Updated w/ reply: Fred Phelps didn't go to Blacksburg today

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Monday April 23, 2007 · 3:51 PM PDT

2007/04/23 · 15:51

and Mike Gallagher is to thank for that.

This isn't a typical dkos diary - it's going to have links to FAUX News Corp. and appreciation for a right wing shock jock. While I'm aware of the argument that Gallagher played into the hands of Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, I can't help but to appreciate that he was willing to throw himself on the grenade to protect the campus community at Virginia Tech.

more below...

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Monday December 18, 2006 · 9:40 AM PST

2006/12/18 · 09:40

I don't write many diaries. It's not the style of writing in which I excel, and I find that the issues I'm highly concerned with are more thoroughly covered, and more expertly analyzed by others. Plus, after I read and comment I have very little time to actually, like, work.

With those caveats, and although this topic has been covered (see below), it's such an important issue that I'm sticking this up. Really, really important - and timely too. So please: skip my half-assed diary and just click the link to the story below. I promise that no matter what your political niche, it connects.

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Wednesday April 26, 2006 · 10:11 PM PDT

2006/04/26 · 22:11

I'm usually invigorated by the quality and strength of analysis offered here at dkos. In the past week, I've noticed a considerable uptick in momentum - more action oriented ideas, more rallying around strategy. When I logged in on Saturday I was overwhelmed - instead of the typical slow weekend, the diaries were chock-ful of news that kept my synapses firing. On the weekend! Oy!

While observing this seachange - what we might call a 'bifurcation point' in group & org comm - I started to wonder: If we're feeling so good, so full of promise, like the moment might finally be right, how're they coping?

Scrolling around tonight, it appears that the demise and fall of the GOP has been forcast. By no less venerable prognosticators than the good folks at Red State.

Currently occupying the top diary list there is proof of an emerging Democratic majority and the fundamental optimism of our political persuasion: Read More

campus politics - on facebook (w/ poll)

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 1:28 PM PST

2006/03/21 · 13:28

From previous diaries, including Aaron's recent, outstanding skewering of David Horowitz, I've gathered that there are a large number of folks here in education - faculty, staff, students, at all levels.

You may have noticed that facebook.com has added a new feature called "pulse". It automatically tracks the top 10s of all users favorites (movies, music, whatever). You can compare your school to all facebook users, which is what I was doing when I found out that (oh, the suspense of 'below the flip'):
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Hatch: "9 - zip: That's our goal"

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Tuesday January 10, 2006 · 5:47 PM PST

2006/01/10 · 17:47

NPR's coverage of the Alito confiramtion hearings today included a surprising confirmation of the radical right's real agenda for the courts, and especially for the SCOTUS: Orrin Hatch's confirmation that the GOP seeks to stack the Supreme Court with ideologues. Read More

Help build a blue playground in the Gulf

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Friday January 06, 2006 · 9:14 AM PST

2006/01/06 · 09:14

I received an email from the Young Democrats of America that I think is worth exposing to a larger audience. It's a small investment ($10) but a significant, symbolic gesture. Details below: Read More

Unauthorized Reproduction: This time it's VA (with poll)

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Wednesday January 04, 2006 · 6:39 PM PST

2006/01/04 · 18:39

A diary a little bit down the recent diary list reports, a little belatedly, that Indiana is planning to restrict artificial contraception services to married women. (http://www.dailykos.com/...)

Right theme, right analysis -- wrong state. It's Virginia - home of the mandatory miscarriage police report attempt, doing their durnest to make sure Rick Santorum stays put to mow his yard once he's unemployed.

The bill below: Read More

union busting at NYU (with poll)

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Tuesday December 06, 2005 · 6:30 AM PST

2005/12/06 · 06:30

Union membership is nearly as much a part of my DNA as my eye color. My greatgrandfather was a mason, my grandfather a steel worker, my parents teachers - all union members.

When I was a graduate student and a teaching assistant our Graduate Forum engaged in an outreach to union organizers. The efforts were not well received, and brought a number of threats from the University administration.

That was back around the time that Temple University grad students were organizing. I thought that things may have improved for graduate assistants since, but the letter on the flip indicates otherwise:
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hoohaism

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Monday November 28, 2005 · 8:39 AM PST

2005/11/28 · 08:39

It's always rewarding and vindicating when a confirmed Republican goes public with criticism of the administration and its lackies. This article starts off with a bang:

"Shrew" is a word I never thought fit any female until I found it as the only "clean" adjective I could apply to U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, and her reprehensible act of calling Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Johnstown, a coward.

Murtha is no coward, but Schmidt is.

and keeps going: Read More

freepers freaking out and poll

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Thursday September 15, 2005 · 7:07 PM PDT

2005/09/15 · 19:07

Bush laid out nothing but a line of pure BS. Mark my words. We can't rebuild NO at the bottom of a toilet bowl. It will have to be filled in. Or a trillion dollars worth of 'super levees' will have to be built to protect it.

What about NO is worth a TRILLION dollars? I wouldn't give you a billion for the whole shit hole.

Bush is a 50 cent politician with poor handlers.

I've HAD it!

Hey, me too!

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an inmate, a liver, and a winger with a mic =/ "culture of life"

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Saturday May 21, 2005 · 8:05 PM PDT

2005/05/21 · 20:05

I ran some errands this evening, and drove home with the radio tuned to an am station that carries Ed Schultz ... and Tammy Bruce. For most of the 15 minutes she was ranting about a perceived injustice brought against her by Delta. But then she said something that made me actually listen:

"The sister has non alcoholic cirrohsis of the liver. And the parole board rejected Gregory Scott Johnson's appeal for clemency in order to donate his liver to his sister."

the canned applause was followed by:
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new filibuster deal?

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Updated w/ reply: Fred Phelps didn't go to Blacksburg today

pig shit: outstanding Rolling Stone story in time for Christmas dinner updated

rec'd diaries & optimism: wingers taking flight (& time for acid eyewash, with poll!)

campus politics - on facebook (w/ poll)

Hatch: "9 - zip: That's our goal"

Help build a blue playground in the Gulf

Unauthorized Reproduction: This time it's VA (with poll)

union busting at NYU (with poll)

hoohaism

freepers freaking out and poll

an inmate, a liver, and a winger with a mic =/ "culture of life"

new filibuster deal?