Why isn't anyone talking about ME and MY issues?

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Friday October 07, 2005 · 1:06 PM PDT

2005/10/07 · 13:06

Sorry, none of this is working for ME.

I come to DailyKos to talk about the issues that interest ME, not the ones that the community has deemed important with its "recommended list".

For instance, I came here to talk about Rove and only Rove. And what do I see on the recommended diaries? No diaries about Rove.

Looking at the front page, I've noticed that only 3 out of 24 stories are about Rove and Plamegate. A search in the recent diary list turned up a mere 30+ diaries pertaining to Rove. I expect better.

We clearly have a breakdown in producing stories that I want to talk about. If DailyKos continues on this course, it will rapidly become irrelevant to ME. Read More

Project Cast This Movie: Got Bush?

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Friday July 22, 2005 · 4:02 PM PDT

2005/07/22 · 16:02

25 or so years from now, Hollywood will produce a comedy about how two teenie-boppers brought down the Bush administration called "Got Bush?", capitalizing on twenties nostalgia for the Got Milk campaign of the naughties.

From the 20-something(and younger) comedy actors and actresses of today, cast them in the 50-something Bush administration roles they'll play in the future. Obviously, our teenie-bopper heroines aren't born yet, but if you know any up and coming 1-year olds, go ahead and include them.

Who will play Dubya? Karl? Scooter? Bolton? Judith Miller?

Break out the cast lists of every (current) Nickolodeon show and SNL and let me know! Bonus points for including pictures of our future Bush administration impersonators.

The Iraq War was RIGHT and here's why

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Wednesday July 06, 2005 · 9:58 AM PDT

2005/07/06 · 09:58

The US-British (and some would say Polish) invasion of Iraq in 2003 has been the center of considerable controversy and skepticism, much of it coming from France, Germany and Russia.

With an unsafe situation on the ground, nearly 2000 allied dead, 25K-100K Iraqi dead, many have wondered if the French were right.

Fortunately, all doubts were laid to rest Wednesday when London narrowly defeated Paris to host the Olympics in 2012 thereby demonstrating finally that the Iraq War was the correct course of action. Read More

DNC Spam AKA How to enlarge your democratic majority for free! (w/poll)

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Tuesday May 10, 2005 · 1:03 PM PDT

2005/05/10 · 13:03

Seriously, what's up with the e-mails from the DNC lately? Are they trying to end up in peoples' spam filters?

Examples below the cut: Read More

Save vault5151! Steven needs our help!

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Tuesday May 03, 2005 · 4:36 PM PDT

2005/05/03 · 16:36

I checked the past 50 diaries to see if anyone had written about this yet. Sadly, that was not the case. Time is of the essence and we must act quickly.

Vault5151 has been a valued commentator in the Kos community for a long-time now. Whether it's been standing up for our Democratic Leadership Council or defending Democratic Senator Lieberman from radical leftists, we've all benefited from his insight and wisdom.

But all of that could change if help isn't received in the next 48 hours. Read More

LL: Calling you calling Armando calling Harvey OUT!

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Tuesday March 15, 2005 · 10:12 AM PST

2005/03/15 · 10:12

Seems to be a lot of calling out going round these parts lately. Instead of spreading things out over several diaries, we should centralize things here for...

DailyKos' 1st Annual Calling Out-Off

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Military hitting recruitment goals?

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Thursday November 11, 2004 · 1:28 PM PST

2004/11/11 · 13:28

Republicans have been claiming there won't be a draft because the military is hitting all of its enlistment goals this year. Everything's fine! Stop worrying.

Obviously, the best way to keep hitting goals in the face of lowered enlistment is to simply lower the goals. So I googled around to find the goals. Naturally, news article don't give goals for the previous years when trumpeting how the military is hitting the marks.

2002
Air Force - 37823
Army - 79500
Marines - 38642
Navy - 46500

2004
Air Force - 34080
Army - 77000
Marines - 36773
Navy - 39700

Numbers explain themselves.

Military spokesmen have been saying things are so great that they don't need as many new recruits, hence the lower goals I guess, because "retention" has been so great.

I just wonder how much of that "retention" is voluntary.

WHY ARE YOU HERE? (w/poll)

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Saturday October 30, 2004 · 1:03 PM PDT

2004/10/30 · 13:03

Seriously.

Shouldn't you be out canvassing or making phone calls?

If not now, when? After the election? After Bush gets elected with a Republican Senate, a Republican House, a Republican Governor with a Republican state legislature?