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June, 2016 archive

Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Caption:  The media finally covered the entire speech by someone that wasn't Donald Trump.  Image:  Hilary Clinton giving her foreign policy speech:  Blah, blah, blah, TRUMP, blah, blah, TRUMP,  blah, blah, TRUMP, blah, blah, TRUMP.

Image via Job’s Anger.

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One More Time, the Internet Is a Public Place . . . 0

. . . and it never forgets.

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Cannon Fodderers 2

Bob Chernow, Milwaukee businessman and veteran, is fed up with the chicken hawks, those politicians and lobbyists willing to send the children of others to die for the sake of short-term domestic political and personal gain (which leads to as good a definition of “unjust war” as I am likely to hear). A snippet:

You might find it strange that I don’t worry about those who avoided service in the Vietnam War. If you had money or connections or some smarts, you avoided the draft. I even find forgiveness for sincere war protesters such as Jane Fonda who took a stand against an unjust war and were taken advantage of by the enemy.

But I do take issue with chicken hawks who dodged the draft or shirked their duty during war but advocated that others fight and perhaps die in war. This lack of character is prominent among many elected officials.

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The Art of the Con 0

Via Raw Story.

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Twits on Twitter 0

101st Fighting Keyboard Battalion twits.

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Ryan’s Derp 0

Image Title:  Trump's Small Hand.  Image:  Paul Ryan as sock-puppet on Trump's right hand, saying,

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QOTD 0

Steve Martin:

I have found that — just as in real life — imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

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And Now for Something Completely Different 0

By Mark Cuban, via Mediaite.

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Truth in Labeling 0

Pam Sohn searches for just the right epithet to describe Donald Trump. A snippet:

Of course, he has made a stab at branding himself as well. He’s claimed to be the anti-establishment, straight-talking, not politically correct, polls-leading (no matter what the polls said) billionaire businessman who’s going to “Make America Great Again.”

Based on his nonstop slurs, that slogan is simply code for Make America White Again.

But when his opponents and media pundits point out that his policies are squishy at best, but mostly nonexistent, the words slide right off of Teflon Don.

Follow the link to see her suggestion.

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A Party of Followers 0

The Republican Party, where winning is the only thing . . . .

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Muhammed Ali 0

I once saw Muhammed Ali.

It was only for a moment and he never knew my name.

At the time, my office was in 30th Street Station Philadelphia. On a break, I was wandering about the waiting room (one of the pleasures of working in 30th Street) and Ali and a small group of persons who cared about him (today they would be called “an entourage”) were waiting for a train. He was already in the early stages of Parkinson’s and you could see some of its effects.

As I read the homages to his passing, I note an absence of acknowledgement of the hate that confronted him.

He was hated in the Jim Crow South, where I grew up.

Once he revealed that he had become a Muslim and had taken the name, “Muhammed Ali,” no one in the Jim Crow South, where I grew up, was willing to refer to him as anything other than “Cassius Clay.” When he fought, in the Jim Crow South, where I grew up, the white folks rooted against him, cheered when he lost, and seethed when he won.

When he did what I consider the bravest act of his career, something I would not have had the courage to do, refusing to fight in America’s war for a lie in Viet Nam, the war for a lie of his and my generation, he was reviled as a traitor in the Jim Crow South, where I grew up.

Muhammed Ali committed the gravest crime that any black man could do in the Jim Crow South, where I grew up, for all that America is better for his being, a crime that took more courage than I can imagine.

Muhammed Ali was uppity.

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Miss Misdirection Play of 2016 0

Reported to Texas Gov. Abbot:

Via The Bob and Chez Show Blog.

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Susie Sampson Samples the Social Sentiment 0

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“Drink Up, Y’Hear” 0

Title:  It's Kool-Aid Time!  Image:  Donald Trump as noxious pitcher of Kool-Aid with Republican bigwigs holding out their cups for a swig.


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Nobody Ever Expects the Spanish Immersion 0

You can’t make this stuff up.

Sadly, you don’t have to.

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QOTD 0

Art Linkletter:

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

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And Now for Something Completely Different 0

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Nor Any Drop To Drink, Reprise 2

Retail beverage bottled water is a con and a scam.

It is one of the pettest of my pet peeves.

Graphic about bottled water: Think before you drink:  the environmental cost of bottled water. 200 billion bottles of water are consumed globally each year. Of them, 176 billion will end up in the water.  200X more expensive than tap water:  it takes three times the volume of water to manufacture the plastic for one bottle than it does to fill it. There are 1500 water bottles consumed per second in the USA.  1n 2011 (peak year) American drank, on the average, 131 bottles of water per person while in Britain, 200 million bottles are consumed per year.   17,000,000 barrels of oil are used per year to manufacture bottled water.  Pumping, processing, transportation, and refrigeration of bottled water is estimated to use around 50 million barrels of oil per year.  10% of all plastic manufactured worldwide ends up in the ocean, never degrading.  1.2 billion people around the world don't have access to clean water, yet we are happy to pay over the odds for branded water.  The corporatisation of water:  Water is being called the "Blue Gold" of the 21st century. . . . Multinational corporations are stepping in to purchase groundwater and distribution rights whenever the can . . . in their drive to commoditise what many feel is a basic human right--the access to safe and affordable water. What can you do? Avoid bottled water. If you are concerned about the taste or quality of your local tap water, install a filtered cold water tap. Buy a reusable bottle. Pick up and recycle plastic bottles. Think before you drink.


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H/T to reader James for the image.

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The Snaring Economy 0

Snared.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

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