December 11, 2019

Jersey City suspects targeted kosher store where 3 died, officials say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jersey-city-suspects-targeted-kosher-store-where-3-died-motive-n1099606?fbclid=IwAR1N5qsLu8_lYtfASTpreUNVBdOclWAigkRpM2-bzIIWfoeUQdB5DCqqp5A

"According to three sources, Anderson was a one-time follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, whose members believe they are descendants of the ancient Israelites and may adhere to both Christian and Judaic beliefs, and his social media pages include anti-police and anti-Jewish writings. Investigators are looking to see if it was Anderson himself who posted that material."


Oh swell. Now we know this will encourage others.

October 30, 2019

Hey NCAA, thanks for checking in on athlete pay. Now get lost.

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/gators/2019/10/30/hey-ncaa-thanks-for-checking-in-on-athlete-pay-now-get-lost/

The thing to remeber about Athletics is that while there may be a few people that get paid very well, many of them are outright wrecked and wind up broke. This is especialy true considering how many of them come from poor backgrounds where making the coaches and collge presidents happy can make the difference between berign dirt poor in America, and being rich. it also says a lot about our Academics where frankly, many of these places are Football schools that just happen to have Academics as a side venture.

Oh, as far as the articles quip about overpaid coaches:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/the-highest-paid-public-employee-in-every-state/ar-AAehW7S

Notice that the state fottball coaches all make more than the GOVERNORS of their states.

"In the vast majority of states, college football and basketball coaches are the highest-paid public employee. When a millionaire coach is not the leading earner, high-ranking medical officials at state-run hospitals and college presidents are usually the next in line. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the highest-paid public employees in each state."

If we want to bring respect back to Colleges, we need to humble the NCAA. They have tirned our University systerm that exploits students with college debt, and exploits athletes like mules.

July 2, 2019

question, Can trump fire pence?

I do not think that is possible, but seeing Ivanka prance about, is there a way he could run without pence?

June 2, 2019

About Biden's lack of love

Look, I will play my cards on the table: if I had my way, Liz Warren would be the one. Liz was loud and progressive before progressive was cool. Yes, i can mention the ways that i am disappointed that Biden seems to be the head:
Do the ever so coveted "undecided white voters", i.e. the ones that the party seems to want more than the rest, really get to set the pace, despite the fact we know half of them will still vote Trump, even if he promised to sell them to a glue factory?

Do we still get to shush anything to the left of Eisenhower, despite the fact that he knows conservative ideas, even if they are packaged as centrist ideas, do not work?

Do we still get to slam Milennials and Gen X, even though Obama was the youngest in years?

Yes...I feel all of this, and it hurts. It hurts that even when we win, I know that Biden may not listen to us.

However, let me say this...I knwo full well that unless trump is removed from power, this country is DONE FOR. They are already ready to replace Ginsburg, despite this whole "let the election decide" BS they did with Garland. Yes, the centrists do use the lazy "who else you gonna vote fer": stuff, but in this case, Trump has changed the right to the outright fascist.

If Biden wins, yes even if Biden wins, he must get our vote, period.

April 13, 2019

Does a VAT tax have to be regressive?

I have heard Vats called everything from "how we pay for nice things" to "the things that makes it harder for the poor to buy bread." Which is it?, How, and why?

April 10, 2019

Mobile Homes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

it shows how even the poorest people, the rural folks (aka trump voters) are fed on by the rich.

April 1, 2019

well Ma'am

As much as there are women whop do deserve the office (Liz Warren being my clear pick, as she was VOCAL and ACTIVE before many), the last thing we want is to make this a gender test, unless you like the idea of a Palin or Haley or Joni Ernst or any number of truly horrid conservative administrations where the leader would indeed be every bit as much of a woman as you.

March 25, 2019

don't mourn, organize

OK, whether the bomb was a dud, or perhaps because a good republican like Barr made sure to piss on the wick, we did not get the boom we deserved. I say deserved because the second Trump tok stuff from Wikileaks, there was collusion.

However, let us be clear, while he battle is lost, the war is far from over, especially as everyday, trump does something that proves why he is not fit for office. However, we need to energize those who wants to vote against him, but are afraid (or hopeless) we also have to play t the enemies weakness: fear. It will happen no mater how many times the preachers say “but we gotta take this one for jesus”, because thanks to trump’s policies, people are already losing more of their money and safety. It sounds arrogant, and it is arrogant, but Trump will only lose power when he can no longer feed the ego, and that will only happen with pain. Right now, we should be saying he is going to cut social security, medicare, all those things he promised not to do.

I know that history will probably reveal a boil of contagion that makes the worst speculations look cute. I know that the Glenn Greenwald, Ted Ralls and all the rest of Vlad’s fan club will go nyah nyah. But the trith is in our side, hell, time is on our side, especially as the hurricanes blow and the bread lines expand.

Also, to whoever says “dis means we gotta stop talking identity polyytics and talk about da whytworkingcalls” Yeah. you know who you are, thugh the tos will not let me say it. , I say that is the last thing we need to do. We need feet going to the polls, and the only feet we have being to those who are not content to get that ego boost hit from being “white”. If all we do is offer a choice between a fake gop and a real one, we know who the weak people will chose, to paraphrase Truman.

Let us NOT panic...the war is far from lost, and indeed, even if we are the ones left standing, we will stand on truth that has been revealed, which means we get to talk over the bones and ashes of those that clung to the lie with their last breath.

February 24, 2019

Here's the latest Montreal proposal to share the Rays with Tampa Bay

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2019/02/22/heres-the-latest-montreal-proposal-to-share-the-rays-with-tampa-bay/


OK, this is what the Tampa Bay Rays owner is doing because we did not spend tax money tobuild him a shiny new baseball stadium. Now...here is what is sleazy...we would have to share the team with not just another city, but another country, and not just another country, but the one part of canada where the dominant language is French? How the hell is that supposed to build loyalty to the team?

Stadium hungry owners have little idea how much they are disenchanting people from their product. As far as Montreal goes, we all know what happened to les expos. the folks in Quebec are not fans of that most anglo-american sport, baseball.

February 24, 2019

Even if the whole Franken mess could be erased from time

The fact is, she is a hard centrist candidate in an election where even many moderate voters want to at least tilt the balance more to the left, thanks to trump's outright breaking of the balance. It is one thing to promise that once you are in power, that you will start to lean leftward, well, in part thanks to Hillary Losing, in part because Trump has already done decades of damage, people will not buy that tune as easily as they would have in 2016. We will not something stronger to get the taste of trump out of our mouth, especially since we now know that W. was not a fluke:there really ARE a bunch of Americans who are in no way interested in common good, fairness or even their own damned GOP principles. There really re Americans who are working to make sure the 21st century has the slave markets, the witch hunts, the illiteracy, the deadly working conditions and all the old horrors that never should have survived the 18th century.

In other words, when your health goes from being a bad cold to Pneumonia, you need the stronger doses.

PS: If people consider Gillibrand a crusader for women, they better hope they donot run into the fellow that put in and defended VAWA. Joe Biden may have hang ups, but when it comes to women, or goading Obama into finally supporting Gay marriage, or supporting Obama Care, he has done things that are, to use his words, a "BIG f***ing Deal."