A Game Plan for Chick-Fil-A

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Sunday August 12, 2012 · 9:57 PM PDT

2012/08/12 · 21:57

I haven't written on dKos in ages. I've posted a comment here or there - but frankly I just hid in the background, watching many of the meta wars. It's been fun. But I come here tonight (at a bad time of night to launch an idea that I feel hopeful about). I come, because I finally figured something out.

I hate the so-called filibusters (which almost never arrive) and the boycotts of 2000s and 2010s. As a former student of movements, I know some things work well, others don't. For instance, the thing I wrote below fails to acknowledge every piece of the puzzle - but one of them is how we need, we MUST use some community institution to help us here - and I believe liberal religious traditions are the ones. We cannot have a winning boycott without institutional support. So here are some thoughts - I'd love to hear more of yours - and frankly, if there's a way to share this a couple of days in a row (or get it bumped to the top - yikes, never had that happen) - I'd be amazed. Let's get going...

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Wednesday May 23, 2012 · 2:59 PM PDT

2012/05/23 · 14:59

This will not win me any friends and I apologize for it being (relatively) pointless - but why in the world did DailyKos start using this bad clip art on the front page? It's been happening for weeks - and every time I see it, I think about how the quality of this site has slipped (or at least the reputation). I was amazed at how professional this site was years ago - why the change? Anyone know?

My Day at Work

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Wednesday March 04, 2009 · 7:25 AM PST

2009/03/04 · 07:25

Remember what it's like to come home after a long day and recount over dinner what you did all day? Well, Facebook, e-mail and Twitter allow you to share that knowledge if you want - and now I'm asking for your help.

For the next few weeks (or more) - I thought it would be nice to have a different person each day tweet what their day at work was like. Think of it as getting career counseling from the front lines. If Senator Claire McCaskill can tell Missouri voters what she does during the day, surely Joe the Plumber - oh wait, scratch that - Susan the Teacher can let people know what the typical day is like. Hopefully this would run for a while to give people a broad scope (and reach people of different communities since different people have different takes on the same vocation).

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 11:16 AM PST

2008/11/03 · 11:16

Martin Luther King, Jr in 1966 said, "We will be able to rise from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope. This will be a great America. We will be the participants in making it so. So as I leave you I say, Walk together children, don't ya get weary."

Two years ago, I told my cousin at Christmas, that Barack Obama would be the next President. He, like many gay men, was an adamant Hillary supporter and wouldn't hear of it - besides, who was Barack Obama anyway. I said, "just watch." Like many of you, there was something about Barack from early on that made us know he had a call to leadership.

The primaries were just 10 months ago - Iowa shocked the nation. I have to admit, I thought he'd win NH...and then he lost. It was a long primary battle that saw me doing work in WI and IN, voting absentee in NC, phonebanking TX, OH, PA, WI, NH, MO and some others.

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Sunday October 12, 2008 · 5:49 PM PDT

2008/10/12 · 17:49

So I'm in Georgia, attending a conference about a Hope filled future (religious - though Barack will be on our minds).

On the train today, with my Obama button, two old southern white women told me about the 75 people they registered and how they planned to make GA blue!

I was so excited - we talked to a number of folks on the train.

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 6:25 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 18:25

Tonight, leaving work, I overheard a lifetime Republican and a Democrat talk about the election. I couldn't believe my ears as the middle aged white men, both straight, were talking about the financial implications of the past week. And out of nowhere, the Republican said, "They've ruined this country more than Al-Queda ever could have."

The implications of this crisis - and talk of a major recession, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression are particularly ringing true with reports that Washington Mutual is diving immediately.

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 3:16 PM PDT

2008/09/09 · 15:16

In 2000, John McCain (someone that many moderate Republicans and some moderate Democrats) was a reasonable man, representing himself as a maverick. He called Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and the other out-of-touch Evangelicals "Agents of Intolerance" and said they had an "evil influence" on the Republican party.

This endeared him to many Independents.

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Saturday September 06, 2008 · 10:32 AM PDT

2008/09/06 · 10:32

Let me start with the obvious: Democrats talked about Health Care, Economy, Jobs and Energy TWICE as much as Republicans did. What a shock.

And yet what strikes me most is a rebuttal to Giuliani (sort of). In his horrible speech before Sarah Palin, he said that the Democratic Convention didn't talk about Islamic Terrorism, not even once. While he may be technically true (the word bubbles didn't list "Islamic" for either convention), he was basically wrong.

Democrats spoke of terrorism the exact same amount of times (8 - which means we spoke of it more since some of those GOP times were to blast Democrats for not talking about it).
Democrats spoke more often of 9/11 (and did so without the horrible video using the event for political purposes).
Democrats spoke more often of Iraq.
Democrats spoke more often of War.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 5:15 AM PDT

2008/09/01 · 05:15

Hurray! I'm past the quarter-life crisis and now into the quarter-century club. I'm officially in my mid-20s though I answered with "mid-20s" for the past year. I'm so close to finishing grad school and the brighter day of America is on the horizon. I spent much of my 25th year trying to get Barack Obama elected as President - including appearing in many of his commercials (pic below), phonebanking, canvassing, voter registering, and of course voting for him in the great state of North Carolina...

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Friday August 15, 2008 · 10:11 AM PDT

2008/08/15 · 10:11

Hello. I'm Cookie Monster (D-Sesame) and I approve this message.

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Fav cookie?

NutterButter

2 votes

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1 vote

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2 votes

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5 votes

Keebler (fudge sticks, grasshoppers, etc)

1 vote

Girl Scout

2 votes

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11 votes

Pie

1 vote

Republican (talks about hating cookies but this is a cookie)

2 votes

Liberalism is under attack

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 12:15 PM PDT

2008/08/13 · 12:15

A few weeks ago, a congregation of my faith underwent a heinous attack where a man killed two people and shot several others as children performed a song. Tennessee Valley UU Church has a lot to work through over the next few months and years as they continue to show a public face of religious liberalism (the idea that revelation is continually unfolding and that the stories of all people are important).

The man went after the UU church, driving past 7 other churches, for a reason. In his house were books about the evils of liberalism and the man had gone through quite a change in the years after his divorce and unemployment - for he once attended a UU camp for a while.

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Monday July 14, 2008 · 9:35 AM PDT

2008/07/14 · 09:35

Then get to work.

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Donate to Barack (4.99 is the cost of an issue and 39.95 is a subscription if you'd like to donate those to the campaign).

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All of these options suck - but I'll help the campaign

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I like Barack Obama, how about you

8 votes

Wait - I support McCain, so I'm leaving DKos since this is a site for electing Democrats

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