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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 06/22/2022 - 6:02am
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Misty Morning Maine Lake
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Essay Title Contest
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 9:09pmWATCH: The Navy is training its members to create a "safe space" by using proper gender pronouns.
Here's their new instructional video, which is modeled after a children's show:
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The Evening Blues - 6-21-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 3:15pm
Ukraine has effectively outlawed all leftists
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 11:25amIf you are a leftist then the current Ukrainian government is your enemy. That's Ukraine's decision. They don't like you, and they want you silenced.
Inflation/Deflation
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 06/21/2022 - 6:00am
In 1971 Dick Nixon began the "War on Drugs". Part of this policy involved the Asset forfeiture and confiscation of large amounts of cash found on persons pulled over for traffic violations or raids on suspected drug suppliers homes or lairs.
Some questions for the next "third party" online conference
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 11:20pmEarlier today there was a conference on "how to build a third party." David Sirota's "Lever" thing hosted it. The advice offered by the presenters was: form a fusion party, work within the Democrats, get Democrats elected. There were some nods toward the idea that their audience was composed of some people who weren't Democrats.
The Evening Blues - 6-20-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 3:35pm
06/20 - Take Your Cat to Work Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 5:00am
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Colombia elects first leftist president in it's history
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 06/19/2022 - 7:05pmIn much the same way that the massive protests in Chile in 2019, that the government tried unsuccessfully to put down with violence, led to a leftist being elected president, the massive protests in Colombia in 2021, that the government tried unsuccessfully to put down with violence, has led to a leftist being
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 06/19/2022 - 6:18am
A Long Hot Summer?
in a drought of thought and problem solving
It has been a scorcher here in NE Alabama this week. Pretty dry too. But what we're experiencing is nothing compared to the western US. The drought in the West is staggering. Water futures there are scary. So much of their water is being used for crops like alfalfa and corn which are better suited to grow in other regions. It's not like this issue is new.
On January 17, 1890, John Wesley Powell strode into a Senate committee room in Washington, D.C., to testify...Powell had come to testify not as a hero or explorer, but as one of America’s foremost scientists, the head of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and an architect of federal science. He had something deeply important to communicate about America’s future.
He told them all too rightly that the West offered not enough water to reclaim by irrigation more than a tiny fraction of its land. Their dreams of a verdant West needed to be tempered and shaped to reality. Powell might as well have told them the Earth was flat. The senators were outraged.
