You know why they call us that? Because we’ll gladly take a piece of wood and sell it to you as nutmeg. Happy Thanksgiving suckers! The New Guy Timbaland Extended Exclusive! The Rose of Alabamy A very good phone ruined by rubbish battery life, and did I mention Siri is always on sucking the juice …
11/18/2015 archive
Nov 18 2015
Dispatches From Hellpeckersville-Sick And Sad
I’ve been sick and in pain for the last several days. Unable to stand and work, with my computer chair being the most comfortable, I find myself bombarded by bigotry and hate on facebook. I don’t want to be this angry, but I am. I call some of the people posting this bullshit friends, hell, …
Nov 18 2015
More Odds or Onions
Can you pick The Onion without hovering your mouse over the links? Another easy one with a 50 / 50 shot at being correct. GOP Warns Refugees Likely To Be Driven To Terrorism By Way America Would Treat Them CHARLESTON, SC—Declaring that opening the nation’s doors to displaced Syrians posed a major security threat, GOP …
Nov 18 2015
The Despicable Attack on Privacy Using the Paris Attack
Not surprising that after the failure of the intelligence to uncover the plot to kill and wound hundreds of people in Paris that the irrational finger pointing by blood thirsty, civil liberties hating neo-cons would begin. Of course, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is the prime target. The “Snowden Fault Game,” as Glenn Greenwald names it, …
Nov 18 2015
Storm Clouds for TPP
While I may re-hash the myriad reasons why the TPP is even worse than we thought and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should be approved, this particular piece is more directed at the prospects for it in a vote and there is some good news on that front (I don’t delight in reporting the negative stuff, it’s …
Nov 18 2015
Punting the Pundits
“Punting the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Nov 18 2015
The Breakfast Club (Raise the Candles High)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …
Nov 18 2015
Six In The Morning Wednesday November 18
Paris attacks: Police in deadly swoop on apartment in northern suburb Armed police have raided a flat in the north Paris suburb of Saint Denis in an operation linked to Friday’s attacks. A woman blew herself up with a suicide belt, a prosecutor says. Some reports suggested two suspects died. Several explosions and gunfire were …
Nov 18 2015
Death in Plain Sight
The mass shootings in Littleton, Newtown, and the Washington, DC Navy Yard have become a rallying cry for gun control in the United States. Yet, on average, every day across the country at least three women are killed by intimate partners, the majority shot to death. Guns and domestic violence are a lethal combination in …
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