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Tuesday, February 4. 2020

Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health

Country Music and the Limits of Nostalgia - Ken Burns’s latest documentary evokes a past unfamiliar to many core PBS viewers.

Ben-Gurion's Private Plan. On the eve of Israel’s statehood in 1948, with the massed forces of five Arab nations threatening invasion, David Ben-Gurion picked a fight with his own army. Why?

Rewatch the Super Bowl Ad Honoring the American Flag Featuring Johnny Cash and Cpl. Kyle Carpenter

California Says No to the Future. The Golden State rejects a bill that would address its crippling housing crisis.

The US government is breaking up Big Razor before it gets to Big Tech. The FTC will sue to block the sale of razor startup Harry’s to Edgewell, the parent company of the Schick razor brand.

Elizabeth Warren Transferred Oil-and-Gas Investments to Her Children To Protect Her ‘Green’ Political Profile

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: Trump Is ‘The Enemy’

Schiff warns that Trump could sell Alaska to Russia if unchecked

Chaos wins the Iowa caucus

Navy arms sea drones for ocean attack

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It’s simple. Nichole Wallace is a POS.

Mystery solved.

#1 Scullman on 2020-02-04 08:41 (Reply)

"Schiff warns that Trump could sell Alaska to Russia if unchecked"

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

The first time someone on TV formed the words "Nadler and Schiff", I thought to myself: "That sounds like some corny old vaudeville comedy team."

#2 JJM on 2020-02-04 08:55 (Reply)

"Nadler and Schiff", I thought to myself: "That sounds like some corny old vaudeville comedy team."

Well, you have to admit, Nadler's got the pants for it.

#2.1 Aggie on 2020-02-04 09:20 (Reply)

"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants,"

- from the Chuckles The Clown funeral episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show

#2.1.1 JJM on 2020-02-04 11:03 (Reply)

"He's a Russian tool! We know it!"

"Someone's a tool - but I don't think it's Trump."

#2.2 JLawson on 2020-02-04 10:14 (Reply)

When you see 'em it's more like a couple of rodeo clowns. I'll bet Nadler climbing out of a barrel would bring the house down.

#2.3 BillH (Link) on 2020-02-04 10:23 (Reply)

Ms. Wallace and MSNBC are the Enemy.

#3 Robert Sendler on 2020-02-04 09:26 (Reply)

QUOTE:

"The enemy is the one who just got a permission slip to cheat in Presidential elections"

That key word is starting to slip in to the conversation, "cheat". Looks like the results of the Iowa Caucus, with the Hillary Clinton team server backbone, are confirming it. Aside from the campaign trail, this is going to be one nasty election behind the scenes where the votes get counted.

#4 Aggie on 2020-02-04 09:29 (Reply)

"California Says No to the Future"

I was surprised to see the article was in favor of that terrible legislation. The goal was clearly to move all power to the highest level where it could be used without the people having any voice in the choices made. What is needed is the exact opposite. Remove all/most power from the state and put it at the lowest level of government.

#5 OneGuy on 2020-02-04 09:46 (Reply)

You are absolutely right. This guy Phillip Sprincin used every trick in the propaganda book in an attempt to convince readers that California MUST HAVE more houses. Failure to build them would be a moral crime! What a maroon. California home prices are too high for several reasons, but the two biggest reasons are 1. Lots of illegal Mexicans, and other immigrants who are here legally, but still shouldn't be here. And 2. Incredible growth in the money supply.

Granting more housing permits isn't going to solve either of those problems. First of all, the Mexicans, and Chinese, and Indians need to be sent home. Then, the Fed has to stop pumping new money into the system. Finally, special accommodations should be made for young married couples, who want to start a family. Those houses are for them; not a bunch of old millionaires. Yes, I know. People would say that expelling foreigners, and cutting programs because we can't run a deficit any longer, and kicking old people out of their houses, and favoring young married white couples would be wrong. But I don't think so; I think that those actions would alleviate a lot of the problems that we are experiencing.

#5.1 Ron Lieberman on 2020-02-04 10:30 (Reply)

"The FTC will sue to block the sale of razor startup Harry’s to Edgewell, the parent company of the Schick razor brand."

I don't much care who actually owns Harry's as long as they don't tinker too much with the brand and the product.

I swear by their razors.

#6 JJM on 2020-02-04 11:07 (Reply)

Yep. They're really good.

Shame to see them bought out, though. That kind of wrecks their individuality, their unique position in the shaving (cream) landscape.

Hopefully the brand won't suffer for it.

#6.1 JLawson on 2020-02-04 13:51 (Reply)

"He's a Russian tool! We know it!"

"Someone's a tool - but I don't think it's Trump."
#2.2 JLawson on 2020-02-04 10:14 (Reply)

It's a cheaply made tool, and it comes pre-broken, so it's gotta be Russian. Sooooo, NOT Trump!

#7 Sam L. on 2020-02-04 11:20 (Reply)

It's just the absurdity of it all. WHY would Trump sell Alaska? There's no benefit to it for the country. He'd buy Greenland because there's a possible benefit. (They ain't making any more land, and we don't want Mexico, and Canada... they're with the UK. Puerto Rico doesn't really want to be a state, and the rest of the Bahamas and Caribbean... nah. So, Greenland? Why not?)

These idiots are in panic mode now, with the collapse of the Iowa caucus. They're just throwing (up) out everything they can think of, hoping in sheer desperation that they can get some momentary traction, show they've got a half a brain in their head, that they're competent and reasonable... but they're going WAY far the other way on that scale.

#7.1 JLawson on 2020-02-04 13:57 (Reply)

Schiff vaguely remembers there's some connection between Alaska, Russia, and buying land. He knows we like Alaska and shouldn't sell it. He thinks Putin is behind everything. He thinks Trump would do any bad thing he can think of. He tries to pack this all in a tight snowball and throw it, but it comes apart.

I wouldn't hurt my head trying to make logical sense out of Schiff's statements. He is operating on political intuition here, stringing words together for emotive effect. It works great at home in his own district. It's not so solid out in the big world.

I'm assuming you actually knew all this and just gave me a volleyball "set" so I could spike it for the benefit of the crowd. Thank you.

#7.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2020-02-04 22:56 (Reply)

Oh boy! What a surprise! Hillary/Bill still pulling the strings--
The dems leadership couldn't even stand to let the Iowans be Iowans--they won't tolerate diversity of opinion from anyone. Does anyone really believe it was about a computer "glitch"? Yeah sure you betcha--wanna buy a bridge?

#8 Another One on 2020-02-04 11:51 (Reply)

re Chaos wins the Iowa caucus

Trump was quick to capitalize:

Trump: Iowa Caucus an 'Unmitigated Disaster,' Shows Dems Can't Run the Country
https://cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/trump-iowa-caucus-unmitigated-disaster-shows-dems-cant-run-country

#9 feeblemind on 2020-02-04 12:50 (Reply)

I read a history of country music years ago Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity (If I post the link it rejects me as spam.) It was pretty good, actually, and I say that as a fan of pre-1990 country music. While Nashville put country music on the map, it also enforced boundaries that made it hard for musicians in Texas, California - hell, pretty much anywhere outside a half-dozen southern states that were considered legit - to get recorded. Think Bakersfield sound and Outlaw country like Willie Nelson.

There was a much wider range in previous decades, as the boundaries with Western, Swing, Folk, and Gospel music weren't as clear. I liked it better messy, rather than the sameness of the current offerings.

#10 Assistant Village Idiot on 2020-02-04 13:11 (Reply)

I'll probably watch this, not that I'm much of a country music fan. Plus, I have a little bit of a hard time with Burn's moral posturing in his more recent efforts but - geez - just imagine the cognitive dissonance of his Liberal fan base, when they're faced with the option of tuning in to PBS to watch the work of their favorite passionate documentarian, spending 16 golden hours exploring one of the country's central cultural mainstays - of the Deplorables.

#10.1 Aggie on 2020-02-04 13:25 (Reply)

There was a much wider range in previous decades, as the boundaries with Western, Swing, Folk, and Gospel music weren't as clear. I liked it better messy, rather than the sameness of the current offerings.

Indeed the boundaries were not as clear. Western Swing combined blues, old fiddle/folk tunes, jazz, and pop. And probably some more genres. Bob Wills is still the King! I never met Al Striklin, who was Bob Will's "piano pounder" until WW2, but I knew people who knew Al- which I found out by singing the praises of Bob Wills. One had played saxophone for decades in a dance band who told me that when the band played in the Dallas area, Al would sit in on piano.

Rock and roller Bill Haley used to be a pretty good yodeler. Yodel Your Blues Away.

One Easter Sunday in the 1990s, Willie Nelson and friends played gospel music on the radio, which of course went into western swing mode, among others.

#10.2 Gringo on 2020-02-04 14:58 (Reply)

The issue about vegetarian foods having incomplete proteins has been known for a very long time. As a child at school, I was taught that baked beans (sans pork) needed to be eaten with brown bread so would get the complete protein mix. Am still uncertain why and would appreciate elucidation of same, but it seems our elders had figured out more nutritional realities than we would like to acknowledge.

As for the more recent diktats by the "experts' as to what constitutes a "healthy" diet, I'm very agnostic. When animal fats were first demonized, I remember a parent at our children's school who said outright that trans-fats (which were being heavily promoted as "healthy") were in fact really bad. And a more recent food pyramid which promoted a lot of grain-based foods in the diet was referred to as a veterinarian we know as the "feed lot diet".

And, as a follow-up, if I want a plant-based diet, I prefer to go to a natural source - chicken, cow, pig. They are excellent converters of plants into delicious food.

#11 Frances on 2020-02-05 01:48 (Reply)

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