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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[Kam]

Happy New Year. :-(

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-family-calls-officer-s-arrest-after-man-fatally-shot-n1254297

Asked for a mental health professional. Got an untrained for mental health policeman and a dead family member.

I'm questioning why they would call the police in the first place?

Because they needed help?

Serve and protect, no?

The black folks in my hood would never call the police for mental health assistance.  Especially after the events of last summer.

[LarryBnDC]

Happy New Year. :-(

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-family-calls-officer-s-arrest-after-man-fatally-shot-n1254297

Asked for a mental health professional. Got an untrained for mental health policeman and a dead family member.

I'm questioning why they would call the police in the first place?

Because they needed help?

Serve and protect, no?

The black folks in my hood would never call the police for mental health assistance.  Especially after the events of last summer.

They’re not in that family’s situation.

Public safety must be reimagined.

[josh]

Come Wednesday, Red is going to express great concern about the deficit.

No, you are.

Red the perpetual second grader.

LOL!

LOL! is the equivalent of a concession speech from Red.

He just has no idea why what he said in response to the OP is so disjoint.

[facilitatorn]

Biden to overturn Trump's "Muslim travel ban" in his first 10 days in office...reportedly.

1st day is what I heard, along with rejoining the Paris Accords.

Paris Accord...UN climate fund;

More billions of US taxpayers dollars leaving for the green fund.
Some say it's "redistributing the wealth".

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/02/climate/trump-paris-green-climate-fund.html

One of the many perks of the project. Full speed ahead, especially now with your endorsement.

[josh]

[luee]

POLITICSPublished 11 hours ago
Biden transition official tells migrant caravans: 'Now is not the time' to come to US

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-caravan-immigration-mexico-border-biden-administration

Finally the voice of reason. Talk about another Civil War. Why not put them in front of the vaccine line? Joe did not win the election because of open borders.

[bodiddley]

Jimmy Carter refused to back the Shah a shining light at the time who attempted to reform the Ayatollahs.

The Shah and his secret police were about as much of a shining light as Saddam Hussein in Iraq.  Jimmy Carter couldn't cure the Shah's cancer or megalomania. And so far as reforming the ayatollahs, the Shah inflamed things by having his minions criticize Khomeini as a drug addict, homosexual, British spy, etc.

Again, is Iran's gov't any worse than the Saudis?
It used to be that Iran was meddling in other countries, especially Lebanon, while the Saudi were more insular.  But the Saudis decided to go global and export  their extremist and intolerant version of Islam.  And then go militaristic bullying invading and destroying Yemen, blockading Qatar partly because they have actual free press, kidnapping the head of Lebanon and forcing him to resign.  They also have a lot of heads of state on their payroll, including in Lebanon, Sudan, CAR.

Of course since the Saudis are allies, we allow them to rampage around and foment wars and destabilize other countries while demonizing Iran for acting similar.  Of course the US destabilized Iraq (an understatement) so that now the Shiites run the show there, giving Iran another significant sphere of influence.  The US often shoots itself in the foot in the ME.  If the US-backed Shah hadn't been a murderous repressive megalomaniac dictator, the country could have transitioned to something more modern and pluralistic.  Of course Iran tried to do that back in 1954 and we had their head of state assassinated ...

[luee]

But in little more than a generation, Iran had changed from a traditional, conservative, and rural society to one that was industrial, modern, and urban.


https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution

The clerics lost a great deal of power due to reforms and were ticked off. Since the overthrow Iran under the Ayatollahs has become a rogue state promoting terrorism and seventh century xenophobia.

[bodiddley]

Wow - Liz Warren is a total cunt
I guess she has to act out given her new found irrelevance.

You haven't a clue and are offensive -- a winning combination.

What an unwiped asshole you remain.

[LarryBnDC]

But in little more than a generation, Iran had changed from a traditional, conservative, and rural society to one that was industrial, modern, and urban.


https://www.britannica.com/event/Iranian-Revolution

The clerics lost a great deal of power due to reforms and were ticked off. Since the overthrow Iran under the Ayatollahs has become a rogue state promoting terrorism and seventh century xenophobia.

If the CIA and BP hadn’t overthrown an elected government to INSTALL the Shah the Ayatollahs wouldn’t have risen to power.

We broke it.

[bodiddley]

But in little more than a generation, Iran had changed from a traditional, conservative, and rural society to one that was industrial, modern, and urban.

Since the overthrow Iran under the Ayatollahs has become a rogue state promoting terrorism and seventh century xenophobia.

Iran had a lot of oil money coming in.
Too bad the Shah was a narcissistic autocrat who spent much of it on weapons and his family, ignoring the Iranian people.

Iran under the shah had some of the worst urban pollution in the world.
Corruption was rife with police often stopping motorists and extracting bribes.
The secret police tortured and killed (during a student uprising, some students were pushed off the top of those modern buildings).

Under the shah, Iran militarized rapidly spending huge some on weapons instead of people.  You don't think the shah was involved in terrorism?  He armed the Iraqi Kurds (with Soviet weapons Israel had captured to hide Iranian involvement) to destabilize Iraq.  And then tossed them aside to be slaughtered, as is often the Kurds fate.

And the US is often involved in terrorism (such as assassinating an Iranian General as he arrived in Iraq for talks) and backs coups and wars.  We're still fucking with Afghanistan 20 years after 9/11.  Israel bombs Lebanon and Syria at will, and assassinates Iranian scientists now and then.  As always, when the US or its allies (say Saudis or Israel) do something nasty its peachy keen, but awful when Iran or Russia does something very similar.

[LarryBnDC]

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

But remember when he was murdered April 4, 1968 he was one of the most reviled men in America.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Associated Press review of records, undercutting claims the event was the brainchild of the president's grassroots supporters.

A pro-Trump nonprofit group called Women for America First hosted the “Save America Rally” on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse, an oval-shaped, federally owned patch of land near the White House. But an attachment to the National Park Service public gathering permit granted to the group lists more than half a dozen people in staff positions for the event who just weeks earlier had been paid thousands of dollars by Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Other staff scheduled to be “on site” during the demonstration have close ties to the White House.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/records-trump-allies-behind-rally-190235314.html



 

[Hamilton Samuels]

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

But remember when he was murdered April 4, 1968 he was one of the most reviled men in America.

Was he?

[barton]

  In the years leading up to his assassination, the preacher and civil rights activist was less popular than ever. A 1966 Gallup poll found that almost two-thirds of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of Dr. King and a third had a positive opinion, a 26 point unfavorable rate increase from 1963.

"He was not searching for popularity," Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Institute at Stanford, told Newsweek. "What he was trying to put forward was what he thought was the right course of action."

https://www.newsweek.com/martin-luther-king-jr-was-not-always-popular-back-day-780387