This is the s#$% we put up with down here.

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Wednesday February 20, 2019 · 11:20 AM PST

2019/02/20 · 11:20

This is what we get here in Alabama when one of the worst polluting coal fired power plants in the nation gets closed down.

“The Alabama Public Service Commission, the state government body charged with regulating Alabama Power and other utilities in the state, issued a statement blaming the closure on former President Barack Obama specifically, and liberals generally.

“The company has taken every possible step to keep the plant up and running, but the war on coal finally took its toll,” PSC President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh said in the news release. “Obama said he wanted to make it too expensive to run coal-fired plants, and he did. I commend President Trump for rolling back as many of the Obama mandates as he could. The problem for us here in Alabama was that Obama placed the biggest bullseye on us, and Trump’s valiant effort at finally implementing common sense came along a little too late.”

“Obama’s negligence and disregard for Alabama families and their jobs is one of the many destructive outcomes of his presidency,” Commissioner Chip Beeker said. “The liberals who helped drive Obama’s agenda continue to put Alabama’s economy at risk. Our task moving forward is to keep the ones affected by this and their families in our hearts and in our prayers.””

www.al.com/…

But it’s still closing.

ACTION: Calling all waitstaff, caterers, etc.

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Thursday September 20, 2012 · 7:44 AM PDT

2012/09/20 · 07:44

Waitstaff, caterers, groundskeepers, any member of the service industry that serves the needs of the political class...

Back in August of last year, town halls were being held all over the country by congresscritters, and I penned an action item diary here about creating viral town hall moments by challenging the critters and getting it on tape. In light of the recent "secret video" posted of Romney saying what he really thinks, I believe it is time to push this kind of guerrilla journalism even further - infiltrating their ranks down the ballot just like the hero who videotaped Romney did.

Follow me below the orange roll for more.

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Monday September 17, 2012 · 11:41 AM PDT

2012/09/17 · 11:41

The Republicans are again pushing a story meant to undermine support for the ACA (Obamacare). The latest one is that it will cost "80 million hours" in compliance work.

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Friday August 12, 2011 · 9:57 AM PDT

2011/08/12 · 09:57

"And if they're listening hard enough, maybe they'll come back to Washington ready to compromise and ready to create jobs and ready to reduce our deficit, ready to do what you sent them there to do."

So my friends, I ask you - what will they be hearing? If you don't go, if you don't make your voice heard, if you sit in front of your keyboard waiting for someone else to go to the town hall meetings, then what they will hear is the repeated talking points of the right wing. Because they will have people at those town halls - but we have the majority of the American people on our side on the issues. We have this fall an opportunity to set the narrative for the next year, and an opportunity to harness the populist will of the nation. We are on the right side - we need to prove to the people that Republicans are not.

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 10:11 PM PDT

2008/10/11 · 22:11

This latest flap about John Lewis's comments got me to thinking. I could swear I heard somebody talk about John Lewis and what happened to him at Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. In fact, I think they were in Selma when they said it. They gave a really complimentary speech, and did a good job of setting the stage of that day.

Forty-three years ago, an army of more than five hundred marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge; an army that brought with them no weapons, which intended no destruction; that sought to conquer no people or land. At the head of the column, dressed in a dark suit, white shirt, tie and tan raincoat, marched a twenty-five year old son of Alabama sharecroppers, John Lewis. They had planned to march from Selma to Montgomery, but they knew they would never reach there. They had been warned they would be met with force, and at the crest of the bridge, they were. Until then, they had marched in silence, with dignity and resolve, men, women, children and old people. All was quiet, even the angry crowd that watched the marchers. But everything was alive with apprehension, with the expectation that something momentous and terrible was imminent.

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 2:03 PM PDT

2008/08/01 · 14:03

Like most of you, I was appalled to see the McCain campaign continue on it's tactic of taking the jacked-up four-wheel drive of their campaign further into the mud, slinging as much behind them as they could. The latest ad, 'The One' is no exception - their mocking tone and imagery has become the staple of the McCain campaign of late. But I was struck while watching it at the absolute 'slow pitch' it is - an opportunity for the Obama to absolutely drive the ball out of the park, destroy this entire meme, and yet take the high ground with a stirring return to the populism of the primary that got him where he is today. Follow me below the fold and I'll lay out why I think this ad is a stellar candidate for a knockout response.

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 5:25 PM PDT

2008/05/16 · 17:25

Reading Brandon Friedman's excellent diaries about the VA e-mail controversy, I was struck by the manipulation of language that is occurring yet again in discussion of the combat condition that occurs after the human body is subjected to the physical and mental stresses of war. I was reminded of a George Carlin stand up routine which really spoke to the history of the language behind "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder". Follow me below the fold for a look at how language is once again being "used to squeeze all the humanity out" of a very human reaction to the stress of war.

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Tuesday February 19, 2008 · 10:44 PM PST

2008/02/19 · 22:44

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

It's been "We" since the very beginning...

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Wednesday July 25, 2007 · 11:17 AM PDT

2007/07/25 · 11:17

Dear Bill O'Reilly,

It has come to my attention that you are now monitoring DailyKos comments and diaries, so please allow me and my fellow kossacks to give you a great big fat invitation to place your Falafel scarfing, Murdoch rimming, propaganda spewing lips firmly upon our buttocks and give em' a sloppy one. It's blatantly obvious to the most obtuse dullard that you don't have the intellectual capacity to make toast, much less back up any of the ridiculous vitriol you peddle. You lie so often and with so little remorse you almost seem like a not-so-cute-or-effective turdblossom mini-me. You constantly puff yourself up to the point it looks like your face might crack, which honestly seems like it might be helpful to the overall package.

(More formulations of full frontal facial flames for the Falafel fornicator follows the fold...)

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Thursday June 07, 2007 · 11:00 AM PDT

2007/06/07 · 11:00

Vladamir Putin is giving our president a serious schooling in the cards that can be played in an cold war style stand off.

President George W Bush has described as "interesting" a proposal by Russia's president for resolving the row over the planned US missile defence shield.

Vladimir Putin said their two countries could use a radar system in Azerbaijan to develop a shield covering all of Europe, during talks at the G8 summit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/...

Interesting is right - radar in Azerbaijan would be perfect for detecting missiles coming out of the middle east (read: Iran) towards Europe. If there were to be a joint missile defense installation, this would be the place to put it. But will Bush back down on the interceptor installation in Poland, a sticking point for the Russians? Was the "we should work together" offer real, or has Putin called Bush's bluff?

Details and background below the fold...

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 6:42 PM PST

2006/12/06 · 18:42

I knew it all looked too familiar. Reading the ISG report today, I was struck over and over by the many parallels that we see to Vietnam. But it was more than that - an overwhelming sense of historical deja vu from my history class back in high school. I had seen this before - so similar it drove me nuts all afternoon at work until I got home and got a chance to look it up. It's the Nixon Doctrine. Completely.

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 3:36 PM PDT

2006/07/20 · 15:36

This was the most horrible thing I have heard in a long time.

http://www.talkweather.com/...

The Kos community has so many knowledgable people, I thought maybe somebody could put this lady in touch with someone who could help.

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