War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
As we work our way through this miserable age of political bullshit in the time of coronavirus, the focus on just how terrible and cruel are Republicans is obvious to anyone with walking-around sense. There’s only two political parties in the US that has any actual power (the rest are personal crusades) and one of…
As I posted yesterday about vote suppression across the US by Republicans, it seems Georgia is not alone in bullshit hypocrisy with Arizona a way-prime example: The GOP is fucked with voters and they know it, and the only way around this Constitutional barrier is to bullshit with Arizona just one of a shitoad of…
An unexpected pleasure: Via the Guardian‘s live blog: With the flick of his pen, Biden signed into law a $1.9tn coronavirus relief package, cementing the first major legislative victory of his presidency. “This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving the people of this nation, working people, the middle class…
Less than two months after taking office, Joe Biden has popped a grand slam: Despite what Republicans are blubbering, this package will help take care of Americans — details via Vox about an hour ago: The American Rescue Plan, which Biden first unveiled in January, will deliver aid to millions of Americans and inject funds across…
Rain expected any time now this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, although showers were forecast to have arrived already, and the way this winter is going, rain-wise, it may not come at all. We’re hurting for water. What’s also in a weird-ass hurt is GOP DC politcians facng the overwhelmingly-popular support from Americans…
(Illustration: A coin issued by Brutus in the autumn of 42 B.C., encrypted with EID MAR (Eidibus Martiis – on the ‘Ides of March’), and was found here). By Eva M. Hardly a surprise. However, I just couldn’t help but shake my head in disgust yesterday when I read that part of Joe Biden’s relief…
(Illustration found here). “The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.” — George Carlin When I was growing up in the 1950s/1960s the so-called “American Dream” was real as “Father Knows Best,” and seemed to carry a lot of weight with adult-like people. As George…
Way-quickly after the SCOTUS ruling on Monday that the T-Rump’s accounting firm must turn over tax records to New York DA Cyrus Vance’s office, the documents are in the hands of prosecutors: Background/details via CNN this morning: “Our office obtained the records on Monday,” said Vance spokesman Danny Frost. Mazars’ (T-Rump’s long-time accounting firm) spokesman…
There’s no art to the deal if you cheat on your taxes and then get caught — T-Rump lost a precious point today and hopefully edged closer to a jail cell as SCOTUS ruled in a one-sentence order, with no recorded dissents, that his tax records are to open to prosecutors: Not only did the…
In this era of bluster, lies and pretense, could a new study from the UK (and apparenty most concerned with Brits) also be present in the US, that is, why do people of priviledge sometimes talk-down their personal history, shifting their ‘origin stories’ from rich to poor, thus, falsely claiming their current status was due…
