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Saturday Song Open Thread - Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker)

Hey, it's songday. I pick a song that I believe warrants it and publish an assortment of the covers of that song by various persons and or groups. Pick a few that are new to you and have a listen. It is also, of course, an open thread to talk about anything you feel like. Hey its Saturday, so kick back,...

Today's song is: Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker)

Should the US Launch a "Pre-Emptive Strike" Against North Korea?

This is MSNBC's poll question today. W.T.F.?

Are we sure North Korea is about to attack us?

How sure are we?

How do we know?

Remember our "preemptive" strike against Iraq, to get Saddam before he used WMD against us? How good was our intel then?

Real Moms

Dove has a new ad campaign about how to be a mother.

The theme of the campaign is:

There's no right or wrong way to be a mom -- only your way.

A hell of a lot of people disagree with that statement.

The advertisement displays mothers break dancing, rock climbing, farming, raising a child alone, even being transgender.

Shea is a graduate student. She has a woman partner.

Democratic politicians have rarely represented Democratic voters less

Perhaps the all-time peak of Democratic misrepresentation was when President Wilson got America into WWI after campaigning on how he kept us out of the war.
However, the present Democratic Party is trying to rival that level of misrepresentation.

Pahlavi Redux?

The US has a very bad habit of running aroound overthrowing foreign governments, overtly, covertly, directly, or, preferably, by proxy. It almost always has multiple motives and goals when it does so. There is usually a plan, generally half-assed and poorly thought out, but a plan all the same. It also usually has a replacement government in mind. One or more aspects of the plan usually require a puppet or sympathetic government.

Technicalities... converting from word to this site

Hi Everyone:

This is a meta topic that I thought might be helpful to people other than me. I had prepared a full response to my brother about Syria and to do so I'd worked in Microsoft Word. Only later did I look at what I'd written and realize that:

a) It would make a nice story here.
b) The members here could critique it and improve it.

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