The Evening Blues - 8-10-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 08/10/2017 - 2:32pm
Take nukes away from Trump - honest or dishonest initiative?
Submitted by arendt on Thu, 08/10/2017 - 2:32pmI read that my Senator, Markey, wants a bill that will prohibit nuclear first strikes.
activists and lawmakers urged Congress to revive legislation that would strip the executive branch of the power to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
Stop Trump!
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Thu, 08/10/2017 - 10:58amMy phone company calls itself CREDO, which I keep because they're nice folks. But CREDO persists in imagining itself to be "political," so in my email they send me this:
The substance of it is as follows:
Greenland is burning
Submitted by Steven D on Thu, 08/10/2017 - 9:26amYes, that's right. As the Greenland ice sheet has receded, large areas of peatland have thawed, and those areas hold massive amounts of carbon. Now two large fires are occurring. Here's a ESA satellite photograph of the fires:
The War On The American People
Submitted by Meteor Man on Thu, 08/10/2017 - 9:25amWhy American cops are evil:
Our Bill of Rights has been torn to shreds, and the cops have replaced it with their own Bill of Rights: the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights (LEOBoR), which protects them from being subjected to the kinds of debilitating indignities heaped upon the average citizen.
Trump sued by transgender troops
Submitted by Robyn on Thu, 08/10/2017 - 3:01amBlackwater, Afghanistan, and killing people for money
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 6:31pmSeveral weeks ago former Blackwater founder Erik Prince proposed privatizing the entire Afghanistan War in what can only be described as Blackwater 2.0.
The Evening Blues - 8-9-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 1:36pm
23 years ago today
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 1:00pmIt is the 23rd anniversary of my gender confirmation surgery, which was performed by Dr. Eugene Schrang at Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah, WI. Dr. Schrang is now retired, but then, so am I.
That's about all the celebrating I shall do on account of the event.
Yesterday, a letter was sent to our less-than esteemed leader.
Dear President Trump,
Nuclear War! Trump's a Mad Man! OMG We're All Gonna Die!
Submitted by Steven D on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 9:22amNo doubt you've seen the headlines by now, or heard the news that Trump boasted North Korea "will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen," and North Korea's threat to nuke Guam. The usual anonymous sources are claiming that North Korea has far more sophisticated nukes then we used to believe. Well to those crisis mongers, all I can say is Chill the Fu#k Out.
