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What would Joseph say? And what did Jesus think about Joseph?

Oh you folks, all this talk about imperialism, Bernie Sanders being too much of an imperialist according to Big Al. Big Al being a whimp according to Orlbucfan and Ta-Nehisi Coates too much of a white supremacy fetishizer according to Dr. Cornel West and a neoliberal apologist according to Meteor Man and Dr.

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish JtC and all the Moderators

a very Merry Christmas, Kwanza, and for thosethat simply celebrate the spirit of the season, Happy Holidays. May the coming year be one of the best for you and yours.

Thank you for all you do to keep this place up and running. Herding true Progressives seems to me to be comparable to herding cats, and you ALL do a fantastic job. And I think it’s a safe bet that everyone here feels the same way.

'There's a war coming,' Marine Corps general warns US troops

Well isn’t this just all kinds of “peace on Earth and good will towards man” kinda crap?

'There's a war coming,' Marine Corps general warns US troops

A Marine Corps commandant on Thursday warned U.S. troops stationed in Norway to be prepared for a coming war.

“I hope I’m wrong, but there’s a war coming,” Gen. Robert Neller told them. “You’re in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight, by your presence.”.

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Year in review as seen by Jim Kunstler

2017 was the kind of year when no amount of showers could wash off the feeling of existential yeccchhhhh that crept over you day after day like jungle rot. You needed to go through the carwash without your car… or maybe an acid bath would get the stink off. Cinematically, if 2016 was like The Eggplant That Ate Chicago, then 2017 was more like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, a gruesome glimpse into the twisted soul of America.

Cenk Uyghur fired from Justice Democrats (edited to add link)

Following the ignominious road now plodded by Rachel Madcow, though for a much different reason, Cenk Uyghur gets first that he and Kyle Kulinsky began earlier this year: the so-called Justice Democrats. Well, I have to admit that the JDs lived up to their name by delivering justice to a horrible hypocritical misogynist, Armenian genocide denier, Cenk Uyghur (CU--as in see you later...alligator).

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