Category: Everyday Stories
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Conyers considering starting impeachment proceedings?
CNN video on bloggers keeping the Downing Street Memo alive. Big Brass Alliance was mentioned. Awaken the Mainstream Media’s suggested targets for the day. And then this. Via the comments area at an Americablog posting on the Downing Street Memo beginning to be covered by the US media, is the following article from The Nation.…
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Kill Bill
Kill Bill, A progressive art slasher flick. I’m just a bill Yes, I’m only a bill And I’m sittinghere on Capitol Hill. I am the Patriot Act And I’m looking for expansion, I want unfettered power To know your every action, I’m sure I’ll be a law some day… Though you can hope I never…
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It’s not just MARC it’s the Freedom Rail
Grabbed this from over at Dkos. It’s a poster placed by MARC, the metro rail between Baltimore and DC. As is pointed out, the “Watch, Ride, Report” poster, requesting all to keep look-out for suspicious objects, overwhelmingly recalls Socialist Realism or what many retain in their memory as Socialist Realism. On the web we tend…
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Anyone out there have a pathological white Xtian Conservative grandmother to contribute to the cause?
Reading Heretik’s reference to the 57-year-old “grandmother” who was put on a terrorist suspect list when found at the airport to be packing a butter knife, it occurs to me this will be how it ends. First, don’t you love it how the press always pulls the “She’s a grandmother!” shtick. Would they have the…
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More Downing Street Memo – Big Brass Alliance posting
AfterDowningStreet.org gets one million hits! That’s news. Read more at the Heretik. Downing Street link for watching: Crooks and Liars Downing Street Memo on C-Span link in which Steve Cobble of After Downing Street debates with Kevin Aylward of Wizbang on the memo’s merits. The Awaken the Media news targets for June 6 …can be…
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I'm telling you, tasers don't hurt, now stop screaming
Check out this video of a cop tasering a woman via Stone Bridge. Stone Bridge notes that the cop remarks, likely for benefit of the camera (a) that it didn’t hurt, and (b) that she took a swing at the second officer and thus the taser. She didn’t take a swing. Stone Bridge didn’t observe…
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"No can do, can’t give photos of abuse," says Bush Co., "the evidence would violate the Geneva Convention!"
The ACLU has prevailed and a judge has ordered the government to release more Abu Ghraib photos and videos showing abuse of prisoners. But get a load of the brilliant argument Bush Co. used against releasing them. Government lawyer Sean Lane had argued that releasing pictures, even in redacted form, would violate Geneva Convention rules…
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"Oh, now, don’t start gettin’ down on the Guantanamo guards for a little water balloon play. You don’t get gooder, cleaner fun than water balloons."
Via Talkleft the Pentagon has admitted, “Well, hmmm, yeah, we disrespected the Quran.” Pentagon Confirms Soldier Mistreated Prisoner’s Quran Other Incidents Also Confirmed PENTAGON — The Pentagon has confirmed for the first time that a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s Quran in violation of the military’s rules for handling the Muslim holy…
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No other purpose but for the memory book
Ok. No one is going to be interested in this post except for a very small group of people who attended Jason Lee school in Richland, Washington in 4th grade in 1966-1967. And chances are perhaps not even they would be interested. And chances are zero that any of that small group of people who…
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Catch 22
[clear] Catch 22 waving bye to me not long before I fled the theater my first viewing Several times last week I had an almost, not-quite exchange with laizzes-faire “well, this is unacceptable so certainly it will be taken care of blitheness”, variation of a too nonchalant “this too shall pass” which left me disoriented,…
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Ezra went to war and returned from Stalag IIB
Ezra (left) went to war and returned from Stalag IIB I tend to be a day late on subject-of-the-day posts because i’m not a quick one, I have to ponder. And also the server this blog is on is iffy and sometimes I’ll write a post and punch publish and the post disappears, the blog…
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For Tri-City, Washington State People – Pancake House 1967
Everyone else can say, “What do I care about an old pancake house!” and move along. This is the pancake house on George Washington Highway, 1967, in Richland, Washington. I loved that pancake house. We took a picture of it when we were leaving Richland because it was one of the favored places where the…