The Goat Pen

learning about a term called municipal aggregation. several years ago apparently the people in my township voted for the right of our township officials to negotiate on our behalf better electrical or natural gas deals instead of from our supplier. The whole thing sounds like a scam. Duke Energy is...

One of the most cherished illusions of conservatives is that you can have a massive military but a small government... Not sure that's even in the top 5 with other sacred precepts like trickle down, free market worship, never ending tax cuts for the rich ("can't tax the job creators or we won'...

We're either going to take over the world completely over the next period of time or a lot of people are going to die. You say that like it was a bad thing. jk Least now we know why half the country is in poverty. The MIC needed all that money to figure out how to blow stuff up better than everyone...

Just found out about this today. We have an enormously accelerated first strike capacity compared to a decade or two ago. This is not good news if you like stability in your global politics. We're either going to take over the world completely over the next period of time or a lot of people are goin...

Went Youtube binging on Louis CK and Bill Burr a few nights ago and found this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOZ2PeUITPg

Not that any Trump haters will actually care about integrity but this should be concerning. It won't be as long as Mueller finds something , regardless of whether its Russian related or not Apparently with his choice, its doesn't even have to be real. ------------------------- Much has been written...

Just catching the tail end of this drone chat. Has it been mentioned that Obama killed American citizens abroad with a drone (and without due process)? Talk about your slippery slopes.

With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country! Funny because while granted he just wants a media that is unable to challenge him in any way, technically his words accurately apply to any mainstream news outl...

Her claim to fame was someone dared her to take a shit on the roof of the gym and she did.

gymnastium

Petty's masterpiece to me is Mary Jane's last dance. I don't know what combination of guitar and amp that is, and not sure if it's even Petty or Jeff Lynne playing it, but whoever and whatever it is, they are just fucking shredding it like nobody's business. I've been listening to this in my car and...

Free falling There's something about Tom Petty that was authentic. He reminds me of the vibe I get from Dylan or the Stones. Flawed. Ugly. Self deprecating. Real. Contrast this to a guy like Springsteen, who was more of an icon. An ideal. A brand. And in terms of songwriting couldn't hold Petty's j...

Over 100 million guns were sold to the general public during his time in office. I would assume that's because of the fear-mongering on the right where they said Obama was going to take their guns and/or ammo. Granted he did try (and in some cases succeed) to pass some bullshit regs. In the end gun...

A ban on guns wouldn't instantly remove all guns but if you made them illegal and coupled that with a massive buyback program (maybe take some of $700B that is going to be wasted on the military), you'd see a very large reduction over a pretty short period of time. And, I guarantee you that the rat...

the slippery slope argument is more about a meaningless emotional response - like these bump stocks, and then once the wedge is in the door, it swings wide open putting the focus on gun control regulation that doesn't decrease homicide rates in this country instead of forcing people to address the ...

There have been some good decisions at the state level over the last year against Gerrymandering. Made for promising headlines but I wonder if they weren't just quietly appealed a week later and still nothing has come from any of it. And even if all Gerrymandering is fixed overnight, there is still ...

He's doing the Wilbury Twist in a better place now.

It seemed to have two overall themes: America is bad, and Vietnam vets are victims. It's not that America is bad. It's just that the "America is the good guys and anyone we oppose is bad" narrative that we're given by pretty much all societal structures from birth is a load of horseshit. ...

eCat wrote:so Nixon sabotaged the peace talks and prolonged the war to win the presidency.

Holy hell

An act of treason, just like Reagan's alleged tampering with the hostage crisis.

"Communism, by the dictionary definition, has never happened anywhere in the world that I know of." It worked pretty well in North America before good christian Europeans came over here and committed genocide on the native population, then threw the few survivors into concentration camps,...

Yep. People fucking suck. Communism tends to suck more, but let's not act like the European colonial powers were doing shit due to noblis oblige. Communism, by the dictionary definition, has never happened anywhere in the world that I know of. But yes not having any privately owned property sounds ...