The Erickson Report for October 16-29

The Erickson Report for October 16-29, 2019

This episode:

Noted in Passing
   - Tweetie-pie stumped by reporter's question
   - Town inhabited for 12,000 years to be flooded by new dam
   - California allows public banks, bans private, for-profit prisons
   - IRS admits it's just easier and cheaper to audit the poor rather than the rich
   - RIP, Ginger Baker
   - Steven Reed is Montgomery, Alabama's, first black mayor.
   - In a twist, men with breast cancer excluded from clinical trials, get less care than women
   - Hate crimes rose 9% in major US cities in 2018, 5th yearly increase in a row

Two Weeks of Stupid: Clowns and Outrages
   - The Clown: Cape Elizabeth High School in Cape Elizabeth, Maine
   - The Outrage: White House immigration policies show that cruelty is not the result of the policies, it is the point

A Longer Look: the US and the Kurds
   - Tweetie-pie's betrayal of the Kurds was at least the 8th US betrayal of them since WWI