Sunday Morning Comin' Down

Being a Dick

California Town OKs Destruction Of Police Shooting Records Days Before They Could Be Obtained By The Public - We need to get a handle on law enforcement in this country.

Maine governor deems congressional election 'stolen' while certifying result - He should be impeached for this.

Economics

Ohio Minimum Wage will Increase to $8.55 on January 1 - It would be interesting to see how this affects employment in minimum wage jobs in eastern Indiana.


Propaganda

Fear Not

“Fear sells. Fear makes money. The countless companies and consultants in the business of protecting the fearful from whatever they may fear know it only too well. The more fear, the better the sales.” That short summary from The Science of Fear, by Dan Gardner, is perfect."

Add, "fear can get you candidate elected" and you have the Fox News Mission statement.

He doesn't follow the rules because he's smart - The Cult.

"He employs undocumented workers and foreign workers on visas at all of his properties. I suspect if anyone ever really =grilled him on that he'd says it's because he's a very stable genius who hires the cheapest labor he can --- and that his followers would all nod their heads and agree that makes good sense.

And then they'd all chant "build that wall" and cheer the horror of little children being held in cages as a good "deterrent." "

Robber Barons

As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions - The private equity guys made millions and left the pension for the workers short by millions.


Science

This..  Report: Scientists in China Are Losing Track of Gene-Edited CRISPR Patients seems to just be a summary of this..  Chinese Gene-Editing Experiment Loses Track of Patients, Alarming Technology’s Inventors

also this.. Chinese Scientist Who Claimed to Make Genetically Edited Babies Is Kept Under Guard

A couple of articles on China's Gene-editing in US media is the last couple of days? Someone wants something.


Politics

McCaskill's comment on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, "I'm a little confused why she's the thing" explains a lot about the decline of the Ds.  She's a thing because

1. She's saying things that put people over the donors.
2. She's taking on the R's in a way the D's have never done. 

The D's have been using knives in a political gun-fight for the last 30-40 years, it's time for a change. We need about 200 more like her.


Israel vs Palestine

Israel 295 - Palestinians 14 - Israeli occupation forces and settlers have killed 295 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in 2018 while 14 Israelis were killed by Palestinians during the same period.

Update: Debka reports 16 Israelis killed in 2018.

"The IDF annual report notes that 16 Israelis died in terrorist attacks – 9 civilians and 7 members of the security services, and 199 were injured. Debka"

SHIN BET ARRESTS THREE IN WEST BANK IN JEWISH TERROR CASE

"An alleged Jewish terror cell was arrested by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police in the West Bank Sunday.

Further details of the allegations are under gag order pending developments in the ongoing questioning of the suspects, but there were disparate reports about whether two or three suspects had been apprehended and what exactly the allegations were"

I'm sure there will be a gag-order the next time a Palestinian terror cell is arrested.