Open Thread 10-08-2015
Submitted by smiley7 on Mon, 08/10/2015 - 7:35amGood morning good people
Not bad for a taxi driver
Monday morning poetry
Still I rise
Diaries
A quick diary on Ferguson redux....
Submitted by LapsedLawyer on Mon, 08/10/2015 - 1:43amThis will be short.
There are a couple of diaries up on DK about another police shooting of a young black man in Ferguson, with the obligatory leaving him bleeding out while they... I don't know. Check the donuts at the 7-11?
The cops of course are claiming they were fired upon (although according to both diaries that seems plausible in this case). And of course they did the obvious thing; fire blindly while civilians were all around.
One year and 6,000 airstrikes later
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 08/09/2015 - 1:33pmOne year ago yesterday President Obama ordered the bombing of ISIL.
That's enough time to take stock of what we have and haven't accomplished.
There's been 5,946 coalition airstrikes, almost all of them American, nearly evenly divided between Iraq and Syria.
Open Thread 08-09-15
Submitted by JtC on Sun, 08/09/2015 - 8:11amGood Morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
The U.S.-Russia “phony war”: How Washington warmongers could bring us from stalemate to catastrophe
One of two outcomes is likely: Another long Cold War, or a great power conflictThe Ukraine crisis and the attendant confrontation with Russia assume a “phony war” feel these days. As in the perversely calm months between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the Blitzkrieg into the Low Countries the following spring, nothing much seems to be happening.
Moving from Fossil Fuels to Agriculture
Submitted by MarilynW on Sat, 08/08/2015 - 10:52am
Wow! There's a good idea. It's one proposed by Jeff Rubin, economist who wrote the book "The Carbon Bubble."
Agriculture, not Energy, Will Fuel Canada’s Economy in Coming Decades: Experts
Evening Bues Weekend Edition Preview 08-08-2015
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 08/08/2015 - 10:05amTonight's installment of Evening Bues Weekend Edition will be hosted by yours truly.
IT will feature vocalist, multi-instrument musician and composer/songwriter Steve Winwood. Among other things, Steve co-founded three bands:
Spencer Davis Group (Gimme Some Lovin)
Open Sesame 08/08/15
Submitted by hecate on Sat, 08/08/2015 - 6:45amOnce upon a time my daughter was transformed into a hurricane.
Rude and abusive things were then said about her.
Such as: "despite becoming a monster [a monster?!], she will not pose any danger to land."
Of course not. She’s always been a good girl.
The Coldest Sin
Submitted by hecate on Sat, 08/08/2015 - 12:03amNot six months passed, after Robin Williams' ashes went into San Francisco Bay, before his terminal wife, and his various earlier children, commenced an ugly and public legal battle over his all and every monified possessions: "photographs, bicycles, fossils, and toys."
All parties, to all suits, screaming "mine! mine! mine! mine!”
Cartoon: Les Beastiables -- Senator Ted Cruzmel, Presidential Candidate!
Submitted by elenacarlena on Fri, 08/07/2015 - 6:16pmLes Beastiables ("Les Bez"): Beasties say the darnedest things!
Hey everybody! It's hump day Friday! Today's Beastiable is Senator Ted Cruz(mel). He has said and done beastly things for many years now, and so he has earned his turn as one of Les Beastiables.
NOTE FOR NEW READERS: This series features a new Les Beastiables cartoon every Wednesday about 1:45 PM Eastern. We indulge in a little Franglish because the French are tres classy. But I digresse.
For serious discussion of the issues, please join me below the break. Then you'll be able to "cleanse your palate" with a cute photo before you leave.
Obama's other undeclared war
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 08/07/2015 - 4:21pmToday is the one year anniversary of the start of the War on ISIL. To this day Congress has still not voted on an AUMF, and it doesn't appear that it will happen in the near future.
That hasn't stopped Obama from launching a different war.
