Yes, folks, think of our forebears in days gone by. Think of War Hero, U.S. Grant who turned the tide and won the Civil War. Think of Professional Politician Warren Harding and his fondness for tea-pots. What did they have in common besides being Republican Presidents? For different reasons, each of them had administrations riddled with corruption.
Note: this started out as a self-directed satire, but as it fleshed out, I saw something quite odd. I'm hoping you do as well. All private citizen names have been altered, and the party affiliations reversed except where appropriate.
Dozens of Democratic delegates launch new push to halt Hillary Clinton
What Hillary Clinton is doing on the campaign trail
This post marks a return to one of my favorite themes - that just about anything can be the subject of an interesting photograph.
This weeks assignment is: Boring (yup you read that right).
More money! More money!
[T]he department’s total budget (increased) to more than $10.7 billion. That will make it the fourth highest budget in the state after K-12 education, health and human services and higher education.
California's prison house more than 100,000 people. The population has gotten so large more than 4,000 are housed out of state in Mississippi and Arizona.
Of course you are aware that around the country there are legislative efforts to force transgender people to use the bathroom and locker rooms reserved for the sex we were assigned at birth. In some places, it is phrased rather as requiring those facilities to be segregated by chromosomes.
Awkward, that. As a society, we have never determined assignment of sex at birth by a test of chromosomes. I'm 68 years old and, as far as I know, I have never had my chromosomes tested. Ever.
I find it stranger still that the forces calling for this anti-transgender discrimination have such little regard for science in general. These are people who believe the universe was created between 6000 and 7000 years ago, that a woman was created from the rib of a man, and that Jesus rode to Sunday School on the back of a dinosaur.
It seems like every time there's a mass shooting or similar tragedy, there's always some asshole with a youtube channel and Windows Movie Maker ready to trivialize it by screaming about how it was a hoax. You can find all sorts of videos like this on virtually every subject, but in the last few years, it's gotten particularly bad from Sandy Hook onward. It's gotten so bad that these folks don't even try to sound reasonable anymore.
I am appalled how Ms Wasserman Shultz has been treated by the Democratic Party, how can someone so loyal to the Party now be pilloried for doing exactly what she was selected to do? If anyone in this campaign has borne the brunt for the failure of the Democratic Party to convince it is her, the primaries were organized to ensure that the Party program would progress as foreseen.
This from a CounterPunch article dated July 7, 2011, by Margaret Kimberly:
