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Can you believe it? Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature. Obviously I’m going to be adding videos.

This video put up by Team Trump has bee delisted by YouTube. If you hit the “share button” at the YouTube site this message comes up: This video is unlisted. Be considerate and think twice before sharing. Share it (or a link to here) far and wide. The Deplorable Raven

Beelzebub. And: A fly landed directly on Hillary Clinton’s face during the second presidential debate.

Update: Update: 10 Oct 2016 1908z Commenter T said: Could not help but be struck by the resemblance of this Bill Clinton photo with the figure of the damned soul in Michelangelo’s Last Judgement. So here it is: Update: 13 Oct 2016 0826z If you look at the top two pictures of Bill Clinton, you…

Let us hope the ballot box works this November.

Distant childhood memories of LBJ have somehow been triggered. One example is what LBJ said to a female staffer when he appeared at the foot of her bed in the middle of the night Move over. This is your president. Or my personal favorite: Ford’s economics are the worst thing that’s happened to this country…

The unchanging conservative position on the war on drugs was recently restated in a Washington Examiner editorial: A slew of viral videos in recent weeks reveal the devastating effects of America’s drug abuse epidemic. […] Even as polls suggest public attitudes toward drug use is becoming more lax, the recent viral videos remind us of why…

You can see the image in this video suggested by Kathy Kinsley as a comment on politics/the human condition. Janis Joplin – Mercedes Benz

Today America united as a nation to decide how many alleged Trump gropes equals one alleged Bill/Hillary Clinton rape. #Trump #Clinton — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 8, 2016 Scott has answered that question.

This is a follow up to my previous post Corporatism Is Just Another Name For Fascism. This is about the goings on in New York State with a project called the SolarCity disaster. The article was published on Sept 22, 2016. …rather than symbolizing a shiny high-tech future, the solar-panel factory could become a monument…

It is illegal for most people to have a gun in New York City. This policy, enforced as Stop and Frisk, has improved police/community relations. According to Breitbart. It should be extended to the rest of the country. /sarc Breitbart is giving ammunition to the enemy by supporting General Warrants. The colonists went to war…

From a comment at Zero Hedge. Rommel was indeed magnificent. He said there were four different types of people in the world. Lazy and Stupid Energetic and Stupid Lazy and Smart Energetic and Smart       He said to run a military campaign you should: Get rid of the Energetic and Stupid. They are…

I must have a different definition of friendship than most people, because I’m having trouble understanding this: PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A new survey from Monmouth University shows that seven percent of voters have cut ties with a friend over the 2016 Presidential Race. CBS News reports that nine percent of Hillary Clinton supporters said they’ve…

This graphic is an update: (4 Oct 2016 0525z) Fascism is NOT coming to America. It is here already. The American version is also sometimes called Corporatism. Or Crony Capitalism. David Stockman rails against it in this article …since 1987 when Greenspan arrived at the Fed in this era of bubble finances I call it…

Here is an anecdotal follow up to my post Clinton Is Losing The Anti-Prohibition Voters. It pretty much describes how the anti-Prohibitionists (mostly Democrats) feel about how the Democrat politicians have handled their issues. Mostly with a wink and a nod before elections and after the election is over – nothing. Here is a link…

If the question is “what to do about xxx” and the answer is “we need a law” you are talking to a socialist. And with laws come enforcers. And expenses. And exemptions for the connected. etc. In the words of our ecocrazies – it is unsustainable. But while it continues it is going to hurt…

I got an ad from a right wing site advertising home security. What interested me was their pitch. Here are two of the bullet points. Do you know how to protect your home from invasion? What about rouge cops and looters? What interested me was that those on the right now fear “rouge cops”. That…

And what worries it? Pharmaceutical executives who recently made a major donation to an anti-marijuana legalization campaign claimed they were doing so out of concern for the safety of children — but their investor filings reveal that pot poses a direct threat to their plans to cash in on a synthetic cannabis product they have…

According to Breitbart Chelsea Clinton has stepped in it. Big Time. In a campaign appearance Saturday in Youngstown, Ohio Chelsea Clinton suggested that marijuana has the ability to kill. During her speech, Clinton said, “We also have anecdotal now from Colorado, where some of the people who were taking marijuana for those purposes, the coroner…