00:15 Sunday 31 October 2021

To the January-6th Activists:
What if you're wrong? What if you're Just - Plain - Wrong?
What if you're not part of the majority? What if there are more people who are not Trump supporters? What if Biden won because he got more votes?*
What if your news sources are wrong? What if they're mistaken? What if they're ( Read more... )

3/14/2018 8:03 PM

In 4 years, our current high-school students will be old enough to vote. If enough of them are single-issue voters against easy access to firearms - and they actually do vote - a lot of the politicians who follow the lead* of the NRA will lose their seats. We'll have to see whether gun-moderate conservatives emerge, and whether ( Read more... )

Wed Jan 17 19:30:00 EST 2018

From the (CBC) AIH Transcript for January 17, 2017Republican Senator Jeff Flake speaking earlier today in the U.S. Senate ( Read more... )

Mon Oct 30 14:17:43 EDT 2017

What are these white supremacists/nationalists going to say when it's irrefutable that their cause is being supported by Russian hackers and manipulators? When their assertions of "fake news" by the American media are fed by our favorite geopolitical and military adversary? When they can't deny that they have been the ( Read more... )

Thu Jul 13 14:14:03 EDT 2017


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6/23/2017 12:17 AM

The Republicans say no one should be required to buy health insurance.

We require people to pay income tax. How is this any different? Everyone needs protection from invasion, roads to get around, and health. Have you met anyone who never needed medical care at some time? And even those who have never been sick or injured would ( Read more... )

Sat Jan 7 20:54:04 EST 2017

This afternoon I went out to shovel the sidewalk. We got a little snow overnight. It's powdery, and sweeping would have worked. Since one of the streets at our corner has been narrowed we have more sidewalk now in front of the house. I don't feel compelled to shovel it all clear; just to make a sufficient path. (It ( Read more... )

Thu Nov 24 13:40:24 EST 2016


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Thu Jul 14 11:38:56 EDT 2016Make America great again!
There's an implicit assumption that America was great before. America was never great for a lot of people. If your people were here before the European onslaught, and were driven off your ancestral lands and ravaged by exotic diseases, America stopped being great for you. If your people were ( Read more... )

Thu Nov 12 2015, 10:43 am ETBen Carson Profits From Ties With Convicted FelonRepublican presidential contender Ben Carson has maintained a business relationship with a close friend convicted of defrauding insurance companies and testified on his behalf, even as the candidate has called for such crimes to be punished harshly ( Read more... )