Obama is the new Winston Smith and rewriting history
Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 8:56pmRewriting History & Rehabilitating George W Bush
To hear Barack Obama now making the claim that Bush was committed to the rule of law and human rights is just the latest betrayal of a Democratic Party that has systematically prevented a reckoning for the crimes of the 43rd president, a party that is clearly uninterested in truth or accountability, and is more than willing to rewrite history to advance its political goals.
Sunday Surprise: Thank you Adolphe Sax
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 3:00pmThe Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 8:05am
Preservation, Restoration, and Reclamation
Once the garden starts production, you've got to begin processing and storing your produce. I put together a food preservation resource last year. This year as I was freezing and storing the blueberries (which I do on a flat metal pan in the freezer before bagging) I started thinking we need to preserve more than just food. How about trying to preserve our health and wealth in these times when it is in jeopardy? What about our soils and resources? Or the ecosystem at large? So that train led me to thinking we need to do more than preserve, we need to restore...soils, the environment, our health and wealth. Which led me to the last theme, reclamation. We need to reclaim our rights...our right to health care, quality education, productive employment, decent energy efficient housing, clean water, peaceful coexistence... in other words a world designed across many levels and dimensions to foster people and a stable planet. There are examples. Let's look at some this week.
Outside the Asylum
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 06/28/2020 - 5:50amEngineering Culture
Pt. 1
Today's Jam: 06/27/2020
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 3:00pmWelcome to Saturday ...
Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 06/27/2020 - 4:03am“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs." ~ Norman Maclean
Rachel on the NYT story: Vladimir Putin is offering bounties for scalps of US troops
Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 11:00pm.
I can only speculate, but my guess for what this thinly sourced NYT story is really about: keeping the Russiagate scam alive & undermining prospects of US-Russia diplomacy. And the usual stenographers are receiving it as expected: pic.twitter.com/HUrGGDVBo3
A long overdue Civil War is coming to the Democratic Party
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 8:54pmBefore I talk about the Democrats, let me just say that if Trump loses (and it appears that he will), the GOP will descend into a civil war that will make the Democrat's civil war look mild in comparison. Trump's hyper-loyal base has gone off the deep end, immersing itself in konspiracy theories while rejecting logic and fact-based reality. It's not a group that will simply accept their hero losing.