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Tuesday February 14, 2012 · 2:31 PM PST

2012/02/14 · 14:31

Nobel Prize winner Eli Wiesel reacted with disgust and outrage today in response to a recent article by the Huffington Post that claimed,

“according to a formerly-Mormon researcher, Helen Radkey, some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had submitted Wiesel's name to a restricted genealogy website as "ready" for posthumous proxy baptism.”

Former Mormon researcher Radkey discovered last week that both Wiesel’s father, Chlomo Wiesel, who died during the Holocaust in Buchenwald's crematorium, as well as Wiesel’s grandfather, had been “proposed” for a proxy baptism, as had Eli Wiesel. This practice has been carried on for nearly 100 years, since 1918 when the President of the Church had the genius idea that the entire human race should be posthumously baptized into the Mormon Church.

Nice thought on behalf of the Mormons but a couple of little problems with their latest magnanimous gesture towards Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel (a gesture they are now blatantly denying)--Wiesel isn’t dead yet and he isn’t remotely interested in himself or anyone in his family being posthumously baptized into the Mormon faith.

When asked for comment, Eli Wiesel vehemently objected,

"I think it's scandalous. Not only objectionable, it's scandalous."

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Sunday September 11, 2011 · 5:17 PM PDT

2011/09/11 · 17:17

I made this comment in another diary and was asked to write it up so here you all go.

Short, sweet and to the point, I'm out for a week. I've been a long time participant in Black Kos diaries but have also made friends online with many folks that I often am in disagreement with. None of them are the enemy. We can disagree without smearing each other. We can disagree without disparaging each other. We can disagree with mocking and calling each other names.

It hurts my heart to see the way that the entire moderation situation, which has been wildly out of control for months, is now being handled. We users begged, pleaded, emailed Admin, and begged some more, for months on end, for the owner of this blog to get involved before the feuding between fellow progressives devolved into all out warfare.

We got nowhere with our requests. We lost Meteor Blades, which still hurts my heart. His contributions to this joint, in my opinion, were literally invaluable. And I can't help but wonder if part of why he left was because of dealing with this shit and getting nowhere fast with no back up from the owner of this blog.

So, in a nutshell, when I look at the banned list, I see some names that deserve to be on it, and more names that don't along with user names that have their ratings ability pulled. Posters who have lost their ratings ability who happen to be some of the most thoughtful posters on this site.

And the bottom line is this has occurred simply because Markos no longer has a clue who most users are at his own site because he is too busy (and rightfully so) trying to build up Daily Kos 4.

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Saturday December 18, 2010 · 1:09 PM PST

2010/12/18 · 13:09

We as Democrats have had one hell of a high/low year. Some great. Some that make me want to weep. A health care reform bill, the likes that haven't been seen in 40 years, passed. DADT repealed. START stalled. The DREAM act defeated. A drumming in the November election. I don't think my heart can take much more.

If we aren't all on Prozac after 2010, we should be.

So, where do we go from here? Where do we place our efforts? Where do we find common ground within our own party to move forward our agenda?

Specifically, when we've united, we've had some historical successes. Where do we put our energy and towards what?

Suggestions on what you want to see are welcome.

McCain Campaign Organizer Dumped after Authoring Racist Op-Ed

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 9:06 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 09:06

Apparently, calling a presidential candidate a terrorist gets you a VP nod but joking that Obama would hire Ludacris gets you disowned. Anybody besides me confused about the mixed messages coming from the McCain camp these days?

According to the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau, the Swamp has reported that Bobby May, a Virginia Republican organizer for the McCain Campaign, has been removed from his post as a

as a member of the candidate's statewide leadership team...

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 2:28 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 14:28

Yep, you read it here first...McCain's Colorado campaign director Tom Kise accidentally sent out the campaign's internal talking points regarding the suspension of the debate/campaign...to the media.

Unfortunately for them, my state blog feels no moral obligation to keep that fact to themselves. :)

More below the fold from Colorado Pols...

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 10:21 AM PDT

2008/09/23 · 10:21

Reprinted with permission from David Kroning, original author.

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 9:57 AM PDT

2008/09/08 · 09:57

In a recent report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, an interesting, albeit depressing statistic regarding the recent Republican National Convention caught my eye.

...there were only 36 African-American delegates out of more than 2,300. The Democratic Party, meanwhile, said about a quarter of its 4,400 delegates were African-American.

That number, 36, is the lowest attendance of African American delegates since the Joint Center began tracking diversity 40 years ago. Twenty four state delegations do not have a single black member.

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 9:28 AM PDT

2008/08/13 · 09:28

So, last night’s election results for Congressional District 2 are in--a seat being vacated by US House of Representatives Mark Udall, who is running for the Senate--and the winner is Jared Polis, former Colorado State Board of Education Director, business owner, and first openly gay man to serve in Congress.

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Friday December 21, 2007 · 9:12 AM PST

2007/12/21 · 09:12

So, let's just say things don't go so well in November for our side.

Who really thinks they can honestly live under eight more years of a repressive regime that arbitrarily violates and ignores international global climate treates, engages in illegal rendition and torture, wiretapping and spying on it's own citizens, continues to illegally occupy a foreign sovereign nation and to date, has now spent over half a trillion dollars on said occupation?

If, God forbid, we lose the White House in November 2008, where you gonna go, seriously? Just as we require student and work visas for foreign nationals, so do other countries and these are not easily obtained, unless you have a special skill set that is needed. Picking up and moving to France isn't quite as simple as it sounds.

Fortunately, there appears to be hope on the horizon and you won't even need a passport to get there.

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Friday July 27, 2007 · 11:13 AM PDT

2007/07/27 · 11:13

And here it is...who fucking cares?

No, really, who?

Wait, wait, you do. That's why you're here. That's why you have joined this brilliant discussion, so that your unique perspective, so individual and different from all the rest, can find a home with like-minded, unique individuals.

Consider this the diary, to end all other diaries, on the terribly important, life-threatening, awe inspiring subject of Obama and Clinton taking a couple of jabs at each other in Round Two.

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 11:04 AM PST

2006/11/02 · 11:04

If I hadn't taken a look at this myself, I'd swear what I'm about to tell you is a tinfoil hat moment. How I wish it were.

Tomorrow, Colorado CD4 becomes the not so proud recipient of the Generation Joshua entourage, an off-shoot of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). They are here to canvas for God (err, I mean, Representative Marilyn Musgrave).

Generation Joshua has put out the call and their agenda is clear, as noted in Colorado Confidential's report,

"Election Day is one week away and Generation Joshua Student Action Teams are prepared to elect pro-life and pro-homeschooling candidates. Our efforts could make the difference on Election Day and help shape the future of this country. Over 1,000 GenJ members will be in the field, divided into 12 teams ranging from 50 to over 100. This type of focused effort has been proven time and time again to tip the scales in close elections."

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CO CD 4: Musgrave's Merry Band of Stealthy Supremacists...and other great highlights

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Tuesday September 19, 2006 · 7:33 AM PDT

2006/09/19 · 07:33

Here in Colorado, we've got our own nasty little version of Senator George Allen...none other than the infamous Marilyn Musgrave, who has a penchant for worrying about what gay folks are up to while she continues to reap the benefits of her endorsement by the KKK. More on that below the fold.

In her spare time, when Musgrave isn't diagnosing coma victims, she takes time out of her busy schedule to make sure we get some legislation passed that ensures the year 2007 will be named The Year of the Bible.

And then we get to the 3rd "G". Marilyn believes it's a huge waste of time and money to install a mandatory trigger lock on guns. Who cares if "unintentional shootings cause 20 percent of all firearm-related deaths among children ages 14 and under." The cost is just so damned prohibitive (about twelve bucks) and hey, the children can fend for themselves once they're out of the womb.
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