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My big outing while in LA was to the Griffith Observatory. This beautiful example of art deco architecture was funded by Griffith J. Griffith, a Welsh immigrant. He also donated about 4,000 acres ...
by Siris
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Mara Liasson's so-called analysis of the current situation re: democratic candidates for president, was so one-sided and so skewed to candidates who speak for and are funded by wealthy donors that ...
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Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician.
This is a noncontroversial topic, no flame zone.
SPOILER WARNING: A latenight gathering for non-serious palaver that ...
by MTmofo
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I have compassion for Kim Davis and the position she found herself in. When she took the job as County Clerk of Rowan County,Kentucky, as she understood the world, two people of the same sex didn't ...
by GrannyRedBird
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In your amicus brief to the court, you pointed out that poor little Kentucky hasn't had time to adjust to the change in marriage laws. Specifically, although you have laws penalizing clerks who ...
by bittermama
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My Sane Little Corner of the US ....legal marijuana, gay marriage, Green initiatives ... Washington state isn't heaven but it's certainly a saner place to live than at least 35 states and the D of C.
by fourthcornerman
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As the Conservative epicenter of the internet, I have come here to make the strong case that there is only one person who can overtake Donald Trump for the Republican nomination and also be the ...
by pierre9045
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I do not care whom you support. Your petty sniveling is not helping any candidate. I dunno, maybe a discussion based on the issues; instead of sniping about who might have dissed who's supporters? ...
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It went round the world day before yesterday, the picture of a little boy washed up on a beach, a little boy who should have been running around playing and laughing and learning about the world he ...
by Jilly W
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I am a Bernie Sanders supporter. I was an Obama supporter in the '08 primary against Clinton. But Andrea Mitchell's "interview" with Sec. Hillary Clinton was a hitjob. More below the orange thingy.
by SouthernLeveller
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Before the internet and cable TV, the main way to obtain international news was shortwave radio. I remember being on my original IBM PC at night in the early 1980s while listening to English ...
by jsugrue
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Follow below the orange fold for more.
by AllenMcw
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IRS officer Ken Davis argued:
Those f*ckers have more money than any 100 families could spend in a lifetime. Giving that money to them when so many infants and children are homeless and hungry is ...
by BeninSC
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Over a month ago our rescue dog Chloe died--just a few hours after our rescue cat Lovey succumbed to a lethal tumor in her sinus. Chloe was very old, and having issues, as was Lovey, but losing ...
by malapert
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The Oxford Dictionary now includes this as official English:
beer o'clock
noun, humorous
An appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer:
"we went to find a bar as it was almost beer o’...
by esquimaux
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Mara Liasson aside, here's a story NPR broadcast last year, about a county clerk in Colorado, who started issuing marriage licenses to gay couples ... in 1975.
Talk about a woman ahead of her time!
by Positronicus
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Tired of politics? Come on down to the Friday night Stamp Nook for some of my favorite stamp issues (images shamelessly lifted from Ebay).
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One last post, since my last one generated quite a bit of discussion. First of all, I am a 72 year old retired pediatrician. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from undergraduate school, and AOA (medical ...
by gendy
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It’s plush but it’s another windowless conference center room with the same carpeting, the same furniture, the same color schemes, the same soulless fluorescent light and the same corporate ...
by OldJackPine
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When will people learn?
Stephen Colbert's Late Show finally premieres this coming Tuesday the 8th. Naturally it's going to be a huge deal.
Stephen's guests for the historic show are going to be ...
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First and foremost, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate and welcome the comments and I do read them.
by thelastrealrepublican
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A white police officer stopped a Black man. The cop had been watching the Black man's house.
Dana Harris Jr., the Black man asked the officer what the problem was. The officer refused to answer ...
by Sassine
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I was beginning to study the links between the refugee situation and the effects of Global Warming and came across this article by Ellie Mae O'Hagan in theguardian : Mass migration is no ‘crisis’:
by don mikulecky
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Is there a food that, either for health or diet reasons that you can no longer eat?
For everyone it might be different....ice cream....chocolate...fast food...fried chicken...hamburgers...peanut ...
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There is so much wrong with this action, I do not even know where to begin. I may be one of a few people from that area who is very familiar with most the players at this nose thumbing, regarding ...
by Vetwife
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Some new Dem Primary polling came in tonight: http://savannahnow.com/elections/2015-09-04/poll-clinton-trump-lead-florida
FLORIDA
She has a comfortable lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, 52-20,
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Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has recently come into the news for, essentially, refusing to do her job. One of Davis’ duties as a clerk is to issue marriage licenses. Following the Supreme Court��
by z3rg3m3n
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The push to dk5 continues. We have another large round of enhancements and fixes up on beta. We have mostly been focusing on comments, though we've worked on many parts of the site. For the full ...
by Jason Libsch
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ATTENTION HUMAN FELINE SUBJECTS> THIS IS BASEMENT ...
by bastrop
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Welcome! " The Evening Blues" is a casual community diary (published Monday - Friday, 8:00 PM Eastern) where we hang out, share and talk about news, music, photography and other things of ...
by joe shikspack
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Mara Liasson is a political correspondent at NPR, but has been a regular FOX News contributor for 18 years. Americans are so easily confused. Many do not understand how the two parties reversed most ...
by Eyemagistus
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While Jerry Brown cynically attempts to portray himself as a "climate leader" and "green Governor" at environmental conferences and photo opportunities across the globe, new court documents obtained ...
by Dan Bacher
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American workers are working harder than ever, yet we are earning less on average.
American workers will hear the Politician Promises around election time, but we just keep on, waiting to see them ...
by jamess
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Taiwanese Animators -- "Gerrymanderers Fail at Gerrymandering"
(Or perhaps read Stephen Wolf's piece if you're confused.)
by James L
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Do you want to live in a country that looks like this?
... Or do you ...
by 2thanks
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"If Jeb is, indeed, your real name."
by Raging Pencils
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The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals has overruled an immigration judge and the US Board of Immigration Appeals in the case of transgender woman Edin (Carey) Avendano-Hernandez's deportation.
Born ...
by rserven
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My dog insists that we go for walks. I can tell that she enjoys shitting in someone else's yard just as much as her own.
I never feel this way when I go to a friend's house. I find it a little ...
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by SteveKY
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Most of the commentary regarding Hillary and Bernie on these pages has focused on domestic issues. But it is of equal importance to examine their views on foreign policy. In this regard, I find ...
by VeganMark
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Yes, Donald Trump is a trickster and a hack. How else do you describe someone who for several years led the “Obama is not an American” band of idiots?
Well, now that band of idiots is planning ...
by Redmond Ryan
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Five of 48 guns discovered by TSA agents at airports across the country from August 21-27, 2015.
Thirty-six original listings as of "press time," and once again, the ...
by David Waldman
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Bernie Sanders is returning to the state of South Carolina on September 12, 2015, hosting three town hall meetings, with special guest Cornell West. And if you think Bernie lit up South Carolina a]...
by unapologeticliberal777
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My whole life I have heard that there is a separation of church and state. That is a lie. The state accepts money for a license that 'allows' people to get married in a church. Of course, they ...
by Dgone
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Alone
Heart broken like splintered bone
Tearing, ripping through the soul
Brain in chaos, tossing turning
Nowhere to go, turned away from hope
Sadness is alive, madness replaces normalcy
There is no ...
by Pam LaPier
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Earlier today I diaried how a large number of refugees at the Budapest train station, having been denied passage on a train to Vienna and on to Germany, had decided to walk to the Austrian border, ...
by jpmassar
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We have all heard about Kim Davis, an apostolic Christian elected county clerk of Rowan, Kentucky. She claims having her name on a marriage license for gay people violates her Christian beliefs and ...
by CatM
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As my 17 readers know, I live in public housing. Once a year, they are supposed to inspect each “unit.” (Heaven forbid they call it a home, or an apartment or a house.)
Once a year is ...
by kestrel sparhawk
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From http://proposednewconstitution.blogspot.com/
Article 6- Limiting Corporate Power
“1. All rights in this and the previous constitution, as well as under all American laws, are limited to ...
by Al Carroll
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Hello Kossacks!
After a long time of seeing folks coming to my stories from this site, I thought I would drop in, say hello and also engage in some shameless promotion.
I've opened up a youtube ...
by kewald
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Final Update: Added the opening ...
by Lysis
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I'll admit it, it's so hard to not revel in the failures of the GOP, especially their grand plans.As a general rule, not only do they show all the cunning and planning capabilities of Laurel ...
by Murfster35
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On today's BradCast , guest hosted by Nicole Sandler, we discuss the problems with the Democratic Party and the media.
My guest is Howie Klein from Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC .We ...
by TheBradBlog
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A pathetic standoff has finally come to an inglorious end in Kentucky, where Rowan County clerk Kim Davis has been thrown into the slammer for her utterly ...
by Mikey Weinstein
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I found myself yesterday running in Midtown NYC for the Trump news conference in 97 degree heat with all my equipment. I got there and was shoved and talked down to among a huge crowd of media. ...
by mikevadon
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..as is republican presidential contender and con job martyr Mike Huckabee's accusation, echoing the latest spun up garbage from republicans, that "Christianity is being criminalized"; an extension ...
by Eric Nelson
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A week ago, I dutifully responded to a DailyKos email asking me to contact my Senator Maria Cantwell about the Iran deal because she has not yet announced support for it.
So, today, I received the ...
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by bubbanomics
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In my daily email from DAILY KOS I was invited to make some comments about whether it is unfair to mock Kim Davis' personal life and whether her personal life highlights her hypocrisy.
I had thought ...
by Bob Shipp
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"Kentucky clerk's office ends ban on same-sex marriage licenses "
This is not just bad reporting it is lazy and dangerous reporting.
by vrob
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We are at war with ISIL in Syria and Iraq. Homeland Security considers America jihadists that return from the middle east to be enemies and "major threats".
But what about when they aren't from ...
by gjohnsit
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I am a gay married man.
All my life I have faced bullies like Kim Davis. Have any of you actually viewed the video to see how she treated the gay wedding license applicants? (https://www.youtube....
by OptionSF
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What if the Secretary of Agriculture suddenly saw the light and converted to Hinduism, and now had a sincerely held religious belief that eating meat was a sin. What if this government official ...
by seattlebarb
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Why are we hearing-"cops' lives matter, too! See below for so,me reflections on this sad issue and a few facts about some "cop-killers."
http://theleftcorner.com/2015/09/04/killing-police-in-the-...
by ATexican
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Ahhh, nothing like the smell of click bait in the afternoon...
I say that because I know very well how evil that title looks, in a number of ways. But I actually have a serious point to make with ...
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As an Arizona Diamondbacks fan, the dynamic duo of pitchers Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson occupy a special place in my baseball memories, mostly for Game 7 of the 2001 World Series against the ...
by Mother Mags
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Welp, here we are. The year 2015 and we have a large swath of our population advocating for divine right. Across the land fellow citizens have forgotten we live in a democratic republic based on ...
by Patience John
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by TexMex
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Not much of a diary, more of an observation: Our faith has taken a strange turn when a thrice-divorced country clerk insists on her Christian obligation to cast the first stone .
by PanhandlePastor
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Greetings one and all to my weekly offering to the cookie gods (that's you). I've got a visitor staying with us and not much time to be anti-social and hang out on social media. I thought I'd share ...
by Marko the Werelynx
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I am somewhat ambivalent regarding delving into her private life. On the one hand, it seems a bit harsh and ultimately unnecessary because yes, the issue is really if she is doing her job or not. ...
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Commentary: African American Scientists and Inventors by Black Kos Editor, Sephius1
Rick Antonius Kittles (born in Sylvania, Georgia, United States) is an American biologist specializing in human ...
by Black Kos
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“You can wave your arms and give a speech but at the end of the day are you connecting with and really hearing what people are either saying to you or wishing that you would say to them?” Mrs. ...
by cdub24
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Beginning in 1977 the anti-Gay movement was kicked off when Anita Bryant, claiming to be a Christian, put her energies into organizing the first concerted anti-gay group which soon morphed into a ...
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Making things personal just distracts from the real issues.
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