SnakeRiverLib

Could I ever write a post without a history lesson.  Sorry, no. Judge Brett Kavanaugh was scheduled for a vote by the Judiciary Committee when Senator Diane Feinstein D-CA decided to drop a bomb.  Now mind you, the Democrats had nuked the filibuster back in 2013 for Cabinet Appointments and Judges other than the Supreme Court.  Why those were excepted, I don't know.  As a reminder, it was the Democrats that began using the filibuster for judicial appointments back in Bush 43's presidency.  The Republicans had threatened to do away with that to stop the logjam before, but ol McCain and his gang of 14 decided they weren't going to.  Somehow he was a GOP nominee for President, but I digress. That is why we are where we are.  The Democrats, not wanting W to have his appointments, decided to take this course.  When the GOP did the same under Obama, (after the first two years, when Obama had a filibuster proof majority) the Democrats decided to just get rid of that tactic. Re

The hearings today, both for the Judiciary Committee on Judge Kavanaugh, and the Intel Committee hearing on Social Media are why most people shrug and turn away when one discusses politics. The Intel Committee is treating the Social Media CEOs like they are Big Tobacco.  And the CEOs are doing their best, too late, to try to keep the government out of their business.  Their problem is that they live in a bubble where few conservatives exist, and as such had no issue with what they were doing, as to ads and blocking.  Of course, they know, and have learned that there are other opinions.  First let me make a statement. As private entities, they have the right to police their platforms as they see fit, or not at all.   This goes for Facebook, Twitter, and the others.  Google could be stacking their searches, but more likely, there is so much anti-Trump reporting and junk out there, that the numbers only, (some 96% negative in the MSM) would indicate that those items would top the sear