Interesting article at Oprah.com - While reading it I got one of my Big Picture epiphanies. Look beyond the copy discussing parenting pressures and time deficits because it traces the outline of a disease to which our nation is succumbing.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You guys know what this represents? Maybe it’s the calm before the storm.
REPORTER 1: What’s the storm, Mr. President?
REPORTER 2: What does that mean?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Could be, the calm, the calm before the storm.
REPORTER 2: What storm, Mr. President?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have the world’s great military people in this room. I will tell you that. And we’re going to have a great evening. Thank you all for coming. Thank you.”
REPORTER 2: What storm, Mr. President?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You’ll find out.
Nate is heading my way...and it literally is the calm before the storm.
World History this day
1480 -- A standoff on the Ugra river between Akhmat Khan and Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia. ***
1856 -- The Second Opium War between China and assorted western powers began
1912 -- First Balkan War began
1939 -- Germany annexed western Poland.
1967 -- Che Guevara and his men were captured.
Just to fight a some small depressions here and there among you folks, I thought, if it makes me a little interested, so it may be the same for you.
Evaporation Could Offer Renewable Energy
US scientists have identified a new source of renewable energy: evaporation.
Donald Trump - "It's the calm before the storm"
Reporter - "what's that mean?"
Trump - "You'll find out".
Most people here at C99 are aware of Trump's tax plan and how it benefits the rich and their corporations. Below is a video by Sarah Anderson taking apart the bullshit.
Two of those sites kissed her pant-suited dishonest butt before the primary, during the primary, and ever since she lost the election. Hell, since 2008 they've been carrying her water and fawning all over her. Who would've thunk those photos of her in her sunglasses just tippy-tapping away on her Blackberry would eventually come back to haunt her? They were all over both Google and Facebook. Twitter too, but Twitter is bad because Donald Trump rules Twitter.
Protesters filled the streets of Kabul today.
Protesters carried banners in both English and local languages, reading “Yankees go home.”
My, oh my, how things have changed.
Just to give you an idea, here's an example of some headlines from earlier this year.
OK, there's a conspiracy theory I've heard since I was young. Some guy invented a new carburetor that gave cars 300mpg or someone else invented a tesla-based machine that produced free energy and the government suppressed it. Up until now, I've pretty much laughed at these CT's. The few I researched were readily apparent as hoaxes.
The majority of content is about IT; but after 20 years, the political/economic corpus of the site is very large.
