On the Spiritual and Religious Nature of President Bush and the Iraq War

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Friday October 06, 2006 · 7:45 AM PDT

2006/10/06 · 07:45

I hate the Iraq War. I can connect the dots and easily see the fiasco that it has become and the blunder that it always has been. I also dislike the presidency of George W. Bush, for reaons that are obvious to everyone here at Daily Kos. Some people, however, unconditionally support the Iraq War and President Bush, as is pointed out by the great journalist Bill Moyers here http://www.energybulletin.net/.... Why? Not because of their political convictions, but because of their religious beliefs..... Read More

What the GOP Has Accomplished After Six Years of Power

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Thursday October 05, 2006 · 7:50 AM PDT

2006/10/05 · 07:50

For six years now, the GOP has controlled every branch of American government; for six years, the GOP has controlled our government. So, what with the election coming up and all, I thought it would be only fitting that we reviewed their biggest accomplishments. So without further ado..... Read More

Ms. Magazine Publishes a List of Women Who Have Had Abortions

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 9:24 AM PDT

2006/10/04 · 09:24

Over 5,000 women have signed a petition for the cover article of Ms. magazine stating that they had abortions and are not ashamed of it. Talk about throwing gas on the fire...... This comes at a time when South Dakota is on the verge of banning all abortions, which will inevitably be deemed unconstitutional by someone who will sue the state of South Dakota and will then appeal the case to the Supreme Court. What they decide will have a profound effect on American women. Here's the deal: South Dakota has already banned abortion except in cases of incest and rape. South Dakotan voters have a ballot initiative on Nov. 7 that would ban abortions entirely. If that happens, the issue will almost certainly find its way to the Supreme Court which, as we all know, decided in the early 1970s that the right to abortion is protected by the consitutional right to privacy. What wil happen? Nobody knows. For what it's worth, here is my opinion on the abortion issue. Read it, agree, disagree, find somewhere in the middle...... hopefully you'll have some new things to think about. Read More

A Word About the Amish School Massacre in Pennsylvania

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Tuesday October 03, 2006 · 6:59 AM PDT

2006/10/03 · 06:59

I know most of you Kossacks are news junkies and have already heard plenty about this story, but I haven't seen much about it here on Daily Kos. So, I have written this diary to honor the slain Amish schoolgirls; the Amish community deserves it. Here goes: Less than a week after the school shooting in Bailey, Colorado, it happened again in Pennsylvania. The shooting in Pennsylvania is particularly disturbing and heart-wrenching..... You've been warned..... Read More

BMW Is Launching a Line of Hydrogen Powered Cars

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Monday October 02, 2006 · 6:51 AM PDT

2006/10/02 · 06:51

BMW has outfitted a strain of its famous 7-series line of cars with the ability to run on liquid hydrogen! The hydrogen powered Beemers, which can also run on standard gasoline, are set to launch next year. Running a car on liquid hydrogen is totally green and totally clean; no dangerous emissions whatsoever. Read More

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Is Now the Most Powerful Person In the World

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Sunday October 01, 2006 · 8:25 AM PDT

2006/10/01 · 08:25

Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor has left the Court, which now has only one moderate; one swing voter - Justice Anthony Kennedy. What this means is that the other eight justices may as well not come to work on days when the Court decides its most important, most divisive issues. The Court's four solid liberals and four stalwart conservatives will simply cancel each other out, meaning that the only opinion that really matters is that of Justice Kennedy. Thus, all eyes are on Justice Kennedy. Read More

Packed Boeing 737 Disappears Over Amazon in Brazil

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Saturday September 30, 2006 · 8:00 AM PDT

2006/09/30 · 08:00

This is breaking news at CNN. Probably because this is Foley day, I haven't seen anything about the story here at Daily Kos. That's a shame because this story is a real heartbreaker and deserves more exposure, regardless of whether or not it is politically charged. Thus, my daily diary is dedicated to this story. Read More

Osama bin Laden Is Dead?

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Friday September 29, 2006 · 5:38 AM PDT

2006/09/29 · 05:38

How many times have we heard that? To listen to our government and the media, you might think that Osama bin Laden has died more times than Murdock, MacGyver's arch-nemesis. Tora Bora, dialysis, can't move his left side, low blood pressure, wound in his foot, kidney problems, aging rapidly, fatally sick; what haven't we been fed yet? Our leaders hate to admit that bin Laden is very much alive, because that will mean they have failed. They annihilated Afghanistan, they turned Iraq into a bloody civil war battleground/terrorist haven, they tortured prisoners of war, they illegally wiretapped our foreign phone conversations but, alas, no Osama bin Laden. Read More

School Shooting in Colorado......Again

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 7:40 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 07:40

It happened again. About an hour away from Littleton, Colorado. This time the gunman was a grown man and killed only one person. He took six high school girls hostage and the rest of the school was allowed to evacuate. No one knows why. What were his motives? Little has been disclosed to the public since Wednesday's school shooting disaster. Read More

The One Person Who Can Get Rid of Rumsfeld Refuses

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Wednesday September 27, 2006 · 7:11 AM PDT

2006/09/27 · 07:11

It seems everyone these days is calling for the resignation or firing of Donald Rumsfeld. Why? Whatever did he do wrong? Is it the way he blatantly lies and misleads the public to achieve his goals? Is it because he is one of the people directly responsible for 2,600+ soldiers' deaths and $300 billion dollars worth of war expenses with nothing to show for it? Read More

Cream's "Politician"

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Wednesday June 22, 2005 · 9:12 AM PDT

2005/06/22 · 09:12

Our party is the party of the people, right? Why, then, do democratic politicians consistently dress like republicans/corporate bastards? Why don't they dress like the people?

How great would it be to have an elected official who didn't wear the black suit and tie? I wonder what would have happened if Al Gore and Sen. Kerry had campaigned in jeans and a shirt. They would have appealed to the masses! Maybe that's one of the reasons people feel so distant from politicians.

Down-to-earth, common-man politicians may never arrive. But hey! At least most of them have stopped wearing the little fascist flag lapel pin.

Stifling the Oil Mania to Avert a Crisis

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Tuesday June 21, 2005 · 6:17 PM PDT

2005/06/21 · 18:17

We have a worldwide problem to solve before it's too late: despite an infinite demand, the oil supply is finite. Solutions to any economic shortage must involve either increasing the supply, or decreasing the demand. Conservative politicians, with a few exceptions, favor the former. They try to solve this shortage by increasing the supply of oil through gaining Middle Eastern strongholds and opening government-protected refuges to drilling. But fossil fuel is finite; it's only a matter of time before it's completely depleted. Basically, if they get their way, the United States would hoard all the world's oil as soon as possible, leaving none for other nations or future generations. I believe there are better, more practical solutions to this problem and tend to favor methods of decreasing demand through discouraging oil use. Read More

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