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Rabbi Arnstein is about peace. Peace of the soul. This article is about pushing your fear button. Local conservative online news puts out an article about the FBI holding nuclear drills in Houston. Nuclear attack drills start in Houston under the FBI...
by iarnstein
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 05:10 PM PDT
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Over seven months in, it’s perfectly understandable that many are not following every thrust and parry in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin assumed that Russian forces could stroll into Ukraine in a “three-day war” that ended with his troops...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Sep 29, 2022 at 11:07 AM PDT
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Moscow led a war of liberation against (for?) the Afghans in 1979. At one point, they had stationed over 120,000 troops, supported by heavy tanks, personnel carriers, and most importantly, helicopters. After nine bloody, hard, fruitless and...
by agnostic
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on Wed Mar 09, 2022 at 06:34 PM PST
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It's 3am and I can't sleep.
Booting up so I can tweet.
Fat women floating in my head.
Keep me from sleeping in my bed.
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I'm the Prez, me thinks I am.
I says what I says, 'cause I'm The Man.
You want me when the call comes in.
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by krb
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on Fri Sep 30, 2016 at 08:15 PM PDT
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The next time some right wing nut job tells me that we (read that secret Muslim, Obama) aren't doing “anything” to stop ISIS and the Muslim threat, instead of engaging them in some pointless discussio
by Doctor Jazz
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on Wed Dec 16, 2015 at 08:53 PM PST
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I admit that I am not tracking this issue much beyond the headlines, in part because of the outrageousness of the Republicans' behavior. It was obnoxious and crazy, per ideological design, from the ...
by Words In Action
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on Thu Apr 02, 2015 at 11:11 AM PDT
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This week marks a dramatic alteration of the governmental process by which presidents win approval for their nominees for administrative and Appeals Court posts. The filibusters that during this ...
by TwoWindows
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on Thu Nov 21, 2013 at 02:44 PM PST
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In response to a North Korean nuclear test, the right wing ex-mayor of San Diego, Roger Hedgecock, breathlessly announced on his February 12th talk show that North Korea now has the ...
by WCWatch
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on Wed Feb 13, 2013 at 03:03 PM PST
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We will begin with the Senator. The Weather/Dam info has been updated from last nights diary.
Senator Ben Nelson is stressed about the two nuclear plants in his State of Nebraska. Dam Report.
by War on Error
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on Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 10:20 AM PDT
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Senator Ben Nelson is stressed about the two nuclear plants in his State of Nebraska. Dam Report.
THE ...
by War on Error
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on Wed Jun 29, 2011 at 10:07 PM PDT
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The cards have been laid out on the table. Hats off to OPPD, the NCR, and David Lochbaum for answering important questions posed by Nancy Gaarder and Sam Womack, staff writers for the World-Herald.
by War on Error
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on Mon Jun 27, 2011 at 07:05 PM PDT
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Video Update:
by War on Error
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on Mon Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM PDT
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The facts are simple: A nuclear bomb is the only proven RAPID solution for runaway underwater oil ...
by leftinMississippi
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on Thu Jun 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM PDT
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This is a republish of an earlier diary that has been updated to include some recent discussion about the topic. I know it isn't popular, I want this to be included in the discussion as a last-...
by innereye
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on Fri Jun 04, 2010 at 02:04 PM PDT
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New Hampshire Representative Nick Levasseur said via Facebook: "Anime is a prime example of why two nukes wasn't enough."
by Tsubs
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on Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 10:56 AM PDT
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After one Presidential hopeful started to talk about obliterating a country, many commenters here were outraged. Now ...
by allmost liberal european
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on Sat May 03, 2008 at 01:22 PM PDT
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The resurgence of nuclear power suffered a couple of hard blows in the past months putting the ‘nuclear renaissance’ back in the Dark Ages. The culprit was not anti-nuclear activists or ...
by DJ Monet
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on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 05:05 PM PDT
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