HILLARY EXPLAINS HER POSITION ON IRAQ
I got a "Dear Constituent" letter today from NY Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, after sending her a letter highly critical of her reticence to speak out in favor of withdrawal from Iraq. The letter...
View ArticleNYT: THE GRAY LADY (FINALLY) GETS OFF HER KNEES
The New York Times -- the venerable Gray Lady herself -- seems finally to have gotten off her knees today. She has stopped mumbling, and -- at least today -- is now speaking out clearly against what...
View Article$610 BILLION? DUDE. THAT'S SO...GAY!
Well, I'll be dog. All this time, I thought Ford Motor Company was doing the best it could to hang on to its business, turn a profit, compete with Japan, do right by American workers, pull its own...
View ArticleBUSH BASHES THE CONSTITUTION, WE BASH EACH OTHER
I won't delete this diary, although I will edit it. This diary (together with its comments) has much to say about where we are as a community of reason, and even more to say about our limitations --...
View ArticleWHO GETS THE LUBNER PRIZE FOR SPINELESSNESS FOR THIS FIASCO?
As PsiFighter37's diary details at length right here at Kos, the NY Times is reporting today that Pres. Bush, by Executive Order, is permitting the NSA to do domestic spying on Americans, something...
View ArticleOh, The Irony! Oh, The Humanity!
Thank God for King George, who is saving us from ourselves round-the-clock, 24-7, high-tech-style. Never mind that the sucking sound we've been hearing for the last several years is the sound of the...
View ArticleConyers Calls For Backup on Censure: Freep This!
Rep. John Conyers has sent out an APB to all who believe in a real democracy, to help him obtain a resolution of censure against BushCo: "I am taking steps against the Bush Administration's handling...
View ArticleAlito's Fancy Dress Balling: Thoughts About The Two Hats Theory
I love fancy dress balls. I love those little black masks, held like lorgnettes, that people wear over their eyes. I love the feeling of becoming someone else, for awhile, just by putting on new...
View ArticleTo the Republicans: It's Your Funeral!
You know something? You don't get to attend your own funeral. Any funeral you go to is, by definition, never, ever, about you. It's always about the person who died. Period, dot. There were,...
View ArticleThe Hypocrisy of "Ho" v. Wade: Part 1
Between 1973 and 2002, there have been approximately 46 million induced abortions in America, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an organization that tracks such things. Lately, I've been asking...
View ArticleApril 10th deadline to help polar bears: Take Action!
On April 10th, the Bush administration will finish taking public commentary on whether or not the federal government should protect polar bears. As a result of a lawsuit brought by the Natural...
View ArticleLies and the Lying Liars Who Cover Up
Yesterday, in a comment to an open thread, a kossan brought to our attention a fresh and dangerous example of the incompetence of the Bush Administration. And today's New York Times reports on the...
View ArticleKeep Telling Yourself: It's Only A Movie...It's Only A Movie...It's Only A Movie
Is it just my imagination? Or are the movies getting really, really scary, these days. I mean like ...too scary. Wrong Turn. Wolf Creek. House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. Saw....
View ArticleStephen Colbert On N********
Some people have gotten really upset today, with a diarist who titled his piece something like ..."Trolls: The New Niggers of DailyKos" His diary compared troll-hunters to the Ku Klux Klan, hunting...
View ArticleThe Flag Burning Consolation Prize
Today's Supreme Court decision in Randall v. Sorrell couldn't have come at a timelier moment. In striking down a Vermont campaign finance law that was intended to limit political corruption and the...
View ArticleHomeland Security: Oh God ...We're All Gonna DIE!
UPDATED to provide a working link to the full report (original link to full report stopped working ...but then, we're talking about DHS, right?) Back in December of 2003, President Bush released a...
View ArticleWe're So Fine, There's No Telling Where The Money Went
Today's LA Times has an editorial that supports a tantalizing bill, S.2590, which is currently wending its way through Congress. The bill is tantalizing because it is being sponsored by notable...
View ArticleMore Magical Thinking About Race
I read an interesting diary today, mrsdbrown1's Of Seating Charts, Racism, and Looking in the Mirror. The diary, a sensitive piece on preparing to teach inner-city kids, contained this nugget at its...
View ArticleThe Gifts That Keep On Giving
I want you to go through all the pockets in your clothes closet, today. I want you to lift up the cushions on the sofa. I want you to dig under the car seats. I want you to sift through the lint at...
View ArticleProfiles In Couric
Man o man. What is going on here? CBS News used to be a venerable source of the truth. Edward R. Murrow. Walter Cronkite. Robert Trout. Dan Rather. Those were real news reporters and real news...
View ArticleBIBLE CODE BASHES BUSH! (With Poll)
The Bible Code is real. Hidden inside the Bible, waiting for discovery from its very beginning, is a complete history of the whole world. Sir Isaac Newton knew it, as did Elijah ben Solomon, the Gaon...
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What FRESH HELL is this??!!
The Loch Ness monster? A sea-sasquatch? A Chernobyl-chimera? What fresh hell is this??!! Some Russian sailors found some sort of sea creature in Sakhalin, all the way in the Easternmost part of...
View ArticleViolence, Truth, and the Perfection of Allah -- Pope Benedict's Dilemma
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself...
View ArticleKISS the Republicans Goodbye: A GOTV Diary
When I go into my get-out-the-vote spiel to undecided voters, people don't hear a word I say about Iraq. Not because they're not listening; they are. For the most part they're polite, they're...
View ArticleFILTH. That's Right. I Said It.
They're filth. There. I said it. They're filthy people. They cheat, they lie, they are ruthless, and they have zero integrity. Worse ...when they lie and cheat, they hide behind little old ladies...
View ArticleCNN to First Muslim Rep: Prove You're Not The Enemy!
First Fox, now CNN decides to abandon any semblance of journalistic integrity. They've descended into outright bigotry. I saw this first at Huffington Post, and followed it over to its origin, at Media...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 7 is a Frikkin Nightmare!
Unh, uhn. Don't GO THERE, girlfriend. You won't like it. Stay away from Internet Explorer 7 like it was the plague. Because it is. Tabbed browsing? Hah. You'll be the one pickin' up the tab, I can...
View ArticleGoodbye Cruel World - I'm Outtie
Left Turns, Cars, and God: Sixteen-odd years ago, as I'm driving to a grocery store, I make a left turn out of my driveway, and just as I am about to accelerate out of the turn, I hear a voice from the...
View ArticleThe Incredible Shrinking Woman
I promised to drop by from time to time, and let my DailyKos family know what's been happening since I first wrote a diary on the discovery that I have small cell lung cancer. I am far from being a...
View ArticleThe Baseball of Politics
It's World Series season, and lately, I've been thinking a lot about Jackie Robinson. I'll tell you right off the bat, pun intended, that I've cribbed a lot of Jackie Robinson's biographical material...
View ArticleMyanmar: Deus In Adjutorium Meum Intende
Matins. Lauds. Prime. Terce. Sext. Nones. Vespers. Compline. Eight times a day, people all over the world stop to chant or pray the Liturgy of the Hours. "Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall...
View ArticleThis is what an AssHat looks like...
**Sigh** Yesterday, Larry Kissell, a candidate we all admire (running as a Dem. in NC-8), posted a diary asking Kossacks to follow a link to the Progressive Patriot's Fund, headed by Russ Feingold....
View ArticleWhat's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
Sometimes it's funny as hell, and sometimes it's not. Life, I mean. Life with serious illnesses and big families, and old friends who are every bit as flawed as they are cherished.I've been lurking at...
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