The clean energy future is now
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 3:13pmPresident Trump may be trying to silence the clean energy industry, but he's too late because it's already making lots of noise.
In jobs creation:
The Texas they desire
Submitted by Robyn on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 2:43pmI wrote about the US Transgender Survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality in early December.
Turns out there were enough respondents from Texas (nearly 1500) to glean some Texas-specific data.
How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war
Submitted by Alex Ocana on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:40amI love when someone comes up with what to me are ideas I have never thought of or even considered. In this case I have known the effect of horrible (monsterous) architecture in communities and rejected it more than a half century ago in favor of log cabins, homemade adobe structures, and, here in the Caribbean, old style local wood shack design.
Liberty Mourns
Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:21am“You can keep your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse on your teeming shore.
Keep these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to yourselves,
I douse my lamp beside the bolted door.”
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.
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?
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.
