Despite Robust Economy Voters Fear

Sunshine and cool temps (comparatively speaking) this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley, near to closing out another nice autumn day. Despite some good numbers, the US economy revealed the wear-and-tear on itself, and even with the latest jobs report on Friday rippled the stock market with worries the Fed will step up —…

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Joe Shines — High Job Numbers Today Caps A Winning Week

In the darkness, sometimes there’s a flash of light. Maybe not enough to blind you, but enough to see the shift in the wind — and ascertain there could be hope in the face of a shitload of shitty news. Last Tuesday’s big win in Kansas is just one example, and today is further evidence…

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Ironic Insanity

A way-politicalized, straight-on clip that’s now all over the InterWebs since this morning, sure you’ve probably already seen it — I’m just going to pop it here where I can click on the post (especially from my iPad) see it again and again — right on the bulbous, enflamed nose: There’s more in the air…

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Climate Change Rehearsal In Real Time

Wet and chilly this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley as winter storms pound the state, dumping heavy rain on the flatlands and a shitload of snow in the mountains and foothills — major system reportedly due in tonight and another later in the week. Part-n-parcel of weather quick-snapping to climate change within a…

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Screaming At MonsterMash Manchin — ‘A Walking Conflict Of Interest’

Dense, chilly fog here mid-day Sunday in California’s Central Valley, a full-scale return to our ‘tule fog‘ bullshit once again after some rain last week, with the version this morning a thick, near-opaque gray in absolutely-zero wind — zilch in any kind of movement. A simile in the ugly Joe ‘MonsterMash’ Manchin — : In…

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An Attempted Coup, Polar Bears And Terrible Weather — ‘Really Abnormal’

In the flow of news this Thursday afternoon, here’s a potpourri post of politics and an oddity of what makes the nowadays weird as shit — and a future-looking narrow hope right now. If Republicans weren’t bad enough — Democrats have their own asshole stopper in putting the Build Back Better on hard hold (Wonkette…

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Scream Against The Night — Republicans Relentlessly-Ridiculously Ruthless

America is of two camps, one humane and thoughtful, the other, cruel and insane. In the dark shadow of the vicious future of murder and firearm control created by the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal, the House earlier today passed Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion social safety net expansion legislation (the BBB — Build Back Better bill), but…

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Goat Gossip — Historic Social Security Increase, Finally

A way-hearty laugh amid the constant shitstorms — (h/t tengrain): And in further news for a man who loves hearing a goat gossiping most-cutely across a fence is notice of an increase in Social Security checks, which as a retiree, I utterly and throatily applaud  — via CNN just a while ago: Social Security recipients…

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Time-Dealing On The Ceiling — MoscowMitch Munches Madness

Even as the world turns, the debt-ceiling trainwreck is still hollering on down the track with about two weeks left before the US powers off the rails into financial never-never land. Odd, though, the entire bullshit caper is spawned by a political party that doesn’t even pretend to give a shit about what happens to…

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