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ljm's Profile
Middle western, with middle class values, picking my battles to fight the good fight. I took retirement after a career working in health care and education. I learned about the power of blogging through the Clark Community Network
Diaries published: 30 (1126 days since last diary on Mon Dec 26, 2016 at 10:28 AM PST)
Comments posted: 6098 (996 days since last comment on Thu May 04, 2017 at 07:13 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: seldom
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 536
Total Comment Ratings: 8972
Most Recommended Diary: Mother Jones Found PEOTUS Trail of Debt, 196 comments, 308 recommends
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David Cay Johnston is starting a news site called DCReport, which is meant to do more than write about tweets. He plans to have a staff of writers, lawyers and significant others to write about the administration and congress in regard to what they...
by ljm
 17 comments
on Mon Dec 26, 2016 at 10:28 AM PST
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This lengthy but enlightening article with a forward by David Cay Johnston and written by James Henry, shows just how important the Panama Papers were, if people had wanted to delve into the links between Russian oligarchs and Trump. Too bad people...
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on Mon Dec 19, 2016 at 12:36 PM PST
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We never got the taxes, but now Mother Jones has identified the debt PEOTUS owes various banks and the numbers are Uuuuge. Not counted in this story is the nearly $1 billion in various deals with China. No wonder he wants to provoke a war with them. ...
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on Mon Dec 12, 2016 at 11:34 AM PST
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What to call our president-elect, seriously, we can’t use his name. It’s trademarked. To use his name with the name reserved for the highest office in America automatically advertises his brand with his government job. From now on, I will call him...
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on Sun Nov 27, 2016 at 04:06 PM PST
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Julia Louis Dreyfus did a wonderful bit on SNL when she asked the character in a debate played by Larry David how he’d get something done. The response was a typical Trump type of answer like his usual, “It will be beautiful, trust me.” He never...
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on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 12:57 PM PDT
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It’s been years since I’ve written a diary. David Cay Johnston has been writing about tax havens and tax evasion for decades. He’s written about the Panama Papers, which he says is basically a tale of “money porn” that puts names to the people...
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on Tue Apr 05, 2016 at 01:49 PM PDT
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- Hillary never quits! No matter how much pain and humiliation gets thrown at her, she bounces back and fights back! Hillary has seen the promised land. She didn’t get there, but she is back to working to ensure that we, as a people, will get to the...383 comments 334 Recs
- People who have retired reasonably well have lost tremendous aggregate wealth that is represented by their savings and home equities. Perhaps some people who know elements of how older folk’s assets are handled can add to this, but the piece my wife...19 comments 28 Recs
- In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. attended a real estate conference, where he stated that Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia. Campaign Action As it turns...482 comments 555 Recs
- Evangelicals LOVE Donald Trump (a.k.a. Con Hair). So much so that they’ve built a golden calf to him and sacrificed every shred of decency they ever thought they had on the altar of Trumpism. To them—or at least what they try to tell themselves—Trump...7 comments 11 Recs
- I noticed this for the first time on The New Yorker website. The link is little ways down the first page (right). It takes you to a page that explains the process of sending a highly confidential tip to The New Yorker. This service began...75 comments 174 Recs
- For me, it’s a no-brainer. As clear as the wrinkles on my face. So let’s recap. The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election with the goal of helping Donald Trump win the presidency. The FBI says Russia meddled, but it’s...3 comments 4 Recs
- Dems won prez and Senate votes; rigged system screwed us. Let's use same system to win Supreme CourtCampaign Action Surprising no one, we find that Russia effectively staged a coup and that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was in on the gambit, and we know that The New York Times covered for them all. If there was ever a need for the...344 comments 235 Recs
- This is probably the most tinfoil hat thing I’ve ever written in my life, but, I guess this is our world now. From this article in the Jewish Journal: By the time the FBI reopened the investigation, it had already spent months investigating the...8 comments 11 Recs
- A California congressmen some believe is being considered for secretary of state, brushed aside the idea that Russia is guilty of any human rights abuses during an interview with Yahoo News. During the exchange Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) called...48 comments 58 Recs
- Election rules prohibiting recounting in precincts with evident problems. Broken seals on machines with no paper trail. Unusually large numbers of undervotes. Ballots excluded from the count for marginal, technical reasons. A much greater incidence of...6 comments 28 Recs
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