Doctor Killed In Examination Room Of Orange County, California, Medical Office

So dude was 75 and upset that it was time for Depends? Jebus.
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Your ugly sweater story?

Almost mother-in-law kept giving me these She knows I hate sweaters. She sells Avon and I regifted her the ugliest 15-yr-old Avon cake plate ever. The insulting X-mas gifts stopped. (She also finally got that just because I had a kid with her son I was never going to marry him.)
What's your best mischevious X-mas story?

Roxanne Rubin, Nevada Republican, Accepts Plea Deal After Committing Voter Fraud

roflmao
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A stain on the justice department

Watch The Untouchables on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

I'm watching this and wondering who the fuck this little weasel Lanny Breuer is and so I pull up his wikipedia page. Jebus, no wonder he was as useless as teats on a boar.

"He represented...Moody's Investor Service in the wake of Enron's collapse, Halliburton/KBR in a hearing conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform..."

It's hard for me to watch this stuff. I had never seen a mortgage file in my lfe before May of '06 and I figured this shit out. I never said anything because I couldn't at the time.

The Trillion-dollar Coin: Joke or Game Changer?

"...We may rail against the banks and demand change, but nothing will change until we grasp their fundamental secret, the foundation of their power: that those who create the nation's money control the nation. By mechanisms explained elsewhere, nearly the entire money supply today is created by banks..."



Thank you Ms. Brown :)
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Maddow Va GOP shameless in drive to rig elections in their favor

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Teach your Children

Django Unchained

So my friend and my husband saw Lincoln, and I decided to see Django Unchained. They were blown away and I saw a bunch of people get blown away. I wish I had seen Lincoln with them, I've had appreciation for Daniel Day Lewis since My Left Foot. Although I appreciate why this movie had to go over the top with violence because slavery was a nasty, ugly business that this country is just starting to recover from, it's still Quentin Tarantino's peculiar brand of gratuitous violence that frankly, bores me. As do gunfights, car chases, martial arts fights and other typical "guy stuff."

Eric Cantor Makes Debt Ceiling Offer

“If the Senate or House fails to pass a budget in that time, members of Congress will not be paid by the American people for failing to do their job. No budget, no pay.”

Before Cantor gets too excited about this plan, however, he may want to familiarize himself with the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution:

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened..." http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/18/1471191/the-republican-debt-ceiling-gambit-is-unconstitutional/
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Insurers Telling Only Part of the Story in Attempt to Gut Important Consumer Protections

"...Here's what you need to know that isn't included in any of the industry's talking points:



Young adults comprise the largest segment of the uninsured. That's primarily because they either don't have jobs that offer coverage or they don't make enough money to pay the premiums insurance companies charge..."



I think we all owe Mr. Potter a debt of gratitude.
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The Massive Human and Moral Cost of Gun Violence

It's so tiring to try to have a conversation with people who have made up their minds that the answer to gun violence is more guns. *sigh*
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Climate change set to make America hotter, drier and more disaster-prone

Climate change set to make America hotter, drier and more disaster-prone
Draft report from NCA makes clear link between climate change and extreme weather as groups urge Obama to take action

The Invisible War

“The Invisible War” examines the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. It also looks at the institutions that cover up the violence, and the profound consequences it has for its victims. We interviewed director Kirby Dick as well as two of the film’s subjects, Kori Cioca and Trina McDonald. Cioca, who served in the Coast Guard, was beaten and raped by a supervisor, and then charged with adultery because he was married. McDonald was drugged and raped by military police on a remote Naval station in Alaska. We aired the interview in January on the heels of a military survey showing the number of reported violent sex crimes jumped 30 percent in 2011, with active-duty female soldiers ages 18 to 21 accounting for more than half of the of the victims.
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The One Oscar-Nominated Movie You Must See
By Alyssa Rosenberg via Slate
Posted Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at 2:53 PM ET


As someone who grew up in a county which is basically one huge military base I am certainly not stunned or shocked by anything in this documentary. I'm just so glad that these people got to tell their stories and Sec Def Panetta saw and heard them. I worked on a base and the harassment was incessant, but I was lucky, I was a civilian employee and I lived within walking distance of police headquarters. I knew women who were not so lucky, and watching this brings back painful memories that I thought were dead and buried.

Meh

Why can't I find anything to read that interests me in the least?

My friend posted this though, it's worth a watch.

Endless War Is a Feature – Not a Bug – of U.S. Policy

Endless War Is a Feature – Not a Bug – of U.S. Policy

I like the title of the article, but frankly I didn't read it because I don't give a shit.  And the wealthy and powerful have always used fear to control the masses and war is some scary shit.  Some bloody, awful, stupid, scary crap.

fun with teh Google

Finally screwed up the courage to Google someone from many years ago.  Turns out this person has been dead for 2 1/2 years.  Funny how life goes sometimes.

A jawdropping headline...at first

Africa: Where black is not really beautiful


South Africa is a land of diverse cultures and races, the country is marketed to the world as Mandela's rainbow nation - where everyone is proud of their race and heritage but for some black South Africans there is such a thing as being too black.

"...most people say they use skin-lighteners because they want "white skin"...

A nasty by-product of centuries of white Euro-trash abuse of Africans in Africa and economic domination by "the higher classes" in EU and their colonialism I'd say.  I'm not saying that the BS doesn't extend to the US' history of economic control of Latin America either.

Florida's Long Lines On Election Day Discouraged 49,000 People From Voting: Report

Greg Palast and Brad Friedman have been reporting on this debacle for YEARS.
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112th Congress Set To Become Most Unproductive Since 1940s

Congress' approval rating stands at 18% says it all, doesn't it?
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Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now

Why can't more of our congress be like him?

4 Firefighters Shot, 2 Killed At Webster, New York Fire Scene; Shooter Dead (UPDATE)

Hey, I know, let's keep cutting the budgets for mental health services! It's been ssoooooooooo helpful, as has our brutal and NON-rehabilitating prison system. (Granted, this guy probably should have been committed to a prison hospital for life)



*sigh*



Again, my condolences to family and friends of the first responders and my prayers for the injured.
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Zero Dark Thirty - Wrong and Dangerous Conclusion

Mr. Gibney,



You are an excellent documentarian and I love your work. That said, you probably wouldn't accept the obscenely large amounts of money that Hollyweird happily accepts to perpetuate the myths, uber-patriotism, and excessive violence that passes for entertainment in this country and around the world.
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VP Sally Langston

VP Sally Langston is the kind of character that I love to HATE, and she is my least favorite character on my new favorite show, Scandal . The first season is streaming on Netflix, the second is available to watch on IMDB.

The Lumineers - Ho Hey (Official Video)

I am avoiding the newZ

Because right now I could give two shits about   Molly McMoosturd  or  the gun manufacturers' priorities or even the great news that some media outlets are finally figuring out what most 23 year-olds know, that the GOP is buncha fucktards

Gun Violence: It's Not Just the NRA or Presidential Leadership -- It's Us

"Why don't we as a society hold to greater account the manufacturers and distributors of the hardware and software promoting the violent gun use in the numerous video games that are watched and played by many of our children?"

Because in this country freedom of religion is misconstrued as freedom to worship at the altar of capitalism. Intentionally. Even "our" media is a commercial enterprise. As is our political system.
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so, I'm watchin' this silly teevee show

and part of the script goes "she's in one to the 6th largest cities in the world..." and I think ummm, she's in Russia dude, no effin way. So I go to check top ten cities and I end up thinking "wow, top 30 cities, majority in Asia, east and west Asia. Jebus Asia, get a fucking handle on your brood mares why doncha?"

Yeesh, when you spend 10 years reading all kinds of stuff for 5-12 hours a day  instead of working some incredibly repetitive job it's hard to climb back in the shell of ignorance even if you want to shut reality out by watching silly teevee shows.  *sigh*

Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt Knew

Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt Knew
December 8, 2012

no shit sherlock

Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Obama in Tehran?

Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Obama in Tehran?

Posted by Pepe Escobar at 9:01am, December 6, 2012.
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Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall 
Washington’s Iranian Future 
By Pepe Escobar

In Election 2012’s theatre-of-the-absurd “foreign policy” debate, Iran came up no less than 47 times....

You see? You see why I like Pepe Escobar? He points out really amusing stuff. I remember watching that debate. I made a few notes on a laptop and somehow managed to delete the whole post, but I remember writing snark over that one. Read the article, I never regret reading his stuff.

Screw this ibuprofen shit, and population stuff

I think the ibuprofen may be taking the swelling down, but it's causing pain I never had.

Beyond 7 billion: Bending the population curve

The whole series is fascinating. I'm reading it now.