So who did James Woods think he was, Harvey Weinstein?
The New York Times said it was ‘‘confident in the accuracy of our reporting,’’ which drew a laugh, and the allegations have triggered cascading chaos at the Weinstein Co. with prominent attorney Lisa Bloom, daughter of well-known Los Angeles women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred, and another adviser, Lanny Davis, also withdrawing.
Still, going to be hard to wash all that away.
Good thing they didn't put it on a billboard, and at least he isn't a racist.
Feel like I've forgotten something.
"Facebook Inc.’s chief security officer warns that the fake-news problem is more complicated and dangerous to solve than the public thinks. Alex Stamos, who’s handling the company’s investigation into Russia’s use of the social media platform ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, cautioned about hoping for technical solutions which, he said, could have unintended ideological bias. It’s trying to figure out how to monitor use of its system without censoring ideas, after the Russian government used fake accounts to spread political discord ahead of the election....."
Facebook is “becoming the Ministry of Truth,” and if you check my blog archive I bailed out the same time last year as I have this year. Can't blame me!
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"When a Connecticut lawyer threatened to get a gun and shoot two water company workers if they didn't get off his property, was it a crime or were his words protected by free speech rights? That's the key question in a case the state Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Tuesday....."
It all depends on who is making the threat and who is receiving it.
Not all of it, only the good things.
I once believed in the Great Pumpkin, but no longer.
Thus I was late for $chool:
Silly me, I thought it was to develop young minds and critical thinking.
"State health officials have committed to changing a plan to implement new rules for day health centers for sick and frail adults after drawing a torrent of concerns that their plan risked cutting critical services for thousands of people. MassHealth, which covers the state’s poor and elderly residents, proposed new rules several weeks ago in an effort to tighten oversight and ensure “program integrity.” But the proposal caused a backlash in the adult day health industry, where executives said the rewritten rules would have eliminated nursing care and supervision for people who had nowhere else to turn. On Thursday, MassHealth director Daniel Tsai met with members of the industry and clarified that the state never intended to disqualify thousands of people from the program....."
Then what was their intention for $h!t like that happens far too often around here.
Let's see, GE set the going rate for corporate welfare in state, Amazon will cost more (the welcome comes with a lawsuit over back taxes, btw), there is $80 million set aside for Hollywood and $15 million set aside from casinos (I never bump around those places), and yet the state with the best health system in the entire country can't provide health care to seniors?
Seems criminal to me. Time to crack down.
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What day is it again?
Notice the double standard regarding the declarations of independence?
All of a sudden fa$ci$m is no longer a taboo if unity is called for, while the real issue in the second case is ‘‘Iran’s influence over the region.’’ That happens to interfere with certain war-maker plans for carving up the world.
Meanwhile the Washington Post is telling us "a top Korea analyst at the CIA said at a conference in Washington last week that it is not clear who would succeed Kim Jong Un if he were to die suddenly."
Did he say it with his fingers crossed, or does he know something we do not?
If nothing else, the article proves that Kim is like Trump in that he sticks with family -- while promoting women's rights!
Btw, the Globe warns us that "the all-out nuclear war the bomb’s creators feared may be close at hand."
Who is Vannevar Bush and is he any relation?
Was going to refuel in Ghana and then got stuck on the tracks.
Good thing that didn't happen to Pence as he spewed greenhouse gases gallivanting around the country.
You won't believe who has been encouraged to run for Senate by Steve Bannon, a former top White House strategist to Trump, during this simmering anti-incumbent mood in politics -- or maybe you will.
Here is who he will be replacing (being groomed for a Cabinet position)?
Do you care who runs Harvard?
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
I don't know, ask Nate.
Round and round we go, and where it stops.....
"Rotaries disappear in favor of roundabouts" by Billy Baker Globe Staff October 08, 2017
The traffic rotary, Massachusetts’ peculiar contribution to American traffic engineering, has long been a source of pride and frustration that fits, or perhaps defines, the region’s quickly-seize-every-open-inch style of driving.
But now, very slowly and quietly, the state of Massachusetts is engaged in a project to make them extinct.
You read that right. Massachusetts, the state with more rotaries than any other, is getting out of the car-weaving game.
Instead, with some paint, some signs, and a bit of construction, we’re turning them into roundabouts.
Is there really a difference, you ask? Well, let’s look to the good people of Wakefield and Reading, who last year were among the latest to experience this conversion.
At Exit 40 off Interstate 95, there was a very large rotary on the border of the two towns. Then, one day, the rotary was . . . different.
There were painted lanes. And new signs everywhere telling drivers which lane they had to be in, depending on their destination. And the entrances were different, redesigned to slow cars down and get them organized.
The free-for-all improvisation that was the hallmark of rotary driving was all gone. In its place was a forced choreography. In other words: rules.
The reception to this new thing, this “roundabout” where once there had been a rotary, was mixed, to say the least.
BEEP-BEEP!
It's all about “safety.”
To understand the retrofit, you have to understand the rotary, which rose to prominence in the state in the 1950s, a bit of “Yankee ingenuity,” designed to handle traffic entering and exiting the new interstate highway system, according to Neil Boudreau, the state’s top traffic engineer.
The state now has over 100 rotaries — far more, and at a far higher density, than any other state. But what worked in the 1950s does not work the same in the 21st century.
Someone please tell that to the AmeriKan pre$$ that is constantly playing to those time-worn stereotypes.
The lack of organization on a rotary was both its beauty — cars could move quickly through them if traffic was light, barely touching the brakes — and its chief problem, especially as traffic volumes swelled over the decades. And like Wiffle Ball and space-savers, everyone seemed to have their own set of rules about how it was supposed to work, along with certainty that everyone else was doing it wrong.....
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!!
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..... only I know!
Time for me to disappear again.
I suppose you deserve more from me but at least I'm being up front with you regarding my lack of enthusiasm for the daily propaganda swill provided by my pre$$.
