Look, goddammit, we want you to do this...

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 12:53 AM PDT

2009/06/19 · 00:53

We want you to fix the health care crisis because we know it's best for our health and our economy. And we need you to fix the financial sector and get the damn engines of commerce fired up again without poisoning where we live while you're at it. We've grown fond of our lungs and our trees.

It's not much to ask.

LightningMan

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Monday December 15, 2008 · 10:51 AM PST

2008/12/15 · 10:51

It was a bad decision. I had no idea how much trouble it would land me in. Seemed like a good idea at the time...

He was spewing his non-sensical alternate reality to a crowd of people, and I just had enough. Off came my size 11 shitkickers, and airborne they went. One right after the other. Straight at Dubya's smirking, chimplike mug. He was amazing HELLA quick with his ducks, and I missed.

The cell I'm in is not too bad. The weather is nice and warm, and the beatings are becoming less frequent. I'm hoping to get a trial under the new military detainees rules in about 4 or 5 years. Meanwhile, I'm surrounded by the loveliest razor wire and the attack dogs are just so damn CUTE!

I still wonder if my little outburst made the news...With the state of the corporate media, I wouldn't be surprised if they buried the lede...

Black Friday

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Friday November 21, 2008 · 10:10 AM PST

2008/11/21 · 10:10

This diary is a repost from my personal blog on myspace, therefore it's written for a more general and less politically sophisticated audience than is generally found on DKos. www.myspacedotcom/jetpilot1776

My company has laid off at least 60 pilots today. Because of my seniority number, I'm keeping my job for the time being. My co-pilot this trip was not so lucky. They had airline tickets home waiting for him when we landed here in Raleigh-Durham.

Depending on how many are actually furloughed today, it's possible I could be demoted to co-pilot.

The company says the layoffs are "economy based."

Since the beginning of 2008, over a million Americans have lost their jobs. That's just this year.

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yes

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Into Their Gaping Maws

LightningMan

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 9:28 PM PDT

2008/10/01 · 21:28

This whole bailout bullshit has pissed me off from the first.

The whole damn country has gone batshit insane if they think that dumping billions of our dollars into the gaping maws of the motherfuckers who caused this shit is the right idea.

For you newbies, this is a rant.

LightningMan

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 11:21 AM PDT

2008/09/29 · 11:21

First, let me say that my knowledge of financial systems and market forces, etc, is limited to what I see on the news and reading my 401(k) statement.

That said, it doesn't make sense to me that $700B in taxpayer money is going to change anything.

This seems like just another fiasco created by Bush and the regressives in which they are looking for the plebes to bail them out.

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yes

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don't know

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Obama Shows Leadership as Attendee Faints

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 1:47 PM PDT

2008/09/18 · 13:47

Here's just another example of why Obama is the right man to lead our party and our nation: while speaking moments ago in New Mexico, a person attending the rally fainted. Whether it was due to the heat, or standing for so long, dehydration, or just being overwhelmed (ala Beatlemania) this unfortunate person lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

Barack, stopped his speech, pointed down, and said, "What's going on here? Did they faint? Give 'em some room--don't try to stand 'em up. Wait for the EMT people--they'll be here." (I'm paraphrasing)

LightningMan

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 11:11 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 23:11

Over and over, for years and years, those of us who are really paying attention to politics have seen that the current administration is guilty of crimes. They have, for instance, admitted to torturing prisoners in the custody of the people of the United States. They have, further, freely admitted to tapping the phones and emails of our fellow Americans without warrant. The evidence has shown that the cause for war in Iraq was nothing but lies. The "facts and intelligence are being fixed around the policy." This is the level of duplicity that we are dealing with.

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Sunday August 17, 2008 · 12:35 AM PDT

2008/08/17 · 00:35

The doddering idiot "maverick" who's America's American patriot and philanderer, our most trustworthy "rebel" who votes with dubya 100 percent of the time--when he bothers to hobble in to the Senate--and who can't remember what his bold and innovative positions are unless he consults his index cards or his lobbyists, is actually taking a STAND on something. He has decided that he is strongly anti-choice and against the historic women's rights decision called Roe v Wade.

The moronic mysogynist who has called his trophy wife a "cunt" and a "trollop" in front of fawning reporters has finally decided that he is in favor of making abortion illegal. McLame has determined that women should not have control over their own bodies. It is rational to assume, therefore, that he would be in favor of jailing women who decided to terminate a pregnancy--if his backward and wrongheaded view of the world ever came to "fruition." Good idea, huh? Let's build even more jails so we can lock up young women who are so unfortunate as to get pregnant without wanting to. Seems like we might want to torture them a little bit, too. Just for good measure. Hell, just burn 'em at the fuckin stake. They're probably witches, anyway. Trollops.

LightningMan

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Tuesday August 12, 2008 · 9:33 AM PDT

2008/08/12 · 09:33

is, apparently, a fictionaliztion or an amalgamation of two people that is presented as biographical, and yet there is no fiction tag.

It is hard for me to spell this out without risking the violating the faq's. I initially commented positively to the top diary. Then I was shown evidence that the story that had pulled at me heartstrings was, at least partially, not true. One man is either alive or dead. We live in a quantum universe, but this was asking too much.

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Thursday July 31, 2008 · 2:44 PM PDT

2008/07/31 · 14:44

Barack Obama's presidential campaign had a pivotal moment, I believe, when he sank the three-point basketball shot in front of the troops. For many voters, this kind of thing strikes all the right chords: it shows athleticism, poise, a willingness to take risk, a sense of fun, and an almost undefinable coolness that has wide popular appeal.

For Obama to even attempt the shot was risky. A three pointer is not easy to make...

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very cool

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almost unbelievably cool

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beyond cool

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It's not a "brand" it's a party

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 8:17 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 08:17

This'll be short and sweet.

The Republican party is in the shitter. And it's not because they've failed to "package" themselves with the right "brand." It's about their stupid ideas and crappy execution. And, of course, their corruption.

LightningMan

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 7:26 PM PDT

2008/05/09 · 19:26

This story keeps getting deeper and deeper.

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman spent time in prison after a conviction on bribery charges that were likely engineered by White House staffers including Karl Rove.

Now, within the last week, we have news of crimes against whistleblowers in the case, and new revelations of an investigation that was started and then stopped by a special counsel in the Bush Administration who was investigating the US Attorneys scandal.

I haven't seen this diaried yet, and if it was, I'll delete.

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