OzoneTom

“I expect there will be further incidents leading up to the invasion of Iran. It may even be that the US is assisting in Yemen in exchange for Saudi assistance there.”

Which would mean that an inability to halt American complicity in the Yemen disaster meant missing a chance to stop or delay full-scale war.

Wind is created by trees waving back and forth.

Honestly, I have seen it many times.

Also to some degree, tall grasses waving back and forth can stir-up breezes!

That recent DK graph was the first thing that I thought of!   Graphs are used to visualize and better understand data. This one is clearly intended to mislead.

All of the bars are of an identical visual style, which in a graph indicates that they are of the same data series. In this graph the (apparently only) series is “votes”. A series is a…[Read more]

Thanks, from your lips to dogs ear.

I just did a quick search and it looks like the Uniform Code article 77 is what I was thinking of.

There’s also Article 78, “accessory after the fact.”  That would be it’s own separate offense, presumably a lesser one — but I’d still be (happily) surprised to see it applied to any in the chain-of-command in…[Read more]

“…systematically protected by his SEAL superiors for a year”

I believe that under some sections in  the U.S. Code of Military Justice, those who aid and abet a crime might be prosecutable as a Principal for the actual crime as well.

Wonder if that applies here.  Not that I will be holding my breath for others to be charged for this any more t…[Read more]

The reason? My suspicion is that there are a lot of people in the crowd who are still “with Her” and detest Senator Sanders.  They certainly seemed primed and eager to demonstrate this and didn’t really care what he was saying.

There is time for the Senator to persuade them.

There were a couple of discussions on this issue in the “Help and Q&A” forum a while back.

All times are GMT  and it would break something if that is changed.

In the last thread I see OB commented with the offset to apply for U.S. “We’re using universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time. Subtract 4 hours for Eastern, 7 for Pacific.”

Hopefully th…[Read more]

I think that Senator Sanders would be wise to incorporate @AOC perspective into the discussion:

To avoid looking completely + utterly out of touch w/ the reality our prison system:

Instead of asking, “Should the Boston Bomber have the right to vote?”

Try, “Should a nonviolent person stopped w/ a dime bag LOSE the right to vote?”

Bc that question reflects WAY more people.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 25, 2019

I recall a period around the late ’80s when Barry Seals + Iran-Contra was a real hot topic for night-time call-in shows on Pacifica’s KPFK in L.A.

A system holding persons against their will is to a large degree responsible for the safety of their conditions.

The point at which Senator Sanders won the 2020 Presidential election.

What is Spanish for “creepy uncle”?

I watched him in the Warren MI livestream. He was continuously pounding one thing after another — very impressive, no one works harder.

As mentioned above and in other posts, Rep. Gabbard is providing great leadership on Assange. I don’t believe that Sen. Sanders is strongly driven to put himself in the  center of every discussion when he has competent allies.

Corruption is well-distributed across the political spectrum. The types of corruption as well as the size have no preferred political orientation.

The trouble with starting to pull threads is that it is difficult to stop the unraveling at your convenience.

In the aughts I recall having the small company I was working for change the health insurance providers three times in three years because of large increases in premium costs.

They paid 100% of the cost for employees and were able to find comparable offerings while reducing the increased costs to the company.

The only thing that I and my…[Read more]

Showing the ability to work with people who manufacture evidence, coerce witnesses, conceal exculpatory evidence? Yep, valuable experience!

Yep, if one is trying to persuade others and repeats easily-disproven charges, it only reduces their own credibility.