Timaeus: Short Update
Folks: Just want to let everybody know that I survived the surgery. It's agony being in the hospital after surgery. I was in a recovery unit that's a step down from ICU, with at times 11 or 12 tubes...
View ArticleMy Miraculous Healing
Six days ago, last Saturday, I had a miraculous healing. My friends here have been very supportive, so I want to tell a short version of the story.I had surgery on October 2nd, my 59th birthday, for a...
View ArticleCraziest Game in NFL History!
I was born in Washington, D.C. and have always lived within a few hundred miles of D.C. and the Redskins have always been my team. But they're stuck with The Curse of Dan Snyder, the worst owner in...
View ArticleI was right: greatest game in NFL history
See this:http://espn.go.com/...And see my diary from yesterday:http://www.dailykos.com/...I think it's worth posting here instead of as an update to the rather dead diary.It was an AMAZING game. Still...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Faces Permanent Exile
It's hard to imagine a more obnoxious figure than Justin Bieber, the 19-year-old bad boy teen heartthrob.So it's good to know he may have just dug himself a hole so deep that even Lindsay Lohan...
View ArticleJustin Bieber has no Green Card
It's driving me crazy, as an immigration lawyer. Report after report says he has a green card. See, for example: http://celebrity.yahoo.com/... .The petition to the White House is now supposedly to...
View ArticleUkraine: Gunmen Seize Parliament in Crimea: Updates X3
Others here are more knowledgeable than me about Ukraine, but there is no diary yet on what may be a big development. It is just being reported that dozens of armed gunmen have seized a government...
View ArticleUkraine Crisis: Worse Than You Think
When I was 8 years old, in the month of my birth, the United States and Russia almost got into nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. See http://en.wikipedia.org/....At that time my family was...
View ArticlePhilatelic Triumph!
OK, I'm a nerd, and like Franklin D. Roosevelt, my main hobby is collecting postage stamps.I had to sell my original worldwide and U.S. collections to pay rent in college and law school. A major...
View ArticleIRAQ: Bremer & ISIS
By far the biggest story in the world this week is the capture of large Iraqi cities Mosul and Tikkrit, and large areas of the country, by ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But there is very...
View ArticlePope Francis Excommunicates The Mafia!
The incredibly faithful and courageous Pope Francis has just excommunicated the entire Italian mafia: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/... .I'm not sure if the Pope is regarded as having the power under...
View ArticleIsrael Bombs Center For Disabled In Gaza
Here is the lede from Al-Jazeera English:At least four people have been reported killed in a bomb strike on a rehabilitation centre for the disabled in Gaza, medical sources say, as the toll from...
View ArticleIsrael Attacks Third Hospital in Gaza: UPDATED
According to Al Jazeera, Israeli tanks attacked a hospital in Gaza, killing at least five patients and wounding at least 50 people. http://www.aljazeera.com/...Here's the lede:Israeli tanks have...
View ArticleGaza: The "Unspeakable"
There is an excellent article on Al Jazeera today by Richard Falk, who is an Emeritus Professor of International Law at Princeton University. He was also a former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian...
View ArticleUPDATED x 4: ISIS Orders Female Genital Mutilation of All Women in Mosul
According to BBC News, the United Nations has announced that the fanatical Islamist group ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) has ordered female genital mutllation of thousands of girls and women in...
View ArticleWhite House Condemns Attack on UN Shelter in Gaza
This will be very short, because I'm late to work. But I just saw a headline like that on BBC: http://www.bbc.com/...The article itself tells many events of today, including the brutal attack on a...
View ArticleUPDATED x 2: GAZA: Yes, it's Genocide
For about a week I've become convinced that the ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza, which started on July 8th, is not just a war crime. It's not just apartheid. It's not just collective punishment. It's...
View ArticleGaza: De Facto Biological Warfare
I decided to do this as a short diary instead of a comment in the Elie Wiesel diary.Insufficiently reported has been the extent to which Israel's attacks on the infrastructure in Gaza amount to de...
View ArticleCrisis Overload!
1. Gaza!2. Iraq!3. Ukraine!4. Libya!5. Ebola!6. Drought!7. Immigration!8. Elections!9. Guns!10. Tea Party!It's dangerous being a news junkie. Today feels electrocuted.
View ArticleISRAEL/GAZA: Definitions of Mass Atrocity Crimes
DKos member aoeu had a good diary called "MARO: Mass Atrocity Response Operations." It concerns a current U.S. Defense Department effort to address mass atrocity situations, which reportedly has been...
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