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Open Letter: To Wells Point Independent School District Shared from a reader, I would like to post a copy of a letter sent to the Wells Point Independent School District, in Wells Point Texas, ...
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David Axelrod, in the first installment of his new podcast show The Axe Report, talks with Bernie Sanders. They cover a lot of ground, from their similar backgrounds, to Bernie's student years of ...
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Thursday will see me and Lil Zen on our epic, annual road trip to the great Pacific North West, or at least some parts of it.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a ...
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This isn't about politics. But I have to call bullshit when I see it.
Tonight the team with the second best record in ALL OF BASEBALL, a team that won 98 games on the season, watched their season ...
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Is the United States a Scorpio rising or Sagittarius rising nation? Or does the USA have the Sun in Scorpio making it—
a SCORPIOPATH, i.e. a nation trapped within its own obsessions, addicted to ...
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+972mag reported on the incident this video is of. Israeli undercover agents can be seen throwing stones at IDF soldiers and reportedly encouraging Palestinians to do the same. Then, they turn ...
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Now that the teams are set from the wild card games, who will win the World Series?
Or do you even care?
The Tigers are out, but I still have a team or two that I follow in, so I am still ...
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, wader, Doctor RJ, rfall, JML9999 and Man Oh ...
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SPOILER WARNING: A late night gathering for non-serious palaver ...
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You have probably heard from FiveThirtyEight among others that endorsements are "among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail" in primaries. This is based upon ...
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Just to catch a whiff of some damn fine cuisine as we wait for the other shoe to drop
and maybe catch a whiff of what the Ubers and Filthys* are up to.
We're up late jibbering our jabber about ...
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I want to thank Bernie Sanders, for continuing to nudge Hillary to the left and that folks is the real beauty of his candidacy. If I were a Bernie supporter, I would be very pleased that Hillary ...
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This is the seventh scene of my play "The Serpent's Guide to the Bible." Some people may find this offensive on several levels. It portrays some gay men using over-the-top campy humor. I have ...
by R Nathan
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Less than a week has passed since the Umpqua shooting, and already the story is beginning to fade from the headlines. The only story I could find about it in today's issue of The New York Times was ...
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I've not seen a diary on this, and hardly any news about it.
Walker's exit from the national scene has hardly blunted the assault on democracy, justice, and accountability in Wisconsin. But now ...
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There's a problem over at Nextdoor.
Must read article from a great journalist, Sam Levin.
Sneak peak...
White Oakland residents are increasingly using the popular social networking site to ...
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It must be because they are SO Special!
That instead of investing in the U.S. Economy, instead of kicking in to the U.S. Revenue stream -- they'd rather invest in themselves , using multiple Off-...
by jamess
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W elcome back to the all new Daily, Nightly, Late Night Thread.
Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Evgeny Afineevsky . The panelists on The Nightly Show are Michelle ...
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Did you know the Supreme Court outlawed debtors' prisons in the United States? Did you know that Texas law requires judges to hold a hearing when someone cannot pay a fine, to assess someone's ...
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I'm a big time Eagles Fan. As a resident of Philadelphia, I've supported the Eagles for many, many years. I have tailgated at Lincoln Financial Field, listening to the first quarter roars of ...
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Now that the House has decided to try a Benghazi style witch hunt against Planned Parenthood , on college campuses and Facebook posts alike, we can expect to see more "I am part of the pro-life ...
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Another great idea from Republicans -- get guns out of the hands of all of us who are nuts.
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Tonight's topic is novelty songs . These are generally humorous or parody songs, sometimes but not always from one-hit wonders. The line between novelty and mainstream humor is somewhat vague, ...
by lotac
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i tend to see all fiction as arguments from analogy. every piece ever written has a base of assumptions from which its narrative proceeds and this procession invariably reaches an etiological ...
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Imagine, rootin’ tootin’ pistol packin’ mamas and papas strolling the neighborhoods with their children and squeaky baby carriages, shopping at grocery stores (complaining and grumbling ever ...
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Warning: This confession may not be for the weak of stomach. And you may want to send the little ones into the other room.
Are they gone?
Okay, here goes...
I'm not a political activist, even ...
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Watching Rachel tonight, and just felt very excited to hear her announce that she will moderate a Democratic "forum". Different than a debate, in that every candidate will step up to questions, and ...
by StellaRay
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As a staunch Republican, I am wobbling on the edge. Thanks to the candidacy of Donald Trump, my eyes have been pierced by the stupidity of the Republican base. The hateful bickering and slobbering ...
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This scene from "The Serpent's Guide to the Bible" is extremely short, so I'm going to put the whole thing about the orange Heavenly Cloud. For those of you who are counting, this is scene 6.
The ...
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Hillary just announced that she is does not support the TPP. I don't personally know what I think of the TPP, so, I don't know what I think of her opposition. But I was a bit surprised to read so ...
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Several times in replies to comments in one or another of my diaries I have made reference to a phenomenon in this cycle, but since I haven't really seen anybody go into detail about this, I ...
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY):
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Westboro Baptists are famous for making trouble. Their marker of showing up at funerals and public events to scream about the thing God hates have become legendary. While people have formed human ...
by Chris Reeves
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GUEST: The Nation's Joshua Holland...
On today's BradCast : Examining yet another enduring NRA myth in the wake of the Oregon massacre at Umpqua Community College; the GOP race for U.S. House ...
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A major endorsement said with wisdom and genuine kindness.Thank you John Lewis you are an american hero and leader. here is his statement. As our former Secretary of State, Senator ...
by hardart
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I have said before that being an ally means amplifying the voices of those who are marginalized. I really don't feel confident writing on this issue.
I figured I would open this up with a sentiment ...
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Hello and welcome to the Colorado Community Open Thread!
The first few decades in which the Pikes Peak Region was "settled" was a rather interesting time! Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs were ...
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Welcome to bookchat where you can talk about anything...books, plays, essays, and books on tape. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.
Windows and doors ...
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Everyone loves a love story. I'm an absolute goof for one....I've been blest to live one or two over the course of my life.
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Cecil has exposed a new level of human depravity. If You thought Dentist Walter Palmer was a heartless coward who deserves his own special place in hell. Your right.
Try those who run lion ...
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It's breaking news but it's not MY breaking news. It's not MY story to tell. I'm caught up in this whole flashback and revival of a sisterhood is powerful thing.
Oh, man! I remember writing that in ...
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Today, the House voted on the so-called Homebuyers Assistance Act. Does it help homebuyers? Of course not.
What it does, however, is delay a rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
H....
by Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees
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As of October 1st, 2015, there are at least federal 34 class action lawsuits pending against Volkswagen for their fraudulent activities relating to vehicle emissions. As pointed out by Mona Chalabi ...
by MrGlass
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Please, please take a looksee, read and rec this very well written diary on women's issues by peregrine kate. Michigan Weekly Open Thread: Women Making the News. h/t penelope portney for posting ...
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As the presidential campaign continues, we need to remember: There is no perfect candidate. That sentiment is particularly true in light of Christopher Harper-Mercer's Oct. 1 shooting rampage in ...
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Normally, I hate clichés. Yet today, I find myself unable to shake the adage of "What goes around comes around" as I watch the tragedy unfold in South Carolina. The unprecedented flooding, a 500- ...
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We're juuuuust smart enough to make the kind of stuff we're jusssst ignorant enough to misuse.
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Well, shoot, I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but that doesn't mean we have to like it. Having finally come to the belated understanding that there is just no way he is going to be ...
by Murfster35
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. @BernieSanders on Clinton on TPP. http://t.co/xVoiqu9kwf via @ajjaffe pic.twitter.com/OEpmByjc4L — Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) October 7, ...
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Independent Journal conducted a poll by Google Consumer Survey.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders leads former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...
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The hits keep coming. I'll let the Democrats on the House Benghazi Select Committee describe their new website. First, the quick description:
Browse the Asked and Answered Database and Compendium ...
by ericlewis0
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Internet news about Afghanistan is pretty well swamped with discussion of the U.S. airstrike on the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz. This is an accumulation of some older stories about ...
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The following is a response to an article highly critical of Bernie Sanders. The article can be found at http://www.visionandvalues.org/2015/09/bernie-sanders-america/
OPEN LETTER TO MARVIN ...
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In case you didn't hear about it on Monday, Air France executives were forced to flee after union protesters stormed a meeting at HQ . I actually expected a generally large public backlash against ...
by TheLovingThinkingFighter
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No one would accuse Governor Cuomo of being a loyal democrat—except Governor Cuomo himself. Sure, in his first term he passed same sex marriage and gun control bills . However, his budgets have ...
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You’re life isn’t worth much.
That statement doesn’t reflect my personal beliefs, but rather the consensus of government and corporate leaders who have deemed your lack of value a liability.
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Well, this is going to complicate the already rapidly burgeoning clusterfuck that is the race for Speaker of the House. It's already been known that the House Freedom Caucus (or, as I prefer to ...
by gf120581
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Today Speaker John Boehner came out swinging, accusing Democrats for mass shootings. His reasoning, if one could call it that, is that Democrats "should have done something about it when they ran ...
by CanyonWren
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October 1, 2015
An Open Letter to America’s War Plutocrats and their Warmongers in Congress
Salutations:
I will publicly advocate your assassinations if Congress ever again successfully votes ...
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Kiesha Jenkins lived in North Philadelphia. At Oh-Dark-Thirty Tuesday morning, Keisha got a ride from someone to Hunting Park in Logan.
Upon exiting the vehicle Keisha was surrounded by five ...
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Just about all the major news to hit Michigan this week involves women in an important way.
First, the news of the passing, at age 100, of Grace Lee Boggs. Second, also out of Detroit, an ...
by peregrine kate
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In only four short weeks Virginia voters will go to the polls and select State Senators and Delegates. This is an especially critical election.
House: 67 Republicans vs. 33 Democrats
Senate: 21 ...
by Gordon20024
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"America's largest progressive community online", that's what Daily Kos bills itself as, yet go up into the little search bar in the corner and type the word transgender and see what results you get.
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Good afternoon GUS bunkies! Howz everybody's day going? I got such a great response from all of you to the recipe I threw out there yesterday, that I'm gonna share another one today...This is ...
by Murfster35
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hmm, interesting piece. Well, everybody can be mean sometimes.
http://lansingcitypulse.com/article-12189-The-trouble-with-Bernie.html
Sanders had been mayor of Burlington from 1981 until 1989, ...
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Church-state separation win in Oklahoma – Immediate Implications for “God Bless” Sign at Marine Corps Base Hawaii
In the battle against the diehard fundamentalist Christian enemies of ...
by Mikey Weinstein
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Why is it not breaking? Because he's always been against the TPP. For that matter he's been opposed to bad trade deals that destroy American jobs since the Clintons passed NAFTA back in the 1990s.
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by greywolfe359
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I recently read a horrifying account from a teacher dealing with lockdown drills in her elementary school. teacherken diaried about this letter here:
Rehearsing for death: A pre-K teacher on the ...
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al.com is reporting that four men have been charged with the gang rape of an unconscious college student in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Witnesses claim that she knowingly drank fruit punch laced with Xanax.
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Mass shootings have been huge boon for gun makers, the ammunition business [1,2,3] and paranoia [4,5,6] in America. Unfortunately, America’s virtually unrestricted gun rights come at huge cost to ...
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“With Apologies to Walt Whitman, from a Voter in Boehner’s District”
O Congressman! my Congressman! Your tearful term’s soon done,
The ship of state has nearly wrecked, but you’ve at ...
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hi everyone, hey i just noticed that i am at 998 comments. i have been posting here since 2010 though i had been lurking since the 2008 primary. yay! i just wanted to celebrate with you when i hit ...
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by David Nir
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Medicens San Frontieres a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders is a vital part in the health and welfare of this planet. They don't take sides in political conflicts. They are here to heal. Their website ...
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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and basically everyone in the state knows that something has to be done next legislative session in order to repair the state's image after Hoosier ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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