30 Bullets of Epic fail...

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Wednesday August 27, 2014 · 9:24 PM PDT

2014/08/27 · 21:24

Short diary - Yesterday Omaha Police killed a bad guy (armed with a pellet gun) and for good measure they also shot a cameraman for the TV reality show "Cops". Thirty bullets sprayed out all over the place.

Read about here - http://journalstar.com/...

And what do you suppose would be the second thing to make the news about this story?

That the city won't have to pay for it - http://www.ketv.com/...

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Saturday November 02, 2013 · 7:29 AM PDT

2013/11/02 · 07:29

This is a follow on diary to the one I published earlier about Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel putting the wood to the nine states that have or are still, refusing to process requests for Federal Military Identification cards for same sex spouses and their children using Army National or Air National Guard facilities.
The Original diary is Chuck Hagel throws gauntlet down.

There has been some very good discussion there, as well as some points about possible actions the Sec Def and Guard Bureau can take to rectify this completely unnecessary situation, and there are some things I want to add to the conversation to hopefully provide some better background information about a lot of issues wrapped up in this, that can and do bear on what is happening, how we got to this point and what can happen from here on out. Follow along for a better read this time I promise.

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Thursday October 31, 2013 · 11:53 PM PDT

2013/10/31 · 23:53

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel fired a shot across the bow today of Nine Red states that have refused to follow directives from the Dept of Defense and issue Military identification cards to the Spouses and children of same sex couples. Follow along below the orange jump and I will tell you why this is a big effing deal and how it is not going to end well for the states involved.

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Friday August 30, 2013 · 6:21 PM PDT

2013/08/30 · 18:21

If George Dubya Bush (The lesser) or anyone like him (can you say Willard) was President today, we already would been much past the point of suffering thru another "Commander codpiece" moment and the cruise missiles and B-2 bombers would have already lit up Syria like it was shock and awe part deux. The wonderful FACT is we are not... and regardless of what CNN and Faux news come up with, there is a conversation happening among Americans concerned and engaged about how our country will respond to the recent chemical attacks on civilians in Syria. Does "Anyone" think there would be such a discussion under a Republican President? Sometimes the (seemingly) only purpose leaders serve to their country is to be so bad an example that everyone remembers the grand mistakes and vows to not be fooled again by lies, jingoism and hollow patriotism.

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Sunday July 08, 2012 · 9:00 AM PDT

2012/07/08 · 09:00

What happens when your are getting bad press for your "undeclared" war on women, but you still want to continue it? Well you take it into "Super Secret mode".

You have your appointed state operatives take over the Federal grant process and yank the money from clinics that have been successful in supporting public health, especially those of women and adolescents for 40 years.

Read more of this horror story below.

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Sunday July 08, 2012 · 8:11 AM PDT

2012/07/08 · 08:11

On July 14th in Grand Island, the State Republican Party will have their convention. It is looking more and more likely that their will be fireworks and hopefully a few changes for the old guard of the party. It remains to be seen if the state party will follow their own constitution and by laws. But so far things are not looking good.

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Wednesday May 02, 2012 · 8:49 PM PDT

2012/05/02 · 20:49

Okay I get it. Current Republican wisdom says money trumps democracy and buying your way into office is not only acceptable, but extremely patriotic. But after getting THREE mass mailings from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker asking me to donate money to bail his ass out of the recall there, I have reached my limit.

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Tuesday July 19, 2011 · 6:56 AM PDT

2011/07/19 · 06:56

This week we have the grand act of kabuki theater where as the republicans will make a fantasy showing of voting for their cut, cap and balance the budget amendment. And it is nothing more than grandstanding for political advantage on a grand scale. Since both the senate and house versions have no chance of passing. This is nothing more than the DC version of stick it to the other guys so we can be in charge of the purse strings again. So what happens when they ARE in charge of the purse strings? Well we know for a fact that according to republicans "deficits don't matter". The GOP doesn't care about the national debt, and they don't care to balance the budget, you can see that by using the real world examples of how they operate. Follow me along for the next bit please.

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Friday March 18, 2011 · 8:30 AM PDT

2011/03/18 · 08:30

This is a follow up diary to my original one about using helicopters to help in ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan.

Original diary link - Helicopters to the rescue?

I am putting this up a second diary instead of an update to keep the bandwidth down for those good folks with slower internet connections.

please follow along below, for an update and more pictures.

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Wednesday March 16, 2011 · 9:02 PM PDT

2011/03/16 · 21:02

I was hoping to put up a technical diary of the techniques that would be used in a plan of using helicopters to drop water onto, or into the reactor buildings and more importantly, the fuel rod containment pool that is becoming ever so much more dire as you are reading this.

As I am writing this, I am watching the Ed Show and the latest reports are that they are pulling the last workers away from the damaged reactor site simply because radiation levels have become too high to continue working. Helicopters may be their only hope now. Containment from the ground is no longer possible it seems, so the only hope is help from the air.

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Friday March 04, 2011 · 6:04 PM PST

2011/03/04 · 18:04

To everyone, everywhere... keep pushing, keep donating, keep pushing for the truth.

Because they are losing. Even here in a complacent middle of America red state.

The Republican party has gone all out, full on, loaded up with Koch tear down the middle class, and main street is finally waking up to see it.

I have pictures and more after the jump.

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Monday February 28, 2011 · 8:38 PM PST

2011/02/28 · 20:38

Demonizing your neighbors. That is what has come down to. There are no easy dollars for them to squeeze from the working class, there are no more cheap and easy people to let go. All the easy targets are gone, and so it begins, they come for the people manning the ramparts, the ones holding the gates of the final bastion where it all began.

In Wisconsin, the birthplace of public unions.

I am not from there, nor do I live there.

But I stand with them every day and in every way I can to hold the line against this tide of injustice they are facing, because it is not just one state, it is all of us. Great American workers under attack, called worthless, overpaid, fat and lazy. The entrenched corporate lapdogs of the Koch Brothers would like you to believe those lies, and they are spewing them daily to frame their agenda and divide people, let me show you one of them.

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30 Bullets of Epic fail...

Chuck Hagel throws gauntlet down Part II. - Updated!

Chuck Hagel throws gauntlet down..

The real legacy of Bush.

War on Women goes super secret.

The big red fist comes down.

Third time is the charm.

The leveraged buyout of the USA.

Helicopters to the rescue, Part 2.

Helicopters to the rescue?

Even in a red state, they are losing.

This is what we are up against.