Month: October 2018

We Are Here to Witness

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Joyce Fienberg, 75, of Oakland Richard Gottfried, 65, of Ross Township Rose Mallinger, 97, of Squirrel Hill Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, of Edgewood Cecil Rosenthal, 59, of Squirrel Hill David Rosenthal, 54, of Squirrel Hill (Cecil and David Rosenthal are brothers) Bernice Simon, 84, of Wilkinsburg Sylvan Simon, 87, of Wilkinsburg​​​​​​​ (Bernice and Sylvan are husband … Read more

Let them eat pipe bombs – Open Thread

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by Ugh As the liberal illuminati outsmart themselves by sending pipe bombs to their own leaders in a horribly failed attempt to distract from the overwhelming menace of a caravan of more than 100,000 heavily armed foot soldiers of Middle Eastern descent steadily marching toward the U.S.'s naked southern border, and due to get closer … Read more

The unwanted guests

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by liberal japonicus There’s so much shit happening, it is hard to keep track. We’ve not talked about it here, but the migrant caravan is a pretty amazing example of when one thing goes wrong, everything goes wrong. The fact that a caravan like that, timed perfectly to encourage the Republican/Clickbait base when the elections … Read more

Oh Lordy Lordy – Open Thread

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by Ugh There is too much sh1t goin' on.  Can we go back to the good old days of no drama? Pls thx bai? Whatever. Go Sox, tho' I wouldn't mind a Brewers World Series victory (wait, did I just talk about baseball? Don't tell the Count). If Dems take the House you will see … Read more

Identity, inside or out: A post for National Coming Out Day

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by liberal japonicus

There was a bit of a back and forth in the comments that started out with musings about changing citizenship and moved into the idea of this post, which, by a bit of synchronicity, goes out shortly after National Coming Out Day (11 Oct), though nothing in the post is specifically about that.

I don’t mean to pile on here, but as someone who is going thru the process that was offhandedly mentioned, it really isn’t as easy as some might think. You might say because I’ve chosen Japan, I’ve made it hard on myself and maybe it would be a lot easier for some other country. That may be true, I’ve not considered taking citizenship in any other country. However, I’ve always thought that the retort to libertarians about going to Somalia had its power not because libertarian principles in Somalia are writ large there but because the apparently simple process of picking up stakes and moving to that libertarian paradise would require so much work that it might wake up the libertarian to how intertwined everything is to our system of laws and government. The easier it is for someone to move to Somalia, the less likely they are to enjoy the privileges afforded by rules and regulations.

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Climate Change “Realism”

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by russell (albeit indirectly) Check out the new (R) line on climate change. It’s happening anyway, probably not much we can do about it, none of that solar panel hippie crap is gonna work. And we don’t want to wreck the economy. What is it gonna cost to, for example, re-locate Miami, Senator? In America, … Read more

A shitshow for the ages

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by liberal japonicus From this https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-turks-have-tapes The Post is reporting that Turkish officials have told their US counterparts that they have audio and video recordings that prove Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. It appears that the claimed video evidence is more circumstantial. The audio evidence would appear to be from … Read more

Sometimes the shit comes down so heavy I feel like I should wear a hat. (a Brexit thread)

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by liberal japonicus From the Guardian A group of remain-backing Tory MPs are plotting to form a rival movement to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s highly effective Eurosceptics, with the aim of voting down Theresa May’s Brexit deal amid concerns that it would wreck the economy. On my distant understanding of this, Rees-Mogg looks to me like the … Read more

Political Open Thread

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by wj I know the previous post says it’s an open thread. But I didn’t want to hijack the poetry discussion. So here’s a new one. Two things. First, his stupid tariffs notwithstanding, Trump appears to be helping Canada’s economy on one front: building their high tech industry. He is making it ever harder for … Read more