There
is a big difference between a business and a movement.
No
Show, No Tell:
The last person jailed in the Waco biker shootout is being released.
There were nine deaths and 20 injuries that day, yet no one has been
charged. Of course we haven't been told whose guns fired the fatal
bullets.
And
the Winner Is:
The
FBI has pointed out that the “new” chip cards are pretty much not
a great
improvement over the old cards, but that chip and PIN – like used
in the rest of the world – are the real deal. But US customers
can't get access to the more secure cards because the card companies
are afraid they'd lose money keeping you from losing money.
Fieldwork:
Maybe Jeb's guys should have run his
new slogan past a focus group. It
turns out that “Jeb
Can Fix It” does not actually apply to his campaign.
Smugly
Satisfied: On
average, the states that rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion
ended up spending $2 billion a year more on their Medicaid program
while rejecting $20 billion a year in federal Medicaid tax funding.
What kind of people would refuse to extend healthcare to their poorer
citizens and pay $22 billion a year to do so? Republicans, proudly.
It's
A Gas: The
Pentagon spent $43 million to build a compressed gas filling station
in Sheberghan, Afghanistan, anticipating a huge increase in
environmentally conscious motorists.
Summation:
What is it like to “attend” an on-line charter school? It is
exactly like not going to school at all. So says a Stanford
University study. “The average student who attends might as well
not enroll.”
The
Washing Of Hands:
TOTE Maritime, the owners of the El Faro, in a preventative strike,
have filed their own lawsuit claiming it was not their fault that
they rushed the freighter into the path of a monster hurricane, and
besides they lost money too.
Free-Agency:
Marco Rubio has been optioned by billionaire investor and would-be
kingmaker Paul Singer for an undisclosed amount rumored to be in the
mid 8-figures.
Barefoot
& Ignorant:
The Texas Supreme Court is to decide if parents who believe the
world is soon going to end in The Rapture actually have to teach
their homeschooled kids anything at all. Like being able to read.
Stirred,
Not Shaken:
New research confirms that
East Antarctica’s biggest glacier is melting from below and
West
Antarctica, which
would raise global sea levels over 10 feet were it all to melt, is
going to melt.
The only question is how soon.
The
Wrong Arm Of The Law:
The FBI had compelling and convincing evidence that Jared Fogle was
molesting children for over four years before they got around to
arresting him. Can the kids sue the Bureau for criminal
facilitation?
Asked
& Obvious:
Would taxing the rich reduce inequality? If
it was done right, of course.
Logical
Conclusion: A
Texas judge ruled that a cop cannot be charged with murder for
murdering an unarmed black man because the cop was working “with
the FBI” at the time. And apparently the FBI can kill anyone,
anywhere, anytime...
War
And So On:
Over 90% of those killed and wounded by our weapons being used by the
Saudis against Yemen are civilians. Mostly women and children.
Office
Work: A woman
who accidentally called a Senate committee office was conned out of
several thousand dollars by the man who answered the phone. Comes
natural to 'em.
Porn
O'Graph: The
talk.
3 comments:
re The Talk. Beautiful. It captures a real parenting dilemma. My generation was raised to believe a lot of soft-focus BS about American exceptionalism, Christian charity, and endless possibilities promised by the American Dream.
We want to teach hour kids about the essential decency of people, and the potential of Democratic government and responsible capitalism, and we'd rather not lay a heavy bummer on them, but cannot figure how to have that conversation without doing so
And yet we have arrived at the conclusion that Everything is Broken, good deeds are punished and evil is rewarded, and the psychopaths and morons are in charge. The best thing we can hope for is that this is just a cyclical dip, a generational regression, before another phase of expanded consciousness and human growth comes(along the lines of "The Fourth Turning" theory) - hopefully delivered by our kids by virtue of our great parenting.
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I imagine that parents in the depression, or early twentieth century union organizers, or black families in the south, or French families in WWII or east Germany afterwards, &cetera, did not suffer from this dissonance. I wonder what they said to their kids when they described politics, power, justice, and finance.
Maybe "Jeb can fit it" is a slogan aimed at the other candidates in search of a vice president. Jeb has good contacts with Florida election officials, you know.
"The Democrats have changed the rules" again. They've been doing it since Gerry, the violent force of volumes of money decelerating into the leadership's pockets has thrown that beast off on a new track nearly every week since 1812. At least Tammany Hall was "Honest Corruption".
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