I know, I know. She didn’t go through established and legally protected whistle blower channels. Right?

I completely agree. I view this the same way as if Chelsea Manning was a cisgendered male. I believe that her treatment should be corrected, but should never be a part of consideration for her release.

Unlike various other whistle blowers, she didn’t read any of the information she was releasing and provided it wholesale to Wikileaks. While it happened to contain some things that were good vis a vis transparency, most of it was important national security information that shouldn’t have been made public. None of it…

I don’t think she wins any arguments about the sentence. The majority of whistleblowers are civilians. Did her attorney not explain to her that military personnel, having sworn an oath of loyalty upon induction, are generally held to higher standards in cases like these? She seems to genuinely not know that military…

Let’s discuss better treatment for prisoners, better mental health support...but this is framed as though having a mental health issue in and of itself should qualify someone for release.

We’ve got it pretty good in northern California, too. I keep a blog of just the survivors I see parked on the street around the Bay Area: http://curbwatching.com/

When he discovers the Palisades, there’s going to be a “Falling Down” moment.

L.A., where the cars are metal and real, but the people are plastic and fake.

They’re happy throw tantrums about red cups and happy holidays.

This is a good plan.

People forget this. They think that deportation will only happen under Trump.

Time to go look for those Horcruxes.

Is it me or could a lot of the stories of Soichiro-era Honda read like this:

UNION worker here. . . IBEW Local 130 in New Orleans. . . Well written. . A lot of people on this site are anti union, but it is the unions that fought for everything they love... Some people say unions have out lived their usefulness, but without the unions still fighting, everything even non union employees love…

I do occasionally blog here, but sometimes I take stuff down to re-write it, so there are big gaps- http://barnmegaparsec.blogspot.com/

Honda has four assembly plants, 1 engine plant, 1 transmission plant, and 1 parts plant in the US. Four of those are in Ohio, which is not a “right to work” state. One is in Indiana, which was not a “right to work” state when they built the plant. The only plants they’ve ever built in the US that were in “right to…

There was a massive protest near me. When I check it on Facebook, it turned out it was organized by a coalition of namely anarchist and/or socialist groups. When I checked them out further, I saw that most of them either endorsed Jill Stein (or one of the even more fringe Socialist candidates) or encouraged abstaining…

What?

2nd Gear: Honda’s Gonna Make More Big Cars