An earlier diary for your consideration

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 5:04 PM PDT

2005/08/22 · 17:04

Hi all, I had a Diary earlier that I feel strongly about and have already had some success with but it could use a push. I've almost never used the 2nd Diary and have never repeated one. It's received over 30 Reccomends and I'd love it to reach as many people as possible.

If you'd take a look I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

1,000 T-Shirts for Camp Casey: Please Help

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 10:21 AM PDT

2005/08/22 · 10:21

I don't know if any of you are as angry as I am about Bush's PR bonanza with Lance Armstrong this weekend, trying to get a leg up on Cindy Sheehan's success so far in bringing about debate on the War. If you've missed it by some chance check THIS OUT and see the 6,430 links of publicity for Bush and his "Tour de Crawford" t-shirt giveaway yesterday.

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Why I March

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Monday August 15, 2005 · 9:02 AM PDT

2005/08/15 · 09:02

Next month will be the 6th time I have marched in Washington DC in the past 25 years. The first 3 times were the National Gay Marches for Equal Rights and the last 2 times were against Bush's planned invasion of Iraq. Now it is time to put on my comfortable tennies again and keep pushing to end this Occupation of horrors. One must add to the crystals that Cindy Sheehan began and let them multiply.
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A Journey Through North America

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Sunday June 26, 2005 · 8:30 PM PDT

2005/06/26 · 20:30

Where to start?

I had to drive across country this week (do you really care about the bi-coastal details?) and it was an adventure that won't leave me anytime soon.

I started on the West Coast. Picking up my car from the auto shop I met some friends for dinner and a screening of a new film "Crash". It's a furiously earnest film about the current state of affairs in America and it hit me square. I'm not saying the film is perfect by any means but if you think Cinema in America in 2005 is represented by Batman and a Pitt/Jolie combo, please get out of your Access-Hollywood coma and get your ass to the theater. This film will have you squirming in your seat and justly so. Check it out and write your own Diary, we cover so little about Art on this blog it's shameful, about as pathetic as our governments interest in it, save for co-opting it into propaganda. Read More

"The View" Today- Rosie screams Bush Should be Tried for War Crimes

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Tuesday June 07, 2005 · 9:06 AM PDT

2005/06/07 · 09:06

For those of you in Mountain and Pacific time zones, "The View" is worth catching to see the absolute fireworks when Rosie O'Donnell screams bloody murder at Sean Hannity. She is one of his interviewers for his segment in the 2nd half hour of the show and they get into a huge screaming match.

They get into the subject of the war in Iraq and she goes ballistic on him, ultimately screaming that Bush should be tried for War Crimes. I thought Hannity was going to give birth to a cat then and there. He screams back about the whole 'isn't it better that Saddam is gone' and she buys none of it.

My own view is we need to come up with a definitive meme for this. The first one that popped into my head was "If you break into someone's house and take all their electronics and happen to do their dishes on the way out, it's STILL Robbery".

To Be Alive and in NYC Tonight

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Sunday June 05, 2005 · 6:53 PM PDT

2005/06/05 · 18:53

It began as usual. My friends and I were going out to dinner on a Sunday night. But something was indeed different this evening, for New York City is having it's warmest day since last August. For 10 months now we have lived inside hospitable or cold weather and have done such a good job of it.

On the way out tonight, the weather was on my mind all day. It was beautiful here, not just pleasant but extraordinary. How often does life get extraordinary? For some it is often, but how often can you live in extraordinary until it doesn't seem so? Maybe we can ask Jenna and Barbara and Paris and Nicole about that. But rarely can media ask the overpriveliged about it without even seeming more banal , for what would they compare it to, maybe that's why we tune into the lives that fall from grace. Tonight I was one of the millions of priveliged as I walked around a truly great city and felt what it was like to be amongst 10 million priveliged people all at once. Read More

Reality Check: Religious Programming Cancelled

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Wednesday May 18, 2005 · 10:59 AM PDT

2005/05/18 · 10:59

Just who are these people with an extremist agenda and how large is this group?

Evidently not as large as even they think and nowhere near large enough to change anything nationwide on their own. If you want to just do a quick eyeball count, this group isn't enough to keep a television series on the air.

CBS today cancelled "Joan of Arcadia" after its 2nd season because of low ratings. This series premiered to critical and audience acclaim when it debuted 18 months ago and its ratings have plummeted. Now CBS it cutting it's losses. This show was the youth-appeal follow-up to "Touched By An Angel" which lasted several times longer.

On top of this the NBC End-of-Days themed mini-series "Revelations" is a similar dud, not winning it's time slot and diminishing weekly in audience.
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Enron, The Movie-- Support This Film

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Sunday April 24, 2005 · 2:30 PM PDT

2005/04/24 · 14:30

cross posted at Liberal Streetfight

I just returned from seeing ENRON:The Smartest Guys in the Room and I am about to bust a gut yet again. This film chronicles the absolute craven souls who did a world of damage to a city (Houston) an entire state (California) and showed us just how corrupt our banks, accounting firms and government still are today.

I've read quite a bit over the years but until I saw the film this afternoon it never congealed just how brazen these people were and how they still to this day boldface lie about the entire matter. This should be a great tool for the prosecution in the cases coming up to trial.

Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay engineered the most horrendous business environment imaginable and then proceeded to rob, steal and Ponzi their way into wealth while leaving a devastating trail of victims. Even today people are still wiped out by the events of a few years ago and many pensioners and workers will never recover. This film really delivers the punches. Read More

Book Her Dan-O

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Saturday April 23, 2005 · 1:46 PM PDT

2005/04/23 · 13:46

cross-posted at liberal streetfight

You can sleep well tonight, law enforcement is doing it's job.

In this News Report and Video we get to see a 5 year old girl put in hand cuffs for throwing a tantrum. Thank goodness the state of Florida under Jeb Bush knows how to treat it's citizens, leaving no child undisciplined.

A 5-year-old girl was handcuffed by police after she tore papers off a bulletin board and punched an assistant principal in kindergarten class, according to a video released by a lawyer for the child's mother.
The 30-minute tape shows the child appearing to calm down before three officers pinned her arms behind her back and put on handcuffs as she screamed, "No!''

But why leave it at that? Possibly it's time for some new weapons in our arsenal to deal with these Child Terrorists: Read More

The GOP in Freefall While the Donkey Climbs

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Wednesday April 06, 2005 · 6:28 PM PDT

2005/04/06 · 18:28

In my diary on Sunday i spoke about how the tide is turning in the Deep South on my trip last weekend to Texas. Most people were welcoming but a few naysayers expressed doubt that things were turning our way.

Well, here's another good indication on the front page of USA TODAY of all places. The title is: "GOP's MORAL AGENDA DOUBTED".

The controversy over Terri Schiavo has raised concerns among many Americans about the moral agenda of the Republican Party and the political power of conservative Christians, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds.

Some old stereotypes about the two parties have been reversed:
By 55%-40%, respondents say Republicans, traditionally the party of limited government, are "trying to use the federal government to interfere with the private lives of most Americans" on moral values.

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Sunday April 03, 2005 · 7:26 PM PDT

2005/04/03 · 19:26

I dreaded my trip to Texas this weekend for the longest time. My second oldest sister (shock of shocks-i'm catholic) was celebrating a milestone birthday. Although she is many years older than i it was a marker that i didn't want to miss. Many times over the past few months i've played with reasons why i couldn't make this trip, mostly so i didn't have to be the recipient of red state hate. My older brother won't even speak to me anymore because of my 'won't go to the back of the bus' politics in an area where issues are no longer even discussed (like living inside Fox News 24/7). I'm the flaming gay liberal in my family, a large group that contains bisexuals and gays that hide inside the mainstream rather than overtly confront the Red Tide that is Texas 2005.

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Mel Gibson back with a new Crusade?

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Sunday March 13, 2005 · 8:57 AM PST

2005/03/13 · 08:57

Mel Gibson has his recut "The Passion" opening in theaters this week minus (some) of the gore but it looks like he has a new cause celbre. In this small Report it looks like he's picking up the gauntlet for Terry Schiavo.

Buoyed by encouragement from actor Mel Gibson, the family of Terri Schiavo pleaded for her life, just days before the court-ordered removal of her feeding tube. About 200 people prayed and sang Saturday outside the hospice where the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman lives. Another demonstration on the woman's behalf is scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Tallahassee. Bob Schindler said he spoke to Gibson -- "The Passion of The Christ" director -- on Friday. He said Gibson told him, "to hammer God with prayers and hammer him hard." The removal of Schiavo's feeding tube is scheduled for March 18.

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