The longer I read the "news", the less I am informed and the more I am confused and finally end up with a big headache and getting really physically sick.
1899 -Friedrich Bayer & Co patented acetylsalicylic acid, which it modestly named Bayer Aspirin.
1945 - The spawn of the devil was surreptitiously mixed with a used wet mop, fungi collected from the broken fridge in a college's male dormitory, and a badly edited "do it yourself" book, Egotism for Morons, resulting in the birth of Donald Trump.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
Hello!
I joined today after hearing about this site at the DailyKos. I have been a lurker over at DailyKos since around 2004. Kos's purge diary did me in. I have never blogged before, strictly read articles. I do not plan on visiting there anymore except for a daily dose of the BNR! A recent diary on the DailyKos from a new user who simply signed up to tell everyone he/she was leaving summed up my opinion as well. The curtain was removed. It was time to leave.
I have come to believe that the American Electorate is clearly splitting its parties, and we as the party of the 99% have an auspicious opportunity to affect generations to come.
The 2016 Democratic Primary, whatever its outcome, is spawning a party in places such as this. We no longer need newspapers for our information. We no longer tune into the mainstream media. We are not listening to them.
This is a celebration of smiley7, who has long been a friend of mine. We're blog brothers. He's a seriously good guy, as many of you know. Some scoff at the closeness such communion can bring, but not I.
I’m with Pierre.
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”
I grew up in a small town. If you traveled in one direction, it was predominantly rural and the other direction was predominantly suburban and urban center. The rural versus urban divide has always fascinated me. There is a racial component, an economic component, an ego/pride component and the influence of social interaction.
OPOL has published a diary at Daily Kos for smiley7 who is a long time member both here and at DKos. Smiley has prostate cancer and needs to travel long distance to Knoxville Tennessee for proton beam treatments. Smiley is one of the kindest, most gentle of souls to grace the tubes so if you can, please go over to DKos and tip and rec OPOL's diary so we can get it on the rec list, and please also drop a little something in the donation jar if you can afford it. With the rox/sux and grand purge that's going on there it's really difficult to get on the rec list right now, please help smiley out.
Here is the link to OPOL's diary
Thanks folks!
If there's ONE topic that has been treated with a complete lack of respect in this presidential campaign, it's that of war. We have one party who thinks that the solution to political problems is to rain fire from the heavens like an avenging god, and another who thinks the same thing but likes to pretend that it doesn't really count if the body bags aren't on TV.
Welcome to c99p new members! Of the 99, by the 99 and for the 99. This site was built from open source software and I like to think of us as an open source community. It was built with volunteer labor using free software and is financed by contributions from community members. Someone had to build the site and maintain it, that's where I come in, I supply the platform to work on, you folks supply the content. This is not my site, this is our site.
I urge anyone who has not already done so to take the time to read this excellent article on truth-out.org. It's an excerpt from Noam Chomsky's latest book entitled What Kind of Creatures Are We?, which explores the roots of America's extremely class-centric system of government.
