I totally admit I am no legal scholar and therefore would be better off avoiding analysis of possible SCOTUS nominees, but I see that rightwing voices are not so adept at such self-knowledge and may need to have their motives questioned.
It says here that PEOTUS (emphasis on the pee) met with one of his short-listers for Scalia's seat on Saturday.
Most of the world thinks that everything ended in Standing Rock when the Army Corps of Engineers denied the permit for the pipeline to be put under Lake Oahe. The Reality is, the fire has been turned down to simmer, but there have been numerous smaller actions since then. The DAPL people, and the cops, have not left...so neither have the water protectors.
I must say that I have lost interest in the DT food fights that are so popular these days. The man won, the Democrats and other left groups keep losing and my meatspace friends are still barking up the wrong tree. But they are all good people deep down, so instead, I have been concentrating on explaining why so many people might have been desperate enough to take a chance on Trump. Most of them seem to get it, and hopefully this will lead to better outcomes going forward.
Diana Tourjee of Broadly interviews my friend Kate.
Kate Bornstein once sailed around the globe as a captain in the sea organization of Scientology Church. She was later exiled and became an underground queer artist, a transsexual icon, and one of the most important gender theorists in the world.
When Mario Savio said in his famous speech in 1964 about putting "your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all," he was talking about what a group of leftists actually did 54 years earlier.
As the smell of burning hair wafts off the Atlantic on the westerly breeze.
Why so much panic?
Why has fake news suddenly become important now when it has been so prevalent for decades?
Well the Trump Precedent:-
Anyone with a big enough ego coupled with a similarly sized wallet [even though he didn't use it] can become president of the good old US of A, the duopoly be damned.
Donald Trump is indeed under the influence of a corrupt and dangerous foreign entity that threatens the people of eastern Europe:
Russia Goldman Sachs.
Yesterday, in a front-paged essay here, I specifically called out a member of this community, MarilynW, to make a point about the fear and anger that is being sown in the media regarding the President-elect, Donald Trump, and specifically the recent release of the material referred to as the Trump Dossier. That was wrong, and I hereby publicly apologize to Marilyn.
