What's Happenin'? 06.19.12

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Tuesday June 19, 2012 · 5:30 AM PDT

2012/06/19 · 05:30

Welcome! "What's Happenin'?" is a casual community diary (a daily series, 8:30 AM Eastern on weekdays, 10 AM on weekends and holidays) where we hang out and talk about the goings on here and everywhere.

We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, news, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

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Sunday June 17, 2012 · 7:00 AM PDT

2012/06/17 · 07:00

We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, news, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

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Sunday June 10, 2012 · 6:59 AM PDT

2012/06/10 · 06:59

We chat about our lives, our health, our families, our social circles, our pets, etc. We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

Good Morning!

Springsteen & El Stingo:

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people.
There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

~Nelson Mandela~

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Saturday June 09, 2012 · 6:59 AM PDT

2012/06/09 · 06:59

We chat about our lives, our health, our families, our social circles, our pets, etc. We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

Good Morning!

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be
~Rachel Carson~

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Friday June 08, 2012 · 6:03 PM PDT

2012/06/08 · 18:03

Welcome to the DFH Freaky Friday weekly music series

Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, we’re here at roughly 9PM Eastern, every week. So take off your shoes, plop down on that beanbag chair over there, let your hair down, and get some groovy on.

So, you are marooned on a deserted tropical island. Yes, you do have Wilson to keep you company--but better than Wilson is the solar powered iPod you have filled with your favorite tunes.

What would your playlist include to pass the time while you wait for your rescue?

Message from Lady Libertine:

Announcement: FF Guest Hosts wanted!
Freaky Friday DFH weekly music series will continue through summer! If you have an idea for a music diary that you'd like to write/host one (or more) week, just drop me a kosmail. FF is fun to write, especially for new or diary-shy Diarists, lol. I'll be happy to assist if need with coding, embeds, and stuff, just ask. The FF June schedule is wide open!! C' mon, you know you want to! ~LL

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Tuesday May 29, 2012 · 5:30 AM PDT

2012/05/29 · 05:30

We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, news, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

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Friday May 25, 2012 · 5:31 AM PDT

2012/05/25 · 05:31

We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, news, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

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Tuesday May 22, 2012 · 5:31 AM PDT

2012/05/22 · 05:31

We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, news, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

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Sunday May 20, 2012 · 7:02 AM PDT

2012/05/20 · 07:02

We welcome links to your writings here on dkos or elsewhere, posts of pictures, music, news, etc.

Just about anything goes, but attacks and pie fights are not welcome here. This is a community diary and a friendly, peaceful, supportive place for people to interact.

Everyone who wants to join in peaceful interaction is very welcome here.

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Friday May 04, 2012 · 6:05 PM PDT

2012/05/04 · 18:05

Welcome to Team DFH's Freaky Friday weekly music series.

Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, we’re here at roughly 9PM Eastern, every week. So take off your shoes, plop down on that beanbag chair over there, let your hair down, maybe light up a fattie, and get some groovy on.

In the mid to late 1960's the San Francisco Bay area was a center to a musical and creative confluence that forever changed the landscape of American culture.

The music that was created in this period combined elements of folk, blues, soul, jug band, jazz, pop--- but the result cannot be categorized so easily.

In the 1950's the Beat poets and writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti visited often or made San Francisco their home, the music that was created later in the sixties had a philosophical kinship to those writers.

Not to overstate the synergistic effect of the use of psychedelic substances such as LSD and Mescaline, the experience while under their influence was a major part of the direction and zeitgeist of those years.

Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, which started in 65', gained the Grateful Dead an appreciative following.

Tickets $2.00--pretty good deal I'd say. Pretty sure that's Allen Ginsberg in photo.

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Monday March 19, 2012 · 10:25 AM PDT

2012/03/19 · 10:25

The massacre of 16 civilians in Afghanistan recently, allegedly by a US soldier, helps bring to light a troubling realization: that many, perhaps a majority of, Americans are addicted to warfare, or at least what the televised images of war reveal. The pro-war propaganda has been such a prominent feature of American life for the past 11 years that continual warfare is an accepted reality for many.

Chris Hedges knows that war is no more than state-sponsored murder:

We kill children nearly every day in Afghanistan. We do not usually kill them outside the structure of a military unit. If an American soldier had killed or wounded scores of civilians after the ignition of an improvised explosive device against his convoy, it would not have made the news. Units do not stick around to count their “collateral damage.” But the Afghans know. They hate us for the murderous rampages. They hate us for our hypocrisy.

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Wednesday March 14, 2012 · 6:41 AM PDT

2012/03/14 · 06:41

Juan Cole, a leading academic on middle eastern and south asian affairs, sees this as a possibility in the aftermath of the apparent massacre of 16 civilians in Afghanistan by a US soldier.

Americans in general should rethink our policy of perpetual war and constant foreign intervention, of war as a standing industry with lobbies and paid-for TV spokesmen, purveyed by all the US news networks to keep us hooked on foreign deployments.
War should be rare and a last resort.

One thing Panetta got right is that the UN Charter should govern it, so that we can finally put the crimes of the Axis behind us as we move into the 21st century.
War should either be for self-defense after an attack, or it should be to preserve dire threats to international order as deemed by the UN Security Council. Otherwise, it is not just a problem of a rogue sergeant, or of a rogue base.

It will increasingly be a problem of a rogue nation.

Well worth it to read Cole's whole piece:
http://www.juancole.com/... Read More

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