So what are we going to do about Afghanistan?

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Monday December 07, 2009 · 10:46 PM PST

2009/12/07 · 22:46

This will be a short diary.

So President Obama has said that we will begin withdrawal in 2011, but some Cabinet officials (Clinton, Gates) have begun to waffle.

So it seems to me that we have two routes to go. We can either (1) adamantly refuse to support the President and continue anti-war activism, or (2) We can try to create a fixed date for withdrawal through statute via an Act of Congress, either separately or as a rider to a future Defense budget bill, war funding bill, other big war bills.

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 12:50 PM PDT

2009/09/02 · 12:50

So the last time I was to the Doctor's office it was actually to take my little brother in because he was sick. To be quite honest with you I don't even remember the last time I have been to the doctor's office, but I do remember that the last time it was only for a simple yearly check-out.

So why am I a single-payer advocate? Well I do believe single-payer is the best solution, but like many of you, I am willing to compromise for a strong Public Option open to everyone and every employer.

So why would a healthy middle-class person like me support such reforms?

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 5:24 PM PST

2008/11/10 · 17:24

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Every so often an idea comes along that rings with such clarity and purpose that it ignites the imaginations of millions of people. That spark of excitement becomes hope, hope becomes action, action becomes community, and that community grows to become a movement. Marine biologist, author, fisherma'am, and Exxon Valdez survivor, Dr. Riki Ott has such an idea.

Exxon's recently reported record profits marks a new height of American corporate corruption and influence over our federal government--corporations find more protection under the law than American citizens, health and safety regulations are stripped away to serve profits ahead of people, politicians serve only their corporate backers, and our environment is falling victim to the lustful greed of this disaster capitalism. How did it come to this?

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 10:51 AM PDT

2008/08/13 · 10:51

First off, no one is innocent in the situation in the Caucasus. Georgia did invade South Ossetia, and initially displayed an overwhelming military presence of their own until the Russians came in and retaliated.

And Russia used this as an opportunity and an excuse to have a show of force in their own backyard.

What puzzles me, is that those in the State Department are criticizing Russia for "disproportionate show of force" when we did the same thing in Iraq. In many ways, our invasion of Iraq was a bigger version of what Russia is up to.

I suppose that invading/occupying foreign lands, and destabilizing regions is the United States' job.

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What Democrats who vote for McCain are doing to other peoples.

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Saturday August 02, 2008 · 8:28 PM PDT

2008/08/02 · 20:28

We've been tremendously blessed, so to say, that we have had the field of Democrats that we did. And even though my guys (Kucinich and Edwards) didn't win, I'll be happy to vote for Barack Obama in the general election.

But there are some angry voters who have stated their intent to vote for or seriously consider John McCain, and I see this as not only a slap to the Democratic Party, or the Progressive movement, but a slap in the face of many very real people.

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Friday July 18, 2008 · 8:57 PM PDT

2008/07/18 · 20:57

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Undercover Maryland State Police officers conducted surveillance on war protesters and death penalty opponents, including some in Takoma Park, for more than a year while Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. was governor, documents released yesterday show.

Detailed intelligence reports logged by at least two agents in the police department's Homeland Security and Intelligence Division reveal close monitoring of the movements as the Iraq war and capital punishment were heatedly debated in 2005 and 2006.

Organizational meetings, public forums, prison vigils, rallies outside the State House in Annapolis and e-mail group lists were infiltrated by police posing as peace activists and death penalty opponents, the records show. The surveillance continued even though the logs contained no reports of illegal activity and consistently indicated that the activists were not planning violent protests.

Of course we are all aware of recent abuses of government power in the wake of the Bush Administration's radical right-wing culture of fear and the Patriot Act

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 8:33 PM PDT

2008/07/10 · 20:33

http://www.nytimes.com/...

The New York Times is reporting that the government is thinking about temporarily taking over two companies which are vital to our economy.

Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship if their problems worsen, people briefed about the plan said on Thursday.

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Monday July 07, 2008 · 11:16 AM PDT

2008/07/07 · 11:16

I was down at the Huffingtonpost when I saw a recent piece that Senator Chris Dodd wrote on the FISA bill currently being considered in the Senate.

After reading that, I immediately thanked Senator Dodd (again) for his tough stance against Telecomm Amnesty.

I'm about to write Senator Feingold, who has also been a fighter on this issue.

We've asked our congressmen and congresswomen to stand up for the rule of law, and while not enough congressmen and women have stood up for what's right, we need to take time to thank the men and women who have been fighting the good fight for us up in D.C.

The President and the right-wing machine has asked us to trust them with warrentless wiretapping and domestic spying.

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Monday June 30, 2008 · 11:50 AM PDT

2008/06/30 · 11:50

http://www.politico.com/...

At the Politico we get a nice story on how Obama has "snubbed" the DLC.

Here's a striking mark of the distance between Obama and the centrist/Clintonite Democratic Leadership Council: The DLC kicked off their "National Conversation" over the weekend in Chicago, a block from Obama's campaign headquarters.

Obama, who had time to get a haircut and shoot some hoops on what passes for a down weekend on the campaign trail, didn't make it by.

The DLC has "officially lost its mojo," Taegan Goddard concludes.

(Part of the problem may be that a member of the Clinton-backing branch of the feuding Pritzker family played a major role in the gathering.)

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Wednesday June 11, 2008 · 7:41 PM PDT

2008/06/11 · 19:41

http://www.politico.com/...

Meet Bob Kelleher, the Republican nominee against Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) this year.

He is an 85-year-old attorney with some downright unconventional views. He believes the American system of representative government should be replaced by a parliamentary system. He calls for socialized medicine, advocates nationalizing the country’s oil and gas industries and believes taxes should be raised significantly to eradicate poverty.

It’s not the standard GOP platform, but nevertheless Kelleher defeated four other candidates in the primary to claim the Republican nomination.

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 7:12 AM PDT

2008/05/29 · 07:12

Republican congresswoman Jean Schmidt from Ohio praised secularism in Turkey today, hailing it as a tool of progress, but declined to extend that same praise to the United States as well.

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/...

Musfara Kemal Ataturk's vision became reality on May 19, said Republican congresswoman Jean Schmidt in a speech directed to congressional majority leader Democrat Nancy Pelosi on account of the May 19 Turkish Youth and Sports Day. A leader that can combine vision and decisiveness can lay the foundation for a great future, said Schmidt adding, Turkey's neighbors can learn a lesson from him. The statement, in the congressional record, also praised women being granted suffrage in 1934.

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 9:12 AM PDT

2008/05/01 · 09:12

This is a little personal for me.

I'm a homosexual, and when I was younger I was (forced) to go to some Baptist churches.

Now let me give a disclaimer, I haven't ever been to a black church, but what I saw in those (probably 95%) white churches was a plethora of hate.

Hate against people like me. I'll be honest and say that I struggled with my sexuality when I was a young teen, and eventually I did turn away from the church, now I think of myself as agnostic. Oh course, I was never really conservative, so now that I look back on it, it was an easy break.

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