1.04.2019

End-o-Week

Cool Science-y Stuff




Crapitalism

Death ain't cheap I Dug a Green Grave and Learned the Truth About the Dirty Death Industry

Politics

This is about E. Warren's presidential bid but has a great paragraph on the on D's continually bringing a knife to the gun fight. But Her DNA!
 I love Michelle Obama, but her strategy of “When they go low, we go high,” isn’t going to win any elections against modern Republicans.  It didn’t work for then-Senator John Kerry.  He was a decorated war hero running against a guy whose rich daddy got him out of the war.  The Republicans decided to “Swift Boat” him.  He made a calculated decision to ignore the insults.  He lost to George W. Bush, one of America’s worst presidents.  It didn’t work for Obama, who tried to ignore the “birtherism” claims that he wasn’t a “real” American and, then, looked cowed when he finally had to release his birth certificate.   It didn’t work for ANY of the over a dozen candidates who tried to defeat Trump, including “Low Energy Jeb,” and “Lying Ted Cruz.”  So I don’t think Warren could just let it lie. What she did won’t matter to Trump’s racist/sexist base, but, then, nothing would. She’s playing to the rest of the country.
On Warren, She has some good progressive ideas but she doesn't seem to be a great speaker/politician, often comes across as an awkward, east-coast academic which is going to be a hard sell. Still, she may help pull the establishment D's to the left.

Andrew Tobias: All I Know
 Another testified behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee and told me — based on years’ involvement in all this — that the Intelligence Community has the goods on both Trump and Pence, and will somehow make a deal where Trump resigns . . . Pence is briefly president naming some moderate as his VP (Romney?) . . . then Pence goes and (Romney?) names a Democrat as his VP (Biden?) . . . and the world sees stable, experienced, honorable grown-ups back in charge.
The establishment try to take back what they see as theirs?

Energy

Electricity Use Was Up Last Year, But Why?


The country that can not be named?

A Holiday Mystery: Why Did John Roberts Intervene in the Mueller Probe?
Somewhere, a corporation (a bank? a communications firm? an energy company?) owned by a foreign state (Russia? Turkey? Ukraine? United Arab Emirates? Saudi Arabia?) had engaged in transactions that had an impact in the United States and on matters involved in the special counsel’s investigation.
Again, it ain't Russia or the Saudis or it would have already leaked. I suppose it could be Turkey, the Ukraine, or the UAE but they just don't have that much to lose and have enough enemies in the US that it would have been leaked. There is only one country that cannot be named...

Could this be the first crack in the story? Haaretz on 1/3/2019






















Propaganda

Fox is so Full of shit. Scaring the shit out of the old people when one of the first things Pelosi did was bring up Paygo to help hold back Gov spending to hurt the progressive cause.














Bible Thumpers

The Rude Pundit is on it. Shocker: Jerry Falwell, Jr, May Not Be a Good Christian, According to His Own Definition of "Christian"


The US vs Canada

Medicare for all edition - Ralph Nader: 25 Ways Canadian Health Care System Is Better Than Obamacare – OpEd
Number 18:  In Canada, costs are controlled. Canada pays 10 percent of its GDP for its health care system, covering everyone.
In the United States, under Obamacare, costs continue to skyrocket. The U.S. currently pays 17.9 percent of its GDP and still doesn’t cover tens of millions of people.
 
Number 17:  In Canada, it is unheard of for anyone to go bankrupt due to health care costs. In the United States, health-care-driven bankruptcy will continue to plague Americans

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