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Tuesday August 02, 2011 · 11:35 AM PDT

2011/08/02 · 11:35

All those years ago when I first found DailyKos, I was so happy. Here was a place with reasonable Democrats, reasonable conversations, and fact-based opinions.

Now when I log in, I fully expect to have to mull through ten or twenty diaries before I find a reasonable and coherent stream of logic. Congratulations, far-lefties, you have co-opted the site. You are not sane. You are not rational. You are every bit the lefty equivalent of the Tea Party. Let’s call it KosState.com…

But that’s not why we’re here. That’s not why we’re in this situation, this “national crisis” if you will.

We’re here because of reasonable Democrats.

Yep, all you reasonable Democrats who didn’t show up at the polls in 2010. All you reasonable Democrats who didn’t bother to talk to your neighbors. All you reasonable Democrats who just threw in the towel after reading far-left rants about how we “gave up” on our Democratic principles.

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Wednesday August 05, 2009 · 1:27 PM PDT

2009/08/05 · 13:27

Once is not a trend. But this isn’t once. And it is a trend. We’ve all noticed.

Of course, I’ve been told by my Republican friends that "both parties" act badly. And they are right. I’m sure you could find a good number of examples of Democrats acting badly.

But, for me, the problem is the degree to which Republicans act badly combined with their higher frequency of acting badly and topped off with their inability to understand they are acting badly, and finally their unwillingness to do anything about their fellow Republicans when they are caught acting badly.

Follow me if you dare as we examine the sheer magnitude of the trend. Because it’s a hell of a lot more than once. (I say "if you dare" because so many of the links tend to erode my faith in humanity)

These are but a few examples that I collected casually over the past 9-12 months... so I can't imagine how much more of this crap is out there. Granted, people like this are a minority. But I sure wish we'd be a little louder in saying that we disagree.

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Tuesday July 14, 2009 · 8:02 AM PDT

2009/07/14 · 08:02

In light of Senator Whitehouse’s statements, highlighted here, I feel the need to repost this diary. I'm hoping to build on Senator Whitehouse's points.

Empathy ensures proper jurisprudence.

In fact, a lack of empathy will often lead to a judge's biased evaluation of the law.

It relates to the concept of "confirmation bias". We, as humans, don’t like to be wrong, and to avoid being wrong it is our tendency to find evidence that supports our theories while ignoring evidence to the contrary.

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Tuesday June 09, 2009 · 7:53 PM PDT

2009/06/09 · 19:53

Just a little poll on facebook, but it might be a good way to extend progressive influence. And we're lagging behind at the moment (43-51 at the time of posting). I know this isn't the country's view, so we're missing a lot of progressive voice on facebook.

President Obama Approval Poll on Facebook

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Friday May 29, 2009 · 5:49 AM PDT

2009/05/29 · 05:49

Empathy ensures proper jurisprudence.

In fact, a lack of empathy will likely encourage a biased evaluation of the law.

It relates (though not exactly) to the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy. We, as humans, don’t like to be wrong, and to avoid being wrong it is our tendency to find evidence that supports our theories while ignoring evidence to the contrary.

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 8:20 AM PDT

2009/05/14 · 08:20

With half the rec list dedicated to the topic of the detainee abuse photographs, it's clear we've made this a distraction.

We were pummeling the GOP.
They were on the ropes.
They were ready for a knockout blow.

And instead of landing that devastating left-hook, we pulled the punch and started fighting with the guys in our corner.

Poll

83 votes Show Results

Has this become a distration?

83 votes Vote Now!

Has this become a distration?

Yes - get back to pummeling the GOP

56 votes

No - This one issue is so important that it's worth flushing all the progress we've made and I'll sleep well at night knowing the GOP made their comeback because we couldn't get off this topic.

14 votes

Pie

13 votes

Stay on Target...

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 2:53 PM PDT

2009/05/13 · 14:53

I've been waiting for us to eat our own. I didn't think this would be the issue that brought us to this point, but I've been wrong before.

The issue of course is the pictures of detainee abuse that Obama has so far refused to release to the public.

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Sunday January 11, 2009 · 11:48 AM PST

2009/01/11 · 11:48

Am I different than you? Just curious.

Read below the fold and let me know if I’m strange.

Poll

76 votes Show Results

So what do you think?

76 votes Vote Now!

So what do you think?

I can relate to this and agree with much of it

63 votes

I can relate to this even though I don't agree with much of it

7 votes

I can't relate to this but that's okay

2 votes

I can't relate to this and I wonder why slapper95 is on dKos

4 votes

"I wonder if it will have a positive impact"

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 6:52 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 18:52

Steaks on the grill. 6:42 pm Central.

J: "Oh, we might be missing Obama’s infomercial."

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 6:53 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 06:53

My friends and relatives keep trying to defend Sarah Palin. I’m sure many of you have the same frustration. So I wanted everyone to have a nice, concise summary that you can fire back at them. I'm not responsible for the legwork; that credit goes to the other great people here at dKos. This is just an effort to pull some of those items together and add a quick summary since I hadn't seen it all in one place.

I'm hoping this will help you to quickly dispense with the BS and then get back to showing them why McCain is wrong and why we need to elect Barack Obama.

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Monday October 29, 2007 · 5:35 PM PDT

2007/10/29 · 17:35

Like many of you, I have been watching the Ken Burns series "The War" on PBS. I can't stress enough the importance this series and my sincere thanks go to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for their efforts in putting it together.

While watching the first episode, I remembered a visit with my Grandpa, a WWII veteran, back in 2004. This was a rare occasion where my grandpa talked about the war – in fact, he had never talked about it with me. After we talked that night, I wrote down everything I could remember, as best as I could. Over the past few weeks I have struggled with whether or not I should post the story on dKos. (I published it on my short-lived blog a couple years ago)

I’ve decided that it’s best to post this story since I think we can learn from our past. And I think it is timely considering the epic series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. You can read the story below the fold.

UPDATED: To spell out "World War" in title.

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Sunday October 28, 2007 · 12:29 PM PDT

2007/10/28 · 12:29

John Edwards is still my favorite Dem candidate for President. So if you’re wondering why I would give this diary such a title, let me set this up with some context. The topic is regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs.

For those of you with short attention span like myself, here is the synopsis:
1 – I agree with Edwards and plan to vote for him.
2 – I work in drug development and understand the power of their lobby, so Edwards’s latest fight against PhRMA is ill-timed and will ultimately lead to the end of his campaign for President.
3 – We need to address this issue, certainly, but Ewards’s timing is representative of our inability as Democrats to choose the right fights at the right times.

Here’s the article and the long version is below the fold.

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