Condi kiss this snapshot...

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Monday July 17, 2006 · 10:07 AM PDT

2006/07/17 · 10:07

Secretary of State Rice's appearance on This Week got a lot of mileage for her saying that Iraq being an instable force in the Middle East is grotesque and it got a lot of traction here at the DailyKos. But her next statement really caught my ear.

Secondly I think that you have to recognize that this is indeed a long process. To take a snapshot a couple of years after these processes are really beginning in the Middle East is extremely short sighted.

This is my snapshot over the last 5 years. When I was doing the research on this it showed that the violence continues to get worse as each snapshot is taken. This was really depressing. I begin my first snapshot in the summer of 2001.
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President Bush is an embarrassment to me.

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Sunday July 16, 2006 · 10:27 AM PDT

2006/07/16 · 10:27

President Bush is a total embarrassment to all Americans who have some dignity and honor. Anyone outside of the last 1/3 (the backwash to use Stephen Colbert's analogy) of our fellow citizens must cringe whenever President Bush 'goes off script'. Here is the leader of the USofA and he still acts like he is in junior high school. He is a liar, intelligently lazy and not competent to be a President of the USofA. He has helped only his friends and left anyone else out in the cold. This is why I'm embarrassed of my President. I use the term my President even though I voted against him in 2000 and 2004.

There are more things that I'm ashamed of then I could ever place in a single diary. I'm confident that all of you could come up with many more examples then the ones I'm going to point out. Please add your embarrassments to the comments.
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USA not the happiest place...

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Thursday July 13, 2006 · 3:32 PM PDT

2006/07/13 · 15:32

One of the Dan Quayle quotes was, "You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be."

He said this while talking to American Samoans. Read More

What is Rep. Hoestra's spy program?

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Sunday July 09, 2006 · 7:17 PM PDT

2006/07/09 · 19:17

So Rep. Pete Hoestra wrote a letter to the Bush Administration about some whisleblower's information on an intelligence program that he was not aware of. Rep. Hoestra is the chairman of of the House Intelligence Committee. President Bush has always claimed that the WH has brief the intelligence committee on their intelligence programs. I find this to be very curious. What program is this? Read More

The Cult of DKos

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Saturday July 08, 2006 · 5:43 PM PDT

2006/07/08 · 17:43

Back in the 1970's there was a religious cult called the Love Family. The leader of this cult renamed himself Love Isreal (kind of catchy huh and a nice play on words). My wife (now ex-) was drawn to this lifestyle for her own reasons but I wasn't. I guess after being drafted into the US Army in 1967 I developed an intense dislike for any discipline or authority figure. She joined and took our 3-year-old daughter. I was told by Serious Isreal (the inner circle of elders always given names by Love Isreal that reflected their inner soul) that one of the main problems with anyone outside of the cult was that children were too attached to their 'earthly' parents and it was in the children's best interest to sever their bonds so that they could learn the true meaning of their heavenly parents as told through Love Isreal. Read More

Ireland's education and economy

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 8:15 AM PDT

2006/07/04 · 08:15

Why Ireland indeed.

Ireland's education is administered through its Department of Education and Science. Their government views education as a fundamental right under their constitution. They invested money over a period of time and now have one of the world's highest education participation rates. Around 60% of Irish students go on to higher education. In the US we can't even get 60% to graduate from high school in our urban school districts.
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A layman's reading of the Geneva Convention...

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Sunday July 02, 2006 · 10:07 PM PDT

2006/07/02 · 22:07

In 1949 the US government signed the Geneva Conventions as one of the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Governments. Under Convention III, Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GPW), Article 1, "The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances".

Okay, I'm not a lawyer with the background and experience of our Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. I am only a layperson curious about what the US government signed up for after WWII.

Follow me below the fold if you want to hear my interruption of this 'quaint' international treaty.
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Hazardous materials all around you...

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Friday June 30, 2006 · 9:25 PM PDT

2006/06/30 · 21:25

In a previous career I was a firefighter. One of the critical areas for a fire department is responding to a hazardous material incident. On the night of Oct 6, 1981 we got an alarm of a train derailment that was only a mile and a half from the fire station. Being the first on the scene it was our responsibility to determine foremost the risks to the community. We determined that approximately 25 cars had jumped the tracks and were lying in total disarray. While many of the cars were hauling coal byproduct commonly known as coke there were some cars that were of such a concern that we ultimately evacuated 14,000 people from their homes in the middle of the night. Fortunately, no doom fell on us and all turned out well.

How many of you know what red fuming nitric acid is? Follow me below the fold to learn more about what travels on our railways and interstate highway. Read More

Deju vu all over again...

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Thursday June 29, 2006 · 6:45 PM PDT

2006/06/29 · 18:45

In 1972 I was three years out of the Army and voting in my first stateside election. In 1968 I was stationed Germany and didn't vote in that election. I remember driving over 100 miles round trip to cast my vote for George McGovern. The times were eerily similar to today. In the words of Yogi Berra, "It's deja vu all over again". Follow me below to read why. Read More

My thoughts on what is wrong in Kansas...

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Sunday June 25, 2006 · 10:58 PM PDT

2006/06/25 · 22:58

What is wrong with "Kansas" is a question that inspired a book. This idea that the electorate would willingly vote against their best interests has always been a puzzle to me. Why would anyone vote against his or her own best interests? I don't know if there will be any true insights to my thoughts but here goes. Read More

I cry for the children

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Saturday June 17, 2006 · 8:25 PM PDT

2006/06/17 · 20:25

I remember a conversation I had with my grandfather. He was born in the 90's, that's the 1890's. He was born in the Canadian prairie in a sod house. He saw the first automobile. Worked in the west coast paper industry and lived through the great depression. He witnessed vast changes from the world he was born into. He helped to organize the labor unions and was involved with struggle of the workers to get fair pay for a fair days work. One of the questions that had intrigued me was this, "Had he every dreamed when he was growing up that he would see a man land on the moon?" His succinct answer was no. Read More

My "Louder Than Words" moment...

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 3:20 PM PDT

2006/06/14 · 15:20

DarkSyde wrote a diary today "Louder Than Words" that suggested we should pursue an active engagement in the progressive movement. One of my first contribution was to write to my Congressional Representative.

I did this because he was a Democrat who voted on the wrong side of the net neutrality issue. I never expected even a form letter back but I did receive an email from him or one of his staff who signed as him. Read More

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