The Drones of Dementia

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Sunday March 10, 2013 · 3:50 AM PDT

2013/03/10 · 03:50

Imagine you’re in a Monty Python sketch in a parallel universe (like, say, the one Faux Nooz viewers live in), Viking voices are raised in song:

Drones, drones, drones, drones
Drones, drones, drones, drones

Lovely drones, wonderful drones
Lovely drones, wonderful drones

harto

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Friday January 06, 2012 · 5:46 AM PST

2012/01/06 · 05:46

I had never been hospitalized before.

I was in my forties, and, save for a long, sadistic episode in which they WOULDN’T let me sleep, after ten hours in a steel mill in Kansas, having hit my head on pavement and requiring five or six stitches and the creepy claustrophobia of a CAT scan and nothing to eat (which I do not consider hospitalization, but, rather, the eight-hour airport layover from HELL).

As I was saying, except for that, I had never spent a night in a hospital bed...

harto

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Tuesday September 07, 2010 · 1:54 PM PDT

2010/09/07 · 13:54

The 2010 campaign begins in earnest today. (OK: It begins with the Labor Day picnics.)

And I am here to act as your Progressive Armorer.

harto

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 1:51 AM PDT

2010/04/13 · 01:51

Haley Barbour has an interesting history of winking at racism. A little noticed 2004 incident highlights it.

In light of all this, and the new radical twist that the Sons of Confederate Veterans have taken, you’ll be thrilled, no doubt, to know that the SCV-owned “Jefferson Davis Presidential Library”—at whose rededication and ground breaking Gov. Haley Barbour was a featured speaker—was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

But not to worry. Its rehabilitation is being paid for with your FEMA funds.

Grand re-opening is scheduled for August 2011. Details at the jump.

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Sunday April 11, 2010 · 9:57 AM PDT

2010/04/11 · 09:57

How come in all this debate on “slavery v. tariff” or whatever other rationalizations show up for the “Lost Cause Follies,” nobody bothered taking a look into the Sons of Confederate Veterans which is newly purged, political, and allied with open secessionists and a guy who’s stated “Appomattox was just halftime”?

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 8:25 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 20:25

"Republicans defend war criminals. Democrats only defend perfect and spotless Democrats, and not even then, generally..."

You probably have never heard of Van Jones. I hadn't until last week, and it is a virtual certainty that most of those swarming right now hadn't either ...

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Should we defend Democrats against Repug smears?

110 votes Vote Now!

Should we defend Democrats against Repug smears?

Yes. They may be flawed, but they're on our side.

61 votes

No. Only perfect people.

49 votes

MSNBC Misses the Astroturf in its own Building

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 12:03 AM PDT

2009/09/04 · 00:03

While MSNBC seems to be noticing that there are some REALLY creepy things being slipped by them — Politico reporting that the Pat Buchanan "Hitler" column is being removed from its website — there’s more (and WORSE) that they’re still missing ...

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Sunday March 09, 2008 · 8:18 AM PDT

2008/03/09 · 08:18

Obama's back on track again. According to final results, he beat Hillary Clinton in Wyoming today, "The Equality State" (and not, as cluelessly sneered in Slate by effete moron "Chadwick Matlin", "Despite this minor flurry of attention, the Cowboy State—that’s seriously its nickname—still won’t matter when all is said and done."), by 61-38.

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How do you feel about polls? Do you want to be polled more?

34 votes Vote Now!

How do you feel about polls? Do you want to be polled more?

Yes! I hate being polled.

2 votes

No. Poll me more.

9 votes

I think there's some kind of juvenile Freudian pun going on here.

19 votes

Undecided.

4 votes

Where The Buck Stops

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Saturday December 15, 2007 · 4:49 AM PST

2007/12/15 · 04:49

... let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
the Declaration of Independence (1776)

I used to think that Cindy Sheehan had gone a grudge too far, when she announced that she was going to challenge Nancy Pelosi for Pelosi’s House seat.

Why, Nancy Pelosi is the first woman Speaker of the House in U.S. history!

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Sunday December 09, 2007 · 10:25 AM PST

2007/12/09 · 10:25

DISCLAIMER: This is a dangerous column. It talks about subjects that some people find extremely discomforting, and raises issues that demonstrably drive many members of our society into homicidal frenzy. If you fall into EITHER of these classifications, please stop reading now. Beyond this, you're responsible for your own nightmares; you've been warned.

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Saturday December 08, 2007 · 1:32 PM PST

2007/12/08 · 13:32

Just a quick observation:

Self-appointed arbiters of truth and justice have been (correctly) apoplectic about the Saudi woman who is being punished for being gang-raped. (And now, about her lawyer , who is being punished for defending her.)

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Seasonal

12 votes Vote Now!

Seasonal

Semper fidelis

2 votes

Adeste fideles

4 votes

Fiddeles while Romus burnes

6 votes

Col. Boylan Story BROKE on dKos in August

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Friday November 02, 2007 · 5:11 AM PDT

2007/11/02 · 05:11

I thought I should put all my Col. Boylan investigative reporting in ONE place, so that it would be easier for dKosians to ignore and belittle.

I have been faithfully chronicling the silencing of "The Baghdad Diarist" since July. I have posted SOME of my work on DailyKos (remembering that the most "interest" I ever received here was last year, when some idiot decided -- along with his friends -- that my research on Howie Rich wasn't NEAR as interesting as attacking me repeatedly for being a "blogdumper" and a "blog whore.")

Funny: you've been getting the good stuff for FREE. What kind of self-respecting whore does that?

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I like

9 votes Vote Now!

I like

Chocolate ice cream

3 votes

Vanilla ice cream

1 vote

Rocky Road

3 votes

Real epistemology

2 votes

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The Drones of Dementia

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Founding Fathers Agree: Republicans Suck

Haley the Barbourian and the Invisible Empire

'Appomattox Was Halftime'

Van Jones - A "High Tech Lynching"

MSNBC Misses the Astroturf in its own Building

Pyrrhic Victory for Hillary

Where The Buck Stops

The Camels' Toes and the Camel's Nose

Rape, Justice or Just Us?

Col. Boylan Story BROKE on dKos in August