Need Help with one-way ticket, too much debt

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday November 06, 2020 · 9:41 AM PST

2020/11/06 · 09:41

An acquaintance, I can’t say friend, is looking for help setting up a GoFundMe, anyone willing to lend a hand.

He promises he will pay it all back bigly.

(My first post in a long while, but I couldn’t resist).

Todd Palin fellow traveler w/ Real Terrorists

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday September 26, 2008 · 2:24 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 14:24

This isn't about Ayers at a Chicago cocktail party.

Barrick Gold the corporation that gifted him a trip has been roundly accused on human rights abuses around the world.

These aren't just business trips, they are with a big tough corporation with documented accusations of human rights abuses around the world.

A small bit of summary from one Human Rights group reports:

MiningWatch’s local partners have issued a report in which they claim that at least 22 people have been killed, over 100 wounded and thousands arbitrarily detained. The most recent reports from an investigative journalist, as yet unconfirmed, tell a harrowing tale of widespread rape by security forces, cultural extinction of the Ipili people and forced relocation of villagers to make way for mine expansion.

Links after the fold...

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 5:29 AM PDT

2008/06/04 · 05:29

Imagine with me for a moment the roles reversed.

After a hard fought campaign Hillary crosses the threshold of majority.

Imagine Joe Biden in second place to Hillary.

Or imagine Chris Dodd two hundred delegates behind.

Imagine John Edwards wondering what is his next step.

Ponder Bill Richardson talking himself up for half an hour with Hillary already across the finish line.

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday May 22, 2008 · 6:16 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 06:16

I am pondering the idea that HRC doesn't even want FL/MI decided.

If you thought Obama could not win in November but had not been able to convince either a majority of elected OR superdelegates that you were a better candidate, what would you want?

"I'm in this until there is a nominee"...

Poll

74 votes Show Results

Lack of defintion helps HRC at this point:

74 votes Vote Now!

Lack of defintion helps HRC at this point:

Tinfoil Hat wearing handwringer, get a life-It's over!

7 votes

With HRC hats needed, but nomination still decided June 3.

13 votes

This is real, we need more handwringing.

3 votes

This is real, we need to work the supers and rules committee.

33 votes

This is real, but her insider connections are unbeatable, she's gonna 'win'.

8 votes

Did kos bring back pupusas and Pollo Campero from El Salvador?

4 votes

Pie

6 votes

Playing Chicken w/ Obama, Bush Flinches w/ Help from CNN

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday May 16, 2008 · 1:25 PM PDT

2008/05/16 · 13:25

As you all know Bush thought he could drive this truck straight at the Democratic Party:

"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

"We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

In the typical game of chicken with Dems, they flinch first.

But there is a new driver behind the wheel...

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday May 09, 2008 · 8:17 AM PDT

2008/05/09 · 08:17

This will be a short diary mainly for some cathartic fun.

After the race comments and this long primary war maybe it is better to think ahead to a cathartic moment of joy and celebration rather than just getting madder.

Yesterday I was spitting mad. Today is Friday.

Obama seems to be getting the idea with his walk yesterday and the big smiles.

I hope we can keep this to celebrating or mourning and away from accusing and attacking.

So the question is:

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday March 19, 2008 · 2:06 PM PDT

2008/03/19 · 14:06

My Mom has been a diehard HRC supporter from the start.

She has a Hillary sign on her bedroom mirror. She has steadfastly resisted the rest of the family's onslaught in favor of Obama. And we have really worked hard.

My Mom grew up white and poor in Detroit. And scared of black people.

She also worked and volunteered for years helping poor often black people in her new town.

My adopted daughter is from Liberia. I also have kids from El Salvador and Ecuador. My wife from Argentina.

'Race' is ever present in our lives

My Mom, the white grandmother of my black daughter, watched the speech.

And she cried.

She sat quietly for a few minutes without saying a single word...

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 7:14 PM PDT

2008/03/12 · 19:14

Apparently she is sort of apologizing.

Her biggest apology came in response to a question about comments by her husband, Bill Clinton, after the South Carolina primary, which Obama won handily. Bill Clinton said Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988, a comment many viewed as belittling Obama's success.

I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive," Hillary Clinton said. "We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama."

I am still a little wary she still seems to be nursing this thing along a sort of offensive line.

Am I being paranoid or does it seem like she wants some of us to be offended still and keep complaining and then get sorta racists whites to feel offended?

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday February 28, 2008 · 12:31 PM PST

2008/02/28 · 12:31

Oh wait, sorry wrong royal family.

Make that Harry, Prince Harry.

The Guardian

Our leaders have other priorities.

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday February 22, 2008 · 9:11 AM PST

2008/02/22 · 09:11

Iseman goes down to Florida that is.

And McCain sets the cruise industry free from regulations

Follow for the salacious details coming out all over the place.

The main problem being it is all coming out too quickly and, dare I say, prematurely.

It's like the press swallowed all McCain's Viagra and all at once have the courage to stand up against the Maverick.

Let's hope they work this hard all the way to November.

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday February 15, 2008 · 8:31 AM PST

2008/02/15 · 08:31

... well actually the Congressional Districts will be holding their delegate selection process conventions on that date.

But these conventions will pick the Hillary and Uncommitted delegations!

That could result in a second campaign for the Uncommitted delegation with Hillary winning yet more delegates!

Personally I think the whole delegation should NOT be seated but the fact of the matter is this at least needs considering. And as a Michigander I feel I can say that.

But the conventions present some controversial choices for the campaigns...

Poll

129 votes Show Results

What should be done?

129 votes Vote Now!

What should be done?

Ignore MI, don't seat the delegation

60 votes

Fight for Uncommitted to be Barack, for justice and just in case

12 votes

Fight for Uncommitted to be whover wins them, toughness matters

6 votes

Turn these conventions into a 2nd vote somehow

27 votes

Subvert these conventions so no one goes

0 votes

Phonebank for your candidate elsewhere

3 votes

It won't matter

7 votes

Pie

14 votes

History says don't hope on this side of the grave

jhpdb

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday February 14, 2008 · 4:26 PM PST

2008/02/14 · 16:26

History says, Don't hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime...

I'm 42.

As a teenager I suffered as Reagan and the contras bled the hope out of Nicaragua.

I ended up in Liberia. The night I became a father, my neighbor was assassinated and the country began a long descent into terror.
The US was too busy in the first Gulf war to help.

In El Salvador later I buried the recovered bones of the children killed (by US trained troops) at El Mozote.

Washington nearly boiled the hope out of me...

Newer
Older

RSS

Need Help with one-way ticket, too much debt

Todd Palin fellow traveler w/ Real Terrorists

Imagine Respect (Where there was none)

She Doesn't want FL/MI Decided

Playing Chicken w/ Obama, Bush Flinches w/ Help from CNN

What Will You Do/Drink/Dance When HRC Concedes?

The Speech and my Mom the White Grandma

Hillary apologizes? What should we do?

Breaking: Jenna secretly serving in Afghanistan

Iseman goes down, McCain gets job.................done

MI will Caucus March 29...

History says don't hope on this side of the grave