because even folks who are still attached to the military community, like myself, should have a vested interest in rooting out war crimes and abuse of power

Of course, Irma really hasn’t caused all that much damage, a good show of how modern forecasting and adequate preparation can vastly diminish the actual impact of storms.

Except none of her leaks constituted whistle-blowing. The closest she came was that video Wikileaks had to selectively edit to create the illusion of questionable practices.

Eh, I remember people joking about how Obama’s photo, the first in HD, being proof that the razor burn of all future presidents will be saved for posterity.

One of these days, Kraft if going to have a bit too much to drink before being asked about signing Kaepernick and say something along the lines of “I prefer to keep my charitable giving local.” I know this because it’s somewhat funny if you’re deep enough into the Pats mindset to think you’re either a Pats player or a…

That US policy has long valued the containment of criminals over their human rights.

This isn’t new. When the Allies were liberating concentration and death camps, they avoided the sex criminal camps because, while okay with unleashing gays upon the countryside, doing the same with the two thirds of prisoners there for rape was seen as less than ideal. As such, that class represents a disproportionate…

While I think that his not noticing the mismatch is down to his stupidity, this is a more fundamental issue to the right. The Republicans have been using “thug” as code for the n-word for so long that there are entire generations that have never heard the n-word (at least in that context) and so only think of young…

I think that’s part of what Trump was trying to say (with the wall being presented as crossover “pork”), but he doesn’t vet his messaging so we’ll never know.

It’s definitely looking like Trump is one of the rare few who actually believes the dog whistles literally (and so only objects to illegal immigration on following-the-rules grounds and DACA on executive overreach grounds), which may also explain why he refuses to believe that people protesting for the preservation of…

Given some of the specifics in the wording, I’m going to guess that he meant that he was trying to say that he still wants a wall added to the overall outcome of immigration reform (overall compromise rather than this/intermediate compromise) and/or that this deal still needs some Republican crossover to pass. Most…

I wonder if the republican response will be to call these “Indian schools” and racist.

It depends on the team brand, owner values, and local culture. Kraft, for example, tried to pay cities to get Gillette stadium in an urban location and actually had to back to Foxborough with his tail between his legs because he was either blocked by neighborhood residents (South Boston) or byzantine real estate regs…

Question: are food processors racist for putting sauerkraut men (door-to-door cabbage slicers) out of work?

Of course, all this focus on the questionable/uncertain contribution of climate change largely serves to paper over the the larger contribution and irresponsibility of building homes without any flood protections on top of swamp and prairie and the need to tell NFIP beneficiaries who want to use their federal largess…

Ah, FOX

Diddling

Of course this is Splinter’s stance. It would certainly explain why the “reporting” is always tailored to ideology rather than letting opinions flow from facts. Just to bring up climate change, Splinter’s been blaming Harvey and Irma’s destructive toll on climate change without any mention of the facts that no weather…

My friend pointed out that some chores are “worth” more than others—toilet-training kids is vastly more effortful than shopping for gifts, for example, so he suggested assigning the more arduous chores a higher point value.

Where were you when they cast a shiksa as Ginsburg?