A collection of articles defining our times. The pages contain clickable links, don't let the titles fool you, some of the best articles have very non-descript titles and there are usually more articles on the matters in the days and week pages the links land on so it's a sort of treasure hunt through history, Enjoy!
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Police: KKK Grand Wizard Shot, Wife And Stepson Arrested In Missouri | Crooks and Liars
Police: KKK Grand Wizard Shot, Wife And Stepson Arrested In Missouri | Crooks and Liars
KKK Grand Wizard Frank Ancona was found dead by a Missouri river on Sunday after his son reported him missing. Now his wife and stepson have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Truly, this is a weird story.
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This story should sever to show you just how sick and insane supremacist are. Several days of planning this murder, to conceal the perpetrators of a capital crime, produced a plan that would not fool an elementary school child. Yet, they went through with it anyway! This is because their inanity would not let them see the flaws. I'll guess that the GW could have figured out he was a target, because these fools were so stupid, but he also could not see it through the clouds of his own insanity.
Make no mistake, supremacist are incredibly dangerous people, not just to "others" but to themselves, as this story illustrates. Some may mask their insanity with varying degrees of learned social skills, but the very idea that they are something special by race, creed or religion etc., such that "others" can or should be done away with, is the height of psychopathic insanity.
Friday, February 17, 2017
Thursday, February 16, 2017
As White House Spirals Into Crisis, What Will Congress Do? GOP Leaders Face Unhappy Choice @alternet
As White House Spirals Into Crisis, What Will Congress Do? GOP Leaders Face Unhappy Choice @alternet: As Trump's White House implodes, congressional Republicans must confront a dilemma: their country or their agenda.
There Is a Growing Movement Across the Legal Community to Plan a Nationwide Walkout Against Trump @alternet
There Is a Growing Movement Across the Legal Community to Plan a Nationwide Walkout Against Trump @alternet: Legal professionals are throwing their weight behind Friday's call for a mass strike.
A United States of Hate Has Exploded Under Trump @alternet
A United States of Hate Has Exploded Under Trump @alternet: The Trump administration has ripped the lid off a Pandora’s Box of racial, right-wing hate as the Southern Poverty Law Center reveals
Why Stephen Miller Comes Off as a D*ck @alternet
Why Stephen Miller Comes Off as a D*ck @alternet: Trump's messenger is like all the most unlikable know-it-alls you've ever met all rolled up into one.
Momentum Grows for a General Strike: Will Various Groups Come Together? @alternet
Momentum Grows for a General Strike: Will Various Groups Come Together? @alternet: As demonstrations multiply, some say it's time to withhold labor.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
The so called "Debunkers" are Bonkers...
The "Debunkers" are bonkers... They believe that because they can make
assertions those assertions are true. Oh yeah, I've spoken to experts
and they say that if I ride a unicorn to the end of a rainbow I can get
the Leprechauns pot of gold. SMH "All the hijackers had to do is punch
in JFK and the plane flies to JFK". They have no idea what they're
talking about. In the search box above put in "flight management
system" which is what the "auto-pilot" is actually named. In one of
these videos you'll learn that an airports code is a four digit code,
not a three digit one. In another video you'll learn that, because the
flight management system flies the plane to a destination using "way
points", you have to be able to tell the unit where your starting point
is, which in this case would be the location where you are changing
the destination. So, before you can punch in the four digit code, you
have to enter your present latitude and longitude. Pilots will get
these numbers from the control tower. The FMS will pick up the lat/long
automatically only when you are at your assigned airport boarding gate.
Any other time and place it has to be discovered/determined and
entered.
Once you see the FMS system pad, you'll realize it takes quite a bit of
training to learn how to operate it, hardly something a poor student
is going to be able to grasp in a few minutes or retain over many months
without constant practice. So serious these debunkers, they're
actually little more than self deluded clowns.
Back in the days before the internet, we used to go to places like Washington Square Park and hang out by the fountain. While there discussions would start about various matters. People would gather around and listen to people discussing various subjects and move from group to group until they found a discussion that interested them. When a speaker had made their point, you could ask questions or take the other side etc. Thinking back, I'm really amazed at how civil these discussions and debates were. Even when issues were being hotly debated, the discussions remained civil. The "crowd" would not tolerate anyone cutting a speaker off, nor would they simply swallow fabrications, there was always someone there who knew enough to enlighten.
In such a format these debunkers wouldn't last five minutes before they'd have to slink away in shame. Because they couldn't "preach to the choir", and when answers were called for, you either had them or you didn't. If you made things up you were gently but firmly called out on it by a murmur of assent or disapproval from the group of listeners and, of course, asked more questions and to explain your answers. But the greatest lesson you learned from speaking in the park was that, you never, ever need to fear the public, because they are decidedly civil and they adhere firmly to a sense of fairness. An error or two does not disqualify a speaker, only his insistence on things that don't make sense and a dogged unwillingness to drop it, turns people away. They don't fight or scream, they just move away and form another group several feet away. If the miscreant tries to join the new group, he's not welcomed and everyone remains quiet until he leaves. It was just that simple.
Back in the days before the internet, we used to go to places like Washington Square Park and hang out by the fountain. While there discussions would start about various matters. People would gather around and listen to people discussing various subjects and move from group to group until they found a discussion that interested them. When a speaker had made their point, you could ask questions or take the other side etc. Thinking back, I'm really amazed at how civil these discussions and debates were. Even when issues were being hotly debated, the discussions remained civil. The "crowd" would not tolerate anyone cutting a speaker off, nor would they simply swallow fabrications, there was always someone there who knew enough to enlighten.
In such a format these debunkers wouldn't last five minutes before they'd have to slink away in shame. Because they couldn't "preach to the choir", and when answers were called for, you either had them or you didn't. If you made things up you were gently but firmly called out on it by a murmur of assent or disapproval from the group of listeners and, of course, asked more questions and to explain your answers. But the greatest lesson you learned from speaking in the park was that, you never, ever need to fear the public, because they are decidedly civil and they adhere firmly to a sense of fairness. An error or two does not disqualify a speaker, only his insistence on things that don't make sense and a dogged unwillingness to drop it, turns people away. They don't fight or scream, they just move away and form another group several feet away. If the miscreant tries to join the new group, he's not welcomed and everyone remains quiet until he leaves. It was just that simple.