DKos Travel Board #9--Saint Louis

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Sunday March 01, 2009 · 12:07 PM PST

2009/03/01 · 12:07

The last three DKos Travel Board diaries were about exotic locales--Tibet, Cambodia, and the Big Island of Hawaii.

This is not a diary about a faraway destination. This is about a city located smack in the middle of America (in multiple different ways). But although it's easy to get to from anywhere in the U.S., the only thing most people know about Saint Louis is that it has a big Arch.

I should start out by saying that I'm not from here originally, but I've adopted it as my own. So come to the STL and take an American stay-cation!

GoldnI

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 11:44 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 11:44

This is going to be a short diary, and I know there have been several stories like this over the last few days, including aaraujo's powerful diary yesterday of the 109-year old daughter of a slave voting for Obama, but this was another one that brought tears to my eyes. At the rate I'm going, I won't have any more tears to cry on Election Night!

Dora Fitzgerald was a 93-year old woman living in North Charleston, South Carolina. She was born in a time before women could vote, and certainly a long time before it even looked possible for an African-American to ever become President.

She wasn't passionate about politics, but she was about Barack Obama.

GoldnI

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 3:10 PM PDT

2008/08/13 · 15:10

Allow me to start off by saying that as a Democratic resident of Nashville, I have never known quite what to make of my state's Republican Party. On the one hand, I resent them for basically confirming some of the worst stereotypes of Tennesseans as backwards racists. On the other hand, as a blogger, they have provided me with an endless source of amusement as I watch them implode on themselves.

Today we have a two-fer, courtesy of TNGOP spokesman Bill Hobbs and Tennessee Federation of Republican Women president Shirley Ward. Racism, anti-Semitism, and a Presidential campaign that has officially lost control of its message--we provide all that and so much more here in the Volunteer State.

GoldnI

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Sunday August 03, 2008 · 4:02 PM PDT

2008/08/03 · 16:02

(Cross-Posted at Silence Isn't Golden)

What is Labor Day?

Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September. The holiday originated in 1882 as the Central Labor Union (of New York City) sought to create "a day off for the working man".

It's a day in which we honor the workers who are the backbone of the American economy. It's not just a day off from school and from work in which we get to have picnics and set off fireworks.

GoldnI

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Friday July 11, 2008 · 9:37 PM PDT

2008/07/11 · 21:37

I, a Southern Jewish white woman, wholeheartedly pledge to vote for that nice Jewish boy, Baruch Hershel Obamawitz, in November.

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Nice Jewish boy?

Obamawitz

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Obamastein

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Obamasky

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Obamaberg

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Pro-Israel/Palestine Peace PAC Endorses Netroots Candidates

GoldnI

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Tuesday June 17, 2008 · 10:21 AM PDT

2008/06/17 · 10:21

In April, a new pro-Israel pro-peace organization called JStreet was launched, to give a voice to the vast majority of American Jews who want to see a peaceful two-state solution in Israel and Palestine, but who were almost always shouted down by a small but far more organized minority on the right.

Unlike other pro-Israel organizations, JStreet has a political action committee (JStreetPac), which can endorse and raise money for candidates. This morning, they released their first round of seven Congressional endorsements, with several netroots candidates making up the list including Steve Cohen, Darcy Burner, and Donna Edwards!

GoldnI

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Monday March 24, 2008 · 3:01 PM PDT

2008/03/24 · 15:01

(Full disclosure: I've been a Sirius subscriber for about four years now, and have been following this story for some time.)

Today, the Justice Department announced that they have approved the merger between the two satellite radio companies, Sirius and XM. Although larger media conglomerates such as Clear Channel are screaming bloody murder today, this was the correct decision and will be beneficial to both consumers and to artists.

Now, I understand that there is apprehension from some on the left about whether or not this constitutes a monopoly. But that is not the case here.

GoldnI

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 · 6:01 PM PDT

2008/03/11 · 18:01

Sorry this is a short diary. Keith Olbermann just said on Countdown that he'll be doing a Special Comment on the HRC campaign tactics on tomorrow night's show! I thought this would be a perfect topic for him, but I didn't know if MSNBC would allow him to do it.

Fire up the TiVo's y'all, this is going to be good!

GoldnI

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Friday February 08, 2008 · 5:38 PM PST

2008/02/08 · 17:38

(Cross-Posted at Silence Isn't Golden)

As we debate which Presidential candidate would be best for the future of our country, it is important to not lose sight of those who would destroy that future before it even begins.

As many of you know, President Bush just submitted a budget of $3.1 TRILLION to Congress. This budget contains what will be the legacy of this Administration--additional tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations, and enough money for the Pentagon to bring military spending to the highest level since World War II. On the other hand, 151 programs will be cut or terminated, a third of which are educational programs.

I'm sure the conservatives will just shrug that off as "entitlements" that aren't all that important, and call them a waste of money. But I'd like to tell you about one of those programs that could lose its funding under Bush's budget, and the disastrous consequences that could result.

GoldnI

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 9:03 PM PST

2008/01/29 · 21:03

(Cross-Posted at Silence Isn't Golden)

This has nothing to do with any candidates running for President. My apologies in advance.

Earlier today, R. Neal at KnoxViews (a Knoxville blog obviously) posted a sad anecdote about how his wife went to the drug store and witnessed a woman being forced to decide which of her six prescriptions to fill, because she could not afford all of them. It's the kind of story you hear all too often these days, and all you can do is shake your head and look forward to next year, when we have a Democratic president in the White House and we see some real work being done on reforming our health care system in this country.

GoldnI

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Sunday January 13, 2008 · 6:34 PM PST

2008/01/13 · 18:34

This started out as a conversation earlier this week about favorite lightbulb jokes ("How many "x" does it take to change a lightbulb?"). It got me wondering what sort of lightbulb jokes you could do for the different presidential candidates, which turned into this post on my blog.

These probably aren't that good, so I'm curious to see what other punchlines y'all can come up with.

GoldnI

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Tuesday January 08, 2008 · 10:38 AM PST

2008/01/08 · 10:38

(Cross-Posted, slightly edited, at Silence Isn't Golden)

I'm a bad feminist!

There, I said it. In fact, I'm such a bad feminist that I can hardly be considered one at all. I shouldn't be in my room blogging right now, I should be in the kitchen or in the laundry room.

I already had one strike against me due to the fact that I see no conflict between being a feminist and wearing makeup. But in a New York Times column today, feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem further reminded me of my unworthiness on the grounds that I don't support Hillary Clinton for President.

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Shut up and go make me a pie!

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