An Open Letter to Donald Trump

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Monday March 28, 2011 · 8:18 PM PDT

2011/03/28 · 20:18

As the newly ascended King of the Birther Movement (watch out when "throne" and "movement" are in the same sentence), it behooves you to come up to speed quickly on the rules and special requirements of your realm.

Let's take Birth Certificates, for starters. In Birthistan, these are the ironclad requirements for a valid birth certificate that will serve to assure We The People that the bearer is a bona fide, full-blooded Natural Born Citizen, and qualified to be President or Vice President according to Article II Question 1 of the United States Constitution:

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Wednesday September 16, 2009 · 8:31 AM PDT

2009/09/16 · 08:31

Yes, I'm calling my representatives about passing real health reform -- so I'm cutting myself some slack here and posting a little snark.

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STING #27 -- THE SETUP

Burly white man, aged about 37, shaved head, check flannel shirt, tool-belt, enters ACORN community assistance office. Talks to Keisha.

MAN: Hi, my name is Joe.

KEISHA: Hi Joe.

JOE: I'm a plumber. Kinda.

KEISHA helps JOE below the fold.

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 4:31 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 16:31

BikeHiker's blog has a really great quick rebuttal of that amazing litany of lies circulating in email and on the right-wing blogs.

But it doesn't go far enough.

Over the fold for some completely time-wasting snark...

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Monday August 10, 2009 · 4:56 PM PDT

2009/08/10 · 16:56

The rank-and-file Deathers, even more so than the Birthers, are victims of a well-worn conservative strategy: any effort in the direction of universal health care, or even universal health insurance, MUST cross the hurdle of establishing normative levels of care across a wide range of hair-trigger medical issues -- or, at the very least, establishing a process for determining such normative[1] levels of care. And medical issues are personal, and none is so personal, nor so universal, as death.

The prospect of a universal health care debate, before 1994 and going into 2009, had the conservative punditocracy salivating. They knew we gotta talk about economics and death together in one deliberative process -- we gotta -- and as soon as we did, they had us. Certainly enough to create an emotional smokescreen behind which any actual progressive policies could be dismantled.

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 8:10 AM PDT

2009/07/31 · 08:10

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Lory and Sam had gone out a few times, and it had started to feel serious. Lory was a bit clingy, didn't seem to like the diversity of Sam's friends and experience, so he pulled back. And even though he made it clear he expected them both to continue to be able to date around, Lory seemed to get stuck on that one night he'd murmured some especially sweet nothings.

Lory's pleading calls on his voicemail eventually tailed off, and the whole thing seemed to be history. Then Sam met Michelle, and after just one date they both knew they had found something special. Even so, they took it slow. Eight months later they were engaged, and on Jan 20 they were married.

When Lory heard about it -- OMFG. "It can't be!" she cried. "He's promised to me!" She tried to confront Sam, but he was out of the country "on his honeymoon." How likely was that? He was just trying to avoid her, he MUST have something to hide.

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 11:29 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 11:29

(This is somewhat by way of a thank you to kos.)

Jeffrey Toobin (CNN), on election night, got it almost, but not quite, right:

It was a modern campaign in a way that we didn't think there could be a modern campaign. He took his community organizing ability and wedded it to the Internet. And did something that was so different from any other campaign that's ever been done. He also, by the way, has 3 million contributors in his database who are not simply going to go away, who will be a powerful lobbying force for his agenda. So that's the significant thing to remember looking forward.

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 4:28 PM PDT

2008/10/28 · 16:28

p1_dumb

Poll

34 votes Show Results

Obama-Biden:

34 votes Vote Now!

Obama-Biden:

Medium regular-crust with bacon and extra cheese

4 votes

Philly cheese-steak

3 votes

Thin-crust with basil pesto, mozarella, and roasted garlic

7 votes

Spicy wings

1 vote

Deep-dish 'everything' pie

5 votes

Vegie calzone

3 votes

I've already ordered, promised for Nov. 4 delivery or my money back!

11 votes

Updated - GA: 50,000 voters purged in early Oct (w/2nd update)

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 8:44 AM PDT

2008/10/27 · 08:44

If I'm late to this party just let me know and I'll delete. CNN.com has a story up now about up to 50,000 new voters in Georgia having been been purged (even after being informed they were registered, and almost certainly most of them erroneously), with insufficient time to correct the mistake. This is apparently in violation of Federal law.

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 9:03 AM PDT

2008/10/20 · 09:03

I'm 53, as of last week. Sunday, I went door-to-door for the GOTV effort in Fairfax County, Virginia -- the first time I have physically acted (other than sending money, and entering a voting booth) for a political/social cause since 1969, when I stood silent vigil against the Vietnam War with some of my 17-year-old Quaker friends who were about to be drafted. By the time I was 17, the draft was winding down, and my lottery number was never called.

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Thursday October 16, 2008 · 1:21 PM PDT

2008/10/16 · 13:21

I just can't see anything right about this. The first impression upon reading and opening the flier is that it's directly calling Barack a terrorist.

Scans and transcript below the fold...

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 7:41 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 19:41

IMG_0937 Originally uploaded by Oxford County Dems.

I don't know these people, but running across this photo more-or-less at random reinforced an idea I've been developing as I watch the campaigns this election season: the enthusiasm of people in common cause against eight years of provincial, militaristic double-talk seems to promise more than a revitalized electorate. It seems to promise a collective that is more than the sum of its parts.

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 10:00 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 10:00

We had to drive up to Hanover from our home in Northern Virginia, to visit friends who have had to close their small business, declare bankruptcy, let the bank foreclose on their home, and are getting ready to move to Utah.

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