Boris Johnson's government released a new food strategy document today; I haven't read it, but judging from this photo I'm guessing the strategy is to stand around looking like a goddamn idiot
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“Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.
I miss Nixon.
Compared to these Nazis
we have in the White House now,*
Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
--@Hunter S Thompson
the Reptilican brain stem
is unequipped to Deal
with Mirth other
than to Banish
it & pray it
Perishes
forever
or so
Inasmuch as it's worth, I enjoy your comments here immensely. I frequently attempt a response to your posts, but then get bogged down by the density and clarity of content I'm reaching for and so lazily abandon the effort. In the AM today you'd mentioned the hearings and the moronic nature of trying to reach people so thoroughly deluded by misinformation and general dumbheadedness, and it caused me to think of this thoroughly enlightening (albeit not terribly optimism inspiring) episode of This American Life, in which they dig deep into a relatively sane Republican election officer's attempt to inject some sanity into the ordeal. If you're interested, and haven't already heard.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/753/transcript
(that's a transcript obviously, but there's an embedded clickable link for audio.)
I sure do wish the editors would fix the freaking glitch regarding the number of comments regardless.
well comments Not fixed
but then again there's This:
How Houston Moved 25,000 People
From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
Houston has gotten this far by teaming with county agencies and persuading scores of local service providers, corporations and charitable nonprofits — organizations that often bicker and compete with one another — to row in unison.
Together, they’ve gone all in on “housing first,” a practice, supported by decades of research, that moves the most vulnerable people straight from the streets into apartments, not into shelters, and without first requiring them to wean themselves off drugs or complete a 12-step program or find God or a job.
There are addiction recovery and religious conversion programs that succeed in getting people off the street. But housing first involves a different logic: When you’re drowning, it doesn’t help if your rescuer insists you learn to swim before returning you to shore.
You can address your issues once you’re on land. Or not. Either way, you join the wider population of people battling demons behind closed doors.
tonnes More @
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-people.html
sorry tentsy but Way to GO!
fucking Texas of all places
@24: It is simply a lie that Republicans cut spending when they hold the federal purse strings. Quite the opposite.
What they do instead is they cut social spending, not to save money but because they are ideologically opposed to it. They invariably more than make up the difference with greater expenditures on the things they do like, for instance defense spending. Any savings realized by their vindictive social cuts are more than out-weighed by high-end tax cuts. Not to mention that cuts to social spending at the federal level invariably pass the buck to state and local governments.
speaking of shit-faced
whackadoodle 'attorneys'
and former Mayors of 9/11:
The Fractious Night
That Began Trump’s Bid
to Overturn the Election
Donald J. Trump’s advisers urged him not to declare victory on election night in 2020. He listened to the one who told him what he wanted to hear.
for More
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/us/politics/trump-election-night.html
oh Rudy
a Nation pours out
it's sordid Heart for YOU
oh whoo whoo whoooooo
Comments aren't any fun anymore.
Every week is a week without driving when you don’t own a car!
Speaking of
humorlessness:
“Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.
I miss Nixon.
Compared to these Nazis
we have in the White House now,*
Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
--@Hunter S Thompson
the Reptilican brain stem
is unequipped to Deal
with Mirth other
than to Banish
it & pray it
Perishes
forever
or so
*CHENEY
/bush
likely.
@2,
Inasmuch as it's worth, I enjoy your comments here immensely. I frequently attempt a response to your posts, but then get bogged down by the density and clarity of content I'm reaching for and so lazily abandon the effort. In the AM today you'd mentioned the hearings and the moronic nature of trying to reach people so thoroughly deluded by misinformation and general dumbheadedness, and it caused me to think of this thoroughly enlightening (albeit not terribly optimism inspiring) episode of This American Life, in which they dig deep into a relatively sane Republican election officer's attempt to inject some sanity into the ordeal. If you're interested, and haven't already heard.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/753/transcript
(that's a transcript obviously, but there's an embedded clickable link for audio.)
I sure do wish the editors would fix the freaking glitch regarding the number of comments regardless.
The Spady family sucks. Don't eat at Dick's.
comment counter's working!
somebody's working the
Graveyard Shift
@7-- 'Dick's sucks'?
ooh -- Man Bites Dog!
hmmm
perhaps
Not fixed...
well comments Not fixed
but then again there's This:
How Houston Moved 25,000 People
From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
Houston has gotten this far by teaming with county agencies and persuading scores of local service providers, corporations and charitable nonprofits — organizations that often bicker and compete with one another — to row in unison.
Together, they’ve gone all in on “housing first,” a practice, supported by decades of research, that moves the most vulnerable people straight from the streets into apartments, not into shelters, and without first requiring them to wean themselves off drugs or complete a 12-step program or find God or a job.
There are addiction recovery and religious conversion programs that succeed in getting people off the street. But housing first involves a different logic: When you’re drowning, it doesn’t help if your rescuer insists you learn to swim before returning you to shore.
You can address your issues once you’re on land. Or not. Either way, you join the wider population of people battling demons behind closed doors.
tonnes More @
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-people.html
sorry tentsy but Way to GO!
fucking Texas of all places
@10: -- Credit where it's Due:
Written by Michael Kimmelman
Reported by Michael
Kimmelman and
Lucy Tompkins
@dewdrop*
they couldda slept
in their GIANT Pick-ups
plenty enough R O O M to stretch
be-
sides:
it's Just
Capitalism
thought you
was a Fan.
*if anyone knows
'horrible' people
speaking of 'funny'
corporate profiteering
is what it's called dewey
and Biden needs to
Nationalize Big Fucking Oil
before we Recession ourselves in-
to the Terlet for a Generation or two.
or the Great Reckoning
it be a' Comin'.
what's the damn
Dem Plan?
here's the guy
vastly too Radical
for this pro-Corporate
usofa chatting it up with
Lindsley Graham about Capitalis
and What Dems NEED to Do for US
oh and SUPPORTED BY
M O S T OF America
so there's that
do NOT Watch it
it's on fawking
FOX
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/bernie-sanders-lindsey-graham-fox-nation-debate
"like Every Other Country
on the Fucking Planet Lindsley!"
well fucking said.
@24: It is simply a lie that Republicans cut spending when they hold the federal purse strings. Quite the opposite.
What they do instead is they cut social spending, not to save money but because they are ideologically opposed to it. They invariably more than make up the difference with greater expenditures on the things they do like, for instance defense spending. Any savings realized by their vindictive social cuts are more than out-weighed by high-end tax cuts. Not to mention that cuts to social spending at the federal level invariably pass the buck to state and local governments.