The "moderate Syrian rebel" has been an endangered species since at least 2013, if not before.
Now, with the latest success of Assad's army, moderate rebels are destined to become as rare as unicorns.
While I have a real life of quiet notoriety (I'm not kidding when I say there are certain rooms where people are obligated to stand when I enter) I suppose most of my readers are familiar with me through my internet presence under the pseudonym ek hornbeck and involvement in Daily Kos.
Not that it was ever official, indeed Meteor Blades wonders to this day who I am.
When (rarely) I attend Netroots Nation (née Yearly Kos) I go by Roger Murdock, airline pilot. I'm out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
I have people who like me, mostly because they misunderstand my work, and those that hate me with a passion. This is a fairly true story- I spent a night in the ICU stabilizing before surgery. You can hear the nurses at the nursing station and to my surprise they were talking about Daily Kos and me specifically. Alas I was only the second most despised person in that conversation and I would have put it all down as a hallucination (not that I was on any interesting drugs mind you, but I had lost some blood) except that they reiterated it at the next shift change.
Good to know people are paying attention.
...but not 'our' girl, Hillary.
This 'misstatement' really does boggle the mind. Since she got the story right in her book, should we assume that their was a ghost author for that?
So, someone close to me was unaware of the Bosnia Sniper Fire canard, and I went looking for CBS video where they correct the record:
I feel like today requires something uplifting. And I found this:
Meg Vogel has produced a short video. She talks about making that video here.
The World Press Award-winning video Raising Zay is here...and on the other side.
Update: This essay was posted before I learned of the three police officers killed in what is being described as an ambush in Baton Rouge today. My heart goes out to the officers and their families.
At the gym in my apartment complex the other day this guy was watching O'Reilly Factor the day of the attacks in Nice, France...hoo boy. Of course, he had Trumpy Boy on the phone talking about how 'we need to stomp these guys into the ground' blah blah blah, but the entire show was just him and his idiot guests ranting about how Obama should have done 'more' to stop this shit.
"How many Blacks have to have their homes, children, neighborhood, or lives stolen without recourse before someone acts out his rage? How much Israeli-styled occupation policing and graphic videos of police murders is enough for a person to feel hatred for those that do these things?"
Progressives may have a huge threat at our doorstep.
Insidiously, contradictorily (some might say) and despite people's best efforts, the Shillary endorsement by Bernie Sanders last week seems to have let loose an unexpected scourge: the Cognitive Dissonance virus, up until now contained to Shillary and Trump fans…seems to have escaped all quarantine efforts and is now taking out us Berners.
I can no longer stand to watch "Meet the Press", "Face the Nation", or other corporate media voices. For others of you who feel the same, but would like watch (listen to) a reasonable discussion, here's about an hour of news I think is worth watching. I hope some of you might enjoy a selection or two. Have a nice Sunday!
Breaking news:
Three police officers have been shot dead in Baton Rouge, La., and four others were wounded, authorities said Sunday.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/07/17/reports-baton-rouge-police...
