i am kid oakland's sock puppet

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 9:49 PM PST

2006/11/02 · 21:49

Okay, now that I've got your attention.

That title is not wholly true, but what follows is important enough to use that stupid trick to get your attention.

This is a diary by kid oakland...yep this is me...using the userid of my friend and colleague Matt Lockshin (aka emetbloom and the founder of the blog SayNotoPombo) on a one time basis.

Why am I using Matt's userid? Well, because I posted a diary last night at 10PM and for some reason the system won't let me post a diary tonight until well after folks will have gone to bed. And, you know what, we don't have time to waste.

Why is what I have to say relevant and timely?

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CA-11: "We All Live In Richard Pombo's District"

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Tuesday September 12, 2006 · 3:05 PM PDT

2006/09/12 · 15:05

Cross posted at SayNoToPombo

Last fall, kid oakland wrote an essay on his blog and entitled it We All Live in Richard Pombo's District. Well, that title has become a motto of sorts for the 2006 Congressional race between Richard Pombo and Jerry McNerney in CA-11. Last week, the Washington Times led their feature on Jerry McNerney with it:

DUBLIN, Calif. -- Jerry McNerney, one of dozens of Democrats aiming to unseat congressional Republicans this fall, tells voters: "We all live in Richard Pombo's district."
The slogan, emblazoned beneath a world map in his campaign headquarters, is an attempt to add significance to his race against Mr. Pombo, the chairman of the House Resources Committee.

Meanwhile, Richard Pombo has been attempting to create a campaign issue out of the fact that interested people from outside of his district are getting involved in the race. Pombo's argument posits that a bunch of outsiders shouldn't be able to come in and tell the good people of CA-11 whom they should choose as their representative. But like so many of Pombo's pronouncements, this one is pure bullshit. Read More

Broussard's story the tip of the iceberg

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Tuesday September 06, 2005 · 4:49 PM PDT

2005/09/06 · 16:49

I trust most people remember the sorrowful and deeply moving sight of Aaron Broussard on Meet the Press last Sunday. I remember listening with shock to Broussard describing the inability of his co-worker (or anyone else for that matter) to save the life of the co-worker's mother, who was trapped in her nursing home. He said: "The guy who runs this building I'm in, Emergency Management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, 'Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' and he said, 'Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you.' ... and she drowned Friday night." There is no St. Bernard Nursing Home in Lousianna. There is, however, St. Rita's in both the city and parish of St. Bernard, where thirty people reportedly died. I think that although Broussard said "St. Bernard nursing home," St. Rita's is at least plausibly the nursing home he was talking about. More after the jump.
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Concerns with Lakoff and framing

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Thursday December 02, 2004 · 4:09 PM PST

2004/12/02 · 16:09

Recently, a lot of people on the Left seems to have fallen in love with Lakoff and his theories about framing the issues. However, I am unhappy with some of what I take to be the premises (whether implicit or explicit) which undergird Lakoff's theories. Specifically, I wonder if Americans do in fact share a relevantly similar share of values, and whether we understand other Americans well enough to answer the first question. Read More

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