Nov 12, 2018
This Week Last Night
John Oliver - cuz an awful lot of the real investigative journalism, and in-depth reporting is happening on cable comedy shows.
Nov 11, 2018
Oh Those Youngsters
Cassandra Levesque (D-Strafford 04), a 19-year-old Girl Scout, won a seat in the New Hampshire House of Representatives last Tuesday - running on the strength of her successful push to raise the Minimum Age to Marry from 13 to 16.
The Concord Monitor:
Levesque said she hadn’t originally planned on running this year – she has a busy schedule with online political science courses from Southern New Hampshire University and her position as a girl scout leader in Barrington. She is also still in the process of getting her driver’s license, and was worried about the commute to Concord, she said.
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In 2017, as a senior at Dover High School, Levesque began her push to raise the marriage age – 13 for girls and 14 for boys – as part of a Girl Scouts project that ultimately earned her the organization’s gold award. Both her grandmother and great-grandmother entered into child marriages in their teens to escape abuse at home.
Diversity, bitches. Without it, we get stagnant.
The Concord Monitor:
Levesque said she hadn’t originally planned on running this year – she has a busy schedule with online political science courses from Southern New Hampshire University and her position as a girl scout leader in Barrington. She is also still in the process of getting her driver’s license, and was worried about the commute to Concord, she said.
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In 2017, as a senior at Dover High School, Levesque began her push to raise the marriage age – 13 for girls and 14 for boys – as part of a Girl Scouts project that ultimately earned her the organization’s gold award. Both her grandmother and great-grandmother entered into child marriages in their teens to escape abuse at home.
Diversity, bitches. Without it, we get stagnant.
We've allowed our governments to be practically nothing but older white men. To be clear, I'm an older white man, but this is not about ducking my responsibilities, and I'm not indulging in self-loathing - the point is that we have to stop pretending we can have a healthy equitable society when the power structure is so unfairly out of balance.
That oughta seem simple and obvious, but if we know so much, then we should understand that artificially slanting things in favor of that Old White Guy Status Quo, can only make it better for fewer and fewer people - which means things get worse for more and more people.
Anyway, congratulations to Ms Levesque for chipping away at the monolith, lowering the average age of the New Hampshire legislature and skewing the gender split - all of which btw, contribute to raising the standards for that body and for the rest of us too.
Way to go, Cassie. Stay after it.
Today's Today
The eleventh month, on the eleventh day, at the eleventh hour.
The end of the war to end all wars - part 1.
The end of the war to end all wars - part 1.
45* Punks Out - Again
Water-soluble hair products don't stand up to the rain very well, so yesterday, "POTUS" just couldn't take a chance that he might look bad.
Guess what, Mr Trump - you look really bad.
Max Boot:
On Saturday afternoon, the president was scheduled to attend a ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, where 2,289 U.S. soldiers are buried — a small part of the 116,000 Americans who gave the last full measure of devotion during World War I. It was the sort of solemn occasion that U.S. presidents have considered an integral part of their duty at least since the Gettysburg Address. But Trump couldn’t be bothered.
There's no honor and no courage in that tiny little man at all.
Here's Your Sign
If guns aren't the problem, and people are the problem, then why do you want the problem to have guns?
Nov 10, 2018
Once Upon A Time
...we had a president who wasn't a whiny-butt pussy about every-fuckin'-thing.
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| Memorial Day, 2010 |
When Trump flies to France and then drops out of the ceremony at a military cemetery because of “rain” we must remember he’s a liar.— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) November 10, 2018
It could just be that he’s having a bad hair day that could be made much worse by the weather.
Today's Tweet
Stoopid Nixon says what
Fact Check:— 💙Koko ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿💙 (@Kokomothegreat) November 9, 2018
FY2018: $700 billion
FY2019: $716 billion
FY2010: $721 billion
FY2011: $717 billion
"I'll never forgive him for what he did to our United States military by not funding it properly...What he did to our country made this country unsafe." pic.twitter.com/aih0PgAR9K
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