caucus99percent

I revised my essay "What Admitting My Wife to the Hospital Taught Me About What's Wrong With America" into a longer, and I hope better version of what I wanted to say originally but failed to do. That is all.
Steve

We need to understand what the liberals already know but are unwilling to admit publicly; liberalism is in a deep crisis. The liberal wing of the ruling class has caught itself on the horns of a dilemma.

On the one hand, the Liberals serve the interests of capitalism, in that sense the shift from Keynesian Liberalism to Neoliberalism comes about due to the economic crisis following the demise of Keynesianism due to stagflation in the 1970s.

I met up with a good friend of mine this past weekend at a local dive bar. As the liquor loosened his tongue, he took a moment to complain about the wealthy elites he works for. Or as he put it, "those rich f*cks".

Restrictions on free speech are all the craze now in Western Democracies (Demockrazies?). In the US, we’ve got the various “protect the people from fake news” initiatives. Of course, the self-appointed and designated “protectors” are Corporate and Government entities, mixed with billionaires who think they are as good and wise as Buddha, Solomon, and all the Saints. (Said blessing comes with one’s first billion dollars, apparently.)

• The Belle Fourche pipeline spill into the Little Missouri River in North Dakota is not yet contained. The drone footage below (4:30 mins) shows miles of pollution.

With only 33 days left until the inauguration of the new administration, Loretta Lynch sat down at the Stonewall Inn in New York with Buzzfeed reporter Dominic Holden to talk about transgender activism.

May 9 Lynch launched her lawsuit against the state of North Carolina over Hate Bill 2 with these words:

Let me also speak directly to the transgender community itself.

We see you. We stand with you, and we will do everything we can to protect you going forward.

The CEO-elect Trump has released his tax reform plan that will “reduce taxes across-the-board, especially for working and middle-income Americans”.
There's just one little problem.

The BBC is reporting "rebels" Nusar aka al-Qaeda are now burning evacuation buses.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38358177

Breaking news at 14:50 CET:

The convoy was travelling to http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38358177

Breaking news at 14:50 CET:

Beyond all the bullshit about the election hacking, the plutarchy's duopoly and whatever else the Ministry of Truth tells people to talk about on a daily basis, the New American Century continues. Seemingly lost in all the talk about Trump and Clinton, as usual, is the fact that Serfs will be Serfs, Rulers will be Rulers and the Empire will march on.

Clara, my wife of 30 years, was hospitalized Wed. night. My son and I took her to hospital ER at 11 pm, after she was found coughing up blood and had a blood sugar level over 900, an extremely high and potentially fatal condition.

Talk about tag team pissing off the Chinese

The Chinese military is negotiating with US counterparts over the “appropriate handling” of an unmanned American submarine seized by the Chinese navy, officials have confirmed.

The Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit rejected an appeal by the Highland School District (Ohio) of a lower court's order that the district allow an eleven-year-old transgender girl use the bathroom appropriate for her gender identity.

-- and now that Bernie Sanders has written his memoir, we have Ryan Cooper over at TheWeek.com explaining "Why America needs a socialist movement." It's a short piece which won't take long to read. Cooper's thesis is simple:

Have you noticed how the US government has dealt with whistle-blowers?

Have you noticed the reasons given? They do have one thing in common.

The outrage is not over creative lies and misinformation.

It is for exposing the reality and truth.

Note: following DallasDoc's example, I thought I'd publish this here before doing so at Dailykos, which was my original intention. Yes, I published an earlier version of this argument here back in October.

Are we talking about acts of war?

Should America launch retaliatory measures?

(Head shaking…)

Enough of all this hysterical arm-waving, warmongers. In what may be a completely futile effort (given the current makeup of the Dailykos community), I want to offer a voice of Sanity and Reason to counter all of the jingoistic rhetoric we’ve been hearing lately.

For the sake of argument, let’s just go ahead and assume the worst-case-scenario that the warmongers are advancing---that Russian government employees did the hacking at Putin’s direction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt at his first inaugural address encouraged Americans to stand up to that “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
It may have taken a few more generations, but America finally lost the war against that “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror".

While Americans spend their days navel-gazing and checking under their beds for KGB agents, the Battle for Mosul has not gone well.

I've got to admit that I have mixed feelings about today's of news. As a child National Geographic magazine covers were the items in the library upon which certain of my peers could unleash their prurient interest...hoping to see the occasional bare breast of the savage woman of color dressed in her tribal garb.

I was waiting for and it has now been done, it is about HER.

Hint: Not the Russians.

There are a variety of similar posts, over at JPR. One of them has this in the comments:

16. In the interview with Hannity and Assange:

December 15, 2016:

Russia planted an number of agents within the CIA, they were to be activated once Hillary Clinton won a Democratic primary.

They were then to fool Democrats into giving them access to secret Party files from Russia where they were to be located as part of standard CIA Ops.

They were to store the information until she was elected and use this to ensure good oil prices for Russia so that the economy was always sound and Putin could remain in power for ever.

Rule of law? Yeah, right. Feds Admit They Withheld Key Documents from Standing Rock Sioux.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers purposefully withheld key studies that could have helped the tribe evaluate the risks [of the DAPL]. One report modeled damage from potential spills; another weighed the likelihood of spills; a third compared alternative routes and discussed the environmental justice concerns raised by the project. The revelation highlights the federal government’s perception of its limited responsibility to consult with tribes even on matters that could threaten its welfare.

What will you tell the "Democrats"?

The churches gathered together by the so-called Alliance Defending Freedom to challenge the state's transgender legal protections are withdrawing their legal challenge.

A couple months before the election, President Obama finally had something to brag about - median income had risen above the level they were at when he took office. He went on the campaign circuit for Hillary to tout those numbers.

There is absolutely no point at this time talking to Democrats or Republicans they are both off in the playground pulling each others pigtails.

The lawyers are celebrating the festive season early because there are so many threats of litigation that their careers are ensured for the foreseeable future.

Tin foil sales have gone through the roof and not because tin foil makes good stars to top off the Christmas Tree.

You can't fool George Will. Scientists are just progressives who are looking to consolidate power in Washington.