Rush calls Aged, working families "LIFE'S LOSERS"

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 5:19 PM PDT

2006/06/16 · 17:19

Ok. So I missed the Yearly Kos. I wanted to go. Would have been cool. However, I had a previous engagement in the remote lakes and streams of the Eastern Sierra, stalking the elusive trout. It was a remote location, so remote that we had no TV , radio, or internet. Cell phones were useless. So, six days into this I was kind of jonesing for maybe a tidbit of news. So, in my car on a dusty road heading down to the general store, I turned on the radio and hit "scan", hoping to get some signal, and the radio lands on, of all things, a remote Southern Nevada station broadcasting El Rushbo. This by way of explanation of how I heard Rush say one hell of an amazing thing. Read More

Working the polls: my intro to Sequoia and Wicked, the Musical.

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Wednesday June 07, 2006 · 1:14 AM PDT

2006/06/07 · 01:14

"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars"

In Ventura County,California, people like the hills, wild and tangled with Chapparal and Oaks. Near the land of Reagan's grave and library, it's almost the country, and the place is clean and still a little rural and just far enough away from the grime and heat and gritiness of the LA metro area, so people don't mind an extra 30 mile drive to get there to work. This here is God's country, it's election day, and the registration is about 55-45 Republicans. This is very red country, boy. Today, I have no time for partisan battles. I'm working a poll. I'm an election officer. My name is Hickerson.

Dawn pokes a rosy nose through dull clouds of a humid summer day in Ventura County; it backlights the sky to the color of pink lemonade and the residual ground fog wisps around like a heavy metal video from the 80's. I pull into the parking lot. Day one of the New Dawn of elections: We're using the new Sequoia machines. At least they aren't Diebold.
What would happen next, I could only guess. Read More

Hey, you Immigrants : Get The Hell out of here!

MikeHickerson

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Tuesday May 02, 2006 · 2:29 PM PDT

2006/05/02 · 14:29

Well! What a day! It appears that immigants everywhere have a unified voice. Especially the one I talked to today. he stood on a corner, leading a "counter protest" "They've got no respect fo tha Law-uh" he screamed. That gave him away right there. "Law" is a one syllable word here in my native land. By that, I mean the Republico de CALIFORNIA. Read More

To The Democratic Party Convention in CA: DON'T LOSE FOCUS!!

MikeHickerson

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Saturday April 29, 2006 · 3:39 PM PDT

2006/04/29 · 15:39

Sure, everybody's all abuzz about the major leak that allowed yesterdays' conventioneers to view the Saturday LA Times Headline at 4:00 pm Friday night. This event set off a scramble amongst the two camps of Governor Primary opponents, The Westly guys finally as smug as the Angelides guys have been all year.

I was witness to Phil Angelide's great job of wowing the crowds at last years convention, and the effect of that has been chipped away slowly in the past several weeks by the slick and stealthy Westly campiagn, who has spent a boatload of cash on TV and radio ads, vs a smaller boatload by Angelides.
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The CA Dem convention starts tomorrow and here's what better be on the agenda

MikeHickerson

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Thursday April 27, 2006 · 9:59 PM PDT

2006/04/27 · 21:59

I had hoped to attend the State Democratic Party Convention, and work the California for Democracy (DFA) table, but I'm mired by a business deal and can't break away. So apologies, my fellow progressive Dems, and brothers and sisters in arms at California for Democracy. If you live in Cali, and you haven't already, join up with your local group of progressives (listed by zip code) via DFAlink. But I digress. The main point of the Democratic Party Covention is to get everyone on the same page in this vital election year. And I heard something today that had god-damn well better be on the party agenda, on page ONE. Read More

"The Heart is a Little to the Left"-RIP William Sloane Coffin

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Wednesday April 12, 2006 · 9:41 PM PDT

2006/04/12 · 21:41

By a departing light
We see acuter quite
Than by a wick that stays.
There's something in the flight
That clarifies the sight
And decks the rays.
---Emily Dickinson

William Sloane Coffin passed away last night, amid the laughter and joy of his family during a gathering. He was a singularly distinctive man, borne of a time when great Satanic evil loosed itself upon our world, not once, but several times in his lifeteme, and he provided a spiritual touchstone for those of us who always asked an anguished "WHY?" Read More

OK, Let's recap: Republicans MUST impeach

MikeHickerson

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Sunday April 09, 2006 · 4:49 PM PDT

2006/04/09 · 16:49

According to their own standard used when pursuing the impeachment of President Clinton, and so eloquently phrased here the other day by CinDan in his diary about the justifications used at the time, the Republican Party finds itself at an unpleaseant crossroads. Either they were serious about the United States being a country of laws, or they must now step up and admit they were craven partisan hacks, that their entire rationale during the Clinton Impeachment was just so much propaganda, and that they stand for nothing except the accumulation of power to serve large corporations at the expense of the people. Read More

9-11 news: no news, just fodder, distraction

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Saturday April 01, 2006 · 2:12 PM PST

2006/04/01 · 14:12

WTF is it with this latest round of 9-11 self flaggelation? Released the operator half of the emergency phone calls? THAT has to be the most insignificant, non informative news left on this subject. Yet, it's working. It always works. That's why they go to this well with such predictable regularity.

It's the singlemost exploited event in the history of modern presidencies, and at the moment, reminding us of the fairy tale constructed by the White House about 9-11 is a welcome relief for them from scandal and dishonor, resignation, lawbreaking , post signing statements , conviction , indictments and arrest associated with the entity we refer to as BushCo. Read More

RW Letter in Times Shows Our Image Problems

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Friday March 17, 2006 · 12:31 PM PST

2006/03/17 · 12:31

I wanted to post this the day it came out. It was last Monday. In the L.A. Times. It was So outrageous, beyond all belief, yet I know in my heart this represents a significant portion of the electorate.
It's my belief that the DC consultants and image makers have produced this, because they are so afraid of alienating a voter they won't forcefully reply or (gasp) ATTACK when this sort of BS appears. Strangely, only the Democratic consultants seem to be preoccupied with alienating the swing voter, because the nutjob right wing wacko take on our party sure exemplifies they take no prisoners or worry that they might alienate a swing voter by ,say, oh... outlawing abortion completely in North Dakota (new license plate motto-"The coathanger state") Read More

Howard Deans strategy is paying off.

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Wednesday March 15, 2006 · 1:18 PM PST

2006/03/15 · 13:18

Howard Dean's efforts on his "50 State Strategy" within the democratic party are beginning to bear fruit.

Efforts on local level strengthening party, winning over skeptics Read a recent headline by Rick Klien on 3/13 in the Boston Globe. (I'd put a link up but they have an arcane and byzantine registration process and it's not worth the trouble)

[...]a year after the crusading former Vermont governor took over the DNC, the party has reacted in some surprising ways. [...]
[...] many Dean skeptics in state Democratic parties -- especially in places like New Mexico, a swing state that voted Republican in the last presidential race -- have been won over. The reason is the millions of dollars Dean has spent rebuilding Democratic organizations in places that haven't seen a coordinated Democratic effort in a long time.

MikeHickerson

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 3:46 PM PST

2006/02/09 · 15:46

I was originally railing in this diary about the outraged emails I get in the financial community from the Right Wing Wurlitzer, particularly those that came about Coretta King's funeral. When I hit "post" however, I got that "database maintenence" message and it was lost. Rats!

But the point of the rant was Howard Dean. Damn, the right, especially the neocon segment, just HATES him. Today CNBC's Larry Kudlow had rightwing fringe luminary Star Parker opposite Katrina vanden Heuvel, and he popped the "Breaking" AP story about Harry Reid's involvement with Abramoff, since debunked, except on TV.

The first words out of Stars mouth: "Howard Dean should resign", Read More

Supporting our Troops -by poisoning them and their families

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 3:01 PM PST

2006/01/25 · 15:01

This chilling article should be front-page news across the nation. I'm quoting liberally from it here, but truly, you should read the article for yourself. The article speaks volumes about the neocon's actual support for the troops. Of course, so does Henry Kissinger's little known quote which paraphrases the bottom line for the neocon war machine:

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"

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