It's not
about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.
The Obama "birther" story had a shelf life into his second term, with Trump stroking the flames from
day one. This story however concerns various sources which all point to Russia having blackmail
tapes and video on Donald Trump from not one but two incidents involving Russian hookers. And then
Trump accuses CNN of being a "fake" news pusher because he was upset that CNN was the first major
television news outlet to break the story. He refuses to take a question from the CNN reporter, but
then takes a question from the well-known fake news pusher Breitbart. Now I am not a fan of CNN. I
call them the "Corporate News Network" but publishing fluff stories is not the same thing as false.
Ignoring stories that affect the connected rich and corporations, or putting a certain paradigmatic
slant on whatever news story they present is not the same thing as fake.
That's not what Breitbart does. Breitbart publishes actual fake stories. Promotes them even.
Breitbart regularly allows politically contrived videos to be shown which give such a skewed
perspective that it is beyond a shift based on ideological preferences (like CNN) slicing speeches
and video in a way that portrays events in a false manner.
The corporate media may do a poor, incomplete job on reporting about matters that affect the
coin-counters in corporatocracy, but they don't publish fake stories unless they are planted by
political operatives and get snookered. "Fakebook" and Breitbart actually enable and sometimes
originate fake news to pollute the minds of the weak and ignorant. There are people who are paid to
produce daily memes and content on Facebook. The corporate media however is more
sophisticated. It does the job by making the perspective sound reasonable, by using selected facts
to make an argument.
So when Trump calls the Corporate News Network "Fake News" ... Me thinks you protest too much, kind
sir.
If people talk shit about me that I know is not true, I laugh. I could give a shit less. If
people wanna listen to liars, that's their choice. True friends will see your heart. When you get
upset about other people talking shit, it's because there is some element of truth in what people
are saying.
Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 2h 58m 5s
New Poem
I write a new poem today. Oh joy
I call it ... Hypocrisy.
It’s team A versus team B
versus teams C and D
and maybe even E
and then of course there is always
team I don’t give a fuck
about this team bullshit
can you just leave me alone
and let me live my damn life
without all this pressure and fucking pretense
about
TEAM.
Yes yea I know
I know there ain’t no “I” in TEAM
but that’s like saying no cat will eat out of a dog’s bowl
or all the stars in heaven can never be seen as once.
Yea duh no shit mother fucker
everyone realizes the letter “I” is nowhere to be found in the four letters that constitute
the word “TEAM”.
Are you implying something about my personal character when you bring this shit up
during the most odd instances.
Me pointing at inconsistency
You saying how I am insensitive.
Me saying that your words are inaccurate
You saying that I don’t appreciate you.
Me saying that you are full of shit.
You
you say that I have no respect.
Look man
if I call you out on your bullshit
that has nothing to do with whether I give a fuck or care
the fact that I bother means
by default
that I care
so don’t belittle the genuine perspective and honest logical argument
with some disclaimer or denial
that resides within your own
obvious
weakness
your own obvious insecurity.
When the emperor wears no clothes
you can either cheer
or snicker
or ignore
or distract
but you can never deny the truth in the nakedness of hypocrisy
because it will always be there
for all to see.
Thursday, 12 January 2017 at 2h 28m 0s
Oh by the way ...
This is how these fucking people operate ...
LAUREN WINDSOR (narrator): Convicted criminal and right-wing con artist James O'keefe and
his cohorts in the Trump Foundation-funded Project Veritas are at it again; this time, infiltrating
progressive groups in an attempt to create a storyline smearing progressives by promising to fund
money for violent schemes to unsuspecting advocates. But this time the tables were turned. We
received a tip on suspicious behavior and immediately recognized O'Keefe's malicious handiwork. We
partnered with Ryan Clayton of Americans Take Action and launched a counter-sting.
Two days later, the weather North of Hawaii, spun by the Hawaiian Pineapple express, sends
California a whole lotta wet.
And it's looking like another 7 straight days of wonderful wet weather. That's why they call this
the Pineapple Express. Notice the group of clouds Northeast of Hawaii, that's 4 or 5 days from now
weather. The strong band you see about 1000 miles east of Hawaii is going to spin everything just
north of
Hawaii over into California, and then crash into California. The whole process can take 10 days
once it gets established over the Pacific waters just East of Hawaii.
Now just in case you didn't see the expected inches of rainfall in the graphic above. Adding
Saturday and Sunday alone, you get 3.5 inches of rain. The rest of the week looks to spill out
another 2 plus inches of rain. That's 5.5 in one week in a part of the world that averages 23.6 per
YEAR !!! Which is almost 25% of the yearly total in just 7 days, 1.9% of the year.
Honestly, Obama is surprising me about both his recent actions and his post-Presidential attempts to
get involved in the various state anti-democratic actions, in particular "Gerry-Mandering" voting
districts. Which is older than the KKK by the way -- hey that rhymes :-). All the way since
BEFORE the America revolt against Britain in the 1770 to 1780 time frame, as far back at the later
1600's in fact.
Obama's 9 year
Attorney General, Eric Holder -- who could not hold Wall Street financiers accountable for a single
offence -- has been recently hired by California Jerry Brown to represent the state in any and all
probable law suits the state takes against the incoming Federal administration. This is the same
guy who made a big to-do against various California pot medical dispensaries -- but unable to
prosecute a single Wall Street or big-bank criminal -- during Obama's first term. Nevertheless, I
look at his with an open mind, because I trust Jerry Brown.
Boy am I so glad to be a Californian at this point in American history.
Full disclosure. I have met and have spoken with governor Jerry Brown's brother infrequently. He is a
law professor at USF. Interesting person and mind. The entire family, all the way back to the
father, ex-governor Edmund "Pat" Brown from 1959 to 1967. Responsible for the state water project,
"Pat" Brown is the reason why California is great today.
Even though I am usually skeptical of Wikipedia, Wikipedia is fair on this matter.
Opposition to the State Water Project was immediate, especially with Sacramento River Delta users
worrying about saltwater intrusion which had already been a concern without factoring in redirection
of outward freshwater flow. Residents of the Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California were
concerned about the increase in water draw the South might demand as populations expanded. While
Southern support for the project was clear, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
worried that the project did not ensure permanent rights to Northern water. This lead the
legislature to amend the plan, prohibiting the state's southern water rights from being rescinded,
clearing any remaining reservations from the state's southern water authorities.
Governor Brown was a staunch supporter of the plan, energetically opposing critics and seeking
solutions. He lobbied Congress to exempt California from the 160 acre rule, lauding the benefit of
employment and progress to the state's northern and southern residents, calling for an end to the
north-south rivalry. Brown also reduced his introductory bond issuance from $11 billion to $1.75
billion, beginning a television campaign to appeal to residents. Governor Brown insisted on the
Burns-Porter Act which sent the bond issue to a referendum; the 1960 vote saw Butte County as the
sole Northern California county not voting against the measure. However, the growth in Southern
California's population lead to the plan's adoption.
Thom Hartmann :"Why aren't the Democrats doing anything about this?"
Hello, that was my question, spoken loudly on this blog fucking one month ago. Thanks Thom.
And would you look at that queer
scowl on James Clapper's face (current head of CIA) ? Almost like he's ashamed that his asshole is
where his mouth is located, and hopes no one realizes it during the brief duration when he has to
speak in front of cameras and video recording devices. Creepy.
Mike Papantonio :"The Corporate-controlled media won't touch issues like [this] because
they're
not sensational enough, uh, they can't make the story appealing enough to an audience with a 30
second attention span so they feed us absurd fake news about Russia hacking the election or [what]
Donald
Trump ... tweeted this morning.
Right now you see the new DNC [Democratic National Committee] ... It's outrageous. The 'new' DNC
Leadership -- which is nothing more than the Hilary camp -- is now making the Russian hacking story
their number one attention. This is the number one story they are paying attention to rather than
voter suppression that probably killed them in the last election. We know that Republican trolled
states have been systematically purging Democratic voters for at least 16 years. And these methods
keep evolving."
Yikes, Mike really tears apart the corporatist Democratic establishment. Awesome skewering. The
"Pap" attack is spot on, and really shows his feisty fearless intellect for those of you who may not
be familiar with this fellow Southern Italian. (I admit to being a fan)
We got Trump largely because Kris Kobach got 28 state Republican Secretary’s of State to send him
their voter registration lists so that he could run a computer program called “cross check” that
removed loosely associated names under the pretense that these were persons who were double
registered. Hence Michael Eugene Jackson of Georgia was matched with Michael Lebrun Jackson of
Virginia, and Donald Alexander Webster Jr. of Ohio was matched with Donald Eugene Webster Sr. of
Virginia. Over 7 million persons were paired in this way, and had their names removed off the
voting rolls. When they showed up to vote, they had to vote on provisional ballots, most of which
were never counted. 75,355 ballots in Michigan alone were not counted, in a state where Donald
Trump won by only 10,704 votes. And those votes largely came from Detroit and Flint, majority-Black
cities that vote Democratic.
This happened in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, and all throughout the 28 states who sent
their registration lists to Mr. Kobach. This was why the Republican establishment stonewalled Jill
Stein’s recount efforts, otherwise why would they deny democracy if they were not afraid of their
anti-democratic actions? Instead, Jill Stein and Democrats are called “sore-losers” or “cry babies”
who “waste tax payers dollars” when really it’s as simple as Jill Stein standing up for democracy
and the right of citizens to have their votes counted.
Kris Kobach’s state of Kansas was the only state out of 50 states not to respond to a recent New
York Times survey of actual voter fraud, of which less than 100 incidents were actually legally
acted upon, 65 of which were in the combined total of Georgia and Tennessee. According to the New
York Times: "The findings unambiguously debunk repeated statements by President-elect Donald J.
Trump that millions of illegal voters backed his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.”
Thursday, 5 January 2017 at 1h 38m 0s
Modern Weather
This is how I discern the weather nowadays. I go look at Intellicast.com and see the West Coast
Pacific Satellite imaging.
Notice that counter-clockwise weather system spinning rain out of the Pacific that is just North of
Hawaii. That's called the "Pineapple Express". It usually means rain for the next four or five days.
Then I check out Wunderground.com for San Francisco, and look at the following panorama of weather
data displayed graphically
Yikes, looks like this weekend is gonna be rain, rain, and more rain. Confirmed by the satellite
imagery.
Back in the day, people actually watched the weatherman on a regular basis, or listen to the radio
to get weather information. The National Weather Service nationalized the collection of weather
information so that citizens would not have to pay a premium to get less than reliable weather.
During the 1980's and 1990's the Weather Channel developed a way to provide radar information from
the National Weather Service. Every 10 or 15 minutes, you got to see a radar of the region where
you lived -- Pacific, Northwest, Southwest, California, Southeast, Mountain-central, Mid-South,
Mid-west, Northeast, and so on.
Once the internet came, people got access to the raw data from those
who set up graphical imaging and data displays, like Intellicast and Wunderground. A lot of people
get their weather from cell phone app nowadays, but all of these sources are using data obtained by
the National Weather Service. If these businesses had to include the cost of collecting such data
themselves, these companies would have a lot more overhead, and more than likely eventually skimp on
certain data analysis. Or if not, the cost of the service would be prohibitive, just like many
hi-end university data and library collection systems (like Lexus-Nexus) -- sometimes costing $600
or more per year. The result would inevitably be a secondary market of substandard or stripped
services controlled by the data collection agents.
Which is a perfect example of what government does well. Governments invest the tax collections into
developing basic or necessary infrastructure so that other businesses can take advantage of the cost
or service savings and not distort the market into oligarchical funnels. If every single thing that
is needed by or necessary for society gets outsourced to private firms, than what happens is the gradual
devolution into those firms who control the necessary check points in the distribution system of
goods and
services, and those firms who do not. The market becomes oligarchical and the quality of service
becomes fractured or
stratified into rent-seeking tiers.
Government not only needs to be a functioning part of every economic order for capitalism to
properly function, but also to ensure that the needs of the community and society will inhibit the
inherent bent
of mankind to evolve into aristocracy, irrationality, and authoritarian regimes.
Sunday, 1 January 2017 at 21h 33m 45s
Global Trade Visualized
Sunday, 1 January 2017 at 19h 21m 22s
REM Michael Stipe on the Colbert Show
REM (1980-2011) did this song when I was in college. Michael Stipe was the lead singer -- he's the
guy with the gray-white beard in the above video. I loved REM
at the time, and this song in particular. "It's the End of the World" from 1987, which is the year I
started Freshmen year in college at Tulane University. My roomate, Tim Conley, introduced me to
REM, and this song was my favorite when I heard it in the Fall of 1987. THANKS TIM :-)
David Brooks' "opinion" is often contrived,
highly compromised with obvious biased agenda, and is even comical with its pathetic bloviating
ability to
ramble on trying to weave a nonsensical argument. Driftglass is incessant in a long term attempt to point out how David Brooks is
full of shit.
When David comes on PBS and debates Mark Shields I was always able to point out Mr. Brooks
subtle deceptions and blatant incongruities. He has been a plant of respectable reason and has
betrayed that assumption more than half the time. His purpose is to appear reasonable sometimes,
only to suddenly turn on a dime and make proclamations that don't relate to whatever reasonable
opinion he most recently espoused. He is a dagger. Just when he starts to make to make sense, wham,
you get hit with the irrational statement that leaves his real intent bare. David Brooks is a hired
word assassin. He is sponsored by that segment of the corporate elite that rely on Mr. Brooks to
"gum-up-the-works" and provided a courtier role of justifying the corporate paradigm in a way that
might be palatable with the upper middle class and educated classes.