Sunday, August 25, 2019

More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #2)More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Read these when I was a kid, saw the movie today. Read it again and it was better as a kid. But you know, I'm sure it would still be quite enjoyable to any young minds who would happen upon it today. 

I actually remember a few of the stories from this one, and I liked the stories in this book better than the first. They're just a bit longer and more ominous and less jump scary.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Read these when I was a kid, saw the movie today. Read it again and it was better as a kid. But you know, I'm sure it would still be quite enjoyable to any young minds who would happen upon it today.

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Saturday, August 17, 2019

Understanding Marxism review

Understanding MarxismUnderstanding Marxism by Richard D. Wolff
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Could not think of a better way to introduce someone into a critical analysis of capitalism and why we can and should do better as a species, and that's not even getting into climate catastrophe or the threat of nuclear war.

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Sunday, August 11, 2019

Jefferey Epstein



Jefferey Epstein, teacher turned banker turned billionaire with a taste for young girls was found dead in his cell at the  HIGH SECURITY Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City . Epstein was one suicide watch after his previous suicide attempt 3 weeks ago, but was taken OFF suicide watch 12 days before his death on august 11th.
 President Donald Trump has retweeted conspiracies suggesting Bill and Hilary Clinton are responsible for his death. Found in Epstein’s flight logs were numerous mentions of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

 Trump has been quoted as saying: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."

While Bill Clinton himself was on Epstein’s flight logs at least 26 times.


Current and former presidents aside, many powerful and wealthy people have been implicated in Epstein’s crimes.

On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18,
 he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's Office, was after 3 and a half months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours. 

American officials across the political spectrum have demanded answers and investigations into Epstein's death.

Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr Saturday afternoon demanding the Department of Justice investigate Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide in jail. Sasse also called for those who allowed Epstein's death to occur under their watch to be fired.

“We need answers. Lots of them,” Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, tweeted.

 If nothing else, his life, death, crimes and unanswered questions are a perfect example of how wealthy powerful elites live in a different criminal justice system than the working class. 


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