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Occasionally Internet Pass-Along Wisdom Is Actually WISE A suggested solution to our poisonous polarization I'm with stupid.            So am I. * IT IS POSSIBLE… …To believe in God and science. …To be pro-choice and anti-abortion. …To be a feminist and love and respect men. …to have privilege and be discriminated against. …To be poor and have a rich life. …To be gay and Christian …To believe in gun control and defend your self, family and property with guns. …To be anti-war and pro-military. …To love thy neighbor and despise his behavior. …To agree Black Lives Matter and be pro-police. …To not have an education and be brilliant. …To be a Muslim and suffer at the hands of terrorists. …To distrust government and work to make it better. …To be a non-American fighting for the American dream. …To totally disagree with another and work together toward a common goal. …To be different and be the same. I'll put up with your craziness

THE NEXT HUGE AMERICAN ADDICTION PROBLEM JUST GETTING STARTED AND GROWING FAST I'm bad. * Opiod addiction in the U.S. is killing, what? 65,000 a year and growing! Way more are  seriously wounded; next year's fatalities.  And our new cell/text addiction is already challenging DUI for accidents with deaths and maimings.  ... Coming down the pike The NEW ADDICTION - promising to scramble our culture - is being hypodermic-ed into our ears, which is a pretty direct route to the BRAIN.   A U D I O B O O K S Addiction Getting Hooked The addiction process starts with long car trips. The miles just slide by while your mind is on an espionage caper or suiting up for an spacewalk over a giant planet. The autodriver we have all trained in our brains does the driving. Gateway Drug Then you start listening while you do work that doesn’t require much thought. You thrill to a daring romance while you vacuum or weed or make beds; your dom

What Should Democrats Stand For? I hear a lot of "It can't be just anti-Trump. Democrats need a vision for our country." In the midst of World War II, FDR had the time and the sense to make a very important point. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "In our day certain economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. " A second Bill of Rights   ....under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of station, or race, or creed. Among these are:   1. The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines throughout the nation.  2. The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation.  3. The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living.  4. The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom, freedom from unfair competition and domination by monop

I Just Thought of This It could be a Sis/Bro act Similar Smiles---                         Different Views There is no further substance to this post, in case you were wondering.

I Say HECK YES!! Let's finally make it easier for EVERYONE to vote. Here's one of my favorite ex-Presidents making the pitch: * "I AGREE" link You think if we had "VOTING DAY" showcasing elections, the participation wouldn't go up?   Voter suppression, open and secretive, is rampant. Giving people a day off to vote would be a VERY PATRIOTIC THING TO DO. Our vote is our secret weapon for defending democracy. Let's keep it sharp as a razor! olde Scooter

The Persuasion Apocalypse is Just Around the Corner   And bots are the "critical mass generators"  So ban those boogers before they eat our brains. Some people like Rock-aganda. Some don't. * Creds Near-future scenario: Psychological profiling gets incredibly more powerful, thanks to A.I. and machine learning, combing through vast piles of data about each of us. Our tastes, our fears, our heroes, our demons, our fantasies, our positions, our prejudices, our..... everything ; they've got it all, and it goes into the machine learning grinders. (Read up on machine learning - Whoowee baby.) Instantly (computers are fast) you are analyzed and categorized.  Out comes the key to your mind (and maybe your soul). Then with propaganda custom tailored to convince you of whatever THEY want you to think/believe/do, THEY get inside your mind, under your defenses, below your radar and inside your ego. Without even knowing it, you start to think/believe/do what

CNN Is an Amazing News Organization (The more DJ Trump Picks On It, The Better They Look) F'er Instance: My ongoing question, "Yeah, Cambridge Analytica, but what about the Russians?" gets reported by who? CNN, that's who. Yep, Trump talks about us a lot. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: Data could have come from more than 87 million users, be stored in Russia I knew it! Knew it, knew it, knew it!  But have you heard anything about this from Congress? Fox News? ( Sputter, giggle, snort )  See the CNN story HERE. Soooo, if the stolen Facebook Data categorizes you as (say) "Credulous, likes conspiracy theories, and always looking for trouble," you will be hearing from Rooskie trolls, bots and the occasional North Korean now as much as ever. Fun! Way to go, CNN. Right up there with the "failing" New York Times, the "Amazon" Washington Post and the "Very Fake News" MSM.  I'M PRETTY SURE ROBERT MUELL