Send in the Contractors
Submitted by PriceRip on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 4:28pmsung to the tune of Send in the Clowns. I didn't see this until a few minutes ago: Trump Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built.
The Evening Blues - 1-27-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 4:25pm
When Wall Street is your slumlord
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 3:06pmAsk anyone in the real estate or financial industry: we are not in middle of another housing bubble! You can be sure of that!
OK. Sure.
Home prices have exceeded the peak Housing Bubble prices.
On his final day
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 2:28pmOn his last day as president (January 19) Barack Obama issued a memo to the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Service) instructing that agency to allow transgender immigrants to request a change in gender on their official documents.
Judicial Watch Issues Intent to Sue Statement for Damage Assessment of Unoficial/Unsecure Email Use
Submitted by MsGrin on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 2:15pmFull Text of Judicial Watch Press Release:
More Clinton Emails To Be Released
Submitted by MsGrin on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 1:44pmFull text of Judicial Watch press release:
State Department Ordered to Turn Over 30 Clinton Emails for Review by Federal Court Judge
Judicial Watch Argued Withheld Documents on Government Misconduct Should be Released
A century ago we invaded and occupied a nation
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 12:27pm"Bandit" is a very interesting term. It implies that we aren't actually fighting a war against a legitimate military foe, but are instead just hunting a group of outlaws. Thus the rules of war don't apply.
Bandit was the term used by America when it occupied Nicaragua from 1925 to 1933 and failed to quash the Sandino Revolt. But where did the American propaganda machine create that term from?
Ten Years of Democratic Party Betrayal
Submitted by jorogo on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 9:43amWell, yeah, it’s way more than 10 years, but I’ve picked that point, exactly 10 years ago today, January 27, 2007, as a key indicator. That, and it’s a part of my personal history.
The Democrats had just been elected to majorities in both houses of Congress, and half a million activists assembled in Washington D.C. as a reminder that we elected them to de-fund and end the illegal war and occupation of Iraq, and to hold the war criminals in the executive branch accountable.
Rehab or New Construction?
Submitted by Phoebe Loosinhouse on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 9:27amThe burning question of the day remains whether to try to reform the Democratic Party from within or to give up on them as a lost cause and build new from the ground up.
Open Thread - Friday, January 27, 2017
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 3:20am
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
~ James O’Barr ~
Almost forty years ago, I was a rambunctious young man, living life to its fullest, when I met my Sweetie.
