The Pied Progressive: A Poem

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Tuesday July 12, 2016 · 7:54 PM PDT

2016/07/12 · 19:54

The Pied Progressive, dressed in green,
leading the children
with his tune of political revolution,
free college tuition,
free health care.
“No TPP,” the Pied Progressive claimed,
on this he swore he would see red.
The children followed the call of his magic pipe,
until each of them awoke to a reality too hard to process.
A world in which they would give up.
A world in which they felt perpetual drowning in college debt.
A world in which they would never stand up again,
or feel anything but disenchantment and disdain.
The Pied Progressive endorsed the enemy.
The Pied Progressive endorsed a thief.
The Pied Progressive endorsed the antithesis of all he stood for.
The Pied Progress embraced a Corporatist piece of meat.
The Pied Progressive walked the children toward the promised land,
only to tell them this is a place you’ll never see again.
He dashed their spirits, he dashed their hopes,
he endorsed the Devil and handed out hanging rope.
The Pied Progressive made sure the youth would never vote their conscience again.
A two-party con-man who promised a revolution but delivered more of the same.
The Pied Progressive worked for the establishment and is insane.
How do the children avoid his magic pipe?
They vote third-party and avoid his tripe.
They stand up for themselves and for the good of the nation.
Forever more they avoid the Pied Progressive’s verbal masturbation.
It’s over for him, his long con is gone.
The Pied Progressive made irrelevant but the revolution he sparked has just begun.
The Pied Progressive is put out to pasture and his message is carried by the young. Why should they give up just because that Pied Piece of Shit is done?

Gay Marriage in MN "End of the Human Race"?

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Monday October 22, 2012 · 8:17 PM PDT

2012/10/22 · 20:17

That's what the Catholic groups that keep sending me HATE mail claim. I got home today, only to see a "Voter Guide" from the Catholics (every person they order you to vote for is a Republican) AND a letter claiming, in BOLD RED print that gay marriage would be the "End of the Human Race". There was a "?" after the statement, as though they're trying to appeal to those of us who aren't completely nuts yet. Anyways, I take down the entire bigoted organization in the video after the break ...

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Is the letter I read from the Catholics in the video

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Is the letter I read from the Catholics in the video

hate mail?

8 votes

mentally insane?

2 votes

hate mail from the mentally insane?

39 votes

Keith Olbermann "Hiking the Appalachian Trail?"

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Friday July 24, 2009 · 2:06 AM PDT

2009/07/24 · 02:06

EDIT (7/27/09): Keith Olbermann is out again this week. According to an article at The Huffington Post; filling in will be Lawrence O'Donnell, Howard Dean (I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing those episodes!), and Richard Wolffe. Mr. Olbermann himself responded to my diary in the comment section asking if I ever thought about checking out his baseball blog. The blog shows that he's been uploading a few posts here and there in his abscence. It still doesn't explain a sudden, unannounced 18-day (but who's counting?) absence from Countdown. Again, Keith, we miss you, and whatever the reason behind your extended disappearance from the airwaves, we wish you well and look forward to having you back!

After a full week of a Keith-less Countdown; "Keith Olbermann has the night off," is turning into MSNBC's, "Hiking the Appalachian Trail." Nothing against David Shuster, as he does a good job, but the reason I have tuned into Countdown from the beginning is because of Keith.

(continued after the jump)

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Do you think Keith's extended abscense is due to

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Do you think Keith's extended abscense is due to

Retaliation

67 votes

Renegotioation

75 votes

Illness

87 votes

Hiking the Appalachian Trail (literally)

78 votes

Other

285 votes

Read All About Her! The Headlines Say It All.

sloopydrew

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 1:56 PM PDT

2008/09/09 · 13:56

Let's ignore the fact that Sarah Palin has graced the cover of two issues of Newsweek magazine in a row. Let's try to get past the twenty-five full color photographs in the magazine this week featuring Palin (including a full pager showing the Governor literally wrapping herself in the flag). Let's just focus on the headlines scattered throughout the magazine. They say it all:

Everybody Loves Palin!

An Apostle of Alaska

A Republican Rocket in the Minnesota Sky

Wait! There's twelve more after the fold! Yes ... twelve.

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Favorite headline from this week's Newsweek?

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Favorite headline from this week's Newsweek?

Everybody Loves Palin!

11 votes

Beware the Barracuda

20 votes

An Apostle of Alaska

4 votes

Confessions of a Secret Sarah Admirer

5 votes

What the hell, Newsweek? Just what the hell?

117 votes

They Laugh at Soldiers, Don't They?: The Campaign Ad Obama Needs to Run

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 2:31 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 02:31

Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin joined forces with a frenzied crowd of Republicans in St. Paul to supposedly lay out the McCain agenda. What they did instead was lie repeatedly and without shame, mock Barack Obama, the media and community organizers.

Through the blood boiling up into my eyeballs I saw a silver lining: They mocked community organizers. Both Giuliani and Palin repeatedly joked about the organizers and the rabid audience couldn't get enough; laughing derisively, waving signs and frothing at the mouth.

Was this really happening? Were thousands of people who earlier claimed Americans needed to lift themselves up by the bootstraps without the help of big Government mocking the efforts of community organizers? Were they Laughing at those trying to make a difference? Imagine if Democrats reacted like this at their convention when someone on stage snidely joked about the troops (which didn't happen and would never happen). Imagine the "They Laugh at Soldiers Don't They?" type advertisement we'd see 24/7 on the 24/7 news. It would have been a gift from the Democrats to the McCain campaign.

Democrats were given that same gift last night. And here's how the ad could play (hit the jump, I promise you it's worth it):

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What did you find most repulsive?

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What did you find most repulsive?

Giuliani and Palin "joking" about Community Organizers

6 votes

The Republican audience laughing hysterically over the "jokes"

11 votes

The whole thing made me want to hurl

110 votes

All in All it Wasn't All it Could Be

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 4:03 AM PDT

2008/08/27 · 04:03

Last night Hillary Clinton delivered a speech with a few good lines (like the "Twin Cities" one) written by her six -- yes, six -- speech writers. The speech certainly brought some much needed excitement to what had been a bland, somewhat lifeless convention and energized a convention crowd that had most likely fallen asleep during Mark Warner's cellphone pitch. Here's what the speech DIDN'T do:

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 4:43 AM PDT

2008/07/10 · 04:43

After 15 hours straight of thinking about this without sleep, rest or pause of any sort I have decided that I cannot, in good conscience, vote for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of America. I believed him when he said he was a "Constitutional Scholar" and "Lawyer" and would "Filibuster" any and "all" legislation that granted retroactive immunity to the telecommunication giants. I believed him to the tune of nearly $200 worth of contributions to his campaign during the primary.

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Was Obama's vote

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Was Obama's vote

Wrong

18 votes

Really, Really wrong

56 votes

Striking Writers Write of Strike on Kos -- Define Irony

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 10:16 PM PDT

2008/03/18 · 22:16

Guess where I heard about this whole "Writers' Strike" being held by some Hillary supporters on Daily Kos? You would think Daily Kos, but you'd be mistaken. I first heard about it through The O'Reilly Factor. That's right. Bill O'Reilly used the "strike" as a big "I told you so" to Hillary Clinton. He also used it to trash everything about Daily Kos -- including his readers. He went so far as to say no "respectable" person would be found posting on this site (I'll take my chances).

Bill O'Reilly chewing out clear-thinking Kos readers and posters is nothing new. What is new is the reason he's chewing us out. The ammunition provided to him this time around has been hand delivered by Daily Kos readers and Daily Kos posters themselves. Once again, we are eating our own.

But it's all about what's "fair" right? And Hillary isn't being given a fair shake. Think again.

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Was bringing Bill O'Reilly into this a smart thing to do?

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Was bringing Bill O'Reilly into this a smart thing to do?

No, but the Clinton Campaign isn't about being smart -- it's about winning

81 votes

Yes, he's a good man fighting "spin" wherever it rears its ugly head

5 votes

Who did what to whom, again?

18 votes

Hillary Clinton and the MSM Back in Bizarro World

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 10:55 AM PST

2008/03/03 · 10:55

The Mainstream Media (MSM) has, once again, entered Bizarro World. They last visited 4 years ago when an inspirational speech by Howard Dean to rally his troops was played off as "frightening" and a sign of a man losing his grip on reality. This time we're seeing a string of 11 victories played out as a loss to the person who's won the last 11 contests. In Bizarro World math doesn't need to add up.

When I turned on the television set this morning I was bombarded with talking heads claiming that if Barack Obama -- who's won 11 contests in a row -- didn't take Vermont, Texas and Ohio would lose his frontrunner status to Hillary Clinton. They explained their lunacy away by claiming Hillary has won all the solid "blue" states (as long as you're not counting Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Washington, Maryland, Delaware, Hawaii, Connecticut and/or Maine), that Texas -- like the rest of Obama's victories -- is a red state he could never win in a general election and that the candidate who wins Ohio -- a much needed swing state -- is the strongest candidate to take the whole thing in November.

Could anything be more backward? Why yes ... of course. This is the Clintons we're dealing with here.

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Is the Mainstream Media being unfair to Hillary?

170 votes Vote Now!

Is the Mainstream Media being unfair to Hillary?

Yes! Don't you watch SNL?

19 votes

No way! Don't you read Daily Kos?

40 votes

Since when was it about being fair? It's the ratings, stupid!

111 votes

[UPDATED] An Open Letter to Barack Obama, from an Ex-Supporter

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 · 12:23 PM PST

2008/02/13 · 12:23

EDIT # 3 (the "no one is reading this diary entry anymore edit"): Not only have I cooled off, but I've sent $25 more into the Obama campaign. Still, the original entry is there -- if only to remind me to "count to ten" before posting a diary entry when I'm angry.

NOTE: Two days later and I've cooled off a bit. While I still stand by what is said in the "open letter" below (with exception to the last sentence), I do recognize that we must unify behind Barack Obama if we want to win this thing in November. And, contrary to the comment made in the heat of the moment while typing the last sentence, the only way I'd vote for Nader is if my only other options were Clinton and McCain.

Dear Mr. Obama,

A candidate for "change" would have voted against a bill to broaden the government's spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush's program of eavesdropping without warrants.

A candidate against "politics as usual" would have made a point to fly into D.C. to vote against this slap in the face to the Constitution and would have bravely held a press conference stating that the civil liberties of Americans are worth giving up a couple of hours of campaigning to save.

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Did you know that Barack Obama did NOT vote on the final bill?

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Did you know that Barack Obama did NOT vote on the final bill?

Yes, I knew he only voted to oppose immunity on an earlier motion to end debate

52 votes

No, his half-hearted attempt fooled me! I thought he voted on the final bill

27 votes

Whatever. He's still better than Hillary

115 votes

Hillary Clinton and the Smell of Mothballs

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 5:13 AM PST

2008/01/29 · 05:13

Hillary Clinton supporters must enjoy the smell of mothballs. Either that, or they're so enamored with the prosperous 90s that they can't see the forest through the trees.

One of the main reasons our economy is in the dumps right now is because President Bill Clinton succeeded where his Republican predecessors failed -- in passing NAFTA and, ultimately, WTO. Ross Perot warned us that the "large sucking sound" we'd hear would be our jobs leaving the country if George H.W. Bush were re-elected OR if Bill Clinton were elected. He was right. And Hillary is oh so wrong for this country. Every bit as wrong as Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush.

Want proof?

sloopydrew

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Sunday October 29, 2006 · 2:00 AM PST

2006/10/29 · 02:00

24 years and 4 months in prison?!? There is no way that, in that short a time, Skilling will be able to take it up the ass as many times as he gave it in the ass to thousands of people with his "accounting tricks and shady business deals that led to the loss of thousands of jobs, more than $60 billion in Enron stock and more than $2 billion in employee pension plans after the company imploded in 2001."

Not to mention, Skilling can get 54 days a year reduced from his sentence for "good behavior" (something the man certainly seems incapable of). Jeffrey was also ordered to undergo alcohol and mental-health counseling. If he does so, a year's automatically dropped from his sentence -- sort of like a "Get out of Jail Free" card.

What's the deal with everyone who does anything wrong these days claiming they had problems with alcoholism? From Mel Gibson to that creepy predator/pedophile Republican Representative that just got his ass busted, thanks to transcripts where he chatted with underage male interns about how hard he was and wondered if he made the kids "horny" (sort of like a really twisted Austin Powers). Read More

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The Pied Progressive: A Poem

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Keith Olbermann "Hiking the Appalachian Trail?"

Read All About Her! The Headlines Say It All.

They Laugh at Soldiers, Don't They?: The Campaign Ad Obama Needs to Run

All in All it Wasn't All it Could Be

A Sad Conclusion

Striking Writers Write of Strike on Kos -- Define Irony

Hillary Clinton and the MSM Back in Bizarro World

[UPDATED] An Open Letter to Barack Obama, from an Ex-Supporter

Hillary Clinton and the Smell of Mothballs

Jeffrey Skilling Got Off Easy!