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January 25, 2022

Did Search. Didn't find. Things missing in my stores (some can fold this in if they know the origina

After about 2+ months while it's not a lot missing
I need these two things!

Drawstring tall kitchen, lawn size garbage bags.

Chilli Powder
(And it's not like there pure chilli bottle that I could mix with the ?garlic, oregano & what ever else bottles)

These are two that stick out, maybe a few minor things that aren't that important since I can't remember them.

January 10, 2022

Political Science Expert Barbara F Walter said in The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast...

“The United States, until January 6th, 2021, was considered the world’s longest standing democracy,” the political scientist Barbara F. Walter says. “It was downgraded to an anocracy after.” http://nyer.cm/OrwYZ9O


(She said Switzerland is now considered the longest running democracy)

I'd never even heard of this word till I heard this podcast earlier on Sunday. It's the in between between Democracy, and Autocracy.

It comes from a CIA (yeah, not always on our "good guys" list) group

"serves on a CIA advisory panel called the Political Instability Task Force that monitors countries around the world and predicts which of them are most at risk of deteriorating into violence.".
Dana Milbank


By law this group can't access the USA.
She's serves on it, and took their predictive analysis models and applied it herself, and seems to agree with them.

She also mentioned in a tweet someone who mentioned Jason Stanley whom Nevilledog highlighted in
his OP post-
America is now in fascism's legal phase - an article in The Guardian

Her current/new book is "How Civil Wars Start"
January 7, 2022

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries talked about the Filbuster and Super Majorities...

He was on WNYC AM/FM Brian Lehrer's show yesterday.

As most of us know/have learned The Filibuster is
-not- mentioned in Our Constitution.

He pointed our what is mentioned - a Super Majority.

There are 4 areas where the SM is put in play.

•The one we know most recently - to convict
a President after Impeachment has been approved.

•To countermand a Presidential Veto.

•To approve a Treaty.

•To evoke the 25fth Amendment.


He said they're still trying work on the filibuster re voting rights.

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About electric_blue68

flaming liberal! :D Possibly progressive in some areas (not sure where the ?line is if there is one) Think FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy. Artist (Fine [drawing, getting back to painting, digital(!) art, artist books (where various book forms are used to make an art piece), assemblage sculpture] & Commercial [graphic, design, traditional pu & m, some illustration] , Crafter (unique wire jewelry, yarn work, occasional other crafts), Photographer. Loves the pursuits above, my city, cities, piblic parks & gardens, the deep countryside (been in the high desert of AZ, and up in The Rockies), nature, music, reading, cultures from around the world, space & earth sciences, science fiction, some history, food [:D].
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