Getting to Know You - - India

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Tuesday March 08, 2005 · 1:17 PM PST

2005/03/08 · 13:17

In recent weeks, I have been doing research on India. I am embarassed to say that I know shockingly little about a nation that is inhabited by more than one billion human beings.

This past weekend, I have found a writer who gives me great hope for the future of humanity as India rises in international stature. I ask DailyKos to read this poem and tell me whether this constitutes a valid and hopeful liberal attitude on life:

Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been
broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls; ...
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit; ...
Into that heaven of freedom,
my Father, let my country awake.

Written by Rabindranath Tagore. I regret not having discovered his writing before now. Read More

Warren Buffet predicts "sharecropper society"

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Sunday March 06, 2005 · 12:10 PM PST

2005/03/06 · 12:10

If we do not correct the trade deficit.

"A country that is now aspiring to an 'Ownership Society' will not find happiness in - and I'll use hyperbole here for emphasis - a 'Sharecropper's Society.' But that's precisely where our trade policies, supported by Republicans and Democrats alike, are taking us."

Update [2005-3-6 15:23:4 by BlueSpace]: And, if the bankruptcy bill passes, many of us will be sharecroppers with MBNA as the massah, no? Read More

Clearly Framed: Social Security demolition

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Thursday March 03, 2005 · 9:48 AM PST

2005/03/03 · 09:48

If diaried before, mea culpa, however, repetition is the lifeblood of talking points.

The plan is to reduce SS benefits, says Alan Greenspan. How else can you parse this?

"I fear that we may have already committed more physical resources to the baby-boom generation in its retirement years than our economy has the capacity to deliver," Greenspan said.

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Safe, legal and rare

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Sunday February 27, 2005 · 9:36 PM PST

2005/02/27 · 21:36

This diary trolled up a nasty (by Kos standards) flame war.

Shame on all of you.

Bill Clinton showed the way on this.

"Safe, legal and rare!" Read More

Just say "No!"

BlueSpace

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Sunday February 27, 2005 · 6:47 AM PST

2005/02/27 · 06:47

To incremental Social Security ~~reform~~demolition.

With polls showing widespread skepticism of Bush's proposed individual investment accounts and Democratic lawmakers expressing nearly uniform opposition, some allies of the president are focused on possible split-the-difference deals.

No defectors! None! Read More

Play Everquest? Buy pizza on-line

BlueSpace

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Friday February 25, 2005 · 2:45 PM PST

2005/02/25 · 14:45

Everquest, that addictive online game some call Evercrack. . .

(No, I have never played myself, although I know some pathetic souls who play religiously)

. . . has now become a forum for on-line advertising.

Wonder what Sony would charge to add a DailyKos link within the Everquest universe?

What a country we live in! Only in America!

Andrew Sullivan links Daily Kos

BlueSpace

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Wednesday February 23, 2005 · 2:51 PM PST

2005/02/23 · 14:51

Is this unusual? Click when all else fails try and use gays found in the top line.

I had been checking back to see how my favorite right-wing gay guy was going to handle the AARP attack and he does it by linking to Kos.

Good, bad, or a way to weasel out of confronting the slime machine too openly?

The GOP party doesn't want to win

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Monday November 08, 2004 · 11:17 AM PST

2004/11/08 · 11:17

The

(1) War on Terror (they benefit more from merely fighting it);

(2) Banning Gay Marriage (same reason);

(3) Overturning Roe v Wade (same reason);

They want these fights to drag on, endlessly.

Every election season they will ask for more money for a war they pretend to fight. Keeps their base dumb and hungry, locked in a closet, writing checks.

This is a follow up to my last diary.

Kos, think on this the next time you say "no compromise" on gay rights, abortion etc. . .

What if Rove is pitting us against the religious right. He just lets us fight it out and then skates away to carry out his own nefarious agenda? Read More

Kos: "I would rather lose than compromise. . ."

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Monday November 08, 2004 · 10:13 AM PST

2004/11/08 · 10:13

I would rather lose than compromise on those issues abortion, gay rights etc. . .

Dude, I want it both ways. Masada and the Alamo both had unhappy endings. The problem is we blue Democrats have been suffering a withering war of attrition ever since Roe v. Wade.

Democrats think logically, rationally and utterly fail to win the visceral debate. Lets make it visceral. And what better way than to remind them, viscerally,

be wary of what you pray for. . . Read More

Fun with Diebold =or= a trollish plan

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Friday November 05, 2004 · 9:08 AM PST

2004/11/05 · 09:08

A wise Zen master supposedly once said: No one can use cocaine only once

Suppose the Ohio and Florida rumors are true and Red-hacker hi-jinks were used to alter final electronic vote totals. Are those rumors true? Don't know. I see smoke but no proof. But no matter. Suppose these fears are true. Those guys surely will return to the well come 2006 or 2008.

What do we do? Use jujitsu.

BlueSpace

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 1:59 PM PST

2004/11/03 · 13:59

We hold our values dear because our values lead to better lives for all people. A reality based community understands that time will prove us right.

We opposed Iraqi regime change because it is a FUBAR strategy for defeating bin Laden and al Qaeda. Lets stop screaming and let the drip, drip, drip, drip of American casualties settle in. 60% of America still believes Saddam plotted 9/11. Screaming won't change that.

Why do we seek foreign allies? Because we like French culture? Not necessarily. Because 10,000 years of human history teaches that unilateral powers get their "King of the Hill" crown ripped away.

Lets be the reality based community because reality is going to happen one way or the other.
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Another "draft angle" to develop

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Saturday October 16, 2004 · 12:23 PM PDT

2004/10/16 · 12:23

Ed Gillespie says the draft is a "non-issue" - - okay, whatever. Therefore, ask Ed to allow every GOP House candidate to promise "NO DRAFT" on videotape.

Insurance for the 2006 mid-term elections.

EVERY Democrat running in a close House or Senate race should elict either a NO DRAFT pledge from the GOP candidate or shove any refusal to give such a pledge down Ed Gillespie's throat.

Make a grass roots effort not directed only at the Presidential race.

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