Walter Reed villians revealed!

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Thursday February 22, 2007 · 11:46 PM PST

2007/02/22 · 23:46

Well dwelling in my outrage over the conditions at walter reed hospital documented by the Post and 'round the 'sphere I thought it had one thing written all over it: private contracting. So a little google search was in order. I was amazed to discover a few things about the hospital as well as our media.

Catch 'ya on the flip side

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Wednesday February 14, 2007 · 11:12 PM PST

2007/02/14 · 23:12

It’s obvious from the last few years that while free trade policies – such as they are now – have increased wealth in this country, there have not been equal distribution of the benefits. Just today Chrysler laid off 16% of its US workforce.

Why not just impose a 5% charge on all imported manufactured goods or services. The services I would assess by a 5% tax on all wages paid to non-citizen workers. The corporations would no doubt find a way to game with subsidiaries, contractors, and the difficulty of enforcement (the Achilles’ heel of my plan, IMHO) and such that so it will have to be more fleshed out, and I’m not doing that without pay. But that is the general idea. The fun part is what to spend it on - oh I've got ideas. Follow me below the flip, if you dare – bwhahahahahah, erm oops sorry that just sort of slipped out. ::knocks head:: I’ve got to stop with the evil laugh, this is why I’m posting a diary on V day . . .

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Wednesday December 13, 2006 · 4:56 PM PST

2006/12/13 · 16:56

I'm afraid that the GOP has really gone around the bend. Wednesday is my shadenfreude day when I listen to GOP radio propaganda - trust me it's been really good since the election. Anyway Sean Hannity had a guest host who was absolutely outraged at (who else?) the New York Times for blaming the e-coli Taco-Bell outbreak on Bush. So he'd show those loser-defeatist liberals, he was going to eat taco bell tacos (extra green onions) all during the show because otherwise we let the terr - erm I mean bacteria, win!

more insight (and a poll!) on the flip . . .

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Liberals: what do we ban next?

Mixing ammonia and bleach in closed spaces

7 votes

Drinking hemlock tea

6 votes

Smoking while pumping gas

5 votes

Eating tacos that have been sitting out 3 hours

2 votes

Eating unidentified mushrooms

9 votes

WA - Sen: How Democrats may lose: a case study

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Thursday July 27, 2006 · 1:38 PM PDT

2006/07/27 · 13:38

Forgive the pessimistic title. The Cook Report has ranked Sen Maria Cantwell (D-WA) as one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent. This diary will take a look at why.

Make no mistake about it, the voters are angry with the direction of the country. And nowhere is that more apparent that in Eastern Washington where Sen. Cantwell is running for re-election against Mike McGavick. That anger is being channeled quite well and will ensure a victory . . . for Mike McGavick.

Kos and others around Left Blogistan have been pointing out that a number of Dems are running their typical whishy-washy campaign instead of voicing the voters' anger, about Iraq, deficit, and what Digby calls the squeeze on middle income families. Smart GOP candidates are using this opportunity to run on familiar ground: anti-government. The Stranger, the best alt-weekly in the country IMHO, has a great article on how McGavick is running as a Republican who's against the (GOP) status quo. Read on as it really is a remarkable feat . . . Read More

"Third prize is you're fired"

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Saturday March 18, 2006 · 4:15 PM PST

2006/03/18 · 16:15

I've been seeing a theme in and around left blogistan this week. It's a veritable outpouring of frustration over Democratic reaction, or lack thereof, to Feingold's censure resolution. It's not even so much the fact that most of them are not backing it, but the utter (dare I say it?) wimpishness of their response. I can't help but think the Democratic Senators are in need of a visit from Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry Glen Ross.

Greg posts here. Meanwhile Michael Stickings gets in on the action here. I've taken to calling this the Glengarry Glen Ross theme. My thoughts on the flip, as well as some choice Mamet dialogue. Read More

Senator Allen lies, Russert oblivious

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Sunday March 12, 2006 · 4:00 PM PST

2006/03/12 · 16:00

Well for a moment this Sunday it looked like Tim Russert was really feeling his triple grande latte enema on Meat The Press this morning:

RUSSERT: "Governor Michael Rounds, the Republican Governor of South Dakota, signed into law the nation's most sweeping state abortion ban. ... The law makes it a felony to perform any abortion except in a case of a pregnant woman's life being in jeopardy." No exceptions for rape, incest, health of the mother. Would you like to see that law, the law of the United States of America?

Could it be? A meaningful discussion on what the GOP goals are w/r/t abortion? Alas, it was not to be, instead Sen. Allen took the opportunity to lie to pumpkinhead's face while Timmeh sat there like a grinning idiot. Let's take a look . . . Read More

Secret Message.

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Thursday February 23, 2006 · 9:37 PM PST

2006/02/23 · 21:37

Welcome all members of the Hermetic Order of the Shrill. At it was written in the Krugnomicon, so shall it be. Let us all welcome our new brother Gregory Djerejian.

Vilgilance is the watch-word now, not only re: our many enemies abroad, but also with regard to key administration actors who would eviscerate the moral fiber of what this country stands for.

Your merit badge and secret decoder ring are on the way, Greg.

By the way. The New Yorker. Go read.

Now.

If Chris Matthews covered the Continental Congress

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Friday February 03, 2006 · 10:52 PM PST

2006/02/03 · 22:52

I was upset I missed Feingold's diary responding to Rove and his predictable `pre-9/11 mindset' talking point. He rebutted it so effectively with his "Republicans have a pre-1776 mentality" quip. If we had anything like the right-wing noise machine and an effective triangle the phrase would have been on every Democrat's lips for months. Anyway Russ has inspired me to write this diary called "If Chris Matthews covered the Continental Congress" Read More

Ix-nay on the Iraq an-play

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Saturday December 10, 2005 · 11:59 PM PST

2005/12/10 · 23:59

The Democratic leadership really needs to shut up already about "Iraq plans" sayeth Eric Martin:

If I was supreme emperor of the Democratic Party, this is what I would do: I would gather every Democratic politician, pundit and public figure and usher them into one enormous conference room. . . I would cast a piercing gaze across the room, making eye contact with as many faces as I could manage. Lieberman, Pelosi, Dean, Murtha, Hillary, etc. Then, with the tension properly built, I would place my forefinger over my lips and say, "SHHHH!!" After that, I would walk off stage, my mission accomplished.

And he is exactly right about this. You'd think that the Dems would learn at least a few things about being a minority party after five years. Here's how it is supposed to work . . .[more] Read More

The Kingfish (or where we're headed)

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Wednesday September 21, 2005 · 3:18 PM PDT

2005/09/21 · 15:18

I have no love for our current corporate state. But what really amazes me is that the plutocracy can be so short sighted.

The last time the rich had free run we called it the Gilded Age. There were no constraints on corporations and they were free to rape and pillage the schmucks, to squeeze every last penny and hour of labor all for their own enrichment.

But all things must come to an end. The US was fortunate that FDR was in office to channel the frustration into moderate and sensible programs. Without FDR, I believe that Huey Long would have risen to fill the outrage.

More about Huey and "Share our Wealth" on the flip . . . Read More

Fun with Frum and the NRO

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Tuesday August 23, 2005 · 8:51 PM PDT

2005/08/23 · 20:51

Well more conservatives are beginning to suspect that the president has no clothes.

the president will agree to give what is advertised in advance as a major speech. An important venue will be chosen. A crowd of thousands will be gathered. The networks will all be invited. And after these elaborate preparations, the president says ... nothing that he has not said a hundred times before.

Yeah, yeah I'm sure that any conservative will look at my diary and yell "Look, they want us to lose" But at this point I'm beyond caring about that crapola. Humor is my defense mechanism, and somedays it's the only thing stopping me from just yelling incoherently at these idiots.

Let's begin shall we:
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The Espionage Act:

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Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 10:01 PM PDT

2005/07/13 · 22:01

from Kleiman

(nearly everything in this post is cribbed and condensed from his fine work, he has been on this like white on rice for a while now)

Forget all about that was she undercover or not, did Rove know she was undercover. There is a much simpler way to pin Rove (assuming that he leaked - yeah, I'm really going out on a limb on with that)

Anyway here it is - I'm surprised more people haven't realized this. Read More

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Walter Reed villians revealed!

A labor tariff

Getting e-coli will REALLY show those liberals!

WA - Sen: How Democrats may lose: a case study

"Third prize is you're fired"

Senator Allen lies, Russert oblivious

Secret Message.

If Chris Matthews covered the Continental Congress

Ix-nay on the Iraq an-play

The Kingfish (or where we're headed)

Fun with Frum and the NRO

The Espionage Act: