1/ Brexit 1 - Glenn Greenwald with an intelligent and fascinating story about not only Brexit, but what the populist disgust with the "elites" means, especially the media. Read this, and then use his insights when you read or watch any of the establishment news outlets say about this momentum vote.
An absolutely fabulous article.....and a recommended read......
Of course it is the case that some, perhaps much, of the support given to these anti-establishment movements is grounded in those sorts of ugly sentiments. But it’s also the case that the media elites’ revered establishment institutions in finance, media and politics are driven by all sorts of equally ugly impulses, as the rotted fruit of their actions conclusively proves.
Even more important, the mechanism that western citizens are expected to use to express and rectify dissatisfaction – elections – has largely ceased to serve any corrective function. As Hayes, in a widely cited tweet, put it this week about Brexit:
But that is exactly the choice presented not only by Brexit but also western elections generally, including the 2016 Clinton v. Trump General Election (just look at the powerful array of Wall Street tycoons and war-loving neocons which – long before Trump – viewed the former Democratic New York Senator and Secretary of State as their best hope for having their agenda and interests served).
2/ Brexit 2 - The Oxford Union is a society where the smartest Brits [Oxford graduates] debate the topics of the day, and this was about Brexit before the vote - leading the argument for Leave was, ironically, an MEP [ Member of the European Parliament] Daniel Hannan......
If you watch this and were a "Remain" supporter, you may change your mind......watch an articulate man speak for 12 minutes without notes or a teleprompter.....wow....
EU Debate - Oxford Union - Daniel Hannan MEP - Brexit
Daniel Hannan a Member of the European Parliament held an eloquent, reasonable, common sensed argument in a debate of the Oxford Union in favor for leaving the European Union. Worth the watch.
"I am inviting you to fire me."
"I am inviting you to fire me."
3/ An excellent glimpse at a star of the future. An eight grader, Jack Aiello, gives his graduation speech from middle school by imitating our politicians.....he's very good. After this went viral he appeared on Jimmy Fallon's show....
About eight minutes......his Bernie is the best.....
Maybe we're all just taking politics too seriously these days. Eighth-grader Jack Aiello used his 8-minute graduation speech to impersonate Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Aiello, speaking as Sanders, said his school had the best cinnamon rolls he'd ever tasted, but "I do have one improvement for them, though: We need to make them free."
"Why should students have to pay for their own cinnamon rolls? Doesn't make any sense. What we need is a cinnamon roll revolution."
4/ Brexit 3 - Couldn't find a link for this, so here it is in it's entirety. A fascinating article on the British politics of Brexit, and how the politicians who led the "Leave" fight are now screwed......very insightful.....
If Boris Johnson looked downbeat yesterday, that is because he realises that he has lost.
Perhaps many Brexiters do not realise it yet, but they have actually lost, and it is all down to one man: David Cameron.
With one fell swoop yesterday at 9:15 am, Cameron effectively annulled the referendum result, and simultaneously destroyed the political careers of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and leading Brexiters who cost him so much anguish, not to mention his premiership.
How?
Throughout the campaign, Cameron had repeatedly said that a vote for leave would lead to triggering Article 50 straight away. Whether implicitly or explicitly, the image was clear: he would be giving that notice under Article 50 the morning after a vote to leave. Whether that was scaremongering or not is a bit moot now but, in the midst of the sentimental nautical references of his speech yesterday, he quietly abandoned that position and handed the responsibility over to his successor.
And as the day wore on, the enormity of that step started to sink in: the markets, Sterling, Scotland, the Irish border, the Gibraltar border, the frontier at Calais, the need to continue compliance with all EU regulations for a free market, re-issuing passports, Brits abroad, EU citizens in Britain, the mountain of legistlation to be torn up and rewritten ... the list grew and grew.
The referendum result is not binding. It is advisory. Parliament is not bound to commit itself in that same direction.
The Conservative party election that Cameron triggered will now have one question looming over it: will you, if elected as party leader, trigger the notice under Article 50?
Who will want to have the responsibility of all those ramifications and consequences on his/her head and shoulders?
Boris Johnson knew this yesterday, when he emerged subdued from his home and was even more subdued at the press conference. He has been out-maneouvered and check-mated.
If he runs for leadership of the party, and then fails to follow through on triggering Article 50, then he is finished. If he does not run and effectively abandons the field, then he is finished. If he runs, wins and pulls the UK out of the EU, then it will all be over - Scotland will break away, there will be upheaval in Ireland, a recession ... broken trade agreements. Then he is also finished. Boris Johnson knows all of this. When he acts like the dumb blond it is just that: an act.
The Brexit leaders now have a result that they cannot use. For them, leadership of the Tory party has become a poison chalice.
When Boris Johnson said there was no need to trigger Article 50 straight away, what he really meant to say was "never". When Michael Gove went on and on about "informal negotiations" ... why? why not the formal ones straight away? ... he also meant not triggering the formal departure. They both know what a formal demarche would mean: an irreversible step that neither of them is prepared to take.
All that remains is for someone to have the guts to stand up and say that Brexit is unachievable in reality without an enormous amount of pain and destruction, that cannot be borne. And David Cameron has put the onus of making that statement on the heads of the people who led the Brexit campaign.
5/ Bill Maher recommends President Obama go on a true apology tour to drive Republicans nuts.....five fairly amusing minutes....
For years, Republicans have accused President Obama of going on an “apology tour” abroad for America. And with his term in office winding to a close, Bill Maher last night said he should just do it to “drive Republicans nuts.”
He said that Obama is now in that phase where you get senioritis and do crazy things, like, say, “legalize pot… put Beyoncé on the nickel… or do something really crazy and come on this show.”
But he instead proposed, more realistically, that Obama actually “go on that apology world tour.”
6/ Brexit 4 - the Times with a serious story on how Hillary isn't responding to the voter's anger and distrust of the elites, and is only offering more of the same.....and this isn't good - she may win, but it won't be a happy marriage....
See and read #1, THEN digest this story from the country's best paper.....
For Hillary Clinton, Britain’s emotionally charged uprising against the European Union is the sort of populist victory over establishment politics that she fears in the coming presidential election.
Mrs. Clinton shares more with the defeated “Remain” campaign than a similar slogan — her “Stronger Together” echoing its “Stronger In.” Her fundamental argument, much akin to Prime Minister David Cameron’s against British withdrawal from the European Union, is that Americans should value stability and incremental change over the risks entailed in radical change and the possibility of chaos if Donald J. Trump wins the presidency.
She offers reasonableness instead of resentment, urging voters to see the big picture and promising to manage economic and immigration upheaval, just as Mr. Cameron did. She, too, is a pragmatic internationalist battling against nationalist anger, cautioning that the turmoil after the so-called Brexit vote underscores a need for “calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House.”
But prudence is cold comfort to people fed up with more-of-the-same.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/
7/ Sam Bee on gun control and the debate in the Senate......wonderful! Five minutes.......
“Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee last night reviewed Senate Democrats’ 15-hour filibuster and their Republican counterparts’ unflinching devotion to the NRA’s deep pockets.
“The Democrats wouldn’t shut up until Republicans agreed to vote on two amendments,” Bee explained, referring to regulations closing the terror watch list loophole and requiring universal background checks.
“If you’re wondering how those amendments were even controversial when 90% of Americans — including gun owners — want universal background checks and 0% of Americans want terrorists to have guns, then you must have been living under a rock,” she continued. “Which is fine. That’s a good place to hide from an active shooter.”
8/ Brexit 4.5 - Matt Taibbi on the dangers of the Dems taking Hillary's victory for granted, so they won't have to recognize the anger and frustration of voters......this story has links to the UK's shock to the global political system that our elites can't deal with, so it's "sort of" a Brexit story......
A must read for Democrats......
Note - if you have an adblocker you won't be able to read this story....temporarily disable it, and it magically appears.....
"Dissenting voices like this year's version of Nader, Bernie Sanders, are inevitably pitched as quixotic egotists who don't have the guts to do what it takes to win." Alex Wong/Getty
Jonathan Chait of New York magazine wrote a column about Ralph Nader this morning that uses some interesting language. Noting that it's now been 16 years since Nader ran for president and garnered enough dissenting votes to help elect George W. Bush, he wrote (emphasis mine):
"That is enough time for Nader to confess his role in enabling one of the most disastrous presidencies in American history, or at least to come up with a better explanation for his decision. Instead, Nader has repeated his same litany of evasions, most recently in an interview with Jeremy Hobson on WBUR, where he dismissed all criticisms of his 2000 campaign as 'fact deprived.'"
Nader refuses to confess! What is this, the Spanish Inquisition? Fetch the comfy chair!
It would be foolish to argue that Nader's run in 2000 didn't enable Bush's presidency. Though there were other factors, Nader's presence on the ballot was surely a big one.
But the career Democrats of the Beltway and their buddies in the press have turned the Nader episode into something very like the creation story of the Third Way political movement. And like many religious myths, it's gotten very tiresome.
The Democratic Party leaders have trained their followers to perceive everything in terms of one single end-game equation: If you don't support us, you're supporting Bush/Rove/Cheney/Palin/Insert Evil Republican Here.
That the monster of the moment, Donald Trump, is a lot more monstrous than usual will likely make this argument an even bigger part of the Democratic Party platform going forward.
9/ Brexit 5 - an emotional John Oliver with a NSFW rant on how bad this is going to be for Britain.......a little OTT but vintage Oliver......eight minutes...
For the acronymically challenged NSFW means "Not Safe For Work".....OTT means "Over The Top".......
“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver wasted no time last night before launching into a sharp critique of Brexit. After Britons voted in favor of leaving the European Union in last week’s referendum, Prime Minister David Cameron announced he would be stepping down, which, Oliver said, “should make me happy, but in this situation it doesn’t.”
“It’s like catching an ice cream cone out of the air because a child was hit by a car,” he continued. “I’ll eat it, but it’s tainted somehow.”
Oliver noted that the U.K. now has only two years to hammer out its “independence” from the E.U. — settling debts, establishing new trade deals, setting migration rules, etc. — while “lives hang in the balance.”
10/ A young and very angry Trump supporter screams obscenities at Mexican picketers.......note - VERY salty language.....two minutes.....
This is the anger folks.....this guy and millions more are dangerous people.....
Move over Bernie Bros. This dude just upped the douche quota for the 2016 cycle.
On Saturday at a Donald J. Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona, an over enthusiastic supporter of the real estate mogul had some choice words that were captured on film. Specifically, “Go fucking cook my burrito, bitch!”
The video below is completely, utterly, and 100% NSFW:
11/ Sick of this election already? Only another four months to go, says Tom Tomorrow.....love these cartoons.....click on the link to get the bigger version....
12/ Why are developers and builders continuing to put up condos and houses in South Florida? A challenging story from Scientific American on how South Florida is trying to adapt to rising seas.....with no help at all from the State of Florida.....
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The home that Stanley Young and Rich Cusmano are building here will hover above an infinity pool, a shimmering glass-and-concrete icon of tropical luxury set on one of the coastal city’s scenic waterways.
Anyone willing to pay upward of $4 million for such a showpiece will, of course, want some certainty about his or her investment. The home sits on a waterfront lot that was just 2.79 feet above sea level, on a street that already floods during extreme tides and in a region where climate change will fuel sea-level rise by as much as 10 inches over 1992 levels by 2030.
“Buyers are becoming very savvy,” Young said. “The first question they say to us is: ‘Will it flood?’”
Therein lies the uneasy reality in South Florida, home to 6 million people and projected to grow by 3 million over the next three decades. Its very existence depends on the continued allure of the beaches, waterways and natural environment. Yet, by 2050, an estimated $15 billion to $36 billion of Florida’s coastal property will be threatened by sea-level rise, according to a report last year from the Risky Business Project, a Bloomberg Philanthropies effort that quantifies economic risks from climate change.
In South Florida, sea-level rise and climate change are already having an effect on available drinking water, roads and sewer lines in low-lying areas, and storm and flood insurance rates.
13/ I found this video on my Facebook feed, and it's from "Anonymous"....yes, those guys, and features a California doctor on why chemotherapy doesn't work, but more importantly why the medical system keeps recommending this treatment as the only possible way to cure cancer.....is this video five minutes of BS? Who knows, but what he says confirms what I have observed what friends have gone through.....
We report, you decide......
“Patients with breast cancer who reject conventional therapy live four times longer than those who follow the system. So this is something that you will not hear in the mass media, which will continue to carry the myth that the best chemotherapy drug in the fight against cancer!”
According to recent statistics, approximately 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will develop cancer in their lifetimes. This saddening reality is made worse when it is acknowledged that modern methods of ‘treating’ the disease are often ineffective and only make the symptoms of the disease worse. In fact, according to one Berkeley doctor, chemotherapy doesn’t work 97% of the time.
In the eye-opening video above, Dr. Hardin B. Jones, a former professor of medical physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses how ‘leading edge’ cancer treatment is a sham.
He has personally studied the life expectancy of patients for more than 25 years and has come to the conclusion that chemotherapy
“People who refused chemotherapy treatment live on average 12 and a half years longer than people who are undergoing chemotherapy,” said Dr. Jones of his study, which was published in the New York Academy of Science.
“People who accepted chemotherapy die within three years of diagnosis, a large number dies immediately after a few weeks.”
According to the physician, the only reason doctors prescribe chemotherapy is because they make money from it. Such an accusation doesn’t seem unreasonable, as cancer treatment runs, on average, between $300,000 – $1,000,000 per treatment.
14/ Like blues? Here is a live concert video from the Gary Clark Jr. band, some of the best bluesmen in the country today......
15/ Rolling Stone's best movies of 2016.....so far....
W
hat if Hollywood refused to release any more movies after June 30th, leaving audiences and Oscar voters to pick from what washed in with the tide from the first six months of 2016? Yikes. Last year at this time, we'd already had Mad Max: Fury Road, Inside Out, Love & Mercy and Ex Machina. This year's pickings are, well, slimmer. Amid the furor over the degrees of suckitude in Batman v Superman, the lack of laughs delivered by Kevin Hart in Ride Along 2 and Central Intelligence, and the franchise fatigue brought on by Alice Through the Looking Glass, X-Men: Apocalypse, Zoolander 2, The Huntsman: Winter's War, and The Divergent Series: Allegiant, a few goodies did manage to poke through the sludge. Here's the best of 2016 so far:
Todays video - another two minute horror movie......note - scary shit.....
Todays lawyer joke
HEART WARMING LAWYER STORY*
One afternoon a lawyer was riding in his limousine when he saw two men
along the road-side eating grass.
along the road-side eating grass.
Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate.
He asked one man, "Why are you eating grass?"
"We don't have any money for food," the poor man replied. "We have to
eatgrass."
"Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed you," the lawyer
said.
"But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there under
that tree."
that tree."
"Bring them along," the lawyer replied..
Turning to the other poor man he stated, "You may come with us, also.
The second man, in a pitiful voice, then said, "But sir, I also have a
wife and six children with me
"Bring them all as well," the lawyer answered.
They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large
as the limousine.
Once under way, one of the poor fellows turned to the lawyer and said, "Sir,
you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you."
The lawyer replied, "Glad to do it. You'll really love my place.
The grass is almost a foot high."
C'mon...did you really think there was such a thing as a heart warming
lawyer story???
Todays after death joke
A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and ...
inform the other if there is sex after death. Their biggest fear was
that there was no after life at all.
inform the other if there is sex after death. Their biggest fear was
that there was no after life at all.
After a long life together, the husband was the first to die
True to his word, he made the first contact
" Marion .... Marion "
"Is that you, Bob?"
"Yes, I've come back like we agreed."
"That's wonderful! What's it like?"
"Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast and then
it's off to the golf course. I have sex again, bathe in the warm sun
and then have sex a couple of more times.. Then I have lunch (you'd be
proud - lots of greens). Another romp around the golf course, then
pretty much have sex the rest of the afternoon. After supper, it's
back to golf course again. Then it's more sex until late at night. I
catch some much needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over
again".
it's off to the golf course. I have sex again, bathe in the warm sun
and then have sex a couple of more times.. Then I have lunch (you'd be
proud - lots of greens). Another romp around the golf course, then
pretty much have sex the rest of the afternoon. After supper, it's
back to golf course again. Then it's more sex until late at night. I
catch some much needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over
again".
"Oh, Bob! Are you in Heaven?"
"No -- I'm a rabbit somewhere in Indiana."
Todays sexist jokes
Men Are Just Happier People -
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack...
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
If someone forgets to invite you,
He or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, even decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
One wallet and one pair of shoes, one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relativeson December 24 in 25 minutes.
______________________________
Men Are Just Happier People
NICKNAMES
If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman.
EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, outcome the pocket calculators...YEP!!!
MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.
BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337.
A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash,
answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes.
There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!
SO, send this to the women who have a sense of humor and who can handle it......
And to the men who will enjoy reading it
