The *resident says the quarter-million dollar stunt for God and country was long in the works, which means the Indiana-born veep was all in with the plan to snub his home state's NFL team.
The trip by @VP Pence was long planned. He is receiving great praise for leaving game after the players showed such disrespect for country!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2017
Conservative Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is finally showing signs of a conscience after decades of shilling for the Right:
If you're leaving any event featuring individuals who've disrespected our soldiers, you should walk out of the Oval Office when next there. https://t.co/gY1ALBCPJP— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 8, 2017
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The Nobel Prize in Economics has gone to the American Richard Thaler. Before yawning, read this Tyler Cowen post on why it's an important choice. Alex Tabarrok elaborates here.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry has a plan to subsidize coal-burning power plants. Everybody but Perry and the coal and power industries think he should have stuck to ballroom dancing.
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Speaking of free markets in everything, the Republican supermajorities in Raleigh have decided there are not enough charlatans preying on The Tar Hell State:
Included for dissolution are the boards currently licensing electrologists and laser hair practitioners, fee-based practicing pastoral counselors, interpreters and transliterators, irrigation contractors, recreational therapists and recreational therapy assistants, acupuncturists, athletic trainers, foresters, locksmiths, podiatrists, alarm systems businesses, continuing education for fire and casualty insurance licensees and life and health insurance licensees, employee assistance professionals, perfusionists and also public librarians.The General Assembly refuses to adjourn this year, calling itself back every few weeks to collect more per diems and pass more laws stripping away democracy.
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When it comes to American public housing, the government treats its loss in hurricanes as God's mandate for urban renewal, an article in Governance says:
“There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that after disasters happen, some of the affordable housing stock just never gets replaced,” says Sarah Mickelson, director of policy for the National Low Income Housing Coalition. “We saw this happen in Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina, and we saw it in Texas after Ike.”
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Under new investigation for bribery, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the top of the conservative spear when it comes to the Right's courtroom wars on women, minorities, and gays. But he still hasn't come to trial on his current indictment.
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California Senator Diane Feinstein is the body's oldest member. She seems intent on breaking Strom Thurmond's record, but will need another sixteen years to do so.
I am running for reelection to the Senate. Lots more to do: ending gun violence, combating climate change, access to healthcare. I’m all in!— Dianne Feinstein (@DianneFeinstein) October 9, 2017
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Now there's an academic mafia:
4. Journal editor of @thirdworldq asked for piece to be withdrawn following credible threats of violence against him according to T & F. pic.twitter.com/qsEcDggkYH— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 6, 2017
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Congressman Tim Murphy isn't the first Republican right-to-lifer to play Wade in public and Roe in private.
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Seth Godin makes a useful, if not obvious point about media saturation: nobody makes you look.
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After all, you're probably getting played. Trump campaign media guru Brad Parscale infiltrated Facebook to mess with your head:
Parscale received help utilizing Facebook's technology from Facebook employees provided by the company who showed up for work to his office multiple days a week. He says they had to be partisan and he questioned them to make sure. "I wanted people who supported Donald Trump." Parscale calls these Facebook employees "embeds" who could teach him every aspect of the technology. "I want to know everything you would tell Hillary's campaign plus some," he says he told them.Now connect the dots to this story:
Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company’s platforms in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the company's investigation.
The Silicon Valley giant has found that tens of thousands of dollars were spent on ads by Russian agents who aimed to spread disinformation across Google’s many products, which include YouTube, as well as advertising associated with Google search, Gmail, and the company’s DoubleClick ad network, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters that have not been made public. Google runs the world’s largest online advertising business, and YouTube is the world’s largest online video site.
The discovery by Google is also significant because the ads do not appear to be from the same Kremlin-affiliated troll farm that bought ads on Facebook -- a sign that the Russian effort to spread disinformation online may be a much broader problem than Silicon Valley companies have unearthed so far.
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From Lifehacker, of all places ("Twenty tips for surviving the Trumpocalypse"?), a new take on an old saying:
Corker—who recently announced that he wasn’t running for re-election—wasn’t done, and called up The New York Times on Sunday night to share his concerns that Trump is putting the country “on the path to World War III,” an opinion he said is shared by nearly all of his Republican colleagues in the Senate.
“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” he told the Times, adding “of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”
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