Comedian Trump : Cartoonist’s View
Cartoon in celebration of Trumpian Science on West Coast Wildfires. Tip of the hat to TheWeek.com and Clay Jones @ claytoonz.com
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Trump and Russian Collusion
This weekend on the Sunday News talk shows the following idea got repeated over and over– “There is no direct evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians during the Presidential campaign”. The meme was repeated by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow on several shows, NYTimes David Brooks on Meet the Press, Amy Walter of the Cook …
The Clinton Minefield
Hillary Clinton and the DNC should be congratulated for a convention that produced more clearly stated testimonials for Hillary – Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Tim Kaine being the most eloquent. Likewise the attacks on Trump were very telling including Muslim father Khizr Khan, Independent Enterepreneur Michael Bloomberg, and Vice President Joe Biden . Clearly, the …
5 Questions for Democrats: Clinton Email Disaster
Why nominate a presidential candidate who used a private email server a)which was illegal according to the State Department and then used irresponsibly according to the FBI; b)so then she has had to continuously and profusely lie about its use; c)because she used it to avoid FOIA-Freedom Of Information Act requirements for disclosure by petitioning media and d)that …
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5 Questions for Democrats: Restoring Rule of Law and Financial Safety
Rule of Law and Financial Safety are deeply intertwined through the nexus of unfettered campaign financing allowed by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision. Justice Stevens dissenting opinion states the case succinctly – “the Court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation….a democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are …
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5 Questions for Democrats:Why Give Hillary So Much Leeway
Hillary Clinton has been the beneficiary of so much leeway by her party.First she has a former Campaign Manager as DNC Party Chair who instead of being neutral was actively working to give every advantage to Hillary throughout Primaries. Only because of WikiLeaks, has Debbie Wasserman Schulz been finally ousted from her post. Likewise early in the primaries …
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5 Questions for the Democratic Party: Elizabeth Warrens Endorsement Ambiguity
In our ongoing series of 5 questions of the Demoratic Party – here are 3 about Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren for the past 10 years has been a staunch advocate for Consumer Financial protection Reforms. This work has gained her open emnity from the Financial Community but also a legions of supports among Progressive from …
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Murder She Wrote
Hillary Rodham Clinton just got away with murdering Rule of Law, As a lawyer Hillary is pledged to uphold Rule of law; but she has quietly eviscerated Rule of Law with her privileged Elite Escape from Criminal Prosecution without any indictable offense on the use of her email server..Clearly it was not a mere convenience …
Titanic Split Threatens the GOP
The Grand Old Party is coming apart at the seams. For the past 10 years the Republican party has played loyal supporters to its 1% sponsors [think NRA, Climate Change deniers, Wall Street, etc, etc] while allowing its Tea Party rump of 40-50 House members to dictate policy that is increasingly unpopular with the GOP’s own …
Stains on Democracy: A Dysfunctional GOP
Here is the essential problem in America – the GOP has chosen to become nearly totally dysfunctional and deceitful. On deceit, GOPers know they can say with confidence that Democrats shade the truth and outright lie too. All they have to do is say “Benghazi” and “Obamacare will allow you to keep your healthcare plans …
Stains on Democracy: Worst Supreme Court Decision of Past 30 Years
Over and over Average Joes say Freedom of Speech and one-man=one- vote should be supreme and unquestioned in the US Democracy. But the problem of treating corporations and groups as equivalent to individuals is that the views of a very few, often the executive elite, determine the political views and contributions of the organization without …
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Protest Against NSA Surveillance
Click on the poster to get more information on the protest The terms of NSA Surveillance are way too broad Ally governments like Mexico, France, japan, etc are now subject to the same scrutiny as “terror” sources. And each day there is another revelation that NSA surveillance seeps into the US on an ever broader …
News Media: Succumbing to Lower Standards
Brett Arends has a very interesting post on MarketWatch – Why the NewsMedia is Worse Than You Think. He states his case succinctly: There have been the high profile goofs — by CNN, in its coverage of the Boston bombings, and by Howard Kurtz, the famous media “critic,” in a blog post about gay athlete …
The Real Obama Flaw: Wall Street Now Too Big To Jail
WhatNowCartoons The GOP has been attacking President Obama for all the Wrong Reasons: Benghazi Libyan embassy fight when the GOP had previously cut the State Departments defense funding. Or No New Taxes when there is general consensus that tax revenues have dried up and tax reform is way overdue. Or the constant return to Obama’s birth …
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What Was Said: Israeli Settlements in West Bank
The occasion of President Obama’s trip to Israel has triggered a number of different articles across Web news media. Remarkably, the topic continues to center on one issue – the ever expanding Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank territory. Now some will take exception to the notion of Palestinian West bank territory despite the …
Jennifer Rubin Makes A Righteous Fool of Herself
Almost as if on cue, Jennifer Rubin makes a righteous fool of herself in an Opinion Piece at the Washington Post about the Aurora Massacre Shootings. It is the same old. same old “Gun Controls would not work” which is music to NRA ears and a GOP which has gone draconian on any regulation. No …
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Justice in the Media
There is a growing Moral Vacuum in the US . It is about institutional interests that are able to shape and transcend Justice first internally and then in the broader public realm. Institution’s ability to delay and outwit Justice is an eternal gambit; however the stakes have become ever greater for 3 reasons: 1)Because the …
Moral Vacuum: Jerry Sandusky and the LIBOR Scandal
What possible connection can one make with convicted child molester, Penn State Assistant Football coach Jerry Sandusky, and the LIBOR interest rates set in London by a select list of 18 banks lead by Barclays Bank? Another bit of trash journalism or is there a possible connection? Jerry Sandusky, convicted child molester This last week, the …
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LIBOR = Continuing Corruption in Banking and Finance and Governance
When you think of the English, Justice and “Doing the Right Thing” they are almost synonymous. One has to think that near-failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock during the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis was just an anomaly. Just a whiff of the Wall Street Flu. The British run Wimbledon, the Olympics and …
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Openness: 4 Principles and a Deviant
This Ted talk by Don Tapscott on the fundamental attributes of Openness is illuminating: Don waxes highly hopeful about an Open Future. But there are stark counter-examples right now. Spain,much of Southern Europe and the MidEast have 40% or much higher youth unemployment. The crux of the problem is also covered in the lecture. Note …
Watch Tower Faith
This morning I had a strange encounter with two women from the WatchTower organization. They came to the door holding the Bible and asking me if I believed in the Bible while quoting from Scriptures. Now to put this situation in context, I am rushing to finish some computing work for a later meeting about …
The Wheels Are NOT Coming Off The Republican Party I
Ross Douthat at the NYTimes has written a spirited rebuttal of the notion that the Republican Primary Process has helped to scuttle the Party’s Presidential prospects. He insists that … well lets let Ross speak for himself: Let’s stipulate that this has not been the most edifying of primary seasons. The policy debates have often …
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Adobe’s Apple Conundrum
Adobe management has a major problem – the operating platform where 50% of its sales come from, Apple, has had top executives sabotaging Adobe’s products and market position. Worse, this abusive behavior has been going on for decades. True, the idea of development neutrality of Operating System vendors is at best only ethically binding [which …
The Big Lie : Viral Misinformation
In the last two years, more article are appearing from Wall Streeters who are questioning the budding financial myths on what caused the Financial Meltdown of 2007-2008. Here is a telling one by a Wall Street analyst, Barry Ritholtz that appeared in the Washington Post and has been picked up by a number of Share websites like …
Occupy Wall Street’s Enduring Message
Nicholas Kristoff at the NYTimes, has a very telling piece about the Bankers who brought about the 2007-2008 Financial meltdown. Recent disclosures by Bloomberg and others have made it clear that the $0.70 Trillion TARP bailout was just the tip of the iceberg as 10 time the TARP, or $7.0trillion has been spent to bailout …
The Level of Lying Stokes Radical Political Partisanship
In an article on her website, Ariana Huffington raises the issue of the level of lying in politics – Mitt Romney Brazenly Lies and the Media Lets Him Slide. Here is he crux of the complaint against Mitt Romney and his election team: The lie is found in Romney’s first television ad, run last week in New …
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The Corrosion of Israeli Democracy
The NYTimes has an article today Israel’s Other Occupation – that gets at the core issue in Israel, how its democracy is being corrupted by the West Bank Occupation. This is no small matter because Israel is an outsize player not just in Mid East politics but also as a shaper of US policy. For example, …
Why Congress Has Failed to Regulate Wall Street, Healthcare, Energy, etc.
The above 60 Minutes Report on how badly compromised members of Congress are is echoed in this report from the Daily Beast on Obama’s Energy Department graft that extends well beyond Solyndra. Clearly the US is teetering with political graft and scandal that extends across parties and is making Washington a place of Moral Compromise …
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Penn State Abuse: National Mirror
The Penn State Abuse case seems at first glance to be too dramatic and perhaps media lead. So a football coach was caught molesting a ten year old in the showers at Penn State. Shameful but not outside the bounds of experience [see US Swim team].So the football coach that obeserved it did not stop …