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I was kinda suspicious when I saw my wiki deleted. I just was wondering why after all these years someone felt the need to delete it. They added stuff about me to my husband’s who is more notable. William H. Cade. Oh well, I am over it, however I just...
by TexMex
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 05:59 AM PDT
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Surfing my xitter feed I found this Video. Edie Falco, I had never read anything about her berfore. Wikipedia link. I thought it was very good thing for me to share.
by eeff
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 04:40 PM PDT
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They fixed the name. Thank you for caring about me. my hair is grey now!
by TexMex
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 06:26 AM PDT
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I am rather surprised to fined that my wikipedia entry about me is gone. As a Mexican American who together with my husband discovered the first example of a predator locating it’s prey by the prey item’s sexual signal. My name was included in a major...
by TexMex
119 comments
on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 06:09 AM PST
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The Wikipedia page for Rabbi David Wolpe, author of the now famous editorial that appeared in The Atlantic last December, has been edited to include a lengthy discussion of the editorial. And the response to it. Unfortunately, the new Wikipedia...
by A Pagan in Arizona
38 comments
on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 04:17 PM PST
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The snow that falls on the Sierras in California is “water in the bank”. Falling as snow means water will be released with rising temperatures in spring and summer, ensuring a steady supply of ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 02:17 PM PST
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2023 was a busy year. A former President is under indictment, hawking his mug shot like it’s ...
by blueoregon
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Since as far back as the 1960s, Big Oil has been building a case that its disinfo is merely free speech. In more recent years, we've seen this narrative being used by Exxon in court and by CFACT and others for fundraising and app hyping. We even warned...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 05:17 AM PST
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l spent a good chunk of yesterday doing the summer fair thing — walking around looking at exhibits, stepping carefully through the livestock barns, and enjoying food so bad for you it’s good. The Altamont Fair has all kinds of entertainment, rides,...
by xaxnar
12 comments
on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 01:45 PM PDT
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Let’s hand it to Republican congressional hopeful Anthony Sabatini. When he plagiarizes stuff, he goes big, man. The former Florida state House member is fixing to ooze his way into the U.S. Congress, and after this news, one can’t help but wonder if...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
67 comments
on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Between 1850-1900 California settlers made the Spanish look like boy scouts when it came to killing, raping and pillaging in an obscene land grab begun by the gold rush. Malcom Harris’ new book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and The...
by blueoregon
30 comments
on Sat Sep 16, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Part One This Saturday morning I happened to catch a classic 1956 Warner Brothers cartoon — Yankee Dood It. I can’t remember having seen it as a child, but it was compelling enough to make me want to find out more. From the Wikipedia link: Yankee Dood...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Mar 25, 2023 at 11:46 AM PDT
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I was very fortunate to have been introduced to Hong Kong movies in the 1990’s, seeing many of ...
by blueoregon
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Merry Christmas! Happy Solstice! Happy Hanukkah! Here are the answers to yesterday’s questions. Answers are in bold. Followed by quotes and page citations from “Hollywood: The Oral History” by Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson, as well as links. 1. Lois...
by blueoregon
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on Sun Dec 25, 2022 at 11:59 AM PST
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The New York Times has a column by one of their regular conservative voices, Christopher Caldwell. So, where is he coming from? (For those who want to skip past this part as TL;DR, go down to the next section. But, I’m putting in this long preface...
by xaxnar
51 comments
on Tue May 31, 2022 at 11:51 AM PDT
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The USS The Sullivans is in trouble: BUFFALO, N.Y. (WUTV) — A historic World War II Naval ship under repairs is now sinking in Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in New York Crews have been repairing holes in USS The Sullivans in August 2021...
by xaxnar
36 comments
on Thu Apr 14, 2022 at 03:19 PM PDT
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Before everyone goes all ballistic on me, let me say I’m putting out the name of the former First Lady as an exercise at coming at Supreme Court nominations from a different perspective. [THIS IS A HYPOTHETICAL EXERCISE!!! — comments in brackets have...
by xaxnar
53 comments
on Thu Jan 27, 2022 at 11:56 AM PST
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The F-22 Raptor is America’s top-line Air Force fighter. For now... The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is an American single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed exclusively for the United States Air Force (USAF). The...
by xaxnar
75 comments
on Tue Jun 15, 2021 at 07:28 AM PDT
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This week Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez spoke out about her employers telling her she couldn’t report about sexual assault because she was a survivor. This came right on the heels of ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
50 comments
on Sat Apr 03, 2021 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Cuomo Update: He overrode experts to hide the numbers on Nursing Home Deaths - plus some Perspective From The New York Times: Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll. The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the...
by xaxnar
35 comments
on Fri Mar 05, 2021 at 11:19 AM PST
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- Ukraine managed to shoot down a big prize — a Russian Tu-22 bomber while it was returning from a mission to launch cruise missiles. It’s the first time Ukraine has destroyed one of these in flight. Russia, of course, claimed it was due to technical...76 comments 258 Recs
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- A man self-immolated near the site of the Trump trial in NYC. The man on fire had thrown around colourful pamphlets touting anti-government conspiracy theories, before self-immolating with lighter fluid. Several sources identify the man as Max...68 comments 115 Recs
- The point of this diary is that Russia of 2024 is in a mid stage of tranformation into a completely weaponized society along the lines of Nazi Germany and the rest of the world isn’t prepared to deal with it and truthfully doesn’t even understand what...7 comments 42 Recs
- There he goes again… Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again. It happened several times just now. His eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice. Talk about taking “anti-woke” to a whole new level. You would think...21 comments 38 Recs
- Conservatives, by definition, are slow to change, if at all. Changes with time and circumstances mark a progressive society. History is its own proof. We once burned so-called witches at the stake, ostracized left-handed people, disallowed a single...32 comments 93 Recs
- With righteous outrage and humor, Rep. Jared Moskowitz calls out MTG as Putin's envoy to US CongressBack in 1954, when Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anticommunist campaign was at its peak, the Wisconsin senator picked a fight with the U.S. Army, claiming there was lax security at a top-secret army facility. The U.S. Army hired Boston lawyer...167 comments 633 Recs
- Today, the state of Louisiana managed to do something I didn’t think possible — they found a new low. Once Jeff Landry, a far-right acolyte, was elected governor I knew the place was going to be in rough shape. The state legislature is hopeless, with...155 comments 548 Recs
- The BIGGEST NEWS of the DAY: Ukraine aid will finally get a vote and it took Democrats to get it done….. Mind you not enough Democrats but it is done. The country should have showed unity and voted as one. Bipartisan House coalition advances Ukraine aid A rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans — 316 — voted overwhelmingly to pass the procedural...86 comments 135 Recs
- This cartoon is written by me and drawn by the always-great R. E. Ryan. It's not just cruel - these laws are literally demanding the impossible. Human beings are, alas, embodied physical beings existing in a physical universe, and it follows that we...43 comments 168 Recs
- Complete Jury for "Litigant who is repeatedly using courts to seek revenge on political adversaries""Sandoval" hearing on Trump's admissible bad acts happened as well as completing the jury selection process including alternates. for his “falsifying business records trial” “Sandoval” Hearing (Part 59), prosecution provides list of all misconduct +...14 comments 28 Recs
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