The Opus Dei Catholic Information Center’s “members and leaders continue to have an outsize impact on policy and politics. It is the conservative spiritual and intellectual center … and its influence is felt in all of Washington’s corridors of power,” stated the Washington Po
On 01-22-2015, the following message suddenly shone forth into the blogosphere:
Welcome new members.
Submitted by JtC on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 10:10pm
(A Small Sketch)
Carl: Hi Mary, Great to see you! How are you Doing today!
Mary: Actually Carl, I've decided that I'm not going to be talking to you for a while.
Carl: Ok, I don't think it's a good idea for you to quit therapy at this time, but would you mind explaining?
Mary: I don't see why I should listen to somebody who's been lying to me.
Carl: What do you mean?
Framing in the social sciences refers to a set of concepts and theoretical perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies organize, perceive, and communicate about reality.
I've been thinking about doing an essay of all the false Russiagate "bombshells" (over 50 now), but then I figured that eventually someone would do the work for me.
I'll start a thread here to count them (I had started one for a CounterPunch article more than a year ago, but gave up partly because the list just kept growing as I tied to write). So:
James Baker. Whatta guy. He going with the “I was only...” defense. The lying bastid.
A former top FBI lawyer acknowledged he was personally involved in the warrant application to surveil then-Trump campaign aide Carter Page and confirmed other "unusual" steps taken in the FBI’s Russia probe in 2016, during a closed-door congressional interview.
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On February 10th, please join us for a C99 gathering at Pure Spice Chinese restaurant at 1:00 p.m. It is on the NE corner of SE Division and 87th Ave in Portland. The address is 2446 SE 87th Ave., 97216. They have a web site- purespicerestaurant.com
They have a large banquet room. I think we'll be comfortable in a corner of it.
Greetings folks, and welcome to the start of the silly season.
(sub-titled either ‘Greeks bearing gifts to NATO, or ‘Everything you never wanted to learn about the Macedonian name change’ .)
