My Magnum Opus of Meta (in which I solve all problems on DKos single handed)

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Sunday December 05, 2010 · 6:01 PM PST

2010/12/05 · 18:01

Welcome to my magnum opus of meta! By the time you're done reading this, all your animosity towards other kossacks will evaporate. We'll all be laughing, singing, and embracing each other with tear filled faces. Then we'll all gallop toward 2012 on the backs of unicorns that fart rainbows. Are you jazzed? Me too! Let's begin.

First things first. Like many, I find the meta war tiring. And I've often thought how pointless it is. I am revising my view. The direction we take in the face of the reality of governance -- how we respond to disappointments, how we resolve the differences between factions in our Party -- these are more than just a valid way to spend our time. Given the situation we are in, I think this may actually be the most pressing issue we face. None of our goals can be furthered until we sort these issues out. We need to have this dialogue.

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I am...

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I am...

one of the so called "supporters" of the President, and I agree we need to find a way forward together.

75 votes

one of the so called "supporters" of the President, and there is no way forward together. The other guys are a destructive force in this Party, and I'm not going to stop saying so!

13 votes

one of the so called "critics" of the President, and I agree we need to find a way forward together.

68 votes

one of the so called "critics" of the President, and there is no way forward together. The other guys are a destructive force in this Party, and I'm not going to stop saying so!

19 votes

not involved in this meta war at all!

67 votes

imagining my dream pie...

33 votes

BREAKING: Velma Hart - from exhaustion to unemployment.

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Tuesday November 23, 2010 · 4:52 AM PST

2010/11/23 · 04:52

I did a search and it looks like this hasn't hit the DKos radar yet. So here's a brief diary to give you the heads up: Velma Hart has lost her job.

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 10:38 AM PDT

2010/11/05 · 10:38

This has been brewing for a while.

I remember during the FISA fight in 2008, some of us did indeed have a premonition of things to come. This was the first time, as we moved toward victory, that we saw what that might mean for many of us here. United against Bush, our common purpose was clear. But when our own standard bearer, Barack Obama, took a stand on the FISA bill that many here saw as a betrayal, that common purpose began to fray. Two factions began to emerge. Some trusted and supported our presumptive nominee and were willing to sacrifice on policy if it led, in the end, to victory. Others were not willing to lay down on FISA -- they simply saw telcom immunity as far too dangerous a precedent to set. Those people criticized our nominee loudly.

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Friday August 20, 2010 · 10:47 AM PDT

2010/08/20 · 10:47

Most of you have probably read this rec listed diary, Daily Kos Demographics: White. Over 50. Well-off. Male. Many of you have pointed out some of the data issues with regard to the Quantcast methodology, and I will not rehash that here. For one thing, I'm not qualified -- I am no techie. I know how to point and click, that's it.

But I do fancy myself a reasonably intelligent person, who knows how to critically evaluate research. And the reasoning in this diary is weak.

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Friday August 06, 2010 · 8:52 AM PDT

2010/08/06 · 08:52

I've been doing some web research, and, well...I'm not very good at it. But I do have a crisis that can't wait for my crappy web research skills to catch up.

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Friday July 02, 2010 · 6:50 PM PDT

2010/07/02 · 18:50

...and drunk. But I take some pride in being drunk in a good cause.

Christopher Hitchens has just been diagnosed with cancer.

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Sunday February 28, 2010 · 8:52 AM PST

2010/02/28 · 08:52

Because I like to be kicked in the gut after being beaten to the ground, I had to read this story on MSNBC today. Apparently, the Supreme Court is going to hear arguments Monday to overturn Jeff Skilling's conviction. I'm boiling mad.

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Saturday January 09, 2010 · 6:24 AM PST

2010/01/09 · 06:24

My husband is one of "those." He's one of those rare people who can smoke a cigarette once in a while. Just when he feels like it. He might smoke 7 cigarettes at a party and then not smoke another one for two months. And not with any special effort either -- he just doesn't care. He likes it, but he's not controlled by it. He's not a real smoker. He's not like me.

He's one of "those."

And if you, like me, are in the process of quitting smoking, you know exactly how magical, mysterious, and absolutely infuriating "those" people are. Because you've tried to be one. Maybe you're trying it again right now...

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Revelwoodie's musical selection:

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Revelwoodie's musical selection:

OMG

1 vote

WTF

0 votes

OMG, WTF!!!

10 votes

Hey, what do you mean? I think it rocks!

3 votes

I once owned that jacket. Shut up.

4 votes

Two bars into the song, I decided to skip straight to the pie.

1 vote

5 arrested at HCAN blockade of Philadelphia Cigna offices (w/ video)

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Tuesday October 06, 2009 · 10:10 PM PDT

2009/10/06 · 22:10

Meet Joan Kosloff.

The young man on the sign she is holding is her son, Eric. Eric died three years ago of treatable bacterial meningitis.

No one knew what was wrong with Eric until his autopsy was completed. You see, like millions of other Americans, Eric had no health insurance. He simply could not afford the test that could have saved his life.

Joan decided that she could no longer sit by as the broken health care system that killed her son claimed its next victims. One hundred and twenty per day.

Joan decided that today, she had to take a stand.

She and four others were arrested.

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 10:04 AM PDT

2009/09/12 · 10:04

So Baucus and Conrad have caved to douche nozzle extraordinaire, Joe "You Lie" Wilson, and are now going to take another look at language in the bill that pertains to illegal immigrants. Are you angry? Me, too. It encourages Representative Wilson's town hall style behavior. It puts the Democrats on a defensive posture in negotiations by showing, once again, that we'll cave to any Republican demand, however dishonest or downright crazy. And it suggests that Joe Wilson was correct, when we all know that none of the bills that have passed committee extended coverage to illegals.

So why did they do it? What is the calculus?

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 5:41 PM PDT

2009/09/11 · 17:41

Dear Patriot:

I’m writing to thank you for your participation in our upcoming "912 Project" activities. This really is a momentous day in the struggle against socialism, and we are so glad you’ve chosen to be a part of it!

It has come to our attention, however, that many of you are having trouble understanding the 9 principles and 12 values upon which our movement is founded. This is entirely our fault. We worded the principles in such a way as to seem appealing to those outside our movement and simultaneously incomprehensible to liberals, using code words and phrases that only patriots like us would understand. Unfortunately, our researchers overestimated the educational level attained by our membership. We emphatically apologize, and would like to correct the situation now.

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 2:39 PM PDT

2009/09/04 · 14:39

I just checked out First Read on the MSNBC website, and today it actually wasn't Chuck Todd that set my hair on fire. It was Mark Murray:

When then-candidate Barack Obama first unveiled his health-care plan, on May 29, 2007, his 3,600-word speech didn't contain the words "public option" in it. There wasn't a single mention of it (although an accompanying fact sheet did refer to a "new public plan" that would be open to individuals without access to other coverage).

So, the fact that the public option was part of Obama's platform is just a parenthetical. The headline here is that it wasn't in the speech.

Hmmm...nice revisionism Mark. I'm glad you got the memo from Rahm.

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The public option...

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The public option...

...was never a big deal. Why is everyone freaking out?

1 vote

...is a deal breaker for me. House progressives should kill the bill if the public option is stripped.

12 votes

mandated, for-profit pie.

0 votes

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BREAKING: Velma Hart - from exhaustion to unemployment.

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