Diaries
Is There Any Way to Make This Stop?
Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 1:05pmI keep getting calls from various numbers claiming to be the Social Security Administration saying that legal action will be taken against me, including threatening possible arrest, if I don't call them back.
It's pretty clear this is a scam because the numbers lead nowhere and the messages sound like automated bots.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Trump Foundation = Clinton Foundation
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 12:24pmWhile the Russiagate stuff was always absurd, allegations of corruption and fraud against Trump are entirely believable. Remember that this is the guy who founded Trump University.
The Capitalist Pigs' New Plot to Screw the Disabled
Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 8:51amSay what you want about the New York Times, but this one is important. The Capitalist Party of the United States is proposing yet another attack on people with disabilities:
DMW Forges ahead
Submitted by detroitmechworks on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 7:24amSo, I recently took up blacksmithing. Specifically, I began forging metal into functional tools, and hope to eventually do art in the medium. Now, I am by no means an expert, and this is a craft that stretches back to the bronze age, and so it is amazing to think how little thought of it is in this day and age. First off, some appropriate music for a last stand in a righteous cause.
Tuesday Open Thread - Make Someone Smile
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 5:00am
If you smile at me, I will understand. It's something everybody everywhere does in the same language.
From CSN&Y 'Wooden Ships'
Vox on single payer: Kos triple-talk as usual
Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 10:44pmTHOSE OF US
who used to play on a Certain Other Blog have grown accustomed to reading reams of what I now refer to as "Moulitsian Triple-Speak": lip service to progressive ideals used as a light coating over a heavy core of true loyalty to the Koch brothers and the billionaire class.
Please permit your humble scribe to submit the following article for your consideration. It appeared on the vox.com website, of which Markos Moulitsas is a founder. As I noted in this Comment, it may as well have been written by Markos himself.
The article: Medicare for all: company health insurance at risk under single payer
recent news on the epic plight of julian assange
Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 7:20pmFirst: ‘Julian Assange Examined by Doctors As MSM And Democrats Push Fake Meeting With Paul Manafort’, By Aaron Kesel, Activist Post, December 16, 2018
“WikiLeaks founder and former editor Julian Assange underwent a series of medical exams, Ecuador’s top attorney Inigo Salvador said.
What's ahead for legalization
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 4:43pmLast year was a good year for the legalization movement. Canada passed the Cannabis Act in June, becoming the first industrialized country to legalize recreational marijuana use.
Vermont and Michigan also approved recreational marijuana, bringing the number of states to 10.
Utah and Missouri voted to approve medical marijuana initiatives, bringing the number of states to have legalized some form of medical marijuana to 32.