I found this neat little table for 20 bucks, and I had the mirror already, so I put it in the upstairs hallway in between my bedroom and the spare bedroom: About two years ago, I found this massive file that was a scale representation of the universe, and I had a friend blow it …
We Are at War. It is High Time That Our Leaders Begin Acting Like It!
Last July, when the hacking into the DNC became public knowledge, I wrote that we are at Cyber War. That what had happened was an act of war, though confined to the cyber domain. Today’s events are just the latest reinforcing example that we are at war, even if it is not formally declared. Russia …
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Livin on Phat Pockets on Flat With the Gat
Well, well, well: Almost two weeks after President Donald Trump’s tweets accusing his predecessor of wiretapping Trump Tower, the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee tried to offer some support by saying that the president’s team was caught up in a U.S. surveillance net. Representative Devin Nunes said Wednesday that the intelligence community collected …
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Call Congress
There is a chance that we can win tomorrow. Let’s work to increase that chance. Call Congress. If you are represented by a Democrat or a Republican who is on the 100% No list as maintained by the New York Times , thank them, or their interns. If you are represented by an Undecided or …
Open Thread: An Unprecedented Drain on the National Coffers
A @Patbagley Refesher Course on the 3 Branches of Government pic.twitter.com/tUk7tUL63W — Miss Myrtle (@MissMyrtle2) March 22, 2017 Secret Service asked for $60 million extra for Trump-era travel and protection, documents show https://t.co/LXPtpDMSvD — Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 22, 2017 … Nearly half of the additional money, $26.8 million, would pay to protect President Trump’s …
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Boizhe Moi…
I got nothing. “Great president. Most people don’t even know he was a Republican,” Trump says about ABRAHAM LINCOLN — Claudia Koerner (@ClaudiaKoerner) March 22, 2017 Here’s the clip from C-SPAN. From Time (autoplay clip at the link): “Great president. Most people don’t even know he was a Republican,” Trump said while addressing attendees at the …
Mid-Morning Open Thread – Mars Video and Parliament Shooting
This is just stunning: A FICTIVE FLIGHT ABOVE REAL MARS from Jan Fröjdman on Vimeo. More on the project here. In other news, I just had fiber optics installed (1 GBps) yesterday – it’s a city owned project 6 years in the making. $50 a month (for life, supposedly). Comcast is running scared and dropping …
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