LIVEBLOGGING -- NYBRI Fundraising Concert

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Saturday October 21, 2006 · 6:08 PM PDT

2006/10/21 · 18:08

Here I am at a NYBRI Fundraising concert with the great musician Bruce Molsky but more importantly, we're here to raise money for Brian Keeler's bid to oust an embedded Republican from his decades-held seat in the New York State Senate. One out of the few seats that we need to have the Democrats take control of the State Senate (along with Elliot Spitzer as our new Democrat Governor) -- turning New York State as blue as it can be.

Plenty of Kossacks here -- and we've agreed on our goal -- matching the $2,000 we expect to raise tonite with another $2,000 from the online Kossack community.

Here are some Hudson Valley Kossacks in attendance: lipris, NYBri, am, hudson, eagleeye, BCM, glevine, MINDOCA, and I'm here, and many others!

So, we'll keep talking while you click "contribute".

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Viral Internet Politics; Infecting Homophobia

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Thursday February 24, 2005 · 8:53 AM PST

2005/02/24 · 08:53

I am no fan of Maureen Dowd (even if she is an enemy of my enemy), but she nailed it pretty good in her editorial in today's NY Times, discussing the "viral quality" of USA Next's AARP/gay rights poison: Read More

PBS Caves to Homophobic Right

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Thursday January 27, 2005 · 6:14 AM PST

2005/01/27 · 06:14

In a stunning move that underscores Bush's use of federal tax dollars to manipulate the media, PBS has pulled the plug on an episode of a spin off of one of its most popular kids' cartoons because the lead character (Buster, from the cartoon Arthur) visits a lesbian family - after visiting a mormon family, fundamentalist christians, muslims, american indian, and hmong.

How did Wayne Godwin, PBS' chief operating officer, justify the retraction? By worrying that they would lose federal funding. More remarkably, PBS apparently has made this their official policy:

The presence of a couple headed by two mothers would not be appropriate curricular purpose that PBS should provide.

The show's creators response, and more, below -- Read More

Mel Gibson: "What the hell are we doing in Iraq?"

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Tuesday January 11, 2005 · 6:20 AM PST

2005/01/11 · 06:20

In today's NY TImes ("Boldface Names," page B4), Mel Gibson is quoted as follows --

I feel a strong kindship with Michael [Moore]. They're trying to pit us against each other in the press, but its a hologram. They really have got nothing to do with one another. It's just some kind of device, some left-right. He makes some salient points. There was some very expert, elliptical editing going on. However, what the hell are we doing in Iraq? No one can explain to me in a reasonable manner that I can accept why we're there, why we went there, and why we're still there.

Add one more to the growing list of right wing thinkers who are speaking out against Bush's failed arrogant imperialist Iraq policy.

And no, I have not forgotten Poland; it's just a matter of time.

Today's NY Times Lead Editorial

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Sunday November 14, 2004 · 7:13 AM PST

2004/11/14 · 07:13

Today's NY Times lead editorial is surprisingly "we're not calling it fraud, but ..." This from a paper that ran a story this past week that everyone was quite impressed with e-voting and that the blogosphere was riddled with only debunked "conspiracy theories."

Here is today's editorial:

MAKING VOTES COUNT
About Those Election Results

There have been a flood of reports, rumors and theories over the last 12 days about problems with the presidential election. The blogosphere, in particular, has been full of questions: Why did electronic voting machines in Ohio add nearly 4,000 phantom votes for President Bush, and why did machines in Florida mysteriously start to count backward? Why did the official vote totals for Ohio's largest county seem to suggest that there were more votes cast than registered voters? Why did election officials in yet another part of Ohio lock down the building where votes were being counted, turning away the press and public?

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