Angry long reply about Wes Clark and Kosovo
First diary. Goddamnit, propaganda makes me angry. This diary about Clark & Kosovo is packed with systematic lies, racism, propaganda and distortions. Not only does the author barely exhibit...
View ArticleSoldiers back from Iraq, can't talk to press
I'm listening to this radio show on Boston's WBUR, On Point, and I am outraged. It's about soldiers from a small town in Arkansas who went to Iraq, their experiences there and upon their return. They...
View ArticleHalf of Iraqis poor, no baby milk in Baghdad
I can't believe this. The outrage never ends. Buried in the Boston Globe, Over half of Iraqis struggle in poverty. (Reg. may be required. I forget.)The UN World Food Program, which monitors the...
View Article$2 trillion of debt missing from Treasury!
A friend of mine is an accountant. He's also Republican. He knows how to lie with numbers. He has the full faith and credit of the U.S. Treasury Department behind him. To counter another fact-based...
View ArticleMy letter to PBS re: Brooks, Rove
I sent this to The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. To whom it may concern, Giving voice to David Brooks does not advance the mission of PBS to educate the public. He consistently distorts facts or simply...
View ArticleSoldiers unhappy with patriotism lite; Bush to blame
Hfiend did a diary a few days back about an NYT article about discontentment within the military about the unbalanced sacrifice. The diary received little attention and focused more on the lack of...
View ArticleHelp the NYT: ID not a theory
Would you please help me bombard the NYT with letters reminding them that so-called "intelligent design" is not a theory? Yet another NYT article refers to ID as a theory, three times: Frist Urges 2...
View ArticleBush not super-Christian, private about faith
I was going to do a diary on Jason Ring's 42""verticle" (see the ad on the front page). A verticle is defined as"n. 1. An axis; a hinge; a turning point." Verticle of evil? I think they meant...
View ArticleRat's ass? Ashamed by reaction to Obama
Perhaps because I'm an immigrant (now naturalized), government was a distant entity for a long time, so I'm impressed when elected officials reach out to us here, to regular people: Reps. Conyers and...
View ArticleCan't happen here? It has before and will again.
The Weekly Dig is a free magazine here in Boston. The editorial this week is excellent, and I obtained permission from the author, Joe Keohane, to reproduced it here. Here's a snippet:Earlier, the town...
View ArticleI thought Special Ops were tough (cost of Iraq)
Like many of you, I read about this goddamn war just about every day. It never ends:three members of a special forces unit based at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs, have committed suicide. I thought...
View ArticleNYT on kids in Iraq, w/pix. Very sad.
While I'm thoroughly outraged at the NYT for its shenanigans in favor of the fascist administration, there's an article up currently about civilians coping with the violence, with some very moving but...
View ArticleSystem broken: US bioscience funding ailing
Greg Petsko, who works on protein structure at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, writes a monthly comment in Genome Biology. One month it's about the dog genome and the next month it's about banning...
View ArticleSick of [DKos] pro-Serb propaganda
[Update 2: changed the title.] A relevant reminder: Soj doesn't believe that genocide occurred in Srebrenica. Soj sides with the Serbs this time by portraying the Kosovar Albanians as criminals not...
View ArticleAgainst illegal immigration, or why do we have laws?
"I applaud them moving out of the shadows and into the light because of the human rights issues involved," Mr. Walters said of illegal immigrants. "I've given my entire life to issues of social justice...
View ArticleMumia: guilty (me: angry former supporter)
A diary that was on the rec list opened with:I'm not kidding about the Free Mumia thing: many liberals cite that very phrase as one of those "fringe" topics on the left that make them CRINGE in...
View ArticleHuckabee responsible for two women's deaths (updated)
I knew little about Michael "Mike" Huckabee. Except for his religiosity, I had this impression that he was a likeable fellow. I wasn't surprised to learn that he supports the teaching of creationism in...
View Articlemy teeth have the same color as McCain's
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I'm incredibly proud of my...
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