Thanks, America
Here's a little letter for your crazy uncle at Thanksgiving:I live in Canada. If Keystone goes through, Americans are agreeing to a pipeline that -- so far -- has been rejected in Canada because tar...
View ArticleMemo to dead terrorists:
It's not working.All over the world in dozens of cities millions of people are assembling in public and proclaiming NOT AFRAID and Je Suis Charlie. If the goal of this terror was to rally extremist...
View Article"Hey! Where are my 72 virgins!?"
... overheard in the afterlife shortly after the deadly shootout in France.Apparently the response was silence. Dead silence.
View ArticleLet's make it official: The "Republican-Koch Coalition" is a thing.
Remember how the Republicans unilaterally changed the name of the Democratic Party to Democrat Party? They just started doing it -- every right-wing politician across the country, every babbler on...
View ArticleOpen-carry meets Mall Jihadis
So... on one hand we have African terrorists calling for armed attacks on malls in the USA -- attacks like the terror at a big American-style mall in Kenya last year where a handful of open-carry...
View ArticleHow will Wall Street handle debt-limit nuttiness
Wall Street and other establishment Republicans know full well that a debt-limit crisis is bad for business, bad for the nation, bad for the GOP reputation and -- unless you represent a...
View ArticleNow they're blaming the likker...
So now the good ol' boys at Sigma Klux Klan are blaming the booze!I haven't been shitfaced for many. many years -- but when I was their age getting a buzz-on was part of our social life -- and here's...
View ArticleCanadian anti-gay, anti-abortion crackpot gives up on Canada
One of Canada's most famous right-wing-crackpot activists has given up on his country of birth and is leaving for the Philippines.Bill Whatcott apparently does not feel at home in a country where...
View ArticlePresident Reagan speaks to President Rubio
For the millennials in today's reading audience -- this won't make sense unless you are up on your late cold-war history... and the longer post-WWII history of divided Berlin. Mr. Google has lots of...
View ArticleAmazon and the "Dixie Swastika"
I just discovered tonight -- alerted by someone else's online posting -- that Amazon has a robust variety of products featuring that vile, racist, seditious, hateful Confederate flag.I logged into my...
View ArticleAmazon still selling Dixie Swastika on Amazon Canada
They say that Amazon has stopped selling it -- but not of you go to the Canadian site:http://tinyurl.com/...
View ArticleAmazon Canada stalls on purge of confederate flags
The number of items has stayed the same since this morning: http://www.amazon.ca/...
View ArticleAmazon stalls (again) removing Dixie flag from Canadian online store
A week ago Amazon listed 11,000 "Confederate flag" items online at its Canadian store. This dropped to 6,500 by mid-week -- but then the cleanup stalled for a day or so, eventually dropping to 2,500...
View ArticleAmazon confederate-flag surprise
While checking to see whether Amazon was still stalled in the midst of its partially-completed purge of Dixie-flag merchandise, I discovered a short e-book I now want to share with the Kos community:...
View ArticlePolice shootings -- it's like the Klan is back in business
I saw the headline -- an Associated Press story over at Huffington Post:Christian Taylor, Unarmed 19-Year-Old, Shot And Killed By Policehttp://tinyurl.com/... I didn't even have to click through to the...
View ArticleOh Boy -- more "Southern Heritage"
Lowe's Delivery Man Called Back to Store When Customer Asks For White WorkerCustomer says "I got a right to have whatever I want and that's it. I don't feel bad about nothing."...
View ArticleHave pundits forgotten the FULL consequences for GOP after 2013 shutdown?
I have seen a couple of oblique comments in the media about how the last GOP shutdown was a "bad political move" or it "backfired" -- but the consequences for the GOP weren't just "bad," they were...
View ArticleSpeculating on San Bernardino
I have two theories — pure speculation — about how this slaughter came about.First theory: The wife was a “sleeper bride.” ISIS has a documented track record of reaching out to lonely Muslim women in...
View ArticleWas Tashfeen Malik the Lady MacBeth of San Bernardino?
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that Tashfeen Malik grew up in Saudi Arabia, where making disrespectful comments about Islam is a capital offense — and where the death penalty for offending Islam is...
View ArticleISIS grievances traced back to catastrophic defeat of 13th century caliphate...
An article in a The Tyee, an alternative newspaper published in Vancouver British Columbia, provides an fascinating analysis of the theological and cultural roots of ISIS. The well researched piece...
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