Boring:
Turkey
this,
Erdogan
that.
Purged
50,000, plans
to kill rather
than feed political prisoners, then
deprive
them of proper funerals.
Nato
ally, down the toilet.
Details,
Details:
The current Trump tax plan would cost the taxpayers about $10
trillion while giving him a bit over $7 billion in benefits.
Alahu
Akbar:
In Chicago, 7 dead 53 wounded at a house party is not terrorism
unless someone praises God. It's not even worth national mention.
It's just Chicago.
Tiny
Coffins:
TX Gov. Abbot has quietly
proposed an
executive regulation (no legislative action involved) requiring that
aborted fetuses
to be buried or cremated. Guess
who will have to bear the cost....
Don't
Try This At Home:
A massive effort is underway to relocate 500 elephants to new homes,
safe from possible extinction.
Nutshelled:
“The
real objective of free trade [is]
to
lower wages and crush organized labor in order to boost profits.”
Any
questions?
Time
Out:
The US is said to be considering a 'pause' is suppling arms and
equipment to the Nureddin al-Zenki rebels in Syria following their
beheading of a 12-year old boy accused of being a member of the
Al-Quds Brigade, another rebel group competing for the spoils of war
dished out by the Americans.
Compassion:
In
Houston, TX, a
bipolar rape victim who broke down on the witness stand in has been
put in jail by the prosecutor to make sure she shows up to
testify against her rapist.
Details:
The Miami cop who shot an unarmed black hospital worker as he lay on
his back with his hands in the air says he shot the man because...
well, “I don't know.” Just seemed like the thing to do. His
union rep says the officer had to shoot the man in
order to protect him, like that village in Vietnam.
Lost
And Found:
during the 20th
Century, Greeenland lost about 90 billion tons of ice a year.
Between 2011 and 2014 it lost a trillion tons, three times the
previous rate. The South may not rise again, but the oceans
certainly are going to.
Noted:
Reports claim that 100
Indian tanks
have been deployed along the Chinese border in easter Ladakh
province.
Promises,
Promises:
The very basic promise at the base of NATO is that an attack on one
will be treated as an attack on all and every member will come to the
defense of any member that is attacked. There is not a footnote, Mr.
Trump, that lets the US or any other member change this basic
commitment. Either the US keeps it treaty agreements or it becomes an
untrustworthy rouge state.
The
Enforcer:
Donald 'Little Donnie' Trump, Jr. told those RNC members who did
not make the Hegira to Cleveland to kiss
his father's ass that “your careers are finished.”
A
Parting Shot:
2 comments:
Texas locked up a bipolar rape victim, and I'm not even shocked.
It is time for massive investment in mental health facilities, research, and treatment. It's not clear that treatment for mental disorders is all that effective, but it's presumably preferable to having the police and corrections systems be the practitioners for the mentally ill (likely a fair amount of potential patients among those fine folks too). It seems not just the right thing to do, but also a public safety measure to address the small percentage of those with mental disorders who become violent. I can easily imagine the deep despair when you couple mental disorders with a society that confronts them the same way as dangerous felons.
Well said Anon @ 11:32. The dismantling of the public safety net was one of the first casualties of Morning in America. It was part of Reagan's 'privatization' of the national healthcare system.
The question left unanswered is whether or not we have enough facilities to accomodate all the individuals with an IQ lower than 80 (Worse, seems a some of them managed to get elected to congress!)
So if we were faced with accommodating all those who believed 'privitization' was a good idea, the system would be overrun instantly!
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