This is how the violence happens

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Friday November 20, 2009 · 7:41 AM PST

2009/11/20 · 07:41

In the early morning hours of February 26th, Dannie Baker of Miramar Beach Florida snapped. He had worked hard in the 2004 campaign to keep the worst from happening. In 2008, he'd warned his fellow Republicans, but they had blown him off, calling his letters "disturbing". He knew what was coming because he listened to the right radio programs. Rush, Beck, Hannity -- they all saw the danger like he did.

But now it was happening. Obama had wasted no time opening the floodgates for illegal aliens. It wasn't some vague threat, it was happening now, this morning. Hoards of them were flooding into his country, his state, his apartment complex. There were fourteen of them right there in the townhouse right across the complex. He could see them from his window.

So he did what any real patriot would do. He started shooting.

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 5:30 PM PDT

2009/04/13 · 17:30

I just heard this on Countdown. (quick transcript -- sorry no link)

For most Americans, Wednesday April 15 will be tax day, but in our first story tonight, it's going to be teabagging day for the right win and they're going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals and want to give president Obama a strong tongue lashing and lick government spending -- spending they did not oppose when they were under Bush and Reagan. They oppose Obama's tax rates, which will be lower for most of them, and they oppose the tax increases Mr Obama is imposing on the rich, whose taxes will skyrocket to a rate about 10% less than it was under Reagan. That's teabagging in a nutshell....

Ha... gotta love it!

Update: bsmechanic has added video in the comments. Thanks!

Louisiana Senate and House Liveblogging

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 5:35 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 17:35

Welcome to the Election 2008 Live Blogging Project.

Please do not recommend this diary! Instead, please recommend the mothership diary. Also, please do not post images or videos.

Please see this excellent summary of tonight's races by Ryan of The Daily Kingfish.

Louisiana Election News & Info:
Bayou State is turning into the Turnout State
Post-Mortem Fact Check: The 2008 election season left voters with perceptions that are both bitterly true and comically false. Here's one last dig below the surface.

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Saturday October 25, 2008 · 1:22 PM PDT

2008/10/25 · 13:22

Lately the RNC and the right wing bloggers have been clutching their pearls over the Obama campaign's refusal to release the names of its small donors. cf

The campaign says that there's no requirement to report the names of people who donate less than $200. You can look up the names everyone who has donated over $200 at the FEC site. You can see individuals who've given smaller amounts, but they aren't listed unless their total is over $200.

So just because I've only given around $135 (I forget exactly how much), my name is being withheld! It should be there! I'm not some kind of fraud. I'm proud of being an Obama supporter!

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 4:06 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 16:06

My daughter and I arrived at the Civic Center twenty minutes after the doors opened, but all the seats were long gone. We found a spot to where we could barely see the stage. Michelle Obama gave a heartfelt and inspiring speech -- 100% positive. If you didn't know who Obama was running against when you walked in, you wouldn't know when you walked out. She did not mention McCain or the Republicans or whats-her-name once.

Crowd estimate: The Civic center holds up to 10,000 people for "non-hockey events", but they had about 1/3 of the seats curtained off (grr). With so many people standing in the area between the upper and lower seating area, I'd say there were between 6 and 8 thousand people there. They were definitely packed to the rafters in the open seating sections.

I've got a short video below the fold. Sorry for the shaky picture... please close your eyes and listen to Mrs. Obama talk to a big crowd of military families, students and retirees:

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 10:32 AM PDT

2008/09/17 · 10:32

From Dow Jones via Morningstar:

Reserve's Primary Fund To Be Valued Below $1/Share

A money-market fund - the Reserve's Primary Fund - has broken the buck, as a result of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s (LEH) bankruptcy filing, the first time since 1994 that a money-market fund's net asset value has dipped below the $1-a-share level.

New York money manager the Reserve said Tuesday that its Primary Fund is valuing its debt securities issued by Lehman, which have a face value of $785 million, at zero effective at 4 p.m. EDT Tuesday.

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Tuesday January 23, 2007 · 8:52 AM PST

2007/01/23 · 08:52

TPMMuckraker is reporting the official word from the Justice Department: Contrary to previous quotes from unnamed "law enforcement officials" CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) didn't hang on to reports of Mark Foley's shennanigans in order to spring them right before the election.

According to Justin Rood:

At the height of the Foley scandal this summer, quotes from anonymous "law enforcement" officials surfaced in news accounts alleging that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had first received copies of the infamous Foley emails in April 2006, but did not turn them over to the FBI until July.

But a new report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog confirms that was not the case. In fact, "the e-mails were provided to CREW in July 2006, not April, and CREW sent them to the FBI within days of receiving them," the office of Justice Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported

Could'a called this one in our sleep, no?

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Wednesday January 03, 2007 · 10:03 AM PST

2007/01/03 · 10:03

This morning after reading this, I was looking for that quote by Bush when he said he was going to listen to the generals in the field and not the politicians about troop levels? The fork-tongued devil was slippery, though, and I couldn't find it.

I did find this article about General John Riggs, who suffered the loss of a star and an unceremonious end to his 39-year career after speaking plainly about the Army being overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Wednesday November 15, 2006 · 12:05 PM PST

2006/11/15 · 12:05

There's something missing in the recent set of blog posts regarding freeper and suspected terrorist Chad Castagana. I appreciate posts like John Amato's Does idolizing Malkin turn you into a terrorist? but he leaves out Nicholas Barta, who died after blowing up his house in New York earlier this year.

While I don't think Bartha intended to terrorize anyone the way Castagana did, I believe he should be included in any discussion of violence inspired by the right wing hate media. Only a devoted fan would think to email Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity and Brit Hume his suicide note.

Some excerpts below the fold.
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Something positive - something small

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 3:36 PM PDT

2006/09/28 · 15:36

The whole torture debate, conservative flailing over who is to blame for 9/11, the dread that the public will vote to keep the angry buffoons in charge, etc. ad nausem - it's all making it difficult to get a breath of fresh air. It all makes me want to do something positive.

I wanted to support President Clinton by giving to his foundation, but couldn't find a link for monthly giving. Right now, with so much big going down, I just don't feel like one $50 donation isn't going to mean that much to a foundation that's hitting up the big money guys for billions.

Instead, I've decided to try setting up a Kiva microloan account. Kiva lets you make micro-loans to specific entrepreneurs in developing countries. (More here.) I've looked through the entrepreneurs who raising funds and I've chosen three. Read More

Bush's Codeword for Theocracy

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Tuesday September 26, 2006 · 2:47 PM PDT

2006/09/26 · 14:47

According to Steve Gilliard:

When Bush said Iraq was a comma, he was speaking in dog whistle to the fundies. It comes from a saying "Never put a period where God puts a comma". Which means things will get better. Which is, of course, insane.

(gakked from DLup's comment)

The quote was recently in the public eye during the United Church of Christ's "God is still speaking," ad campaign. Those were the same ads that some of the networks refused to air back in 2004. The UCC seems to be using it as somewhat of a foil against the biblical literalism of the fundie sects. In any case it's meant as a positive and inclusive message. (See this and this.)

However - comma. Read More

Mmmm... Rice with Irony.

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 10:42 AM PDT

2006/09/25 · 10:42

My partner had 60 Minutes on last night while I made rude noises at Condi Rice. I thought this bit was the kicker:

Rice: "I'm a true believer in the process of democratization as a way to overcome old wounds. And I believe that if we don't do that, then people who've had their differences, people who've resolved their differences by violence or by repression, are never going to find a way to live peacefully together."

She thinks that our violence can teach others to live without violence -- our "shock and awe" can teach others to not resort to terrorism -- our foreign occupiers can can teach others to build governments free of repression. And most of all she thinks none of the rules apply to us.

I got a lot of other undefinably weird vibes from the interview, but that one was the kicker. Full transcript and video at CBS.

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