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Reprise: "There Are Only Two Ways To Live Your Life..."
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Trevor Noah Interviews Kamala Harris
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Who Let Convicted Pedophile Into The Trump White House 13 Times?
Trump Cabinet Member Alexander Acosta Arranged For Jeffrey Epstein's Release
If the sketchiest characters have got plenty of money and incline toward corruption, they're always welcome at the Trump White House.
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Cartoon: Trump's Paying Attention Now
CONSPIRACY - CONSPIRACISM
John Kennedy Jr. Is Alive... And He's Trump's Biggest Fan! QAnon: The Evanescence Of Sanity, And The Catastrophic Collapse Of American "Conservatism"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/john-kennedy-jr-is-alive-and-trump-fan.html
Compendium Of Pax Posts: Persuading A Loved One That His Conspiracism Is Mostly Crazy
My Friends' Devoted Conspiracism Is As Crazy As Trump's Birtherism. What To Do With Lunacy?
Ongoing Correspondence With A Conspiracist Friend Re: The "Staged" Slaughter At Sandy Hook
"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism
How Rochester, New York Detective Fantigrossi "Leaned On Me" To Identify The Wrong Man
The Thinking Housewife's Conspiracism: Exploring The Falsehood
"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism
"Crisis Acting": A Standard Conspiracist Hoax That Supposedly Reveals Hoaxes (Snopes)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism
Compendium Of Pax Posts: Persuading A Loved One That His Conspiracism Is Mostly Crazy
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
My Friends' Devoted Conspiracism Is As Crazy As Trump's Birtherism. What To Do With Lunacy?
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Harvey/Irma Hurricane Conspiracy Reveals The Idiocy Of Most Conspiracism
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Ongoing Correspondence With A Conspiracist Friend Re: The "Staged" Slaughter At Sandy Hook
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
"Who Killed Sister Cathy?" Tom Nugent
How Rochester, New York Detective Fantigrossi "Leaned On Me" To Identify The Wrong Man
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
The Thinking Housewife's Conspiracism: Exploring The Falsehood
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Discussion With 9/11 Truther Friend About Epistemology, Belief, Certainty And Purpose
The 9/11 Truth Movement: Where Does It Lead?
"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose
Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose
"Crisis Acting": A Standard Conspiracist Hoax That Supposedly Reveals Hoaxes (Snopes)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
The Daily Show Goes To Trump Rally To Hear Conspiracy Theories: They Are Not Disappointed
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
"More On The Newtown Massacre": Professor David Ray Griffin And The Swamp Of Conspiracism
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Trump Resurrects Clinton-Foster Murder Conspiracy
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Cartoon: No One Bursts Into Laughter When The Same Plea Is Made For Pharma And Banks
George Carlin: Divide And Conquer (How America's Class System Works)
"Divide And Conquer" (Originally "Divide And Rule") Was First Expressed By Julius Caesar
A Billionaire, A Worker, A Poor Man And 1000 Cookies
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-billionaire-worker-poor-man-and-1000.html
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What I Found While Exploring The Topic "American Democracy"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-i-found-while-exploring-american.html
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"How Can People Clearly See That Society Is Run By Billionaires And Still..."
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/mark-twain-adolf-hitler-and-dunning.html
Aldous Huxley On The Disappearance Of Democracy Behind The Trappings Of Patriotism
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/aldous-huxley-on-disappearance-of.htmlWhat I Found While Exploring The Topic "American Democracy"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-i-found-while-exploring-american.html
Trump Memes, Album 1: The Best From "Pax On Both Houses"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/trump-memes-best-from-pax-on-both-houses.htmlTrump Memes, Album 2: The Best From "Pax On Both Houses"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/trump-memes-best-from-pax-on-both.html"Dear White Conservative, I See You"
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Cartoon: Clandestine White House Informants Tell The Truth
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Cartoon: Nero's Back!
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Cartoon: Trump's Mandatory Innoculations... Less One
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"Divide And Conquer": How The Ungodly Rich Stay In Power By Manipulating Fools Like You
Divide And Conquer
How America's Class System Works
George Carlin Video
George Carlin Quips
"We Like War"
Video
Video
(Foul-mouthed but brilliant.)
"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/you-have-no-choice-new-frame-for-george.htmlGeorge Carlin On The Ku Klux Klan.
Ouch!
"How Can People Clearly See That Society Is Run By Billionaires And Still..."
Aldous Huxley On The Disappearance Of Democracy Behind The Trappings Of Patriotism
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/aldous-huxley-on-disappearance-of.html
What I Found While Exploring The Topic "American Democracy"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-i-found-while-exploring-american.html
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What I Found While Exploring The Topic "American Democracy"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-i-found-while-exploring-american.html
Trump Memes, Album 1: The Best From "Pax On Both Houses"
Trump Memes, Album 2: The Best From "Pax On Both Houses"
"Dear White Conservative, I See You"
A Billionaire, A Worker, A Poor Man And 1000 Cookies
Why does Trump circumscribe every personal relationship with "Non-Disclosure Agreements?"
What is he hiding?
And why does he feel compelled to hide it all the time.
Every single time.
No exceptions.
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Fred Owens' Frog Hospital: Bill Skubi On "The Strange Kind Of Person I Let Myself Become"
Dear Fred,
I assume I can blog it.
If so, shall I do so with -- or without -- attribution?
Speaking of "well-written," the following essay would have benefited from a good editor, but overall its substance and remarkable ability to-get-under-the-skin of his target audience is very powerful. It's a piece of writing that might even get through the defenses of America's tens of millions of religious maniacs.
Or, if not, it would be a potentially metanoiac "read" after Trump crashes and "the good Christians" must make peace with their idolatrous prostration before The Malignant Messiah.
The pending three-pronged process of recantation, confession and amends will replicate the post-war shame of Germans who "fell for" der Fuhrer, and Italians' collective embarrassment over their lickspittle adulation of il Duce-Douche. (Although it must await another discussion, Italians' are essentially Catholic and thus exhibit bone-deep attraction to authoritarianism: admirable as the Italian spirit is, the appeal of fascism is never far off. Think Berlusconi. And so, in the post-war era, Italy's 2500 year-old willingness to kiss autocratic ass has resulted in "Rome's" incomplete repentance.)
"Dear White Conservative, I See You"
Pax et amore
Alan
PS I call this seemingly genetic predisposition whereby many Italians "get behind" autocracy "the Mussolini genie."
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 12:34 PM Fred Owens wrote:
FROG HOSPITAL -- Sept. 2, 2019Facts Speak for ThemselvesBy Fred OwensI was building facts at the newspaper this week. They have to be plumb and square and true. If you build your facts strong, they will last a long time. They won't move. You can walk away, come back years later, and those same facts will be there, like diamonds or granite.I built a lot of facts this week at the newspaper. Some were off kilter or out of focus -- I had to throw them back into the sea of information. Information, data, the world is awash with it, meaningless, worthless, formless. But facts! Facts are worth something. They mean something. They are sturdy and reliable. You can build with facts. You can get paid for making facts. It's good work.I wrote this in 2005 when I had my last newspaper job at the Wilson County News in Floresville, Texas. "You can get paid got making facts," I wrote. Well, you could get paid for that in 2005, but that kind of work is pretty scarce now. Nobody agrees what a facts is nowadays. It's your word against mine. You have Trump and his fake news tirades, yet he is the most complicated unabashed liar in world history. Or you can look to the left, to the academic world and discover a consistent message against objectivity. "It doesn't feel true to me. It all depends on the context."Facts are disappearing. Words mean whatever you want them to mean. It's too scary.The next story is by Bill Skubi, a friend of mine who lives in Coupeville, Washington. The story was originally published in the Puget Sound Mail in 1989 if you remember that obscure, quirky newspaper that I once published. The Puget Sound Mail promised “News of Lasting Value” and we kept that promise because this story about a man and his dog is not aged or dated.Spending Time With Your DogBy Bill SkubiThe frantic pace of modern life was catching up with me. I was taking a good hard look at the strange kind of person I had let myself become. This began a few weeks ago when Jan told me there was something wrong with Jackson’s ear. I was hearing what she said, but to my utter horror I realized that I didn’t care. Jackson is a lumbering old Yellow Lab. He has been my dog almost eleven years, slightly longer than I have been married to Jan. Just the week before I had caught myself actually trying to give him away to a friend who had moved his family into the country.The excuse I gave myself was that Jackson was no longer happy living with us, since Jan insisted he be tied. The truth was that he was not happy because I had become too pre-occupied to spend any time with him. He was just this big, sad, obligatory maintenance retriever at the end of his tether. And so was I. That reminded me that it was I who had consciously fled the academic world fifteen years ago. At that point I realized that twenty years of schooling had trained me to read and write obscure sentences about “contingencies and non-linear variables.” At that rate I knew I would probably never live long enough to figure out what I wanted to say, and if I did figure that out, nobody would want to read it.The writer in me wanted to git back home, do some plain talkin’, leave the footnotes, spend some evenings rocking on the front porch with a big ol’ hound-dog curled up at my feet. And I did it too, but the years brought marriage, a mortgage, and a child, along with career changes, and I let a whole new set of pressures come between me and my humanity. Or to put it another way, part of me woke up and was shocked to be sharing a body with someone who would offer to give away his dog. I really didn’t like the person I had become. I know I am basically an incurably selfish person. I attend church and take my marriage vows seriously knowing they are twin anchors on a spirit I know can be dangerously free, but I had forgotten that Jackson, too, was utterly dedicated to protecting me, and I owed him the same.So I went to see what was ailing Jack’s ear. It was pretty sore all right, he was awful dirty and so was his house. I gave him a bath, and he was so proud to ride in my new truck and he didn’t even care he was going to the veterinarian. The vet had to keep him awhile to remove foxtail grass seeds from his ears. I went home, cleaned out his house and built him a new run in a place where he would have a good view of things. He was still a little wobbly on his hind legs from the medication when I brought him home. I showed him around his new digs and told him we would have to spend more time together. Then I noticed he was shaking uncontrollably. At first I could not tell whether he was sick or reacting to the medication. Then I got down to where I could stroke him and discovered he was shaking from pure joy.Philosophers and theologians will forever debate the highest possible achievement of man on Earth, and I would submit to them that being the object of such perfect love might be right up there.Anyway, I bought a blanket at the thrift store for Jack to lie on in the truck. I can still be too busy to take him along, but we do have an understanding. And my young son asks a question that I remember asking, “Do dogs go to heaven when they die?” His mother isn’t sure how to answer. As for me, there have been times in my life when I have doubted whether or not heaven really exists, but I have never doubted that dogs would be there if it did.My Favorite Movies, with a list compiled from memory and not nearly completeThe VikingsThe Grapes of WrathViva ZapataFrom Here to EternityNorth by NorthwestHunt for Red OctoberGrand HotelHigh NoonThe VerdictCasablancaThe GraduateBroadway Danny RoseHannah and Her SistersManhattanThe GodfatherCasinoA Bronx TaleDog Day AfternoonOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestTerms of EndearmentThe Quiet ManTo Kill a MockingbirdThe Wild BunchOn the WaterfrontThe Philadelphia StoryMy Cousin VinnyFerris Buehler's Day OffLawrence of ArabiaCitizen KaneGone with the WindThe Wizard of OzMoonstruckDo the Right ThingDr. ZhivagoThe Shawshank RedemptionField of DreamsCluelessSinging in the RainMartyNotting HillBridget Jones' DiaryChinatownThat's all for this week,see ya,Fred
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Is Obama Claiming Kenyan Citizenship To Avoid Being Tried For Treason?
Is Obama Claiming Kenyan Citizenship To Avoid Being Tried For Treason?
Snopes
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-claiming-kenyan-citizenship/
Yesterday, I sent the following reply to a right-wing "conservative""Christian" friend who subscribes to rhetorically-advantageous rumors and QAnon conspiracy theories.
QAnon, The Trumpista "Deep State" Conspiracy Movement Glorifying America's Cultural Collapse
Karen, there is no "actionable evidence" that Biden and his son illegally profited from business dealings with China.
If there were actionable evidence, why do Trump and Attorney General Barr not bring indictments to enforce the law and put these "criminals" behind bars?
The same holds true for the allegation that Hillary was malfeasant in business dealings with Russia.
If there were actionable evidence inculpating Hillary, why do Trump and Attorney General Barr not bring indictment to enforce the law and send HIllary "down the river?"
These are not idle questions Karen.
They are questopns for which you have no answers.
Either there is no actionable evidence against the Bidens and Hillary.
Or Trump and Barr are guilty of grievous miscarriage of justice.
On the other hand, here's what we actually know about Trump's criminal malfeasance:
Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University
Then there's The Swamp.
Best Pax Posts About Trump's Cruelty, Mendacity And Seduction Of "Conservative""Christians"
When "Christian""Conservatives" Renounced Reason In Order To Believe Trump Would Be...
Great "Religious Right" Cartoon: "Satan Himself Comes Disguised As An Angel Of Light"
Evangelicals' Satanic Surrender To Trump: Bend Over, Clasp Ankles, Apply K-Y
"Evangelical Support Of Trump Will Be An Indictment Against Its Validity," Fr. Richard Rohr
Why "Christian""Conservatives" Are Losing Their Souls
"Christian""Conservatives" Are Neither Christian Nor Conservative
"The Deepening Crisis In Evangelical Christianity"
Support For Trump Degrades Christian Witness
Evangelicals' Lack Of Faith Is The Greatest Threat To The Church
Cartoon: American Evangelicals Join The Last Supper
Corrupted By Grifters And Charlatans, Evangelicalism Has Devolved Into A Hate Group
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Trump Adds 4.1 TRILLION To The National Debt
In one fell swoop, Trump’s tax cuts added $1.8 trillion to the national debt.
Remember that this is the party which has always harped on “cutting the debt” more adamantly than televangelist Jim Bakker demands you send him money if you want to keep hope of salvation alive.
Even more monstrously, Trump promised to eliminate the national debt.
Trump is a lying dog.
And his boot-licking cultists are made in his image.
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VOX: "The US Military May Have Spent Millions To Help Prop Up A Trump Resort"
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"The US Military May Have Spent Millions To Help Prop Up A Trump Resort"
"You've Been Trumped": A Documentary About Devious Donald's Imperious Takeover Of Scotland(How Donald Works His Will By Denigrating "Commoners")
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Mick Jagger Blasts Trump For Incivility, Lies, Environment
Donald Trump Has No Dream Worthy Of The Name
As for "Making America Great Again," Deranged Donald is making transforming America into an authoritarian nightmare and even his followers will acknowledge this fact when the budding recession comes into full flower.
Mick Jagger Blasts Trump For Incivility, Lies, Environment
Venice (AFP) - Rock legend Mick Jagger attacked US President Donald Trump for his rudeness and lies Saturday and for "tearing apart" environment controls when America should be setting the standard for the world.
The Rolling Stones singer said he was "absolutely behind" young climate change activists who had earlier occupied the red carpet at the Venice film festival, where he was starring in the psychological thriller, "The Burnt Orange Heresy".
Jagger said he deplored how politics has descended into name-calling, "including in my own country this week" -- a reference to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson comparing opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to a "big girl's blouse" and a "chlorinated chicken".
The icon, now 76, bewailed "the polarisation and incivility in public life", although the one-time bad boy of 1960s rock admitted he was "not always for civility" himself.
"But when you see it now... in so many countries, including my own this last week, but particularly the US, it's a sea change.
"It is not about manners," Jagger insisted, saying he was fearful about "where all this polarisation and rudeness and lying is going to lead us."
More worrying still, said the singer, was that what little environmental safeguards there were were being swept away across the globe.
- 'Vote them out' -
"We are in a very difficult situation at the moment, especially in the US, where all the environmental controls that were put in place -- that were just about adequate -- have been rolled back by the current administration so much that they are being wiped out," he added.
Jagger, who rarely comments on politics, said "the US should be the world leader in environmental control but now it has decided to go the other way.
"I am so glad that people feel so strongly about that that they want to protest," he said, referring to young activists from Greta Thunberg's Friday for Future movement who sprayed "Listen to your children" and "Make the red carpet green" on the festival's red carpet.
Co-star Donald Sutherland echoed his call to protest, and urged people to take to the streets and vote out Trump, Johnson and Brazil's far-right leader Jair Balsonaro.
"Mick is right, the controls (in the US) under Obama were barely adequate -- now they are being torn apart. It's the same in Brazil and they will be torn apart in England" after Brexit," he warned.
"When you are 85 years old and you have children and grandchildren, we will leave them nothing if we do not vote those people out of office in Brazil and in London and in Washington.
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"They are ensuring the ruination of the world", something that "we have all contributed to", Sutherland added.
Jagger plays an art collector in a stylish thriller where it "is never clear who is telling truth".
"This movie is about fake(ness) and truth speaks to some of that, so it is part of this modern dialogue," he told reporters.
"We are going through a very strange time. You know you are living in it but you don't know what is going to happen at the end."
The Venice film festival ends on Saturday, with Roman Polanski's controversy-hit Dreyfus Affair story "An Officer and a Spy" already bagging the top prize from international critics.
They picked out director Theo Court's "White on White", about the genocide of native people in Patagonia, for their sidebar prize.
The last two winners of Venice's Golden Lion top prize -- "Roma" and the "Shape of Water" -- have gone on to win best picture at the Oscars.
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Correspondence With Marine Vet Historian Friend About Garry Wills
"Warren was useful in the Senate before Trump. She is essential in the White House after Trump,” said Gary Wills, one of my favorite history writers.
Like you, I have high regard for Garry Wills.
However, there are only three online references to the quotation you cite.
One of those three links suggests Wills only communicated his support for Warren in a personal "newsletter."
Here are three blog posts about Garry Wills:
2013:
Pax
Alan
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"You Might Be Invested In Gun Stocks. Here's How To Tell."
Alan: Decades ago, "holier-than-thou,""purist" liberals started to make me wince.
None of us is as innocent as they pretended.
If your retirement plan is invested (as most are) in ETFs (Exchange-Traded-Mutual-Funds), the chances are overwhelming that YOUR money has a share in utterly nefarious companies.
Make no mistake.
Capitalism's tentacles are everywhere.
In spotlighting these things, I do not disclaim my own inevitable dose of collusional behavior with capitalist pigs.
None of us is as innocent as they pretended.
If your retirement plan is invested (as most are) in ETFs (Exchange-Traded-Mutual-Funds), the chances are overwhelming that YOUR money has a share in utterly nefarious companies.
Make no mistake.
Capitalism's tentacles are everywhere.
In spotlighting these things, I do not disclaim my own inevitable dose of collusional behavior with capitalist pigs.
You Might Be Invested In Gun Stocks
Here's how to tell.
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"The Pursuit," A Netflix Film That Champions "Essential" Capitalism As THE Way Out Of Poverty
"The Film Capitalism Needs Right Now"
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/the-film-capitalism-needs-right-now
Arthur C. Brooks
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Brooks
Arthur C. Brooks
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Brooks
Alan: To my own satisfaction, it has long been clear that Capitalism works.
As a productive engine, Capitalism works better than any other economic system.
In fact, Capitalism not only works well, but too well.
Without "industrial strength" regulation, Capitalism will consume the planet through overproduction.
In 1930, while visiting the United States and Canada (on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame), G.K. Chesterton offered this brilliant analysis - indeed, a prophecy now coming true.
"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the wellbeing of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves."
G. K. Chesterton Toronto, 1930
Without trying to pre-answer every criticism that will arise on "the left," I will spotlight a linchpin re-definition of "Capitalism" that separates the underlying wheat from the enveloping chaff.
Only by this separation can we taxonomize self-destructiveness "Capitalism" as a "different animal" from the use of capital for economic advancement from the bottom up.
Only by this separation can we taxonomize self-destructiveness "Capitalism" as a "different animal" from the use of capital for economic advancement from the bottom up.
At bedrock, it is the piggish use of capital to advance the essentially selfish ends of Cowboy Capitalism which, by its nature, is a loathesome beast.
In light of the crucial clarifications set forth in "The Pursuit," Capitalism's core question becomes: How do "we" control an unprecedentedly powerful behemoth whose most energetic proponents -- at least until now -- have been strong enough to resist meaningful "moderation-in-the-service-of-others" by arrogating to themselves a God-given right to unimpeded capitalist expansion, whose fruits go -- without question -- to porcine self-enrichment at the expense of "los de abajo."
The categorical distinction that distinguishes Toxic Capitalism from "mom and pop" capitalism call the former "Cowboy Capitalism" or "Unbridled Capitalism."
"Cowboy Capitalists" need a regulatory framework as effective as a horse's bit firmly inserted in a horse's mouth so that a "broken horse" can be ridden to controlled, purposive ends which prioritize "The Common Good,""The General Welfare," and a truly social "Social Contract."
Indian Slum and Capitalist Hotbed
"The Pursuit"
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Meaning Is Context-Dependent
Alan: If the camera were to pan, this photo - in the minds of many - would be pornographic.
Meaning is context-dependent.
How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell HUGE Lies
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
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“Arrest Rate For Illegal Immigrants 40% Below That Of Native-Born Americans", FactCheck.Org
“The Arrest Rate For Illegal Immigrants Is 40% Below That Of Native-Born Americans"
FactCheck.Org
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/is-illegal-immigration-linked-to-more-or-less-crime/
FactCheck.Org
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/is-illegal-immigration-linked-to-more-or-less-crime/
"Melania Trump Got U.S. Residence Status And Citizenship By Lying To Get 'Einstein/Genius' Visa"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/melania-trump-got-us-residence-status.html
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/melania-trump-got-us-residence-status.html
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Reprise: "Trump Sandwich"
Best Pax Posts About Trump's Cruelty, Mendacity And Seduction Of "Conservative""Christians"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/best-pax-posts-about-trumps-cruelty.html↧