Twelve and growing up in Phoenix
Submitted by Robyn on Sun, 12/11/2016 - 2:04pmLuke Charlebois is a voice of the future. He recently told his story in Phoenix.
Luke Charlebois is a voice of the future. He recently told his story in Phoenix.
In answer to DallasDoc's excellent essay, I'm reposting something I put up at The Other Place many moons ago.
This should not be taken as any kind of backhanded insult to DD's diary, which I largely agree with, though I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the Democrats and their choices anymore. I repost it now because I think it's important to understand that they don't care whether they win, and they haven't cared for a long time.
Apologies for the lack of text. - Steve
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-aAxuqNew]
It would appear that free speech is dead in this country. I say 'this country' because I no longer believe it is our country. I found out yesterday that my comments made to Seattle Times articles have been being censored since at least September of 2015. I believe the same thing has been happening at Huffington Post.
Two leading Republican voices on foreign policy in the Senate, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, joined two Democratic senators on Sunday in expressing concern over the reports on Russian interference and saying it could not become a partisan issue.
Just the other day, while I was bribing my local political commissar, it hit me.
It's time to stop denying it: the Soviets won the Cold War.
Oh sure, you probably thought the United States won. It just goes to show how sneaky those Russians were.
You probably didn't even noticed that they slowly invaded us over the last 25 years.
I finally decided to write a valedictory diary over at TOP, after not participating there in over six months. I'm publishing it here first, and will let them know where to find the original. Warning: some links are to DailyKos diaries.
And this morning I added an update to the DK diary, as a response to the furor.
The Senate version of H.R. 5181 passed this week inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report.
"Remove justice and what are states but gangs of bandits on a large scale? And what
are bandit gangs but kingdoms in miniature?"
- Augustine
Was Russia behind the DNC hacks? Maybe, maybe not.
But one thing we know for certain: no one has produced any proof.

