Earlier today, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders asserted her boss has created more jobs for blacks in 17 months than President Obama did in 8 years. She was specific: “700,000 new jobs for African-Americans, only 195,000” under Obama. “But,” says CNN, “thatR[...]
Archive for August, 2018
August 14th, 2018 - 7:25 pm § in Misc.
NBC News: Jerome Corsi is behind QAnon
NBC News reported Tuesday night that Jerome Corsi, the rightwing flamethrower who “swift boated” John Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid, is one of three people behind QAnon, a rightwing group notorious for circulating preposterous conspiracy theories, including the infamous “Pizz[...]
August 14th, 2018 - 11:36 am § in Misc.
Labor’s shrinking share of GDP, 1947-2016
The U.S. economy has grown over the last half-century, but most of the gains have gone to the top 10%, and inflation-adjusted wages have been stagnant since 1970. Back then, labor got about 60%, and capital 40%, of what the economy produced. Today, those figures are reversed. This trend has gone han[...]
August 13th, 2018 - 3:38 pm § in Donald Trump
What makes someone an American?
Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939) was a war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune whose reporting turned Belleau Wood into legend. Badly wounded himself in the first days of the battle, he filed his most famous dispatch from a hospital bed. It is a story about immigrants: Most of the U.S. Marines who fought[...]
August 12th, 2018 - 4:09 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Sunday Revelations: An illegal child is found
Illegal foundings have a big role in American culture … remember Moses? And then, there was that other Jew raised by a good American family …[...]
August 12th, 2018 - 2:48 am § in Misc.
Crocodiles Climb Trees!
Watch Out Below! Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee has shown that crocodiles in Australia, Africa and North America can climb trees.[...]
August 11th, 2018 - 9:37 am § in Misc.
SUPERPLANE ANNIVERSARY 85 years!
Length: 91 ft 10 in You’ve never heard of the Kalinin K-7? That’s probably because only 1 was built, and that was destroyed in a crash. The K-7 first flew on August 11, 1933 but showed instability and massive vibration issues to the airframe.[...]