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Happy New Years To Every Exile

UnkaWillbur Dec 31, 2016

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2016, a terrible year, for music, for politics and for America, is Gone. I just want to say thanks to all of you for helping make it a good year.

Here’s to a better 2017, for all exiles, and for all of mankind.

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SmotPoker

We can all say goodbye to William Christopher (Father Mulcahy on MASH) as well, one of the final victims of 2016.
- Unkawillbur
  
  Damnit. I thought we had gotten through it.
  - SmotPoker
    
    One last kick in the nuts to remember it by I guess….
    - kreskin
      
      that’s what it feels like
      - towerofbabel
        
        Let’s hope we don’t look back at 2016 as the good old days…
      - kreskin
        
        Yeah , no kiddin , let’s hope .
      - SmotPoker
        
        Even worse for the ones that died, but yeah…
  - towerofbabel
    
    Sometimes nothingness has an appeal. But let’s face it, our histories are forever written in time and we cannot go back and change them.
- kreskin
  
  84 years old , hard to believe .
panem et circenses

Happy New Year everybody. Hope you all have a good 2017.
Unkawillbur

“The beauty and the simplicity of such a theory are so great that it is easy to forget that it follows not from the actual facts, but from an incomplete hypothesis introduced for the sake of simplicity. … The conclusion that individuals acting independently for their own advantage will produce the greatest aggregate of wealth, depends on a variety of unreal assumptions …

Individualism and laissez-faire could not, in spite of their deep roots in the political and moral philosophies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, have secured their lasting hold over the conduct of public affairs, if it had not been for their conformity with the needs and wishes of the business world of the day. …

These many elements have contributed to the current intellectual bias, the mental make-up, the orthodoxy of the day.”

John Maynard Keynes
The End of Laissez-Faire
- panem et circenses
  
  https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/73b706b0b9c6fc579fc9b9e9d259a9085fee85c1b6dc249a7d86424df3b692f2.jpg
- towerofbabel
  
  The intellectual biases that skew to one or another aspects of human social relations only to radicalize it are pathological. We are individual and we are social simultaneously. Politics is how we sort it out.
Chunga

Greg Pallast – How Do Republicans Get Away With Voter Suppression?

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38936-how-do-republicans-get-away-with-voter-suppression
- Unkawillbur
  
  Because Democrats allow it as part of “the power-sharing agreement.”
  
  😀
  - kreskin
    
    The’re pretty much one and the same now .
- thud
  
  Pallast has been illuminating the ongoing destruction for quite some time to no avail. The story never gets out to a broad audience. About all we can hope for is that the RW will overplay their hand and destroy their beloved power structure. I consider this to actually be quite likely. I just hope they don’t pull another another Pearl Harbor and use war to rally the troops.
  - towerofbabel
    
    Voting is what we do to avoid having to do anything to change the situation. So the outcome is irrelevant.
    - kreskin
      
      Good one . Kinda like sticking a pacifier in our own mouths.
    - thud
      
      If Lord Trump manages to piss off enough people they might start voting.But what price will we pay to get to that point? Education ain’t gonna work. People are cynical or indifferent and the media is just fine with that.
    - thud
      
      Some politicians ARE worse than others. It ain’t over yet.
Chunga

Lovers in a Dangerous Time. Yes I ripped of Bruce Cockburn.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/70c13cb3ddba786ab94d35332ae4452b90effbd687412f9a6ef068ebd5eaee23.jpg
- kreskin
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErS9HCh8GfE
Chunga

Not that he has the guts but now is the time for Obama to recognize a Palestinian State.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/now_is_the_time_for_obama_to_recognize_palestine_20161229
- towerofbabel
  
  Ain’t gonna happen.
- kreskin
  
  He got a parting cheap shot in on Yahooo , I think that’s as far as it’ll go . Glad he did it .
  - towerofbabel
    
    He’s got to build a library. (Full of what?)
    - kreskin
      
      Desperate for something positive .
    - Unkawillbur
      
      Full of shit, if his two terms as president are anything to go by.
towerofbabel

Eventually each spark goes out and new ones spring to life.
Unkawillbur

From Ars Techinica, who, collectively, know a thing or two about the internet and hacking.

White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with electionTalk about disappointments. The US government’s much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
kreskin

RAW STORY .

I’m sure this one will be a big hit .

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Hilz lost to a relatively unknown black man , then to a world class buffoon and blow-hard , that’s quite a feat . Could it be that she is a lousy candidate who ran a couple of terrible presidential campaigns ? Nahhhhhhhh …..

Get real people , grow up .

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- notisaidthepig
  
  Oh, dear. You’re asking for trouble when you post facts. Oink!
  - kreskin
    
    Now they’re blaming Tim Kaine for her loss . LOL
    - Unkawillbur
      
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4d0e1deb1ede077c1503243b17644dbb15c965ee2da26e84ee19994af30f749b.jpg
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