For the fun of it ...
Submitted by mimi on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 4:39amSt. Johns County Sheriff's Office
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Are Starvation Sanctions Worse Than Overt Warfare?
Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 12:28am“Almost 10 years of extraordinary isolation imposed by the UN and enforced by America and Britain have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.”
Trey Gowdy: Tulsi would be strongest Democrat versus Trump
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 12:27amOnce I was a Berniecrat--but then I grew up. People get divorced after 40 years of marriage. Why? Things change, even imperceptibly until the end of decades before the realization hits. "It just ain't so, no more"--that's a sad song, we all have sung. But some need to keep on singing, while others find alternative things to do with their time--such as other interests, often divergent from long-held earlier views.
The Interior of a Poppy
Submitted by janis b on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 12:02am
I think I discovered why the first people who looked inside this flower imagined it might possess mind-altering qualities.
The Evening Blues - 6-25-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 2:45pm
Trump: ‘We Don’t Need Any More Wars’
Submitted by Linda Wood on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 1:31pmI hope this article at Antiwar, about an article at the Wall Street Journal, emphasizes the divide between our military and the warmongers in the administration.
https://news.antiwar.com/2019/06/24/trump-rejected-attacking-iran-we-don...
Trump Rejected Attacking Iran: ‘We Don’t Need Any More Wars’
Lesser Evilism vs Addressing Reality
Submitted by CharredPC on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 1:17pmIn the Democratic party today, there are two schools of political thought. One says that their opponent to defeat is the "Republican menace"- which means any policy perceived as slightly better than said Republicans is fair game.
Tuesday Open Thread ~ Catch of the Day
Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 2:37am
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
~ Anais Nin
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Good Morning!
Welcome to Tuesday's Open Thread! A BIG thanks to QMS for stepping in last Tuesday. I was buried in work and wrapped up in taking care of a sick kitty. After a nine day work stint and many vet visits later, I’m happy to say, kitty is on the mend and I finally got some rest. Whew! So, with out further ado, let’s get to the food!
Executive order on improving price and quality transparency in healthcare
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 12:30amToday, President Trump did something long overdue to aid users of healthcare and their families. This executive order (EO), still does not provide for more people to become insured, without further marketplace changes, which are not encompassed in this EO. And the EO will not accomplish everything needing to be rectified by our vastly flawed health care system.
For. The. Love. Of. Christ.
Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 6:14pmLook, people, words mean things, and, Humpty Dumpty notwithstanding, they mainly mean what they are understood to mean by the people who create and employ them. Wittgenstein also notwithstanding, we mostly don't have trouble agreeing about most of the things that fall into most of the categories we choose to assign to the phenomena we observe.
