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Wednesday May 02, 2012 · 2:45 AM PDT

2012/05/02 · 02:45

A friend of mine died yesterday.

[This is personal and I just need to unload it. If you're not into that, feel free to move on, it will self-destruct shortly anyway.]

jlynne

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Thursday February 03, 2011 · 5:03 PM PST

2011/02/03 · 17:03

You are in the the 54th Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our Egyptian friends and their courageous struggle for freedom.

DO NOT REC THIS DIARY! Rec the Mothership here.

(The idea is to keep the Mothership visible on the rec list, with links therein to the child diaries where we can discuss the events. This prevents multiple liveblog diaries taking up slots on the rec list.)

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 4:44 PM PDT

2009/08/30 · 16:44

As the initial grief of losing Senator Kennedy dulls, and as an antidote to the recent personal rants on the shame of being an American citizen today, I have something good to offer you.

Something uplifting and hopeful. I hope it brings a ray of sunshine to an otherwise cloudy season. . . please jump.

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Thursday January 15, 2009 · 11:33 PM PST

2009/01/15 · 23:33

Dear P-E Obama:

Your nominee for Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government, testified before the Senate today that waterboarding is torture. President Bush and Vice President Cheney have both made public admissions that they authorized the use of waterboarding. They authorized torture. Probable cause exists for their immediate arrest and detention pending formal charges for war crimes. It really is just that simple, that cut and dried.

You have promised that you will adhere to the premise that no man is above the law. If these were any other men, at any other time, they would be charged, tried, and quite possibly executed, under our Rule of Law.

This is your rubicon, but your choice imperils us all, so I've taken the liberty of finding you some help.

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Should Bush and Cheney be arrested and charged with torture?

98 votes Vote Now!

Should Bush and Cheney be arrested and charged with torture?

Yes

10 votes

Hell Yes!

43 votes

Yes, but it's too tacky to do it at the swearing in ceremony. Wait until Wednesday.

45 votes

Sublime Ridiculousness

jlynne

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 2:52 AM PDT

2008/10/04 · 02:52

It's time to do election homework.

Colorado has this neat practice. Every election, we spend a ton of taxpayer money to compile, print, and mail to every voter, a little booklet of information describing the various ballot issues. It's the "Colorado Blue Book."

This Ballot Measures for Dummies® is necessary because Colorado's petition process for getting a measure on the ballot is relatively easy. Every special interest group in the State tries to get their concerns addressed by Constitutional Amendment, which explains why our Constitution is such a hacked up mess of populism.

Most of us accept this as a more or less annoying game that plays out every election season. We value the Initiative Process, so we put up with all the bullshit amendments that it produces, and we pay for the convenience of having the "nonpartisan research staff" explain the bullshit just in case we miss it.

This is nontrivial. There are 14 proposed Constitutional Amendments on the ballot in November.

That's a lot of homework. . . .

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Legislating by Constitutional Amendment is

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Legislating by Constitutional Amendment is

a bad idea

3 votes

a very bad idea

11 votes

a populist weapon of mass destruction

11 votes

Secur(itiz)ing our Future: Mortgage-Backed Lemonade

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 7:15 AM PDT

2008/10/01 · 07:15

I have never lived in poverty. I have been cash poor, and I know commodity cheese when I taste it, but I have never lived 24/7 in destitute poverty. There has never been a single moment in my life when food, clothing and shelter were not readily available and affordable.

People who lived through the Great Depression knew a very different reality. Billmon's reference to "searing generational memories" is dead-on accurate. At some primordial level, I have morphed into my Grandmother. I stockpile staples, I can't throw anything away, and I spend precious hours learning how to do stuff by trial and error (with a lot of help from the internets), so that I won't have to pay someone else to do it for me. Self-sufficiency has become a bit of an obsession, actually.

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Sound off

14 votes Vote Now!

Sound off

Best Plan

3 votes

Better Plan

4 votes

Stupid, ignorant, wishful dreaming

3 votes

Pie

4 votes

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 2:07 AM PDT

2008/09/12 · 02:07

PLEASE FOLLOW THE RULES:

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Post Ike updates in response to the first comment so they can be picked up for the next diary.

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These diaries are intended to provide an up-to-date emergency information and references for our many Gulf Coast/eastern Texas Kossacks. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those about to be affected by the hurricane. If you are trying to reach someone in the area of the storm, try text messaging. It often works when cell phones do not.

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Friday June 27, 2008 · 1:53 PM PDT

2008/06/27 · 13:53

Everyone's in a tizzy about Olbermann, Dean and Greenwald, but lost in the turf-battles, credibility wars and personality conflicts is a rather large point.

Dean's right, the FISA Bill does not preclude criminal prosecution of the telecoms, only civil prosecution. Whoopee!!!!! Obama does have a secret plan to fix it. Oh, you faithless minions, you must be castigated.

Um, what a minute. Not so fast, boys. A criminal prosecution requires a crime doesn't it? What crime did the telecoms allegedly commit? Because I'm having a hard time seeing it. . . .

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 11:03 AM PDT

2008/06/22 · 11:03

I was furious after reading Senator Obama's statement on the FISA Bill. Righteously enraged, even.

I live in the desert. It often makes me cranky, but when I get righteously enraged, and need to protect others from my presence, the desert serves that purpose well. So, the dog and I headed for the desert. The desert is blooming. Moss roses in yellow, orange and red were everywhere. Prickly pear, paintbrush, and carpets of tiny little purple, blue and white things whose names I've never known. For a few short weeks each year, the desert is truly beautiful, awash in the colors of the rainbow, a vivid reminder that life goes on, even under the harshest of conditions. A few short weeks - the rest of the year, the desert is just intent on killing you.

I'm still fuming, but I love Frank Herbert, the desert is blooming, and I've been thinking ...

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In your opinion, has Congress justified a need to gut the 4th Amendment?

686 votes Vote Now!

In your opinion, has Congress justified a need to gut the 4th Amendment?

686 votes

SCOTUS, the Constitution, and We the People

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Saturday June 14, 2008 · 10:41 AM PDT

2008/06/14 · 10:41

The American people are going to wake up tomorrow and be shocked to hear that a member of Al Qaeda has the same constitutional rights as an American citizen" - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

Aaarrrrggghh! It's not about rights, dammit! It's about power! #$%%^^#$!@!@

Thursday, the Supreme Court released a truly landmark opinion (pdf link) on habeas corpus that has the Left breathing a little easier, and the Right foaming at the mouth and stomping their feet. Reviewing the comments on both sides reveals a startling gap in our basic understanding of the Constitution. Like the misuse of the CIC designation, our fundamental misconception of the Constitution pervades our thought and leads to ignorant conclusions of ever increasing magnitude.

Morph with me into constitutional-wingnut mode to explore why so many are so wrong in their approach to constitutional issues . . .

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Wednesday August 15, 2007 · 11:28 AM PDT

2007/08/15 · 11:28

With the passage of the Protect America Act (pdf file), Congress has failed to enforce the Separation of Powers required by our Constitution. While the issue wends its way to the Supreme Court, and we wait to learn whether the failure of our Constitution is complete, there is one other avenue of relief that We The People can and should pursue.

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Saturday November 18, 2006 · 4:54 PM PST

2006/11/18 · 16:54

Yesterday, a very important diary scrolled by with very little notice. I'd like to invite you all to read New Report Finds Bush Banned Rights Before Military Tribunal Law Enacted by Congress by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse. Read More

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