Greed/loathing behind torture, whether of political "enemies" OR factory farm...
Greed and fear and IMO a deep seated insecurity and secret self-loathing drove the ne'er-do-wells, Cheney and Bush and their fellow losers to focus our secret central government resources on torturing...
View ArticleWill it take a swine flu pandemic to ban factory farming?
The epicenter of the recent swine flu outbreak may possibly be the Smithfield factory farming industrial complex in Mexico.http://www.grist.org/...Smithfield has long been known to Virginians as a...
View ArticleCall this a CT if you think it is. But it's the only conclusion I can reach.
I watched President Obama's speech at the National Archives. I am listening to Vice President Cheney speaking from the podium of the American Enterprise Institute.I watched Diane Feinstein make an...
View ArticleSonia Sotomayor made me cry
If anyone, anyone, can turn John (pinocchio) Roberts into a real human being, I believe it would be Sonya Sotomayor.I had read a little about this woman, but nothing prepared me for this dynamic...
View ArticleHealth Care and Energy Reform Cost Too Much, Peggy??????
Where were Peggy Noonan and the rest of the so-called fiscal conservatives when George W Bush and Richard P Cheney launched their $2+ trillion "preventive" war against a weak Iraq? (see Nobel Laureate...
View ArticleGoldman's Symbiotic Relationship with the U.S. Treasury
Matt Taibi and others have written about how Goldman Sachs, as an extremely well-connected investment bank (they have now become a commercial bank although with the deregulation of banking, the lines...
View ArticleWill Your Senators Refuse Campaign Funds From the Nuclear Energy Industry?
My two senators are Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn. I live in Texas.Yesterday I responded to the Union of Concerned Scientists' alert and sent an e-mail to my senators that urged them to support...
View ArticleJustice Thomas' genetically modified pubic hair behind Monsteranto ties?
Does anyone remember when Anita Hill testified against her boss, Clarence Tomas for giving her a can of coke with pubic hair on the top which made her feel very uncomfortable?Our friend, then head of...
View ArticleWhy do so many men need Viagra, etc? Is it because....?
When the ads for Viagra started a few years ago, I was naively shocked that the right wing religious nuts didn't cry foul at the repeated talk of the dangers of an erection lasting over four hours on...
View ArticleI don't have proof so get out your tin foil hats if you wanna read this
Why has our government made other countries "friends" or "enemies".I used to think that it was whether the governments of those countries played ball with large and powerful corporations - like the...
View ArticleDoes Keith Olbermann come in clearly on your Comcast Cable service? Updated...
I tuned in to watch Keith Olbermann on Comcast's Channel 107 in Houston on Monday and got bad interference. Namely: intermittent sound interruption, picture interference with little distorted boxes of...
View ArticleOPINION: Why Troy Davis is Being Denied Clemency?
Why would the Georgia Pardons and Paroles Board not stop the execution tomorrow of a man who has the support of people across the world as 'wrongly charged'? Seven eyewitnesses have recanted their...
View ArticleGrowling Knockwurst and Jack Abramoff
Today's diary by OurMissEwenice: "Who is Grover Norquist and Who Put Him in Charge of My Life" had me googling. I too wonder where did Growling Knockwurst come from and even though his bowling ball...
View ArticleDo We Really Need Another High School Cheerleader for President?
George Walker Bush - not athletic like his revered father George H.W. Bush - became a team cheerleader in high school - then served as a mascot for his "base" the moneyed class as president. He...
View ArticleSteve Jobs 1983 Speech About Computers
Apple Insider has published a link to Steve Jobs 1983 speech in Aspen, Colorado about the evolution of electronic technology including computers and his hopes for the future of...
View ArticlePlease Somebody Write a Diary on the Texas Senate Debate
Please somebody, preferably a Texan, write a diary about the Democratic Senate candidate, Paul Sadler running against the tea party Jim DeMint Republican candidate, Ted Cruz.I just watched the debate...
View ArticleWill (WOULD) Romney Run the Country Like He Ran the Debate?
I learned the hard way what a debate was in my first year of college. A friend persuaded me to be her debate partner in my first year of college even though I had no training, had never attended a...
View ArticleAre Mitt Romney and his ilk "social parasites"?
I know, I know, it is outrageous for us to compare ourselves to others in the animal kingdom, but ever since I was a little kid I wondered whether our social behavior could be looked at from the...
View ArticleMy Letter to Dick Lugar
Mitt's lies about the auto bailout in Ohio have driven me to write to Senator Lugar and beg him to lead a protest by Republican Party leaders who may still have respect for themselves - e.g Senator...
View ArticleI Ended 40 YRS of Insuring with ALEC-Affiliated State Farm.
As those of you who live in Texas know too well, State Farm jacked up their insurance rates by about 28%(?) last year. They are facing a law suit in Texas wrt their insurance rates. This year, some say...
View ArticleAl Jazeera: David Frost the McCartney Interview 2012 "Still Prancing"
Browsing through a few on line papers this morning I linked to Al Jazeera to get a peek at the world and front page was the Paul McCartney musical personal interview of his life and music till now, his...
View ArticleJohn McCain and Lindsey Graham: YOU ARE MAKING FOOLS OF YOURSELVES!!!
I called John McCain's office in Washington DC and got through to a staffer. Lindsey Graham's office in DC answers, lets one leave a message but hangs ups if one presses #2 to speak to someone....
View ArticleWhy On Earth Is "Social Butterfly" Deemed a Presidential Attribute
I am sick to death of the prima donnas in the Congress. I no longer have any interest in seeing Lincoln, the movie, if it's goal is to tell us that the niceties of stroking egos is what is necessary to...
View ArticleI Thought the War was Over; Boy was I Wrong
After President Obama was reelected, I believed the people had spoken and the war being waged by the Karl Roves and the Koch brothers and the Sheldon Edelmans was over and the good guys had won. Boy...
View ArticleDid Your Republican Congressman E-Mail You This Anti Gun Control Letter?
Today, John Culberson, R. TX 7th Congressional District e-mailed this disturbing letter to me and I guess the rest of his District's e-mail list about his intentions/promises to thwart President...
View ArticleI Was a Dupe at Williams Sonoma
There is so much going on in our country that is infinitely more relevant than this diary. But I write it as a warning to others who may (hopefully not) fall prey to the scheming at merchants and...
View ArticleRetired Catholic Priests say ENOUGH! End Vatican Ordered "Celibacy"
Yesterday in the wee morning hours, I watched a replay on CSPAN of 1 1/2 hours of commentary by refugees from the Roman Catholic Church. These whistleblowers are beseeching Pope Francis to end...
View ArticleMy Partner Said it Was Not a Good Idea
I'm really pissed at the job being done on Anthony Weiner. I was so pissed yesterday that I thought perhaps I should take a neck down picture of my nude 68 year old bod and "get it out there" with some...
View ArticleHelp North Carolina AND AL, GA, LA, MS, SC & VA; Don't Buy From Art Pope
One dollar at a time; one dime at a time; one penny at a time. That's how we keep the Koch Brothers, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Big Big, afloat.The latest iteration of Big Money feeding off our dollars...
View ArticleChris Hayes Went There Last Night
Vladimir Putin says that it would be ridiculous to think that Assad gassed his own people. What would he have to gain? He would turn the world against him. Yesterday, in a diary that I recommended,...
View ArticleWe May Not Have Had the Best President But We May Be Getting Him
Flipping through the channels last night it was a shock to hear Richard Wolffe respond to Charlie Rose acknowledging that President Barack Obama doesn't instill fear.Wolffe was correct, but the...
View ArticleTexas Medical Association has ACA help site.
(Thanks to “concerned american” for the title of this diary!)As you may already know - I haven’t yet seen a diary devoted to this - the Texas Medical Association has launched an Affordable Care Act...
View Article“Is Using the Restroom a Crime at Paris (Texas) High School?"
Paris, Texas:https://www.paristexas.govI signed a petition at change.org:http://www.change.org/...on behalf of an African American high schooler, Joe (Joquan Wallace) who was assaulted, according to...
View ArticleIs the Paris, Texas, School District Discriminatory Against Black Students?"
This diary is a followup to my March 31st diary on the same subject:http://www.dailykos.com/...This story has been picked up by By Patrice Peck Posted: 04/08/2014 03:30 PM EDT on BET online news:...
View ArticleWhat Does University of Wisconsin Have to Do with Abu Ghraib?
BABY RHESUS MONKEYS MAY SOON LEARN THE HORRORS OF TWO YEARS OF CRUEL EMOTIONAL TORTURE AND FEAR FOLLOWED BY BEING KILLED TO EXAMINE THE IMPACTS OF THEIR TWO YEARS OF TORTURE ON THEIR BRAINSAND IT IS...
View ArticleMy Move-On Petition To Speaker Boehner to Bring the Immigration Bill Up for a...
Speaker Boehner: Bring the Immigration Bill up for a Vote!As of November 21, 2014, 512 days have passed since the Senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill. The people of this country,...
View ArticleREAD: "I was an American sniper, and Chris Kyle’s war was not my war"
This should not be my diary. It should be Garett Reppenhagen’s diary. He published it on VoteVets.org yesterday.http://www.votevets.org/...He wrote this on the eve of the Oscars which will feature...
View ArticleThanks, Purdue, but no more "Pence" for you.
My husband received his graduate degree, all expenses paid, from Purdue University. His letter to the Purdue University Foundation today was:Dear Sirs: I regret to inform you that my annual gifts...
View ArticlePhilip Morris vs Kids of Uruguay
Avaaz.org (which rocks in their petitioning) has a new petition that asks the International Settlement Group (part of the World Bank!!!!!!?????) to rule in favor of Uruguay (whose president, Tabaré...
View ArticleSo, Who F...ked Greece?
Greg Palast seems to have answered this question on Sunday, November 6, 2011 in a blistering article written for "In These Times”Anyone familiar with Greg Palast knows that he "is a New York...
View ArticleDefeated Democrats Consulting for Anti-Iran Deal Dark Money Group
Who is Citizens for Nuclear Free Iran aka CNFI?It’s an AIPAC funded front group featuring an advisory board composed of Democrats who have lost their seats in the U.S. Congress:Gary Ackerman, a former...
View ArticleGOOGLE! Why Does Gmail Security Give Spammer Apps Permission?
Google seems to give no protection from known spam-generating apps that are allowed to sneak into Security and take for themselves “permission” to access your google mail account and contact list.So,...
View ArticleWhat Everyone Here Needs to Know About the Financial Meltdown
Please, if you don’t think you understand the financial meltdown and why Obama rescued Wall Street and what they were rescued from, please know this very simple explanation of what has not been...
View ArticleTerrorists?? in New Hampshire?
This is a true story. It exaggerates the word “terrorist” but what else is new?It is a second hand story, told to me by a couple of hotel employees in separate interviews. I prefer not to name the...
View Article“What Kind Of Mayor Was Bernie Sanders” and why it’s important
https://www.thenation.com/..."Bernie's Burlington: What Kind of Mayor Was Bernie Sanders?”Why this is important:1. This article was written by 2 scholars and originally published in The Nation:"Peter...
View ArticleWhat the pundits don’t get about Bernie
The story of who we are as a culture is a myth having some of its roots in the 1950’s, spun to explain to us why we “must" accept some things that really don’t make sense. e.g the cold war*, the war on...
View ArticleMyth #4 Transgender People are Gay
In his film “Anything Goes”, Woody Allen respectfully described human sexuality as “mysterious”. The failure of Houston’s Prop 1 - HERO -proved that human sexuality is deeply misunderstood. Culturally...
View ArticleThe Seven Sisters+The Cheney/Rummy Violence = ISIL/DAESH: The chickens came...
ISIL/Daesh:I’ve read that ISIL with thoughts of a Caliphate may have started as early as 1999. However most news sources indicate it sprang from George W Bush’s war on Iraq when Bremer et al kicked the...
View ArticleDemand That Your State DNC Chair Contact the National DNC Chair to Schedule...
I just wrote to Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz on the DNC web site and then copied my state’s (TX) DNC to demand more debates and debates at a time so that the whole country will have an...
View ArticleHave You Lost Your PPO in Houston? There’s a Change.org Petition in Progress...
A group of concerned individuals who found themselves without a PPO and without access to Houston Medical Center hospitals have been fighting back. If you are in the same boat — or just a concerned...
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