Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
The January 6th Committee begins hearings today
during evening Prime Time!
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"U.S. news organizations have failed to communicate to readers that we are on a knife edge between democracy and authoritarianism."
ReplyDeleteHeather Cox Richardson on the hearings
The press has a long-standing vested interest in maintaining the two-party model because that secures their revenue stream. They deny that there is collusion between the news and advertising departments, but a candidate without a significant advertising budget gets ignored. Here in Georgia there are going to be five candidates for the Governor position in November. The press, even public radio, is ignoring all but the "major" two.
DeleteFact is that DJT was dissed by 2000 voters who failed to vote for President and 38,000 voted for the Libertarian.
That voters are deciding elections is not welcome news to all those people newly described as "influencers."
I disagree about the "kinfe edge." The pseudoinsurrection not only failed, it was bound to fail. Hitler's inept beer hall putsch looks plausible by contrast.
DeleteMy point is that the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys simply did not understand American institutions. If they had succeeded in seizing and holding the Capitol building for days or weeks, it would have changed nothing. Nor was there ever any chance that Trump's lawsuits and pleas to officials would have any effect.
Yeah, so they’re learning. Now they’re trying a more methodical and deliberate method of stealing the election through getting their people into place to lie and gerrymander and throw out votes and get their candidate into office even though it be against the will of the people.
DeleteBe sure to watch the hearings.
That they are trying things doesn't mean they will succeed. And when you talk about gerrymandering, remember that I live in Illinois.
DeleteAnd on another topic, it has been more than 20 years since I watched a single minute of TV.
Watergate note on the last thread.
ReplyDeleteCEOs Call for Gun Legislation [Click]
ReplyDelete---Alan
Via politicalwire.com:
Delete“Facebook prohibits gun sales on its service. But buyers and sellers can violate the rule 10 times before they are kicked off the social network,” the Washington Post reports.
Republicans Said A Lot Of Very Dumb Stuff About Guns [Yesterday] [Click]
Delete---Alan
Bernie Sanders: “You really can’t win an election with a bumper sticker that says: ‘Well, we can’t do much, but the other side is worse.’”
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65,000 year-old ‘Swiss Army knife’ proves ancient humans shared knowledge, research says [Click]
ReplyDeleteInteresting, but not quite enough context to satisfy me.
—Alan
Backed Microlieths From Narrabeen, New South Wales [Click] Has somevery helpful line drawings of how they were used. Note that because there is very little wood in Australia suitable for making bows, and possibly because of the available fauna, arrows were not used in premodern Australia.
Delete—Alan
This seems to offer a reasonable explanation for why modern Homo sapiens didn't succeed in establishing themselves in Europe during earlier excursions from Africa.
Delete--Alan
The State Finally Letting Teens Sleep In [Click] “Adolescents in the U.S. are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
ReplyDelete---Alan
Wow!! I’be been saying this for years!!! I have long held that what kept me going with home schooling was that I never had to get up before 8am!
DeleteIt's about time after so many studies showing that school starting times have always been *way* too early.
DeleteColbert is live tonight immediately after the Hearing. Click if you need to smile…
ReplyDeleteYAY!
~ listener
DeleteActually, Colbert is on at the usual time, it's just that the show is live rather than "live on tape."
DeleteI suppose that is midnight ET, so 9PM PT. Will find out.
DeleteCould somebody PLEASE get Louis DeJoy out! Since he got his claws into the USPS I've paid all my bills the day after they come in the mail. Yesterday I got a SHUT OFF NOTICE (big red letters) for water. I know I never got that bill or it would have been paid. I did send the check today but I *really* hate Louis DeJoy. The day he announced he would be raising the price on postage stamps I went to the Post Office and bought three rolls of Forever stamps.
ReplyDeleteIt helps that Congress has passed laws blocking a number of things DeJoy wanted to do.
DeleteA week ago I mailed to my dearest friend a birthday gift that I ordered 'specially made for her. It was supposed to arrive on Monday. It's still not there. And all the USPO could tell me today is that it's still at our regional distribution site in southern NH. Apparently they don't have enough workers to sort the mail in a timely way. Gee, think maybe they shouldn't have closed the one Vermont distribution site we used to have?
DeleteI set aside my copy of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow because I had worked my way into the conclusion and it was getting rather overwhelming. Today I finished it, and I shall transcribe a bit:
ReplyDelete”We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of Kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift— a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred— and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ — a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece — that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western.’
. . .Max Planck once remarked that new scientific truths don’t replace old ones by convincing established scientists that they were wrong; they do so because proponents of the older theory eventually die, and generations that follow find the new truths to be familiar, obvious even. . .”
Putting this together with George Friedman’s theory in “The Storm Before the Calm” that the two great cycles of US history, the 80-year “institutional cycle” and the 50-year “socio-economic cycle,” converge during this decade, points toward an exciting ride indeed, but with the definite possibility of a safe landing. I sure hope so. . .
—Alan
One can certainly hope! (It beats despair.)
Deletetesting non-automatic log-in
ReplyDelete---Alan
So now to see if it happens automagically, as it did before.
DeleteThanks, Bill.
Peter Zeihan: What Lies Ahead For The World in Five Years [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Nalanda: India's ancient university rising from the ashes [Click]
ReplyDeleteWas Ancient Universe Full of Dark Stars Fueled By Dark Matter Annihilation? [Click]
ReplyDeleteThe James Webb Space Telescope might allow us to test this idea.
DeleteThe Hearing is AWESOME!! They aren't pullng any punches, and the focus is entirely on DT. Far more here than I even hoped for.
ReplyDeleteI have followed the happenings and investigation from the start. Watching the video tonight, I feel such anger toward the insurrectionists and the seditious former president. I feel they should be cast out of citizenship. I don't know why DT isn't being arrested and placed in jail. I hope the Justice Department acts swiftly.
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DeleteLet him have three hots and a flop at Fort Jefferson. For twenty years or so.
At very least, for LIFE.
DeleteI am strongly opposed to the death penalty, and tonight I have felt like questioning that.
Their citizenship should be revoked. Make them illegal residents.
DeleteMaybe they could make a point of not keeping a close eye on the former guy after he is ensconced at Fort Jefferson; after all, it's only about a hundred miles from Havana--he could zip over there and request political asylum. Just sayin'.
DeleteHere is Taegan Goddard’s summary of the hearing—- HOLY CATTLE! [Click] Colbert ought to knock it out of the park.
DeleteLeft-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate [Click] Talk about sneaky!
DeleteThose last three anonymouses were me. Guess I have to sign back in again.
Delete---Alan
Y’know, I didn’t feel Colbert did it Justice st all. He was funny and brief. I thought the Hearing deserved more honour than that.
ReplyDelete~ listener
I haven't been able to find it; I guess I won't bother. Thanks.
DeleteDan Rather said it well…
ReplyDeleteDan Rather’s take on the Hearing.
~listener
Dan Rather? He must be wrinkled up like an old prune!
DeleteYes, he said it well.
DeleteRather's reference to de Toucqueville's designation of America as female is interesting because not noticed. That the feminine principle continues to be contested is simply not obvious.
DeleteDoes it need to be obvious for the principle to succeed or can it be a stealth victory?
Are women supposed to be intimidated by the attacks on children? Children are always attacked by predatory males. Whether they are juveniles or young adults does not make much difference. Only, less effort is wasted when they are younger.
Now that reproduction is effectively rationed, the question is whether males will object to the waste.
Do all lives matter enough for the killing to be stopped?