The Bush war on CHEESE
The last days of the mercifully-departed administration were really busy, and it will probably take months to unravel all the mischief the Bush gnomes wrought. One of the inadvertently hilarious things...
View ArticleLieberman under criminal investigation, will be forced to quit?
For some reason, I think that news of a criminal investigation of Joe Lieberman would make many Kossacks happy. This is not what I'm talking about here (although there is a Joe Lieberman connection -...
View ArticleSTFU! Obama SUPPORTS the public option! Today's news...
To all the Chicken Littles here, here's the breaking news. President Obama SUPPORTS THE PUBLIC OPTION, so STFU please. Posting an "omg, onoz, we r doomed" diary on Daily Kos is the least productive...
View ArticleHAXX0R3D: Gov. Rick Perry (TX)?
Reports are coming in that Gov. Rick Perry's re-election campaign kickoff in Texas had a less than auspicious beginning. Quoting Peggy Fikacblogging at mysanantonio.com:Gov. Rick Perry's much-touted...
View ArticleCoded death threats, PUMAPAC, Psalm 109:8 weirdness
Earlier today, kat68 published an excellent diary on certain hard-right pseudo-Christian weirdos sending a not-so-coded message calling for violence against President Obama (as originally exposed by...
View ArticleGlenn Beck barking like a dog on air (no kidding!)
A video just surfaced of our favorite right-wing comedian Beck literally barking like a mad dog. It's not manipulated in any way, Beck actually went on air and did a rather lame dog impersonation,...
View ArticleIndonesia hit by magnitude 7.7 earthquake... no casualties reported
Magnitude 7.7. Epicenter near Northern Sumatra. USGS reported the quake first, the damage appears limited to power outages. CNN just reported on it, Wolf Blitzer made a total idiot of himself (he said...
View ArticleUnrest in Jamaica: dozens killed, state of emergency declared
I understand that it's not nearly as fascinating as all the meta on the wreck list, but there is a gun battle between Jamaican army and police on one side and the Shower Posse gang controlling Tivoli...
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Elections 2010: meet the opponent and ROFL...
This is just too good not to share with you. Apparently, a certain Phil Davison ran for the Republican nomination for the position of county treasurer (Stark County, Ohio), when he made the...
View ArticleFCC Chair promises to kill Fairness Doctrine. WTF???
Fairness Doctrine has been a part of FCC (Federal Communications Commission) rulebook since 1949. As summarized by Steve Rendall of FAIR,The Fairness Doctrine had two basic elements: It required...
View ArticleThe obamarox/obamasux crap...
has started again.All that needed to be said on this subject has already been said. It is my subjective (and quite possibly flawed) perception that the resumption of flames is the responsibility of the...
View ArticleFukushima nuclear plant: COLD SHUTDOWN.
According to Japan's Prime Minister,the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been successfully brought to a state of cold shutdown. The state is a target in the second phase of...
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Susan G. Komen Facebook page - they sure are busy cleaning it up...
...and STILL cannot keep up with the negative feedback.Here's a little sampling...--- You have crossed a line of credability of your mission with conflicts of moral & religious lines, Shame is on...
View ArticleRegarding trolls and paid shills...
This post is about a major breaking scandal - several prominent bloggers have just been revealed to be paid trolls...Background and breaking news - below the squiggly.
View ArticleVERY good news from the Middle East?
Avigdor Lieberman, the Foreign Minister of Israel, is finally forced to resign after being haunted for years by financial scandals and accusations of money laundering, bribery, and so on.Why it may be...
View ArticleTTFN
There's just too much stuff going on at this site that I have no desire to be a party to, sorry: the virtual pie fights where people try to score cheap points over a real tragedy, the internet...
View Article"North Colorado" to secede?
It's not from The Onion, it's for real. Weld County in Northern Colorado has put a vote on the ballot this November to secede from Colorado and to "pursue becoming the 51st state of the United States...
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This troll's nose looks like a gorilla!
Legitimate issues are raised, but there is also a bunch of stuff that's just over the top - hilariously and sadly at the same time.
View ArticleBREAKING!!!! Daily Kos under ZOMBIE TROLL ATTACK!11! z0mg
In the last half hour or so, it appears that somebody created a tag team of six (perhaps more) zombies, and set them loose in the epic meta thread launched by Kos. It also appears that said zombies...
View ArticleBreaking: disturbing developments in Crimea
There are recent rumors that part of the Crimea (a Ukrainian province) is now under control of Russian military. I am trying to piece together what's going on from Ukrainian news... and Russian, and...
View ArticleDear United States, not everything in the world is about YOU...
Several contributors here wrote diaries about neocon involvement in the events in Ukraine. These diaries share two common misconceptions, and both of these misconceptions are glaringly...
View ArticleBreaking: bloodshed and worse in Ukraine
40+ people dead in Odessa (mostly pro-Russian activists, and at least some of them burned alive), helicopters shot down over Slavyansk, casualties during the storm of Kramatorsk. Links below the...
View ArticlePassenger plane with 295 people shot down over Eastern Ukraine
There are confirmed reports that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 (Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur) just went down over the region of the civil war in Eastern Ukraine. The plane was likely shot down. There are no...
View ArticleChristie and the Cupcake Dog
I could not help but notice the uncanny resemblance between the appearance of Governor Christie during Donald Drumpf’s victory speech and of the Dramatic Cupcake Dog during cupcake aversion therapy....
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Republican trolls at DailyKos? You betcha!
Do we have infiltrators at DailyKos? Are there false-flag op diaries? You probably wondered about that. I sure did. Wonder no more. Here’s a bona fide Republican operative trolling social media — it’s...
View ArticleOn 2016 US election hacking and recent arrests within FSB
In December 2016, two high-ranked Russian federal security agency (FSB) officers were rather dramatically arrested and charged with treason. Speculation in the Western press relates these arrests to...
View ArticleMore on "Trump Tower" site in Moscow
Amid the renewed rumors of a Trump Tower in Moscow, it sure looks like something is finally being built on its proposed site, Crocus City, owned by the Russian/Azerbaijani oligarch Agalarov family....
View ArticleToronto terrorist deliberately targeted women
The perpetrator of the terror attack (yes, it was a terror attack) in Toronto deliberately targeted women and affiliated himself with one of the fringes of the alt-right movement. Most of the victims...
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#nobodyisabovethelaw in Albuquerque, a photo diary
This is a photo diary mostly, but I must start with a shoutout to Tom Anderson and Indivisible — Nob Hill for playing pivotal roles in organizing the event. Huge crowd, with literally all genders and...
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Albuquerque wants him gone
Just a quick photo diary. I know the same thing is going on all over the country...Cold weather tonight, but a large demonstration in support of impeachment filled the sidewalks over several blocks...
View ArticlePlease stop with the hit diaries
Neither anti-Bernie nor anti-Joe diaries are of any help to Joe and Bernie respectively. Regurgitation of focus-group-tested right-wing memes does not help either. If you need to vent, please find a...
View ArticleThere is a revolution in Belarus. This is important for us in the United States.
First, a little background. Republic of Belarus is in Europe, between Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine. It had a presidential election on August 9. The “president” of Belarus for the last 26...
View Articledonaldjtrump.com hacked
For a while around 5pm EST, instead of the original content, dоnaldjtrump.соm displayed some rather incoherent, but distinctly uncomplimentary message. Now the site appears to be restored (still...
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Treason doth never prosper...
...what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. (John Harington, 1590?)A lot is being made of the spectacular stupidity of the horde that invaded the Capitol on January 6. One...
View ArticleBad things are happening in Belarus
A Ryanair plane on a regular Athens-Vilnius flight was forced to land in Minsk. It carried Roman Protasevich, a journalist and one of the co-founders of NEXTA online platform. As the plane was flying...
View ArticleNew evidence of Russian war crimes
Trigger warnings. These stories are still unfolding, and they have not fully hit the mainstream media yet, but both are bad.First, multiple Ukrainian POWs, some of them the defenders of Mariupol, have...
View ArticleDefeat for Putin and victory for pro-European forces in Georgia
UPDATE: Thursday, Mar 9, 2023 · 9:19:30 PM +00:00·kalmothAll the detained protesters have been freed.The “foreign agents” law that mimicked a similar Russian law has been pulled “unconditionally” by...
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Parts of Crimea are already without fresh water
UPDATE: Tuesday, Jun 6, 2023 · 9:12:06 AM +00:00·kalmothThe Nova Kakhovka zoo is destroyed by the floodAbout 300 animals, which our residents of Novokakhovka knew and loved, died.Monkeys Anfisa and...
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Coup in Russia?
Take this with a bucket of salt, but the notorious troll, ex-convict and mercenary leader Yevgeni Prigozhin just announced the following:1. On June 23, his mercenaries (The Wagner group) were attacked...
View ArticlePrigozhin - what happened?
After a successful march to Moscow, the Wagner columns are turning around (supposedly to go to their deployment locations somewhere in occupied Ukraine), charges against Prigozhin are dropped, and...
View ArticleWho's next after Prigozhin?
About twelve days ago, a Russian anti-war blogger Michael Nackie (@MackNack) ran a podcast discussing who Putin will whack next (after his rogue chef / mercenary warlord Prigozhin). His money was on...
View ArticleAntisemitism in our community
UPDATE: Sunday, Oct 8, 2023 · 4:04:10 PM +00:00·kalmothMany thanks to the commenters who contributed substantive points.It’s here, it’s real. It may be more or less artfully concealed with “legitimate...
View ArticleThere are no "both sides" to this
The video of HAMAS militants screaming “God is great” while parading a mostly-naked body of a young woman, horribly injured, unconscious or dead, in the back of a pickup truck, has become viral. I will...
View ArticleHamas killed my father's friend and his wife
Sergei Gredeskul was a Ukrainian physicist who authored several seminal works on physics of disordered matter — same area my father worked in, so they knew each other pretty well back in the 1970s and...
View ArticleElections in Poland are kind of a big deal...
The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party failed to secure parliamentary majority.www.bbc.com/…What does this mean? Most likely, the new coalition government will be led by the pro-EU Civic...
View ArticlePlease do not believe the rumors about Putin's most recent death
A supposed Kremlin insider posted the following https://t.me/generalsvr/1845Внимание! ВданныймоментпроисходитпопыткагосударственногопереворотавРоссии!...
View ArticlePrivilege, American exceptionalism, cognitive bias, and the current global mess
I wrote my first diary on exceptionalism warping the perceptions of Americans, including the members of our community, in 2014. I can even quote from it regarding the two common misconceptions that...
View ArticlePrivilege vs. experience poll
I know that at least some of the members of our community have really interesting life stories and have confronted and overcome considerable adversity, so in their diaries and comments they write from...
View Articleyesterday's "privilege poll" results
There exists a perception (stereotype?) of our online community as somewhat shielded from the problems of the real world. Yesterday I posted a list of questions along the lines of “have you ever been...
View ArticleNavalny disappeared?
This is a short entry to highlight a somewhat sinister situation. Alexei Navalny, the leading Russian opposition politician, has reportedly disappeared from the penal colony where Putin’s regime had...
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