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What Has Happened To The World: Julie Andrews Celebrates The End Time (VIDEO)
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Conspiracy Thinking: A Whole New Dimension (I've Always Said Trump Was Right)
The Thinking Housewife Plunges Into The Abyss Of Conspiratorial Thinking
Ahmed Mohamed And The Abyssal Swamp of Conspiracy Thinking
"The Election Was Stolen - Here's How," Greg Palast
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The Shadow Side Of Christmas Giving
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I Love The Absurdity Of This Meme
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Man-Woman Merger
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Carl Jung On Fate
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Carl Jung And Buddhism
Carl Jung And Buddhism
Carl Jung Quotations
Carl Jung
Wikipedia
Carl Jung
Wikiquotes
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Did Free College Save This American Rustbelt City?
Did Free College Save This American Rustbelt City?
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The ISIS Breakers: How Moderate Muslims Are Countering Extremism
The ISIS Breakers: How Moderate Muslims Are Countering Extremism
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Why Cats Poop on Your Bed and Other Odd Pet Behaviors
Why Cats Poop on Your Bed and Other Odd Pet Behaviors
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/animals-behavior-dogs-cats-pets/?google_editors_picks=true
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Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide
Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/bernie-sanders-would-have-lost-election-landslide
Best Pax Posts On Bernie Sanders
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The Guardian: "For God's sake Pope Francis, don't retire. The world needs you"
| The Guardian |
Pope Francis is 80 on Saturday - the age at which cardinals must retire from the electoral college, which will choose the next leader of the world's 1.2bn Roman Catholics.
Pope Francis Celebrates 80th Birthday by Sharing Breakfast With 8 Homeless People
Pope Francis: Moving The Moral Compass
"Pope Francis Links"
Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality
Pope Francis: One Of The Most Powerful Critiques Of Capitalism You Will Ever Read
"Pope Francis Links"
Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality
Pope Francis: "This Economy Kills"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/pope-francis-this-economy-kills.html
Catholic Social Teaching
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/catholic-social-teaching.html
Pope Francis: Moving The Moral Compass
From "The Individual" Toward "The Collective"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/pope-francis-moving-moral-judgment-from.html
Pope Francis Takes On The Catholic Bureaucracy
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/pope-francis-takes-on-catholic.html
Pro-Science Pontiff: Pope Francis On Climate Change, Evolution And The Big Bang
Pope Francis: What Christianity Looks Like When Believers Realize "God Is Love"
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"Fake News" From The Fox Point Of View
Alan: The difference between Fox News and the five networks mentioned above is that Fox is fundamentally informed by ideological presuppositions reinforced by reporters who disbelieve science - or pretend to...
At the same time, Fox employs "opinion makers" like Bill O'Reilly and no muckrakers who ask difficult questions under the umbrella of intellectual rigor with cornerstone regard for the principles of The Scientific Method.
At the same time, Fox employs "opinion makers" like Bill O'Reilly and no muckrakers who ask difficult questions under the umbrella of intellectual rigor with cornerstone regard for the principles of The Scientific Method.
At Fox, the fragmented (and fragmenting) biases of ideology always trump the-whole-truth-in-context.
At Fox, individual opinion rules and "statistical analysis" is contemned as inimical to the supposed "freedom" of people deciding -- as if they were at a smorgasbord -- which opinions they will consider true.
Yes, all news is "spun."
But the "epistemology" behind Fox News (and the kindred ideology that extruded Donald Trump) always aims at the seizure of power through deliberate misrepresentation of "the news," a misrepresentation that often takes the form of decontextualization while relying routinely on statistically-invalid (and emotionally biased) anecdotes.
It is not coincidental that Donald Trump lied his way to The Oval Office and that s-trump-ettes expressed their greatest enthusiasm when his mendacity was over the top.
"Lock her up! Lock her up!"
In effect, Donald's s-trump-ettes were most supportive when The Plutopath openly allied himself with The Prince of Darkness, an alliance that recalled the goosestepping solidarity of the Nuremburg Rallies.
"Lock her up! Lock her up!"
In effect, Donald's s-trump-ettes were most supportive when The Plutopath openly allied himself with The Prince of Darkness, an alliance that recalled the goosestepping solidarity of the Nuremburg Rallies.
"Lies, Lies, Lies": "On The Media" Explores Donald Trump's Appeal And His Historical Background
Donald Trump: "Everything I'm About To Tell You Is A Lie." Supporters Cheer
Donald Trump: "Everything I'm About To Tell You Is A Lie." Supporters Cheer
"The Death Of Epistemolgy"
Hitler Promised To "Make Germany Great Again": A Chronology of Der Führer's Lieshttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/hitler-promised-to-make-germany-great_18.htmlHitler Reacts To Donald Trump Getting The Republican Nomination (Video Meme)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/10/hitler-reacts-to-donald-trump-getting.html
Compilation Of Pax Posts On Similarities Between Hitler And Trump
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/compilation-of-pax-post-on-similarities.html
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The falsehoods fostered by Fox News' -- and those trumped up by Donald -- are simple, straightforward reductions of reality more suited to Middle School gossip and backbiting than any kind of meaningful discourse.
Consider.
Consider.
Trump is not building a wall all along the Mexican border nor is Mexico paying for it.
Trump is not bringing manufacturing jobs back. (In fact, Donald will be hard-pressed to make a dent in the current outsourcing of American jobs although his hothouse successes will be widely touted. If any jobs do come back they will return to increasingly roboticized manufacturing facilities. The dynamics in play are all ruled by Capitalism 101 and are completely beyond the reach of The Plutopath's outsized ego. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/automation-robotization-and-job-loss.html
Trump is not imposing tariffs on goods made in China and Mexico.
Trump is not repealing Obamacare.
Trump is not banning all Muslims from entering the United States.
Trump is not taking oil from ISIS.
Trump does not know more than the generals.
The fact that Trump's followers fell for his whole-cloth lies is a measure of the corrupt -- and corrupting -- falsification that has contaminated the American character.
Notably 37% of Republicans currently approve of Vladimir Putin (whom Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell characterizes as "no friend of America") while only 41% of Americans currently approve of Donald Trump.
Notably 37% of Republicans currently approve of Vladimir Putin (whom Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell characterizes as "no friend of America") while only 41% of Americans currently approve of Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump: Lying, Secrecy And The That He "Tells It Like It Is"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/donald-trump-lying-secrecy-and.html
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Who Lies Most? A Pants-On-Fire Comparison Of America's 20 Best Known Politicians![]()
Facebook Will Start Telling Users When A Story Might Be Fake
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Facebook Will Start Telling Users When A Story Might Be Fake
Despite mountains of proof to the contrary, American
conservatives believe that they
- and they alone - are the nation's soothsayers. Ultimately their disgruntlement is with cultural corruption/degeneration their own lies have brought about. (I do not exempt liberals from contributing to corruption and degeneration but the New York Times below reveals the meat of the matter: "Clinton's Fibs Versus Trump's Huge Lies." Conservatives' categorical rejection of criticism reveals a subterranean fear that they themselves are comprehensively corrupt, a corruption grounded in the normalization of falsehood.
All Pants on Fire! statements involving Donald Trump | PolitiFact
www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/pants-fire/
All Pants on Fire! statements involving Donald Trump. Pants on Fire! Accusations came a month before election. Donald Trump · "If Russia, or some other entity, ...Donald Trump's Worst Lies, By the Numbers | Vanity Fair
www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/donald-trumps-worst-lies-by-the-numbers
Nov 7, 2016 - All you need know is that the most egregious mistakes and lies earn four Pinocchios. “Donald Trump has amassed such a collection of ...Neuroscience explains why people keep believing Trump's lies - Quartz
qz.com/787183/neuroscience-explains-why-people-keep-believing-trumps-lies/
Sep 21, 2016 - What really happened was that Trump replaced the original "birther" lie with a ... behind why people keep believing Trump's most egregious lies ...A fact checker looked into 158 things Donald Trump said. 78 percent ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../donald-trump-has-been-wrong-way-more-often-tha...
Jul 1, 2016 - 78 percent of fact-checked Trump statements have been rated Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire. ... Trump was the most fact-checked of all the 2016 candidates. Of the 650 fact checks ... But numbers don't lie. And these ...9 of the most egregious lies and inaccuracies in Donald Trump's - Vox
www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11924448/donald-trump-lies-speech
Jun 13, 2016 - Donald Trump has lied in debates, sent threatening tweets, misled interviewers, and circulated outrageous personal and political conspiracy ...The 'King of Whoppers': Donald Trump - FactCheck.org
www.factcheck.org/2015/12/the-king-of-whoppers-donald-trump/
Dec 21, 2015 - But Trump topped them all when he claimed to have seen ... and have left it to readers to judge which whoppers they consider most egregious.Fact Checkers Prove That 91% of the Things Donald Trump Says Are ...
www.politicususa.com/2016/03/31/ninety-one-percent-donald-trump-false.html
Mar 31, 2016 - Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, is at the bottom of the Politifact ... statements he made, because the team couldn't pick the most egregious lie. ... What does it mean that the man who tells the most lies is the most ...Clinton's Fibs vs. Trump's Huge Lies - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/clintons-fibs-vs-trumps-huge-lies.html
Aug 7, 2016 - It said 2 percent of Clinton's statements it had reviewed were egregious “pants on fire”lies, compared with 19 percent of Trump's. So Trump has ...Are Clinton and Trump the Biggest Liars Ever to Run for President ...
www.politico.com/.../2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-us-history-presidents-liars-di...
Jul 18, 2016 - Collectively, his falsehoods won PolitiFact's 2015 “Lie of the Year” award. .... Trump's most egregious flip-flops aren't those he made before ...We counted the number of times Donald Trump lied during the ...
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/.../we-counted-the-number-of-times-donald-trump-lie...
Oct 20, 2016 - Here are (just some of) the most egregious lies he's told during the ... Trump lied about the United States paying Iran more than $1 billion as ...↧
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Police Break Car Window to Rescue "Frozen" Woman, Only to Discover...
Police Break Car Window to Rescue 'Frozen' Woman, Only to Discover It's a Mannequin
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Scientists Confirm That Warm Ocean Water Is Melting the Biggest Blacier In East Antarctica
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Scientists at institutions in the United States and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica.
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Hillary Now Has 4.44% More Popular Votes Than Pussy Grabber
Alan: Americans did not elect senators directly until the 17th Amendment was passed in 1913, the year after my father was born.
The United States still does not elect the president directly although we now rankle at the thought of state senators being chosen by state legislatures and not each state's popular vote.
In the presidential election just concluded, Hillary Clinton got 2,865,174 more popular votes than Donald Trump.
In the three states that decided the 2016 election --- according to the rules of The Electoral College --- Trump won by the following vote margins.
Michigan: 10,704 votes
Wisconsin: 22,748
Pennsylvania: 42,744
Trump's total "vote victory margin" in all 3 "deciding states" was 75,744
Nationally, Hillary got 37.83 times -- or 3,783% -- more popular votes than Trump's total "vote victory margin" in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators
Americans did not directly vote for senators for the first 125 years of the Federal Government. The Constitution, as it was adopted in 1788, stated that senators would be elected by state legislatures. The first proposal to amend the Constitution to elect senators by popular vote was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1826, but the idea did not gain considerable support until the late 19th century when several problems related to Senate elections had become evident. Several state legislatures deadlocked over the election of senators, which led to Senate vacancies lasting months and even years. In other cases, political machines gained control over state legislatures, and the Senators elected with their support were dismissed as puppets. In addition, the Senate was seen as a “millionaire's club” serving powerful private interests. The rise of the People's Party, commonly referred to as the Populist Party, added motivation for making the Senate more directly accountable to the people.
During the 1890s, the House of Representatives passed several resolutions proposing a constitutional amendment for the direct election of senators. Each time, however, the Senate refused to even take a vote. When it seemed unlikely that both houses of Congress would pass legislation proposing an amendment for direct election, many states changed strategies. Article V of the Constitution states that Congress must call a constitutional convention for proposing amendments when two-thirds of the state legislatures apply for one. Although the method had never previously been used, many states began sending Congress applications for conventions. As the number of applications neared the two-thirds bar, Congress finally acted.
In 1911, the House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 39 proposing a constitutional amendment for direct election of senators. However, it included a “race rider” meant to bar Federal intervention in cases of racial discrimination among voters. A substitute amendment by Senator Joseph L. Bristow (R-KS) removed the “race rider.” The amended Joint Resolution was adopted by the Senate on a close vote in May of 1911. Over a year later, the House accepted the change, and the amendment was sent to the states for ratification. On April 8, 1913, three-quarters of the states had ratified the proposed amendment, and it was officially included as the 17th Amendment.
House Resolution to amend the Constitution, February 14, 1826
Untitled [Senatorial Deadlocks] Cartoon by Clifford Berryman, February 4, 1911
Petition of the State Grange of Illinois, December 29, 1887
Petition of the State Grange of Illinois, January 1, 1898
Resolutions of the Utah State Legislature and Governor, March 6, 1897
Application of the Colorado State Legislature for a Convention to Propose a Constitutional Amendment, April 1, 1901
Application of the Louisiana State Legislature and Governor for a Convention to Propose a Constitutional Amendment, November 25, 1907
House Joint Resolution 39 Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution, including the “race rider,” May 1, 1911
Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution, May 13, 1912
Notification of the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, May 31, 1913↧
Blood Red Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama & Oklahoma Are The Most Unhealthy States
Alan: It is not coincidental that the five least healthy states -- Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma -- voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
Mississippi and Oklahoma are also among the five states that spend least on education per capita.
"Red State Moocher Links"
Please read the meme a second toime
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Today Is My Son's Last Day Through-Hiking The Appalachian Trail. And Now This...
McAfee Knob,West Virginia
One lookout point that environmental groups say would be ruined by the pipeline cutting across the landscape.
This Proposed Pipeline Would Cut Right Through The Appalachian Trail
Conservation groups are rallying against the Mountain Valley Pipeline
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mountain-valley-pipeline-appalachian-trail_us_5855aaa4e4b0b3ddfd8d265e
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Elusive Bobcat Caught On Video Catching Large Salmon
Elusive Bobcat Caught On Video Catching Large Salmon
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Video And Audio: Mesmerizing Murmurations Of Starlings
Watch a Mesmerizing Swarm of Starlings
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/starling-murmuration-swarm-video/?google_editors_picks=true
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