ProPublica's Investigation of Red Cross in Haiti

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Wednesday June 03, 2015 · 4:45 PM PDT

2015/06/03 · 16:45

If you have not yet read ProPublica's investigation report How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes or listened to the NPR All Things Considered companion piece In Search Of The Red Cross' $500 Million In Haiti Relief, you really need to do so.

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Sunday October 12, 2014 · 9:05 AM PDT

2014/10/12 · 09:05

In the jet age we live in, just which states would be most prone to be hospitiable to breeding an epidemic of an infectious disease?

Viruses like Eboloa or SARS or Enterovirus D68 are not detectible in people when initially infected. In the 21st century a person with a highly infectious and/or deadly disease can board an airplane from anywhere in the world and be anywhere in the USA in a matter of hours.

Is there a worse breeding ground in the USA for highly contageous infectious diseases than Texas?

MikeBoyScout

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Friday December 06, 2013 · 12:09 PM PST

2013/12/06 · 12:09

Madiba's passing Thursday is something to be mourned and celebrated, but his life was a call to action. His passing should be a call to action as well.

Lest we forget, the struggle for an end to apartheid brought many of us to the side of Madiba. But that is not true for everyone in the USA.

More often than not, the Republican party not only stood in the way, but went out of its way to obstruct the struggle for freedom that Mandela bravely fought and led.

Others have begun to document this. Follow me below the squiggle of freedom and struggle to recall.

MikeBoyScout

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Wednesday August 28, 2013 · 4:36 PM PDT

2013/08/28 · 16:36

Today President Obama was interviewed by the PBS News Hour.

And if, in fact, we can take limited, tailored approaches, not getting drawn into a long conflict, not a repetition of, you know, Iraq, which I know a lot of people are worried about – but if we are saying in a clear and decisive but very limited way, we send a shot across the bow saying, stop doing this, that can have a positive impact on our national security over the long term, and may have a positive impact on our national security over the long term and may have a positive impact in the sense that chemical weapons are not used again on innocent civilians.

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Wake Up! We're in a Civil War

MikeBoyScout

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Thursday July 25, 2013 · 9:31 PM PDT

2013/07/25 · 21:31

Apologies, but this is going to be brief and insufficient.
AntonBursch posted What happened to the energy of hope here at Daily Kos? the other day, and well ... I think "hope" is diminished because the system and process we believe we are a part of is broken ... because we are in a war.

MikeBoyScout

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Monday July 08, 2013 · 5:05 PM PDT

2013/07/08 · 17:05

Hello Mr. President, you wouldn't remember me because we've never met. Although I donated one helleva lot of money to your 2012 campaign and knocked a helluva lot of doors in my neighborhood and then flew to Colorado and spent a week and a lot of hours knocking doors in Denver, and still have not gotten my pony, that's not why I am writing.

I'm writing because this sequestration bullshit is hurting our Veterans and the people who care for them.

MikeBoyScout

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Friday December 14, 2012 · 4:25 PM PST

2012/12/14 · 16:25

James Fallows wrote something regarding our recent national tragedy that struck a cord

No one has been killed on American soil through what we define as an act of "terrorism" in more than a decade, but countless elements of our life are still shaped and warped by the open-ended "war on terror." (Or, if you count the Ft. Hood shooting as "terrorism," 13 people have been killed.)

Thousands of people die every year from gun violence, an unspeakable number at schools, and -- we mourn and "move on." "Nothing to be done."

MikeBoyScout

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Sunday November 04, 2012 · 6:21 PM PST

2012/11/04 · 18:21

I flew in to Denver from Seattle on Wednesday to do my part for 6 days to GOTV in this swing state in this critical area. I've been knocking doors for 40 years. What happened at the end of the day in Denver today has never happened to me before.

What happened is why I'm in it and in Denver and what I'd like to prevent and stop. I just can't believe what I heard. And I'm angry and heartbroken that anything like this could happen.

Follow me below the fold to hear the story, or if you are not so inclined, please just help out in the next two days to GOTV so maybe, just maybe, less of this sort to thing ever happens again

MikeBoyScout

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Tuesday October 02, 2012 · 5:49 AM PDT

2012/10/02 · 05:49

Yeah, yeah. I know. Tomorrow night is the first big debate and the President is going to get mittened with well practiced "zingers". Ruths Chris Christie assured us that "this whole race is going to be turned upside down." after Rmoney does "extraordinarily well" in the first debate with President Barack Obama on Wednesday night.

Far be it for me to disagree with the man who had the good judgement not to mention his nominee until he was nearly done speaking at the nominee's convention, but Romney isn't going to deliver anything extraordinary on Wednesday.

The opportunity for extraordinary and a campaign winning homerun in the debates this year belongs to Joe Biden ... if the Vice President goes "rouge"

Follow me below the fold to hear me out and let me know what you think.

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Should VP Biden "go rouge" at the debate next week?

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Should VP Biden "go rouge" at the debate next week?

Yes

26 votes

Only if Biden goes first in giving opening remarks

7 votes

No! What are you crazy?

8 votes

I don't get your point

2 votes

Pie

2 votes

Predicting - Romney Zinger Thread

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Saturday September 29, 2012 · 10:51 AM PDT

2012/09/29 · 10:51

You've by now undoubtedly read the NY Times piece where the bonus earning geniuses running the epic Romney/Ryan campaign warn us of Mitten's dogged preparedness for the debate on Wednesday.

Mr. Romney’s team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy.

While you are wating for the page to load after jumping below, verify your popcorn supply.

MikeBoyScout

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Tuesday August 14, 2012 · 6:57 AM PDT

2012/08/14 · 06:57

Not much to say here, except to say 3 days after Slick Willard's flop sweat selection of House Republican leader, Paul Ryan, makes John McCain's selection of Palin look like genius.

Today Politico and David Stockman, Saint Ronald Reagan's budget director, chime in on the pick.
See the highlights below the fold.

MikeBoyScout

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Saturday June 16, 2012 · 8:37 AM PDT

2012/06/16 · 08:37

Today Gary Hart has an opinion published in the NYT, The Democratic Road Not Taken.

Hart comes back from political oblivion to tell us

By failing to innovate some 30 years ago, it has permitted itself to lapse into the defensive, if not also reactionary, posture that now plagues it. A well-motivated Democratic president now struggles to move the nation forward against a conservative tide that emerged in the policy vacuum created by Democratic failure to adapt and in a political climate where many people, especially young people, do not know the basic principles of the current Democratic Party or what it stands for.

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The Romney Trainwreck

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