Another act of terrorism in our country

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Thursday July 22, 2010 · 11:09 AM PDT

2010/07/22 · 11:09

This will be as short a diary as I can get away with, because what I have to say is very short:

Why is there no diary entry about right-wing teabagging nutcase Byron Williams who shot up a bunch of cops, trying to kill people at the Tides Foundation and ACLU, at the behest of Glenn Beck?

This is, as Joe Biden would say, a big fucking deal. Terrorism in America. Committed by Beck-watching teabaggers.

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Friday December 11, 2009 · 3:40 PM PST

2009/12/11 · 15:40

I think we in the progressive blogosphere are having another Diebold moment. Another moment of insanity, powerlessness, pouting, negativity, and basically conspiracy-theorizing. It reminds me of in 2004, the trolls saying, "Why bother voting, the system is rigged anyway, Bush is gonna make the Diebold machines show he won, etc etc."

This happens to people when they feel powerless and hopeless. That is why hope is necessary in order to have power. No hope, no action, and thus no power. The rich never lose hope. That's because they're rich. We, have to work harder at it.

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Friday December 04, 2009 · 8:51 PM PST

2009/12/04 · 20:51

Short diary here: this was a comment that someone suggested should be more widely disseminated. So here goes:

We are in full-fledged class war. But only one side-- the top 1%-- is actually organized and fighting the class war.

The other side-- the 99% of us-- are too busy fighting each other. Right vs. left, anti-war vs. not-so-anti-war, fundamentalists vs. gays and women, white vs. black and Latino, "Red State" vs. "Blue State", culture war crap, etc.

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Friday October 02, 2009 · 7:10 AM PDT

2009/10/02 · 07:10

Wow!! This is how it's done:

MEDICARE FOR ALL. Perfectly said, perfectly framed, and what a disciplined, well-organized action-- right at the headquarters of the corporate death panels themselves!

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Tuesday September 15, 2009 · 10:28 PM PDT

2009/09/15 · 22:28

Inspired by a comment by dKos user clyde:

Amendment XXVIII

The terms "person", "people", or "persons" in this Constitution, and all those rights reserved to them, shall refer only to natural persons, not to corporations or other artificial legal entities.

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Sunday May 24, 2009 · 11:01 AM PDT

2009/05/24 · 11:01

This is a short diary, but it has to be said.

I'm sick and tired of the word "real" in Democratic rhetoric.

"Real" reform. "Real" issues.

I don't like it. It's whiny and weak and petulant.

Poll

28 votes Show Results

Does this nail it?

28 votes Vote Now!

Does this nail it?

It really does

5 votes

It really, really does

2 votes

No, it's the real thing.

2 votes

It's not real, it's a bignum.

0 votes

Imaginary numbers, never turn you down...

1 vote

I really can't stand the use of REAL either.

2 votes

El Camino Real.

2 votes

Real pie.

6 votes

Bah, you are wrong.

4 votes

I fart in your general direction.

4 votes

A better idea

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 4:47 AM PDT

2008/09/26 · 04:47

And this one won't cost us a dime:

SEC Chairman Cox had the right idea, to regulate the CDS market. He could have pushed for a market holiday until this regulation ... and an investigation ... of this market could be accomplished.

This would cost the taxpayer nothing and would relieve some pressure on the bonds that are the basis of this market.

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 12:33 PM PDT

2008/09/19 · 12:33

OK, so the rape kits in Alaska do NOT contain emergency contraception, and Palin's opposition to them may not have had anything to do with her radical anti-abortion views.

I fell into that trap, and I've resolved never again to do so. I think a lot of us progressives have learned a few things over the last few weeks about how to attack a candidate that we hate and fear... and how not to.

Obama actually shows how to do it right. He's been pounding pretty relentlessly on McCain-- not about personal or character issues, but about the many gaffes and fuck-ups McCain is making that illustrate how wrong McCain is on the issues. i.e. McCain saying he wanted to take out the "old boy network" in DC when his economic advisor is good ol' boy Phill Gramm, stuff like that. Or his gaffe about having 7 houses and not knowing exactly how many he owned.

Here's what I see Obama doing right: if the gaffe or mistake illustrates a POLICY PROBLEM, then Obama jumps all over it with both feet. If it illustrates only a character problem, Obama leaves it alone. I think that's very smart. He uses the attacks on his opponents in order to sell his own policy proposals. Nice work.

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Sunday October 28, 2007 · 6:08 PM PDT

2007/10/28 · 18:08

In online discussions with Europeans, occasionally the topic turns to "you Americans" and some observation or complaint– ranging anywhere from polite and benign to angry and confrontational– about our character (or lack thereof), etc etc.

I always find this amusing coming from Europeans, because, what is an American, really? "You Americans" certainly doesn’t mean actual, genetic Native Americans, who barely remain anywhere north of the Rio Grande; their numbers have been decimated by a genocide perpetrated wholly by– Europeans.

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Saturday November 18, 2006 · 12:19 PM PST

2006/11/18 · 12:19

Great article in Der Spiegel which outlines the precarious condition the world economy-- especially the U.S. economy-- has found itself in, and how it's been ignored by the Cheney Administration.

The United States is an economic giant on steroids -- doped so its decline in performance doesn't become too apparent.

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Friday July 28, 2006 · 10:52 PM PDT

2006/07/28 · 22:52

Like many others here, I've been puzzled by how the Cheney Administration and the right-wingers in general combine fearmongering and wanton risk-taking gambling.

You'd normally expect people who are so frightened to be really risk-averse-- "conservative" in the true sense of the word.

The "pseudocertainty effect" from psychology seems to explain a lot of this. Read More

THE LINE-ITEM VETO PASSED TODAY??!

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Wednesday July 19, 2006 · 8:23 PM PDT

2006/07/19 · 20:23

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Reagan's wet dream, the line-item veto, PASSED CONGRESS TODAY!??

http://www.congress.org/...

So that's what all this crap about gay bashing and flag burning is all about... a distraction from the real agenda: the abolishment of Congress, and a Dictatorship! Read More

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THE LINE-ITEM VETO PASSED TODAY??!