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Even when R. Paul the lesser was trying to promote his "libertarian," IIRC it was the brand of libertarianism which boiled down to "Not a penny of tax money must be spent on helping the poor."

At least Alternet knew to refer to Rand Paul as a "fake" libertarian, in their article headlined "Fake Libertarian Rand Paul Says Trump Should Use 'Lie Detector Tests' to Find Anonymous Op-Ed Writer."

Aresen wrote: ↑

06 Sep 2018, 12:47

A Jewish Elizabeth Warren?

Sounds like more of a Jewish Rachel Dolezal.

Taktix® wrote: ↑

21 Aug 2018, 01:45

http://www.metafederalism.com/2018/08/a ... ation.html

That was a good read. And made good points.

Of course, assuming the NYT was thorough in its vetting -- thorough enough to not knowingly allow any lies into the piece, not even lies intended to protect the writer's identity -- the writer CAN'T be Pence, because Pence is not someone who can be fired if Trump gets mad at him. I suspect the most ...

Of course, "lodestar" could just as easily be someone else's way of deflecting "suspicion" onto Pence and away from the actual anonymous writer. Regardless of who wrote it, I agree this person is not coming across as nobly as he intended (especially if it IS Pence, who stands to gain much if Trump i...

While that linguistic coincidence is interesting, one thing I'd want to know is if it's a popular word in certain fundamentalist Christian circles. If so, then it could also have been used by any number of other people in the administration (though many of them might be tied to Pence, and he might ...

In all seriousness: just before I saw Pence trending and why, I did think "If I were ever in a situation where I was famous and wanted to publish something anonymously, I would write the column, and then I would give it to Jeff (or someone else I trusted equally well) and tell him "Please rewrite th...

"Mike Pence" is currently trending on Twitter based on a belief that he wrote the op-ed; the main piece of evidence (based on my .2 nanoseconds of perusing the topic) is the word "lodestar" appearing in the op-ed AND in some previous speeches and writings of his. EDIT: FWIW, a quick search of the ar...

I read Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter , which surprisingly was far less silly than it sounds. It is actually "realistic" in the way that certain Harry Turtledove fantastic alt-histories are "realistic" -- as in, of course it's inherently silly to think "Imagine World War Two -- only if aliens invad...

Jeff and I bought a Blu-Ray player a couple days ago (mainly to replace our broken DVD player). Since we once again have the ability to play DVDs, we got our collection out of storage ... and I was pleasantly surprised to discover a LOT of good stuff I'd completely forgotten about. Back in Loudoun C...

Finally saw "The Rachel Divide," the Rachel Dolezal documentary. Holy crap, but I feel bad for her son. He's only 13, but clearly has a lot more sense and self-awareness than his mother does.

In all seriousness, Ellie: there is a chance your hair problems are not caused by the bleaching agents and other "external abuses" you do to your hair; it might be caused by your bun-in-oven status. (A couple months ago when we were troubleshooting possible causes, and all my other theories had been...

Woke up thinking I was coming down with another crippling fever-illness making me miserably hot, sweaty and clammy... come to find out when I'd shut the windows before going to bed that morning, I'd forgotten to turn the air conditioner back on. Doesn't take a virus to make you miserably hot, sweaty...

Ellie wrote: ↑

02 Sep 2018, 00:24

I have loved being a blonde. I really did have more fun.

And have four kids to show for it [ducks]

"Political scientists reassure Americans that stripping minorities of citizenship usually where descent into fascism peters out" CHAPEL HILL, NC—Responding to concern about the Trump administration accusing hundreds of Hispanic people living near the U.S.–Mexico border of having fraudulent birth cer...

So, while McCain was selfishly sucking up the nation's attention what with his funeral and all, Trump decided to get some of his own back with a Twitter rampage against Canada.

A judge in Texas denied Jones' motion to dismiss the Sandy Hook parents' lawsuit.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 15941.html

I didn't think the Vox article was that bad -- but then, long before I read it or saw this thread, all I knew about the Barnums redesign was that it was a PETA suggestion, and PETA seems to think this is a victory for suffering animals, which is of course asinine because, while IMO there are legit a...

FWIW, it's not only the crazy-evangelical Protestant churches that go for grape juice instead of wine: the [generally liberal and progressive] United Methodist Church I was dragged to as a child also did this. I don't think that was an "anti-alcohol" move so much as a combination of "Grape juice is ...

You seem to think I'm defending this. No, I'm just going into more detail about how utterly infuriating this whole thing is. Especially given the timing -- no, BoA is not to blame for Trump's trying to deny passports and revoke citizenship from Hispanics born near the border, but for fuck's sake! S...

More likely it's that somebody in the elaborate corporate bureaucracy got paranoid, turned some of their procedures up to 11, and there you go. Probably starts with "We need to make sure we're not seen as having anything to do with Cuba or Iran," then a bunch of procedures get tightened in the dumb...

I doubt that BofA has an anti-immigrant agenda. I do suspect that in the current climate just about every business will be more hyper-cautious about doing business with non-citizens. This will result in new rules as well as more stringent, punitive, and stupid application of existing rules. Because...

Bank of America is freezing the accounts of people it suspects are not US citizens, or are dual citizens. While my heart goes out thoser those dealing with it, the article gives no evidence that this is a new thing. Did you stop reading the article before you got to this part? ...In response to an ...

And all these horrible things have come about after Trump's only been in office a year and a half.