Here We Go Again

Between Iran, China, the border and E. Jean Carroll's rape allegation, I am having another onset of news overload.

On another day I might even say "I can't even", but I've been getting help with that.

Carry on!

Comments

[JimNorCal]

Second!

[henry]

IS that book by the self help candidate?

[MissMarple2]

The guy whose house was raided by the FBI yesterday in Georgetown, DC Councilman Jack Evans, was a co-chair of Hillary's campaign.

He's charged with corruption. What a surprise.

[JimNorCal]

From back thread:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-says-its-literally-easier-for-her-to-be-elected-to-congress-than-pay-off-student-loans
Of course it was. She was recruited.

I've seen this "she was recruited" statement a few times but never looked into it. Can anyone recommend a good link with info?

[MissMarple2]

https://apnews.com/02baf57f765b40fda79749fc350ae95c

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature voted Monday to tax people who refuse to buy health insurance, bringing back a key part of former President Barack Obama’s health care law in the country’s most populous state after it was eliminated by Republicans in Congress.
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If I lived in California this might make me think twice about continuing with democrat legislators.

[jim nj]

Henry,

I'll let the the Democratic media spin the results. Let them pick the winners and losers. Seems only fair to me, they are all paid from the same sources.

Republicans should ignore the debate and not comment on it.

Let the Democrats seethe when their favorite candidate gets dissed in the media. Good for unity.

[jim nj]

nytol

[henry]

This judge needs to be tossed on the scrap heap, not celebrated.

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2019/06/the-shirley-abrahamson-i-remember-clung-to-power-crushed-civil-liberties/

[MissMarple2]

Jim, SunnyvaleCA, USA,

Here you go:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/group-backed-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-now-supporting/story?id=63808934

[Jane]

Jim,

I posted a really good article about AOC's recruitment, and the fact she is a puppet of an ultra liberal PAC a few months ago. The pool is calling, but I'll try and find it later.

[Narciso79]

Why does Boston university cost 25 I a year, when it was 10k just 15 years ago

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273110/video-brains-behind-ocasio-cortez-frontpagemagcom

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

How great is America again?
People cross our border illegally to break into our concentration camps.
That's how great America is.

[clarice]

carried over from tail end of last thread
Sorry, TM--I miss Herb, too. He once sent me a very flattering email about something I wrote. Great guy.
As for Kavanaugh--he is a disappointment but I'm not sorry I defended him. No one should be slandered without defense.

[MissMarple2]

There are lots of reasons we have massive and unsustainable debt. Here are a couple things you may not know about our budget process, and why it inevitably leads to more government and more spending. Watch here: pic.twitter.com/rZCu1FfDRO

— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) June 22, 2019

Three-minute video at the link.

[James D.]

No, they should't, Clarice. They also shouldn't immediately begin kissing up to the very people who slandered them.

[MissMarple2]

Catturd
‏ @catturd2

😂😂😂

Trump on Hillary Supporter E. Jean Carroll Who Accused Him of Rape in a Bergdorf Goodman Store: She’s “Not My Type.”

Comment down in the replies:

DEVORAH JOSEPH
‏ @devjoseph117
3m3 minutes ago
Replying to @catturd2

He's getting more diplomatic - lol!

[Jim Eagle]

Maybe E. Jean is confusing DJT with that look alike having lunch with Kim in Tokyo.

[Momto2]

I think that is what is the most distressing and puzzling about Kavanaugh. During the hearings and especially at the end when he survived, I was thinking, "Well, if anything good could come from all of this, it should indelibly imprint in his soul what the left is like and embolden him to rule the right way." Ha! Instead, it seems he is intent on proving that the left was wrong about him and he will make many rulings that they support. Has there ever been a Supreme Court Justice who surprised us the opposite way? Who was approved as a liberal but once seated, began to vote with the conservatives?

[Narciso79]

Byron white who was a new deal liberal, but didnt go along with progressive overreach.

[henry]

Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX
31m

When you say #cancelstudentdebt, you’re saying a minority of people who had the advantage of obtaining a degree should have their debt paid off by hardworking taxpayers, 2/3 of whom don’t have degrees themselves, or already paid their own student debt off.

This is immoral.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--If I lived in California this might make me think twice about continuing with democrat legislators.--

Remember, we're talking about a state that last year had a referendum to repeal the preposterous and spectacularly regressive new gas tax foisted on us, and the sheeple of CA voted to keep getting bleeped up the kazoo by the solons of Sacramento.
Why, it's almost like this state has lost its way...baaaa, baaaa, baaaa.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

Rep Crenshaw is really impressive. He gets right out there on all of these issues and is really good at explaining things.

Plus: eyepatch and he can kill people.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The market makes us do those things we don't want to do but need to; like get a degree in a discipline that actually has jobs with which to pay off student loans.
God makes us do things we don't want to do as well, like not covet our neighbors [fill in the blank].
Both of those things prevent perpetual children from existing.
And that is why progs hate them both.

[Buckeye]

Not sure if this was posted.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/06/herbert-meyer-rip.php

You must watch the embedded video.

[Buckeye]

Bingo Iggy.

[James D.]

Ig @ 9:41

Totally agree. But the thing is, we have had a government, and a media and a pop culture that has been pushing those childish alternatives 24/7/365 for several decades.

Obviously, yes, people can and do make better choices, as we see on JOM, for example. But the reality is, the majority of people will be more influenced by whatever social pressures are out there.

I really don't blame people who have been brainwashed for 12 years in crappy government schools for making terrible decisions when that's what they've been constantly encouraged to do.

I blame entirely the people who have encouraged those decisions to produce precisely what we have now - millions of people who are struggling with massive debt that prevents them from buying home, cars, etc, and makes them feel helpless and victimized and unable to achieve anything without the hand of government. That was the goal all along, to make succeeding generations incapable of any real independence or self-sufficency.

And at the same time, all that money has gone to support ever more bureaucrats to make the brainwashing ever worse.

So, yes, cancel the debt, and take the money from the colleges to do it. Blow up the whole damn system. Make the schools bleed, make them fire all the Deans of Diversity and Inclusion, make them shut down the grievance studies departments, shutter the Department of Education.

[Old Lurker]

Eventually, any society of children will be taken over by grownups from somewhere else, who will eat the kids for lunch.

Darwin.

[Buckeye]

BTW, in the Herb Meyer video, they are making an approach to land on runway 34 at Friday Harbor Airport.

MT's hanger is at the end of that runway on the left as I recall.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Great video Buckeye.
Didn't realize how young he was.
RIP Herb Meyer; we could use a few more like him about now.

[henry]

CNBC Now @CNBCnow
1m

JUST IN: Both the nation’s debt and deficit will grow more slowly than previously forecast, according to new government data, the result of lower interest rates and reduced disaster spending.

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1143520183702708225

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Obviously, yes, people can and do make better choices, as we see on JOM, for example. But the reality is, the majority of people will be more influenced by whatever social pressures are out there.

I really don't blame people who have been brainwashed for 12 years in crappy government schools for making terrible decisions when that's what they've been constantly encouraged to do.--

That's exactly my point, James.
It is in the nature of every human, in the absence of a truth based social framework, to create a tribe of savage perpetual children...hmmm sounds like an idea for a novel about some kids on an island or a little creep who runs around in green tights and flies or maybe even a puppet with a prehensile nose.

[Jane]

Jim,

Here is an overview of how AOC got elected:

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-win-her-election

[MissMarple2]

This article was posted by Devin Nunes, so I have to conclude that Kelly's assumptions in this are true.

https://amgreatness.com/2019/06/24/the-steele-dossier-has-been-discredited-is-the-ic-report-next/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

And that is the bottom line, no? Truth.
It is the fundamental lie of collectivism that there is such a thing as a free lunch or that you can make your neighbor pay for your lunch indefinitely.
It's also a lie that you can covet your neighbor's house, wife, car, et al and you will have them. What you will have instead is war.

As usual you can find the answer, the truth, in the bible. The fool says in his heart there is no God and the result is each man does what is right in his own eyes. The result? They gave up their freedom of the period of the judges in pursuit of a king to rule over them because what was right in their own eyes led to chaos and dissipation.

The truth as Paul noted is those who don't work, don't eat and the wages of sin is death. The free market which best channels human nature to please our fellow man in order to make a voluntary and mutually beneficial deal with him is the natural outgrowth of Western Civilization which sprang forth in many ways from one verse; there is now neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female in Christ Jesus.
From that springs the notions of the fundamental right to life, equal rights before the law and that if we want peace and a society of adults, man should be the servant of God and the state should be the servant of man.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fourth-of-july-to-be-the-largest-fireworks-show-dc-has-ever-seen

[Marlene]

I posted this on the last three. Geez. The punk who killed the bikers will be arraigned in Lancaster,NH today. He was due to be arraigned in a Connecticut court tomorrow on a drunk driving charge issued on May 11. He was released on $2,500 bond. Unbelievable.

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/migrant-aid-bill-rift-divide-democrats-two-parties/

[Jane]

Just watched the Herb Meyer video. We have lost a very brilliant man.

[Jane]

Revealed: Obama Targeted Papadopoulos Twice – First to Halt Israel and Assist Iran’s Gas Pipelines and then a Second Time to Stop Candidate Trump

The pieces are all starting to fall together and Obama and his gang can’t make it stop. The most corrupt President in US history, Barack H. Obama, will soon be known as the biggest crook to enter the Oval Office. One individual who was targeted by Obama will be the key to his demise, Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/revealed-obama-targeted-papadopoulos-twice-first-to-halt-israel-and-assist-irans-gas-pipelines-and-then-a-second-time-to-stop-candidate-trump/

[Jane]

Marlene,

He was released?

Holy cow. Well so far these are civil not criminal offenses so I guess I get it.

[Marlene]

Jane,he was released on the drunk driving charge in CT. I'm still not clear on why he wasn't detained in NH Friday night. The Mass. State Police arrested him and found the (alleged) heroin. They brought him back up to NH for arraignment. There should be more details later. Several truckers with CDLs called Howie Carr yesterday explaining different regulations. He was hauling an empty flatbed trailer on the 2500 Dodge. Another unanswered question is did he have a CDL? The transport company he works for has several violations involving drugged and /or drunk drivers.

[henry]

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
9m

Iran leadership doesn’t understand the words “nice” or “compassion,” they never have. Sadly, the thing they do understand is Strength and Power, and the USA is by far the most powerful Military Force in the world, with 1.5 Trillion Dollars invested over the last two years alone..

....The wonderful Iranian people are suffering, and for no reason at all. Their leadership spends all of its money on Terror, and little on anything else. The U.S. has not forgotten Iran’s use of IED’s & EFP’s (bombs), which killed 2000 Americans, and wounded many more...

....Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality. Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration. No more John Kerry & Obama!

[Marlene]

I'm going grocery shopping. I have Publix withdrawal. :)

[rse]

https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/climate-movement-whats-next?mc_cid=d42dfd7899&mc_eid=78e710f610 puts what is really going on into perspective.

By the way, Riane Eisler is the link to the transformational ed template. She is also involved with GERG--General Evolution Research Group--on essentially using ed to transform the culture globally.

Neva Goodwin is a Rockefeller. One of David's children. Given the languages her books on a new type of economics have been translated into that is also a global template.

My mom seems to be depressed and wants to spend hours every day with my dad. It's not healthy and gi doctor yesterday following an endoscopy put her on a 2nd anti-depressant. Any advice from relevant experience would be appreciated.

[Captain Hate]

Willowed

As for Kavanaugh--he is a disappointment but I'm not sorry I defended him. No one should be slandered without defense.

We defended the backstabbing Koch traitors. At some point maybe we should let them sink on their own. The Prodigal Son was a singular event; the Prodigal Family wouldn't work out so well.

[rich]

Posted by: Jane | June 25, 2019 at 10:44 AM

a dui is a criminal offense (and for repeat offenders it is sometimes a felony)

[Narciso79]

Well actually there were two prodigal sons thr one who disowned the family and the one who sought himself too worthy.

[henry]

Anyone need a new conspiracy to chase?

Why is it that every time Donald Trump gets together with Xi Jinping, someone gets busted on a sanctions violation? I'm not privy to the inner workings of our cops and spooks, so I'm just asking. While Trump and Xi sat down to dinner at the November 2018 Group of 20 meeting in Argentina, the chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested in a Vancouver airport transit lounge. Now that Trump and Xi are meeting again next week at the Osaka Group of 20 meeting, there are reports of a contempt-of-court order against Chinese banks for violation of North Korea sanctions. This has caused more than a flutter, as I report this morning at Asia Times.

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/the-president-china-and-the-spooks/

[MissMarple2]

Just finished watching the Herb Meyer video.

Does anyone know if he ever had any contact with President Trump? The reason I ask is that President Trump's use of economic warfare seems to be very similar to the economic signals that Meyer talked about.

[rse]

"System Change, Not Climate Change"?

As an ecosocialist, I am a staunch advocate for the eradication of global capitalism, which I view as the main driver of anthropogenic climate change.1 Many climate activists continue to be reluctant to identify capitalism as the “elephant in the room,” thinking that doing so will alienate many mainstream progressives. Within the Australian context where I operate, some climate activists will even engage in “red-baiting” of ecosocialists within the movement. As the Australian Greens have tried to mainstream themselves, they have likewise made life for ecosocialists and ecoanarchists within the party very uncomfortable.

Nevertheless, I believe that climate activists need to advance alternatives to capitalism, not just tweaks like the adoption of renewables, electric cars, and carbon pricing. We anthropologists understand that social systems do not last forever. European feudalism persisted for some 900 years but gradually evolved into capitalism, which over the course of 500 years evolved into a world system. Many scholars and activists argue that the world tried socialism and it failed, as was illustrated by the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the emergence authoritarian regimes such as Maoist China, North Korea, and Pol Pot Cambodia. These efforts to construct socialism failed for a variety of historical and social-structural, internal and external, factors. Now, socialism needs to be re-envisioned for the twenty-first century, an effort underway in various quarters, including among those developing the notion of ecosocialism. We need to transcend speaking of “postcapitalism” without clearly envisioning what should be next.

Whatever we term the next system—ecosocialism, ecoanarchism, postcapitalism, global democracy, Great Transition—the more crucial question is how we go from A to B, from capitalism to whatever we may wish to term B. Needed are radical transitional system-challenging reforms, such as new left parties; steep emissions taxes at sites of production; public ownership of the means of production; increased social equality; stabilization of global population; broadened democratic structures; meaningful work and shorter work week; a steady-state global economy; energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, appropriate technology, and green jobs; public transportation; sustainable food production and forestry; postconsumerism; sustainable trade; and eco- and community-friendly settlement patterns. The transitional steps provide loose guidelines, not a blueprint, for shifting human societies toward a more socially just, democratic, and environmentally sustainable system that can return the planet to a safer climate. Constructing an alternative to global capitalism is the ultimate climate mitigation strategy, even though it will not be achieved anytime soon, if indeed ever. Along the way, of course, many of the more modest objectives promoted by the climate movement would be part of a transition to an alternative world system, one that will be manifested in different ways in different countries.

https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/climate-movement-baer

[MissMarple2]

Saudi Gazette
‏Verified account @Saudi_Gazette
1h1 hour ago

#BREAKING: #Saudi-led coalition says Saudi Special Forces captured Emir of #Daesh in #Yemen.

[henry]

Good. they'll know just what to do with him.

[Captain Hate]

No, the Prodigal Son was the one who left and returned.

The last line of that Herb video points out what a politicized shit show the 9/11 Commission was.

[Narciso79]

Literally we didnt do it the right way, so let's expemd another 100 million livee

[rse]

“System Change, Not Climate Change”?

There are many calls for systems change, but few people actually reflect on what a system is, who defines systems, what the boundaries are, and so on. If we take a generic Google definition of a system as “a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole,” it becomes clear that systems are relationships, and climate change is essentially a relationship problem. It is about how we relate to ourselves, each other, other species, the environment, and the future. Relationships are often expressed through power, politics, interests, etc. However, at the end of the day, if we buy into the mechanistic metaphor and see systems as a collection of separate parts, we will perpetuate the perspective that we are separate from each other and “the system,” and we will “fight it” rather than relate to it differently.

The Enlightenment paradigm is killing us, and science itself may have to transform to meet the climate challenge—this includes the social sciences. Personally, I have been fascinated with the development of a quantum social science that brings subjectivity, agency, consciousness, and intention into our understanding of structural and systemic change. Classical science tells us that the future is a choice, but also that we have no free will. My current project on “quantum social change” has led me to explore the implications of different interpretations of quantum physics for climate change responses, both metaphorically and meaningfully. To approach the relationships between individual change, collective change, and systems change through a different paradigm can have a profound influence on the narratives and stories that we tell ourselves.

[MissMarple2]

This is what it's like to interview @realDonaldTrump. @esaagar and @Jordanfabian share their strategy. https://t.co/13ZKVidHti #rising @HillTVLive @thehill

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) June 25, 2019

14-minute video at the link. It looks to me like the young reporters sort of liked the President.

[Captain Hate]

Ol Yeller was very complimentary in his extensive coverage of Harry's article.

[MissMarple2]

rse,

Reading all of that stuff, I can hear my dad saying "That's bullsh*t."

[rse]

A social movement informed by the Enlightenment paradigm is likely to limit our collective capacity for social change. Indeed, allowing people to be the subjects of their own lives (as Paolo Freire emphasized), rather than reducing them to objects to be changed, can unleash powerful energy for social change. There is no lack of knowledge about the solutions to climate change, but they are unlikely to be realized at scale without activating both personal and political agency.

By the way, the GTI link talks about all the Dem 2020 candidates being on board with this agenda.

[henry]

quantum social science

run.

[Captain Hate]

quantum social change

LOLGF!

[rse]

Yes mm, but it is bs thoroughly enshrined into state and federal education legislation and funding to bring about the desired belief and value system.

It will happen if more people do not begin to recognize the template or that so many so-called conservative think tanks also push this.

[Narciso79]

They are stark raving mad, the parable is about God and his mercy, we were all prodigal since the time of Adam's transgressions

[henry]

Gee, anyone heard from the various government pension funds?

Real Time Economics @WSJecon
1m

The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday lowered its forecasts for interest rates over the next three decades, amid a marked decline in U.S. government-bond yields since late last year.

[Captain Hate]

The danger with quantum mechanics, which was a legit way to explain what happens when you don't get expected results, was that it opened the door for hucksters like who wrote that claptrap rse pasted.

[MissMarple2]

Bill Mitchell
‏Verified account @mitchellvii
4m4 minutes ago

Trade tariffs have been in place for months with no negative effect on Consumer Confidence, but suddenly, on the eve of the Democrat Debates, exactly on cue, trade tariffs suddenly cause consumer confidence to implode?

Sorry, have to call #DeepState bullsh*t on that.
1 reply 19 retweets 39 likes
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I agree.

[Old Lurker]

"The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday lowered its forecasts for interest rates over the next three decades..."

The jokes just write themselves.

[Buckeye]

rse,

Reading all of that stuff, I can hear my dad saying "That's bullsh*t."

Certainly what I was thinking.

I suspect your dad was a "regular guy", MM:)

[MissMarple2]

Buckeye,

Indeed he was! It's one of the reasons I love President Trump; he sounds like my dad with a Queens accent. LOL!

[Jim Eagle]

.....run, and hide, henry.

[MissMarple2]

Today in Florida, we heard why America will never be a socialist Country. #LatinosForTrump are ready to re-elect President @realDonaldTrump in 2020. pic.twitter.com/BiaRKk20MK

— John Pence (@jepence) June 25, 2019

Video at link. It's a call-in to a Spanish language stations, but the translation is provided at the bottom of the screen.

[henry]

this gal tanked Walker's candidacy as I recall.

Liz Mair @LizMair
1h

.@DevinNunes also apparently wants a copy of my tax returns for 2016, 2017 and 2018. As a reminder, this is a sitting government official using litigation as a cudgel to stifle my free speech and, frankly, intimidate and harass me and my family.

[Buckeye]

The article posted here just a few days ago about the trend in sunspots, and the clear global cooling trend, is not bullshit.

What we might do, one way or the other, is orders of magnitude less than the impact of the sun's behavior.

However, there is money to be made in the current con, so it will likely continue.

[Narciso79]

She had to this after Baku dropped her, and they hire anybody.

[henry]

JiB, maybe lock & load... tbd

[Captain Hate]

What we might do, one way or the other, is orders of magnitude less than the impact of the sun's behavior.

However, there is money to be made in the current con, so it will likely continue.

Exactly. This scam is a pre Galileo concept where man has greater powers than the sun.

[Old Lurker]

Cap'n, there is no new scam under the sun. Human nature is too unchanged over the millennia.

Rinse and repeat.

[Captain Hate]

Liz Mair @LizMair

My daily limit of LOLGFs is being challenged.

[MissMarple2]

When I was in college and then working for the coal company, all of the literature pointed toward a coming period of global cooling and what could be done to mitigate it.

Then I quit work, married, had my daughter, and stayed home for a few years.

I can remember being down at the pool on a hot July day and my neighbor was talking about blind sheep in South America and other stuff that suddenly was appearing in the news, and how we were getting hotter.

NONE of the scientific stuff I was receiving had any of that. The entire global warming thing appeared almost out of nowhere.

I have really thought about this and I actually believe that it was something cooked up in order for companies like GE, Westinghouse, and others to sell solar panels, windmills, energy assessments of homes, etc. etc. because all of the fossil fuels were already owned by mining and oil companies.

[Captain Hate]

If the sun could be taxed there'd be no need for made up crap about CO2 spouted by profoundly ignorant people like F Chuck.

[Narciso79]

This is the prog view if that rather incendiary bpok:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/20/this-is-london-by-ben-judah-review

[Buckeye]

Cap'n, there is no new scam under the sun. Human nature is too unchanged over the millennia.

Rinse and repeat.

The result of having the best chair on The Ledge.

OL has gotten very comfortable.

I'm still breaking mine in while I buy call options for The Verandah.

I'll probably never learn:)

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/msnbcs-chris-hayes-has-fear-trump-will-launch-military-strike-to-distract-from-upcoming-democratic-debates

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Why don't we just chip the border crossers and keep tabs on them? Same with criminals.

[henry]

with msnbc's ratings... how would they tell if people got distracted? The latest cat video would swamp them.

[Old Lurker]

Cap'n "I'm still breaking mine in while I buy call options for The Verandah."

As fast as the value of those calls is falling, I might be willing to sell you mine if you have cash-cash.

:-)

[Melinda]

Chris Hayes should worry grass may keep growing or that paint may be drying during the Demonrat debates.

[Melinda]

Those are called "Warrants" not calls.

Make your offers. I'll entertain making bids.

[Melinda]

SultanKnish proposes making that final step on the Civil Rights Act:

https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-conservative-civil-rights-movement-to.html

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I'm with Chris Hayes on Trump launching strikes against Iran during the Dem debates.
He would do a lot more good if he launched strikes against the Dem debates during the Dem debates.

[Jane]

Rich,

Was he charged with a DUI?

[Narciso79]

Now Corbyn would use that dickensian description you get the gist in the reviee.

[Jim Eagle]

When we left London in 2003, I saw the acceleration of diversity, that Judah has now memorialized as topping out. Even in Belgravia, Kensington, and Chelsea there are some "mixed" neighborhoods, as my newspaper guy would say. Reading that Guardian piece it appears to be getting a lot worse than I could have predicted.

Mrs. JiB and Frederick are going to her 40th class reunion in Wales then two days in London, sometime in July. I will have to share that article with her. Situational awareness will important.

[Narciso79]

That's the waste of a perfectly good cruise missile plus traffic in downtown Miami is already insane.

[Jane]

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/msnbcs-chris-hayes-has-fear-trump-will-launch-military-strike-to-distract-from-upcoming-democratic-debates

That's hysterical - without even reading the article.

[rich]

Posted by: Jane | June 25, 2019 at 12:21 PM

if i understood the reporting correctly he was out on bond for a CT dui arrest when he killed the bikers and has been charged with seven counts of negligent homicide in NH ... it is a terrible story and the reporting has been confusing.

[Jane]

JIB,

Last time I was in London, which I think was last fall, I was absolutely shocked at the diversity. Never saw anything like it on my many trips before.

I suspect it's only gotten bigger.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--When I was in college and then working for the coal company, all of the literature pointed toward a coming period of global cooling and what could be done to mitigate it.--

That's because for forty years we had a cooling period and before that we had a forty year hot spell. Since the last cooling trend we've had a forty year warm cycle. Now it appears that cycle may be ending too.
It's almost like there's some kind of a pattern or something.

Something else I've never seen mentioned anywhere though I'm sure it has been. They adjust the early 20th century as having been warm but much less warm than now, even though the raw data show it to be at least as warm as now, and they claim the hottest five years on records are in the last few years.
If we really are hotter than ever why is it the world record for heat is still 1913 in Death Valley?

[Melinda]

There may have been a very good reason all the WWI uniform orders were for wool.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Last time I was in London, which I think was last fall, I was absolutely shocked at the diversity.--

When Britian's most common baby name is Muhammad you know you aint in Nelson's, Drake's and Churchill's UK anymore.
Diversity's just another name for nothin left to lose...