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Archive for December, 2017
A gift to America’s richest people
This is how much America’s 15 richest people might save in estate taxes if the GOP tax bill passes. Enjoy, because you’re paying for it. 1. Bill Gates, $35.6 billion 2. Jeff Bezos, $32.6 billion 3. Warren Buffett, $31.2 billion 4. Mark Zuckerberg, $28.4 billion 5. Larry Ellison, $23.6 [...]
December 8th, 2017 - 10:01 am § in Politics
Roy Moore is a Putin lover
Roy Moore, an angry old man who hopes to be elected to the U.S. Senate under the GOP label next Tuesday, dissed the USA and praised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Read this story here. Yesterday, he praised the America that existed during slavery — which also was a time of poverty, child lab[...]
December 8th, 2017 - 9:46 am § in Misc.
The judge wouldn’t let the jury see this (nsfw)
This is the AR-15 that Mesa, AZ, police officer Philip Brailsford used to kill Daniel Shaver in a motel corridor. The judge ruled the jury couldn’t see what Brailsford had pasted on his weapon because it would be “too prejudicial,” i.e., it might inflame the jury. Yesterday, a jury[...]
December 7th, 2017 - 6:14 pm § in Uncategorized
A real case of voting fraud!
Steve Curtis, a former chairman of Colorado’s Republican Party, said on his radio show during the 2016 election campaign, “virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats.” Today, a jury found Curtis guilty of signing and voting his ex-[...]
December 7th, 2017 - 1:08 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: What Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu Holiday Will Be on 25 December 2018?
QUESTION: Every year, the world’s holiday change relative to ours because calendars differ. What will all the world’s Muslims, Christians, Pagans, Buddhists, Communists and Jews call December 25th, 2018? ANSWER: Wednesday[...]
December 5th, 2017 - 11:42 am § in Uncategorized
Cartoon of the Day
Republican voters aren’t as bad as you think. They’re only almost as bad as you think.[...]
Anniversary of great atrocity committed by Abraham Lincoln
On This Day: In 1862 President Lincoln refused to pardon the 38 Santee Sioux people sentenced to hang for protecting their land during the Dakota War of 1862. In early December, 303 Sioux prisoners were convicted of murder and rape by military tribunals and sentenced to death. Some trials lasted les[...]