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It Was Just a Quahog in the Estuary of Breitbart Commentors But a Small Irritant grew into a Pearl! 8/10/2017 Dateline Breitbart.com The topic was Senator Maxine Waters. I made a comment critical of the prez. Another commenter, "makwabid,"  called me a seditionist (!), then he said, "I know why you all secretly hate Trump." *                                                         High quality Quahog pearl, it was! (I quickly, an hour after that post, responded:) seniorjunior (scooter duff) makwabid • 3 hours ago I wonder why you think that is? My reasons: (and it isn't "hate." Don't project.) ..... (Then, poured forth from my fingers a succinct little position statement. To be concise is holy.) ...I believe his MAGA is a huge fraud - his racist, demagogic, jingoistic actions are destroying America's chance to be the "shining city on the hill," violating nearly all of our highest standards; He dismisses scien

Make Our Infrastructure Into A Super-Infrastructure In a fool's paradise, who is the fool? The big Midwestern floods just put an explanation point on the truth most of us know but seem powerless to do anything about: Our infrastructure is crumbling. “We” are powerless because we let the people who can do something, our elected federal officials, do nothing. Are we stoopid or unconscious or what? And we all just witnessed dikes breaking and homes, businesses and farms being ruined. Again. "We need profound changes," said engineer Kumares Sinha of Purdue University. "We can't live in a fool's paradise." (From the same Reuters article) Elected officials are afraid of the word “tax.” If something worthwhile needs doing and takes money to do it, our Congress and our Administration act like we are teenagers with credit cards. Actually pay for what we need? Horrors! Politicians who have the guts ask our citizens to sacrifice a bit to pa