March 9, 2019

Katie Hill (CA-25) is the real star of the 2018 class

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/22/millennial-candidate-midterms-katie-hill-25th-district

She won against a GOP incumbent - unlike some of her cohorts who had easy wins.

March 5, 2019

'QAnon' book claiming Democrats eat children is climbing the Amazon charts

Source: Marketwatch

The book, which says it was written by a dozen “anonymous Q followers, decoders and citizen journalists known collectively as Where We Go One We Go All (WWG1WGA),” claims that Democrats murder and eat children and that the government created AIDS, polio and Lyme disease. Then there’s the belief that the world is run by a Satanic cabal led by Hillary Clinton.

There’s more. So much more. But we’ll leave it there.

QAnon emerged from the dark corners of the internet and into the national spotlight thanks primarily to supporters of Donald Trump who would show up at his rallies wearing clothes and holding signs referencing the “Q” conspiracy.

Mike Rothschild, a conspiracy-theory expert, told NBC that the book is just another way for the QAnon movement to cash in on its gullible followers, calling it “a bold new step in the endless grift at the heart of Q.”

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/qanon-book-claiming-democrats-eat-children-is-climbing-the-amazon-charts-2019-03-05

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What do you do when the other side is insane?

March 5, 2019

Beto O'Rourke will win my vote for this one sentence on capitalism and climate change

I'm a capitalist," O'Rourke replied. "I don't see how we're able to meet any of the fundamental challenges that we have as a country without, in part, harnessing the power of the market.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/beto-orourke-differentiates-himself-from-democratic-socialists-11550619044

This is perfect and straight-forward. The most important issue of our time won't be confronted until individuals vote for clean energy with their pocketbooks - not their tax dollars.

Already, this "Green New Deal" is viewed as a Trojan Horse for new entitlement programs.

Climate change solutions must be market driven.

March 4, 2019

60 Minutes covering Juliana vs United States (students suing the US over climate change damage)

worth a look

February 27, 2019

Congressman Roy wins most sanctimonious prick of the day award

what a load of shit.

Cancer, border, etc speech

February 27, 2019

Virginia Foxx is still in Congress? She is proof that gerrymandering protects the worst

candidates.

See also Steve King

February 25, 2019

"Cinema Paradiso' fans - do you prefer the released 2 hour version or the original long version?

Talk about an alternate ending. Nearly an hour was lopped off of the original.

February 25, 2019

Is there a more evil villain than the character 'Cheney' in 2018's 'Vice'?

I thought it was fiction until I remembered Cheney is based on actual history.

February 17, 2019

The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-16/churchill-was-more-villain-than-hero-in-britain-s-colonies?srnd=premium

What Churchill was above all, though, was a committed imperialist -- one determined to preserve the British Empire not just by defeating the Nazis but much else besides. At the start of his career, as a young cavalry officer on the northwest frontier of India, he declared the Pashtuns needed to recognize “the superiority of [the British] race” and that those who resisted would “be killed without quarter.” He wrote happily about how he and his comrades “systematically, village by village, destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation. Every tribesman caught was speared or cut down at once.”

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And his principal victims were the Indians -- “a beastly people with a beastly religion,” as he charmingly called us, a “foul race.” Churchill was an appalling racialist, one who could not bring himself to see any people of color as entitled to the same rights as himself. (He “did not admit,” for instance, “that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia … by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, has come in and taken its place.”) He fantasized luridly of having Mahatma Gandhi tied to the ground and trampled upon by elephants.

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It’s important to remember that these weren’t enemies in a war -- Churchill also wanted to “drench the cities of the Ruhr” in poison gas and said of the Japanese, “we shall wipe them out, every one of them, men, women and children” -- but British subjects. Nor can his views be excused as being reflective of their times; his own Secretary of State for War, Leo Amery, confessed that he could see very little difference between Churchill’s attitude and Hitler’s.

History is filled with complexity.

February 16, 2019

eatZis is a wonderful food market but they didn't make it in my hometown

https://eatzis.com/locations/

of Atlanta.

I miss them so much.

Dallas has the remaining locations.

Anyone been to one?