The Evening Blues - 10-27-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 3:50pm
Operation Underworld
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 2:55pmOn the night of July 9, 1943, the first of 160,000 allied troops began landing on the southwest beaches of Sicily. After nearly a full week of fighting that yielded the city of Syracuse and not much more, General George S. Patton was given the task of advancing towards the city of Palermo.
Clinton kept campaign staff in the dark about email scandal
Submitted by MsGrin on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 2:16pmI know, what a shocker, amirite?
Clinton spokesperson Robby Mook to John Podesta on Clinton emails: "[we] were told everything was taken care of" https://t.co/8qr2PoOIAv pic.twitter.com/3lBtrUOZU0
Anti-ADF rant at the NY Times
Submitted by Robyn on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 1:48pmAlexandra Brodsky takes the Alliance Defending Freedom to task in an editorial in the NY Times: Don't Use Girls as Props to Fight Trans Rights. Brodsky is a Skadden fellow at the National Women's Law Center.
Who lost Russia?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 1:20pm"The Russian people are not ready for democracy."
- Putin's chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin
Wikileaks Releases "Rosetta Stone" Of Clinton Foundation Corruption Story
Submitted by bobswern on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 1:50amAs many will note upon reading the ledes in Thursday's Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and elsewhere throughout Thursday's media cycle about the latest Wikileaks' email dump--specifically: a 2011 memo from President Clinton's right-hand-man-turned-"public-relations"-mogul Doug Band--it is now crystal clear that it was, indeed, as many have speculated for the last couple of years, Band who provided much of the ethically bereft (outright forbidden--by none o
The Struggle for Reality
Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 12:00am
"Ever eat a rock? Many parts of a rock are edible." Euell Gibbons
This is going to be deep. Because deep times require deep thoughts. D e e p T h o u g h t s. It is the Age for Deep Thoughts.
Um, let's see. Don't worry, I got this. It'll come together, you'll see.
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The party of Big Business
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 5:52pmWe all know the GOP is the party of Big Business.
This one party has pushed through almost all the largest and most significant deregulation and dereform bills of the last few decades.
Just look at how they bent over backwards for Big Business.
The Evening Blues - 10-26-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 2:41pm
Texas small businesses oppose anti-transgender legislation
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 10/26/2016 - 2:31pmMore than 200 Texas small businesses have signed an open letter asking legislators not to pass a law restricting usage of restrooms by transgender people.
