Feb 17, 2017
Today's Tweet
Trump gets negative marks for his handling of foreign policy, immigration, threat of terrorism https://t.co/FlkuBvWD3X pic.twitter.com/1rWmOUF8vW— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) February 16, 2017
On Facebook Today
Our 45th President, his power-hungry cronies taking positions of authority in his Cabinet and administration, and the majority of Republicans in Congress are a real and active threat to me, my way of life, and all the people I love.
Some people are saying that we should "give him a chance", that we should "work together" with him because he won the election, and he is "everyone's president."
This is my response:
•I will not stand for disgracing our country with deplorable acts of treason against the citizens of the United States.
•I will not stand for mistreatment of our veterans, the disabled, our children and elderly.
•I will not forget how badly he and so many others treated former President Barack Obama for 8 years.
•I will not "work together" to privatize Medicare, cut Social Security and Medicaid.
•I will not "work together" to build a wall.
•I will not "work together" to persecute Muslims.
•I will not "work together" to shut out refugees from other countries.
•I will not "work together" to lower taxes on the 1% and increase taxes on the middle class and poor.
•I will not "work together" to help this man use the Presidency to line his pockets and those of his family and cronies.
•I will not "work together" to weaken and demolish environmental protection.
•I will not "work together" to sell or give away American lands, especially National Parks, to companies which then despoil those lands.
•I will not "work together" to ignore or undermine our treaties and commitments to Native Americans or their rights and lands.
•I will not "work together" to enable the killing of whole species of animals just because they are predators, or inconvenient for a few, or because some people want to get their thrills killing them.
•I will not "work together" to remove civil rights from anyone.
•I will not "work together" to alienate countries that have been our allies for as long as I have been alive.
•I will not "work together" to slash funding for education.
•I will not "work together" to take basic assistance from people who are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
•I will not "work together" to get rid of common sense regulations on guns.
•I will not "work together" to eliminate the minimum wage.
•I will not "work together" to support so-called "Right To Work" laws, or undermine, weaken or destroy Unions in any way.
•I will not "work together" to suppress scientific research, be it on climate change, fracking, or any other issue where a majority of scientists agree that Trump and his supporters are wrong on the facts.
•I will not "work together" to criminalize abortion or restrict health care for women.
•I will not "work together" to increase the number of nations that have nuclear weapons.
•I will not "work together" to put even more "big money" into politics.
•I will not "work together" to violate the Geneva Convention.
•I will not "work together" to give the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party and white supremacists a seat at the table, or to normalize their hatred.
•I will not "work together" to deny health care to people who need it.
•I will not "work together" to deny medical coverage to people on the basis of a "pre-existing condition."
•I will not "work together" to increase voter suppression.
•I will not "work together" to normalize tyranny.
I will not “work together” to eliminate or reduce ethical oversite at any level of government.
•I will not "work together" with anyone who is, or admires, tyrants and dictators.
•I will not support anyone that thinks its OK to put a pipeline to transport oil on Sacred Ground for Native Americans. And, it would run under the Missouri River, which provides drinking water for millions of people. An accident waiting to happen.
•I will not "work together" to destroy the separation of church and state.
•I will not "work together" to obliterate the separation of powers and the importance of having three co-equal branches of government.
This is my line, and I am drawing it.
•I will stand for honesty, love, respect for all living beings, and for the beating heart that is the center of Life itself.
•I will use my voice and my hands, to reach out to the uninformed, and to anyone who will LISTEN.
That "winning", "being great again", "rich" or even "beautiful" is nothing, when others are sacrificed to glorify its existence.
If you agree feel free to copy and re-post (this results in larger numbers of people seeing a post), and if you want, sign your name below ours. Also, if we have left anything out, feel free to add it to this list.
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Intercepted
Jeremy Scahill's podcast from The Intercept via Stitcher
For the most part, I can do without Glenn Greenwald - a little too prissy, in that he sounds like he's setting himself up as the Purity Police, which seems to push the Both-Sides crap; so, a bit of a fart-breather. That said, he's good at keeping us informed as to how we go about sifting thru all the chaff coming at us from the Press Poodles in order to get a little closer to figuring out What Is vs What Ain't.
Anyway, I'll take Scahill any day, and I've crushed on Naomi Klein for quite a while.
For the most part, I can do without Glenn Greenwald - a little too prissy, in that he sounds like he's setting himself up as the Purity Police, which seems to push the Both-Sides crap; so, a bit of a fart-breather. That said, he's good at keeping us informed as to how we go about sifting thru all the chaff coming at us from the Press Poodles in order to get a little closer to figuring out What Is vs What Ain't.
Anyway, I'll take Scahill any day, and I've crushed on Naomi Klein for quite a while.
Today's Today
On February 17, 1600, Fr Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy. According to a letter from the time, he made "a threatening gesture" towards his judges and said, "Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it".
People with balls (using that word in the figurative sense) are the ones who move this whole thing forward - in big and little ways.
People with balls (using that word in the figurative sense) are the ones who move this whole thing forward - in big and little ways.
... was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer.[3] He is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center".
Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges including denial of several core Catholic doctrines (including Eternal Damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and Transubstantiation). Bruno's pantheism was also a matter of grave concern.[4] The Inquisition found him guilty, and in 1600 he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori. After his death he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science,[5] although historians have debated the extent to which his heresy trial was a response to his astronomical views or to other aspects of his philosophy and theology.[6][7][8][9][10] Bruno's case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences.[11][12][13]
In addition to cosmology, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Historian Frances Yates argues that Bruno was deeply influenced by Arab astrology (particularly the philosophy of Averroes[14]), Neoplatonism, Renaissance Hermeticism, and legends surrounding the Egyptian god Thoth.[15] Other studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial concepts of geometry to language.[16]
Feb 16, 2017
WTF Moments
Rolling Stone
Standout: "The leaks are real. The news is fake."
I can say I've been a little impressed with the Press Poodles performing better than they've done before. We still need to find the new Sam Donaldson, but they're starting to get up and push back.
Let's Lay Down A Marker
To be clear:
Obama inherited a big fucking mess from W and in his calm and cool way, he went about fixing what he could fix over the next several years.
45* inherited the thing in fair-to-middlin' shape and in his hysteria-mongering and chaos-creating way, he's fucked it up in less than a month.
Obama inherited a big fucking mess from W and in his calm and cool way, he went about fixing what he could fix over the next several years.
45* inherited the thing in fair-to-middlin' shape and in his hysteria-mongering and chaos-creating way, he's fucked it up in less than a month.
One For Ms Sarandon
You have the right to hold your opinions, and to speak, and to vote for whomever you want, and to urge others to do the same.
But (you knew there was a "but" comin', right?), you end up sounding a lot like Ayman Zawahri back in the 70s when you say things like having 45* in office is better than Hillary.
Because we need to be shocked violently in order to wake us up? So we can see the wonder and glory of whatever it is you think is better because that's what you think is better?
What you're doing is leveling a charge of false consciousness. We have this big horrible problem but all those dopes are just too ignorant to know it. We'll make some big horrible thing happen to snap 'em out of it - for their own sake.
Pithy adage 1: Revolutionaries always come in promising bread and freedom, but they always deliver years more of misery.
And look, I do it too. There's prob'ly 100s of posts on this blog that have something to do with "those rubes are so fucking stoopid".
I get it. But there's a bit of a difference in that I'm not the one hoping for the worst so I can prove my point and take advantage of the crash to make things the way I want them. And that's what I see you doing.
Pithy adage 1a: I'll take evolution, not revolution.
And also too, remember this one?
Predicting disaster
Expecting disaster
Wanting disaster
Facilitating disaster
Causing disaster
Where are you on that list?
Please stop doing shitty things to me and saying it's really for my own good - and that I'll thank you in the end. Just stop.
In closing - and I say this with all the love and charity in all the hearts of all the saints - Fuck off, lady.
But (you knew there was a "but" comin', right?), you end up sounding a lot like Ayman Zawahri back in the 70s when you say things like having 45* in office is better than Hillary.
Because we need to be shocked violently in order to wake us up? So we can see the wonder and glory of whatever it is you think is better because that's what you think is better?
What you're doing is leveling a charge of false consciousness. We have this big horrible problem but all those dopes are just too ignorant to know it. We'll make some big horrible thing happen to snap 'em out of it - for their own sake.
Pithy adage 1: Revolutionaries always come in promising bread and freedom, but they always deliver years more of misery.
And look, I do it too. There's prob'ly 100s of posts on this blog that have something to do with "those rubes are so fucking stoopid".
I get it. But there's a bit of a difference in that I'm not the one hoping for the worst so I can prove my point and take advantage of the crash to make things the way I want them. And that's what I see you doing.
Pithy adage 1a: I'll take evolution, not revolution.
And also too, remember this one?
Predicting disaster
Expecting disaster
Wanting disaster
Facilitating disaster
Causing disaster
Where are you on that list?
Please stop doing shitty things to me and saying it's really for my own good - and that I'll thank you in the end. Just stop.
In closing - and I say this with all the love and charity in all the hearts of all the saints - Fuck off, lady.
Hmmm
Obviously not the whole story. There's always a lot more when you drill down a ways, but still.
Hey - I wonder what amazing things might've happened to get Clinton's number under average, and Obama's number down so so so very much.
And by the same token, that "free market approach' the Repubs love? In Healthcare, it seems to work exactly the opposite from how they tell us it will - and some of us have known that for-fucking-ever.
Hey - I wonder what amazing things might've happened to get Clinton's number under average, and Obama's number down so so so very much.
And by the same token, that "free market approach' the Repubs love? In Healthcare, it seems to work exactly the opposite from how they tell us it will - and some of us have known that for-fucking-ever.
National health spending growth— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) February 16, 2017
Reagan years
1980-1988: 127%
Clinton
1992-2000: 60%
W Bush
2000-2008: 75%
Obama
2008-2016: 40%
They Never Go Away
Authoritarians are always there. And they're forever trying to pull the same shit.
In this case, we can look at Voter Fraud and Intimidation and violence against the innocent perpetrated by Democrats at the direction of the Clinton campaign - as hypothesized by none other that Carter Page.
For anybody who's been paying attention, we know that when you're dealing with 45* and his minions, every accusation is a confession.
A piece by Jon Schwarz at The Intercept:
You may recall, it was widely presumed that Manuel Noriega was a prize pupil, and became such a sore spot that Poppy Bush felt compelled to invade Panama in an effort to clean up a mess he helped create.
But anyway. It should seem really clear now that the initiative to investigate voter fraud is a setup. Once they splash the inevitable hyped up scary scenario across DumFux News and Breitbart, and it bounces around in the echo chamber for a while - even though it'll be practically nothing but unsupported assertions and rumors the states will have all the "justification" they need - cuz hey, it's coming from the FBI so it's gotta be official - and the Voter Suppression efforts will balloon.
And those new restrictions will include (buried in the amendments language) the legal structure to wipe those 3 million Hillary voters off the rolls.
Now, those last coupla paragraphs are almost pure speculation. Obviously, I think there's a better than even chance I'm right about what's coming (or what they intend to try), but that's not evidence. So grains of salt, even when you're here reading your favorite blogger's outstandingly noble and awesomely righteous bullshit.
In this case, we can look at Voter Fraud and Intimidation and violence against the innocent perpetrated by Democrats at the direction of the Clinton campaign - as hypothesized by none other that Carter Page.
For anybody who's been paying attention, we know that when you're dealing with 45* and his minions, every accusation is a confession.
A piece by Jon Schwarz at The Intercept:
CARTER PAGE, briefly a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, sent a peculiar, rambling letter this week to the Department of Justice, asking it to review “the severe election fraud in the form of disinformation, suppression of dissent, hate crimes and other extensive abuses led by members of Mrs. Hillary Clinton’s campaign and their political allies last year.”
Page is reportedly one of several targets of a counterintelligence investigation by the FBI into possible links between Trump associates and Russian officials.This move - fuck with the election, and then proclaim loudly that the election's been fucked with - is straight out of the School of the Americas training the CIA used to provide for people in Central and South American countries in order to get "our guys" into power and keep them there.
You may recall, it was widely presumed that Manuel Noriega was a prize pupil, and became such a sore spot that Poppy Bush felt compelled to invade Panama in an effort to clean up a mess he helped create.
But anyway. It should seem really clear now that the initiative to investigate voter fraud is a setup. Once they splash the inevitable hyped up scary scenario across DumFux News and Breitbart, and it bounces around in the echo chamber for a while - even though it'll be practically nothing but unsupported assertions and rumors the states will have all the "justification" they need - cuz hey, it's coming from the FBI so it's gotta be official - and the Voter Suppression efforts will balloon.
And those new restrictions will include (buried in the amendments language) the legal structure to wipe those 3 million Hillary voters off the rolls.
Now, those last coupla paragraphs are almost pure speculation. Obviously, I think there's a better than even chance I'm right about what's coming (or what they intend to try), but that's not evidence. So grains of salt, even when you're here reading your favorite blogger's outstandingly noble and awesomely righteous bullshit.
He Gets It Wrong
...again.
WaPo:
But 45* just goes right along pimping the Jenny McCarthy-style anti-vaxxer bullshit.
Here it is, putz: "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" is a Logical Fallacy.
In terms even 45* can understand: A legless dog won't come when you call him, but that don't mean he's deaf.
So yeah - 45* is that guy.
WaPo:
In a meeting with educators, Trump asked the principal of a center that serves students with disabilities about the prevalence of autism. The principal, Jane Quenneville, spoke about the increasing number of students with autism at the Kilmer Center, a Fairfax County public school. But Trump then claimed that there was a “tremendous amount of increase” in autism in general — “really a horrible thing to watch.”
This exchange is especially noteworthy, because Trump wants to create a vaccine safety commission that could roll back vaccine laws based on the widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Since as early as 2012, Trump has falsely claimed there is a vaccine-autism link. On the presidential campaign trail, Trump again cited the junk science to explain the reason he believes so many children are diagnosed with autism.
So, is autism on the rise?-and-
The rate in the 2016 report was the same as it was in 2014 — and the definition for autism was broadened in 2013.The parameters for autism were changed in 2013, so that more kids who need help would get help. Way more important is that the Rate of Incidence didn't change for the three years after they re-jigered those parameters.
But 45* just goes right along pimping the Jenny McCarthy-style anti-vaxxer bullshit.
Here it is, putz: "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" is a Logical Fallacy.
In terms even 45* can understand: A legless dog won't come when you call him, but that don't mean he's deaf.
So yeah - 45* is that guy.
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