Happy Independence Day, although I prefer immanent to vicarious independence.
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It’s Beginning to Make Sense
So now, if Trump says he’s going to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, he’ll be accused of turning tail before the Russians. I wonder if there’s a connection,
War’s Lost, Come Home
A little bit of appreciation for the Russiagate kooks: Thanks for bringing Afghanistan back to the attention of the American people.
That’s right everyone, we’re still at war in Afghanistan even though we lost it 15 years ago. 2,449 Americans have been killed so far, hundreds of thousands of Afghans. You know, just so you know.
More Regarding The Latest Russiaphobia
Lee Camp makes the same point as Sheldon. Why pay for what you can get for free.
We could talk about the context of the fact that the Taliban does not need to be paid to kill American soldiers because their entire goal for the past twenty years has been to kill American soldiers. Paying them a bounty would be like offering the guy sleeping with your wife twenty bucks to sleep with your wife.
Regarding the Latest in Russophobia
I might believe the latest Russia story (about bounties for American scalps in Afghanistan) when I see a headline like this:
Russian Fiscal Conservatives Blast Putin for Paying for What He’s Already Getting for Free
I Got One
CNBC:
FedEx, which paid $205 million for naming rights to the Washington Redskins’ stadium, asks team to change its name
How about the Washington War Lords?
Kinda catchy, right?
(Haha) Chelsea Clinton Denies She Was Ever Close Friends with Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Madam’
Child rapists’ close associates say what?
Politico said Maxwell first grew close to the Clinton family after former president Bill Clinton left office, and eventually became friends with Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation. According to the news outlet, the two women vacationed together on a yacht in 2009, and Maxwell attended Chelsea’s wedding to Marc Mezvinsky in 2010, Politico reported. A photo of Maxwell at the wedding has circulated online.
Maxwell also participated in the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative as recently as 2013, through The TerraMar Project, an oceanic non-profit she founded, according to the Initiative’s website. The contacts between Chelsea Clinton and Maxwell appear to have occurred after Maxwell’s name first emerged in accounts of Epstein’s alleged sexual abuse.
“Ghislaine was the contact between Epstein and Clinton,” a person familiar with the relationship told Politico. “She ended up being close to the family because she and Chelsea ended up becoming close.”
Here’s Ghislaine Maxwell, by many accounts Jeffrey Epstein’s “pimp” and “groomer of girls” at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. pic.twitter.com/leBUwqoWnT
— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) July 7, 2019
Want To Reform The Criminal Justice System? End The Drug War.
John Stossel at Reason. John interviews Dr Carl L. Hart on the drug war and ending it.
Carl Hart is the Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Professor Hart has published numerous scientific and popular articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology and is co-author of the textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior (with Charles Ksir). His book High Price was the 2014 winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
The drug war hasn’t stopped drug use. What it mostly did, says Professor Carl Hart, former chair of Columbia University’s Psychology Department, was to pit “police against the communities that they serve.”
Dr Hart’s new book: Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty In The Land of Fear.
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