Well, this is quite a step down. The Faux coverage is awful, continually interrupted for commercials and focusing only on favored breeds. It fully justifies my attention to the UConn Huskies 100th consecutive victory last night in a game at Gampel which was closer than the score would indicate. There are 5 teams that could …

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(originally in orange Sat Jun 17, 2006 at 07:01 PM PDT) I repeat it annually because there are lessons I don’t want to forget. Can you handle the truth?  How about a good story? If you are a regular reader you may know that I was State Co-ordinator of my meatspace club.  You may not …

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It’s once again time for that annual celebration of inbreeding and genetic disease that is the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Dogs have many admirable qualities including undeserved, unconditional love and should you have one in your temporary care I urge you to cherish it as I have mine (many over a century and a …

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Well poke me with a stick (it’s the only way to be sure). The atheist in me says that when you’re dead, you’re dead so it doesn’t much matter if they burn you, bury you, or eat you, you past parrot- you’re pushing up daisies in any event unless they nail you to your perch …

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As elections approach in Germany, France, and Italy (the 3 largest economies in the European Union if you take out Britain, which you should because of Brexit) parties of the Neo Liberal Center, Left and Right, seem destined to suffer electoral defeat at the hands of Populist Parties of the Right and Left. I’ll not …

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Funny, isn’t it, how almost all the documented cases are Republicans. Republican green-card holder who voted illegally in Texas gets 8 years in prison By Amy B Wang, Washington Post February 11 at 5:54 PM A permanent U.S. resident living in Texas has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting, a punishment …

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In the dim recesses of their feckless minds Institutional Corporatist Democrats sense that something has changed. This week in Baltimore they had a meeting to try and figure out what it is. Even some reliably mercenary office holders like Chuck Schumer understand that voters are no longer buying their line of Republican-lite Neo Liberal crap …

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Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers by Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 2017-02-10 The controversy dates back to 1996, when Ed Loomis, then a computer systems designer for the NSA, along with his team worked to move the NSA’s collection capabilities from the analog to the digital world. The shift would allow …

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I trust you understand I’d not normally quote National Review, a fountain of ‘Fake News’, lies, and bias, but I found this piece instructive in understanding the magnitude of the victory in the Ninth Circuit yesterday. The Ninth Circuit’s Power Grab National Review Editors February 10, 2017 1:04 PM The Ninth Circuit’s decision against President …

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I think I’ve made it clear enough that I think Republicans are reprehensible representatives of the bigoted, misogynous, rascist authoritarians that make up the 30% of the United States population who think the War Against Slavery was a War of Northern Aggression, and greedy parasitic Plutocrats that feel dispossessed and robbed now that that it’s …

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So another snow apocalypse is coming. This one is sort of unusual because Stars Hollow was in the mid 60s today. It starts with freezing rain at midnight and progresses to 8″ – 12″ by late afternoon with periods of up to 2″ per hour, all of it wet and heavy. Then comes the bone …

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Edward Snowden on The Real News