Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Wednesday's show: Alabama the day after, Deputy AG before the House, Bush-Gore 2000 & more


We will look at the elections in Alabama......where does Senator elect Jones go from here?  He is to the left of the state on every major issue.......what are the lessons for the GOP?...the Deputy AG before Congress talking about the Mueller probe............Bush vs Gore finally settled on this day in 2000..........Happy # 92 Dick Van Dyke........plus other stories of the day.......

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Wednesday's video: Alabama the day after plus the Deputy AG before the House



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Bullets rather than samba in Rio!

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Violence in Rio is a major problem, specially if you are an innocent bystander at the wrong place at the wrong time. This is a report by Sebastian Smith:   
While the fighting in Rio de Janeiro’s crime war is done by commando-style police and heavily armed drug traffickers, a growing number of the victims look quite different: innocent, joyful children like Maria Eduarda.
Firefights erupt in densely packed, poor favela neighborhoods, leaving thousands of people with nowhere to hide each time the shooting, involving Kalashnikovs and other military grade rifles, begins.
AFP has investigated the stories of those caught in the middle, like 13-year-old schoolgirl Maria Eduarda, in a new multimedia report: “Stray Bullets: violence and broken lives in Rio.”
With around 60,000 murders a year, Brazil is among the world’s most dangerous countries. 
Rio, host of the 2016 Olympics, has long been one of the hotspots.
But as AFP’s investigation highlights, stray bullet incidents add a cruel twist to the wider crisis.
People are shot outside church, in parks or in restaurants, in daytime or at night. Since the cheap construction of favela houses will not necessarily stop a bullet, even staying at home can be dangerous. 
As Mr. Smith points out, victims of stray bullets often go unreported. Nevertheless, 60,000 murders is a mammoth number.
Rio de Janeiro has a population of 6.5 million, second to Sao Paulo. It is also the sixth largest city in the Americas. 
Not long ago, a Brazilian friend introduced me to the Rio Times, an English newspaper. My friend said that the reporting on crime stories would shock me, and it did.  For example, a story from this week tells us that 126 police officers have already been killed this year.    
The violence in Rio has had a major consequence in state prisons, where gangs are constantly at war with each other. Just recently, the federal government sent troops to control the violence in many of the worst prisons in the world. As my local friend told me recently, they kill each other in Rio or at the state prisons!
Very bad for Rio, a city once known for “samba” rather than stray bullets!
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The pressure is now on Jones to vote like Alabama not Obama...



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My guess is that most Democrats were really hoping for a Moore victory in Alabama



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Talk about a "no win" situation



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Why were some using the word gulag about Guantanamo?


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Back during the Iraq War, we posted about the attacks against the Guantanamo prison camp.

Let's concede that some mistakes may have been made in the handling of prisoners.  

Let's concede that this happens in every war.  During World War 2, undisciplined US soldiers often brutalized German prisoners.

It happens. It's war.

Yet, it is not the policy of the US to torture people.

I should add that the men in Guantanamo are among the world's worst criminals. They are not there because they forgot to return their library book on time.

It got frustrating when the world "gulag" was brought into the debate.

A Gulag in the old USSR was one of the worst violators of human rights in the world.   

Guantanamo is not one of these places.

The US has taken extreme care in providing these prisoners with a holy book, three meals a day and a place to live.  We did not cut any one's head off.  We did not torture anyone.

So stop these cheap shots against the US armed forces.


So Jones won with 49.6% of the vote



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