YouTube has the video TULSI GABBARD FULL ONE-ON-ONE EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON (7/24/2017)

Actually, Tulsi Gabbard just talks rationally in an interview on Faux Noise.

What Tulsi Gabbard says is not so explosive. That she has to go to Faux Noise to say it is what is explosive.

It is very disturbing that Faux Noise seems to be the only corporate news medium to talk sense about Syria.

Cnet has the article Flash loses final appeal: Adobe sentences its web tech to death.

Countless nails have been hammered in Flash’s coffin in recent years, most notably by Apple’s Steve Jobs and also by Adobe itself. Now, though, there’s a date for the funeral: Dec. 31, 2020.

This may be the only good news I have been able to blog about in a long time. I have banished Flash from all my computer based hardware for a few years now. I instituted the ban after the first big security failure that Flash suffered. I have had to give up looking at some web sites that insisted on using Flash, but they have become fewer and fewer. By the end of 2020, I won’t be missing anything by refusing to allow Flash on my computers.

As I was listening to Carmen on SiriusXM, I got to wonder if the actual words to The Toreador Song could actually be what I learned as a kid.

Here is how I learned it.

Toreador-ah
Don’t spit on the floor-ah
Use the cuspidor-ah
That’s what it’s for-ah

Well, according to WikiPedia in the article Toreador Song, those are not the actual words.

Naked Capitalism has published the article The Mega Rich Are Getting Mega Richer: A Former CEO Exposes the Corruption Behind Their Obscene Paychecks.

… between 1980 and 2014 the average real income of the Mega Rich has nearly quadrupled, increasing by 381 percent. Over the same period, the Merely Rich doubled their income while the bottom 90 percent lost ground, suffering a 3 percent decline.

This statistic is well known. One of the great features of this article is the answer to the Laffer curve that the mega rich use to convince people that their prescriptions for tax cuts for the wealthy are good for the economy. I am too lazy to reproduce the graph and the explanation here. You’ll just have to read the article if you want to know how to counter the Laffer curve. (I always thought this was misspelled. It should be the laugher curve.)

New Economic Perspectives has the article Jamie Dimon: You Make Us Embarrassed to be Americans by Bill Black.

The best economic estimate of the lost U.S. GDP over the course of the Great Recession is $24.3 trillion. Elite U.S. Bank CEOs led the three most destructive fraud epidemics in world history that hyper-inflated the housing bubble and drove the financial crisis that drove the Great Recession and caused this massive loss of economic growth. It is as if the arsonist that caused the firestorm that led to the largest forest fire in U.S. history that destroyed most of the forests of twelve states then held an expletive-laden rant denouncing the slow growth of the U.S. timber industry.

Apparently Jamie Dimon is the Wall Street Journal’s idol despite what Bill Black says about him.

Dimon is enraged that plaintiffs sued JPMorgan so often and so successfully for so many of the elite frauds that caused the financial crisis that drove the Great Recession and caused the massive loss of U.S. growth. It is not enough for Dimon that the federal prosecutors that Jesse Eisinger has portrayed as members of “The Chickenshit Club” in his newly published book refused to prosecute the millions of crimes for which JPM is criminally liable. It is not enough for Dimon that no prosecutor ever charged the JPM senior officers who led and covered up the frauds that drove the crisis. It is not enough for Dimon that the federal non-prosecutors did not require the resignation of any senior JPM officer for leading those frauds. It is not enough for Dimon that the federal non-prosecutors (and JPM’s board of directors) failed to “claw back” the bonuses that thousands of JPM officers received as those frauds’ proceeds. It is not enough that Dimon not only kept his job and his bonuses – he received huge raises for leading America’s largest criminal enterprise and (often) losing money for the shareholders.

If The WSJ has their way, and Dimon runs and wins the USA Presidency in 2020, he will do far more damage than Donald Trump could even imagine.