From Huffington Post: Donald Trump said the system is rigged. He said hedge fund managers are “getting away with murder.” He said that he’d “tax Wall Street.” He called Washington D.C. corrupt and promised to “drain the swamp.” He said his opponent Hillary Clinton was too cozy with th[...]
Archive for November, 2016
November 29th, 2016 - 12:54 pm § in Misc.
Why the predictions that Dec 21 would be the end of the world, were wrong!
Here is the view based on the Oreo calendar[...]
November 29th, 2016 - 12:30 pm § in Politics
No, this isn’t an African potentate
But all those medals make him look like one. His name is David Clarke, and Trump’s expected to pick this dangerously delusional man for Homeland Security chief. Clarke believes there’s a “war on cops,” but no police brutality. He believes protesting should be illegal, and ta[...]
November 29th, 2016 - 11:50 am § in Misc.
Embarrasment
Since a lot of embarrassing memories from my past are surfacing, rather than bemoan them I might as well laugh at them and share some stories. One such story is my first attempt to wash a car. This was for Traffic Safety class, which I was given an Incomplete because I did all the bookwork […[...]
November 29th, 2016 - 11:19 am § in Hypocrisy
How to identify fascism
1. Hannah Arendt in her book The Origin of Totalitarianism provides a helpful guide for interpreting the language of fascists. 2. She noted how decent liberals of 1930s Germany would “fact check” the Nazis’ bizarre claims about Jews as if they were meant to be factual 3. What the[...]
November 29th, 2016 - 11:09 am § in The Ave Scene
Kshama Town
Posted on November 25, 2016 by David Preston Photos of anti-Trump protests in Chicago and Seattle tell two very different stories about political culture. The Chicago crowd (above) is large, varied, and rowdy. The placards there are hand-made, and each one bears a different message, unique to its [...]
November 28th, 2016 - 2:29 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING: WTO rules against Boeing’s state tax breaks
“A World Trade Organization panel on Monday ruled that Washington state offered billions in illegal tax breaks to plane maker Boeing, and that the U.S. government must take action to end the plans within months.” Read story here.[...]
November 28th, 2016 - 12:31 pm § in Misc.
Happy 54th Birthday to Jon Stewart, nee Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
“It’s a boy” from Haaretz with insertions and deletions. Marian and Donald Leibowitz likely screamed in joy on November 28, 1962, when blue-eyed baby Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz arrived in the world at a New York City maternity ward. Marian, daughter of a Jewish fur-making immigrant from China, [...]
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