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Saturday January 12, 2008 · 1:34 PM PST

2008/01/12 · 13:34

New Year's Eve is my favorite holiday, because it is the most mundane thing that could ever happen, yet it happens to all of us, great and small- can't stop time, gotta move along, turn the page. What I especially like is the bookmark it affords: a stopping place to look back at the way we thought things were just a short while ago. The Golden Oldie diary got me started thinking maybe I'd just share the rest of my
Top Ten ways the media has not covered the history leading to our possible war, something I wrote in late Feb-early March of 2003. Five years later, it was #5 that inspired me to dig this out today, but number ten is still my starting point to explain why I think what I think. For a trip down memory lane, skip over the fold if you please.

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Saturday January 05, 2008 · 6:02 PM PST

2008/01/05 · 18:02

"When I first started... people said, 'You know, you're- you're twenty years old, what do you know? and you're running against the machine. Forget it.' Well, you know, they were right the first time along. And I came back, two years later, and I won an election- everyone said, "you could never beat the ward's machine..." ...A lot of my closest friends told me that... ... But one of the secrets that I found out about life, about standing up for thing you believe in, is that you if surround yourself with people, who have a common vision, you can, sometimes, achieve outcomes, that others would never be able to achieve...

These are the words of Representative Dennis Kucinich, as transcribed by me, from my digital movie of the event, last Tuesday night in Keene, NH, 1/3/08. Just in case the media didn't happen to bring you his speech...
Join me below, to begin at the beginning.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 11:24 AM PDT

2007/08/14 · 11:24

As a long-time Kucinich supporter, I've been looking for a place to use that line! And I am so glad to see that finally the climate conditions are becoming more favorable towards The Honorable Mr. K.
I, too, am nerd enough to actually own more than one pocket Constitution at any given time, so that I will always have one to share. I also collect discarded books from libraries and at used book sales, because I was raised under the spectre of 1984, and I believe in hardcopy. I love the ability to look up text and link to it, but it's awfully hard to find out how things were from the tubes, compared to how they really are or were. And that is why I choose to be here now, to testify to why I support this man whom many people seem to find so strange. Perhaps the time is right, since Cheney asked me to.

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Tuesday June 05, 2007 · 9:07 AM PDT

2007/06/05 · 09:07

"To my knowledge there was no direct threat. But there were conversations of concern."

That is what I transcribed from FOX NEWS (channel 27 in my area) just now somewhere between 9:34 and 9:37 am Tuesday, June 5, 2007. Those were the words of the police chief on the phone, awaiting a press conference to explain why the students had been herded onto the football field and then sent home. Apparently two "non-student" "intruders" had been caught inside the school, and removed, so that "two unarmed suspects are in police custody." "To my knowledge there was no direct threat. But there were conversations of concern." "We decided to send the students home to give the police complete access to the school." AHA! I said to myself:

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Top Ten Ways We Got Here from There

Cheney lied to Sam Donaldson about Halliburton during campaign and was ignored.

DRILLING AT ANWAR eclipsed discussion of Caspian Sea interests (we had any?)

Bill Browder sues Gazprom and nobody but NPR notices

Unocal executives wined and dined the Taliban in Houston says the London Times

Tony Blair's plaigiarized (and outdated!!!) report of the JIC used by Powell at the UN

Dick Armey wonderes if "weâ€TMll find out that itâ€TMs actually more about commerce?â€

Putin: France, Germany, and China in broad agreement on Iraq (oops lost the contracts)

Geraldo says O'Reilly is nuts, and so Bill makes a good breakfast feed for the troops

Newsweek magazine cover story misunderestimates the role of our Altair Voyager

The GAO is found to have no standing in court, Lieberman leads the investigation

You Name It.

4 votes Vote Now!

Top Ten Ways We Got Here from There

Cheney lied to Sam Donaldson about Halliburton during campaign and was ignored.

0 votes

DRILLING AT ANWAR eclipsed discussion of Caspian Sea interests (we had any?)

0 votes

Bill Browder sues Gazprom and nobody but NPR notices

0 votes

Unocal executives wined and dined the Taliban in Houston says the London Times

0 votes

Tony Blair's plaigiarized (and outdated!!!) report of the JIC used by Powell at the UN

0 votes

Dick Armey wonderes if "weâ€TMll find out that itâ€TMs actually more about commerce?â€

0 votes

Putin: France, Germany, and China in broad agreement on Iraq (oops lost the contracts)

0 votes

Geraldo says O'Reilly is nuts, and so Bill makes a good breakfast feed for the troops

0 votes

Newsweek magazine cover story misunderestimates the role of our Altair Voyager

0 votes

The GAO is found to have no standing in court, Lieberman leads the investigation

2 votes

You Name It.

2 votes

Steal This Book (with poll and tiny update)

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Friday April 27, 2007 · 7:27 AM PDT

2007/04/27 · 07:27

No, actually, please don't. In fact, in the end, what your local librarian really wants most is simply to get the books back. Borrow them? Return them. Thanks. (Most of our places even have drop boxes, so you can leave 'em there and call us up afterwards to explain if they were more than just a little late.) So why would something so patently obvious be a problem?
As it turns out, it's not so much "our" problem as it is another example of entertainment media masquerading as news -hobos- "tramps", looking for an issue to hop on and see where it goes. As it happened, I was rudely awakened the other day, in one of those spit-your-coffee-at-the-screen moments, when I saw little Dudley-Tucker Library on WMUR TV. See what happened below:

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How do YOU use your local library?

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How do YOU use your local library?

I love to read and I "borrow" a lot of books.

13 votes

I got Tax Forms there.

0 votes

I use the computers.

1 vote

I read the magazines/newspaper without subscribing.

1 vote

They have a public bathroom.

1 vote

I can get really obscure stuff through Inter-library Loan.

2 votes

I belong to a book group.

0 votes

I go to political meetings there.

0 votes

I enjoy getting together with other families for toddler storytime.

0 votes

I joined the knitting group.

0 votes

I go to environmental or other social issue meetings there.

1 vote

The teacher said I had to have books for references besides the net.

0 votes

Poetry reading (by yourself or at a function)

0 votes

Other? Do Tell!

5 votes

I don't.

8 votes

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For Auld Lang Syne, or how we got here from there.

Kossacks under 35, have you heard this? Everyone? Now is the moment in time. Who are we as a nation?

Is that a Constitution in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

"Conversations of Concern" [with pro-FOX update and poll]

Steal This Book (with poll and tiny update)