Fixer at Alternate Brain offered this without comment. I don’t know that there’s much to add.
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Fixer at Alternate Brain offered this without comment. I don’t know that there’s much to add.
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The World Can’t Wait sent out an email around the end of May, early June about a panel discussion wherein Jeremy Scahill, Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian, and Seymour Hersch were to be the panel members. It was also to be the “dual book launch” of Al-Arian & Hedges collaboration Collateral Damage: America’s War [...]
Filed under: Bald-faced Liars, Blackwater, Fighting Cowboy fascism, Iraq, Jeremy Scahill, Laila Al-Arian, Militarism, Murder of Iraqi Civilians, Politics, Seymour Hersh | 3 Comments »
Silly me….all caught up in the rigors of a 10-minute session in court today and forgetting that there were “war criminals” being questioned by Congress, e.g., John Yoo and David Addington. I was watching this bit of a video from TPM and this little tidbit caught my attention.
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All right because I’m majoring stressing out over here and apparently my sister, Lorie, and I have nothing better to do than engage in familial drama. It’s amazing to me how small little fuckeries can become super-mega fuckeries in a matter of, oh, say half a nanosecond.
Fuckery would certainly describe this mess. I [...]
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A song cannot change the world,” he declared. “But this many people can change the world. How do we know? It is stitched into the fabric of our flag and it is welded into our constitution that we have the right and the responsibility to make change.”
There was some monstrous musical festival in the middle [...]
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Ran across this fascinating article about dementia and sex.
She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they started having sex.
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And though the doctor never laid eyes on Bob, in general, he said, the fear of sex causing heart attacks is wildly overblown: “If you’ve made it to [...]
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One of these days I’ll remember to ‘refresh’ the batteries to my digital camera.
Boise had their Pride Parade this afternoon. KTVB has the only bit of information and it’s pretty darned lean. The Idaho Statesman had a good-sized blurb yesterday. When I went looking for information the other day I found this [...]
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You decide….
My Jetta is about as ’small’ as I’m going to get, I think.
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Someone – oops, Hannah Zimmerman – a few weeks ago left a comment here about Tomas Young being hospitalized with a story link to The Pitch (Kansas City, Missouri). I’ve been checking every day or so for new information but haven’t found anything new.
A few Fridays ago, KAID here ran a repeat of [...]
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While perusing some of my favorite Idaho blogs late last night, I ran across Mountain Goat’s directional to Chris’ The Unequivocal Notion. More on those goddamned library books in Nampa. Suffice it to say that Goicoechea Law Office is NOT the law firm who is representing us with guardianship, et. al. [...]
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