caucus99percent

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Liz has been backing away from Medicare For All for months, but she finally made it official.

“I won't say another word -- not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.” ~ L.M. Montgomery

What!?

If Joe had the balls to speak the truth like this now his ratings wouldn't be in the toilet https://t.co/PtRwNkd6E6

— Barack Obama is a Joe Manchin Democrat (@FlyThaiMMA) December 17, 2019

Including conflicting sources and narratives of news as well as often compromised human rights organizations.  Please feel free to weigh in with suggestions further questions.  It’s longish, but needs must; it’s a large puzzle with many pieces.

First up: ‘An Outrageous Proposal: Peace Boats to Iran’, REZA FIYOUZAT, Dec. 13, 2019, counterpunch.org

One might have imagined from the title his suggestion might have been akin to ‘Flotillas to aid Gaza’, but no; a few bits and bobs:

December 16 is day 350 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, The Aftermath 58, 3185 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.1.11 by the Mayan Long Count

It's no secret that people tend to be more leftist when they are young and more conservative when they are older. The common assumption by the establishment is that it's just a "phase" that people go through before they smarten up.
Which is incredibly patronizing.

“Monsieur, my son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.”
- Georges Clemenceau

The Meat of the Matter

This week we'll try to take a substantive look at some of the week's news as well as discuss the health of meat production and consumption. Vegans and vegetarians will not be disparaged nor criticized, however I think meat consumption and production has been vilified by those who do not understand ecological farming nor health. I heard one scientist suggest that we did not evolve to eat meat, we evolved because we ate meat. We all have (or had) canine teeth. E. O. Wilson suggests our brains evolved when we learned to cooperate and we became truly social creatures which he calls eusocial (“eu-” meaning true). In our early development we were either running after something or running from something. Both activities benefited from some level of cooperation.

Something/Someone Old

I spent the day helping my mom get some Christmas spirit into her house. Then we went to a blues event. So I'm writing this rather late at night--after my mom and I went to see this fella:

Tulsi has been pretty explicit about her strategy to move herself into a better position. Thought I'd lay it out here so that people can understand it better and comment on it if they wish.