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Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Odd Reality Avoidance Within The Eric Holder Felon Voting-Rights Stories….

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Homeless Stories - Xmas Gifts for the Homeless- @DylanDdogTv

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Lee Camp: The Most Jaw-Dropping Underreported Stories of 2013

LIsten. First there was the Negroid. I know that. The Creationists know that. But the problem is: you compare the Negroids to the Gray Aliens and you get, what? Only a difference that is called THE ASIANS. Why do Japanesus dudes (hail, Jesus!) have such small dicks? I REST MY CASE.

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The stories my family wouldn’t tell: Living through war in Lebanon

Every other year, Jalil and his friend would drive to Germany to trade in their cars. The trip would take a few months, through Bulgaria and Serbia; he’d stop at roadside stands and buy fine hand-cut crystal glasses, sold by poor Soviet-satellite artisans for next to nothing, and bring them home to sell and give as gifts. One year, sometime before the civil war started, his daughters begged him, “Don’t get a yellow Mercedes!” The color was, for some reason, very popular that year, but Hanadi and Rula thought it made the otherwise classy car look like a taxi. He promised he wouldn’t, but when he drove back into town, of course it was in the big yellow car. They hated it, but after two years he traded it in again, though he doesn’t make the trip anymore. The road from Lebanon to Germany is not what it used to be.

During those times when Jalil was away, Henriette would have to start feeding the dog scraps from the table, since she didn’t have a car, and couldn’t drive to the meat-packing factory for Fox’s usual fare. The Sulaki would look at her, then at the food, then back at her, without touching it, and whine.

“If you don’t want to eat that,” Henriette would scold, as if he should understand her words, “you better pray the one who brings the good stuff comes back.”

In July of 1976, about a year after the start of the civil war, news came that Christian forces would begin a counterattack against the Muslim militia. All the schools closed, and the last thing on the dissolving government’s agenda was making sure teachers were still getting paid. This put Jalil, a physical education teacher, out of work, and the family in danger. My mother told me they left to live with a family in Tartous, Syria.

They had to leave Fox behind at the house, with my mother’s aunt and grandfather. The two of them stayed in the town with seven or eight other elderly people who couldn’t travel, along with my father’s family and a few other stubborn Lebanese — though my father told me the decision to stay near nearly cost him his life. But part of me can’t blame them. In a place and time like that, leaving meant abandoning everything; you might come back to find your house still standing, but what would be left of your life when you returned?

When the fighting finally reached Ras Masqa — at that time the last town before Tripoli, and what became the stalemated front line between Muslim and Christian forces — militiamen on both sides swept through the streets, shooting cats, dogs, birds — every animal they found — so that their barks and screeches wouldn’t give away the soldiers’ positions to their enemies.

Fox was the last dog they ever had. My grandfather was too heartbroken to replace him, even though he had owned hunting dogs all his life. And my mother, though it is clear she loves dogs, and never hesitates to baby-sit my sister’s or the neighbors’ dogs, has always refused to get one of her own. Growing up she gave other reasons: She didn’t want to clean up after it, or didn’t want it scratching up the furniture. But now I know this isn’t the truth — not the complete truth, anyway.

I also know that what she said about going to live with a family in Tartous wasn’t the complete truth either. They did go to Tartous, but they lived by themselves in a single room, with no electricity, no bathroom and no water. All seven of them — jiddou Jalil, taita Henriette, my mother Hanadi, age 14, aunt Rula, 12, uncle Michael, 8, uncle Chadi, 2 and a half, and my aunt Nidal, just 8 months — slept on two mattresses pushed together on the floor, with a single kerosene lamp for light, and a kerosene stove for cooking and heat. They left Ras Masqa in a hurry, with the clothes on their backs and no money, not knowing how long they would be gone. Jalil taxied people from Tartous to Damascus so the family could eat. They lived that way for four months, though it would be almost a year before they could return home.

This is what my mother wouldn’t talk about. Those days spent crowded in that room — the oldest of five children in exile, her mother still nursing the youngest, and her father gone for most hours of the day. Those days of her life she wouldn’t share with me. Not yet, at least.

No, that story was told to me by my grandfather Jalil. ButJalil, he wouldn’t talk about the dog.

This piece is the latest in a series by feminists of color, curated by Roxane Gay. To submit to the series, email rgay@salon.com.

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Monday, November 11, 2013

In "Fire And Forget," Vets-Turned-Writers Tell Their War Stories

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U.S. Army soldiers begin their journey home from Iraq on July 13, 2010.

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U.S. Army soldiers begin their journey home from Iraq on July 13, 2010.

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This Veterans Day, considers these lines from the preface to Fire And Forget, a collection of short stories by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan:

On the one hand, we want to remind you … of what happened … and insist you recollect those men and women who fought, bled, and died in dangerous and far-away places. On the other hand, there’s nothing most of us would rather do than leave these wars behind. No matter what we do next, the soft tension of the trigger pull is something we’ll carry with us forever.

Fire and Forget

Short Stories from the Long War

by Roy Scranton and Matt Gallagher

Paperback, 234 pages | purchase

Interview Highlights

On the conflict soldiers sometimes face when telling war stories

Siegel: I think there’s this continuous media appetite for war as narratives of derring-do and of heroism, which is part of it. And then there’s an appetite for war where soldiers are just pawns in various political polemics. It’s all for people who often, to the soldier, seem like they have no genuine interest in what it’s really like, they just want to be entertained or have their opinions validated.

… I think there’s always a feeling among soldiers that what you bring home with you and what happened overseas may be something only you or your group will understand, and that any attempt to bring it to a larger audience or to tell the story of it is, in effect, a cheapening of it and a way of selling it rather than sharing it.

On coping with the fear of death on and off the battlefield

Scranton: I found that I had to shut down my imagination because it really turned into an enemy. The kind of daydreaming and extrapolation of ideas that I love to indulge in as a reader and as a writer was suddenly and completely maladaptive to the situation in Baghdad. The more I could imagine what could happen, the more different ways I thought I could die or fail or mess things up and it just would turn paralyzing. That’s where I started to tell myself that it doesn’t matter: “None of it matters; you’re already dead. Just get through your job.”

“ The kind of daydreaming and extrapolation of ideas that I love to indulge in as a reader and as a writer was suddenly and completely maladaptive to the situation in Baghdad.

- Roy Scranton

Siegel: For me, I didn’t think about death, the meaning of death, my own death; I thought about death in objects. It produced for me a fear of objects, of things; an adaptive fear. … You want to see a rock for a rock and an IED for an IED, and so the fear, in those situations, of death is the fear of the thing that brings death. It’s the fear of the instrument of death. And that was a powerful thing and something that created a kind of discipline in the mind in a certain way that was utterly exhausting.

On what, as a writer, Scranton hoped to gain from the war experience

Scranton: [I wanted] to be able to write with authority about war, about history, about love and life and so on. I think there’s a common sense, especially when it comes to the way we think about the culture we live in, that we sort of live in a mass media spectacle. The real stuff happens in Iraq or somewhere else. Real life is not here where we’re on the Internet and where we’re on our phones and where we’re watching TV.

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That’s a myth about war and about the way we live today that is immensely powerful, and I totally believed it and I wanted to go “over there”, wherever “over there” was, and encounter that reality with my body, with my existence [and] face danger, death and all the supposedly real, authentic things about war.

On the place of guns in the daily life of a soldier

Siegel: Wanting to carry a gun has almost nothing to do with – or nothing to do with — why I enlisted. … Guns are obviously the single most important instrument of warfare, they’re certainly the most symbolically potent instruments of warfare, but they don’t feel so much different than these other tools that you’re using.

In the Army, you talk about your “kit,” and it’s basically the stuff that you carry and it consists of your radio, your frag[mentation] grenades and your first aid pouch and your gun. … [Guns] didn’t feel to me so much different than those other parts of it, up until the point where it was engaged and then it did feel different.

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In "Fire And Forget," Vets-Turned-Writers Tell Their War Stories

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Tell us your Obamacare stories

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A woman looks at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site showing a “Please wait” page, in this October 1, 2013 file photo in Washington, DC.

By Lisa Myers
Senior Investigative Correspondent, NBC News

The rollout of Obamacare has been bumpy, to say the least, and many Americans continue to express confusion about their healthcare coverage and what 2014 holds.

As we look to help readers of NBCNews.com stay informed on the latest news around the rollout of Healthcare.gov and the Affordable Care Act, we’re asking for your help: Have you heard from your personal health insurance company about premiums for next year, and how much they are rising or falling? For those of you who get health insurance via your employer, are your premiums going up or down?

And how is the plan you are offered changing? For example, is there a difference in what is “in network” and what is “out of network”? Will your deductibles increase or decrease? And are you eligible for a subsidy through Obamacare?

If you’ve been surprised by the latest news from your insurer or employer, or by how the ACA is affecting your bottom line, NBC News wants to hear from you. Submit your story via email by clicking on this address.

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Friday, November 8, 2013

Sunday, October 13, 2013

5 Most Uplifting Stories of the Week

5 Most Uplifting Stories of the Week
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(Newser) – A waitress who received a racial slur in lieu of a tip got a nice surprise from anonymous donors, and a rescued pit bull might have saved a young boy’s life:

After Slur, Waitress Gets $ 10K Crowd-Funded Tip: It’s a rotten story with a nice ending: When a Red Lobster waitress in Nashville got no tip from a patron who instead scrawled the n-word on his bill, she posted it on Facebook in disgust. From there, an online campaign in her honor raised more than $ 10,000 for the teenager.

Rescued Pit Bull Returns the Favor: Pit bulls don’t get a lot of good press, but here’s one pooch doing his part to change the breed’s image: TatorTot, a rescued pit bull from Minneapolis, possibly saved a 4-year-old boy’s life after he seemed to sense a dangerous drop in the youngster’s blood sugar and woke the boy’s mother. A vet chalks it up to the dog’s keen sense of smell.

Husband, Wife of 63 Years Die Hours Apart: After meeting in high school, Jerry and Edith Dunn spent most of their time together, and had been together 63 years. And the Utah couple was together in death, too; just hours after Jerry died in his sleep Thursday, Edith passed away.

Teen, Mom Take Stand Against Bullying: The pills were in his mouth. That’s how close Tipton, Iowa, teen Jake Stallman came to suicide two years ago. In the face of constant bullying, the 15-year-old saw no way out. He thought better of it, and went to his mother for help. Together, the two started an advocacy group called Tipton Against Kids Being Bullied.

Bartender Gets $ 17.5K Tip: A regular at an Oregon bar gave bartender Aurora Kephart two unplayed lottery tickets. The first won five bucks. The second, significantly more than five bucks. About $ 17,495 more.

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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Lamestream Media: TV titans lose US viewers over slanted stories

Friday, July 19, 2013

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

O"Reilly Interviews Attkisson: Working On Stories That "Might Hurt The Obama Administration"

CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson joined FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday to give us some insights into the hacking of her home and work computers.

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