Lest we forget. Fellow Swampers and those remaining dry, it was just a few cycles around the sun, that your faithful alligator, along with many others, were faced with a nightmare scenario: Medusa, aka Hildebeast, aka Her, aka Sociopath par excellance, competing for control of Amerikan Corporacy with Herr Drumpf. Lesser of two evils. Oy veh! What a choice: will you take hemlock or arsenic, Socrates?

Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, and the rest of the government has fled the capital of Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil.

“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.” ~ Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines

Markos' web site really, really, really hates Tulsi Gabbard.

This isn't the first time that the GOS endorsed a primary challenge to Gabbard.

What's the best word to describe the War in Afghanistan?
Pointless? Destructive? Wasteful? Criminal?

When it comes to Afghanistan, one headline sums it up better than all the others.

Really, consider this an open thread on Ukraine-gate; bring what you find, as I'm just posting this for the abject hilarity of it, and have tons of chores to do...if I choose to do them. ; ) Joseph Kishore's kindly given me to steal borrow what I'd like from their site, so I'll past in the top half of his essay.

From Patrick Martin, 7 October 2019, wsws.org: US impeachment campaign escalates with claim of second whistleblower

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/07/president-trump-explains...

President Trump Explains Extracting the U.S. From Syria…
Posted on October 7, 2019 by sundance

In a series of tweets today, President Trump explains the U.S. position toward the current quagmire in Northern Syria:

There's an excellent new essay by Nathan Robinson in Current Affairs entitled Why Bernie Has to Win

September 30 is day 280 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 61, 3185 (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.16.1 by the Mayan Long Count

The world is more revolutionary today than at any time since 1989.
Did you notice? Probably not, because unlike 1989 it's the tyranny of the U.S.-backed regimes that the people want to overthrow.
A good example was what happened when Nancy Pelosi met some prominent Haitian Americans.