It's come to my attention that there is an online petition to try to stop the Academy Awards from giving an Oscar to the Netflix film, "White Helmets", in tomorrow's ceremony. It's not too late to add your voice.
Why? Because it's war propaganda, a war propaganda flick.
The DNC has just selected Tom Perez as Chairman or the DNC, Keith Ellison Deputy Chair...
So much for reform of the Crooked Hillary Party...
Today, as I type, my body is racked by a great deal of pain caused by the inflammation of connective tissue throughout my body - in my fingers, neck, shoulders, elbows, chest and hips. Unfortunately, the medicine I take is having little effect. Pain of this type is often accompanied by fever, chills and fatigue, and mental states such as depression.
An amicus brief prepared by lawyers at the Human Rights campaign is expected to be filed with SCOTUS in the case of Grimm v Gloucester County School Board by March 2.
The bloody 3.5 month siege of al-Bab by Turkish-backed forces, that ended with the defeat of ISIS this week, went on so long that most people have forgotten the original reason why Turkey invaded Syria - to fight the Kurds.
I saw this clip live on PBS and had to find and post it here.
I am NOT a essay writer. Some have recently posted excellent and well written 0nes (for which we all are grateful). I just couldn't post this to the middle of an open thread. It needs more.
The thrust of the Dems and the #resistance movement seems clear - Hate the haters.
Lets not fall into that trap. Force the conversation to the issues not whack job personalities.
With mind-boggling tone deafness, one Lindsey Ellefson writes:
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.
Today's song is: Candyman
Mississippi John Hurt
Last Sunday there were dueling diaries at The Other Place: History Tells Us The Extreme Left Cannot Beat Trump and
The Syria "civil" war began in 2011 after unrest occurred in the context of the manufactured Arab Spring protests.
"The CIA’s Fake “Arab Spring” Becoming A Long, Hot Summer Of War"
http://tarpley.net/2011/06/20/cia-fake-arab-spring-becoming-summer-of-war/
"U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings"
