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  • 'I'm losing my mind': Bay Area residents report nonstop fireworks

    06/24/2020 7:05:47 PM PDT · by thecodont · 90 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | Updated 10:16 am PDT, Wednesday, June 24, 2020 | By Amy Graff, SFGATE
    The thunderous sound of fireworks — their blasts sudden, deafening and often terrifyingly similar to gunfire — have reverberated throughout the Bay Area in recent weeks. Residents in the big cities and even in the quieter suburbs report the explosions started over Memorial Day weekend and have persisted through June, waking them in the night, interrupting their babies' naps and scaring their pets. Fireworks packaging has been found around Lake Merritt in Oakland, and Nextdoor boards and Twitter are filling up with news of the booms and bangs in San Francisco. "I’m losing my mind," said SF resident J. Barry....
  • Why ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" is a Condi Rice clone

    09/28/2005 10:07:27 PM PDT · by Mia T · 122 replies · 5,785+ views
    ABC | 8.28.05 | Mia T
    Why ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" is a Condi Rice clone   by Mia T, 9.28.05         ommander-in-Chief" Mackenzie Allen is a carefully crafted Condi-Rice clone. She is not hillary clinton. Indeed, she is specifically antihillary. This can mean only one thing: hillary clinton and her agitprop machine have determined that missus clinton, the construct, is unelectable. Because ABC is part of the permanent clinton agitprop, because the "Commander-in Chief" head writer is a veteran of clinton campaigns and hillary's press office, because the show has been perfectly positioned to desensitize the electorate to the notion of a woman...