Malcolm Gladwell, a gifted writer, popularized the idea of "tipping points". This concept is not limited to any one aspect of civil or even military life. It applies to animate and inanimate subjects.
Seems Sarah "half term governor of Alaska" Palin is not too happy with Donald Trump and Mike Pence's deal with Carrier to have Indian cough up $7 million in tax cuts to keep 800 of 1400 manufacturing jobs being shipped off to Mexico.
"James Mattis is a Secretary of Offense." David Swanson
The president of some U.S. citizens, Trump, or whoever else is making the decisions for the president of some U.S. citizens (sorry man, I can't help it) has/have selected retired general James Mattis as Secretary of Defense.
If India's demonetisation policy wasn't troubled enough, today's policy change made it even harder.
I've never been a fan of the Department of Homeland Security.
At its inception just the use of the word "homeland" in the name sent shivers down my spine and brought images of brown shirts to my frontal cortex.
It was supposedly created to assist in making us all feel safe. Except that "all" has apparently always had limits.
Things have never been better for the American worker.
Since his announcement to run for the Republican primary it has been non-stop, the only one who bucked the trend was Bernie Sanders who actually proposed something substantive and different to the usual braying politics, a variation on the American Dream.
Trump is a vile narcissistic liar, I know, I know. He is racist, I know, I know. He is Sexist I Know, I know. He will be a fucking disaster, got it. Now whose mind is it that you are changing, nobodies that's who.
It's been a while since anyone wrote about the need to keep this reservoir of hope and sanity amidst a sea of lies and disinformation alive. Well, what better time than now, to remind us all that caucus99percent and its owner/operator, JtC needs our continued help?
While you were sleeping last night, Rule 41 became law. That was the deadline for Congress to block it from taking effect, but since we now have a FAKE GOVERNMENT®, they did nothing to stop it.
A last minute effort on Wednesday by the Senate failed to block the so-called Rule 41 change, which allows magistrate judges to issue search warrants for a slew of US agencies to remotely access and search computers in any jurisdiction, including abroad.
