Electrolyte Orchestra

It actually meant support bloated military budgets for cost-plus contracts to Cheney’s company and assorted neocon buddies.  Blackwater guys were making a month what the actual troops made in a year.

A shining example of the  tried and true American campaign to get elected that gets reversed once in office.

A mere 18 months later, his administration spawned “the indispensable nation” and “American exceptionalism”.

Republicans in my lifetime run on their individual positions, but once elected, serve the party en bloc. McCain was a maverick…[Read more]

Once again, we should accept Russia  is simultaneously both evil genius and keystone cop.

They are smart enough to install their Manchurian Candidate, but so stupid they didn’t exploit the situation.

A rogue leak to The Guardian by intelligence officials that just happens to corroborate everything the intel community has fostered for years ye…[Read more]

Your article by an anonymous AP writer quotes “Treasury officials” , “prosecutors” and “government officials”.

If that is rock solid for you, so be it.

I have found Mate to be doing his best to practice journalism in its actual sense, to find the truth. He, like most truth seeking media these days,  often runs into bureaucracy and national…[Read more]

Who wrote the article to which you linked ?

Ought we be suspicious as to the veracity of this article?

Does he even know the story of Romeo & Juliet?  He should have been so grief stricken that he did the deed also.

I didn’t intend to trivialize it if it came off that way.

He is Pro-Life and is running on family values.

It was great for them before the rabble rousers went and stirred up the masses.
Bernie was the progressive rabble rouser they resent, Trump (who shouldn’t be in the same sentence) the GOP rabble rouser.
As far as Cheney goes, if she keeps this up I expect some Hang Liz Cheney chants in the near future.

I think of the trial scene in Animal House when Neidermeyer says decorum prohibits him from describing the Toga party.

As for DC statehood, I don’t see it happening now, although its very good that it is now an issue and it passed the House.  Ultimately, its a trial balloon for now that lets some Democrats tout their bona fides. I see the SC…[Read more]

I came to say the same thing – tying taxes to stock price is foolish for the reasons you stated. Your ‘obvious fix’ has been proposed for a long time now,. It would be effective at curbing excessive trading and be a big federal revenue generator.  It begs the question – why isn’t this fix implemented? Why isn’t it part of Biden’s…[Read more]

He isn’t alone. With few exceptions, all the Dems from late 90’s / early 2000’s have become that which they hate.  They are 90’s Republicans now – adopted their group think, their dirty tactics, name calling, election $$ uber alles, favor corporations over labor, votes available to the highest bidder, etc.

He did what he had to do to stay in the…[Read more]

Whatever penalty results from this ‘oversight’ will pale in comparison to what the services stand to make. The penalty will be a simple cost of doing business. The incentives from 11 years ago are still in place. They spoke of moral hazard back then and they were right.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/32217443/

Maybe the author meant Roosevelt Franklin, not Franklin Roosevelt

Can I buy you a drink? Great, now I can now legally rape you.

This applies to men also, right? Drink too much and get sodomized by a man legally?  I bet they’d change their tune if it happened to them or their sons.

The USA historically working on those countries is exactly why they left in the first place.

That was definitely eye-opening for me too.

The fact that that site disappeared as fast as it showed up told me all i needed to know.

The Democratic party has been hell bent to keep incumbents in office, not matter how lame they are.

The establishment Democrats own this.

Is blatant hypocrisy.
The US has been poking the bear for a while. Biden seems intent on waking it.