The key is on Capitol Hill. That is where control of the Treasury lies and, since our federal agencies do nothing but distribute currency according to Congressional directives, it is Congress which is responsible not just for the current chaos, but for four decades of deprivation and disinvestment.
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Miata go by-by
Car Culture in its Death Spiral
What do I mean? Not that the private automotive vehicle is about to die out. Rather, the reliance of the culture of obedience on the automotive cage to contain the majority of the population and make them easy to control.
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A dialogue
In the interest of history–an email exchange to be read from the bottom up.
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media made man unmade
Goodbye, Golden Goose
Time for Donald Trump to head down Sunset Boulevard.
By Maureen Dowd – NYT – Nov. 14, 2020
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On Prejudice
As the lie is necessary to define the truth, Lucifer exists to illuminate the good. Just so, the authoritarian (adherent to false authority) has demonstrated what democracy is about.
Compare and contrast. These are basic processes which, it seems, concrete thinkers are not capable of. They like and do not like without any apparent reason. So, we call them prejudiced. But, does that mean their attitudes are formed before the ability to judge develops (about age 7) or their attitudes are preemptive and not informed by experience at all?
Re: bond hearing for Arbery killers
The community responds:
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Shadow Economy
There is no new information. How can anyone make informed decisions about economic activity when all the data being compiled is a decade old? Even the Bureau of Labor Statistics, writing in 2020 is looking at numbers from 2017. How long will it take the Bureau of the Census to get its data out? Will anybody care?
The Degradation of Women Must End
Donald Trump is a culmination, a last ditch effort to prevent the triumph of populism, government by the people. You can tell that is what it is about by the effort to pervert the word, “populism” as they have socialism and liberalism by claiming poor Donald is its embodiment.
Morning musings
Rational people assume that people act on what they believe, but that is not necessarily so. Some people stop at belief and do not act at all. Others neither know nor believe anything and act on the spur of the moment. Still others respond to their emotions and satisfy themselves with talk.