“President Donald Trump’s acting national security adviser, former Reagan administration official Charles Kupperman, made an extraordinary and controversial claim in the early 1980s: nuclear conflict with the USSR was winnable and … in a scenario in which 20 million people died in the [...]
Archive for September, 2019
September 14th, 2019 - 5:36 pm § in Donald Trump
Chickenhawk math: They lose 150 million people. We lose only 20 million people. We win.
September 14th, 2019 - 10:55 am § in Misc.
I AM FOR WARREN
I could vote for any of the Dem’s leading candidates. My vote would reflect the need to dump Trump but even more so the need for a leader who can repair the vast damage he has done to the US. But, right now, the issue is who is going to and should win the nomination? […][...]
September 14th, 2019 - 12:07 am § in Misc.
Why The U.W And Nike Are A Threat To America’s War In Afghanistan
After discussing with Prof. Schwartz the U.W.’s relationship with Nike, I feel confident a meritorious argument can be made that the University’s arrangement with Nike is incestuous. The incest arises from the fact the University’s finance office and its academic departments are first cousin[...]
September 13th, 2019 - 9:50 am § in Politics
Texas GOP legislator threatens Beto O’Rourke over proposed assault rifle ban
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s not-entirely-unreasonable remark in Thursday night’s debate that, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47, we are not going to allow them to be used against fellow Americans anymore,” prompted an angr[...]
September 10th, 2019 - 10:45 am § in Donald Trump
Trump fires Bolton. Yay!!!
Citing incompatibility of views, Trump fired John Bolton, his national security adviser. GOOD RIDDANCE! Although he’s unquestionably a smart guy — he graduated summa cum laude from Yale, and from Yale Law School (where he was a classmate of Clarence Thomas) — as a human being, Bolt[...]
September 9th, 2019 - 12:19 am § in Misc.
100th Anniversary of Boston Police Strike
On September 9, 1919, Boston Police Department officers went on strike at 5:45 p.m. Of the department’s 1,544 personnel, 1,117 (72 percent) refused to report for work. Governor Coolidge assigned 100 members of the state’s Metropolitan Park Police Department to replace the striking officers, but [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When a Torah Dies
Pune, India – Over Two Decades Later, Indian Sifrei Torah Laid To Rest By NY Rabbi Today 03:12 PM Pune, India – Twenty two years after a suspicious fire ravaged the Aron Kodesh of a historic synagogue in India, the charred remnants of several Sifrei Torah have finally been given a pro[...]
September 4th, 2019 - 5:22 pm § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Internet in stitches over Trump’s hurricane map
A couple days ago, Trump warned that Alabama was in Hurricane Dorian’s projected path — something the National Hurricane Center didn’t forecast and which, in hindsight, obviously wasn’t true. Apparently feeling a need to justify himself today, he flashed a map at reporters to[...]