Monday Stuff

I thought this was a terrific segment by Ari Melber pointing how just how terrible Mr.-Puppy-Dog-Eyes-With-The-Shiv was at his role as U.S. House Speaker; in keeping with other predecessors from his party, though, they (including “Man Tan” Boehner) were pretty pathetic also…of course, Ryan and the “young guns” sold themselves as allegedly something different, but they’re all part of the same collective “con” to pile tax cuts for the rich upon each other, blow up our ridiculous defense budget even more and, all the while, steal from everyone else including those who can afford it the least…



…and today is the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U.N. General Assembly…



…and to show just how far we have to go on that score, this tells of the brutal repression by the Chinese of the Uyghurs and their efforts to lobby the world for justice on their behalf…



…and sticking with world stuff, Kyle K. tells us about the back-and-forth between Jeremy Corbyn & Theresa May in “question time” during a session of the British Parliament about the effects of British austerity (NSFW – and I agree with Kyle that we should have “question time” here too – not just for the presidents, but the House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader too; definitely not trying to pass myself off as an expert in overseas politics, but as I’ve said before, when we traveled to the U.K. a couple of years ago right after the Brexit vote, it struck us as a little fishy that the black cab drivers all supported Brexit for the same reasons – certainly not saying they were dumb at all, but just that the same propaganda campaign had apparently worked on all of them…an update is here)…



...and here comes more seasonal stuff.