Tuesday is National Take a Camera to Mississippi Day!

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Monday June 23, 2014 · 3:11 PM PDT

2014/06/23 · 15:11

By the Power Granted to Me by Absolutely Nobody I Hereby Declare Tuesday, June 24 to be National Take a Camera to Mississippi Day.

As Jed Lewison points out here, by way of the NYT, McDaniels' Teabaggers plan to send "observers" to the polls in Mississippi's Republican run-off, presumably to prevent the rampant vote fraud that doesn't occur.

But...

Among McDaniels' most fervent supporters are some of the stupidest, most racist people in a State that consistently ranks at the bottom of every measure of education, and eagerly awaits the invention of new categories to fail at.

These people are expected to interact with whatever African-American voters Cochran has persuaded to save his political ass.

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Monday June 16, 2014 · 1:03 AM PDT

2014/06/16 · 01:03

Spiegel Online has an interesting article about efforts to bring Snowden to Germany to testify before an investigative committee of the Bundestag. Snowden will only do so if the German government guarantees his safety AND lets him stay in Germany (would be a massive upgrade from Moscow, I'm thinking.) Rather than do a shitty job encapsulating the article, here's a link.

Could really be some fireworks if Ströbele pulls this off, and seems like a deal to maybe get him asylum somewhere like Switzerland or Sweden is also being considered.

The Last Human to Hear About Cantor Losing?

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Friday June 13, 2014 · 2:49 PM PDT

2014/06/13 · 14:49

I know that Eric Cantor losing his Primary, his seat and his position as House Majority Leader has been a fairly obscure, little-mentioned story since Tuesday, but...

A sitting U.S. Senator, a Republican, facing a Teabagger for his political life didn't notice?

INTERVIEWER: What happened in Virginia the other day, does that concern you for your chances here in this run-off?
COCHRAN: I don't know what you're talking about. What happened in Virginia?

INTERVIEWER: With Eric Cantor losing his seat.

COCHRAN: Well, I haven't followed that campaign very closely at all.

INTERVIEWER: Really?

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Obama Caught Giving Weapons to the Taliban!

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Friday June 13, 2014 · 12:55 AM PDT

2014/06/13 · 00:55

Mr. President, trading Taliban prisoners we would have to release soon anyway for an American prisoner is one thing, but just giving the same group that was holding that American high-tech American weapons just days later?

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Thursday June 12, 2014 · 2:53 PM PDT

2014/06/12 · 14:53

As Executive Director of The Black Lesbian Vegans for Climate Justice (TBLVCJ) I am proud to announce that, by unanimous vote of our membership, we heartily endorse Senator Thad Cochran in his Primary run-off against Chris McDaniel to be the Republican Nominee for the Mississippi Senate seat he currently occupies, and we encourage ALL Black lesbian vegans in Mississippi to join us in supporting him.

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Thursday June 05, 2014 · 2:06 PM PDT

2014/06/05 · 14:06

With the Rethuglican run-off coming, it's high time Daily Kos officially takes a position in this important race and endorses the incumbent, Republican Thad Cochran, for the Rethuglican nomination against whackadoodle Chris McDaniel.

Cochran's record in his tenure since 1978 is what one would expect for a six-term Republican from that bastion of progressive thought, Mississippi.

From Wikipedia

In 2005, he was one of nine senators who voted against the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibited "inhumane treatment of prisoners, including prisoners at Guantanamo Bay".
In March 2009, his former aide, Ann Copland, pled guilty to swapping legislative favors for event tickets and other gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Copland worked for Cochran for 29 years.

Cochran opposed President Barack Obama's health reform legislation; he voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009,[12] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

In April 2010, it was reported that Cochran finished at the top of the Citizens Against Government Waste's list of congressional earmarks, having requested a total of $490 million in earmarks

Cochran is the second-most senior Republican in the Senate.

Why, by all that's holy, should Daily Kos endorse this turd?

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Wednesday June 04, 2014 · 5:54 PM PDT

2014/06/04 · 17:54

Folks are looking at this Bergdahl thing all wrong.

In the quest to uphold the Uniform Code of Military Justice the Obama Administration, using the little-known legal doctrine of "Extraordinary Extradition"*, has taken into custody a soldier alleged to have deserted some 5 years ago. As part of the process a small number of Taliban detainees were extradited to Qatar.

The soldier in question will now be investigated for possible charges under the UCMJ. If not charged or found Not Guilty by a properly seated Court Martial, he will be released.

Who could be agin' Justice?

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Wednesday June 04, 2014 · 3:05 PM PDT

2014/06/04 · 15:05

A routine request in Florida for public records regarding the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray took an extraordinary turn recently when federal authorities seized the documents before police could release them.
The surprise move by the U.S. Marshals Service stunned the American Civil Liberties Union, which earlier this year filed the public records request with the Sarasota, Florida, police department for information detailing its use of the controversial surveillance tool.

The ACLU had an appointment last Tuesday to review documents pertaining to a case investigated by a Sarasota police detective. But marshals swooped in at the last minute to grab the records, claiming they belong to the U.S. Marshals Service and barring the police from releasing them.

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This was Diaried at least once this morning, but...

Since this IS Florida, you just know it's gotta get a bit weirder...

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Friday May 23, 2014 · 5:09 PM PDT

2014/05/23 · 17:09

On January 5, 1949, President Harry S. Truman delivered his Fair Deal proposal to a Joint Session of Congress. Truman described the United States as a society that is “conservative about the values and principles we cherish; but we are forward-looking in protecting those values and principles and in extending their benefits.” Truman stressed that the U.S. “cannot maintain prosperity unless we have a fair distribution of opportunity and . . . widespread consumption of the products of our factories and farms.” After outlining the challenges that the nation faced, Truman submitted an eight-point program to Congress. The President requested action on initiatives such as an increase in the minimum wage, civil rights legislation, and national health care. Finally, he outlined a number of foreign policy initiatives

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Truman's "Fair Deal", a follow-up to FDR's New Deal, had the same effect on every Republican in office. They shat themselves. If enacted in its entirety it would have doomed Republicans' electability for two generations, from which no Party could recover. It was actually an existential threat to the GOP. So they turned to the most diabolical political mind they had available.

The Toymaker.

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Tuesday March 25, 2014 · 2:16 PM PDT

2014/03/25 · 14:16

Nothing profound here, just funny...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Sen. Mitch McConnell's latest campaign video hit all the necessary Kentucky high points: horse racing, bluegrass - and Duke basketball?
The campaign was scrambling Tuesday morning to remove an online video that features a split-second clip of Duke basketball players celebrating a national championship.

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Saturday March 22, 2014 · 11:56 AM PDT

2014/03/22 · 11:56

Okay, so I couldn't resist the Title...

All of the hogs inside the confinement near Jackson, Minnesota, just north of the Iowa state line and on the headwaters of the Des Moines River, would be sold to Hormel Foods. Hormel would soon post record profits on the strength of sales of Spam to Asian markets and the expansion of the company's China operations. But Jim Snee, head of Hormel Foods International, announced that the company was making an even bigger push, to firmly establish Spam in Chinese grocery stores before products from its competitor Smithfield Foods, purchased by Shuanghui International in May, could elbow them out. As a major supplier to Hormel's Spam plants in Minnesota and Nebraska, New Fashion Pork was racing to keep pace with demand. The last thing the company could afford was an outbreak of disease.

Can't be having your cash hogs getting sick and not putting on weight on schedule.

Between May and July 2013, as downpours sheeted off drought-hardened fields, scientists at the Des Moines Water Works watched manure contamination spike to staggering levels at intake sites on the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers. These two major tributaries of the Mississippi are also the usual sources of drinking water for roughly one out of every six Iowans. But at one point last summer, nitrate in the Raccoon reached 240 percent of the level allowed under the Clean Water Act, and the DMWW warned parents not to let children drink from the tap, reminding them of the risk of blue baby syndrome.

Sick babies don't cost the companies anything.

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Friday March 21, 2014 · 1:34 PM PDT

2014/03/21 · 13:34

Everybody knew ACA was going to ravage corporate America, especially the much-loved insurance sector, and it has clearly begun:

WellPoint Inc. (WLP:US), the second-largest U.S. health insurer in the U.S., raised its 2014 earnings forecast as the company adds customers through Obamacare.

Raising an earnings forecast probably causes the expenditure of lots of erasers and changing numbers in many, many computers, and it's all Obama's fault.

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