McCainopoly: little green Monopoly houses...
Think of those little green houses and red hotels that come with the Monopoly game. You can order packages of these as "spare parts" directly from Hasbro, which is the manufacturer.And you can have...
View ArticleGay Americans: Our path to equal rights
At this hour the status of Proposition 8 in California is still unclear, with early results from largely "conservative" areas showing it ahead, and yet with exit polls too close to call.We are united...
View ArticleSecession: Call their bluff & BREAK them!
According to the Constitution, a state can leave the union only with the consent of the other states.OK, let's give consent. To as many states as want it.They won't actually do the deed.But merely...
View ArticleSwine flu origin: I was mistaken...
Turns out I was mistaken. See below the fold...----Mexico City is a huge urban area with extensive suburbs. In those suburbs, which span the range from well-off to desperately poor, people commonly...
View ArticleSecret Service needs your help NOW (update)
There is a guy on the loose who told a bank teller, while making a 5-figure withdrawal, that he is going to hunt down and kill the President. The bank teller called the police, and the Secret Service...
View ArticleCo-ops: a hidden agenda, a hidden trap.
"Co-ops bad, co-ops bad...." we've been hearing this, saying it, and repeating it ad-nauseam throughout the health care debate.In doing so, we've been falling into a trap that will only benefit Big...
View ArticleClimate crisis: call to ARMS.
We see in another diary Oceans acidifying ten times faster that conditions are moving to the point where the plankton in the ocean are threatened. Phytoplankton are responsible for the majority of the...
View ArticleECSTASY series: Measure the Power!
Tonight's installment is about getting started with empirical measurements of your electricity consumption. And in the comments section, I'll post the results of a recent experiment.E.C.S.T.A.S.Y.—...
View ArticleThe ECSTASY of Time: Consuming Less, Enjoying More
I was originally planning something else tonight, but I got a wild idea and pursued it, and this diary is the result.E.C.S.T.A.S.Y.— End Consumption, Save The Air & Sea, Y'all!A support group and...
View ArticleProtecting our elected officials: collecting intel on extremists
Community Defense, part one: How to collect information on extremist groups.We've all seen the recent news about threats and criminal acts against elected officials, their offices, their homes, and in...
View ArticleProtecting our elected officials: neighborhood watch
Community Defense, part Two: watching a location.This diary is the second in a series about protecting and defending our elected officials. This part covers some basic points about watching or...
View ArticleECSTACY: A Scale with a Platform.
E.C.S.T.A.S.Y.— End Consumption, Save The Air & Sea, Y'all!A support group and discussion forum for those who want to kick the habits of consumption that are damaging the world we live in. This...
View ArticleECSTASY: Technology Paradigm
There's a good reason that a lot of us sutainabilty-oriented types appreciate the old Maytag wringer washers. It's not just that they're as water-efficient as front-loaders (you can wash the next load...
View ArticleECSTASY: The Emotional Narrative
(Another installment in the ECSTASY series: Ending Consumerism...)Emotions lead, and reason follows. Emotions decide, and reason explains. If you understand this point, you understand how elections...
View ArticleECSTASY: Put a dent in neo-feudalism!
Yesterday's diary Slouching toward neofeudalism was right on target. http://www.dailykos.com/...The neo-feudal lords and plundering plutocrats thrive on our money, which is to say, our consumption...
View ArticleECSTASY: Roots of Neofeudalism pt.1: Backstory
Overpopulation and overconsumption are the roots of the climate crisis, peak oil, mass extinctions, habitat loss, and all of the other ecological and resource crises of our time. They are also the...
View ArticleECSTASY: Neofeudalism, pt.2: Up close & personal.
Occasionally a member of the ruling class speaks the blunt truth about what they see as the Natural Order of Things. Occasionally someone who hears them blows the proverbial whistle. Buckminster...
View ArticleStochastic Terrorism: Triggering the shooters.
Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.This is...
View ArticleThe Intel Windfall: Huge.
Tonight we got more than Bin Laden. We got an enormous intel windfall. This means the end of Al Qaeda. No exaggeration. Update I was right: http://www.politico.com/... Quote: The assault force of...
View ArticleFight back: hit BofA where it counts.
BofA customers are bloody pissed right now. This is about how to fight back, help those customers, and hit BofA where it counts.BofA just slapped its customers with a $5/month fee for the privilege of...
View ArticleContraception: it's about employment discrimination.
The dirty little secret about the contraception debate is, it's about the ability of religiously-affiliated employers to use their health insurance policies as a means of discriminating against...
View ArticleApology to a fellow Geek, for the record.
I wasn't asked to write this or obligated to write it by anyone. Instead, a friend clued me in to something, and from allegiance to scientific method (facts before opinions) I'm bound to write...
View ArticleSecession: let 'em do the experiment!
No doubt you have heard about various states wanting to secede in reaction to ACA. For them I have a modest proposal. This is called "doing the experiment," which is slightly different to...
View ArticleEvangelicals and the GOP don't get it.
It's not just that Evangelicals' message is flawed. It's that the religious right's theology and morality are downright pernicious, and America has had enough.This post is a different perspective on...
View ArticleStochastic Terrorism: G2Geek replies.
(Yes, I've been away from here for a while. Whether I come back beyond this diary remains to be seen but isn't important.)This diary is in response to recent diaries by Lilith Gardener and Hugh Jim...
View ArticleMr. President: Arm & train Iraqi WOMEN.
When the all-male Iraqi Army faced a fight with ISIS, they turned tail and ran away. But there is one constituency in Iraq that has more "skin" in the game, and every incentive to fight as if their...
View ArticleVaccination: three serious proposals.
At last count, the Disney measles outbreak is at 114 cases, with one who took Amtrak in New York state while contagious. It's time for some serious proposals to deal with this and prevent future...
View ArticleBreaking: Ammon statement: Go Home to your families.
Heard just now on CBS radio network news (5PM Pacific time): Ammon Bundy released a statement from jail encouraging the remaining people at the bird sanctuary to “go home peacefully and be with their...
View ArticleDK Prediction Registry no.1
Accurate predictions lead to winning strategies and tactics in elections, in court cases, and in passing or blocking legislation.Many are the predictions made by DK members about everything of...
View ArticleDK Prediction Registry no.2
Accurate predictions help us win, inaccurate predictions help us lose, and bogus predictions not only help us lose but cost us credibility with the public.We have a collective interest in finding those...
View ArticleDK Prediction Registry No.3: Super Tuesday
How many times a day do you see someone here say “this will happen” or “that will happen”? How may of these comments are smart analysis or well-informed intuition, how many of them are throw-away...
View ArticleCruz unloads on Trump bigtime: must-watch video.
Ted Cruz has just “unloaded on Trump,” giving us enough good video clips to keep our campaign busy right up to Election Day.“Cruz: I’m going to do something I haven’t done for the entire campaign, for...
View ArticleRebuttal to "No Free Will" story: Part one, foundations.
The debate over free will typically runs to extremes. On one side, free will informs everything we do. On the other side, free will does not exist and any impression to the contrary is nothing more...
View ArticleFree Will part two: falsifying Big Bang determinism of human behavior.
In this installment we falsify Big Bang determinism of behavior, and look at local causality. Try as I might, brevity eludes me, so to keep these articles within reasonable length, I have to chop them...
View ArticleTrump threatens HRC w/ prison "after what she said about me."
This is the stuff of which dangerous dictatorships are made. Trump is now threatening to use criminal prosecution of Hillary as political revenge. Twice on Friday I heard CBS radio network news...
View ArticleDallas: consistent w/ right-wing militia tactics & goals.
There are three key facts right now, and a bunch of recent history, that support the hypothesis that this was an act by a right-wing militia group:a) Two to four snipers with high-powered rifles.b)...
View ArticleAfter victory, make peace.
Here’s an idea: A couple of folks from each HRC campaign office, go to their local Trump campaign office bringing a couple dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts or similar comfort-food snack, and seeking...
View ArticleTechnologists fighting Trumpism: Brainstorm, join us.
We are a small group of people in various areas of technology, who stand together in opposition and resistance to Trumpism, and in support of progressive Democrats in the elections of 2018, 2020, and...
View ArticleBomb threat calls: expert tech advice.
If your organization has received, or is at risk of receiving, bomb threats or other threatening phone calls, this information can help you record & preserve the calls as evidence for law...
View ArticleThe NRA Prayer Bucket Challenge and other tactics.
With American’s latest slaughter of children, comes the need for tactics to put the spotlight on the NRA and its corrupt minions, and the need for specific proposals to stop the carnage and those who...
View ArticleVoting Age 16 Now: "If you're old enough to die for your country..." DEMAND IT.
“Let's take a moment to honor the sacrifice of our brave schoolchildren who lay down their lives to protect our right to bear arms.” That quote by our own Gordon20024 got me to thinking.The voting age...
View ArticleStopping a Hitlerian atrocity: what we must do.
Ripping children from their mothers’ arms is a moral atrocity of historic magnitude. It is torture of children as policy. The adjective “Hitlerian” is not too strong. WE are morally obligated to put...
View ArticleHatred as major psychiatric disorder.
Untreated major depression or anxiety are not merely "being sad" or "being nervous." Hatred is not merely "anger" or "dislike." If you or a loved one has ever had serious depression or anxiety, you...
View ArticleJulian, thy name is Pawn.
Julian Assange will become a key factor in the Trump saga. As soon as he gets off the plane, accompanied by US Marshals, he will become an object of attention by Roger Stone’s prosecutors, Donald...
View ArticleOpen-Source Espionage: Trump declassification order blackmails Congress.
Open-Source Espionage (OSE) is the publication of classified information, knowing it will thereby fall into hostile hands, while being able to claim plausible deniability and legitimate motives, and...
View ArticleExploiting Putin's weak spot.
Putin has a weak spot and we can use it against him. We have a potent weapon at our disposal, and a point of leverage that’s a force-multiplier. We can all do our part and even have fun doing it....
View ArticlePower outages and telephone service.
The telephone is the one thing that is most likely to save your life in an emergency. I’m your resident telephone systems geek. Here’s what you need to know about having a working telephone during...
View ArticleOpen letter to Page & Strzok: we stand with you!
The purpose of this story is one thing, and one thing only: To express our solidarity with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and former FBI agent Peter Strzok.1) Background: Fellow DK-ers: by now you have...
View ArticleBLM: Trayvon's murderer sues his family for $100M as publicity stunt for film.
I just saw this in the BBC and it made my blood boil. George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon Martin to death but was acquitted of murder due to the “stand your ground” defense (“eek a black kid!, I’m in...
View ArticleTrump recording: analysis of audio. Likely Mark Meadows.
My professionally-qualified conclusion based on the audio characteristics of the recording we have heard, is that it was most likely recorded from within the White House at the behest of Trump, via...
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