Open Thread for July 11, 2016, Happy World Population Day (International)
July 11 is the 192th day of the year. There are 173 days left.
Today is 7-11, meaningful in both craps and retail
11 and its multiples generate fun fractions (more later)
This article is not about elections, politics, parties, economics, or the future, except that it is about all of these things and how they are not what most of us were taught that they are.
So I've been watching Big Think for a while now. I find it a nice break from the highly skewed, controlled product that TED has become and came across this:
[video:https://youtu.be/mAOyOULWKUo]
There are all kinds of reason Bernie has earned my admiration and respect, but leaving that aside for now I would like to say that while I think it is still incredibly unlikely, there is also still a chance.
Two weeks is a long time in election politics.
in love.
She is BRILLIANT!
This short video is from an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast from over a year ago, I was catching up on some episodes I missed that sounded interesting and she was talking about all shit that is wrong with Clinton way before anyone else in the media was.
I don't know her, I don't know her politics, but I do know she frigging nailed it in this segment.
My recent absence from c99 is due to emotional overload due to the ongoing filth of the HRC steamroller. It has taken several days of abstention from the media to allow me once again ability to resume communication on matters political.
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a song may be worth 1,000,000 words. Music is the universal language. It can convey more emotion than words and pictures combined.
Malloy is governor of Connecticut:
Under Malloy’s watch, one of the largest health insurance mergers in United States history—a $48 billion deal—could potentially increase premiums and reduce health care coverage for 53 million people across the country.
I was meaning to cross post this for a while from TOP but I was putting it off to avoid even having to log in but now seemed like an appropriate time.
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Read this on social media:
These people SO need to jump the gun, that they can't wait a few days to have the nomination be official! What nerve!
I'll cut to the chase that the amendment was withdrawn, thankfully.
With the latest two recent shootings of unarmed black men I’m seeing a call for swift discipline of the officers involved, and improved training for new recruits (aka, A Good Start). I’m also seeing these trigger happy cops labeled as sociopaths. While they may or may not be psychopaths, I’m certain they have superiors who are in fact narcissists and sociopaths, and this is where the real problem lies not just in law enforcement, but in politics and organizing writ large and small.
This is an age old problem and I'm not aware of anyone who has given the problem of police violence more thought than Norm Stamper. Here is a Nation article that summarizes the problem very well from the perspective of a Police Chief: http://www.nationinstitute.org/blog/nationbooks/2492/still_breaking_rank...
