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Monday June 05, 2006 · 3:51 PM PDT

2006/06/05 · 15:51

Short diary, but lets get to the point:

What if the affected gay communities fought the purveyors of hate (BushCo, Dobson, Falwell, et. al.) by beating them on their own turf:

Every gay guy should hook up with a gay girl and they should get legally married......

follow my insanity past the fold.... Read More

Got Xenophobia?

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Friday May 12, 2006 · 9:08 AM PDT

2006/05/12 · 09:08

I'm trying to get my head around the apparent increase in xenophobia that seems to be spreading like wildfire in the US. Having lived the past twenty years in two very immigrant rich areas, South Florida and Southern California, I have always been exposed to a wide range of immigrants. When I say wide range, I mean from the guys doing the landscaping I say "Buenas Dias" to every morning, to the Professors I say "Nee How", "Wie Gehts", or "Come Sta" to in the lab. These guys have always been a daily part of life just like my Southern neighbor to the left and the Canadian neighbor to the right of my house. But now it seems like some of these people are now being perceived as the enemy and this I find to be very disturbing. Cross the fold for some elaboration.... Read More

Why dKos is not ruining my life

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Thursday April 27, 2006 · 9:47 AM PDT

2006/04/27 · 09:47

In response to MadScientist's diaryon how dKos is ruining his life, I long meant to write a diary on how dKos is improving mine.

I have to be honest about one thing, I waste a little too much time reading dKos in the workplace, but the benefits it gives me far outweighs any lost productivity.

Politcal awareness is the first step in dealing with this monstronsity that is BushCo. Now if you would like to know how dKos helped my life, skip over the fold......

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Thursday February 16, 2006 · 3:58 PM PST

2006/02/16 · 15:58

The new modus operandi of BushCo is "Scandal Fatigue". If the public's attention is allowed to dwell on a single scandal long enough, they will eventually see through the "it's a partisan issue" smokescreen and realize the American public as a whole is being wronged. But if you keep presenting something new, it dissipates the impact and allows the public's discontent to be diffused and redirected. I remember saying a year ago to one of my neighbors "you watch, the outing a Valerie Plame will be a big deal that will unseat the Bush Administration." I honestly believed it too, I was caught up in "Fitzmas" just like everyone here was. It's informative to look back retrospectively and see how the public interest in that has passed in light of all the other Scandals: Katrina, Abramoff, NSA wiretaps, Abu Gharib redux, etc... (a very long list, you get the point) and of course, the least important, but noisiest...Daktari Cheney. Read More

Spamming the NSA

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Thursday January 12, 2006 · 3:40 PM PST

2006/01/12 · 15:40

Kossacks--

What if we made a mass effort to spam the NSA by including a line in all our emails that has terrorist trigger words and ending all our cell phone or overseas calls with a few of the same words.

With our collective knowledge, we can come up with words in arabic that we could put on our emails that would be scooped by our loving goverment, I could end my telephone calls to my Italian in-laws with the arabic words for "dirty bomb, and I'm sure you guys could come up with a host of additional suggestions. We already know that the NSA didn't do jack shit to stop 9/11, and you can bet the system is being used politically, so let's be clever and tie it up the same way spam used to on my email inbox. Read More

Why Bother Legitimizing Torture?

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 3:29 PM PST

2005/11/15 · 15:29

Firstly, long time lurker, first diary.... If my employer could only put a price on all the time I've been hoovering up the postings here rather than being a good worker bee....I almost feel guilty....

...So, I have a question that has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while now:

Why is BushCo going through all the obviously disastrous political gymnastics to authorize specific groups to utilize torture when the could just do it anyway and hope it stays buried or not worry about it at all

My guesses after the fold............ Read More

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Why Bother Legitimizing Torture?