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Monday November 12, 2012 · 11:28 AM PST

2012/11/12 · 11:28

Paula Broadwell knows a lot.

Watching this video of her speaking a month ago about Benghazi gives a glimmer of what she knows. Petraeus mistress reveals real motive behind Benghazi attack via Reuters.

more after the jump

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Friday November 18, 2011 · 8:16 PM PST

2011/11/18 · 20:16

Shepard Fairey has redesigned the famous HOPE poster to match the times. Occupy HOPE

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Is it a hit?

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Is it a hit?

Love It

12 votes

Hate It

2 votes

Hope It Goes Away

1 vote

Papist Fawkers

2 votes

Live blogging The Dead Live

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Saturday May 16, 2009 · 10:55 PM PDT

2009/05/16 · 22:55

The Dead are wrapping up a spring 2009 tour tonight at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington. The band are the core four from the Grateful Dead - Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart - along with Jeff Chimineti and Warren Haynes (filling some big shoes). For a bunch of old guys, they are playing some of the hottest rock and roll of the decade.

After the jump I'll talk a bit about the music and the politics behind The Dead and the Grateful Dead.

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Saturday November 08, 2008 · 10:35 AM PST

2008/11/08 · 10:35

Just floating the balloon to see if there is any potential dkos events around the Inauguration?

I presume that many of the hard code diarists, dkos inner circle and deep thinkers that post here will be in town for this monumental event.

I also suspect that many will be happy not to be organizing, booking, planning and creating an event and will just want to attend the official state and federal events.

I further assume that there will be a lot of people in DC that won't be able to attend any of the official events.

So, maybe just maybe there's the possibility of a Kossack organized after party, pre-party, gathering of heads, meeting of minds, mixer, mix-it-up, get down, thrown down party all night even in the works.

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Would you could you in a box?

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Would you could you in a box?

Would you could you with a fox!

9 votes

I will walk 1000 miles to see Obama sworn in!

9 votes

I will walk 100 miles to party with the Daily Kossacks!

7 votes

I will watch it all on YouTube from the squishy chair!

10 votes

Dilbert Survey of Economists

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 12:08 PM PDT

2008/09/16 · 12:08

Interesting! Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert has privately funded a survey of 500 economists. He released his results and his interpretation in a press release and at CNN.

In short this is what he found :

60% of the economists say Obama would make the most progress for the economy, with 32% picking McCain, and 8% saying there would be no difference

This broke down across party lines :

I'll continue with the details and a mini-rant after the big hop.

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 10:54 AM PDT

2008/09/12 · 10:54

LOTS of talk about polls since the RNC bounce went so high so I thought I'd tie up a few tidbits I learned in the last week in a brief diary to share. In short - it's not as bad as some will say.

More below ...

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This poll is ...

17 votes Vote Now!

This poll is ...

invalid!

1 vote

insightful!

5 votes

mathematically skewed in favor of Republicans!

5 votes

Lies! Damn Lies! And Statistics!

2 votes

our worst enemy!

4 votes

I Am Voting Now

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 8:58 PM PST

2006/11/06 · 20:58

I am voting now. Right after I whittle down my Dixon(r) No.2 school boy pencil, I'll be reading the last pass of comments FOR and comments AGAINST and I will be voting for candidates and ballot measures.

Issues aside, this is about the mechanics, the technology, the participation and the Democracy of Oregon. While we may not be a behemoth in technology like our neighbor to the North, nor the agricultural powerhouse like our neighbor to the South, I believe that Oregon is the nation's leader in participatory Democracy

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It's Time To Elect A Government

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Sunday September 17, 2006 · 10:03 PM PDT

2006/09/17 · 22:03

I am dreadfully tired of the various phases of government and elections I've seen in my 24 years as a voter. Pick this party or that. Pick this talking head or that. Suspense and dread as the policy makers, henchmen, cronies and donators all line up for high powered positions of influence.

I'm sick of Republicans and Democrats alike keeping the cards close to the table until they have manipulated minds into the appropriate checkbox on the ballot.

I'm ready for a real election. I'm ready to Elect A Government.

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9/11 Death Toll Continues To Rise

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 11:00 PM PDT

2006/09/10 · 23:00

Mount Sinai Medical Center released a large study on Thursday 9/8/06 covering WTC responders health. The study, titled "The World Trade Center Disaster and the Health of Workers: Five-Year Assessment of a Unique Medical Screening Program", covers 9,442 workers (out of a total of over 40,000) from the period of July 2002 and April 2004. At the time of the examination 59% had persistent symptoms.

The study coincided with a public meeting Thursday night with federal 9/11 Health Coordinator, Dr. John Howard. Public statements from lower Manhattan residents provide anecdotal evidence of long term and chronic health affects among the children and others.

Former EPA chief Christine Whitman will appear on 60 Minutes Sunday night to continue her defense of the EPA during the cleanup.

What must be done

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Saturday September 09, 2006 · 11:50 AM PDT

2006/09/09 · 11:50

Brothers and sisters. Kossacks and candidates. What must be done?

While Democrats are hard at work on the campaign trail, raising funds and challenging the status quo of neo-Republicanism and this do-nothing Congress, while many of us are working hard, commenting and councilling, donating and volunteering, there is more to do.

It is highly likely that Democracy will return to the House and (at the risk of being overly optimistic) the Senate. The momentum and energy in the Democratic camp exceeds the efforts of the Republicans in 1994, exceeds the efforts of the neo-Republicans in 2000 and exceeds the efforts of the do-nothing Republicans in 2004. Our party will wash a blue tide of Democracy across our nation this November!

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Avi Rubin and the "Brave New Ballot"

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 8:37 AM PDT

2006/09/05 · 08:37

Tomorrow morning Diane Rehm will spend an hour with Aviel Rubin discussing his new book
Brave New Ballot and the problems with electronic voting. Avi Rubin is a highly regarded computer scientist (or "ubernerd" in compsci talk) and has turned his attentions on electronic voting machines. His expertise is in computer security and as well as being professor at Johns Hopkins University, he is Technical Director of the Hopkins Information Security Institute.

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YearlyKos Mainstream Media Coverage

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Sunday June 11, 2006 · 5:12 PM PDT

2006/06/11 · 17:12

As yK winds down, the traditional news apparatus kicks into gear.

Right now, as I write this at 4:30pm PST, the top US story on news.google.com is YearlyKos from The times of London Chocolate, Elvis and foil hats as politicians woo the bloggers.

[Markos] sounded more like the leader of a fledgling political party than the cyberhost of a cacophony of voices.

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Occupy HOPE

Live blogging The Dead Live

Inaugural dKos?

Dilbert Survey of Economists

Poll watching and analytics

I Am Voting Now

It's Time To Elect A Government

9/11 Death Toll Continues To Rise

What must be done

Avi Rubin and the "Brave New Ballot"

YearlyKos Mainstream Media Coverage