Fact check: This image was circulated in social media about a week after Biden’s inauguration is digitally altered (“doctored”) using a 2011 photo of Biden falling asleep in a budget meeting (who doesn’t?). Details here. This is what political hacks resort to when they don[...]
Archive for November, 2021
Biden intends to run in 2024
Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that Biden and his advisers have been telling political supporters he’ll run for re-election in 2024, and his press secretary confirmed it on Monday, November 22, 2021, The Hill reported here. That, of course, depends on his health and being renom[...]
Why the right targets BLM and “critical race theory”
It’s simply about white supremacy. Conservatives like a status quo that puts white people in charge, gives white people preferential treatment, and keeps black people “in their place.” After George Floyd became yet another black man murdered by a white cop, millions of Americans pa[...]
November 22nd, 2021 - 12:27 pm § in Misc.
Waukesha parade mayhem suspect is a serial felon; rightwing howlers promptly call him “BLM terrorist”
The suspected driver of the SUV that plowed into a Christmas parade, killing 5 and injuring 48, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sunday, November 21, 2021, is a man with a long rap sheet dating back over 20 years. He was out of jail on a measly $1,000 bond for a prior incident in which he […][...]
No shakeup at Federal Reserve
Biden keeps Powell as Federal Reserve boss; Brainard to get vice-chair slot. Both support letting inflation run “hot.” Since 2010, the Federal Reserve has pursued “loose” or “accommodative” monetary policies that kept the economy afloat during the financial cris[...]
Major cities hire “chief heat officers”
Here in Seattle, we sweltered through prolonged 100-degree-plus heat last summer, and I began joking to friends about buying Arctic beachfront property while it’s available. The warming Arctic is no joke, though. Seattle isn’t one of the cities hiring “chief heat officers” &#[...]
The other Kenosha vigilante is a black woman. She’ll likely be convicted.
Her name is Chrystul Kizer (photo, right). She’s black. She claims to be a sex trafficking victim, and says she killed her pimp — a white man (photo, left) — in self-defense. Authorities have charged her with murder. She’s out of jail on bond raised by supporters while awaiti[...]
November 21st, 2021 - 4:44 pm § in Misc.
What it’s like to be worth $500M
You travel by private jet. You sleep on a round velvet bed. You spend your days lounging by the pool. Your personal chef prepares meals of steak and caviar. You live in a 9-bedroom waterfront villa once owned by Madonna. Unfortunately, someday you’ll have to be put down. SO, LUCKY DOG, [...]
More voting fraud found!
Across the country, Republican legislatures are restricting access to the ballot, taking away American citizens’ right to vote. It’s necessary, they say, to prevent voting fraud. By Republicans. I don’t recall reading about any cases of fraudulent votes cast for Biden in 2020, alth[...]
November 21st, 2021 - 12:34 am § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Finders isn’t keepers
Passing motorists scooped up cash in Southern California when an armored car was in a collision, its rear door popped open, and money spilled over the roadway on Friday, November 19, 2021 (story here). Well guess what, it isn’t theirs. The police issue public warnings to those people to return[...]