Oxymoron? Or Just Rank Dishonesty?
Just received this forward from a friend who's usually pretty sensible.An oxymoron lesson..... The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing,...
View ArticleSomething You Can Do To Help Disinfect...
one small corner of the country. If you choose to: Send a couple of emails to let the watchers know that someone is watching them.Justice Louis Brandeis-'Sunlight is said to be the best of...
View ArticleKeeping Law Enforcement Honest-Calibrating the Dogs (Updated)
Law enforcement uses various pieces of equipment as indicators of wrongdoing or violations of laws by the public. Basically the results are used as probable cause for further investigation. Radar guns,...
View ArticleMore Prison Privatization Consequences in Texas
DIBOLL, TX (KTRK) -- Sunday, July 20, 2014 The ceiling of a building at a correctional center in Diboll collapsed Saturday, injuring more than a dozen offenders.
View ArticleNorquist @Burning Man-Radical Inclusiveness
I'd heard that he was planning to go.The thought amused.The Atlantic's take on Burning Man
View ArticleOne Law. One People. No Second Tier.
When exceptions have become the rule, it's time to change the rule.Fairness is a concept so simple you don't even have to be human to perceive it. Try to give one pet a treat while ignoring another....
View ArticleThe Case For Keeping Sig Lines
Artful, snarky, graceful, thoughtful, provocative, funny. Sig lines are a feature of Dkos, not a bug, (at least for many of us), part of the visible character and lovable quirkiness of the site.But sig...
View ArticleChalk Up One For the Good Guys :-)
I mentioned in a comment the other day that an intellectually disabled man here in Oregon had been picked up & extradited to Kansas on a totally fabricated charge-BackgroundWell, after a bunch of...
View ArticleThe Dixie Swastika: Call for Graphic
artist to design a gif or vine of the 'stars n bars' flag transforming into a swastika shape that dissolves into ashes.Art direction: Have the bars break at the 2nd star, the central 'x' spins...
View ArticleUN Backed Humanitarian Asylum Zones?
The world has a significant and growing problem with refugees, displaced people & human trafficking. Between climate change and wars, there are currently hundreds of thousands of people migrating,...
View ArticleBastet in the Valley of Night
The night when the walls between the worlds grow thin is a time for stories. Especially true stories. Follow below, if you wish, for one with a bit of humor, and just a hint of a chill...
View ArticleSyria's Fuse In a Nutshell
In the interests of general information and clarification, and given the cascading downstream effects of the situation in Syria, I’m linking & throwing my $.02 into the following overview of the...
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Damn...(backstory)
I signed up with Daily Kos, (aka the Great Orange Satan), almost exactly eight years ago, in the run up to electing Barack Obama, one of the signature moments in my life. I bailed pretty quickly from...
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Damn, ::sigh:: (assistance requested).
I like to think I can juggle with the best, but sometimes the deadlines just stack up the wrong way. I can’t see any loopholes to slide through this time, so I need to ask the community for some...
View ArticleDamn, the Back Back Story, (with juicy stuff at the end)
The 'story' is that no good deed goes unpunished. Ari was one of the rescues I had. She came to me as a yearling filly, as a boarder, in California in the early 90’s.Owner was a total flake, (think the...
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The Farm's Safe...Thank You All
Thanks to this community’s generosity, the property taxes for the undeveloped side of the farm are paid, the certificate of redemption is date stamped and in our hot little hands with two days to...
View ArticleA Halloween Pony's Tale
The following story is true. Happened in the spring of 1988 or '89, so long ago now that it's hard to pinpoint it. But it’s really a Halloween tale and I leave the conclusions up to you. ;-)When the...
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Super Moon (a breather)
I did something last night that I rarely do, stopped off and slept at the beach. You’re really not supposed to, state parks & waysides in Oregon are technically closed after 2200, (10 PM), and if...
View ArticleSen Wyden & the 25th Amendment, (with poll& UPDATE).
Saturday night Senator Ron Wyden had his 8-hundred & somethingth constituent town hall. This one in Newport, Oregon.Calling it ‘well attended’ would be a charming understatement, (his staff was...
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My Saturday Night Visitor
I will miss this house. Aside from the recently realized fact that it’s the building where I’ve hung my hat longest in my life, (15 solid years), it’s also the place where I’ve had the greatest number...
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Feeling Very Discouraged Right Now
The weather made a beautiful summer around here this year. Drier than usual, but not as deathly hot as it was inland. It would have been the perfect season to get the undeveloped side of the farm...
View ArticleFranken Should NOT Resign.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater, people, geez.Women who have been harassed, accosted, molested, intimidated, etc, first- Should be believed. And next, they should be compensated...
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Thankful For Bfitz, and Community
This is a day set aside to be thankful. To count our blessings. BfitzinAR is one of the blessings I’m most thankful for.I stumbled onto this site via Keith Olbermann’s Countdown in September of 2008....
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Is the Democratic Memo Already Declassified?
Quick question:Meteor Blades pointed out earlier that declassification is a binary thing, once something’s declassified for one, it’s declassified for all.Doesn’t this mean, since there are so many in...
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They're Still Refusing to Give Back Any
of my horses. When the Oregon appeals court agreed that four of my horses had been ‘unlawfully seized’, I thought I was at least going to be able to rescue those four from fools and thieves.‘Unlawfully...
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David Ogden Stiers has died.
Sad news. Actor and arts patron David Ogden Stiers died at home in Oregon over the weekend, (March 3rd). Agent Mitchell Stubbs released that he succumbed to cancer.While his best remembered role may...
View ArticleAnd now, for something completely different...
An interlude, a calm voice of reason and hope in a chaotic world...xxYouTube VideoLet this balm fill your ears and carry you away for a while.(If you don’t have the full hour & 20 to listen, at...
View ArticleA Multi-front (& overdue) Update (Help Needed)
Yeah, I've been even more hit 'n miss than usual the past several months, but things have been happening, (or piling up, whichever).First off, Mischa is still doing great, the staples are
View ArticleCounting My Blessings, (assistance requested).
Things happen, life goes on. I’ve made a habit over the years of counting my blessings for what could have happened but didn’t.Monday evening I was driving to Eugene, Oregon to visit a writer friend of...
View ArticleHobo- A True Halloween Pony's Tale
We stand on the Eve of November, All Hallow’s Evening, when the walls between the worlds grow thin enough that sometimes something slips through.This story is true. It happened in the spring of 1988 or...
View ArticleThe Baculum King's Driving Diary
When he was active here, The Baculum King , (sometimes referred to as TBK), would repost this diary ahead of the major driving holidays. After he left he had given permission for it to be reposted, but...
View ArticleIDK About you, but I could use a double shot of laughter tonite, (Randy...
Thank FSM and whatever other powers that be, we have both ShowerCap and Randy Rainbow to pull us through this mess.Hit it, Randy...xxYouTube Video
View ArticleSecret Ballot for the Final Vote? (with poll)
Does anyone know if there’s a reason the Senate couldn’t pass a motion for the final impeachment vote to be via secret ballot?It’s been mentioned that when the Framers set things up, Senators would...
View ArticleAssistance Requested, ::sigh::
I’ve been putting this off, hoping that something would move or change and let me slide by, but I am going to have to ask the community for help on some emergency expenses.Have you seen that little...
View ArticleWe Need a Rainbow Break!
Brand new...xxYouTube VideoAnd for a smashing double shot, this one from a couple of weeks back,xxYouTube Video
View ArticleThe Race is On, (Putin's Got Another Problem).Updated.
World wide awareness that fossil fuels are going to be restricted and more heavily taxed is gaining momentum. Inevitably, there will be a race to see who ends up with the fewest stranded assets and the...
View ArticleOregon State Police, Not the National Guard, Should Be Called In By Gov. Brown.
For a number of reasons. Firstly, OSP answers to Oregon’s executive exclusively, they can't be co opted by any other authority, unlike the NG- which can be federalized, legally, and in very short...
View ArticleKicking & Screaming?... Well, Okay.
Not really a diary, just blowing off a little steam and preparing to CELEBRATE!xxYouTube Video
View ArticleUpdate on the Tulsa Truck/Trailer Driving Through Protestors, (with poll)....
I just saw the video in Lefty Coaster’s diary about the new Oklahoma law that indemnifies drivers in riot situations and I need to qualify and defend this particulardriver’s actions.This is a four...
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PWB: Pferde pfür Pfreitag
Welcome to the Peeps evening thread.I probably won’t be around until pretty late, so please enjoy.Rules of Engagement:You know how this works, but as always, a gentle reminder: Pooties are cats;...
View ArticleWhere the money is- My Letter to DC's Office of Attorney General (with poll)
I was just reading Laura Clawson’s piece on the DC AG Karl Racine’s civil suit against the Proud Boys, using the anti-KKK law, (and KeithDB's), and it occurred to me that the rally which kicked off the...
View ArticleNah, The Hearings Aren't Bothering tfg At All, HAHAHAHA. (with poll)
Yeah, I’m not putting that jackass’s image up again, I like you folks too much.
View ArticleWhat We Learned: He Intended To Be Leading the Charge.
From Cassidy Hutchinson‘s testimony today we learned that Donald Trump knew the rioters were armed and had planned to lead them to the Capitol.And that he was furious at being denied the opportunity to...
View ArticleMSNBC Calls It, NO Wins in Kansas!
BREAKING: The referendum in Kansas trying to gut the state constitution’s support of abortion has gone down!MSNBC has just called it. Kornacki got clearance to make the announcement. Voter turnout...
View ArticleSCIENCE Fiction Author Greg Bear Has Died.
Geekwire is reporting that Hugo & Nebula award winning science fiction writer Greg Bear died Saturday in Seattle of complications from heart surgery.One of the ‘Four B’s’ of ‘hard’ science fiction,...
View ArticleEarth Day: Humanity, Its Environment & Historical Relationships. (now...
A lot us have been casting about and asking why things have gotten so out of control and crazed over the past number of years. The polarization, the increasingly hair-trigger reactiveness, the rampant...
View ArticleSomething a Little Lighter: Paraprosdokians
A friend sent this today. I don’t know about all of you, but it sure helped me smile.Enjoy!
View ArticleFirst Utility Scale Wave Power Test Site Starts Construction.
Just heard from my State Rep, Dave Gomberg; construction of the first utility grade, grid connected wave energy testing site will begin next week in Oregon!Excerpts from his press release:[G]ood work...
View ArticleHobo: A Halloween Pony's Tale
We stand on the Eve of November, All Hallow’s Ev’ning, when the walls between the worlds grow thin enough that sometimes something slips through.
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Daily Bucket: Shift Change on Yaquina Bay
The year is rapidly winding down.(this was originally scheduled for Friday) I thought a Bucket with an unfocused, contemplative feel might be nice to close things out.I’d been intending to do some...
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