Wednesday Open Thread: Tempus is fugiting, or is it?
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 12/12/2018 - 5:00am
It's Day 346 of the Year 2018 CE
So, December 12, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.

It's Day 346 of the Year 2018 CE
So, December 12, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.
I struggled with how I wanted to title this essay. I couldn't encapsulate in an eloquent manner with what I wanted so I went with what you see before you. With that said, let's move on.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0eSWi958YY]
I thought about posting this in this morning's Open Thread, but I thought it better to post a blog instead, having experienced many things described in this video myself.


The honest man, tho e'er sae poor,
Is king o men for a' that.
my favorite UToob gramma...
France's democracy is under attack by the country that is universally considered the biggest threat to peace on this planet.
The French are concerned about Trump's interference.
[video:https://youtube.com/watch?v=YBQ4rQJ0mkY]
Thank you everyone who helped me with my car and vet emergencies and your words of support.
Why is anyone so upset about drug companies ripping everybody off??? What did people think would happen when we were chained to Big Pharma by Hopey-Changey and his fraudulent ACA? Price fixing was no doubt going on before then but when it was decided that Americans couldn’t order prescription drugs from another country where they are less expensive, this was a natural result. But then again, YMMV.
Investigation of generic ‘cartel’ expands to 300 drugs
Americans may not be aware that the anti-Russia propaganda in the U.K. is at least as bad, if not worse, than it is in the U.S. It now turns out that the propaganda effort is both taxpayer funded, and definitively partisan.

