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About that NY Dimocratic primary:

Submitted by Nastarana on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 10:25am

As an independent, formerly WFP, I could not vote.

I have more questions than answers.

First, about Nixon, why was everyone in NY progressive circles drooling over a TV actress with no previous experience in public office? Did she ever set foot outside of the NYC metro area? I am not aware that Nixon ever visited upstate.

The Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 09/16/2018 - 6:00am

A Sense of Place

It was the mid seventies when I moved from Alabama to the northern corner of North Carolina near Boone, the highest county seat east of the Mississippi. It was Smiley that triggered the memory. He lives in the high country. I know a song that has the line “the warm winds of memory drifted past him”. In the case of my experience in Mabel NC, it was the cool winds of memory that came to mind when Smiley reminded me of those days... and flooded me with the pleasure of my learning experiences there. Place has a strong effect on us and I hope this essay reminds us all to choose our place(s) carefully.

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Questioning Our Realities

Submitted by GreyWolf on Sat, 09/15/2018 - 2:20pm

There was a post on reddit recently where somebody had taped a segment from The Weather Channel that portrayed a reporter “leaning into the wind” as he reported on the ruthless weather created by hurricane Florence. The reporter’s words conveyed the miles per hour of the gusts, and that there were already two deaths during this hurricane, so viewers should take care to stay alive.

There were actually many odd parts of the broadcast segment though that made the segment especially noteworthy. First, there were two individuals walking in the background behind the reporter who clearly weren’t having any trouble casually walking along the street while checking their smart phones. Also, you could see grass and bushes blowing in what wind there was and the reporter was leaning in the same direction as the wind, and if any vicious gust had occurred he would have been pushed over onto his face. The reporter clearly has never actually leaned into a wind so could not even pretend in a realistic way to coincide with his literal surroundings. The most glaring point of the broadcast was that it was on The Weather Channel, the one channel you might believe has a legitimate interest in factually reporting on the weather.

Gillibrand sets new record for hypocrisy and slips on the ICE

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Fri, 09/14/2018 - 7:39pm

We may not get truth from politicians but we get a surfeit of deceit, deflection and denial. George Orwell had it right when coined the phrase "double speak". In fact no finer example of this can be mined from the open pit cesspool which is Washington, D of C):

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