JonLP

Well expressed.

I’m very glad my dad, a WW II Navy and Pearl Harbor veteran, didn’t live to see this travesty.

@jonlp , it’s not just up to Russia how long this war lasts. It’s also up to Ukrainians – they’re the people who are fighting and dying for it. The professional Ukrainian Army, what remains of it, is being reinforced by untrained…[Read more]

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Foreign disinformation targeting the U.S….. sure, there’s plenty of propaganda.  The way to fight propaganda is not to seek to control it – such an effort is futile.  Even if you could – it would be morally repulsive.  This is because truth and lies are not simple equations.  Ask our own media, politicians, FBI, CIA, NSA or what have you…[Read more]

@JonLP,

I do not listen to the Democrats.

(They have earned that level of respect.)

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This has always been a controversial topic – and there has always been a wide variety of speculation regarding it.  There are also many thousands throughout the world who have at least claimed to see these things.  There is also a large and growing number saying that they were abducted.

To call these people crazy and summarily dismiss t…[Read more]

environmental policies, Yang was at the bottom because of his preference for nuclear energy as the climate change solution…I think it was Green Peace that ranked all the candidates..and @JonLP is right about Yang’s UBI….being a libertarian excuse to cut the safety net.

In this survey, Yang is up to a C+ but still rock bottom…When he started…[Read more]

@jonlp: “I just want to relax and have a normal life.”
How Brunch Became Political

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21572182/brunch-biden-political-indifference

Read the article before posting,  @JonLP it clearly talks about case positivity and hospitalizations fally signifigantly after introduction of said drug. I personaly trust all naked capitalism over nyt (wmd) or the first hit on google. follow the money, sir, always follow the money and research the doctors in the article. They are tisking their…[Read more]

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Given the recent findings regarding the origins of covid19, it is increasingly convincing that it did initially come from the Wuhan lab.

As for Russiagate, there was never a valid point.  The accusation that Russia used Facebook to promote Donald Trump may be true.  So what?  Plenty of other Countries are interested in American el…[Read more]

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I’m just trying to say that there are other ways of seeing things, looking at things – and you can’t take it too personally.  I mean, you can, but it’ll only piss you off and make you feel bad.  Words can hurt – and I know that better than most, but like you, I struggle with PTSD.  I know we have triggers – and a low threshold for bull sh…[Read more]

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Relax a little.  I can’t speak for anyone else – but I am not your enemy.  I don’t have faith in the democrats – but I despise the republicans.  I’m just not someone who believes that the system is going to work, or to change – and I’m disabled too.  I think you misunderstand if you believe people here are against you, or are your ene…[Read more]

This was back in 96-97. It was a satellite station in Aberdeen, and I had to cover news events there-driving back and forth from Olympia to Aberdeen when required. All I remember of Aberdeen is the Finch Building. An old stripped out concrete 4 story building that just sat there. I found Aberdeen to be really depressing. But when I was covering…[Read more]

@jonlp,that you feel this is the only site on which you can speak your mind freely.That’s also why many of us are here.

But would you,in good conscience,be able to call that a condition of democracy?

And how long do you think a news and discussion site populated with so many people who advocate Bernie style solutions instead of status quo c…[Read more]

@JonLP My deceased wife and I spent my last six months in the military at Ft. Lewis. It was 1970 and we lived in an apartment in Stillicum. I hope that is spelled right. It was the town where the fairy from McNeal Island. landed and departed from. McNeal Island is a prison. We had a beautiful view of the Puget Sound out of our front window.…[Read more]

Rashida’s nationality may or may not be of some note here,but she  and the rest of the Squad have not broken with Biden on any issue or called his conservatism to account,@jonlp,And there’s no reason to think she’d do it now,even though it’s my understanding she has family over there.

@jonLP: are you saying that the US is not a human rights

violator? Assad’s government was attacked – a secular

government-, just like the one in Libya. You may disagree

with all heads of all governments in their efforts to keep

their own government in power, but that does not in any

way stabilize the geopolitical situation, nor does it…[Read more]

@jonlp.

She lies,fear mongers,and peddles the status quo.Basically,she tells bedtime stories to baby boomers.

What you are drawn to is her style—calm,hip,witty-rather than the substance of what she is saying.

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Cuomo is the chief executive of NY, but he went way too far with his play acting of a feudal lord, and/or some other character out of history.

He ain’t King Arthur, or even Lancelot, and the women who work for the State aren’t Lady Guinevere’s Ladies in Waiting, or other women at the Court of Arthur.

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“Good sourcing policy”? Not really, when they report stuff from anonymous sources within the intelligence community.

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Here is the problem – there is no conclusive evidence that any such thing was used, let alone who might have used it.  Such things might very well exist – but targetting U.S. officials who are unaware?  No radiation detected by any of our toys?

The “invisible, mysterious, directed energy attacks” are unproven – and would require quite t…[Read more]

She lives in central Ukraine, was raised in the Soviet Union, speaks Russian and Ukrainian, and says she’d be just as happy if where she lives was part of Russia.

She’d just like a decent economy with the ability to get a decent job which is very hard to do in Ukraine since 2014. It may be tied to the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the…[Read more]