Walking for Udall, or How America Lost a Big Part of Its Freedom Last Night

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Wednesday November 05, 2014 · 9:03 AM PST

2014/11/05 · 09:03

I meant to write this diary a couple of weeks ago, but my personal life has been crazy (in a good way) and my spare time has been spent working on Udall's campaign. I want to share a specific story about meeting Sen. Udall's wife. She is a terrific lady and a very accomplished person in her own right. America lost a significant chunk of its freedom with the defeat of Udall. I will address this below the fold.

RichM

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Monday February 24, 2014 · 10:19 AM PST

2014/02/24 · 10:19

The Comedic Genius behind such movies as Animal House, Caddy Shack, Stripes and Ghost Busters has left us at age 69. His Opus is probably Ground Hog Day, which is both a comedic movie and a serious zen like look at modern life. I can think of few people who have had a profound effect on popular culture. Rest In Peace.

Wherein I Pile on Katie Kieffer' Insanity...

RichM

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Monday December 31, 2012 · 12:27 PM PST

2012/12/31 · 12:27

I couldn't help myself. It amazes me how so called 'educated' conservatives haven't a fucking clue about anything outside of their own characterizations of what a 'liberal' is. Have they even been to a big city? Have they ever been to Europe - really? Do they know that we own property, guns and cars? Idiots. A more detailed version of her rant can be found here Deadhead's diary. Go below the orange French-looking thing if you are still with me:

RichM

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Monday October 29, 2012 · 8:36 AM PDT

2012/10/29 · 08:36

The tip jar in this diary will be my 25,000 comment on the Big Orange Satan. I have spent a lot time here. (Probably too much time). I would like to use this opportunity, to send out a plea to the community. Follow me below across the orange French looking thing...

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 10:52 AM PDT

2012/09/18 · 10:52

In TomP's diary, I made a comment about how I think the President can incorporate Rmoney's comments on the '47%' to show that he has taken a lot of crap while governing. You see, I remember the crap Clinton took during his 8 years, but Obama's feces storm is way beyond that. I think Rmoney may have given the President another hidden gift to talk about that.

Follow me below the orange, French looking thing if you are so inclined...

RichM

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Sunday July 29, 2012 · 9:11 PM PDT

2012/07/29 · 21:11

I have been on this site for over 9 years. I haven't written a diary in quite some time. I hope will indulge me a bit of a personal rant.

I just cleared out several Facebook friends. I like Facebook because I can keep track of life events of distant relatives and friends. It helped me when Japan had it’s earthquake and Tsunami - I have a cousin stationed in the north of Japan. He was assigned to offer aid to the Japanese people after that. I’m very proud of him. I found out my Godson’s girlfriend was pregnant and now I get to watch his son grow, even though he lives 1200 miles away. I swap pie recipes with my wife’s cousin who is on the east coast. She gave me a great tip to add Scotch to my pie crust. In many ways, it has been great. But it seems more and more frequently, it is becoming a cesspool of ignorant political opinion. I am in the process of ‘unfriending’ a lot of old friends and associates.

I have had several ‘discussions’ with these individuals. Fortunately, I have been able to leave before I have put something out there that is really damaging. But most time when I engage with a few of these individuals, they always says something like ‘I just want to have a discussion’. I'm sorry, but that is not possible. Because we aren’t even speaking the same language. This diary is a cathartic exercise in my frustration. Every one of these paragraphs is something that was presented by my FB friends - who are now no longer my friends. Follow me below the orange French looking thing if you care to read my rant.

RichM

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 7:47 AM PDT

2010/11/03 · 07:47

In Colorado - only 4 counties have not reported 100%:

Hinsdale - population 790.
Boulder - Strong Dem (68% - 29%)
Arapahoe - Lean Dem (50% - 46%)
Chaffee - Lean Dem (47% - 46.5%)

Because of this, Buck has no way to catch up. Colorado election law triggers a recount at 1/2%. Right now, the margin is .46% (Incorrect - see below).

RichM

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Wednesday September 30, 2009 · 8:44 AM PDT

2009/09/30 · 08:44

This is a pretty much a cut-and-past diary on what is headlining right now on TPM. But I think this deserves discussion here on dKos. Newsmax, that bastion of WR loonyism has published an article stating it may be necessary for the top brass in the military to stage a coup in order to 'eliminate the Obama problem.' It has since been removed, but the original article is being archived.

RichM

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Wednesday March 11, 2009 · 8:06 AM PDT

2009/03/11 · 08:06

Huffington Post has a video up of our buddy Jim Cramer talking about how he manipulated the market to improve his position on the hedge funds he managed. Some of the activity is ethically wrong - but not illegal, but some of it is out-right against the law. He also extols the virtues of manipulating the 'market mechanics' and says that the 'market fundamentals' are not important. In short, the little weasel is everything that Main-Street Americans hate about the Wall-Street elite - greedy, uncaring of anything or anybody they leave in their wake and totally without regard to ethics or legal niceties when it comes to making money.

More after the break.

RichM

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Friday February 20, 2009 · 12:38 PM PST

2009/02/20 · 12:38

This is another one of those 'Recommend this' diaries. I apologize in advance. When the diary that it targets reaches the rec list, I will delete this one.

Ever wonder what the Hell happened in the financial markets? Do you find bonddad, New Deal Dem and Jerome a little dry and too geeky? Well, this diary contains a video that describes the whole financial mess in very easy to understand terms. I only have two critiques:

The characterization of sub-prime borrowers is a little bit generic. Some people where sub-prime borrowers because that is the only way they could buy a house in the market that they live in.

The CBO's were highly leveraged. This meant that they were 97% borrowed money and only 3% loans. Which made them highly sensitive to default.

MAJOR UPDATE! Judiciary Committee Confirms Holder - 17-2 (with poll)

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Wednesday January 28, 2009 · 8:34 AM PST

2009/01/28 · 08:34

This is not going to be much of a diary, but there is no open thread and this is important news.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth – the Holder nomination makes it out of committee by a large margin. No word yet as to who the two hold outs are. The margin pretty much guarantees no floor fight in the Senate – but I would not be surprised if somebody puts a secret hold on the floor vote to delay it a couple of days. Long live "the rule of law."

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The first thing Holder should do...

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The first thing Holder should do...

Investigate the extent of torture

24 votes

Set up trials for those in Gitmo

9 votes

Investigate the previous AG firings

9 votes

Get Karl Rove to honor the House subpoena

44 votes

Clean hosue of all of those Regent grads

50 votes

Start the process of covering Obama's ass

3 votes

Eat pie

12 votes

Live Blog - Electoral Count Confirmed by Joint Session!

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Thursday January 08, 2009 · 9:46 AM PST

2009/01/08 · 09:46

I thought I would post a diary for the Presidential Electoral proceedings. They begin at 1:00 eastern - approx. 15 at the time of this writing. This is a joint session of congress where the electoral votes from each state are read before the congress. Dick Cheney gets to read the votes for Barack Obama.

C-Span will carry it live here.

If anybody has any good links for this I will post them.

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