Russia Is Invading Ukraine
It's now undeniable that Russia is openly invading eastern Ukraine with thousands of troops and heavy weaponry.TPM (from the...
View ArticleEbola and Sweat
I've been closely following the Ebola disaster (an epidemic in West Africa, not yet a pandemic there, possibly a global plague). I think there is much more risk from sweat than is generally...
View ArticleTurkey Joins Bombing Campaign!--Against The Kurds!
Turkey has just launched several air strikes against Kurdish forces in eastern Turkey. http://news.yahoo.com/...According to the article:The strikes took place amid heightened tensions between Turkey...
View ArticleUpdate x2: Ebola Is Aerosol Transmissible, Say Two Professors
Here's the lede on a new news account concerning an item published online by the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy on September 17, 2014.Ebola is airborne,...
View ArticleUPDATED: Ebola and Politics
All of the politicizing of the Ebola crisis is yet another sign that the United States has just about generally lost its mind. At least one-half of the confident assertions about Ebola offered by...
View ArticleVoter Suppression vs. Voter Fraud
Shortest diary of my time here, which I may unpublish pretty quickly.I'm just curious if anybody has the answer to a question.As we know, the Republicans have been extremely organized all across the...
View ArticleTimaeus Breaks Silence: Unbelievable Lawyer vs. Lawyer Torture Crime in D.C....
I've been dropping back from blogging for awhile, because I'm up to my eyeballs in a major family crisis. But a story I heard today on the radio just blew my mind.Read these...
View ArticleThe Great Punk Pope
The great saint Pope Francis has just invited the great punk singer Patti Smith to perform at the Vatican Christmas Concert!!! Here are some...
View ArticleA Heavily Charged Diary!
A proton, an electron, and a neutron walk into a bar.The neutron says: "How much for a beer?"The bartender says: "For you, no charge."*rimshot*
View ArticleUPDATED x1:North Korean Internet Down Again
According to the BBC, the North Korean Internet is down again.http://www.bbc.com/...It's fun to laugh at the Norks (a word I saw yesterday for the first time, a reference to the NK government, not the...
View ArticleEdited xTWO!: Prime Number Theory And Bob Johnson
Go ahead. Give me a T&R just for the title!I notice that the famous and exalted and uber-powerful and uber-influential Bob Johnson, who is one of my closest friends, has Daily Kos User ID (UID)...
View ArticleApproaching Infinity: Don't Miss This Game!
Introduction. I'm a computer games nut. I started playing computer games in 1967 (a stock market simulation on an IBM mainframe) and I've never stopped. Big shelves in my home office hold boxes for...
View ArticleBREAKING! AND EDITED! Brian Williams fired! Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show!
Just saw that on CNN News with Anderson Cooper!Amazing.He said Williams was suspended for six months without pay. But that's tantamount to a firing.News on Williams: http://money.cnn.com/...News on...
View ArticleAnother Massacre of Christians
The conventional wisdom at this site, with lots of exceptions, is that Christians are the main evildoers on the planet. This is fueled by wingnut Republican nonsense, mainly the "war on Christians"...
View ArticleUpdated: Free-Range Children
The search system is borked, so I can't determine if this has already been diaried. To read about an incredible controversy that has just gone white-hot, Google "free-range children."Here's a link to...
View ArticleUPDATED X3: Iran seizes "U.S." ship
Here's the lede from BBC News:The Iranian navy has seized a US cargo ship and escorted it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, media reports say. There has been no official confirmation of the incident...
View ArticleUPDATED: Marilyn Mosby for President!
I just watched the entire, stunning press conference of Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby absolutely throwing the book at six police officers for the "murder" (as she called it) of Freddie...
View ArticleUPDATED x3: Hurdle for the Prosecution in the Gray Case
I was so impressed by Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's press conference today that I wrote a diary supporting her for President of the United States. http://www.dailykos.com/... Rarely do...
View ArticleWho killed Freddie Gray?
This is the first time in more than 11 years that I've posted three diaries in one day, and I don't think I've ever posted two in a day. I'm worked up about the Freddie Gray case. That's partly based...
View ArticleMore on Murder of Freddie Gray: Lieutenant Rice
CNN report:Lt. Brian W. Rice Rice, 41, an officer since 1997, was one of the officers on bike patrol during the initial encounter with Gray. He made eye contact with Gray, who then ran. Rice and others...
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