Category Archives: Politics

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

Posted on June 16, 2016 by ann li-summers

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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Memes of a feather: ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and ‘radical Christian terrorism’

Posted on June 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

Immanuel Kant — ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’   By ann summers Home-grown extremism still intersects and is intersectional, so expressing “radical islamic terrorism” like “radical Christian terrorism” are as PBO indicated today about political talking points, there’s no … Continue reading →

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Readings – Hillary Clinton’s ‘Entangled’ Foreign Policy

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

~ Readings features content from elsewhere. ~ In her foreign policy speech last week, Hillary Clinton spent a lot of time bashing Donald Trump, implying as Daniel Lazare says, “that because Trump is bonkers, Hillary must be the opposite, i.e. thoughtful and mature,” … Continue reading →

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Orlando Massacre: Pulse One = Stonewall too

Posted on June 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The framing of that meme of “the worst act of mass shooting in US history” comes not only as an “act of terror and an act of hate” but also raises some other peripheral issues in the early … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 6, 2016 by ann li-summers

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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Readings – The Open-And-Shut Case Of Hillary Clinton

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

~ Readings features content from elsewhere. ~ From Investors Business Daily, imagine what would happen if YOU did what Hillary Clinton did, and conducted ALL of your work for your employer on your own private server.

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Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony.  The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading →

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A historic moment revealing a Pyhrric defeat for Trump

Posted on May 31, 2016 by ann li-summers

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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From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social-media battle/alliance

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social media battle/alliance to come or will Bernie’s youth followers vote their real interests. It’s more than Hillary’s gaffe about the need to redirect coal producing communities but to make sure that the … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk & Aeon Flux: will Mars be only for the 1%

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

A million folks on Mars could be the Earth’s Plan B Continue reading →

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