This should never have become a diary

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Sunday September 03, 2023 · 2:39 PM PDT

2023/09/03 · 14:39

This is hardly a diary. It should never have become a diary. But thanks to the pique of Facebook’s executives, I can no longer share Daily Kos stories on Facebook.

Why? Canada’s recently passed C-18 requires social media companies with incomes of over $1B a year to pay royalties to the content producers. The response from Facebook has been to block any news from any source in the world if the poster is from Canada. At least Facebook considers dKos a “news outlet”.

But they also are blocking the student newspaper from the University of Victoria from using Facebook to distribute their stories to students.

They have blocked the government agencies putting out fire warnings to local residents in BC from using Facebook (and Twitter is doing the same thing).

Yesterday, the Government posted the estimate of what royalties should come from these mega-anti-social media outlets: Google — $172M, Facebook — $62M a year. Those royalties would go to newspapers and MSM outlets, just like Netflix and Spotify pay content providers.

META says they will never change this policy of blocking Canadian news. And this is from companies where Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk pretend to stand for free speech.

I guess Free Speech is free only for them.

The times they are a changin'

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Monday December 07, 2020 · 5:27 PM PST

2020/12/07 · 17:27

Well, this is proof that the 60's are over.

Bob Dylan sold his entire catalogue to Universal Pictures for $300M.

He told us he was going to do this.....

"Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'

BIBLICAL!

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Sunday November 22, 2020 · 3:29 PM PST

2020/11/22 · 15:29

Revelations 18:8:

“Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her:
death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Is that about the fall of Mighty Babylon or Sidney Powell?

I have an honest question

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Sunday December 29, 2019 · 9:52 AM PST

2019/12/29 · 09:52

On the www dot usa dot gov voter registration website, the above image was found for people who “CAN’T VOTE”.

Does anyone understand why it says that?

Help fight an attack on the International Brigades

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Friday June 07, 2013 · 5:47 AM PDT

2013/06/07 · 05:47

no image description available — Friends and Families of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at the unveiling of the UCM Memorial.

Friends and Families of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at the unveiling of the UCM Memorial.

On December 24, 1936, 92 Americans boarded the Normandie in New York City and headed for Cherbourg, France. Within a month, they were in Spain, the first of nearly 2600 Americans who went to fight for the Republican government. Nearly half of those Americans remained under Spanish soil, some without any hope of their families finding the mass graves they were buried in.

The Spanish Civil War lasted until 1939 and augured the disaster that was to befall Europe. Franco, who led the rebel forces which attacked and defeated the Republic of Spain, would never have succeeded without Hitler's Condor Legions and Mussolini's Black Shirt troops and tanks. Spain was the first battle in the Second World War.

JekyllinHyde wrote a wonderful two part review on the war in Part I and Part II.

In 2011, a memorial (see the photo above) was placed at the University Complutense de Madrid to the Brigidistas who fought there. Within days, the memorial was defaced with red paint and the word "Rojas" or "Reds". Also within days, Miguel Garcia, a right wing lawyer, had filed a suit to have the monument removed based on a technicality... the local government had not approved the mounting of the monument at the University.

Yesterday, the Tribunal Superior de Madrid ruled. The sad news is over the fold.

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Monday January 28, 2013 · 4:42 PM PST

2013/01/28 · 16:42

I don't see a diary on this on the recent list but if one appears, I will pull this down.

The bill passed 62-36 with the help of about 5 Republicans.

These other cretins voted "No"

Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Lee (R-UT)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)

This election could not be simpler

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Monday October 22, 2012 · 4:40 PM PDT

2012/10/22 · 16:40

This needs not be a long diary.

I have to give credit to a male graduate student of mine for clarifying this election.

Women overwhelmingly support Obama.

Men tend to support Romney.

We win this election when women say to men

If Mitt Romney gets elected, you will never get laid again.

Pass it on.

Poll

19 votes Show Results

Men will vote

19 votes Vote Now!

Men will vote

with their heads

2 votes

with their hearts

1 vote

with their privates

16 votes

The Daily Show/The Colbert Report (Reupped edition)

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Thursday July 26, 2012 · 7:55 PM PDT

2012/07/26 · 19:55

The big news of the day is that the boys have decided it is not a good time to go on unemployment insurance. Comedy Central has announced that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have resigned (as in "to sign again" not "to quit") with the network for another two year hitch. Jon is good through the middle of 2015 and Stephen through the end of 2014. So we have two years before we reach Spoiler Armageddon and the proverbial comedy cliff.

The Spoiler Kitty thinks this is just great. "I was waiting for Viacom to make my day".

More on the other side of the dust bunny....

Poll

54 votes Show Results

Mitt Romney's most memorable moment of July 26, 2012

54 votes Vote Now!

Mitt Romney's most memorable moment of July 26, 2012

Calling the UK Great Britain

1 vote

Talking about 10 Downing's backside

10 votes

Saying that the British might not support the Olympics

14 votes

Forgetting Ed Miliband's name

7 votes

Pointing out that President Obama doesn't understand our Anglo-Saxon Heritage

14 votes

Not knowing that Stanley Ann Dunham was of British heritage

3 votes

Promising to exhume Winston Churchill and putting his bust in the Oval Office

5 votes

The Daily Show/The Colbert Report (The Unauthorized Edition)

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Wednesday July 25, 2012 · 7:55 PM PDT

2012/07/25 · 19:55

Ms Tia Rachel continues to enjoy her summer holiday so it is my pleasure to provide a safe harbor away from the trials of thinking and tribulations from having your dKos diaries earn nothing but donuts.

The Spoiler Kitty got a dye job.

And you notice that she has the same coloration as the "croissant" below. Actually, does anyone know the official name for the "orange croissant"? I found a website which calls them Vintage Flourish Vector Elements". That sucker just rolls off your tongue, doesn't it.

More below the Vintage Flourish Vector Element....

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Monday April 02, 2012 · 6:23 PM PDT

2012/04/02 · 18:23

Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, was in DC today meeting with President Obama and President Calderon of Mexico. After the meeting at the White House, Mr. Harper accepted an invitation to a Q&A at the Wilson Center in the Reagan Building. I was fortunate to get an invitation to attend from the Canadian Embassy.

You can see that for most of the one hour session there were two people on stage. Mr. Harper was clearly the most articulate and intelligent of the two.

For those of you who have seen this format at Netroots Nation, it takes some skill to put aside your ego and be the Interviewer instead of the interviewee. Mr. Harper was treated to approximately ten questions over the one hour period and the privilege of hearing Ms Harman go on and on about what she thought about various issues. Unfortunately, the audience came to hear Mr. Harper and not Ms Harman and they were deprived of his opinion for most of the hour.

I don't know why I expected different from Ms Harman. You can find a backgrounder on her from Seneca Doane prior to the 2010 election here.

The gory details over the jump....

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Sunday March 18, 2012 · 9:17 AM PDT

2012/03/18 · 09:17

In a story that the liberal media are too afraid to publish, scientists at the National Center For Looking Out For Your Own Good (NCFLOFYOG) have announced that an asteroid has a 43.702% chance of crashing into the Earth on December 21, 2012.

In a quick comment, Senator James Inhofe went on Rachel Maddow's show to announce:

This is obviously a hoax (read my book) by your supporters, Rachel, to destroy our economy. We believe that we can protect the planet by drilling for oil in Alaska and it will speed us up enough to move the planet out of the way.

As a response, Congressman Waxman of California responded:

Typically, the Republicans tied this potential disaster to oil. What we really need is to raise NASA's budget so they can study the orbit of this asteroid.

Senator Mitch McConnell has introduced a bill in the Senate to privatize the asteroid. His office gave a short statement:

We believe that the market can handle this crisis. The last thing we want to do is to spend government money to regulate the solar system. That is why we are in this mess.

Ron Paul's press secretary said that the candidate was unavailable to comment but:

Our campaign is based on Libertarian principles. We believe that the government should just get out of the way. If the asteroid were to destroy the Federal Reserve, Mr. Paul has a plan for mining the gold out of the asteroid to replace it.

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Wednesday October 19, 2011 · 4:56 PM PDT

2011/10/19 · 16:56

Yesterday, as Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland announced a plan to raise the gas tax in Maryland by 15% over three years to repair all those potholes and bridges which are in danger of falling down, Grover Nordquist was outside with the Tea Party spouting his "No New Taxes" pledge.

I applaud my Governor for having the courage to do the right thing, but I have no delusions that other states will follow suit. We all know that the probability of raising taxes in Congress verges on nil. Perhaps people will look at Greece and see what a regressive tax system brought on by the International Monetary Fund does to the average working person. They, too, don't tax the rich.

I have a solution below the jump which doesn't involve taxes.

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Breaking! Asteroid to destroy the Earth.

Time for the 1% to tithe