World History this day
1793 -- Louis XVI of France was guillotined
1925 -- Albania declared itself to be a republic.
1968 -- A B-52 crashed near Thule, contaminated the area with busted nukes and lost one nuke completely
2000 -- President Jamil Mahuad of Ecuador was deposed
2017 -- Over 400 US cities and 160+ countries hold a women's march,
Was just forwarded this via NPR (apologies, I'm loathe to support those Neoliberal hucksters pretending to be journalists).
The death of rocker Tom Petty in October 2017 came as a result of an accidental drug overdose with a toxic mix of drugs taken for several ailments, including a fractured hip.
The results of an autopsy were released Friday by Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner Jonathan Lucas.
One of my favorite politicians of all time is attempting a comeback.
Imagine if you will, the Three Stooges, armed with machine guns, spraying bullets into a packed theater because they saw a bad guy in the crowd.
That's America's foreign policy in Syria.
We've accomplished nothing but getting hundreds of thousands of people killed, while undermining our own standing in the region.
Cross-posted from Real Economics.
In Colorado, an electric utility's request for proposals to build new generating capacity resulted in stunning evidence that renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels--even with storage capacity included for when solar and wind are "down."
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
Good morning good people!
At this writing, it's still up in the air. I won't even guess. Well, I will. I think they'll miraculously come up with an agreement to avoid a shutdown and the serfs will heave a big sigh of relief and express gratitude that their political representatives running this country for them (right?) have done a solid for the U.S. of A.
USA! USA! USA! We're number One!
It's all a charade, a mockery, an act, a masquerade, a farce.
Good evening all.
I’m wondering why we photograph and why we enjoy looking at what others see.
Yes, I know it's Townhall, but that is where this CSPAN clip is that I could find. You can ignore the rest.
Steny bloviates and wants to stay and work, Chair asks do you have a motion? He does. Adjourn.
