With "friends" like this Dem Senator (Mark Warner), who needs enemies. Or,...
x YouTube VideoSo here’s your nice Democratic Senator of Virgina, Marc Warner, advising his constituents — rich, coporate elites — at the 2016 Milken Institute’s Global Conference on how they need to...
View ArticleTTIP headed toward defeat
It's been touch and go, but it appears that France may save all of us from a very bad trade treaty. François Hollande said on Tuesday he would reject the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
View ArticleHillary pivots to the general, and it's a beaut
This tweet: x "Everything I say, I'm going to do, folks." —TrumpHere's what the presumptive @GOP nominee would do as president.https://t.co/SG6qjpzJ8E— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 4, 2016It’s...
View ArticleSelf-assembling ant rafts teach us how to deal with climate chaos
No, I’m not talking about building an ark. It’s more complex than that and not necessarily aquatic. Ants accomplish tasks through self-assembly — linking their bodies and forming chains, ladders,...
View ArticleFires in Alberta's Boreal Forest expanding rapidly w no end in sight until...
The fires in Alberta’s Boreal Forests are expanding at geometric rates, and will continue to do so until the unusually hot dry spring weather pattern (that has made northern Alberta hotter than Texas...
View ArticleBreaking: US Officials-FBI: No Clinton Email Crimes Found So Far
The investigation is ongoing, but so far investigators haven't found evidence to prove Clinton willfully violated the law, the standard needed to bring charges. Excellent news for the 45TH president of...
View ArticleI'm starting to hate pickup trucks
There was a time when I wanted a pickup truck. This was many years ago. Back when Nissan was called Datsun in the US. Toyota and Datsun used to sell these cool little 4-cylinder pickups that ran...
View ArticleThis is How I remind myself to be Patient and Empathetic toward Sen. Sanders...
No, not by looking at this picture but by reminding myself that in 2008 at this point in the Democratic primary, I was a die-hard Hillary supporter and very anti-Obama. I wanted Hillary to keep...
View ArticleROF - Hillary Already Backtracking on Climate Change
From Ring of Fire Radio:It looks like Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the coal industry didn’t last very long. In a recent spat with pro-coal protestors, Clinton made it clear that she had little...
View ArticleNo, Dears. Hillary ain't weak, and the Supers ain't nullifying our votes
It is not Hillary who has the weak candidacy, it is Bernie. If he is too weak to win against HER, then he damn sure can't beat Trump.And if he can't beat Trump, then, why in the world would...
View ArticleSocial Media Goes Nuts Over Trump Taco Bowl FAIL
I promise, this will be my last Trump post for awhile. I just couldn't resist this. I really did think the tweet from Trump declaring his love for Hispanics eating a taco bowl was a photoshop job---...
View ArticleKatha Pollitt: Why Bernie Didn't Get My Vote
When I got an email this afternoon from The Nation, one of the pieces listed was this one by the long-time and well-known feminist writer Katha Pollitt, which is subtitled “It’s not his focus on the...
View ArticleThe best is yet to come
The triumph of democracy is what I'm hoping for – and damned if we don't have a shot at it.The foes of progress always think that when they win a battle, they've won the war. They fail to account for...
View ArticleSanders: Protesting Clinton events "Absolutely appropriate"
Wow. On Rachel Maddow tonight, if you were watching you saw it, Rachel gave Bernie a chance to discourage his supporters from protesting outside Clinton events and he declined. Instead, he said,...
View ArticleHillary on CFPB Plans to Bar Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
Meteor Blades had a great diary yesterday about the CFPB regulating financial agreements so that people are no longer blocked by mandatory arbitration clauses from suing when they are wronged: the...
View ArticleAL Chief Justice Roy Moore Suspended; Faces Possible Removal From Office
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended, and faces possible removal from office after the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission charged him with six ethics violations with regard to his...
View ArticleRemnants of the Sanders Campaign reduced to skully
Well, here we are. The moment of truth. Defeated, barely solvent, and experiencing muscular shrinkage, the Sanders Campaign machine has now decided its all about war with the Democratic National...
View ArticleSen Sanders, stop insinuations. DNC committee members announced in Jan; not...
I have a request for Senator Sanders. Stop insination of corruption at every turn and brand everyone that you disagree with as CORRUPT. You are harming your own cause & the cause of...
View ArticleSanders Endorses the First Amendment; Outrage Ensues
So now the right to public protest is under the Bus.It seems that some people think that the right to protest shouldn’t apply in certain cases and are outraged,outraged, that Bernie Sanders doesn’t...
View ArticleHillary tweets another Ad: "I get along with everybody." - Donald Trump....
Hillary just tweeted this Ad.It uses Trump’s disgusting taco bowl "I love Hispanics!” outreach to remind folks that Donald thinks the same way about Women, Muslims and African Americans and it’s in his...
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