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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 8:22 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 20:22

Sometimes, you know, you see a really favorable omen or a clue that things really are going to work out, but you don't want to say anything. You wouldn't want to jinx it, right?

Well I occasionally house-sit, taking care of the dogs and cats, for various nice folks with nice houses. And in one of them, there's a painting that I've been admiring for a few years. The last time I was there, a month or two ago, I recognized what it was, or what it could be depicting.

Take a good look at it, and then follow me over the jump, please, for my omen.

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What do you think?

36 votes Vote Now!

What do you think?

Oh yeah! I can see it. Definitely!

15 votes

I don't know. Maybe.

6 votes

Please! You gotta be kidding.

6 votes

Pie

2 votes

Inaugural Pie

7 votes

Other (specify in comments)

0 votes

Two Lights in the Dark

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 6:03 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 18:03

It was too late for Halloween, but I was finally able to finish my second pumpkin in time for Election Day.

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They're out there right now, shining in the dark, and they'll be shining tomorrow night and Election Night.

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And the night afterwards, too.

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 7:27 PM PDT

2008/10/31 · 19:27

We have a new light of hope on our front porch this evening:

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This was adapted from the patterns available at Yes We Carve

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 7:16 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 19:16

Terrific piece by hekebolos about their canvassing trip to Nevada and the amazing organizational skills of the Obama campaign.

That post crystalizes what I've been realizing for awhile: we're really winning NO MATTER WHAT happens on Election Day. (Though of course, I still pray and work for the win.) In a sense, we've already won.

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 10:17 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 10:17

Kudos to Deoliver47 for the excellent piece on the real story behind that "$3 million dollar overhead projector". (Please take a minute to read it.)

As soon as I heard it last night, I thought there was something fishy about McC's "overhead projector" remark. (No disrespect to fish intended.)

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 11:06 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 11:06

My friend Mick wrote to me all lathered up in a fever (or maybe all fevered up in a lather) about his frustration at trying to convince hardline McCain supporters among friends, family, and cow-orkers. His first message asked for comments on a long and over-heated rant he wanted to send them.

I replied that he needed to take a couple of deep breaths, re-assess what he was trying to say, and maybe even visit over here at Daily Kos. Among the Kossacks, I figured, he could find some useful arguments and re-assure himself that the world wasn't populated entirely by Kool-aid-sipping wingnuts.

The rest of this post is his next message to me and my reply. When you get those panicked messages from your friends, maybe this could help.

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 12:04 PM PDT

2008/09/15 · 12:04

I originally posted this recipe in a reply to some piece of unnecessary trollishness that has since been deleted. It seemed too good to lose on that account, so I'll use up my dialy dairy allotment to post it for all my fellow Kossacks.

[BTW, I'm using "pudding" in the traditional English sense of a thick sweet baked (or sometimes boiled) thing served in slices. I.e., something that goes "pud" when you flap it onto a plate, I guess.]

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Would it be bad luck to suggest baking another batch for Inauguration Day parties?

5 votes Vote Now!

Would it be bad luck to suggest baking another batch for Inauguration Day parties?

Great idea! We all need some hope and cheer.

2 votes

Not if everyone who clips the recipe donates to the Obama campaign.

0 votes

Shush! Do you want to incur the wrath of the Whatever from high atop the Thing?

3 votes

Clinton adviser should maybe shut the fuck up?

dryfoo

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Monday August 11, 2008 · 3:17 PM PDT

2008/08/11 · 15:17

Now that Michael Chabon's wonderful The Yiddish Policemen's Union has copped this year's Hugo Award, I guess contra-historical fiction will be all the rage for awhile.

And look who's getting an early jump on things, none other than deep-thinker Howard Wolfson:

Clinton Advisor Blames Edwards for Her Nomination Loss

Hillary Clinton’s former campaign communications director on Monday said if John Edwards had been honest about his affair or if the news were public before the Iowa caucuses in January, the New York senator could have been the next presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, not Barack Obama.

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 8:58 PM PDT

2008/08/01 · 20:58

I'm not going to try to convince you of the importance of the unconscious in our party identification and electoral choices. Ignore our deep biases and the subterranean "logic" that provides the foundation for our rational, nicely-arranged political opinions, and I don't see how anyone could possibly make sense of the last few presidential election cycles.

Intelligent, well-spoken, deeply-prepared candidates were tarred as fumbling elitists or phonies while an incompetent, spoiled child of privilege with a fake Texas accent was accepted as a regular fella, and was chosen by millions of people for the most powerful elected office in the world because he was the guy they'd prefer to have a beer with. For my entire voting life, the most frustrating thing about supporting Democratic candidates in presidential elections is how often they got the "words" right while getting the "music" so exquisitely and terribly wrong.

This year, it looks like things might be different, but I don't want to wait to find out. It's time to go subliminal, and I'm ready to do my part.

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What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?

11 votes Vote Now!

What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?

Love it!

4 votes

Hate it!

0 votes

Are you nuts?

0 votes

Loyzem gai! Go on, cop a walk.

2 votes

A round of applause for the Waco Kid!

4 votes

other

1 vote

Maybe We Should Help Him?

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 4:23 PM PDT

2008/07/30 · 16:23

John McCain seems to be having trouble coming up with any positive themes for his campaign ads. Watching him fire away like a grumpy Elmer Fudd at that wascally Bugs Obama, with blasts like this and this, I'm beginning to feel kinda sorry for him.

Since McCain's own campaign people aren't going to help him get onto the high road he originally promised, maybe Obama, or MoveOn.org, or other elements of the Netroots Nation could step in here? I'm thinking that if we went ahead and put up an honest, non-snarky McCain campaign spot, he'd like it so much that he'd order his own folks to "start doing more stuff like that!"

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This McCain ad...

37 votes Vote Now!

This McCain ad...

Love it!

4 votes

Hate it!

2 votes

I'd help sponsor it.

0 votes

I'd sponsor it all by myself.

0 votes

Hmmmm... I was going to vote for Obama, but now...

3 votes

Let's run a bunch of these!

1 vote

Are you nuts?

20 votes

Pie, of course.

7 votes

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It's time to go subliminal

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