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Yet another example of choosing power over principle.

They named it the Hoover Dam but the name really sucks.

Things Sure Don't Seem To Be Going Well At Twitter. "Bankruptcy isn't out of the question," Elon told employees Thursday. Welcome to the new Twitter. Here, everyone can be anyone and for the low, low price of $8, the company will give you a veneer of legitimacy to back it up ― at least temporarily. Nearly two weeks into the company’s Elon Musk era, half of the employees have been laid off (prompting a class action lawsuit), large advertisers have paused their spending (leading to a “dire” financial situation), and Twitter’s previous system for verifying that people are who they claim to be has been deliberately demolished. That means anyone can now set up an account pretending to be anyone else, and pay $8 for the checkmark that used to signify the account had been verified, but now means nothing.

KFC Apologizes For Using Kristallnacht To Promote Cheesy Chicken In Germany The KFC fast food chain in Germany issued an apology on Wednesday after it sent an app alert suggesting customers commemorate the anniversary of Nazi-led attacks on Jews by eating cheesy chicken. The chain’s German division sent a message to followers on its app that read: “It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!” the BBC reported. Not surprisingly, many people found KFC’s promotion to be tasteless. Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass,” is considered the start of the Holocaust. The two-night rampage on Nov. 9-10, 1938, led to the destruction of 267 synagogues and thousands of other Jewish-owned businesses in Nazi Germany, as well as the deaths of 90 Jewish people and the arrest of thousands more. Germany takes the Kristallnacht anniversary seriously, according to the BBC, with numerous memorial events reflecting the Nazis’ murder of more than 6 million Jewish people. About an hour after the alert, KFC issued a follow-up on the app that blamed the tasteless promotion on “an error in our system,” and added: “We are very sorry, we will check our internal processes immediately so that this does not happen again. Please excuse this error,” according to The Guardian.

Many Cons think that irony is the opposite of wrinkly.

74% Of Jewish Voters Supported Democrats In The Midterm And 76% Blame Trump For Rising Anti-Semitism – Jewish voters continue to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, back Joe Biden and support the Democratic Party amid the national polarization dividing the country. Biden has a 70 percent job approval rating among Jewish voters, far exceeding his 42 percent approval among the general population (Real Clear Politics average). Jews also have positive views of the Democratic Party (66 percent favorable/32 percent unfavorable) and voted for Democrats by a 74 to 25 percent margin. -The state of democracy and abortion dominate the issue environment, underscoring Jewish priorities amid America’s cultural battles. More than half of Jewish voters (55 percent) cite the state of democracy as one of the two most important issues impacting their vote, followed by abortion (40 percent). There is a large drop-off to the next tier of issues, including inflation and the economy (27 percent), climate change (19 percent), and crime (16 percent). – Antisemitism weighs heavily on the minds of American Jews and they hold Trump and his Republican allies responsible. An astonishing 97 percent of Jews say they are concerned about antisemitism in the United States, including 85 percent stating they are very concerned. o When asked how responsible Trump and his allies in the Republican Party are for a rise in antisemitism, 76 percent say they are responsible (including 67 percent very responsible). This is most pronounced among older Jews (79 percent among voters 50 years and older). Similarly, 76 percent say Trump and his allies in the Republican Party are responsible for a rise in white supremacy. Israel was also a low-priority issue for American Jewish voters, and the poll revealed that Trump has a 79% unfavorable rating with American Jews. Republicans will probably be surprised to learn that proclaiming to love Israel while anti-Semites are running their party will not fool Jewish voters. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/11/10/jewish-voters-poll.html

No good deed goes unpunished. I wonder if police would be so trigger happy if all wrongful death settlements came out of their pension funds.

Ford did not want to alienate his base yet wanted to be seen doing something.

And own guns. Lots of guns. Fanaticism, rage and firearms. Party time.

FYI: At least some of the crew were still alive on the way down but NASA suppressed the radio signals and wiped the recordings.

Alex Jones ordered to pay another $473 million in damages to Sandy Hook families A judge on Thursday ordered far right-wing extremist, conspiracy theorist, falsehoods promoter for profit, and Infowars founder Alex Jones to pay an additional $473 million for his lies in a case involving the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The new $473 million order comes on top of the nearly $1 billion in damages he was ordered to pay last month.

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Steaming is the future and will bring glitches and frustrations. We will probably have to pay for each TV program or game we choose to watch which will likely be streamed directly from the content provider, taking the networks right out of the picture. Like it or not, this is the future.

But the US military has 750,000,000,000 to play with. But America cannot afford a good public education system, clean drinking water for all or universal healthcare. And veterans' services are inadequate to the extent where more US servicemen have been lost to suicide since the Iraqi war than died in the war. The same is true for those who served in Viet Nam. Helluva war-glorifying system.

American military reports that, in their estimate, Russia has lost close to 100,000 troops in their attack on Ukraine and more than half their armoured vehicles and artillery. Winter is coming and all the winter gear for the ground forces that were ordered and paid for by the Russian government are nowhere to be found. This on top of no or outdated (WW2) weapons, scarcity of both food and water at the front lines and behind every front line, there are secondary emplacements whose job it is to shoot any retreating troops. Over the past month, the survival time for new troops has shrunk from 9 days to 3 days. Many Russian troops surrender with their armoured vehicles as soon as they get to the front lines, and are surprised by the humane treatment they receive. They also report that many have not eaten in days, and their officers fled as soon as the firefights or bombardments started.

I prefer the French system wherein potential candidates must first gather a certain amount of signatures from the riding to register as candidates and then spend a very limited amount of money, but all media must give equal exposure to all qualified candidates for free. The runners-up get their expenses reimbursed if they get a certain percentage of the winners' votes. Winning candidates have their jobs ensured if/when they return to their previous jobs, and employers are reimbursed to train a backfill employee, and if the winning candidate's job is made obsolete or substantially changed, when s/he returns, s/he will be trained so as to either fit the old job or qualified for a new one. Apparently the candidates spent some 9 billion dollars during the recent campaign.

The GOP and other racists have done well with a divide and conquer approach. This will continue as long as Blacks, Semites, Asians, LGBT, socialists and women each see themselves as not having common cause with others, If these ever coordinate their support for progressive candidates,, the GOP will either become powerless or have to resort to open civil war.

I suggest that many Americans hold at least as much hatred for blacks as they do for Semites.

This is why Ford moved Heaven and Earth to avoid testifying under oath. He sounded as incompetent as the once-premier of Ontario who was a golf pro but willing to recite anything he was told to utter.

If a black man with a name strongly associated with Islam can become president of the US, who knows what else is possible?

A CNN analyst this morning placed the loss squarely on Trump and his followers. He felt that many of the moderate (?) Republicans who could no longer stomach the antics of this lot of idiots, racists and neo-Nazis simply stayed home and did not vote. This offset the voter suppression and gerrymandering of the GOP.

And DeSantis and his crew oversaw the gerrymandering of key electoral districts in Florida as well as voter suppression. American politics continue to deteriorate.

The brilliance of Republicans' minds.