Blue=Safe, Red=Dangerous?
"City Crime Rankings," by Morgan Quitno Press, according to CNN, lists America's top ten safest and most dangerous cities. Where do they sort by blue and red?
View ArticleU.S. Fails Crisis Exercise called "Oil Shockwave"
On June 25th, 2005 a group of former and current government experts gathered to conduct a simulation of national importance. Their mission was to react and control an oil crisis sparked by unrest in...
View ArticleRemember Iraq's Endangered Heritage
Next week marks the very sad fourth anniversary of one of the many casualties of the Iraq war--the looting of the Iraq National Museum. Even worse than the looting of the museum is the massive...
View ArticleFor fence-sitters: THE DIFFERENCE between Obama and HRC
If you like this theme, please share it with any undecideds you might know. First, the short version: No matter what you, I, or the most hawkish neocons think of our involvement in Iraq, withdrawal...
View ArticleHillary is Unsafe (or Making USA safe for democracy w/poll w/poll
Well there you have it. Add blackmail to the long list of Clinton initiatives this election cycle. Now it's done. Even more done than it was yesterday. Threats like this from Hillary are so lowball...
View ArticleMcCain's face
I saw Brian Williams's interview John McCain tonight. McCain's left eyelid was drooping. He was also blinking very often. This brought to mind how he was presented in his political video last week...
View ArticleReframing the idea of "Keeping Us Safe"
Hi folks, I think we all know what the term "keeping us safe" has meant for the last 7 years - it's been about who would keep another 9/11 from happening. The GOP has somehow held the high-ground in...
View ArticleColorado Amendment 59 - Increase funding for K-12 schools
This is a very complex bill, for two reasons. First the restrictions of TABOR require significant complexity in addressing it's ratchet-down effect. Second, it focuses this funding on core educational...
View ArticleObama playing it (too) safe? [poll]
How will Obama govern? That is the question. Obama's message was that change outweighed experience; that it's just as likely that D.C. experience is harmful as it is helpful. Voters bought that message...
View ArticleIf You Are Attending a Tea Party In the Coming Hours..
If you are attending a Tea-Bagger Party in the coming hours, whether out of curiosity or looking to use that new camera, I have a few things to say to you; First of all, thanks for being active....
View ArticleNukes - radioactive waste problem *SOLVED* ?
Swedish nuclear researchers have discovered that natural processes in deep shaft nuclear waste storage can prevent waste from leaking into the surrounding soil and water table, significantly reducing...
View ArticleJohn Boehner's "Do You Feel Safe?"
House Minority Leader John Boehner's office yesterday released a new video entitled, "Do You Feel Safe?" It features ominous music & terrorist stock footage to make a simple case - when Obama took...
View ArticleDefine "safe," Dick
So Dick Cheney is on his media blitz saying Obama has made this country "less safe" by eliminating torture as a tactic the U.S. engages in and closing Guantanamo Bay. Hmmm. I, personally, am not too...
View ArticleThe General and the Private
Former Vice-president Dick Cheney says the U.S. is less safe under President Obama than it was under George W. Bush. Former Secretary of State and general Colin Powell says this is not true. Which one...
View ArticleThe Most Wonderful Sounds that Exist 20100310
This has been a very good week. My brother and nephew were shot and lived (there is an essay about that that you can find if you follow my name here), my son got very good news about his legal status,...
View ArticleMAJOR UPDATE: Reid Backs Brown and Sanders, Feingold Threatens Fillibuster!
MAJOR UPDATE FROM TPM: It appears Sanders has won! Dodd and Sanders have modified the amendment a bit but it still will allow the GAO to audit the FED and do what Sanders and so many want. With Dodd...
View ArticleCalifornia, Like Oregon, has a "Compromised and Inequitable" Death Penalty...
Originally posted at Fair and Unbalanced I do not believe that those executions made us safer; certainly I don’t believe they made us more noble as a society. -- Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber...
View ArticleDoomsday Shelter Below Kansas, For The Rich
The future residents of this shelter believe they'll be able to simply wait out the Apolcalypse in luxury this way. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/... When you buy a house, you end up feeling like you...
View ArticleThe inspirational Franky Carrillo story and CA-Proposition 34
Last Sunday I went to Roger Wolfson's residence in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Very nice house with an amphitheater in the garden. It was an event organized by SAFE. Mike Farrell...
View ArticleAbout that Republican Promise to"Make America Safe Again"
And that's just a sampling from the last time we had a Republican in the White House.
View ArticleSo That Happened
A few days ago I put safety pins on all my coats. Not really sure why. I assumed nobody would notice. That in a very small, tiny way I was making a statement. About inclusion. That if somebody was...
View ArticleThe Importance of Safe Spaces & Why Liberals Should Stop Criticizing Them
The term "safe space" has attained a negative connotation both due to the rhetoric of angry conservatives and liberals who echo this rhetoric as a way to express disdain for millennials. Before you...
View ArticleThey Ain't Heavy, They're My Family...
HE AIN’ T HEAVY, HE’S MY BROTHER… Footprints- on the border… Lightness...Sounds of SILENCE so deafening- MUTE buttons on? Go down MOSES… way down on the southern USA border- tell ol djt to Let My...
View ArticleRapper Sage Releases Amazing Video for March for Our Lives - "Safe" (The Most...
“Safe” by Sage, with Kesha & Chika.(Captioned version begins at 6:15 in video below)xxYouTube VideoOr you can watch Sage’s original release…xxYouTube Video...either one, or both, are...
View ArticleHappy Update! Transitional Housing
I’ve finally moved into transitional housing. It’s a lovely accessible apartment that was already set up for deafness, with flashy lights everywhere. It has wide doorways and low countertops should I...
View ArticleSAFE to Say that Trump’s “Turducken of Falsehoods” Clean Car Rollback Won’t...
Over the past couple of years, we’ve covered how Koch-funded groups have championed President Trump’s plan to make Americans buy more gas by rolling back fuel efficiency standards, how independent...
View ArticleThe climate (and all of us) may have dodged a big bullet, all thanks to...
Sheer incompetence is one of the Trump administration’s signature characteristics. That incompetence was on display to all Americans in spades last week as the administration struggled to at least give...
View ArticleTo Appease Oil Industry, Trump To Sacrifice Hundreds of Lives, Thousands of...
Back on Valentine’s day, we pointed you to stories from The Atlantic and the New York Times detailing the “turducken of falsehoods” required to justify the Trump administration’s proposal to roll back...
View ArticlePROCEED WITH CAUTION
This Memorial Day weekend should be fairly quiet. There’s only so much you can do when you’re social isolating, especially if you’re also broke. But if you are planning on going someplace, proceed...
View ArticleA Friday morning bulletin from Kansas.
Here is a bit more than the run-of-the mill “Go Team!” note of appreciation to our Democratic legislators. I live in downtown Topeka, two blocks east of the statehouse. I had serious health problems...
View ArticleGreat news....how a bad situation might turn out to be a blessing.
If you are not into personal diaries this might not be for you.For those that know me...BFSkinner aka Cameronprof you might recall diaries about my health and housing issues.I think now I'm finally set...
View ArticleSafe!
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View ArticleDemocrats Against Taxing Billionaires
I’m not much surprised that some former Democratic politicians move over to the dark side and corporate lobbying once out of office. There’s always a certain percentage of people who are in politics...
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