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by TaMara| 36 Comments
This post is in: Climate Change Solutions, Make The World A Better Place, Nature & Respite, Open Threads
Keeping with my vow to limit my political junky tendencies, I find myself reading more and more non-political stories these days, watching more helpful youtube videos and really diving into Climate Change Solutions these days. I’m going to try and post more on Climate Solutions as time permits. Meanwhile, here are a couple of stories …
Good News: Finding Fossils and Climate ActivismPost + Comments (36)
by Elon James White| 43 Comments
This post is in: This Week In Blackness
In 2012 suicide surpassed combat deaths in the U.S. military. While there have been multiple studies done on this tragic fact one man in a silly hat has done what those liberal scientist and mental health professionals are afraid to tell you. But I’ll tell you why more and more warrior heroes of the military …
Obama Sucks so Hard, Soldiers are Killing Themselves?Post + Comments (43)
by Zandar| 257 Comments
This post is in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Glibertarianism, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Bring on the Brawndo!, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To
King Reasonoid Matt Welch reminds us that ESPN’s Chris Broussard apparently has every right to be a homophobic fundamentalist bigot about NBA player Jason Collins coming out because AMERICA. Broussard is predictably getting beaten to a rhetoric pulp on Twitter. And while I think today is a wonderful, watershed day for people (especially the artist …
by John Cole| 18 Comments
This post is in: Domestic Politics
No wonder so many Democrats get mad at Bob Somerby- he is honest: Broussard’s story gained massive attention—but his chronology never seemed to make sense, and it now seems that it was just wrong. The woman in question drowned early in the New Orleans flood, not on Day Five, as Broussard had said. For all …
This post is in: Domestic Politics
Apparently Russert corrected the record yesterday regarding Broussard’s falsehoods (and I don’t mean to say they were intentional, but they were false, nonetheless) regarding his dramatic appearance on Meet the Press several weeks ago, and that has all sorts of people in a snit. My good friend John Amato at Crooks and Liars writes: Tim …
This post is in: Domestic Politics
Remember this Meet The Press moment: BROUSSARD: … The guy who runs this building I’m in, emergency management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” And he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get …
Another Katrina Myth Permanently De-BunkedPost + Comments (135)
This post is in: Domestic Politics
I understand a great number of people on both sides of the political spectrum think FEMA has not reacted fast enough, but there is just a large degree of stuff out there that is turning out to be inacccurate, an incomplete portrayal of events, or, in some cases, just plain nonsense. Here are some examples: …