Generations pass, and people forget. That’s why we need reminding how The Charleston Post & Courier- and the South Carolina GOP- incubated racial animus in the party 55 years ago. And how it spread.
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Flat-Earther Delays Launch In His Homemade Rocket, Saying 'It's Not Easy'
He didn’t get a BLM permit to launch himself in a rocket to take pictures proving the earth is flat:
"I don't believe in science," Hughes told the AP earlier this month. "I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. But that's not science, that's just a formula. There's no difference between science and science fiction."
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The *resident, of course, is all in with the stupid. Last week he endorsed this website:
The word MAGAPill appears to be a portmanteau combining the Trump campaign slogan beloved by white nationalists with the symbol of an internet forum for men who believe they are sexually oppressed by feminists, so that’s a promising start. And here, with a hat tip to Judd Legum of ThinkProgress, is a sampling of some of the subjects that MAGAPill has covered in past weeks:
Lady Gaga’s involvement in Hillary Clinton’s child-sacrifice practices
The Vatican’s knowledge of “ancient occult magic”
The encroachment of sharia law
The government’s coverup of evidence that the recent massacre in Las Vegas was actually carried out by multiple shooters
The Jews (click here to see a MAGAPill tweet which deploys the anti-Semitic triple parentheses dog whistle that's often deployed by far-right writers)
Lady Gaga’s involvement in Hillary Clinton’s child-sacrifice practices
The Vatican’s knowledge of “ancient occult magic”
The encroachment of sharia law
The government’s coverup of evidence that the recent massacre in Las Vegas was actually carried out by multiple shooters
The Jews (click here to see a MAGAPill tweet which deploys the anti-Semitic triple parentheses dog whistle that's often deployed by far-right writers)
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Stupid is contagious. The Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, a ten-member parliamentary rump of zanies and gay-bashers who sold their support of UK PM Theresa May’s government for one billion pounds in pork, tweeted congratulations to Prince William for his engagement today. Then she was told she meant Prince Harry.
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Some Commonwealth stupid imported to the US by an Australian God-botherer, Ken Ham, resulted in a $102 million, for-profit theme park about Noah and his Big Adventure:
...His family also played a crucial role. They are depicted throughout the museum feeding and watering animals and cleaning cages. Noah’s wife, in particular, was essential personnel. “Mrs. Noah,” as she’s called, was likely quite “fit and active,” despite being six hundred years old, and cooked and wove textiles in addition to helping care for the animals. “Noah’s wife is one of the more overlooked characters of the Bible,” her introduction read, “considering every one of us contains some of her DNA!” We never learned her name.
Ham mulcted Kentucky taxpayers of a wad of tax-free tax money to put The Ark Experience over the top. Apparently, one of the reasons that sailed through state government was because the state’s GOP legislators were all busy creeping their staff. Now the Bible-thumping Teabagistani governor is demanding that his party’s legislative horndogs resign and sin no more.
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The notion that power makes dumpy men sexy is, of course, bipartisan:
California Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra resigned Monday following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, making him the first lawmaker to leave office amid a spate of reports rocking the state Capitol.
The Los Angeles Democrat had previously said he wouldn't seek re-election and would leave office at the end of the next legislative session. But on Monday, Bocanegra said that he's decided to leave immediately following reflection over the Thanksgiving weekend and conversations with family, friends, and supporters...
Bocanegra's resignation comes as the Senate Rules Committee stripped state Sen. Tony Mendoza of his committee chairmanship amid a misconduct probe. Mendoza is a Democrat from Artesia, near Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Democrat had previously said he wouldn't seek re-election and would leave office at the end of the next legislative session. But on Monday, Bocanegra said that he's decided to leave immediately following reflection over the Thanksgiving weekend and conversations with family, friends, and supporters...
Bocanegra's resignation comes as the Senate Rules Committee stripped state Sen. Tony Mendoza of his committee chairmanship amid a misconduct probe. Mendoza is a Democrat from Artesia, near Los Angeles.
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Why do we put up with this? Stumbling and Mumbling posits that we so revere the wealthy we demand that government reward them with money extracted from our own pockets. Take the Amazon HQ2 “Who Can Build The Best Whorehouse?” Contest. Seattle journalist Danny Westneat has uncovered how cities are willing to throw democracy out the window for money:
Example: Chicago has offered to let Amazon pocket $1.32 billion in income taxes paid by its own workers. This is truly perverse. Called a personal income-tax diversion, the workers must still pay the full taxes, but instead of the state getting the money to use for schools, roads or whatever, Amazon would get to keep it all instead.
“The result is that workers are, in effect, paying taxes to their boss,” says a report on the practice from Good Jobs First, a think tank critical of many corporate subsidies.
Most of the HQ2 bids had more traditional sweeteners. Such as Chula Vista, California, which offered to give Amazon 85 acres of land for free (value: $100 million) and to excuse any property taxes on HQ2 for 30 years ($300 million). New Jersey remains the dollar king of the subsidy sweepstakes, having offered Amazon $7 billion to build in Newark.
But more of a bellwether to me are proposals that effectively would put Amazon inside the government.
Some are small. Boston has offered to set up an “Amazon Task Force” of city employees working on the company’s behalf. These would include a workforce coordinator, to help with Amazon’s employment needs, as well as a community- relations official to smooth over Amazon conflicts throughout Boston. (Surely Amazon can handle these things itself?)
But the most far-reaching offer is from Fresno, California. That city of half a million isn’t offering any tax breaks. Instead it has a novel plan to give Amazon special authority over how the company’s taxes are spent.
Fresno promises to funnel 85 percent of all taxes and fees generated by Amazon into a special fund. That money would be overseen by a board, half made up of Amazon officers, half from the city. They’re supposed to spend the money on housing, roads and parks in and around Amazon.
The proposal shows a park with a sign: “This park brought to you by Amazon,” with the company’s smiling arrow corporate logo.
“The community fund projects would give Amazon credit for the funding of each project,” the proposal says. “The potential negative impacts from a project would be turned into positives, giving Amazon credit for mitigating it.”
“The result is that workers are, in effect, paying taxes to their boss,” says a report on the practice from Good Jobs First, a think tank critical of many corporate subsidies.
Most of the HQ2 bids had more traditional sweeteners. Such as Chula Vista, California, which offered to give Amazon 85 acres of land for free (value: $100 million) and to excuse any property taxes on HQ2 for 30 years ($300 million). New Jersey remains the dollar king of the subsidy sweepstakes, having offered Amazon $7 billion to build in Newark.
But more of a bellwether to me are proposals that effectively would put Amazon inside the government.
Some are small. Boston has offered to set up an “Amazon Task Force” of city employees working on the company’s behalf. These would include a workforce coordinator, to help with Amazon’s employment needs, as well as a community- relations official to smooth over Amazon conflicts throughout Boston. (Surely Amazon can handle these things itself?)
But the most far-reaching offer is from Fresno, California. That city of half a million isn’t offering any tax breaks. Instead it has a novel plan to give Amazon special authority over how the company’s taxes are spent.
Fresno promises to funnel 85 percent of all taxes and fees generated by Amazon into a special fund. That money would be overseen by a board, half made up of Amazon officers, half from the city. They’re supposed to spend the money on housing, roads and parks in and around Amazon.
The proposal shows a park with a sign: “This park brought to you by Amazon,” with the company’s smiling arrow corporate logo.
“The community fund projects would give Amazon credit for the funding of each project,” the proposal says. “The potential negative impacts from a project would be turned into positives, giving Amazon credit for mitigating it.”
Several North Carolina cities are bidders, but here in the Tar Hell State, they get to keep the details secret from those of us who will stump up the protection money.
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One of MOTUS’ other wives says he misses being able to play golf without anyone keeping score. He says he is too busy to campaign in person for Roy Moore but will flood the state with tweets until they submit.
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On the other hand, as a private citizen, Donald Trump wouldn’t be able to bare his ass to the world, using World War II heroes as props.
Watch it all. Then feel free to vomit.
Watch it all. Then feel free to vomit.
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And Charles Manson not only accumulated a $400,000 estate while spending sixty of his 83 years in prison, he left it to a male groupie.
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