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Thursday, June 04, 2015

Checks and balances of having a FISA court to hold NSA excesses in check.

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Summer 2025. The Hands Off Rally at the Minnesots Capitol in St. Paul

People in numbers express themselves. Power holders BEWARE. [ click it to full size ]

Better pled than dead. (From Jeffrey's perspective, if not yours).

Better pled than dead. (From Jeffrey's perspective, if not yours).

Pled-Florida. Dead-New York, somehow, some way - while in custody.

Saluting a triumph of will.

Saluting a triumph of will.

If his cars don't sell, he's got idle plant and equipment. With the cash not flowing.

A sign of out times.

A sign of out times.

An ever expanding sentiment. It is how you get Elon's attention.

Marley tune time.

Marley tune time.

click image to open tune.

Donald J. Trump

<i>Donald J. Trump</i>

Train wreck 45. Train wereck 47. Provocateur, June 6.

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Hands Off !!!

Hands Off !!!

The mark of the Soviet Union's demise - everybody queueing up.

DeepSeek talent generations.

Months into things, uncertainty. Yet, TRUMP 47, so far, is memorable.

Months into things, uncertainty. Yet, TRUMP 47, so far, is memorable.

Billionaire tax breaks and masked men grabbing people off the street.

Click the image. Read more here.

Can we do better? If the two parties would let us, yes. If not, no.

Can we do better? If the two parties would let us, yes. If not, no.

Those taking Wall Street money should not be drafting banking law.

The International Criminal Court Wants YOU !

The International Criminal Court Wants YOU !

Donald J. Trump

Donald J. Trump

Believe it or don't? Easy to handwave that way. Anybody can. Donald Power is his major mojo. And family. And accretion.

Sorceror's Apprentice

Sorceror's Apprentice

Imitation - The master's hand sign. Goes with the dog whistle.

Some lifetime grifters display the style and content quality of a Mens Warehouse ad. I guarantee it.

Some lifetime grifters display the style and content quality of a Mens Warehouse ad. I guarantee it.

Believe a lifetime grifter? Many did. A tough crappy steak might be all we get. With a side order of bullshit.

Still True - Always has been - We can do better - HOPE for CHANGE

Still True - Always has been - We can do better - HOPE for CHANGE

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Overreaching? Hope they don't sink the boat, and just rock it. Please save what we have that works.

Overreaching? Hope they don't sink the boat, and just rock it. Please save what we have that works.

SCOTUS got packed. The Capitol got stormed. Project 2025 looms large in their minds. Mexico didn't pay. BUT THEY WON. SO NOW WE MUST HOPE THEY DON'T FUCK UP TOO BADLY. THEY MIGHT EVEN IMPROVE SOMETHING. YOU NEVER KNOW.

Kamala and Tim lost. So, hello, Donald and JD Vance.

Kamala and Tim lost. So, hello, Donald and JD Vance.

click image, read about history and problems, now, even with Trump not losing the election. (even now agendas can shift and get better)

GREATEST

GREATEST

Netanyahu courted by opportunistic pols. Bibi Bros think they're on track. Long term they face Iran.

Netanyahu courted by opportunistic pols. Bibi Bros think they're on track. Long term they face Iran.

Unfortunately there's no conscience between the three of 'em. Plenty chutzpah and hubris, but no conscience.

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

What might he say about "WAR ROOM" in general? "Loathing" a part of it, as a guess.

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Man with two teleprompters, comfortable cliches, Davos flavored.

Man with two teleprompters, comfortable cliches, Davos flavored.

YOUTUBE - Davos 2017 - Special Address by Joe Biden - after intro Biden starts at three minute mark. Globalism espoused. Empty words, empty suit, or careful craftmanship to speak at length enunciating a paucity of CHANGE or HOPE?

Rabid Christian Nationalist -and- Election Denial key "architect" speaks at a podium.

Rabid Christian Nationalist -and- Election Denial key "architect" speaks at a podium.

This link for Christian Nataionalism -and- click the image for Election Denial.
photo credit: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., center; Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., left; GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., right; and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., far right, at a Capitol press conference on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)

Background and foreground.

Background and foreground.

Saluting Henry Kissinger

Saluting Henry Kissinger

Samuel Clemens, "I never wish death on any man. But some obituaries are of more interest to me than others."

Friends of the U.S. of A? Who says?

Friends of the U.S. of A? Who says?

Click the image for some 2022 crystal balling. We have push and should use it. Fixing is needed.

We understand. They don't. The education system failed. Or did it meet its goal?

We understand. They don't. The education system failed. Or did it meet its goal?

Mike Johnson has that little bit of Paul Ryan in him, else he'd never be Speaker on smooth talked bigotry alone.

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

Click the image for a Rudy Retrospective. So egregious as mayor of NYC from 1993 through 2001, that he was sued 30 times by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), and the NYCLU won 27 of the cases. Iron fisted speech-suppressing demagogue/idiot.

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

Were Hunter Thompson still alive, would he write of this, and what might he say?

The image fits unless/untill he loses the election. Then, Kaput.

People were different back then, yes/no? In handling academic disagreement, differing dogma, etc.

Michael Servetus,

Modern Times.

Modern Times.

George Floyd died saying -

Come and see.

Come and see.

Come and buy.

scary

scary

SCARY: Why even in retrospect I cannot hate Trump as some do.

SCARY: Why even in retrospect I cannot hate Trump as some do.

Kissinger is total evil. Trump's win sidetracked this.

NWO -- New World Order

NWO -- New World Order

Somebody had to pay for the truck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-DbHH3xgA4

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

Not just been there, done that. Being here. Doing it.

Not just been there, done that. <i>Being here. Doing it.</i>

Hi, y'all. Recognize me?

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

Yoda teaches

Yoda teaches

"Enter at center. Right makes might. Left is bereft. Steer always to the right. The door will revolve for you."

Four golfers, each under par - each keeping his own score.

And what they can discuss while teeing up, all manner of banter and promises, including to not keep score on the others. (which they do anyway).

An emoting Q-inspired Jabberwock commentator.

An emoting Q-inspired Jabberwock commentator.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

Halfway to the Brave New World [Order]. Any wonder on what's next?

That NWO of George W.H. Bush. Some say the initials are "H.W" - for Herbert Walker, but I say "W.H." - for Willie Horton. And they say Trump is racist. Or that he uses racism as a weapon. Trump invented nothing Bush the Elder had not already used. Same party. Same script. Great pair of families.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Human Rights Watch reporting: "April 27, 2021 -- A Threshold Crossed -- Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution" If you cannot trust Human Rights Watch, who can you trust? Mainstream media? Trump? Biden? The State Department? U.S. Intelligence Services? Netanyahu? Mossad? Congress? U.N. Security Council veto power? [click here to read the HRW report about Israeli war crime (pdf version). For hypertext version, this link.]

A dog & pony show with liberty and justice for all.

A dog & pony show with liberty and justice for all.

click the photo - get the show

The election WAS rigged well before Trump's convention nod.

The election WAS rigged well before Trump's convention nod.

About quitting on Clyburn's cue, Mayor Pete got his, so - the nitty gritty. What's in it for me?

PROUD BOY

PROUD BOY

If dad could see me now.

PROUD BOY

PROUD BOY

If dad could see me now.

Whose Party is it; moreover, who sold it and when was it purchased?

Whose Party is it; moreover, who sold it and when was it purchased?

click the image, read it, then read the Variety story (and follow the link in it to the moneybags suck-up letter). Then - Weep for the people. They lack great wealth and cannot buy suck-up politician-attention from those making lifetime earnings selling it.

DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT.

DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT.

click the image, read the story, fund those better than this

US.

US.

Chomsky - Idealistic formulisms used in media and implementation actualities apart from the words.

This YouTube video.

Chomsky: HigherEducation for what, for whom - engineering it to yield the PAYOFF wanted by ownership

This YouTube video.

Chomsky interview put on YouTube Nov. 2016. A Trump presidency requirem given in advance.

This YouTube video.

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Trump - and Roy Cohn before he died. Tight friendships with racism rampant and ripe. Plus more.

This link, for story behind the image. This link, for roots of racism fitting the man's ill-mannered tweetstorm about four very popular and dynamic members of Congress, hating at one in particular from Minnesota.

lingering disease of the mind

lingering disease of the mind

Feminists? Lukewarm christians? (Hot ones okay? Athiests get a pass?) click the image

What Evil Empire, huh? You're delusional.

What Evil Empire, huh? You're delusional.

What Evil Empire, huh? You're delusional.

What Evil Empire, huh? You're delusional.

KAPITAL: The invisible hand

Guardian in one morning, here, here and here. Don't you just love bankers, Republican governors, and insurance executives? So principled. So sensible. So determined ... Bloomberg, Trump, Goldman Sachs, the Clintons, Hunter Biden and Jarad Kushner enjoy Kapital. US don't matter to them.

MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

We all know MAGA. However, MYOGA is the actual Trump-aim. Click here for the original image/story context (without Crabgrass added text on image). You, treasured reader, got jobbed, (more so your offspring who'll be held to pay). Click the image to see a bigger picture of that ostentatiously grotesque Yacht (with added text easier to read), photographed during a Mediterranean escapade for yacht-worthy wealthy ones. Less than special: non-yacht owners this.

DON'T DISGRACE THE UNIFORM. DISGRACE YOURSELVES, FINE. BUT NOT THE UNIFORM.

DON'T DISGRACE THE UNIFORM. DISGRACE YOURSELVES, FINE. BUT NOT THE UNIFORM.

Which of these cops were disciplined for appearing in a political advertisement IN UNIFORM? On the government timeclock at the time? What other creepy stuff, we can only guess. STILL online!. Video, online.

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Public Servant? Stop joking. Serving his only two masters. K Street. Wall Street.

In dire need of a DNA transplant from Bernie or Liz. Or from AOC (closer to home). To get his mind right. Only that can save him from remaining a permanent tool of street bastards.

KAUS - a theme for silly campaign hats. Keep America Unjust Still.

KAUS - a theme for silly campaign hats. <i>Keep America Unjust Still.</i>

No time for losers. WE ARE THE CENTRISTS. We are the centrists -- Of the WORLD! (Hooray. We can sing it without objection. Freddie's dead. We are the Senate, We are the Senate, Oh my God.).

Were I a billionaire, I might fault the thought if I clicked the image and read it.

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But wait. There's more -

But wait. There's more -

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

Bernie at the People's Summit. Click the image to watch the video.

Bernie at the People's Summit. Click the image to watch the video.

Democracy Now! posted to YouTube. If you've not an hour to watch this you have the spirit of a brick. Or you're a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Fool me once . . .

Fool me once . . .

Twisted seconds of evil?

Twisted seconds of evil?

click image, watch, judge for the sake of our nation's children and their offspring.

Be skeptical of glib bullshit fed out absent a sense of history.

Be skeptical of glib bullshit fed out absent a sense of history.

Remembering Bubba's 1990's ham-handed and short-sighted tampering in Russian politics on behalf of an arguably mediocre buffoon might relate to blowback happening these days with Panama Papers Putin.

Being Tutored

Being Tutored

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Just Do It! Nike Anniversary

Just Do It! Nike Anniversary

click the image - for its source and story

Catch the Fire

Catch the Fire

a website "revised" header logo element explaining a lot which the website text declines to explain -- the motive for text selective silence being a guess with your guess as good as mine. Click the image.

Catch the Fire symbology is not " the promise of America" as Ted Cruz facebook says --

Catch the Fire symbology is not " the promise of America" as Ted Cruz facebook says --

It symbolizes Dominion Theology, a bad trip some would lay on us, one which cuts contrary to the First Amendment's anti-establishment clause, as informed people know it and respect it.

A bike rack? How demeaning of the host of uncertainties one death unleashed.

A bike rack? How demeaning of the host of uncertainties one death unleashed.

please always question authority in action and never entirely accept official explanations

The one on the right is the Gipper's communicator.

The one on the right is the Gipper's communicator.

click the image, watch a video

People have to suffer to sing the Blues.

People have to suffer to sing the Blues.

Ultimate aim would be to show enough money can buy happiness, at least for malefactors of great wealth, and just lie to the peasantry. That is today's Republican Experiment. Honor it. Believe. Moreover, Dickens erred. Scrooge was not elderly, he was a middle-aged Wisconsin man with Munster hair and charmless. Koch ghosts haunted his younger thoughts until he got his mind right.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.

Just an old sweet song.

Politics aside: The most substantial and lasting news from Georgia recently is Gregg Allman's death. It happened without any major fundraising on either side, Gregg or the Reaper; with Gregg finally facing the real and only "One Way Out.".

Not leaving it there, there is a signature talent and song so let it rock.

Bubba and Blankfein do lunch at the Boca Raton Resort And Country Club.

Bubba and Blankfein do lunch at the Boca Raton Resort And Country Club.

Click here and learn from a video.

Non-socialists, having a good laugh.

Non-socialists, having a good laugh.

image credit: New York Times "And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock."

Non-socialists, having a good laugh.

Non-socialists, having a good laugh.

Brothers in spirit. Holding kindred dynastic yearnings, which got trumped. Should we anticipate better times as we await Trump's competence? Don't laugh for too long. The bar is set by precedent.

ALEC and its class war aimed to hamstring local initiative.

ALEC and its class war aimed to hamstring local initiative.

Click the image to read the report of coordinated nationwide effort in state legislatures to curb wage and work condition relief by local ordinance. .....................................

Earth will not get mad.

Earth will not get mad.

click image -- Then, imagine the time frame on which Earth will get even. "Not in my lifetime" is a cop-out. As is "Maybe not ...". Unconditional denial is either fraud or vast unrecognized ignorance.

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MONEY allowed THEM to do THIS to US.

MONEY allowed THEM to do THIS to US.

So, replace and fix the process. But beware. There are a multitude of THEM. Fungible and waiting. Fungible in retrospect.

No, not dressed for roles in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

No, not dressed for roles in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

Actual sartorial decision making by Cambridge Analytica after doing a full micro personality assessment of each. One as if having a Gilbert and Sullivan role, the other as if a mid-level Russian Cold War commissar from midway along the Trans Siberian Railway, but with ambition toward a Kremlin posting. Brecht died before he could write a role for Yeltsin. Nevermind; They deserve an old-fashioned Tune Time.

Bipartisanship

Bipartisanship

... and I agree with my friends. My friends agree with their friends, while the friend of my friend is the enemy of my enemies and their friends, and the friend of an enemy of the friends of my enemy is -- wait, I lost the thread ... Well, okay, how about this one, this Shia walks into a Sunni bar and sez, ...

We know, we know, so off askance we go?

We know, we know, so off askance we go?

Of a feather. Flocking together.

Of a feather. Flocking together.

Guardian, here. Also, click the image.

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dictionary definition -

dictionary definition -

A long-standing definition. You can tell by how the paper's aged.

Judged not by the color of their skin but by their quality of character?

Judged not by the color of their skin but by their quality of character?

Judged by the quantity of their votes. Numbers ruled.

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