The Speaker of the House has called an early recess for the Thanksgiving break because his Republicans members were so punchy from all the infighting and name-calling that they allowed a continuing budget resolution with no budget cuts to pass, mostly with Democratic votes, and couldn’t even work up a good old-fashioned cry. There are a few die hards who are still shaking their fists on the Capitol steps vowing never to let it happen again but nobody has the energy to cheer them on at this point: Their obsession with “individual spending bills” instead of omnibus legislation doesn’t really seem like the greatest idea at the moment since they can’t even get their own draconian spending bills to the floor much less pass them. So I’m not sure why they thought a government shutdown was going to shake anything loose. Not that it really matters. They have not done any actual legislating since this congress convened nearly a year ago so why start now? America is tired too — tired of their inane, infantile, behavior. And people are no doubt grateful to be spared any more of it for the next week or so.
Reading
Introducing our newest Lever Reader: Profits Over Patients — The Corporatization of American Health Care And What You Can Do To Protect Yourself.
Savage Sword Of Conan in Titan Comics' February 2024 solicits, as well as a Conan event, 15th Doctor Who and more Zack Snyder Rebel Moon
David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor & Mawaan Rizwan's still-unknown character get the spotlight in new Doctor Who/BBC Children In Need images.
The way Clinton blames Hamas for all the violence shows what’s wrong with the U.S. perspective on the Middle East.
The post Hillary Clinton Is Lying About the History Between Hamas and Israel appeared first on The Intercept.
Who needs consultants? When opponents write your campaign ads for you? Vanity Fair: On Wednesday, Representative Chip Roy took to House floor to tear into his fellow Republicans, accusing them of doing literally nothing useful with their time in Washington—definitely not anything he could actually tell voters about in an effort to get reelected. “You know, we have had a tumultuous year of sorts, but in the eyes of the American people, they’ve been watching from afar wondering when this body, the people’s House, will stand up in defense of the people who send us here,” Roy said. “When are we going to do what we said we would do?” Taking aim expressly at his GOP colleagues, Roy added: “For the life of me, I do not understand how you can go to the trouble of campaigning, raising money, going to events, talking to people, coming to this town as a member of a party who allegedly stands for something…and then do nothing about it. One thing: I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing—one—that I can go campaign on and say we did.
Democrats are concerned about reports that Khan, currently imprisoned and facing a secret trial, potentially faces the death penalty.
The post House Democrats Press Biden to Block Military Aid to Pakistan Over Human Rights Abuses, Jailing of Imran Khan appeared first on The Intercept.
Over 600 episodes of Classic Doctor Who from before the 2005 revival are now available to watch on the free streaming service Tubi.
Kit Klarenberg reveals how starting in the 1970s, the Israeli government and CIA shaped how we see terrorism, using the fear of communism to serve their own foreign policy agendas.
The post Team B and the Jerusalem Conference: How Israel Helped Craft Modern-Day “Terrorism” appeared first on MintPress News.
To help celebrate our twenty-fifth year of being on the information superhighway, we have reached out to some of our current and former columnists for check-ins and updates. Today’s columnist, Suzanne Yeagley, has written Interviews with People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs for our site since 2002. It’s one of our oldest running columns. Suzanne returns today for the first new installment in a few years.
- - -
- - -
Q: What is your job title?
A: The official title is “Guinness World Records Adjudicator.” I’m part of a team of adjudicators who are sent in person for certain events. I am the person who decides, normally in real time, unless it’s a very intense record, whether or not the record attempt was successful.
We go to the event in our fancy uniform. Every time I’m in it, I feel very official.
You think Trump doesn’t mean you? What Sinclair Lewis did say in It Can’t Happen Here: “But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word ‘Fascism’ and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty.” The more familiar quote misattributed to Lewis was just years ahead of its time. Whatever. The truth of it seems increasingly evident. Wrapped in the flag? ☑ Carrying a cross? ☑
Doctor Who: Liberation of the Daleks is an official in-canon look at the Fourteenth Doctor's first adventure that's passable but inessential.
1. When the mega-mansion developer said, “Build,” he willed the entire life of a neighborhood into despair.
2. This despair cannot be understood as referring to anything other than the complete loss or absence of hope, that is, the hope of ever knowing a quiet day again.
3. The preservationist canons were imposed, but only on the height and façade, and the architects, being very clever, found ways around these according to the canons themselves, proposing a “library tower” because it is part of the “Village vernacular, water towers and all.”
4. It is easier for a herd of camels to pass through the eye of a needle than for one man with a library tower of books shelved by color to get into the kingdom of heaven.
5. It takes no less than five years to build a mega-mansion. And wherever two or more are built, others will follow. Therefore, it is certain that the hell of construction noise will be never-ending.
6. For the souls in the vicinity, absolutely no care or recompense is given.
- by Psyche Film
- by Phoebe Friesen
John Mitchinson reflects on why the life of Saint Cuthbert still has important things to teach us
Luke Kelly was born in Sheriff Street, one of the best-known thoroughfares of Dublin’s north inner city, in November 1940. For decades the area’s workers had laboured on the nearby docks — providing the backbone, thirty years before, for much of Jim Larkin’s organising efforts. But by the mid-twentieth century, those employment opportunities had begun […]
Ivor Gaber examines the technique of repeating untruths for a particular gain and how to counter it
A new report by the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank describes the emergence of the 'culture control left' – conveniently looking the other way when it comes to the right of politics