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Hurricane Irene and hype
Hurricane Irene (2011) has killed something like 47 people. Sad. Is that a lot? NASA's GISS picture of the Earth on August 27th. Can you find Irene? Click to zoom in. Via Andrew Revkin Google News coughs up 117,000 articles in English with the phrase "hurricane Irene" in them. That's something like 2,500 article per casualty. Wow. Patrick Michaels wrote a Forbes article called Get Real: Hurri
Egypt vs bikini and Sphinx
It's been more than half a year since the revolts in Egypt and the direction which the country is taking doesn't look pretty. Hosni Mobarak, a guarantor of relative decency in the country, was sacrificed by the confused West and the forces that your humble correspondent and others expected to be getting stronger are getting stronger, indeed. Of course that some people who just want to have some f
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Cheney’s unfortunate legacy for conservatives
It's incredibly discouraging to see former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney vituperatively reopen disputes from George W. Bush's administration. His scorched-earth excoriation of critics makes little distinction between those who would recklessly endanger America and those who also had the country's -- and the president's -- best interests as their motivation. This cannot assist the conservative ca
Answer to Alan Simpson From Man in Montana
An email sent me, of a reply to Alan Simpson, of him calling US a milk cow with 310-million t*ts, from an unknown Man from Montana.:::::::: Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. August, 2010. American Way by Internet Here's a response
Human Needs . . . NOT Corporate Greed!
TAKE THE PLEDGE!
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911 10th anniversary services celebrating U.S support for Al Qaeda in Libya - Yay U-S-A! Dumbest fucks on Earth!
Mother & Daughter, raped and killed by "rabbles" If you actually lost someone in the Towers on 911, you have my deepest sympathy: However, many of the names on the manufactured passenger lists, alleged to be in the Planes that were alleged to have hit the Towers and the Pentagon or disappear completely into "liquified" dirt in Shanksville, were a scam.Yep, actual Planes did hit the
This is what people waking up look like! Revolution Now! Video:
Fullarton U.S.S.A - Pigs Beat a man to Death and Walk! Local Citizens Step Up Against Arrogant Crooked City Hall!FREE PALESTINE!TRUTH IS NOT YIDDISH | FACTS ARE NOT ASHKENAZIM
Gaza: The occupiers of Palestine - disgusting yiddish child-molesters, are killing children – Again!
Those filthy yiddish khazars are murdering children in Gaza again, that they are a disgusting blood-rite cult has been proved many times over. Fact: The average yiddish high-priest is a child-molester and a priest of the synagogue of satan – why they have to suck on the little bloodied penis of a child they sexually mutilate is beyond excuse! I hate them, I want them all dead! Here’s the type of i
Carnage in Tripoli as NATO unleash murderous gangs of Al Qaeda by Night-time Beach Assault! August 21
The disgusting cowards and whores of NATO were ordered on Saturn's-day by their blood ritual rabbi masters in the knesset of Washington DC to invade Libya using the yiddish asset of al qaeda/mossad murderers. The invasion was a pre-planned night time operation involving large numbers of Rigid Raider assault craft of the coalition of the demonic's Special Forces together with larger landing assault
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Noche fantástica - Fantasy Night - Nuit fantastique
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"Published Author"
What follows is an amazingly brainless series of tweets from Christine O'Donnell's cell phone. She's trying to tell the story of how she got invited, then disinvited, then reinvited and re-disinvited from the Tea Bagger rally in Indianola, Iowa when the Palin camp kept threatening to pull out if O'Donnell's invitation wasn't rescinded. She starts out with a semblance of literacy by tweeting... F
Why Aren’t Republican Failures Evolving Into Authors?
Dear Danny Boy: Apparently, you failed to take under advisement some of my suggestions that could’ve delayed the inevitable (That being your client Christine O’Donnell’s ghost-written pissing and moaning about losing the 2010 Delaware Senate Election winding up in the bargain bin at Wal-Marts, Targets and other fine right wing Big Box stores). I say this with sincere regret because Nielsen Books
Katrina: The 6 Year Itch
It would be easy to dismiss the failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in New Orleans six years ago today on Monday, August 29, 2005, thusly: It was a storm of virtually unprecedented size and ferocity, so much so that levees, pump stations and emergency preparedness plans were immediately overwhelmed. And, up to a point, that was true. Katrina's rainfall extended fr
Caption Contest
Personally, I would've preferred impeachment but as long as we got Rep. Pete King out of Congress... Consider this an open thread. Tell me about your Hurricane (or tropical storm) Irene stories. Posting will be light while I work on the new Assclowns of the Week.
Dear Chairman Rinsed Penis, Pt. 6
I always say that a day without a Pravda-esque announcement by Republican National Committee Chairman Rinsed Penis that other wild and crazy Republican guy out of Wisconsin is like a day without sunshine. This landed in my inbox last night, courtesy of Mrs. JP: Dear , Our Party has a great slate of conservative candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination who can defeat Barack Oba
Escapades From New York
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein) "In a Democracy, nothing good has to happen in secret; and nothing good ever does. Secrecy is the enemy of Democracy. The more we allow our government to act outside of public accountability and the Rule of Law, the less it is our government, and the more it becomes instead an authoritarian occupying police state." - VoiceofV "(I)t’
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Banking System Going Downnnnn: Wrong (Always) Crazy Pundits/Beltway Wisdom(?) Dumb - Join Israeli Army!
“Socialize the banks. They have been bailed out over the past 30 years to the point the billionaires are the largest recipient of federal welfare.” (Stolen from a commenter on the essay below. Thank you "ilsm.") If you aren't already familiar with Barry Ritzholz, you should be. He calls the banksters for what they are and have been and what they ought to be. And what we as a strong country
Worse Than It Looks: CBO Says Economic Outlook More Dire Than Reported: Wonkette Reams the Righties/Goldmen Hire Sharks/Sensors Removed/Aircraft Blowup!!!
"We might as well have been throwing cream pies." - Kurt Vonnegut, estimating the net effect of the Antiwar Movement on the course of the Vietnam War I certainly thought (from my own and my friends' experience) that this was true. Thank whoever that the righties haven't assumed so much control in Congress (yet) that they've been able to stop the CBO from reporting the facts about current
Friedman Burlesque: Pure Propaganda With Drone Strikes and Bundling (Libya Lies Exposed) Again and Again & Medicare Terrorists! BEWARE!!!
I hadn't realized that this was such a competitive event before (h/t Driftglass), and hadn't planned to start today's essay on such a humorous note, but it seems kinda like a Friedbrain tasting day, so here are a few of the roasters (and ain't he a hoot?): The Thomas Friedman-est Column of the Year You may have thought that soothsaying mustachioed one-trick pony Tom Friedman had done his best
(Moyers B-A-C-K!) Looting With Lights On for Serfs (Off for Owners and Then Vice-Versa): Best Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America
Good News! Bill Moyers is back and not as a prisoner to the carcass formerly known as PBS (left by the Bush Bashers). It's got to be good news in a very grim news time. Bill Moyers Returns to Public Television, but Not PBS | Common Dreams by Elizabeth Jensen NEW YORK - Bill Moyers says he is returning to public television in January, but he won’t be found on the PBS lineup. His new
"Shaking All Over?" - The Pentagon's Fake Jihadists
Bookworms in Search of Dinner More Bookworms After Finding Dinner I was typing away in a cafe when the wall started to tremble in front of me. A man sitting on the other side of the cafe said, "Did you feel that?" I thought, yes, it felt like someone was trying to shake the wall loose from its foundations for about 15 seconds and then gave up because it was too well anchored. Seems that
New American Dream Or Nightmare?
(Yesterday's Sellout Crowd at the Wyndham Golf Championship - Greensboro, NC) It's not really much of a mystery. The people who nod in agreement as they watch the Faux News every day, listen to the lies about the necessity for ever-increasing Defense Department spending against people living in caves (or in far-away wastelands) who have access to NUKES(!) and can thwart NORAD, and the so sad
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The Invisible Dead and "The Last Word":Lawrence O'Donnell 'Rewrites' the Occupation of Afghanistan
"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American soldiers, including 17 elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans. The mainstream news media was awash with somber reports about this being the "deadliest day" for U.S. for
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The Gallantry of A Futile Gesture
Irene is still making life miserable for those bullet dodgers who were targets of Nature's wrath this time. I had thought Wit's End was unscathed but that's because I huddled in the house all the day after, avoiding the continuing turbulence. Thus I didn't discover until the following brilliantly sunny morning that a large honey locust, one of a long row along the road, had falle
I'm a Criminal!
So, I was arrested at the Tar Sands Action in front of the White House today, along with 110 other people. It turns out to be a rather grueling process, fraught with anxiety, so for now I'm just going to post a couple of pictures. That's me holding the banner, above the T in AGAINST.At the training last night, we were instructed to be serious and refrain from smiling or laughing.Tomorro
Irene and the Hummingbird
I was up much of the night, listening to the wind whistle, worried about the creek flooding and trees crashing. I heard four of them in the dark, but none close by.As soon as it was light I looked out the kitchen window, past the little sycamore I planted, through the woods towards the chicken coop. A little hummingbird landed on a dying rose branch just in front of me, and clung to it tenaciousl
Tar Sands Fraction
The Tar Sands Action group (which essentially is = to Bill McKibben) has deliberately made what they apparently thought was a very clever strategic decision, which is to directly warn Obama regarding support in the next election if he doesn't choose to halt the pipeline from Canada - an empty threat which seemed really stupid to me when I learned of it. Now they're being called out as foo
Anonymous Joins Occupy Wall Street!
This is an exciting and welcome addition to the action, which I first described in July. So far this effort has been an incoherent, fragmented impulse - it can't be called an organization - but then, that's what happens when a group eschews any form of leadership. And maybe that is a good thing. The hierarchical way things have been working so far is close to ravaging the Earth permanen
Tar Sands Action - Rock the Limousine!
I've got an Amtrak ticket to Washington DC for the Tar Sands Action at the end of the month. This gentleman from Madison, Wisconson expresses my sentiments about the demonstration perfectly.
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torontonians, please do your part to close down puppy mills
In September, Toronto Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker will reintroduce a motion to ban the for-profit sale of dogs and cats in Toronto pet stores and flea markets. These retail outlets are notorious for selling animals bred in puppy mills. The conditions in puppy mills are nothing short of torture, and it is widely acknowledged that they only way to shut them down is to cut off demand for their "p
mcquaig: lewis’s masterful eulogy a stirring reminder that we will not go quietly
Linda McQuaig's appraisal of Stephen Lewis's beautiful eulogy of Jack Layton is worth reading.It will probably be a while before a Canadian prime minister again offers a state funeral to someone on the left.Of course, there aren’t many political leaders of any stripe who could pull at the country’s collective heartstrings quite the way Jack Layton did, especially with his stunning political achiev
canada and u.s.: join to speak out against tar sands pipeline
Environmental activists in the US see an opportunity for real action against the tar sands pipeline. Since the oil-friendly and environment-hating Harper government won't listen to us on this issue, we owe it to North America to do whatever we can to try to stop this nightmare. See below for two important action links. They're separate petitions; please sign both.From NRDC:The [US] State Departmen
celebrating jack: "one should always have a dream that is larger than a lifetime"
Nothing remains to be said about Jack Layton, the man and the leader. I certainly can't say anything that hasn't been said so many times already. I can only continue to miss him, and to pledge my determination to his cause - to our cause. But I thought I would tell you about my day. The photos were taken by Allan on Friday, August 26 and by me on Saturday, August 27. Allan went to Nathan Phillips
celebrating jack: rise up
I missed this song in the 80s, along with the video, filmed on the streets of Toronto. Perhaps it was a Canadian thing that didn't cross the border very much, but I only know "Rise Up" from the 2011 NDP election campaign.Yesterday, like most of you, I found Lorraine Segato's rendition powerful and moving. I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of other progressive people who had packed
follow-up: cuisinart honours its warranty
This earlier post - "we work to buy things that are built to die so that we must work to buy more things that will break" - was not meant to be about the trials and tribulations of my coffee maker, but I do want to finish that part of the story.Although the damn thing broke after only 13 months of use - and although I was very annoyed at having to ship it at my own expense to the service centre -
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