NRA's fake quotes come to DKOS. Hamilton, Washington, and Admiral Yamamoto...
No surprise, the gun-nuts make up quotes:-- “The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” ~Alexander Hamilton -- “Firearms are second only to the...
View Article"Jupiter Ascending": Capitalism gets a 2 hour, 7 minute grand treatment
O.K., it's another movie in the Space Opera genre. The high-level plot is based on Family. And damn, the FX knocks your socks off."Ho-hum" ??? Well, not. LINK to SF Chronicle "gate."It's capitalism....
View Article"Jupiter Ascending" 3D IMAX. Enter a loud, gorgeous universe where cruelty...
Combine elements of Puccini, Shakespeare, a plausible Cheney-Medici commercial dynasty, art work to die for and a staggering musical score from Michael Giacchino. Run the action through three major...
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Israel kills more anti-Islamists in Syria. Boehner: "Thanks, Bibi. Come by...
This is crazy stuff. The United States and Israel are on opposite sides in the ISIS War.Same time Jordan sends its Air Force in to pummel the Islamists, Israel under Bibi Netanyahu kills more of the...
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Michael Morrell (CIA, CBS) goes on Charlie Rose with severe anti-semitism...
"The Supreme Leader, Ali Khameini, recently called Israelis 'animals.'"This is presented as an official statement.Is this real? Or not?The actual quote relates to loss of life among civilians during...
View Article"Islamic" versus "Islamist." Republicans and Israel's Likudniks do their...
"Extremist Islamic Terrorists"An oxymoron."Islamic" is the generic term for all things Muslim. Used properly it applies to practicing Muslims regardless of country, sect, race, or sex.The murderer,...
View Article"Islamic terrorism" oxymoron runs up 819,000 usages on Da Google
There's more involved here than words."Islamist terrorism" is what you want to say when you talk about ISIS and al-Qaeda. They are properly "Islamist" because "Islamism" and "Salafism" are the names in...
View ArticleSusan Rice went on the Charlie Rose show for an hour. Supports the MIC like...
Charlie could have been interviewing Condi just prior to invading Iraq.Everything National Security Advisor Susan Rice said about Iraq and Syria appeared to be either a political sham or a product of...
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R.I.P. Florence Cioffi -- Wall Street's Most Infamous Killing ::REPOST
This diary spun through last night. For a reminder that nothing much has changed....January 25th was the seventh anniversary of the slaughter of a Manhattan office worker, Florence Cioffi. She was 59...
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Text of the Netanyahu speech. There is one substantive, testable reference
I count 43 interruptions for applause.I count one substantive. That is Prime Minister Netanyahu's assertion that the twitter account of Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei was used to post statements calling for...
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Alrighty, then. What is happening at Tikrit ??? ::UPDATE
Back in September we had a telephone conversation with two men in Tikrit related to observance of Eid al-Adha. This holiday involves obtaining a meat animal, sacrifice/butchering, and distribution of...
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Nusrah Front's top general Abu Hammam al-Shami killed in Syria
Nusrah Front/al-Qaeda in Syria lost its military commander and another dozen of its regional leaders. Coalition air power was able to act on detailed intelligence reports to hit the right buildings at...
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Bad Week for the Black Flags in Syria and Iraq
All in all this looks to have been the worst week for the Islamists since May of 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed and his files and computers were seized in the same raid. For every Saudi/GCC proxy...
View ArticleAnd you think the Hillary email zingers are bad ? "She Left Me For Dead !!"
Might as well get this out of the way.The way Republicans hate Hillary is pretty close to the way they hate women generally. The way they hate taxes. The way they used to hate The Commies before they...
View ArticleReplay: Hillary-hatred, distrust-the-bxtch parody "She Left Me For Dead"...
Hating Hillary can get weird. Way weird.It's rooted in hate-the-bxtch whining. A concentrated analog of Limbaugh's blame-the-Libruls whining schtick. Far as I can tell, this is not because of her...
View ArticleNOT BREAKING: Media omit GOP47 ignorance of U.N. Security Council and 1968...
First the obvious:Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology,...
View ArticleDay Three: Media pass on GOP47 ignorance of United Nations, nuke deals, and...
- - - Al Jazeera gets it right !! Bottom of this diary. - - -First the obvious: negotiations with Iran are a multinational process. This is not an American treaty. No way, no how.The five Permanent...
View ArticleAl Jazeera gets A+. The Iran deal will be a Security Council...
Al Jazeera gets it right.NY Times, in contrast, are going out of their way to avoid identifying the fundamental, high school civics fail of Republican ignorance at the core of their recent "Open...
View ArticleCorporatist $$$$$ going to turn out a 300,000-man evangelical army for 2016
The story detailing their plans appears in the NY Times today:Evangelicals Aim to Mobilize an Army for Republicans in 2016This is what you get for just one of the canvassing operations, the shop set up...
View ArticleWhite House petition "47 U.S. Senators in violation of The Logan Act" passes...
The petition was filed on March 9th, which means that in 7 days the vote total has gone over the White House response trigger by a margin of three to one.DON'T MISS OUT !! Formal title: File charges...
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