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The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/17/2019 1:42:50 PM

      The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda 09/17 by Silvio Canto Jr Politics:  Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda........Iran and the drone atack: What happens next? The Democrat debate.......The Kavanaugh and The New York Times story.....IG Horowitz has apparently presented a report to AG Barr......and other stories......click to listen:       

Tuesdays video: The newsrooms need more political diversity....too much...

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/17/2019 1:18:12 PM

            Tuesdays video:         The newsrooms need more political diversity....too much Trump hate....    Click to watch:           

Planting Tobacco

K T Cat
9/17/2019 11:53:41 AM

My tobacco seedlings have grown wildly over the last two weeks. Dig this evolution.Two weeks ago, right before I did the final culling, they looked like this. When I pulled the small ones, they had single main roots with a few, spindly branch roots coming off the tap.By this weekend, when I planted them in a raised bed, they had grown substantially.The branch roots had grown even more than the leaves, making it all the way to the bottom of their cups and then looping back up the sides. The root structure was so complete that when I pulled the seedlings from their cups, not a single bit of dirt fell off.The tobacco in the raised bed. A couple of the seedlings withered a bit. Both of them were Cuban varieties. I blame this on[...]

Dogs Can Have Nightmares

K T Cat
9/16/2019 5:28:52 PM

Little Pepito, our ancient chihuahua-mix, who we adopted after his previous family abandoned him, woke me up at 3:30 AM this morning, barking downstairs.Pepito's barks are unusual. He doesn't really bark so much as he shouts, "HEY" When he has a barking spasm, he stands and yells, "HEY" at a rate of once every 5-10 seconds.He almost always sleeps through the night, but this morning, we was clearly upset about something. I went downstairs and as soon as he saw me, he started crying. I sat next to him and he pressed himself into me as hard as he could and cried for a while. He finally calmed down and faded into his contented moans as I petted him.Poor thing. I wonder if he had dreamed that he had been deserted again.Pepito in a[...]

The Trouble With Tribble

9/12/2019 4:48:08 PM

  A former top administrator of FEMA was arrested on Tuesday in a major federal corruption investigation https://t.co/yu1eY9s9gn [Weve deleted an earlier tweet to this story that lacked clarity and contained a grammatical error.]  NYT National News (NYTNational) September 12, 2019     We have heard scornfully that she was Trump's FEMA employee. That is true, however, the former FEMA Official arrested was Ahsha Tribble, hired by FEMA in 2015, during the Obama administration. "She has traveled with President Obama and Vice President Biden to disaster areas to provide technical support on Federal response activities."Some of it must have rubbed off

Bury My DNA Results at Wounded Knee

8/20/2019 3:26:48 PM

   

Canto Talk - September 5th: International Edition

mutnodjmet13
9/4/2019 1:45:40 PM

Dear Friends: It is my pleasure to be joining Silvio Canto Jr. as his guest on Canto Talk this Thursday. So, please tune in 10 am Pacific/12 noon Central/1 pm Eastern by clicking HERE for the live show, or after for an archived podcast.

Canto Talk: July 9 - Summer Shake-Ups

mutnodjmet13
7/8/2019 5:14:50 PM

Dear Friends: It is my pleasure to start my summer podcast season by being a guest on Canto Talk. Please join the wonderful host, Silvio Canto, Jr., and me on Tuesday, July 9, at 10 am Pacific Time/12 noon Central, 1 pm Eastern. Click HERE to listen to the live show, or after for an archived podcast.

The unthinkable is now the default path forward

W.C. Varones
8/19/2019 10:54:52 AM
  The experts agreeWe're going Full MMTSo start buying gold  Mauldin Economics on the prestigious Camp Kotok economic gathering:There was an open debate about MMT or Modern Monetary Theory. Brilliant young man economist Sam Rines took the difficult position of being pro-MMT for the sake of debate. He thinks it would be a disaster but is truly afraid we will actually pursue such a policy. There was the usual pushback, which Ive written about more than once, but I have to admit that I was struck by the private conversations after the debate. Many smart, well-informed thinkers were almost resigned to seeing MMT actually attempted in the next decade.

Loretta Mester

W.C. Varones
8/16/2019 12:10:13 PM

... is an anagram of T-Rate Molester.

VIOLENCE OF THE LEFT: ITS IN THEIR DNA (4)

barrycjacobsen
10/19/2018 1:27:49 PM

Leftist ViolenceComes toAmerica, a Historical Perspective(To read previous installment, go here; to start with Part One, go here)19th century Europe was marked by growing leftists movements, which attempted several short-lived revolutions throughout the continent. While these leftist risings failed, a new left-wing extremist movement, theanarcho-communists, grew out of them.The word itself comes from a Greek word, anarkos, which means without a chief. Anarcho-communist believe that all government should be abolished along with private property, and thatcommon ownershipof themeans of productionin combination with astateless societies should be the organizing principle. To bring about such change, anarchists argued that violent[...]

VIOLENCE ON THE LEFT: ITS IN THEIR DNA (3)

barrycjacobsen
10/19/2018 12:55:07 PM

PART THREE: UTOPIAN VISIONS LEAD TO BLOODY REVOLUTIONS(To read the previous installment, go here)In 1792 the French liberal intelligentsia, imbibing the heady wine of Rousseaus theories, inflamed the urban mobs against the upper classes. To be born into wealth or privilege was deemed an act oftreason against the People.No level of dissent was tolerated: disagreeing with the goals

Father's Day Love

B-Daddy
6/18/2017 4:30:05 PM
As a Bible following Christian, I am often confronted with accusations of hate, along with accusing questions along the lines of what would you do if your child ______________? Father's Day is a great day to answer with the love God grants me through Jesus Christ.  I have two adult sons, and both my wife and made their upbringing our number one purpose.  Our love them is well-known and shown, so I have skin in the game to discuss this topic.  So on to the accusations.      What if your son came out as gay? I would still love him of course.  Further, I would have good advice for him, remain celibate.  This advice is given out of my love. The gay promiscuous lifestyle isn't known for its[...]

While Leftists Shoot Republicans, California Sinks Into One Party Rule

B-Daddy
6/14/2017 8:36:37 PM

Going Hugo Chavez one better, the Democrat controlled California legislator is taking action to ensure that one of their own who voted for the hated gas tax won't get recalled.  The legislator is rigging the system to make it harder and longer to recall State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) whose support for the increase made him a recall target.  From the Sacramento Bee:Democrats are pushing late-blooming bills to significantly improve state Sen. Josh Newmans odds of surviving an effort by the state GOP and others to recall him from office.The proposed changes, which became public Monday morning, would add months to the existing timeline of certifying a recall election for the ballot. The measure would virtually[...]

A kinder, nicer NFL?

dawnwildman
1/20/2016 12:37:59 PM

A Kinder and Nicer NFL?Are any of you buying the new crisis management public relations campaign by the NFL, Together We Make Football? The NFL has been pushing commercials that make them look like AT&T or Hallmark. Problem is, I dont think many are falling for the new kinder and gentler NFL. The whole reason they have to clean up their act is that there have been so many bad actors in NFL with behavior stretching from bad to criminal that they had no choice but to look like they cared. And rather than really take a look at the behavior and get rid of bad players, they have them do the classic mea culpa like Ray Rice after he beat his fiance unconscious, they go away for a little while either by due process or the NFL[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Who won the Israeli election? (we dont know yet) 

William A. Jacobson

Exit polls predict Netanyahu will not be able to form a coalition government, but exits polls have been unreliable in the past.

Usual Suspects Cry Foul as GOP Makes Squad the Focus of Campaign Ads Going Into 2020 

Stacey Matthews

Predictably, Squad member Ilhan Omar responded to the news by playing the race card, because of course she would.

The Trailer: Mark Sanford is a Tea Party candidate in a Trump party

In this edition: Mark Sanford's lonely quest for the presidency, the fight over the Working Families Party's endorsement, and why a Democratic congressman is bashing the squad. This week marks one ...

Cindy Maves, founder of local Tea Party, mayoral candidate, dies

Cindy Maves, a Rochester school bus driver who shook up the local political scene by helping found the Rochester Tea Party Patriots and later running for mayor, died Friday at her home after a long ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []