What the f*ck is going on in the skies over DC/MD/VA?

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Monday December 01, 2008 · 7:49 PM PST

2008/12/01 · 19:49

First, I ask those of you who wish to make snide comments about this diary and you don't live in the Washington area - please keep them to yourselves. For those of you that live here don't simply dismiss my accounts because most people who talk about "UFOs" have a tenuous grip on reality. I tend to believe that myself - but, I cannot ingore what I have seen in the past week, and I doubt anyone who takes a moment to look for themselves will not have some questions about what they have seen.

We can debate what's going on up there, but the fact is that since Thanksgiving night, I have spent three nights and one pre-dawn morning watching dozens and dozens of strange lights skip through the skies over my home just north of DC - UFOs in a very technical sense.

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Have you seen the lights?

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Have you seen the lights?

No, didn't look

64 votes

No, did look.

12 votes

Yes, in the DC area

8 votes

Yes, in the rest of the world.

22 votes

Defending the Rich Pardon - Learn from Libby on C-SPAN3

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Tuesday July 10, 2007 · 5:24 PM PDT

2007/07/10 · 17:24

This is not a proper diary - just a heads up that C-SPAN3 is running some old 2001 testimony from congressional investigations into the Clinton pardons. Of particular interest for anyone who would like to know exactly who would defend the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich, the number one question in the minds of the scooter rooters. Of course, the answer is Scooter Libby.

Watch Libby's March 2001 appearance tonight at 8:35 PM EST on C-SPAN3, replaying tommorrow at 5:09AM.

***Unexpected double feature***
See what a White House staffer looks like infront of a congressional committee - UNDER OATH. I kid you not!

Frontpagers!!! Get the word out over there <<----</p> Read More

McCain Joke Bombs Again: A Nice IED for Jon Stewart

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Wednesday April 25, 2007 · 5:43 AM PDT

2007/04/25 · 05:43

There's been a few popular diaries concerning John McCain's appearance on the Daily Show last night. The video is available HERE, via theisnospoon's diary currently topping the charts.

There was so much meat in the 11 minute encounter, I think the most disturbing moment in the interview has flown under the collective radar: A Joke that bombed, not because this Senator misspoke, but because he didn't.

Near the start of the contest with Stewart, but after he confirmed he was seriously running for president, McCain announced he had something picked someting up during his market visit in Baghdad for Jon. Really?

"It's a nice IED to put under your desk!"

More violence after the fold, this time against animals

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Friday April 20, 2007 · 12:26 AM PDT

2007/04/20 · 00:26

I wish I could believe. The words of Dinesh D'Souza test my lack of faith. If only I could surrender myself to the supernatural world that he uses to justify himself. If only I could appeal to D'Souza's God for some good old testament-style punishment.

But, I am an Atheist. I don't have the luxury of D'Souza liberties of thought, nor his crutch, and his muse does not inspire me.

I'm inspired by anger and disgust.

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 6:03 PM PST

2007/02/13 · 18:03

I've been waiting for this new four-part Frontline dissection of our media culture and the role the press plays in shaping our lives.

This is blatant shilling for PBS, but Frontline has been a great font of investigation and dissemination of the Bush administration folly. Their docs play out like a prosecutor presenting a case, and we are the jury.

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UPDATE: Practically the entire witness list of the Libby trial seems to have spoken with Frontline.

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Sunday December 17, 2006 · 4:35 AM PST

2006/12/17 · 04:35

In case you haven't heard, your now esteemed co-kossack, Me, has been named Person of the Year! Apparently, they are very impressed with my blogging and YouTubery^TM (Ask my soon to be best-bud Colby, once you have this kind of influence you coin words by accident!)

Here's part of the letter notifying me of this great honor, as posted on CNN:

You are Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet sites such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. You were chosen over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong Il and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Congratulations.

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Who wants to touch me? I said "Who want to fucking touch me?"

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Who wants to touch me? I said "Who want to fucking touch me?"

65 votes

Me too!

194 votes

Death Penalty Meta/Poll - Botched Fl. Execution & Ca. Ruling

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Friday December 15, 2006 · 2:16 PM PST

2006/12/15 · 14:16

Despite the Bush family's near monopoly on state sanctioned killings, a grossly botched lethal (or almost-lethal) injection earlier this week has called into question the procedure in Florida. (Apparently, California has also now been ordered by state court to cease lethal injection.)

I hope that maybe this cascade of events will finally bring this topic back to the forefront of the American conscience. I notice this topic is not very engaging here, either.

For those who are counting. George 131 in Texas and Jeb 20 in Florida = 151 Deaths ORDERED by a child of G.H.W. Bush.

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The Death Penalty - Which Best Describes Your Viewpoint?

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The Death Penalty - Which Best Describes Your Viewpoint?

I favor more aggressive use of the death penalty

3 votes

I favor use "as is"

1 vote

I favor common usage with better safeguards

2 votes

I favor death sentences in only extreme cases

20 votes

I oppose death penalty, but sometimes it is best option

8 votes

I oppose death penalty no matter the circumstance.

105 votes

McKinney Circus- See the Blind Partisan Freaks!

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Wednesday April 05, 2006 · 10:08 AM PDT

2006/04/05 · 10:08

This is a new thread for Dem Democrats overflowing diary.

He wrote:

I am going to be accused of buying into the Republican spin and frame. I am going to be accused of being politically incorrect. I am going to be accused of being insensitive towards women and minorities and victims across this land. Some may even call me a racist or a sexist.
I don't care.
Cynthia McKinney is an embarrassment, she was wrong, and she should have simply apologized for the "incident," said it was an honest mistake, that she overreacted, and that that would have been the end of it.

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Tuesday January 17, 2006 · 6:20 PM PST

2006/01/17 · 18:20

Those who have seen the film "Good Night and Good Luck," may recall the final scene of the film, as the camera pans onto a pair of CBS in-house monitors. The image is of President Dwight Eisenhower and his words seem to be directed not at his contemporaries, but to ours:

"Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy; and he does not feel that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habaeus corpus act, and we respect it."

Of course, the words, in contrast to the current President's disrespect for Habaeus Corpus, are striking. But, so is the fact that most of us know so little about the the man who spoke them. It does seem, at times, that Dwight Eisenhower is the president that history forgot.

45 years ago, Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address to the nation. January 17th, 1961. We should have paid better attention. Read More

House & Senate Siege - Live on C-SPAN/Open Thread

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 11:49 AM PST

2005/12/19 · 11:49

C-SPAN - the freakiest, all reality network on TV. In the past 12 hours:

The House was in session an hour past sunrise this morning.
The President sandwiched some sleep between two bizarre appearances to justify insanity: The moment all our democracy and freedoms have been safely exported from our fragile shores, we will have won the war against terror and earned victory in Iraq.
In the Senate, it's the week before Christmas and direct from the House, not a bill was returning without being loused. While Democrats were sleeping, someone said "fuck to the rules" and Republicans danced and Ted Stevens drooled.

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Tuesday November 08, 2005 · 1:23 AM PST

2005/11/08 · 01:23

Fox News' Jim Pinkerton wants you to do as he says, and not say what he says.

Pinkerton sits on the Fox News Watch panel. This week, Pinkerton felt compelled to drag out the "Scalito" faux controversy a little longer. In case you didn't get the memo, Mike Doughney diaried Scalito: That's What This Wingnut PAC Calls Him!

In the midst of all this fabricated wingnut outrage over the term "Scalito," I opened one of my mailboxes this morning and found this item: an e-mail from the "Vanguard PAC" trumpeting the nomination of "Scalito."

Considering they coined the word, baited, and switched, when Pinkerton used the nickname within a minute of his rant, "Scalito" had returned to its proper owner. Read More

E-Vote Co. CEO Rigged Chavez Vote & Feds Know It

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 8:23 AM PDT

2005/10/19 · 08:23

This is an expansion on a diary submitted by Joan Reports last night. I had to find an answer -- why did the owner of this country's third largest electronic voting machine supplier, a citizen of Venezuela, have his U.S. entry visa revoked?

From joan reports' diary, CEO of Sequoia Voting is denied entry to US:

Sequoia Voting Systems company was sold in March (for a song, $16 million) to a Venezuelan-owned company -- Smartmatic. The new US headquarters is in Boca Raton. DeLaRue, the former owner, just cashed out of Sequoia at a loss.

And stranger still, last week our government denied permission for Sequoia's new CEO Antonio Mujica to return to the US.

Our embassy in Venezuela has revoked his visa...

What can we make of this?

I've googled together a glimpse into the history of Sequoia's parent company, Smartmatic, and it clearly reveals what the U.S. Embassy already knows: Hugo Chavez's government is corrupt to the core, and his special recall election last summer was rigged by Antonio Mujica! Read More

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This Atheist's Unanswered Prayer: Go to Hell, Mr. D'Souza!

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I've Been Named "Person of the Year!" Suck on that, Kos!

Death Penalty Meta/Poll - Botched Fl. Execution & Ca. Ruling

McKinney Circus- See the Blind Partisan Freaks!

45 Years & A Day Ago - We Were Warned

House & Senate Siege - Live on C-SPAN/Open Thread

A Fox News Fantasy Injustice Faux Pas

E-Vote Co. CEO Rigged Chavez Vote & Feds Know It