Republican Myth Debunker: Prayer in Schools

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday June 23, 2005 · 10:25 AM PDT

2005/06/23 · 10:25

Modern Day Conservatism has become a bizarre cross between classic conservatism, radicalism and evangelical Christianity. Through right-wing radio and campaign rhetoric, the right-wing has made a number of outlandish and false statements about the Democratic party and America in general. Over the next few weeks, I'll be dedicating my diary to debunking these long standing myths.

Thursday's Myth

Myth #1: Schools have outlawed Christians from praying but encourage Muslim prayers in school.
Read More

BREAKING! Bolton Nom Dead in Senate! Flip Flopping Update!

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday June 21, 2005 · 11:20 AM PDT

2005/06/21 · 11:20

CQ is reporting that Frist is all done with the nomination:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist announced today that he will not schedule another vote on John R. Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
In so doing, the Tennessee Republican acknowledged there was nothing further he could do to break a Democratic stalemate with the White House over Bolton.
Read More

Virginians! Go Vote Now!

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday June 14, 2005 · 10:16 AM PDT

2005/06/14 · 10:16

This is important Virginians, there is a race for Lt. Governor, and as we've seen this year, this primary maybe the nominating primary for our 2009 Governor candidate, and it is important we put a progressive in.

For this reason, I urge you to vote in the primary today for Leslie Byrne, the number one progressive candidate in the state. She is running a tough campaign against three moderates, and she needs every vote she can get. Your vote will count, as I voted on my lunch break, I was only the second person in the precinct to vote.

An example of policy from here website: Read More

Why screw people once when you can hit them up thrice

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday June 09, 2005 · 12:10 PM PDT

2005/06/09 · 12:10

CQ is reporting the R's are attaching on more horrible bullshit meant only to encourage businesses to banish pensions on the SS bill. They know no bounds.

Pension Overhaul Likely to Be Part of Social Security Package

Two House committee chairmen today introduced a private pension overhaul bill that they said will likely be rolled into sweeping retirement legislation that includes a Social Security overhaul.
"Instead of having three highly charged partisan fights, we will only have one," said California Republican Bill Thomas, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Read More

Rick Perry to Gay Vets who want to marry: Find another state

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday June 09, 2005 · 11:35 AM PDT

2005/06/09 · 11:35

Rick Perry is just lovely. Not surprising however.

When asked by the Fort Worth Star Telegram how he would tell gay and lesbian veterans of combat in Iraq that they cannot come home and get married, he replied, "Texans made a decision about marriage, and if there's a state that has more lenient views than Texas, then maybe that's a better place for them to live." Read More

The Delay Effect

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday June 06, 2005 · 2:07 PM PDT

2005/06/06 · 14:07

Mike Allen had a really great article in this morning's Washington Post explaining the "Delay Effect". While this story seems obvious to us, the fact that the media and the public at large is picking up on what a disaster he is can be nothing but positive.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/05/AR2005060501223.html

In short, the article is saying that the Delay issue is moving from an inside the Beltway issue to a more universal issue. An issue that truly has a chance to influence the elections.

Buchanan, Liddy and Colson: Sick and Twisted

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday June 01, 2005 · 10:52 AM PDT

2005/06/01 · 10:52

While I posted earlier on my hesitance to deify Mark Felt for his actions as Deep Throat, Nixon apologists have sunk to new lows in the bile they spew.

Here are some choice quotes from Pat Buchanan, psychopath extraordinaire.

On MSNBC:
"He's undercutting the president in the middle of a campaign...Well, look, it brought down a president. And I think that cost us Vietnam, frankly."

(More disturbing crap from all three on the inside) Read More

Deep Throat, Committing Evil to Prevent Evil, and a Conflicted American Hero

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday June 01, 2005 · 9:00 AM PDT

2005/06/01 · 09:00

Watergate is an era that proceeded me, Watergate was finished long before I dipped my baby toe into politics, yet the repercussions of that era continues to affect politics in a profound way, even to this day.

Yesterday, as I'm sure everyone now realizes, the infamous Deep Throat was revealed to be the former number 2 man in the FBI, W. Mark Felt. Felt, now a 91-year-old stroke victim, revealed this to a freelance Vanity Fair reporter. Felt was the man who met many times with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in parking garages to confirm many of the facts Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein uncovered about the Nixon administration's involvement and subsequent cover up of the Watergate burglary. (More Inside)
Read More

Governor Mitch Daniels Sentences Innocent Woman to Death Without A Trial

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday May 24, 2005 · 12:10 PM PDT

2005/05/24 · 12:10

The "culture of life" has reached an all new low

The best parts are on the inside:
Read More

Game Theory, Being the Victims and why the Democrats Won

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday May 24, 2005 · 10:02 AM PDT

2005/05/24 · 10:02

The classic example of game theory is the prisoner's dilemma. Basically, you have two criminals that were involved in a crime and they are separated into two rooms for interrogation. Each is told, if you cooperate and your partner does not, we will give you immunity and you'll go free. If both of you cooperate, you'll both get 3 years in prison. If neither of you cooperate, you'll both go free. However, if you don't cooperate and your partner does, you will get 20 years in prison, and he will go free. The specific numbers are changeable, but you get the basic idea.

This is what we've had on the filibuster battle, its just basic game theory. If the vote went forward, there were two results.
(More inside) Read More

Sometimes the wins get lost

hackeynut

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday May 23, 2005 · 1:37 PM PDT

2005/05/23 · 13:37

In all of the discussion and pontificating about the nuclear option and the level of Bill Frist's pandering to the out-of-their-damned-minds right, a major victory for progressives has been lost in the mix.

For the past year and a half, one of the most important fights in the environmental movement has been to stop the EPA's so called "blending" policy. Basically think of it like this: A sewage plant has two stages, the first stage is a big strainer, and it pulls out the lumps of raw shit. The second stage cleans what is left, that filthy, disgusting goo that goes through your sewage system. Under the proposed EPA policy, sewage system wouldn't have to do that second stage before firing sewage discharge into our rivers on any day it rained. Just think, in someplace like Detroit, where about a third of days see some sort of precipitation, raw shit would be fired into the drinking water source. Tasty.

But luckily, progressives got organized and got nearly 100,000 letter to the EPA to say no to eating shit. And EPA listened (see below for more) Read More

Newer
Older

RSS