4 years ago

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 7:33 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 19:33

On election day my wife went into labor and it was looking like a Kerry victory. The next morning I called home to find out my home state of Ohio had gone for Bush, and the country was further submerged in that republican cesspool of immorality and self destruction.

4 years later I can watch Ohio go for Barack Obama, the first black president of the united states, our best hope for redemption. And my 4 year old asleep upstairs has a chance at a better world to grow up in.

Thank you Ohio, thank you America.

The Lure of 9/11

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Monday January 30, 2006 · 12:19 AM PST

2006/01/30 · 00:19

What is the real significance of 9/11 for this country? Running on 5 years out, I feel like it's time to put this event in some perspective, and the quicker we can do this and start to rebuild reality the faster we can put an end to this alarming acceptance of the endless WAR ON TERROR. Digby says:

I have thought about what it is that 9/11 really evokes in people. It is assumed that it is fear, and I think that most people probably interpret it that way...but this country does not feature the psychological traits of a country that is really at war... It features the psychological traits of a country watching a horror movie, which is not the same thing at all. [T]he endless evocations of pre-9/11 and post 9/11 thinking reminds me of nothing so much as people who are hooked on a stimulating drug.

I think the drug analogy is a better one than the horror movie. One watches a horror movie as a non-participant, but the real power of 9/11 that Bush and his crowd have tapped lies in people's need to be a part of the drama, not to watch it from the sidelines. Stay with me here... Read More

I think I've got Bird Flu and other stories

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 7:20 AM PDT

2005/10/26 · 07:20

Bird flu has exploded out of Asia into Western Europe, possibly South America and eventually all the way to the US. Commitees of important people the world over are meeting dilligently to solve the problem. Bird are being dutifully slaughtered in their billions.

Dozens--dozens!--of people have died. The subject itself has been nearly diaried to death here at Daily Kos, front-paged on a weekly basis, used as yet more fodder for (admittedly righteous) attacks on Bush administration incompetence.

But a few articles I've read in the last two days have gotten me thinking--is this another 'shark attack' scare? Is this next year's candidate for 'whatever happened to (SARS)(Anthrax scare)(Ebola)'?

Or in other words, aren't there more important things to be worrying about right now? Read More

Freedom walk isn't free - fences, arrests, mounties oh my!

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 6:52 AM PDT

2005/09/09 · 06:52

Nothing says FREEDOM like chicken wire, mounted police and a total ban on dissent!

Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.
The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.
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Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.

America, fuck yeah! So, get off your ass and register today if you want to see Clint Black and his "I fucking love Republicans" anthem, because this is America sucker, love it on time or go to jail.
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What happens when it's a terrorist attack instead of a hurricane?

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Wednesday August 31, 2005 · 6:34 AM PDT

2005/08/31 · 06:34

Now we know. Total chaos, lack of resources, lack of planning, and most of all: LACK OF LEADERSHIP.

From the top down, it's:

Apathy:

See you at the 'freedom walk,' you prick.

Impotence:

Governor Kathleen Blanco said on ABC's "Good Morning America.": "The National Guard has been dropping sandbags into it, but it's like dropping it into a black hole.".

and Frustration:

"There is way too many fricking ... cooks in the kitchen" said Mayor Ray Nagin. He said the sandbagging was scheduled for midday, but the Blackhawk helicopters needed to help did not show up. He said the sandbags were ready and all the helicopter had to do was "show up." He said after his afternoon helicopter tour of the city, he was assured that officials had a plan and a timeline to drop the sandbags on the levee breach.

It doesn't have to be like this. Read More

The desensitizing of the world - 500 suicide bombs in Iraq

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Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 10:36 AM PDT

2005/07/13 · 10:36

Caught this at the end of a NYTimes piece about the probability that the London bombs were suicide bombings:

For smaller homegrown groups, like the one that acted in Madrid and whatever operation may have been behind the London attacks, the daily example of the havoc that can be created by suicide attacks in places like Iraq and Israel may have proved impossible to ignore.

And it occurred to me that, in all the talk about terrorist training ground and lives lost in this pitiful, pointless war, this is something that doesn't get a lot of discussion: the desensitizing of the entire world to extreme violence, caused by a full blown urban conflict involving America in the information age. Read More

HTML/CSS geeks, FREEP THIS POLL

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Friday June 24, 2005 · 12:51 PM PDT

2005/06/24 · 12:51

defend innovation, freep this poll!

Those among us who have some knowledge of how the web works should understand that

this redesign, like any, will have its (comparitively small) problems ironed out in no time

this redesign will vastly improve loading time in the long term, and will have a huge impact on the bandwidth Kos serves to his half million daily visitors or whatever the number is

this redesign is taking into account technology that within a short time will be the standard on the internet, for good reason

So give zeldman some love and freep this poll!

the last hope--moderate christian republicans - please read

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Friday June 17, 2005 · 3:15 AM PDT

2005/06/17 · 03:15

II firmly believe that one day we will stand with these people in a serious battle with the forces of hate on the Christian right. Don't kid yourselves--there's no reasoning with these people, they hate us with a furious, self-righteous passion, and if it came down to it they would be more than willing to use violence to win.

If and when that day comes, I will be proud to stand next to people like John Danforth, who has a truly inspiring piece today in the NY Times.

In the decade since I left the Senate, American politics has been characterized by the increased activism of the Christian right, and the collapse of bipartisan collegiality. I do not think it is a stretch to suggest a relationship between the two. To assert that I am on God's side and you are not, that I know God's will and you do not, and that I will use the power of government to advance my understanding of God's kingdom is certain to produce hostility.

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Monday June 13, 2005 · 5:40 AM PDT

2005/06/13 · 05:40

Jeff Foxworthy says this in so many words discussing the "red state humor" of his four man "Blue Collar" troupe as an answer to the "Original Kings of Comedy" tour. According to Jeff, who donated $1000 each to the RNC and Bush's reelection campaign:

"That was a show for urban hip people," Mr. Foxworthy said. "But that show left out the people who were not hip. They're the ones who wake up every morning and go to work and go to war, and, dadgum, there's a whole lot of 'em out there."

In other words, if you are into comedy like that stuff you see on BET, dadgum it, you're cool and unemployed.

And if you mosey on into a factory outside Detroit, or over to Aye raq, none of those average joes is gonna know who Cedric the Entertainer is. Sure.

So, you might be a redneck republican if: Read More

EU Constitution part twee: first Non, now Nee

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Wednesday June 01, 2005 · 5:53 AM PDT

2005/06/01 · 05:53

(I expect Page will have some front-page wisdom about this, but here's my take for what it's worth. This issue is not getting much attention in the US press but I think it's vitally important to the future of progressive ideology, at the center of which sits the European Union.)

The Dutch vote today on the EU constitution, and they look set to vote even more decisively against it than their French counterparts. This will mean the second rejection in four days, which is all the more jarring because both rejections came from the two principal founders of the original union.

I've been asking around to every Dutch person I know about how they're going to vote and why. It's been an interesting experience, full of lessons not just about Dutch politics but also about the nature of democracy, nationalism and post-nationalism, the irrelevance of the political elite, the growing resentment of populations governed by a faceless and distant authority, and the future of the territory-less state that is the EU. Read More

Goddamned Pinkos

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 4:15 AM PDT

2005/05/20 · 04:15

Wouldn't you know it. The New York Times joins Newsweek in treasonous shame today, with a slimy, terrorist friendly eight page "expose" based on anonymous leaks entitled In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths. Leave it to the queen of the coastal media to go to such lengths to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Will they ever stop with this anti-american, anti-bush garbage? Listen to this bleeding heart liberal tripe:

Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.
The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m...When he arrived in the interrogation room...his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days.

Yawn. They've been chaining people to ceilings since the Inquisition. I don't hear anybody calling for the Spanish to apologize! Read More

Liberation Day

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Thursday May 05, 2005 · 12:54 PM PDT

2005/05/05 · 12:54

Today is Bevrijdingsdag, Liberation Day, in the Netherlands. This follows Dodenherdenking, Memorial Day, on which the entire country goes silent for two minutes in memory of Dutch civilian and military deaths in war or peacekeeping missions during and since World War II. Tens of thousands of people gather in Amsterdam and elsewhere around the country to commemorate the occasion; veterans are honored in solemn ceremonies; speakers evoke memories of World War II, and implore everyone never to forget what happened in Europe in the 20th century. Read More

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