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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 3:05 AM PST

2008/11/04 · 03:05

Watch the video...cry a few tears of joy...and follow me to the jump.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 3:19 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 15:19

No, not mine. The one by Kenyada, entitled Inauguration Ball 2009

It's quality thought and writing such as this that keep me coming back, and often leaves me in tears.

Here's a sweet, sweet taste:

Seated at a nearby table, Frederick Douglass has a captive audience in W.E.B. DuBose and Fannie Lou Hamer, and Medgar Evers has just joined them. Marian Anderson was asked to sing tonight, but she only agreed to do it if accompanied by Marvin Gaye, John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix. Look, there’s Harriet Tubman. No one knows how she arrived, but there she is. And my guess is that, when the time comes, no one will see her leave.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 4:37 PM PDT

2008/09/22 · 16:37

The Dems have been keeping their powder dry. Arid. Dessicated. A veritable Sahara of powder. Can't filibuster a Supreme Court nominee...gotta keep that powder dry, ya' know. Can't cut off funding for the war, gotta let that powder get a little drier.

Well, here's a clue for the Democratic leadership: that powder is as dry as it's ever gonna get. And this ~~crisis~~ opportunity has presented itself at the most propitious time. Join me, won't you, on the other side, as we explore the many wonderful uses to which that dry powder can be put.

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 5:09 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 05:09

Hilary Clinton described her voters as having inflicted 18,000,000 cracks in the "glass ceiling." The U.S. Department of Labor has an actual definition of "glass ceiling", to-wit:

"those artificial barriers based on attitudinal or organizational bias that prevent qualified individuals from advancing upward in their organization into management-level positions." (Report on the Glass Ceiling Initiative. U. S. Department of Labor, 1991. Available in the Catherwood Library at HD 4903.5 U6 U585.)

Where does Sarah Palin stand vis-a-vis the glass ceiling? Let's take a look, after the jump

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Monday January 15, 2007 · 7:57 AM PST

2007/01/15 · 07:57

All of us with IQ's north of our chronological age realize that the Bush/Cheney Mob has been wrong time after time. Not just a mis-step here and an error there, but a string of stupidity stretching from here to Baghdad and back. But consider this:

They're batting 1.000. We're the mistaken ones. And I know this because Alex Trebek came to me in a dream and told me so. He stood at the foot of my bed, shook his head sadly, and said three times, "Make sure your answer is in the form of a question."

I will reveal the correct question, after the jump.....

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 2:56 AM PDT

2006/10/02 · 02:56

There are three members of the Page Board, a congressional body that oversees the page program in the House of Representatives. John Shimkus (R-IL19) is the chair; the other members are Shelley Moore Capito(R-WV02) and Dale Kildee (D-MI05). It's well established that Mr. Kildee was not informed about potential sexual predation by Mark Foley(R-FL16). Now Capito says she was not informed by Shimkus or anyone else. More after the jump. Read More

If you vote for torture, I will not vote for you...

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Saturday September 23, 2006 · 7:41 AM PDT

2006/09/23 · 07:41

We all know that Congressional and Senatorial staffers check in on DailyKos from time to time to take the pulse of the netroots. I propose that we give them and their public-servant bosses a little something to chew on.

We need to make it clear that we are willing to sit out the '06 congressional election over this issue. A democracy that conducts torture as a matter of public policy is not one that deserves our participation.

I'm not asking you to do anything as labor intensive as calling your Representative or your Senator. I'm not asking you to take up a sign or a banner, nor to send a letter or a postcard. I'm just asking you to take the pledge, right here, right now, in this thread, just like I'm going to do right after the jump... Read More

Ah, Barney...we hardly knew ye.

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Saturday February 25, 2006 · 3:31 PM PST

2006/02/25 · 15:31

Crime-fighter, ladies' man, astronaut, West Virginian. Beloved comic actor Don Knotts took the final curtain Friday night, succumbing to pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, Callifornia. Knotts was best known for his portayal of the bumbling Deputy Barney Fife in the iconic "Andy Griffith Show" of the 1960's.

His character of Barney Fife was, perhaps, the most fully realized character in situation comedy. A bumbling, bungling incompetent with delusions of grandeur, we had not seen his like until the selection of George W. Bush as Resident of the United States in 2000. Unlike Bush, however, Fife was surrounded by a competent, caring, compassionate cadre who prevented his incapacity from resulting in dire consequences, such as arresting an FBI agent, insulting Aunt Bea, embarassing the local choir, or embarking on an elective invasion and occupation in the Middle East and becoming bogged down in the quagmire of religious civil war.

Knotts was 81.

My letter to my Senator, Robert C. Byrd

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Monday January 16, 2006 · 12:24 PM PST

2006/01/16 · 12:24

Dear Senator Byrd:

Today, on the day we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I watched with pride and wonder as another American visionary called upon America to live up to its ideals. I am referring to your former colleague, Vice President Al Gore.

We Kept Our Powder Dry; Now Let's Use It!

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 6:39 AM PST

2006/01/11 · 06:39

During the run-up to the confirmation hearings on Justice Roberts, there was considerable debate as to whether he should be filibustered. Many of the firebrands wanted to storm the battlements and take a do-or-die stand on Roberts.

I, myself, was of the "keep-our-powder-dry" contingent. Trading Rehnquist for Roberts cost us little, if anything. And given the fact that the folks who pull Chimpy's strings wre going to nominate a conservative in any event, trading a Rehnquist for a proto-Rehnquist was, IMHO, no big deal.

So, we have all this dry powder. What do we do with it?

More below the fold.... Read More

The Rosa Parks Dime. Let's make it happen.

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Tuesday October 25, 2005 · 11:10 AM PDT

2005/10/25 · 11:10

This will be a short but sweet diary, inspired by arguably the greatest American woman of the Twentieth Century, Ms. Rosa Parks. Sister Rosa was not merely a tired woman who lacked the energy to ride standing up; she appreciated full well the significance of her civil disobedience. She was already active in the NAACP at the time of her arrest in 1955. Further, her entire life was devoted to the struggle for equality. In 1965, she joined the staff of Congressman John Conyers, whose contributions to this blog are always received with respect and appreciation. In that spirit, I make this observation and request. In 1955, the fare on the Montgomery, Alabama bus system was ten cents. Recently, the U.S. Mint has issued quarters in honor of each state, and nickels commemmorating the Louisiana Purchase.

Why not a Rosa Parks Dime? Lots of folks who read this blog have lots of connections to folks in a position to get this ball rolling. LTE's, calls to your congresspeople and senators, talk show campaigns. Let's make a little history.

Miers: The Other Guy Just Blinked

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Monday October 03, 2005 · 8:22 AM PDT

2005/10/03 · 08:22

We're all savvy enough to understand that a Republican president is going to nominate Republicans to high office, including the Supreme Court. "Cronyism!" cried the maddened thousands, and the echo answered "Cronyism!" Wake up and smell the coffee, folks. When you are at the level of POTUS/SCOTUS, they're all cronies!

If President Hilary Clinton nominates fellow NY Dem Mario Cuomo to the Supreme Court, will it be an excellent choice of an intellectual giant with the perfect judicial temperament, or will he be an inexperienced crony? JFK appointed his kid brother to be Attorney General of the United States, fer chrissakes.

So let's not kid ourselves that Chimpy was going to reach deep into the criminal defense bar and nominate an unknown lefty public defender such as myself. He picked someone he knew and trusted. So far, no surprise. He picked someone with a background in high-dollar corporate law. Still no surprise. He picked someone from among his close personal circle of trusted associates.

OK, that's a surprise, and I'll tell you why..... Read More

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Morning motivation

Read and rec this diary, dammit!

Isn't that f***ing powder dry yet?

Sarah Palin IS the glass ceiling.

Bush/Cheney: They've been right all along.

Shimkus' dirty secret: Capito (R-WV02) Kept In Dark

If you vote for torture, I will not vote for you...

Ah, Barney...we hardly knew ye.

My letter to my Senator, Robert C. Byrd

We Kept Our Powder Dry; Now Let's Use It!

The Rosa Parks Dime. Let's make it happen.

Miers: The Other Guy Just Blinked