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I originally wrote this and placed it out on twitter, facebook and OccupyWallSt.org in Dec 2011.
It was during the Holidays and I was thinking of Family Friends our Society our Country and our World.
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I know it seems early but I figured this was the time to put it out there. :
I will stand up for and represent all of the people in this nation. Not just the wealthy 1%ers.
I will implement a ...
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Paul Mason, the economics editor of Channel Four, the UK's alternative public broadcaster, says what everyone else thinks.
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It's hard to think of anything that was uglier in post-slavery America than lynching. From 1882-1964, the archives at Tuskegee University documented that at least 3,445 African Americans were ...
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Hello Everybody
Just joined the site.
Should declare to you all that I am not "of the left" - Mostly a libertarian, not a huge fan of Obama, but then wasn't a huge fan of Bush either.
Think two ...
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Iraq War III is looking more and more like Viet Nam with every passing day...
[http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/13/us-military-considers-troops-iraq-general US military considers ...
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Dinosaurs dominated the Earth for over 150 million years, longer than any other group of animals. But it has only been recently that fossil discoveries have helped us trace the story of how these ...
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Standard disclaimer: Leave your loathing of meta, World of Warcraft, or community diaries outside. If you think we should be playing your MMO instead, start a guild and write a recruitment diary. ...
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The New England Journal of Medicine seems rightly angered over this question. It should be. It places the blame directly on conservatives and the National Rifle Association. But it also nudges ...
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A clueless Ted Cruz rages against Net Neutrality
After Ted Cruz sent out the tweet above, he got some surprisingly vicious comments–from conservatives. A sample of the feedback left on ...
by Jen Hayden
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Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. Now that the political races are over for a bit ...
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It appears that the Democrats will hold 188 seats in the House in the new 114th Congress, with the Republicans holding 247 (assuming that the Democrats win all of the uncalled races in California ...
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Well. our old friend Keystone Pipeline XL is back in the news lately because both Republicans and Democrats need a legislative low hurdle to make it look like they know what they're doing. Both ...
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Yes farmers are an endangered species but not for the reasons most will imagine.
A reflection on a real life couple as they suffer a setback in their farm careers.
So here is the ...
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Here we go :
Michigan would divide its electoral college votes in presidential elections rather than award them all to a single candidate under legislation being introduced Thursday in the state ...
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In case you missed it, the USA today published the following investigative report yesterday: “ Rural hospitals in critical condition: ACA accelerates demise of rural hospitals that serve many of ...
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The 2014 GOP Platform
Last Wednesday, at EPCOT Center in Disney World, I heard a father shout this at a crying child ...
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Since it's " The Newsroom's " last season I went back and watched the opening episode's fairly famous rant.
For some reason I now see it completely differently than I did the first time around. ...
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Drug trials in West Africa: Two possibly effective anti-Ebola drugs, plus immune plasma, will be trialed starting in December in West Africa. This is the first time that drug trials will be held ...
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O.K.
So the midterms didn't turn out too well for Democrats. There have been all kinds of post-mortems, but there is one that is unquestionable. We don't need a lot of people who are currently in ...
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Empathy and Compassion 101 are not part of the STEM curriculum.
“A mindset in which individuals are ultimately discarded will never achieve peace or justice ,” he writes. “Responsibility for ...
by Karen Hedwig Backman
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Nancy Pelosi appropriately lashed out at a rather tone deaf question from a reporter.
"On your own leadership after Democrats lost seats last week in the election," the reporter asked. "I wonder if ...
by Egberto Willies
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Donna Edwards at her victory rally on February 13, ...
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We've all know for a long time what a sick, dangerous character our long-term director of the FBI was, but this is incredible. The FBI building by act of Congress bears his name. That name should ...
by Tony Greco
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This Witch Flies!
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The state and federal governments have been in collusion with Big Oil in California for decades - and people concerned about the future of fish, wildlife and the oceans are fed up with the fact that ...
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Earlier this week, I had a chance to screen Rosewater , Jon Stewart's directorial debut, which opens nationwide on Friday. Rosewater , which was also written by Stewart and is distributed by ...
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In Broomfield, CO, fracking seems in its infancy. Resistance of, by, and for those humans who live there - as evidenced by http://ourbroomfield.org - seems to be growing.
The group said on Nov 10,
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Most people are thinking about the situation on Main street? correct?
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/how-many-americans-even-own-stocks.html/?a=viewall
For decades, many financial experts ...
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A board of healthcare experts appointed by Gov. Rick Perry (R) ...
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When the Patriot Act was passed, one of the more egregious provisions (and the Patriot Act is a hodgepodge of civil liberty violations ) was broadening federal law enforcement's ability to to ...
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I like this:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/tester-named-to-chair-dscc-20141113
Sen. Jon ...
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There seem to be some legal complications in regard to the Kansas marriage equality ruling and injunction issued last week. Kansas AG Derek Schmidt says that it only affects two counties in Kansas.
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Greg Dworkin helps us get a handle on a muddled news day: ...
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Map of Kansas oil and gas wells, superimposed upon a geological map of the region, with the epicenter of the earthquake marked.
Kansas had an earthquake yesterday on a Richter scale of 4.8. Like ...
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A long time ago in a roller rink far, far away ....
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You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
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Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. I grew up with both cats & dogs and I love both. I do not discriminate against any animal & love ...
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Gary Gupton, being held as suspect in brutal attack
Stephen White is a gay veteran who served in Iraq. This week he is in critical condition after ...
by Jen Hayden
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Hello everyone! My name is Mike Ramsey. I'm a political cartoonist who used to post cartoons here with some frequency. I took a long hiatus from political cartooning after the 2012 election, and I'...
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Yesterday, in the Philadelphia Inquirer , the front page revealed that officials at a recently defunct charter school, the Walter D. Palmer School, had invoked their Fifth Amendment right against ...
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and how can one tell the difference?
And why is race suddenly back to a black/white issue on this site?
Can it be because DKos like the rest of Amerika is unable to discuss race with the least ...
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Henry Kissinger, that notorious Russian commie sympathizer, says that the West in effect caused the crisis in Ukraine (not, of course, that it's OK for Russia to have, in response, intervened in ...
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Reinterpretations of rock and pop songs.
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In 1963, Dr. Alessandra Comini saw a small exhibit of Austrian Expressionists . It was her first time viewing the work of Egon Schiele. She described it as “an apocalypse that changed my life.” ...
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You Mean This Traditional America Is Ending?
Traditional American Indians, who were here first, and who have been fighting against genocide for over 400 years?
Traditional American Africans, ...
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"This is about perception, it's not about reality."
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I felt like I got kicked squarely in balls for about three days last week. The election was a debacle, an embarrassment for America, and extremely discouraging. But, after 3 nights of not sleeping ...
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The following MIA have been accounted for.
Cpl. Leland F. Smith , U.S. Army, Company K, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost Nov. 28, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for ...
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In a 1938 campaign speech, Franklin Roosevelt went for the jugular of the GOP. It's too bad President Obama wouldn't now forget "compromise" and do the same. Even though he has not been perfect, ...
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So far the only Lame Duck Congress opportunity that got advocates excited is the possibility of Congress dealing with fracking and the Keystone Pipeline.
The biggest silver lining in the election ...
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In an article on WorldNet Daily , Ben Carson, 2016 Presidential hopeful, revealed part of his plan for immigration.
A national guest-worker program makes sense and seems to work well in Canada. ...
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After enduring another round of DLC/Third Way/Centrist whatever the fuck they're calling themselves this week berating of progressives after and even before the election because we didn't adequately ...
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There is a strong stereotype out there that Progressive talk radio will ...
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It's sickening enough that when workers are injured or even killed on the job, the companies responsible for dangerous conditions rarely face any penalty beyond a fine. But an investigation by NPR ...
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This piece was co-written with Hilary Shelton, Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy and Director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP .
Fifty years ago, Congress passed two landmark ...
by Dan Chu
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Yeah. You read that right. After almost two damn months of harassing them, they're going to interview me for a 'logistics specialist'.
Before I go any further, an update: The county Information ...
by Homer177
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I apologize for this short diary today. As oil prices drop into the $70's, Tar sand oil from Alberta, which costs more than $85 just to extract, no longer make economical sense. So even if the GOP ...
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Nobody, in my opinion, knows the Supreme Court better, and writes about its decisions and law in a more user-friendly way, than Linda Greenhouse, former NYTimes Supreme Court reporter who has a ...
by Tasini
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For fun, I would like to start a "fantasy" series of diaries with the title theme.
The topic of the first diary: Obama Becomes Trust-Buster-in-Chief
For details, follow me below the "Repug ...
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So, John pulled the plug on Drinking Liberally last night, which was a smart move.
Saturday has a chance of snow, but moreso after noon and into the evening, so we will plow ahead. Hope to see ...
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One of the lander's feet is visible in this CIVA image from the (final) landing site on 67P/C-G.
So the good news is that the Philae lander is at rest on a comet. The bad news is that we still don'
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Cynics might say that Elizabeth Warren got the new leadership position because it's low-risk as the GOP takes the Senate majority and what seems to be the crickets from the DLC members. Will this be ...
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From politicususa.com :
Without issuing a formal veto threat, the White House is making it clear that if Congress passes a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama ...
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Governor Jerry Brown should abandon his doomed Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels and embrace a sustainable water solution that is fair to all Californians, according ...
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Recently, a lesson plan was devised for a group of students in an elective course in order to evaluate the President's "top" initiatives and policies.
The issues include:
1) Economy
2) ...
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In a clear leftward shift, Harry Reid has added Elizabeth Warren to the Senate's Democratic leadership roster. The other leaders (Reid, Schumer, Durbin, and Murray) will remain in their positions; ...
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Louisiana Official Election Results - US Senator - November 4 2014
Candidate Party Tally
Mary Landrieu Democratic 619,397
Bill Cassidy Republican 603,048 Rob. Maness Republican 202,...
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Dear John Boehner, Marco Rubio, Cory Gardiner, Joni Ernst and countless more....
I know you are not scientists.
Neither am I. In fact I didn't take any science after high school.
Yet, I do ...
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In response to the amazing news that the US and China have struck an agreement on climate change, the deniersphere has gone into full damage control mode. Deniers appear to be following the lead of ...
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In general the history of hydroelectric dams in the United States has involved the transfer of wealth from the nation’s poorest people, American Indians, to the nation’s wealthiest people, ...
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If it's Thursday on The After Show with Wink & Justice; then Thank God It's Giovedì (that's what we call it)!
Tea Party group, Freedom Works, attacks Net Neutrality, because treating all websites ...
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Harry Reid has outlined his strategy, in an interview with “The Hill,” about his approach to serving as minority leader when Republicans take charge in the Senate in January. He had some very ...
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Grab your notebook! Class is in session. bunnygirl60 aka Arliss Bunny joins us at 11:30am EDT talking about her take on economics and monetary policy that we call bunnynomics .
Although a reprise ...
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