9780330901161 0330901168 Chatwin B:Bruce Chatwin Summary 9781934770320 1934770329 Infinite Worth in God's Eyes, George Foster 9780861533886 0861533887 Pray Now 2009. Tom Hull: Tom Hull - on the Web. Blog Entries . Noted a tweet from Kathleen Geier: . 25I-NBOMe (2C-I-NBOMe, Cimbi-5, also shortened to "25I") is a psychedelic hallucinogen that is used in biochemistry research for mapping the brains usage of the type. Get the latest Rolling Stone new music news, song and album reviews, free music downloads, artist videos & pictures, playlists and more. Streamnotes (July 2017) The summer here in Wichita hasn't been exceptionally hot, but it's been hot enough to be stultifying. I haven't enjoyed it, and find damn near. Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects. This may include altered awareness of the. Absolutely no. one. Of course, sometimes they get caught. Mc. Farland. as his deputy in May, reportedly without seeking White House approval. He also reportedly fired Rich Higgins, a staffer who worked in. July 2. 1, after Higgins. Trump was under attack by . I was aware of the article before, but steered. Dylan Scott: What you need to know about the Senate's . The latter was a broadly bipartisan bill that somewhat. Republicans evidently like the bill either because it. The real problem with North Korea isn't that they have. The problem. is that the regime and people there suffered through a horrific war. United States. One forgets that Iran's interest in rockets. Iraq, where Tehran. Iran reciprocated. Iraq's use of poison gas). Clearly, Iraq isn't the threat it. Iran is still surrounded by hostile regimes, with the. US and Israel actively engaging in various plots of sabotage and/or. Scuttling the nuclear deal may or may not force Iran to. ICBMs - - doing so wouldn't give them an effective. US, but it might deter the US from attacking. Iran - - but it will certainly leave Iran more isolated, paranoid, and. North Korea. Still, Democracy is in the eye of the. Mason worrying about Putin, Erdogan, and Trump. Poland, Hungary, Venezuela, India, the Philippines, and. China, but not Egypt or Saudi Arabia or Israel), while Mounk. Trump. As noted. above, many of us are worried about the fate of democracy in the near. There are various theories about various threats, but the most. It has union representation in. Japan to France. Australia to Britain. But the company does not want unions in the US. Corporations like Nissan know that if they stop workers in Mississippi. Further, if workers are unable to form unions and engage in. Americans throughout this country will continue. As Americans, our goal must. Mississippi and all over this country, not engage. Nissan is not a poor company. It is not losing money. Last year, it. made a record- breaking $6. CEO more than. $9. Those kinds of obscene profits are a direct result of corporations'. Forty years ago, more. Today, that number. And as corporations and Republican politicians succeed in decimating. American middle class, once the envy of the world, is disappearing. We have got to turn that. I proudly support Nissan workers' fight to form a union. Also. John Nichols: A Nissan Victory Could Usher in a New Era of Southern. Organizing. I've heard that the Games of Thrones showrunners. South won the Civil War. If you want to indulge in. Taft- Hartley had failed in 1. AFL and CIO had launched mass. South, as they had planned but chickened out. Taft- Hartley - - and, of course, had they been successful. At. the very least, that would have advanced the civil rights movement a. Democratic Party, and ultimately the country, from. Others see a Nixonian lunge to hire thugs. This to me is all overthinking things. There is no. strategy. This White House is just a succession of spasmodic Trump. You can fall with honor, or without, entertainingly or not. It's only a matter. However, Democratic- leaning economists like Joseph. Stiglitz have lately noted the role of monopoly rents in generating. I suspect one reason many Democrats. However, the forces against antitrust enforcement. Still, an important plank, and not just. You should also consider how industry. Yglesias also wrote. Anthony Scaramucci, explained, as if you couldn't figure that one. Still, worth being reminded of this. Trump, who is very fond of zero- sum thinking, one- sided deals, and. Trump doesn't really do that. His early real. estate ventures in Manhattan and Atlantic City ended up being failures. But in the mid- 1. Trump Casino Hotels &. Resorts, and bilking his investors for all they were worth. TCHR never made any money for shareholders. It spent more than $6 million on. Trump's golf courses. It spent $2. million more on renting Trump's plane. It bought $1. 7 million of. Trump- branded merchandise. It bought a bankrupt casino from Donald. Trump for $4. 90 million. It paid Trump millions in salary for his. CEO. And most lucratively of all, Trump was able to offload. From there, Trump hopped to starring in a reality television. He also launched a fake university that had to pay out. Trump is, in short, the kind of guy who'd look up to Sky. Bridge's. . Louis and Washington University after the events described. Howard Mechanic or anyone else mentioned in the. Boggs - - a political science professor at Washington. U. Monday, July 3. Music Week. Music: Current count 2. Just seven albums in the August draft file so. Arcade Fire, Hal Galper, Paul Jones, Manchester Orchestra, Vic. Mensa, Vieux Farka Tour. I think I gave Arcade Fire. The others on Napster got one each. Three of those came out last week. Checking AOTY, they scored. Manchester Orchestra (7. Arcade Fire (7. 1/2. Vic Mensa (6. 5/5). They're a. group I've generally admired but never felt much affection for. I've graded their previous albums pretty high (B+ for 2. Funeral; A- for Neon Bible, The Suburbs, and. Reflektor), none of those albums scored especially high on. EOY lists (2. 7, 2. I expect this one will wind up lower. I ever play it again). But critics have generally liked. I have; e. g., AOTY scores for their four. Pazz & Jop finishes: 6, 5, 3, 1. Presumably this one won't. I can't tell you why. Maybe in this day and age. Or Manchester. Orchestra?)On the other hand, the low critical scores for Vic Mensa's. The Autobiography correlate with my disappointment, not. Christgau liked his mixtapes. There's Alot. Going On. Not that there's nothing I like in Mensa's record. I don't. That contrasts, say, to Tyler the Creator's. Flower Boy, which was a total blank after one spin. Got to it after the cutoff, so it's not in the list. Lana Del Rey's Lust for Life, which I. Robert Christgau reviewed the Perceptionists. Oddissee (an earlier A- for me) at. Noisey. Akmee and Alexander Hawkins are on Chris Monsen's. Favorites list. Ergo, Led Bib, and several others were. I've been sitting on for a long time - - Roscoe Mitchell. The Eddie Palmieri and Vieux Farka Tour. Stalled when I got into post- 2. When I scrolled back to. I realized I needed to make some edits in the front. I changed the grade scale so that A or. A+ is 1. 0, A- 9, B+ 8- 6, B 5, B- 4, C+ 3, C 2, C- or worse 1. I. asked several friends about this mapping and pretty much all. A- = 8) with adjustments. I really needed. something I could apply more mechanically. I also didn't mind. While editing I noticed that I started this project last. August, so I've been working on it a full year, during which. I've done very little of the editing that will be needed. Feels Sisyphean, even. Already looks like it's going to be another good week for another. Roundup. Last week I described Trump as having broke out of his. Anthony. Scaramucci, purging Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus, and two of the. Scaramucci got. fired. Now we're going to have to suffer through stories about how. Marine General John Kelly restored order and discipline to the. White House, as they buckle down on the great cause of . I've been. planning for some time on doing a birthday- sized Korean menu, and. Art Protin told me I should do a. I'll try to follow through. I am trying harder to cook occasional small dinners for just us. Last week I made my first- ever lasagna. I didn't. find the latter and decided not to make a deep search). I was a bit. disappointed in it (certainly compared to the pastitsio I made a. New records rated this week: Akmee: Neptun (2. Fly Eye/Columbia): ! But still I couldn't ignore these. Some scattered links. Tariq Ali: Nawaz Sharif has gone. But Pakistan's high- level corruption. Sharif's party, the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz, is fighting back. This is truly exceptional. Each has learned from the other. Times have changed. This is the world we live in. They're. all doing it. Politicians in every western country . Sharif, it. appears, has been less fortunate. The Koch brothers are the largest funders of climate. And Exxon. Mobil claims it has stopped, but it really hasn't. It's clear they are trying to cripple our ability to respond to. More overlooked is. Theresa May's first actions on becoming prime minister - -. Department for. Energy and Climate Change; subsequently donations from oil and gas. Conservative party continued to roll in. And what is. increasingly apparent is that the same think tanks that operate in the. States are also at work in Britain, and climate change denial operates. Alt- Right belief. And, it's this network of power that. Gore has had to try to understand, in order to find a way to combat it. What Murkowski and. Collins did was much harder. I suppose Mc. Cain's vote to sink the. But Mc. Cain couldn't. Collins and Murkowski consistently. Mc. Connell's ploys to repeal Obamacare - - in large. Republicans who actually care. Americans of health insurance. Two House Republicans threatened them with violence. President Trump publicly shamed Murkowski on Twitter. Senator @lisamurkowski of the Great State of Alaska really let the. Republicans, and our country, down yesterday. It will be interesting. Even more amusing is the pouting tantrum from. John Daniel Davidson: I'm a conservative - - and I now see voting. Republican is a waste of time: ? Don't. make me laugh. Some of the bullet. Under his plan, the tax rate on pass- through business income fell to. The idea was to boost investment, raise employment, and jump- start the. The Kansas economy did not grow faster than neighboring states, the. Kansas' own growth in previous years. The experiment with tax policy was such a failure that a Republican. Second, a lowered business income tax can be manipulated. While. Kansas cut the tax rate on pass- through income to 0 in hopes of. In. reality, many people in Kansas re- characterized income from labor. There are other, more general, takeaways from the tax cut experiment. After seeing. this, a majority of Kansans decided they would not prefer to keep the. Therefore, another implication is that tax reform is not just about.
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