am § in Misc.

When the Jews were the Syrian Refugees

 Mark Itzkowitz FACEBOOK Four months before Kristallnacht, 2/3 of polled Americans favored keeping refugees from Fascist lands, mostly Jews, out of the US. Two months after, 61% of Americans opposed a proposal to accept 10,000 Jewish refugee children. The SS St. Louis, carrying desperate Jewish ref[...]

November 17th, 2015 - 10:24 am § in Misc.

UPDATED: William Quick: Strange Interchange

Sighhh .. Bill Quick is now troilling here and on FACEBOOK.  He posted this Bill Quick I again wrote to Stephen Schwartz requesting that he remove the original post, and the present one. He has chosen not to respond. and then deleted my response on FB.   William Quick 4:37 AM (4 hours ago) to[...]

November 17th, 2015 - 8:31 am § in Misc., UW

Who gets a bigger subsidy? .. the Cougs or the Dogs?

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