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Good evening, all!
I believe that Chuck Hagel is an excellent (presumptive) nominee for Secretary of Defense. His experiences in Vietnam with his brother, his realism (in the foreign policy ...
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My wife and I are first-time parents to a healthy and gorgeous baby girl, born last Thursday, December 27th. After a difficult labor, the doctor made the call to deliver Caroline via a cesarean ...
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See the mix of sex and violence?
The Sandy Hook school massacre has made me more sensitive to the ubiquitous image of guns in movies and popular culture. I was in the BART with my son today, and ...
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The Media will slant this in the next 2 months. I say let's set the terms of the discussion ourselves.
I just made this. It's a poor quality clipping path, but hey, I ain't going for the Museums ...
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Saturday!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild ...
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So my shear hatred towards U.S. Senator Saxby "Chicken Hawk" Chambliss (R. GA) is no secret here. In fact thanks to all you wonderful people, you made my hate letter to Chambliss my most recced ...
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This is a measurable realignment. The so-called "Fiscal Cliff" votes in the House of Representatives demonstrated that our elected national officials now fall to three distinct pools.
Effectively ...
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OND is a community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their ...
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Please read and follow instructions before opening. Or consult your physician.
This is a noncontroversial topic, no flame zone.
SPOILER WARNING: A latenight gathering for non-serious palaver that ...
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Apparently my recent commentary, Socialism vs. Sociopathism has struck a nerve over at right-wing blog Newsbusters (thanks to exterris for pointing that out). Normally I don't read much overt right-...
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We're chasing our tails here..
Anyone that presents themselves to the public is open to ridicule. some of that ridicule enters the 'gray' area between their professional position and their ...
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The bill passed today was not "aid" in the sense that Republicans seem to think about aid. The money approved in this legislation (9.7 billion dollars) is not a handout for nebulous "others" who ...
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Not only do attempts to reach a grand bargain not work, they insure that negotiations will fail. We have been working under the assumption that Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare, ...
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Make the debt collectible.
Instead of minting a one trillion dollar platinum coin, mint 9 copies of a one-hundred-billion dollar platinum coin, 99 copies of a one-billion dollar platinum coin, 990 ...
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So, according to Senator Schumer, the Democrats won't negotiate on the debt ceiling! Hooray? But exactly how do they plan on that?
By accepting United States default on our debts as a consequence ...
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According to The Washington Post , former Congressman Barney Frank has expressed an interest in filling John Kerry's Senate seat on an interim basis once Kerry is confirmed. “I’ve told the ...
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Up to this point today on the Daily Kos front page we have the following diaries even tangentially related to the Jobs crisis this country faces.
The unemployment report - Pretty much a news brief ...
by Donner
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So Senator Mike Crapo R-ID was sitting around having a few and then perhaps a few more so that when he decided he needed to drive around Alexandria Virginia, a Washington D.C. suburb, he had a blood-...
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The standard argument against gun control that we hear from the pro-gun lobby is a version of the foolish but memorable cliché, “if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” Setting ...
by Student of Rhetoric
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Yes, today in Rape News we have a trifecta.
First we have the repulsive Steubenville, Ohio "rape crew" story which keeps making me more and more ashamed to be of the same gender as these pieces of ...
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I had no idea that when Fox News calls Dick Morris a "former Clinton aide", they mean the former president's one time re-election campaign manager who happened to be fired for soliciting a $200/hr ...
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In a way, I'll let the death of The Chicken Man (however inartfully told) speak for itself. One take away, though, is that the setting was both sublimely serene, and more primitvely violent than ...
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This diary has languished in draft form, unfinished but not forgotten, for several months. It was the original attempt to blog about insect diversity and it will now be the fourth diary in the ...
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So here we are at the beginning of Filibuster Reform. Thursday was "Day One" of the new Congress, and we remain in Legislative Day One which is important for meaningful reform of the rules which ...
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But First, A Word From Our Sponsor:
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This diary is cross posted to my blog, where I've posted two pertinent pages from the 2011 tax filing of the NRA .
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Happy Friday again! Welcome to the first FNBB of 2013.
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Allways in the news - males select either guns or penises to express their personal anger against society. I for one am sick of it. Gang rape in India. Ohio football players laughing at the gang ...
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Help! I need to share this with the community so I'm not the only one who is sick to their stomach over a letter to the editor in my local newspaper, The Ridgefield Press (Ridgefield, CT).
This ...
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The purpose of having you people there in Washington and making your lives so very much better than those you pretend to govern is that government has a purpose that is vital. It is the way we ...
by don mikulecky
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It has been a while since I started this series. My contributions here, and at my other regular blogs, have been quite spotty for a number of reasons. Part of it has to do with it having been the ...
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There are a lot of ugly things that can be said about the 67 House Republicans who voted "no" on the first $9 billion for Sandy relief (many at the bequest of Chris "The Count" Chocola and his ...
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Here are two articles reporting that both Senate Majority Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have signaled President Obama that they will support him if he decides to remain true to ...
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With so much to lose from climate change, just have to do something.
Friday night, so opting for something not too heavy.
How about celebrating some of your best times in nature or some wildlife ...
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OutServe/SLDN, an activist group representing the interests of gay and lesbian servicemembers has released a statement about the potential nomination of Chuck Hagel to Secretary of Defense. OutServe-
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Welcome! " The Evening Blues" is a casual community diary (published Monday - Friday, 8:00 PM Eastern) where we hang out, share and talk about news, music, photography and other things of ...
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Although I am not in Lamborn's district, I am in his state. And he just voted against funding the flood insurance payouts for the victims of Sandy. I am embarrassed for our state that this non-...
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New details emerging from Steubenville are still vague and uncomfirmed. See The Steubenville Gang Rape for details on what happened in this horrific case as we know them right now. New accusations ...
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so to speak. What I mean to say is that I have moved beyond the recent anti-climactic financial crisis and the hand-wringing over what we should have gotten or what we gave away. It's over and done ...
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I am a public school teacher in a post- Act 10 Wisconsin School District. In general we have had a gentle transition from our worker's utopia to the brand new corporate world now required by ...
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When conservatives inevitably attempt to extract concessions from Democrats in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, it will almost certainly be portrayed in the traditional press as a case of ...
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The popular notion of the so-called “Job Creator” is a myth. Yet the very idea of Job Creators represents the most basic argument in the Supply Side story, a concept which postulates that ...
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Five years ago the San Diego County Sheriff, Bill Kolender at that time, issued a two-page "training bulletin" as guidelines for handling transgender inmates at local jails. The document provided ...
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Having failed at every turn to overturn the will of the voters who reelected President Obama, the wingnuts are down to their last option: petitioning Chief Justice Roberts to refuse to administer ...
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As an engineer, I find myself drawn to taking a systematic approach to solving a lot of our society's problems. Start by laying out requirements, find an option that works, no matter how strange it ...
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This article was cross posted from the Raging Chicken Press. Please click on link for the video.
With Pennsylvania’s crumbling infrastructure, underfunded public school districts in urban areas,
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We just heard the news about Idaho's Sen. Mike Crapo Drunk Driving conviction.
Sen. Mike Crapo pleads guilty to drunken driving charge
By SCOTT WONG
He failed a field sobriety test and was ...
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TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE, CHILD ABUSE, INSTITUTIONAL ENABLING, AND RAPE APOLOGY.
Don't auto-HR. It's not me saying that. I believe nothing of the sort.
I believe rape is a horrendous ...
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I wonder what life would be like if the Constitution had a Bill of Rights which said among other things "A well-regulated transportation system being necessary to a free state, the people's right to ...
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I want to first honestly say that I have made mistakes at Daily Kos. If people looked hard enough, they could find where I have personally attacked someone. I've uprated comments I should not have. I'
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South Dakota Governor Dennis Dugaard (R)
In an effort to help secure and buy the Senate seat for his old boss, Former Governor and U.S. Senate candidate, Mike "Abortion Ban" Rounds (R. SD), ...
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January 4, 2013 ...
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This diary is entirely a little bit of ego, though I hope it's tolerable. I no longer have the money to spare to keep up my old website, let alone hire an artist. I like to think I can write, and I'...
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Our Lakota People's Law Project needs your help packing a courtroom in Aberdeen, South Dakota next Monday, January 7. Two champions of Lakota foster child safety—former assistant state attorney ...
by Lakota Peoples Law Project
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Badabing, passed away on December 3rd, 2012, and when I heard the news of her passing, I couldn’t believe she was gone. That fiery voice, who railed against economic injustice, the growing gap ...
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After catching the segment in which Joe and his guests collectively took President Obama to the woodshed for not having John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Allan West and the rest of the gang over for a ...
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Sorry this diary is so brief. But sometimes the truth is simple.
Another diary asks Did U.S. just implement more severe austerity measures than Great Britain, Spain? . There's a simple answer to ...
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What ‘Right to Work’ is about
“Right to Work” is really a misnomer as nowhere is anyone’s right to work infringed upon, regardless of whether the state has this legislation or is an “...
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I have a good friend that I have been lunching with for ten years. She and I have helped each other through many challenging life events during our weekly lunch therapy. She is one of the smartest ...
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Since this is my first diary, I will start by introducing myself. I'm Diana, originally from California. In 2007 I met my husband on-line. Things moved sort of quickly and we got married just a ...
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I'm going to say for once that Ted "Chop Their Heads Off" Nugent might actually deserve a serious audience on this subject in Post-Sandy Hook America since he is now the far more sane sounding NRA ...
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June 13, 2011
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to help the state of Arizona fight the Monument Fire in ...
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For those who missed it, federal and state investigators in New York traced two of the guns William Spengler used in his Christmas Eve rampage near Rochester to Dawn Nguyen, a former neighbor of his.
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The Regular season is over and I went 148-91. I had no picks for Week 1 and the Thursday night game of Week 2. So the playoffs are here and New Year's Eve was a horrible day for coaches. As expected ...
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There is no victim or disaster the Republicans won't use to make their points or extract their pound of flesh. Except this time it's at the expense of the group that they always claim to support. ...
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Conservatives frequently argue that liberals don’t take personal responsibility. For example, on Mitt Romney’s 47% tape, he argues Americans who paid into Medicare and Social Security are ...
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Syrian Assistance is reporting today that despite widespread pledges financial and military assistance from western countries and the certain knowledge in certain Left quarters that the whole ...
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Welcome to the Jan 4, 2013 New Year Post Game Show for Mojo Friday!
Today's Mojo Friday diary is Mojo Friday - New Year Resolutions - ...
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Roll call and lurkers come out edition : Black Kos demographics
Commentary by dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor
Welcome to the Black Kos Front Porch-newcomers, and oldtimers. This is our ...
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"Yeah, I you know when I drink alone/ I prefer to be by myself." - George Thorogood.
(NOTE: It could also be called a nightmare)
So you think you can blog?
You call yourself a progressive, a ...
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On mental illness, art, and the possible costs of wellness.
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Cross posted from Scaling Green
Congress has now passed an extension of the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), as part of the "fiscal cliff" resolution earlier this week. For those of us who ...
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