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Monthly Archives: July 2016
61% panicked …
" … what should disturb Obama, who bypassed his own vice president to lay out the red carpet for Hillary, is that the email transgression is not a one off. It’s part of a long pattern of ethical slipping and … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Current Affairs, Politics
109 Comments
HC and Mark Shields on the Newshour – 8 July 2016
HC was on the Newshour last night so that an adoring Judy Woodruff could give her a chance to pontificate. HC looked really bad. She looked as though a combination of exhaustion and over-medication had turned her into one of … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Current Affairs, Media, Politics
67 Comments
Focus on Domestic Violence
Let's have a general discussion of recent highly public violence in the US. 1 – The Baton Rouge police shooting in a convenience store parking lot of a recently released sex offender felon who seems clearly to have been shot … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Gun Control, Politics
287 Comments
“A bad day for Tony Blair” by Willy B
Tony Blair is a sad pathetic excuse for a human being, Even the New York Times acknowledged, yesterday, something that he still refuses to: Iraqis have suffered, and still suffer, enormously from the 2003 invasion and its continuing aftermath. "Widen … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Iraq, Willy B
61 Comments
The Borg queen skates on …
"The FBI director shredded so many of the talking points that the former Secretary of State and her top aides have used over and over again throughout this scandal, including that she never emailed classified material; that information in … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Current Affairs, Politics
82 Comments
Chilcot Report Blasts Blair by Willy B
Note: What follows is really only a thumbnail sketch of this morning's release of the Chilcot report on Britain's participation in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, along side the GW Bush Administration. There is much more to be … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Iraq, Willy B
53 Comments
HARPER: HILLARY’S SPECIAL TREATMENT FROM FBI
Anyone either watching or reading FBI Director James Comey's press conference announcing that the Bureau has submitted a "no prosectution" recommendation to the Department of Justice concerning Hillary Clinton's private email server should have been left with a sinking feeling … Continue reading
Posted in Harper
30 Comments
“Comey’s full remarks … ” Washpost
"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
87 Comments
“Valumfree” by Richard Sale
I have been laboring for over ten years on a novel called “Daily Trials.” A long while ago, I spent a month in the Arizona State Prison for LIFE Magazine. Two inmates ran the prison. One of them was a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
3 Comments