Tommy Thompson's parting pointers for Bin Laden
From the "Excuse, me?" news category: During his resignation, out-going HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said, "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply...
View ArticleRight-wing Politically Correct: Could Dick Cheney pick up this fired...
Rightists continually bitch and moan and whine about politically correct speech. It's a good mantra for them, like "tax-and-spend liberal" or "welfare queen", and they milk it for everything they can....
View ArticleDial-a-Prayer to report a Disease Outbreak!
This is a real Centers for Disease Control memo. If you are worried about clusters of children with leukemia, outbreaks of food poisoning, meningitis outbreaks or Ebola epidemics, call The Faith-based...
View ArticleAction Alert: Free Dr. Thomas Butler, US political prisoner
Dr. Thomas Butler is entering his second year as a political prisoner in the United States. Dr. Butler, a world-recognized expert on the bacteria that causes plague, was arrested following the 911...
View ArticleAfghanistan body burning: support our troops (tired, but true)
Recent information from the embedded reporter (Stephen Dupont) who broke this story suggests that the burning of Taliban fighters was not a war crime. The soldiers who burned the bodies did so on...
View ArticleMake Loofah, Not Falafel! (Poll)
According to Buhariwara and colleagues:"the wild annual Cicer species are known to possess unique sources of resistance to pests" which is undoubtedly the reason why many people mistakenly believe that...
View ArticleDestroying the Life and Career of a Valued (Update)
"Destroying the Life and Career of a Valued Physician-Scientist Who Tried to Protect Us from Plague: Was It Really Necessary?" This is required reading for those who think that criticism of the Bush...
View ArticleFor what it is worth...
A physicist, an engineer and a statistician were hunting moose. By midmorning, coming over a rise, the physicist first spotted a magnificent animal silhouetted on the next ridgeline, just within...
View ArticleThe Revolt of the Big Lebowskis
Much has been made about the revolt of the generals. In a similarly charged vein, there has been developing a revolt of scientists as well. Here is something I thought I would never see--the...
View ArticleAnybody noticing something weird lately?
I'm just saying that I've been lurking for a couple of years and in the last few days; 1. Thomas Friedman says we need to get out of Iraq now! 2. Pat Robertson says the the Earth is warming and we need...
View ArticleLeni Riefenstahl Awards
Vote for the winner of the 2006 Leni Riefenstahl Award! (Background: Leni was not a Nazi. She was an artist. Her movies were made by an independent production company, not the Nazi Party. And she...
View ArticleLt. Cmdr. Diaz, we are proud of you (Update).
Update: Amazingly good video here. This guy is a true hero.Today is a sad day, but it is also a day we will remember and we will be proud for one man named Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz, USN. History will...
View Article"Jena has always been a racist town"
Wow. Talk about a driveway moment. NPR just broadcast a story about Jena, a small Louisianna town. Talk about a powerful story of evil, injustice and racism happening today. Wow. Go listen to it...
View ArticleChristmas, Wire-Fraud and the Click of Mussolini's Boots-A Science Diary
Scientists have an odd Holiday season—it comes every second week of October when the annual Nobel Prizes are announced. They receive the gifts when news stories on unalloyed triumphs of scientists...
View ArticlePlease Kos....Rant
Lots of times I want to forward a particularly insightful diary or frontpage entry to my friends and family, and there is no obvious way to do this in the current dailykos format. Why can't you put a...
View ArticleBin Laden's October sucker punch?
Stepping back from the Palin trooper scandal and the mob scenes at McCain events, what in the larger picture is the most likely thing to throw the election to McCain?I love wonky websites like 538. I...
View ArticleMr. 14%
I just googled "Mr. 14%" and "Mr. 14 percent". Did I get Mitt Romney's website as a google hit? No, I did not. I want you to do something for me just because I am an old-time lurker:1. Copy the...
View Article34 U.S. Cops Murdered by Terrorists
At least 47 other US citizens murdered.Over 64 separate bombings and bomb plots, including crashing a plane into a federal building; ricin, anthrax, cyanide, radioactive "dirty" bombs, and lots of C-4....
View ArticleAre you better off now than 4 years ago?
Not yes, but HELL YES!Four years ago, our country was headed straight for a cliff: with our markets crashing and economic liquidity at the Death Valley levels. House bankruptcies had already been...
View ArticleStorm Sandy: Should Obama suspend active campaigning?
Almost everyone has heard of Hurricane Sandy by now (Saturday afternoon). Current predictions are bad, very bad. Here in Pennsylvania, we are already getting rain and the temperature is dropping. If...
View ArticleGov. Christie (R) endorses Pres. Barack Obama in the middle of a crisis
Just as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall and devastates large portions of New Jersey, Republican Governor Chris Christie praises Obama's leadership (from the NY Times Liveblog):‘Mr. Christie said Mr....
View ArticleCIA: None Dare Call It Rape
I thought I could not be shocked by the CIA torture report until I listened to NPR's Audie Cornish interview with the former Deputy CIA director John McLaughlin:CORNISH: What about the issue, then, of...
View ArticleThis is why Democrats lose: lunch shaming
This is so out of my experience that I cannot really comprehend it: lunch shaming. Does this even make sense to anyone who hasn’t suffered major brain trauma? It is commonplace for schools,...
View ArticleThese Colors never run, unless ordered to by a Turkish officer
Can you believe it? It seems impossible. The Russian GRU puts contracts out to kill American forces in Afghanistan. And Trump does nothing...his only excuse: ignorance, that he was not doing his...
View Article"What a stupid son of a bitch"
Got to love Joe Biden. I don’t care, piss and moan about Joe is not doing this or he’s going to do that, he’s a real deal with a real heart. When Fox News Peter Doocy tried to score gotcha points off...
View ArticleAh...Music
Ukraine, American fascists, global warming....My prescription for this illness is to listen to some good music. It may not change things but it will make you feel better and will make you a better...
View ArticleWhat do doctors say about the ban on abortion?
Full-text editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine on the inhumane overturning of Roe v. Wade. Remember, this will not only make criminal obtaining or conducting an abortion, it is going to...
View ArticleA cheap, simple induction heat battery to avoid climate catastrophe?
This is a “please-tell-me-why-I’m-wrong” diary. I’m always been stunned by the intelligence and high level of science-knowledge among Dkos diarists and commenters. Mark Sumner is kind of awesome...
View ArticleThousands of freezing babies. I need your help.
I couldn’t sleep last night thinking of all those freezing babies in Alabama. How horrible! Eternal torture of the innocent! We need to do something! Are you good at knitting? They all need...
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