Just read it.
Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
American foreign policy is at a crossroads. One path for the US is global cooperation. The other is a burst of militarism in response to frustrated ambitions. The future of the US, and of the world, hangs on this choice.
The Department of Justice Inspector General will review broad allegations of misconduct involving the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email practices and the bureau’s controversial decision shortly before the election to announce the probe had resumed, the Inspector General announced Thursday.
Tagteam Maddow & van Susteren - when suckup news anchors go drinking together, seems they can forget entirely what nonsense they've spun for a decade.
Is this the best we can do? The Fourth Estate seems to be a private club for the nouveau riche trading glib anecdotes and fanmails, not a hard-hitting guild of journalists.
...At the press conference, Trump doubled down on this as well, explaining that "President Putin and Russia put out a statement today that this fake news was indeed fake news. They said it totally never happened." Not to be disrespectful to the President-elect, but to take such a defense seriously, one has to be a moron...
An MI6 spook who compiled a dirty dossier on Donald Trump has fled his home after his identity was revealed online.Former British spy Christopher Steele is understood to have left for an unknown location over fears of a backlash from Moscow. Sources reportedly say the 52-year-old is “terrified for his safety”.
Senior British security sources revealed emergency measures were being taken to make the MI6 veteran safe.
This is the CNN article, which begins:
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.
Hmmm. But as the Atlantic piece points out:
That doesn’t mean the claim that Russian agents possessed the information was necessarily true. The origin of the claim, in fact, is decidedly partisan. A major source for the report delivered to Trump was a set of memos prepared by a former British intelligence operative, who gathered the information while working as an opposition researcher for both anti-Trump Republicans and later for Democrats.
What to think, Daggers, what to think ...
Remember all this model of integrity jive.
Will be a long 4 years.
An interesting thought piece on the ideological left - pragmatic center debate (aka Jonathan Chait and the Failure of "Grown Up" Liberalism)
Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound to have political consequences. We show that politicians on the right look more beautiful in Europe, the United States and Australia. Our explanation is that beautiful people earn more, which makes them less inclined to support redistribution. Our model of within-party competition predicts that voters use beauty as a cue for conservatism when they do not know much about candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and experimental elections confirms both predictions.
Well, besides his little penis, need to sponsor pageants to see nekkid girls, and anything that reveals he really isn't very rich and is up to his tiny member in debt.
Got the chance to help write the Democratic platform, then disappeared through the fall to play with himself.
Yeah, I agreed with some of his points about poverty and black lives, but he never ever figured out how to be part of the solution, ever the complainer.
And no, Hillary wasn't Obama no matter how much she had to cling to his lapels politically. Would have been nice if he'd given her as much chance as he'll give The Donald.
Sanders "crushed by Clinton and Obama in the unfair Democratic party primaries" - wow, if all black leaders were as whiny and hypersensitized to such "unfairness", African-Americans would be lying in fetal position in corners everywhere.
Get used to unfairness, Cornel - you've helped bring on a shitstorm of it for the next 4 years. Undoubtedly you won't learn from it either.
No, Cornel, you "warriors" didn't "go down swinging" - you disappeared like babies and ignored the much bigger threat in your all-things-equal view of the world. No, "neo-liberal" isn't the same as "neo-fascist", much as you like to slander with the former and empower the latter.
But guess you'll have work playing the martyr while others get bullied and go hungry. Go get 'em, tiger.
At what point does citizen entrapment and attempted defamation of character become illegal?
What's the matter with Kansas? A family are inconsolable after a wildlife warden came onto their land and shot their pet deer five times. A warden, flanked by two colleagues, entered the Mcgaugheys’ Kansas farm and killed the deer.....10 minutes after handing them a warning notice stating the animal was an illegal pet..
It was about his only focus for a month. Now he says it didn't matter. Big mouth little dick asshole.
Confusing, needed reforms mixed with hardline confrontation abroad. Still early days though. Which way forward?
So, make Islam itself the enemy, and suddenly thise Orthodox dudes look pretty good...
No wonder Liberty U signed off.
When George looked in Putin's eyes and saw his Christian soul. And Trump's a pussy hound, so we know he's good (no burqas, only Dior).
Damascus is this century's gates of Vienna. Only I can't figure out this alliance with Turkey and Syria - doesn't that make Putin Friends of the Devil? Oh well, won't get no sleep tonight.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Donald Trump win the presidential election, a US intelligence report says. The declassified report says the Russian leader "ordered" a campaign aimed at influencing the election.