Life Begins at Conception

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Monday April 29, 2013 · 9:04 PM PDT

2013/04/29 · 21:04

Those are my kids.

Right this minute, as my wife sleeps in the other room, those two clumps of cells are sloshing around in her uterus, hopefully with the short-term result that one or both of them attach to its lining and continue to divide and multiply and eventually become a person that will probably wreck my car someday.

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Friday November 09, 2012 · 8:50 AM PST

2012/11/09 · 08:50

I was glad to see Joan front-page an item on the FL-18 race yesterday, and I hope it raised some much-needed funds. I'm going to try my best to lay out all of today's developments and the road ahead in this thing. I'm here in the district and trying my best to get first-hand information on what's happening.

Update: Please check out Joan's new diary too, it's got a little more info, we appear to be on the same schedule, here!

Update 2: Please check Ubiquitous A's Diary for a great analysis of today's events.

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Thursday November 08, 2012 · 10:05 AM PST

2012/11/08 · 10:05

This will be a short diary, but an important one. I've been more of a lurker than a writer lately, but FL-18, my congressional district, is knee-deep in what I hope will not become a bitter, prolonged fight to the finish. We need your help to send Allen West packing.

Join me beneath the squiggle for an update on the state of things in FL-18, and info on how YOU can help make sure Patrick Murphy is the next Congressman, and one last VERY satisfying victory for our side.

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65 votes Show Results

Will you stand with me, and give one last time?

65 votes Vote Now!

Will you stand with me, and give one last time?

Yes.

10 votes

HELL YES!

27 votes

I wish I could

28 votes

Bootstraps

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Thursday January 06, 2011 · 12:32 PM PST

2011/01/06 · 12:32

I've always thought that saying about "lifting oneself up by one's own bootstraps" is a perfect example of the failings of the Republican worldview.

Disclaimer: This isn't really much of a diary. Move along if it's too short for you.

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 6:13 PM PDT

2010/11/03 · 18:13

OK, so I've made a decision. I'm attending my County Democratic Party Executive Committee meeting on the 15th and getting my hands dirty. Not volunteering, not "Organizing," though both of those are valuable things; I want to set the agenda. It's time for everyone who's pissed off about last night to start pushing back HARD from the Left, and doing it where it matters, on the local level, in person, in the Party structure itself.

This is probably not a new idea for some of us, and if you're already doing it, great. Thank you! But if you're not, and you're physically able to, then you MUST. We have to get a handle on things, we have to create a Party that actually represents the people. The #1 reason I heard that people weren't voting this year was that "there's no difference between the parties." The Blue Dogs got slaughtered, because in their cases, there was not. It's time to SHOW your community what the difference is.

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Fight?

19 votes Vote Now!

Fight?

FIGHT!

15 votes

nah.

3 votes

Pie

1 vote

My Comment upon Unsubscribing from OFA

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Tuesday January 05, 2010 · 9:19 AM PST

2010/01/05 · 09:19

Today I unsubscribed from OFA. I'm sure my thoughts are nothing new around here, I've just been lurking more and commenting less for 6 months or so, and I finally wrote something long enough to qualify as a diary. If you comment, I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get involved in the 2010 elections without the "help" of OFA and have a real impact beyond my local area. I can't in good conscience send the DCCC or DSCC money.

Until your administration makes meaningful progress toward financial reform, health care reform, energy policy reform, campaign finance reform, and all the other things we were promised in the campaign, I can't continue to actively support OFA. I'm tired of the old cliches like "politics is the art of the possible," et cetera. You have allowed people like Joe Lieberman to hijack the process. You are giving your opposition too much say, and they aren't interested in governing, they're interested in destroying you.

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Tuesday June 16, 2009 · 5:58 PM PDT

2009/06/16 · 17:58

H/T to Omir the Storyteller for this idea, I think it's a great one. Now I need your help. The idea that Omir had was to roll a custom Linux Live CD that does one thing; creates a proxy that Iranians can use to connect and transmit photos and words outside the influence of their government. It got me thinking that in the world we live in, technology and access to the internet are going to play a HUGE part in future political events, no matter where they play out in the world. Having a Live CD out there that does this, and could be easily adapted for use in other countries (by altering the IP block below) could be a great tool for the freedom of information worldwide.

This diary is not really a political one, beyond the politics of wanting to let the Iranian people communicate freely. Basically, I'm just asking any Linux-minded Kossacks out there to lend me their expertise, if they like.

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Thursday May 28, 2009 · 9:34 AM PDT

2009/05/28 · 09:34

There's a lot of talk going on right now about the photos depicting heinous crimes committed by various American soldiers, translators, and other associates. Most people seem to come down into one of two camps; either they want these photos released, ostensibly because it would lead to a reckoning of some sort, both for the persons depicted in them, and more broadly for America as a whole, or those who think releasing the photos will harm us in the international community and directly endanger our troops by enraging those who would do them harm, while also not doing much to further justice.

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Thursday March 26, 2009 · 7:33 AM PDT

2009/03/26 · 07:33

Maybe I'm just stupid. Maybe I'm naive, maybe I don't understand "how Washington works," or what the politics behind the procedures are, but I know one thing.

I was told starting in third grade history class that the Senate makes laws on a majority vote. Which right now, if I remember my third grade math correctly too, is FIFTY SENATORS.

Not 60. Not 59, or 53, or any other number. 50. And after they seat Franken (whenever that happens,) 51.

Anyone care to explain this to me?

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Tuesday March 10, 2009 · 8:58 AM PDT

2009/03/10 · 08:58

This is a diary about local politics, but hey, all politics are local, right? The Florida State Legislature is currently considering two identical Republican bills (HB1121 in the House, SB 2108 in the Senate) that would dismantle the 66 Clerk of Courts offices in my State, and absorb their functions into the State Judicial system. Under this system of "Cash-Register Justice," an already overstressed court system would now be in charge of collecting fees and fines currently handled by the Clerks. The current system has worked for almost 200 years, employs hundreds of people Statewide, and there's no reason to change it now.

My mother is an employee of one of the Clerks' offices, she's fighting to keep our family afloat, as my dad lost his job the week of Christmas and hasn't found anything yet. This Legislation would eliminate her position.

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Monday February 09, 2009 · 12:58 PM PST

2009/02/09 · 12:58

I went searching around today for a good list of President Obama's accomplishments since taking office. After coming up empty on the Google, (and by the way, you don't even want to know what the first 20 results or so for "obama accomplishments" are) I started searching around here, where I could have sworn I saw a good list the other day. Anyway, I never found it, but I pieced one together from a few different diaries, and I present to you the product of that effort. I wrote it not for the audience of this site, but mostly to educate/annoy liberal friends/ wingnut friends of mine on Facebook, so apologies if some of this is familiar territory. Take it for what it's worth, I lost TU status overnight, and figured I need to get a little more active.

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Thursday December 25, 2008 · 11:47 AM PST

2008/12/25 · 11:47

This is sort of a non-diary, but I thought I'd share this with you from here in sunny South Florida, where currently it's 82 degrees, and I just finished making it. I justify it politically because the Key Lime Pie is the Official State Pie of Florida. I have no idea how it'll turn out, but I didn't vary my usual recipe too much, so it should be fine. I hope everyone up north appreciates the snow, though I know it gets old after a while. But this is how every Christmas has been since I was little, I've never had a white one, unfortunately...

Not really expecting any sympathy from those of you suffering the storms of the last couple weeks, but at least try to reflect on how nice it all looks, before you have to scrape it off your windshields, and if you want to escape down here for a while, either make this pie, or show up on my doorstep. (Bring beer.)

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Pie?

49 votes Vote Now!

Pie?

Key Lime

25 votes

Apple

5 votes

Mincemeat

4 votes

Cow

0 votes

3.1415926535...

8 votes

Humble

0 votes

Pie-Flavored

3 votes

Other - Share Please!

4 votes

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