I call bullsh*t
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 5:16pm I call bullshit on this poll and a few others which I will get to.
I call bullshit on this poll and a few others which I will get to.
The teacher strikes are over for now. More teacher strikes will happen in the fall (L.A. being one of those). But that doesn't mean that the teachers are satisfied with their modest gains. They are still organizing and taking action.
I've been pondering a strange and persistent neuron sparking in this vast darkness I wander through-namely, could this guy Actually BE Crazy Like a Fox? Could this Lord of Chaos schitck be The distraction to accomplish a Potentally(?) Greater Good?? We'll come back to this.
I’m still laughing. Bezos is a fraud. His ‘products’ are flawed and buggy. He’s a manipulative opportunist who’s got too much power and too much influence on this country. He’s Bill Gates on steroids.
Amazon’s facial recognition matched 28 members of Congress to criminal mugshots
(Playwright)
Sing to me, Oh Muses ephemeral!
Sing to me of heroes and mighty gods!
Sing a tale of Troy, for the war that I fought
is not to be spoken of. Forgotten.
So let my dreams and fears be reflected
within the fireside tales of Troy that was.
Of Men and Gods who strode the world and
their story echoed through all of time.
Good Morning. The Thursday Open Thread has been though a complete annual cycle under my voice. It is time for new thoughts and new directions. Next week Magiamma will start as caretaker of Thursday mornings.
Former CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced an angry Senate panel led by "NeverTrump Bob" Corker (R-TN) and "Sleazy Bob" Menendez (D-NJ) today and gave less than satisfactory answers (according to The Two Bobs) about Trump's private meeting with Evil Undemocratic Dictator Vladimir Putin (77% re-election win in 2018). Comments by The Two Bobs are best characterized as "Wah!! You're a big mean poopy-pants!!"
Big headline yesterday concerned the further the decimation of print news, "Tronc Fires Half the Staff of the New York Daily News in Latest Attack on Local Journalism." Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now said,