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Rambling Joe and the million dollar Putin bots

American Exceptionalism, the disease, taken root in solitude, loosed upon the World

Lest you think propaganda was invented by David Brock, consider what I was taught in elementary school. There, not necessarily promoted as an idea to be emulated, was the American Exceptionalism (AE). Beginning before the Revolution but encouraged by it, AE found its first political enactment of the Monroe Doctrine.

The justification of this keep out of OUR hemisphere was of course AE.

Friday night photos - OT

Well, I don't see anything here yet, so here we go again. I am not their leader, I do not know which way they went. Hope everyone is having a good holiday!

Here is a small male Red-tailed Hawk of some flavor. It is not one of the fuertesi subspecies that are resident in my area. A winterer from elsewhere. The cumberbund of a belly band usually means an eastern type.

How the Pro-War ‘Left’ Fell for the Kurds in Syria


The title is an essay by Max Parry, Dec 2, 2019, at his home website at medium.com;  he’s kindly given me to permission to repost it.  He draws in many more elements and celebrity figures than I’d ever known factored in to make his case; it’s says it’s a 12 minute read but it took me longer in my dotage. 

Can Bernie Win? Several Democratic Insiders Think So

What was once considered virtually unthinkable may not necessarily be so. Clearly, many prognosticators were prematurely wrong in writing off Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Primaries. With the Iowa Caucuses a bit over a month away, the reality is quite different.

Having the most donations, the largest number of donors, and tens of thousands of volunteers ready to spring into action can no longer be ignored. Bernie is a real threat to the Democratic Establishment.

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