I have another busy day with lots to get done, as I prepare to do taxes on Sunday. It was a muggy night. I slept poorly. I hoped to get a Monthly Report done today or tomorrow, but I’m afraid I just don’t have enough time. I hope I can next month.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:24 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Snopes Channel): Did a Banned Federal Study Show That Refugees Bring in More in Government Revenues Than They Cost?
Call the report “banned” or “suppressed”, Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten and the Republican Reich are cheerleaders for bigotry and enemies of truth across the board. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Everything You Need to Know About the New Economy
Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, have rigged the game for billionaires. All Robert’s ideas must be adopted. Spreading the truth is what I do. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: After praising Donald J. Trump, on Sunday, for cutting aid to “three Mexican countries,” the cast of “Fox & Friends” blamed former President Barack Obama for creating additional Mexicos during his tenure in the White House.
“When Barack Obama took office, there was only one Mexico,” the host Ed Henry said. “He allowed these additional Mexicos to develop.”
Henry’s co-host Jedediah Bila agreed that the problem of multiple Mexicos was Obama’s fault. “It was bad enough having one Mexico without Obama going out and creating a bunch of new ones,” she said, noting that there had been a three-hundred-per-cent increase in the number of Mexicos on Obama’s watch.
Straight news again, Andy? That sounds exactly like the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
10 Responses to “Open Thread – 4/2/2019”
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
YT: Stephen Miller needs to go back in his hole. The report shows that refugees bring in $63 B., and that he suppressed those findings. He needs to go, (like the rest of them, starting at the top on down, imho).
RR: Great video, good information too. Get big $$ out of politics! Passing this on too.
NYer: While the story is humorous, it’s sad that he has cut aide to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala over the migration crisis. Nope, not Mexican, Faux. Ids !!
Cartoon: Says it all, imho.
Hope that you get some rest, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “Those who close borders will become prisoners of the wall they build.” ~ Pope Francis ~
YT: Shared this very important video.
RR: Robert Reich is spot on. Fantastic info. I shared this video too.
NYer: Andy is reporting exactly how Drumpf and Faux Noise think.
Thank you TomCat. I’m glad your test results are so good. Take care and rest when you can.
6:16 Easy to catch, hard to digest.
Snopes – I may have said this before, but, when the Mikkelsen’s divorced, I was really worried what might happen to the integrity of this site. Well, as the meme says, “the things I worry about never happen.” It just keeps getting better. Long may that continue.
RR – “Conventional wisdom” doesn’t EVER admit that venality exists. Therefore, it is always wrong, even when it is partially right. The term “free market” may be supposed to imply that markets are objectively fair, but to me it just sounds like “law of the jungle.” And Galbraith just told the kings of the jungle what to target – although he should have known better. He’s the one who said, “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
TNY – Who would be ignorant enough to name a baby girl “Jedediah”? (II Samuel 12:24b-25a [S]he bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him. And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah [sic] KJV) This – person – is definitely not who should have been chosen to wear Solomon’s middle name.
Cartoon – Great titles. But do you really think that Republicans have anyone that good looking to enter for them?
TY: Miller has, apparently, been nothing but a consistent liar and ahole! Perfect for the Drumph admin.! How many parades has he had?
RR: That JKG quote is one of my favorite. And, the one that got me into conflict with my devoted Republican cousin..”The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” RR is, of course, right on target!
New Yorker: Too strange!
Robert Reich’s video is a genuine must-see. He has some great suggestions on creating an economy that is more fair, or at least a lot less unfair. The time to start building this countervailing power is NOW!
Now he is saying his father was From Germany, well he was born in New York 1905 More Lies!! then grandma and grandpa was from Europe. He has NO IDEA???
4:52 You do know what harm plastic can do in your stomach, don’t you, TomCat?
Snopes: The very fact that the outcome of HHS study was repressed and ‘sensor’ from the final report, substantiate the allegations made in this video.
RR: All wavering Drumpf voters should be made to watch this video…Aahh, why bother. They wouldn’t believe any of it, not even if their lives depended on it, which the probably do.
TNY: More ‘Mexicos’ may not have been created on Obama’s watch, Andy, but they sure were under his predecessors’ watches. America’s been meddling in Central-America for decades, helping suppress any government that wanted better for their people. But what would Faux News know about it, or consequently their greatest admirer.
Hope you get through all the tedious administration/taxes quickly, TomCat.
Snope: Agree with Pat. Suppressing finding…..what a flipping fool.RR: Like the video. He says it like it is.Hope all goes well for you.
Puzzle — 4:06 I would not try to eat those fishies Puddy Tat unless you want a major case of indigestion!
Snopes — A lie of omission is still a lie, perhaps worse because it is a conscious decision to distort the truth. Miller cannot be trusted, but then neither can Fuhrer Dumpfenfarten. They deserve each other! Kick them both to the curb to be taken out with the trash in 2020.
Robert Reich — Trump wails about how the 2016 election was rigged . . . it was rigged but not how he thinks. The money in politics effectively rigged the election, with some help from the Russians, in favour of Trump and Republicans. If Trump’s supporters were made to watch the video, it would be of little use since they would not understand it. Trump does love low information, non thinking people whom he can pull the rug out from beneath.
The New Yorker — Drumpfenfarten has been blaming Obama for damn near everything so it is only natural that Faux Noise would jump on the train too. A bunch of moronic nincompoops!!! Only Drumpfenfarten could come up with 3 Mexicos!
Cartoon — Uh huh . . . extolling the Republican family values.
Thanks and swamped Hugs to all.