Category Archives: History

ON THIS DAY: June 27, 2016

June 27th is Industrial Workers of the World Day National Orange Blossom Day National Sun Glasses Day Decide To Be Married Day National PTSD Awareness Day NATIONAL HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD Canada – Discovery Day Chile – St. Peter and … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY; June 26, 2016

June 26th is America’s Kids Day Beautician’s Day National Canoe Day Chocolate Pudding Day Same Sex Marriage Day NATIONAL HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD Azerbajian – Armed Forces Day Fiji – National Sports Day Haiti – Father’s Day Madagascar – Independence … Continue reading

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EU Disintegration and BREXIT: sanctimony & pseudoscience

“The EU’s disintegration is now running at full speed.” By ann summers Like Wile E. Coyote going off the Dover Cliffs, anti-immigrant discourse fervor and the MOE made the destruction of the UK Tory party inevitable but can Labour and … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: June 25, 2016

June 25, 2016 is: National Catfish Day Color TV Day Global Beatles Day International Day of the Seafarer Please Take My Children to Work Day NATIONAL HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD: Finland – Midsummer Croatia –Statehood Day Mozambique – Independence Day  Sweden – … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: June 24, 2016

June 24, 2016 is: Pralines Day Swim a Lap Day International Fairy Day INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS: Canada – St. Jean Baptiste Day Lithuania – Day of Dew Peru – Farmer Day and Inti Raymi Day Venezuela – Carabobo Battle On This … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: June 22, 2016

June 22, 2016 is: National Chocolate Éclair Day AND National Onion Rings Day AND Take Your Dog to Work Day (after all that Cholesterol, you’ll need a walkies) INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS: Belarus – Remembrance of Victims of the Great Patriotic War Croatia … Continue reading

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Screw Political Correctness – DAESH is Salafi-jihadism

By ann summers “PC” as a RWNJ / GOP media canard: reactionary language licenses for LIVs in a pluralist democracy President Obama on Tuesday offered one of his longest public explanations yet for why he doesn’t use the phrase “radical Islam” … Continue reading

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Censusless: This book needs to be read not just before 2020 or even November 2016

By ann summers Is Howard Dean, Tim Kaine, or DWS responsible for the poor leadership on what remains the real negative consequences of what should have been a better outcome for PBO’s 2008 election in the midst of an economic … Continue reading

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Under tRump, cockroaches will have unenumerated, unimpeachable rights and envy the dead

By ann summers If we thought the End of the Republic happened when Monica Lewinsky got a TED talk, surprise -— Donald Trump could become POTUS, just as he states that Latino or Muslim judges could be unfair to him. Sonia Sotomayor will … Continue reading

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A historic moment revealing a Pyhrric defeat for Trump

By ann summers Even as Trump tried to make canceling a Sanders-Trump debate this week in Caifornia into a positive meme (“I don’t debate second-place candidates”), he lost because his ditching a debate in the Iowa GOP primary using the … Continue reading

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