Mushroom Cloud Over Vegas? Divine Strake Test Blast, 6/2 Nevada
According to the WaPo on 3/31A huge mushroom cloud of dust is expected to rise over Nevada's desert in June when the Pentagon plans to detonate a gigantic 700-ton explosive -- the biggest open-air...
View ArticleThis Fat Liberal Will Be at YearlyKos
People have been talking about what they'll wear. I was quite surprised at the worrying about not being thin enough, and what kind of swimsuit to get. I'd imagined we'd look like the Macworld Expo...
View Article'My Blind Date With 1,000+ Kossacks': Get Your Ykos Diary Titles Here!
That's how I feel. I'm in my room at the Riv, wondering why I'm writing, and waiting for the A/C to cool me off a bit before going down. One thousand people+ I've never met before. Ta Da! Please...
View ArticleI Love Us! YearlyKos W/Pics
I'm posting some pics and outting my roommate, and saying I can't believe how wonderful YearlyKos was (Was! Waaah!) It was so professionally run; there was nothing cheap or unprofessional about it....
View ArticleDon't Despair of Global Warming: Practical, Positive Help
There has been some scary news lately--Darksyde's post about how Greenland's glaciers are melting at a faster than expected rate, humans are no doubt causing it, etc. It can be difficult not to feel...
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Mauna Kea Volcano Saved from More Development!
Good Environmental News Native Hawaiian groups and their supporters, along with the Sierra Club's Hawaii Chapter, have won an important battle for the preservation of their sacred volcano, Mauna Kea....
View ArticleIs Blackwater Deployed in SoCal?
Late last night, with the site down, and little to no network news on the fires in SoCal, I started reading Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater when on page XXV of the very introduction I saw:Blackwater...
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SF Bay Oil Spill: My Heart Breaks (Photos)
I was born and raised in San Francisco. I know I mention it a lot. For one, it's slightly unusual as a lot of the people who live here now were not born here. Two, it speaks to my deep love for the...
View ArticleNN Panel: Pretty Bird Woman House W/Video!
I attended the panel called Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA, which had 2 panelists from women's shelter, Pretty Bird Woman House, Georgia...
View ArticleObama Protected by Blackwater: Jeremy Scahill at NN
Blackwater, as part of the State Department's Worldwide Personal Protective Service, is protecting Barack Obama on his current trip to Afghanistan according to Jeremy Scahill, speaking today at the...
View ArticleGook: McCain's Racism w/Video
I met Irwin Tang first thing Thursday morning at Netroots Nation at the Asian American Pacific Islander Caucus. He held up his book Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters. As Irwin says, many...
View ArticleMcCain's Use of Gook-Kossack(me) Made Video! Send to People of Color!
This is a Netroots Nation success story. I met Irwin Tang, the author of Gook: McCain's Racism and Why It Matters, at the Netroots Nation Asian American Pacific Islander Caucus. I'd heard of McCain's...
View ArticleIt's Hitting Me Now
Like any good Kossack, I've been following the push for health care since I first came here in '05. I read all the health care nightmare stories, which sadly started to sound similar after a while....
View ArticleFire Damages Berkeley Humane Shelter-Help/Donations Needed
So sad--15 cats died in this fire. I have to hope it was from the smoke and not the actual fire. This is from The Berkeley East Bay Humane Society's website:Breaking News: In the early morning of May...
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