Diaries
Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
Submitted by fire with fire on Wed, 11/15/2023 - 11:17amThey're just Insulting our Intelligence Now
Americans: healthcare please
US government: Sorry did you say billions of dollars for ethnic cleansing in the middle east?
Americans: no, healthcare
Open Thread 15 NOV 23 ~ imprisoned writer day
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 11/15/2023 - 4:00amQ
The Evening Blues - 11-14-23
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 11/14/2023 - 3:23pmWho is the bigger terrorist?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 11/14/2023 - 12:20pmRemember the old saying "one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter?"
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims. State terrorism is that perpetrated by nation states, but is not considered such by the state conducting it, making legality a grey area. "Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible", said Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre.
Can of worms
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 11/14/2023 - 9:53amGood morning everybody. Weather is easing up a bit for a few days here in the PNW, so time to get some more chores done.
Granddaughter is hosting the family for Thanksgiving dinner for the first time and it frees us up to plan for and ready the motorhome for a trip south to the California coast soon after.
Team Biden's mishandling of ME affairs under fire
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 11/14/2023 - 8:52amA federal complaint, filed on Monday against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, accuses them of “failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide”.
New York civil liberties group the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the suit in
Federal Court in the Northern California District.
Gaza with some help with Castoriadis
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 11/13/2023 - 11:43pmIt's obvious that America, being the most thoroughly-propagandized nation in the world, has been taught to love some pretty unsavory things. A cursory look at our political class will reveal this: