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March 5, 2017

The NOAA budget cuts to the satellite data division

amount to 22% of their total funding, or $513 million. Just in case anyone missed the connection, these satellites provide valuable intelligence data on places like Russia in the course of their normal tasking.

The Department of Commerce, now headed by Wilbur Ross, another long-time trump associate who also has a spider-web of ties to Russia, (prominently, The Bank of Cyprus) is the federal agency in charge of administering the NOAA budget.

This is not just a coincidence.

March 3, 2017

Republicans Don't Think A Free Press Is Important

In a new poll, only 49% of Republicans and people who lean Republican said it was very important for American democracy that "news organizations are free to criticize political leaders."

The poll, which was published Thursday by the Pew Research Center, found that 76% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning respondents said the free press was an important part of maintaining a strong democracy.

See complete poll here:

http://www.ibtimes.com/trumps-war-media-republicans-dont-think-free-press-important-new-poll-says-2501496

March 2, 2017

Let's hope that if Sessions goes, he will

take his wonderfully light-hearted and fun-loving long-time principal aide, Stephen Miller, with him.

February 18, 2017

Something for Everyone

And when you feel afraid
love one another
When you've lost your way
love one another
And when you're all alone
love one another
And when you're far from home
love one another
And when you're down and out
love one another
And when your hope runs out
love one another
And when you need a friend
love one another
And when you're near the end
love
We've got to love
We've got to love one another

February 16, 2017

The Three Card Monte President

A professional grifter just played the whole country with a "so-called" press conference.

If you aspire to be a con-man, watch and learn from the master.

Hustlers all over the world are laughing their asses off in admiration.

February 15, 2017

Yes, we get the same neoliberal policies

that devastated Chile, Argentina, and most of Latin America in the 1970s. Under the direction of Milton Friedman, the "Chicago Boys" (so-called because of their ties to the University of Chicago School of Economics), used South America as the petri dish to launch their first experiment with unregulated free-market capitalism. The resulting tax cuts, privatization of government services, and virtual elimination of the social safety net and public education resulted in massive inflation, rampant poverty, capital flight, despotic government, and the disappearance of thousands, all in robust economies that were led by socialists. The Pinochet coup and Salvador Allende's murder on September 11, 1973 (date ring a bell?) is the most outstanding example of what unrestricted free-market neoliberalism can do. Prominent republicans who have long promoted neoliberal economics under the guise of "free-market capitalism" include Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and Richard Perle. Their activities during the Iraq War furnish some insight into what is happening today. Republican congressional support of these policies are a primary cause of economic devastation in this country.

February 13, 2017

This guy is

in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history.

(thanks to Robin Williams, line from "Good Morning Vietnam."

February 5, 2017

DeVos will have

the schools teaching our children that jesus had a pet dinosaur.

On a similar note, this thing about jerry falwell jr. being appointed to "revamp higher education" is just as frightening.

Within a generation, America will be a theocracy, fighting religious wars with theocracies like Iran. That's what they want.

February 5, 2017

Exactly, and since they're always screaming about how

they don't want anyone to have any "free shit" anymore," if I were to come upon trump and he was bleeding to death because of an auto accident on some lonely road, I think I would just keep my "free" medical skills to myself and move on.

February 5, 2017

The New York Daily News cover

for Wednesday, December 9, 2015, is almost the same picture, with a headline about how no one spoke up when he came for someone else, and finally got to you.

I have the pic but I don't know how to post it here.

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