Friday, November 17, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Reading archive 2017-11-16
John Raines, accomplice in 1971 burglary that revealed FBI abuses, dies at 84
The GOP plan to kill Obamacare’s least popular provision could backfire on some in the middle class
Republicans: Enrage your colleagues - "Then there is this sleight of hand: While the Senate bill makes the corporate tax cut permanent, it sets all the proposed reductions for individuals to expire at the end of 2025. This artificially decreases the short-term costs of the bill. If those tax cuts did expire, Americans in large numbers would eventually see their taxes go up under this deal. (ed. note: that is, up compared to what they pay right now, or way up compared to what they pay the next ten years)
"Let’s take a step back and ponder the exceptional irresponsibility of what’s transpiring here. The same people who complained that more than a year of hearings, analysis and debate around Obamacare constituted “rushing” the bill are now recklessly spiriting through the system a gigantic piece of legislation that would touch all corners of the American economy."
Mother's boyfriend guilty of murder in torture death of 8-year-old Palmdale boy - "The prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments this week that the 6-foot-2, 270-pound Aguirre clearly enjoyed torturing the small boy and had systematically brutalized him in the months leading to his death, forcing him to eat cat litter and feces and making him sleep bound and gagged in a small cabinet overnight.
"Hatami said Aguirre couldn't blame either drugs or mental health problems for his actions, and he added that Aguirre hated Gabriel because he suspected the boy was gay."
Homeland Security official resigns after comments linking blacks to ‘laziness’ and ‘promiscuity’ come to light
The GOP plan to kill Obamacare’s least popular provision could backfire on some in the middle class
Republicans: Enrage your colleagues - "Then there is this sleight of hand: While the Senate bill makes the corporate tax cut permanent, it sets all the proposed reductions for individuals to expire at the end of 2025. This artificially decreases the short-term costs of the bill. If those tax cuts did expire, Americans in large numbers would eventually see their taxes go up under this deal. (ed. note: that is, up compared to what they pay right now, or way up compared to what they pay the next ten years)
"Let’s take a step back and ponder the exceptional irresponsibility of what’s transpiring here. The same people who complained that more than a year of hearings, analysis and debate around Obamacare constituted “rushing” the bill are now recklessly spiriting through the system a gigantic piece of legislation that would touch all corners of the American economy."
Mother's boyfriend guilty of murder in torture death of 8-year-old Palmdale boy - "The prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments this week that the 6-foot-2, 270-pound Aguirre clearly enjoyed torturing the small boy and had systematically brutalized him in the months leading to his death, forcing him to eat cat litter and feces and making him sleep bound and gagged in a small cabinet overnight.
"Hatami said Aguirre couldn't blame either drugs or mental health problems for his actions, and he added that Aguirre hated Gabriel because he suspected the boy was gay."
Homeland Security official resigns after comments linking blacks to ‘laziness’ and ‘promiscuity’ come to light
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Reading archive 2017-11-15
Fox News’s Shepard Smith debunks his network’s favorite Hillary Clinton ‘scandal,’ infuriates viewers
The facts behind Trump’s repeated claim about Hillary Clinton’s role in the Russian uranium deal
Donald Trump Jr.’s incredible history of dumb decisions
Explaining Islam: In Las Cruces, N.M., members of a local mosque want to dispel rumors about Muslims
Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That’s not happening.
DAMAGED BODIES, HEALING HEARTS: Despite devastating injuries, struggling towns still see football as a way to make it through
Fusion GPS co-founder: Steele didn't pay sources for dossier on Trump
‘Like Bond villains’: What happened when Steven Mnuchin and his wife posed with a sheet of money
The facts behind Trump’s repeated claim about Hillary Clinton’s role in the Russian uranium deal
Donald Trump Jr.’s incredible history of dumb decisions
Explaining Islam: In Las Cruces, N.M., members of a local mosque want to dispel rumors about Muslims
Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That’s not happening.
DAMAGED BODIES, HEALING HEARTS: Despite devastating injuries, struggling towns still see football as a way to make it through
Fusion GPS co-founder: Steele didn't pay sources for dossier on Trump
‘Like Bond villains’: What happened when Steven Mnuchin and his wife posed with a sheet of money
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Monday, November 13, 2017
Reading archive 2017-11-13
The love of his life was lured into a deadly trap. Then so was he.
Yes, the G.O.P. Can Block Roy Moore
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core: A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
National Museum of African American History's program digitizes old family memories
Digital Is More Than a Department, It Is a Collective Responsibility
New woman accuses Moore of sexual misconduct when she was a minor
The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
Bill Clinton: A Reckoning: Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history; is it finally time to make things right? - "When more than a dozen women stepped forward and accused Leon Wieseltier of a serial and decades-long pattern of workplace sexual harassment, he said, 'I will not waste this reckoning.' It was textbook Wieseltier: the insincere promise and the perfectly chosen word. The Democratic Party needs to make its own reckoning of the way it protected Bill Clinton. The party needs to come to terms with the fact that it was so enraptured by their brilliant, Big Dog president and his stunning string of progressive accomplishments that it abandoned some of its central principles. The party was on the wrong side of history and there are consequences for that. Yet expedience is not the only reason to make this public accounting. If it is possible for politics and moral behavior to coexist, then this grave wrong needs to be acknowledged. If Weinstein and Mark Halperin and Louis C.K. and all the rest can be held accountable, so can our former president and so can his party, which so many Americans so desperately need to rise again."
Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore’s Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall
Yes, the G.O.P. Can Block Roy Moore
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core: A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
National Museum of African American History's program digitizes old family memories
Digital Is More Than a Department, It Is a Collective Responsibility
New woman accuses Moore of sexual misconduct when she was a minor
The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks
Bill Clinton: A Reckoning: Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history; is it finally time to make things right? - "When more than a dozen women stepped forward and accused Leon Wieseltier of a serial and decades-long pattern of workplace sexual harassment, he said, 'I will not waste this reckoning.' It was textbook Wieseltier: the insincere promise and the perfectly chosen word. The Democratic Party needs to make its own reckoning of the way it protected Bill Clinton. The party needs to come to terms with the fact that it was so enraptured by their brilliant, Big Dog president and his stunning string of progressive accomplishments that it abandoned some of its central principles. The party was on the wrong side of history and there are consequences for that. Yet expedience is not the only reason to make this public accounting. If it is possible for politics and moral behavior to coexist, then this grave wrong needs to be acknowledged. If Weinstein and Mark Halperin and Louis C.K. and all the rest can be held accountable, so can our former president and so can his party, which so many Americans so desperately need to rise again."
Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore’s Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Reading archive 2017-11-12
The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong
Former U.S. intelligence officials: Trump being ‘played’ by Putin
The Entertainment World Is Changing, and Papa John Can’t Keep Up: With the landscape of television shifting, advertisers will need to learn how to better spend their money. Instead, Papa John is pointing fingers at all of the wrong people.
Pizza Hut: NFL protests aren't affecting our sales
Former FBI counter-spy on Mueller, Trump and Putin: “Russia is winning”: Naveed Jamali was a double agent battling Russian intelligence. He says their plans have worked brilliantly
Former U.S. intelligence officials: Trump being ‘played’ by Putin
The Entertainment World Is Changing, and Papa John Can’t Keep Up: With the landscape of television shifting, advertisers will need to learn how to better spend their money. Instead, Papa John is pointing fingers at all of the wrong people.
Pizza Hut: NFL protests aren't affecting our sales
Former FBI counter-spy on Mueller, Trump and Putin: “Russia is winning”: Naveed Jamali was a double agent battling Russian intelligence. He says their plans have worked brilliantly
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Reading archive 2017-11-11
Trump Says Putin ‘Means It’ About Not Meddling - "Mr. Trump heaped disdain on the former leaders of three American intelligence agencies — John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director; James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence; and James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired this year — appearing to suggest that they were less trustworthy than Mr. Putin. 'I mean, give me a break — they’re political hacks,' Mr. Trump said. 'You have Brennan, you have Clapper, and you have Comey. Comey's proven now to be a liar, and he’s proven to be a leaker, so you look at that. And you have President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with that.'" (ed. note: U.S. intelligence report says Putin targeted presidential election to 'harm' Hillary Clinton's chances)
The Vacuity of the Vice President
Trump says U.S. won’t be ‘taken advantage of anymore.’ Hours later, Pacific Rim nations reach deal on trade without America.
Bannon is right: It’s no coincidence The Post broke the Moore story
I did a stand-up set about Louis C.K.’s offenses. It wasn’t enough.
Trump’s intentional behavior in Japan was much worse than his etiquette mistakes
The Vacuity of the Vice President
Trump says U.S. won’t be ‘taken advantage of anymore.’ Hours later, Pacific Rim nations reach deal on trade without America.
Bannon is right: It’s no coincidence The Post broke the Moore story
I did a stand-up set about Louis C.K.’s offenses. It wasn’t enough.
Trump’s intentional behavior in Japan was much worse than his etiquette mistakes
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