Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Cacti


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  1. Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Is Destined to Fail [Click]
    Trying to bypass the administrative apparatus was common to Watergate and Iran-Contra, and a sign of Presidential failure.

    Aha! The law giving three congressional committees the right to demand anyone’s tax returns is one of the reforms springing from the Teapot Dome scandal! [Click] Oh, and by the way, the Trump administration seems to be clueless about it [big surprise, I know]…

    “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing a hotly contested bid for a fourth term, tweeted on the eve of the election that the Trump administration designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization at his request,”
    the Los Angeles Times reports. [Click]

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  2. The United States of Chaos.
    Thanks, Alan. That’s interesting about the Teapot Dome Scandal being the reason. I hope this means someone gets those returns.

    When one dictator asks another to do a favour, they do it. Shameful! That’s probably also the reason DT named Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol.

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  3. Michael Chessum: If Corbyn helps the Tories deliver Brexit, it will be a disaster for Labour. [Click] So Brexit could take the course of a Tory-Labour mutual suicide pact? Hmmmm…. That would be consistent with the widespread decaying influence of the major parties of developed democracies. I remain hopeful that the US Democratic Party will be able to reinvent itself.

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  4. Israel elections: Benjamin Netanyahu seeks fifth term - USA Today
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/04/...fifth-term/3408576002/

    14 hours ago - ... Netanyahu is seeking a fourth consecutive and a fifth overall term in ... Because if you don't vote, Bibi wins,” it said, referring to Netanyahu by ...

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  5. The Need That Democrats [and Republicans] Aren’t Addressing [Click] If candidates challenge the public to give, not just promise the public more of what it gets, it should lead to both electoral and national success.

    It Wasn’t ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching. [Click] Dandy linguistics column! Highly recommended!

    Michael Chessum: If Corbyn helps the Tories deliver Brexit, it will be a disaster for Labour. [Click] So Brexit could take the course of a Tory-Labour mutual suicide pact? Hmmmm…. That would be consistent with the widespread decaying influence of the major parties of developed democracies.

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    1. That first article calls for universal national service. The problem is that each of us is going to filter that through our personal experience. To someone my age it looks like the draft, and I'm agin it.

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  6. Elizabeth Warren Had Charisma, and Then She Ran for President [Click] “Female candidates face a double bind, researchers say. When women are perceived as competent, they’re less likely to be seen as inspiring.”

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  7. Yup. I experienced this when I entered the ordination process. The women’s group of the congregation distanced themselves from me. It was like they were afraid it might be contagious.

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