December 27, 2024

This is why I don't get on the "Carlin is God" bandwagon

Brilliant comic but he is so all-kinds-of-wrong on this, sorry/not sorry.

And that so many people embrace this outlook is a major reason why things have gone downhill, IMHO.

December 20, 2024

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Uncommitted) implores the President to do the right thing

Immigrants and allies at U.S. Capitol urge Biden to act before Trump deportations begin
By: Shauneen Miranda - December 17, 2024 3:44 pm

WASHINGTON — In the crucial last month before President Joe Biden leaves office, immigrants and allies on Tuesday urged the president to offer protections for immigrant communities before Donald Trump is inaugurated.”

The president-elect has promised the largest deportation in U.S. history, stoking fear and uncertainty among undocumented immigrants and immigration advocates over a sweeping platform that marked the core of Trump’s GOP presidential campaign.

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib also voiced her concerns Tuesday over the president-elect’s immigration plans.

“We cannot underestimate, as you all know, what will unfold the moment Trump takes office in January, and we need as many people as possible working to resist this hateful agenda,” the Michigan Democrat said.

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/12/17/dc/immigrants-and-allies-at-u-s-capitol-urge-biden-to-act-before-trump-deportations-begin/

December 17, 2024

Smoking the hopium time...

You know the term "going postal"? I certainly do, and some or many of you are old enough to remember the origin of that saying.

Back in the 80s, there seemed to be a spate of mass shootings at post offices around the country; IIRC, it was a disgruntled postal worker who felt pushed over the edge to go on a murder/suicide attack. Over time, measures were taken to nip things in the bud to where you don't hear about massacres in the USPS.

My HOPE is that we can do likewise and get to a point where school shootings are no longer a matter-of-time occurrence. Unfortunately, the frequency seems far greater than the postal incidents.

December 14, 2024

You can keep your Luigi. This is the only Mangione that matters.

December 10, 2024

Is NewsNation a reliable news outlet?

I always confuse it with NewsMax (I have the same problem with all the Daily's—Daily Wire, Daily Beast, Daily Caller, etc.).

December 9, 2024

Ana Kasparian ramping up her Faux Noose audition, I guess...?

‘I Was An Idiot!’ Young Turks Host Ana Kasparian Blasts Media Over Migrant Crisis in WILD Glenn Beck Interview
Kipp Jones | Dec 8th, 2024, 1:37 pm

Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks ripped the “mainstream media” and credited Republican Texas Governor Gregg Abbott for waking her up to the country’s immigration crisis in a Saturday night interview with Glenn Beck.

Kasparian, a staunch progressive, said Abbott’s busing of migrants to Democratic-majority cities and how it impacted local politics in those places proved to her she had been lied to by a media that had been downplaying the country’s immigration issues.

“I can definitely be honest about my own flaws and my own mistakes because I bought the mainstream media narrative that there wasn’t a migrant crisis,” Kasparian told Beck. “And yeah, I did believe it. I believed because, look, I was an idiot because, I mean, Who do you trust in today’s media landscape?”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/i-was-an-idiot-young-turks-host-ana-kasparian-blasts-media-over-migrant-crisis-in-wild-glenn-beck-interview/

December 9, 2024

Joy Division - The Eternal

December 9, 2024

Carleen Anderson - Nervous Breakdown

December 9, 2024

Visage - Frequency 7

December 9, 2024

Ramsey Lewis - Living for The City