As “not enough logging” and “environmental radicals” don’t seem to be catching on, a GOP congressman is trying out another theory: (Read story here.)[...]
Archive for November, 2018
November 20th, 2018 - 10:59 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Alternative GOP explanation for California fires
Ivanka emails evoke Hillary comparisons
“Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules,” the Washington Post reported Monday. “The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, wh[...]
November 19th, 2018 - 4:30 pm § in UW
UW’s Ohso Lawyerly Sex Discrimination Video
Is it really true that the UW lacks the ability to create a real video? It is difficult to see this turgid video as anything other than a UW effort to cover its backside. Worse yet, is this sort of legalistic, mind numbing thirty minutes long text nation wide? Really? How many similar files exis[...]
November 19th, 2018 - 1:20 am § in Foreign Affairs, Hypocrisy
Trumpism is Fascism
It is false to write of Trump’s behavior as not being fascist because he has not created concentration camps. Neither did Mussolini, Duterte, Pétain, Putin, or Quisling. McCarthy did not get the chance and for that I am grateful to the patriotic Americans who stood up to “uncle Joe.&#[...]
[...] November 18th, 2018 - 9:07 am § in Misc.
THE-Ave Challenge: Who said it?
A. Jesus B. Paul C. Pontius Pilate D. Constantine I E. Someone else[...]
November 17th, 2018 - 4:38 pm § in Donald Trump
As usual, Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and that’s a problem
(Reader Alert: This article contains naughty language) President Trump visited California on Saturday to see the devastation wrought by wildfires. There’s nothing new about California burning, but this year’s fires are bigger and more destructive, which some attribute to climate change. [...]
November 17th, 2018 - 12:19 am § in Misc.
Justice delayed, very delayed
Seventy-seven-year-old James Bonard Fowler pled guilty to one count of second-degree manslaughter two weeks before he was set to go to trial. He had been charged with two counts of murder in the 1965 shooting of 26-year-old Jimmie Lee Jackson during a melee in a restaurant in Marion, Alabama. Fowler[...]
November 16th, 2018 - 7:11 pm § in Donald Trump
Free speech or hate speech?
The First Amendment right of free speech is expansive, but not absolute. If it were, libel law couldn’t exist. Anyone who participates in acidic political debate on the internet should think about how far they can go in slamming, shaming, or skewering their ideological adversaries without caus[...]
November 16th, 2018 - 12:55 pm § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Revisiting abortion on FACEBOOK
Avi Ibrahim Balser, a dear Facebook friend, and I have been debating the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision on abortion. Avi says he stands by Byron White’s opposition opinion. Avi may be surprised that I agree with Justice White that the decision was certainly not in the intent of the authors of[...]