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“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.” ~ Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines

Markos' web site really, really, really hates Tulsi Gabbard.

This isn't the first time that the GOS endorsed a primary challenge to Gabbard.

What's the best word to describe the War in Afghanistan?
Pointless? Destructive? Wasteful? Criminal?

When it comes to Afghanistan, one headline sums it up better than all the others.

Really, consider this an open thread on Ukraine-gate; bring what you find, as I'm just posting this for the abject hilarity of it, and have tons of chores to do...if I choose to do them. ; ) Joseph Kishore's kindly given me to steal borrow what I'd like from their site, so I'll past in the top half of his essay.

From Patrick Martin, 7 October 2019, wsws.org: US impeachment campaign escalates with claim of second whistleblower

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/07/president-trump-explains...

President Trump Explains Extracting the U.S. From Syria…
Posted on October 7, 2019 by sundance

In a series of tweets today, President Trump explains the U.S. position toward the current quagmire in Northern Syria:

There's an excellent new essay by Nathan Robinson in Current Affairs entitled Why Bernie Has to Win

September 30 is day 280 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 61, 3185 (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.16.1 by the Mayan Long Count

The world is more revolutionary today than at any time since 1989.
Did you notice? Probably not, because unlike 1989 it's the tyranny of the U.S.-backed regimes that the people want to overthrow.
A good example was what happened when Nancy Pelosi met some prominent Haitian Americans.

First, from the Extinction Rebellion newsletter’s ‘Drones Are Changing Asymmetrical Warfare’, September 18, 2019, Max Wilbert, deep green resistance news service

The following scheme is deranged, dangerous, and as disgusting as any thing I’ve heard promoted in a long time.  In fact, after having worked on this for a couple days, before bed last night I’d tossed my cookies when the images flashed in my mind like a neon light again.  It’s also insanely cavalier given how much of the world depends on oil for heating, cooling, and cooking through no fault of their own, and how many economies are based on oil.  Whose refineries does Wilbert imagine drone bombing next?

Whistling with a Mouthful of Crackers

How ironic to talk of whistleblowers and never mention Chelsea, nor Julian, nor Ed Snowden who are all being persecuted by the very people hollering about protecting whistleblowers. Not to mention it was a CIA agent within the white house spying on Trumpilini....and he worked his way through channels? Let's see how did that work out for John Kiriakou or Tom Drake or Jeffrey Sterling? They all served time. Like Russiagate, Ukrainegate looks like a CIA propaganda tool. Now instead of discussing real issues we'll be observing the circus of clowns dancing around and around and getting nowhere. Meanwhile there are real things happening like:

Something/Someone Old

I have been re-reading the Richard Jury mysteries by Martha Grimes.

For every rule there is an exception.
For the countless corrupt politicians there is the rare honest and principled one.
In America it's Sanders. In Britain it's Corbyn.
In Brazil it's Lula.

Greetings fellow 99%ers....

There appears to be a dearth if essays here today. Must be a beautiful day out there and no one cares to write, I can relate as it is very nice here. Impeachment, meh... that is how I feel about the whole mess... of course it is more nuanced than that and here is an article at Counter Punch that adds new info while summing up my thinking.

Brian Williams: "The campaign in its press release tried to call it a 'myocardial infarction'"

Um, the physicians' statement called it that. Should they not have quoted the physicians? Or are you just mad they didn't talk to you for 3 days?