The Picture You SHOULD See. . .

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Tuesday July 06, 2010 · 8:46 AM PDT

2010/07/06 · 08:46

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O.K., I'll admit it. I am one of BWD's detractors. I hate photo diaries, generally, and BWD's specifically. Why? Because they reek of propoganda. The kind of propoganda engaged in by governments all over the world, aimed at affecting the sympathies and feelings of people, both in and out of the country, without engaging in any political thought whatsoever. Pretty pictures that are marketing of the worst kind. What can we derive from BWD's diaries? That Barack Obama is photogenic. That his family is beautiful. That when people meet a President they smile. That a crowd of people will appear where a President does, and try to shake his hand. That's it.

This past Sunday, I opened up the New York Times, and read the incredible story of Brendan Marrocco. And I saw pictures that told me more than I really wanted to know about President Obama's failed policy in Afghanistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Read the story. And look at the pictures. All of them.

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Friday June 04, 2010 · 11:19 AM PDT

2010/06/04 · 11:19

That's right, today BP spun off it's American Operations, appointed an American to run it, and handed off responsibility of the Gulf Oil Spill to them!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

It is said that BP's intention is partly to minimize the anti-British fervor that their CEO, Tony Hayward, is inspiring in so many Americans. Now, the Colonists, or "Americans" as they are now called, can direct their anger solely at an American CEO.

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Thursday December 17, 2009 · 7:38 AM PST

2009/12/17 · 07:38

I wanted to appeal to the one true Progressive in the Obama Administration who may understand what is happening right before our eyes in this country. David Axelrod, the Democratic base has dissolved. The Unions are against you, many progressive members of the Senate are against you, progressive, democratic and independent voters are against you, and Howard Dean is against you. We worked for you, we voted for you, we donated money to you. And we feel betrayed! This is real! It is not going to go away, no matter how much you tell yourselves it will.

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Wednesday November 28, 2007 · 10:53 AM PST

2007/11/28 · 10:53

Diane Rehm just interviewed Paula Deen on the radio, promoting her latest cookbook Christmas with Paula Deen. I am sure that by the time it was over, Paula was sorry that she had agreed to the interview.

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Thursday May 24, 2007 · 2:21 PM PDT

2007/05/24 · 14:21

This is what I plan to say the next time I get a call from the DNC, the DSCC or the DCCC. Take me off your list. No more money. From now on, I will give money only to specific candidates who voted against funding the Iraq War.

Please limit your comments to two things. Either Recs, or suggestions on how to spend my newly-recovered monies. Charities, the arts, etc. And I don't want to hear that I have no choice but to continue throwing money at these clowns. That otherwise the Repugs will roll over us. They already have.

It's not the Iraq War, it's the Iraq Civil War

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Tuesday January 16, 2007 · 6:21 AM PST

2007/01/16 · 06:21

This morning I got an e-mail from John Edwards, asking me to contact my state Senators to voice my opposition to the War. The e-mail had an easy way to look up my Senators' phone numbers and web-sites (which at this point I should just commit to memory), and so I sent them both an e-mail, since it was too early to call their offies. In the text portion of the e-mail, I began to ask them to do everything possible to end the Iraq War, and to take our men and women out of harm's way. And then it occurred to me. This isn't a war, it's a civil war.

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 3:59 AM PST

2006/11/03 · 03:59

Yesterday, I received a robo-call from Marie Garibaldi (a Justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court appointed by Tom Kean, Sr., as I discovered when I Googled her) asking me to vote for Tom, Jr. In the split second that it took me to hang up on Justice Garibaldi, I wondered whether I was being targeted as an Italian-American, because my last name is Italian. Then I thought, no, couldn't be.

In the afternoon, when I received my mail, I found out how wrong I was! Read More

DKos is creeping me out!

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 1:52 PM PDT

2006/10/02 · 13:52

In the last two days, every time I read a diary about the Foley scandal, I feel that I am in a chat room for, at best, teenagers and at worst, NAMBLA. I know I'm probably older than many of you, but I don't think this is the venue to be discussing: your own, subjective definitions of what constitutes pedophilia (unless you are a psychiatrist); whether it is "perfectly O.K." for a teenage boy to have sex with a 50-some year old man (and never mind the legality of it all), and whether the teenager "egged him on" by flirting with him (Yeech!); and finally, framing this as an abuse of power by a much older person over a younger one. Read More

THIS is what 9/11 felt like

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 1:24 PM PDT

2006/09/10 · 13:24

I live in a suburb of New York City, the kind of place where parents spend their weekends taking their kids to soccer games, socializing with their friends, and relaxing with their families. At least half, if not a majority of the fathers (and some mothers) work in New York, commuting their by train and by car. This is the story of five years ago. Read More

Calling Steve Jobs! Calling Steve Jobs!

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Thursday September 07, 2006 · 10:04 AM PDT

2006/09/07 · 10:04

I attached this as a comment to David KC's diary "Tide is Turning against ABC's Mocudrama, but it was late, and I wanted to make sure that others focus on the Steve Jobs (of Apple Computer) connection to Disney Corporation. As part of the merger of Disney and Pixar, Steve Jobs was made a Director of Disney Corporation. As a result, some mention has been made in various diaries on "The Path to 9/11" subject that people contact him. Read More

How much longer?

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Wednesday May 03, 2006 · 5:50 AM PDT

2006/05/03 · 05:50

Is it just me, or does the entire Kos community have political ads popping into their heads 24/7. As the saying goes, [the ads] just write themselves. Read More

Karl Rove's New Wedge Issue -- IMMIGRATION!

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Monday March 27, 2006 · 6:22 AM PST

2006/03/27 · 06:22

Ever since the huge Hispanic demonstration in Los Angeles on Friday, we have seen posts on Daily Kos and Huff Po (as well as numerous other sites) discussing the issue. And guess what? It turns out that there is a great divide among the users of these sites (is HuffPo being taken over by Repugs? because I have never seen such xenophobia on display in my life!) on the issue of immigration. Read More

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Take me off your list. . .

It's not the Iraq War, it's the Iraq Civil War

Italian-Americans Targeted in New Jersey AGAIN -- Bada-Bing!

DKos is creeping me out!

THIS is what 9/11 felt like

Calling Steve Jobs! Calling Steve Jobs!

How much longer?

Karl Rove's New Wedge Issue -- IMMIGRATION!