Daily Kos: Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Open Thread and Diary Rescue

by SusanG

Fri Apr 06, 2007 at 08:26:23 PM PDT

(Tonight’s selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

This evening's Rescue Rangers are ybruti, BentLiberal, srkp23, Rippen Kitten and dannyinla, with Patriot Daily as editor.

As many reflect on the true meaning of life's journey, our community writes about hope for a better life for all – here and around the world.

Hope for honoring our human right to be free from terrorism, whether by a sexist, controlling spouse, an out-of-control Bush cabal, or prior US governments.

natasha recounts her harrowing experiences as a young wife in My Life With Domestic Terrorism. (ybruti)

The First Emancipation Proclamation is gjohnsit's historical review of American's shameful enslavement of Native Americans. (Rippen Kitten)

Steven D tells us why a US Navy Vet, FBI informant and Bush voter was imprisoned and tortured in An American in Iraq: "My name used to be 200343". (ybruti)

Hope of building a peaceful, caring, sharing community in which our human right to economic freedom is respected.

renaissance grrrl presents a beautiful story told by a Palestinian-American poet whose plane was recently delayed at a U.S. airport: A Story, Secondhand. (ybruti)

dopper0189 opens the Black Kos week in review by reminding us of the Martin Luther King, Jr., you don't see on TV these days: anti-poverty champion who emphasized the need for radical economic changes. (srkp23).

Hope for solutions to environmental pollution and global warming.

Eternal Hope discusses This Moment on Earth, a recent book by Sen. John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry on climate change, environmentalism and the need for Democratic innovation and solutions in John Kerry, Part 1: Making America America. (Rippen Kitten)

Hope that Democrats will prevent arrogant, evil-doers Bush & Giuliani from doing more harm.

Congressional War Powers and complacency have been a major factor in Why Bush is so arrogant about Iraq by Lestatdelc, who provides a refresher on AUMF. (Rippen Kitten)

Ian MacLeod rants at length about the real meaning of EVIL and the evil doers in the Bush cabal. (ybruti)

BriVT explains why it was more than worth it to uproot his family and take a job heading up John Kerry’s internet communications: Gore/Kerry v Bush/Dole: Or, Democrats are Just Better. (srkp23)

Is Rudy even worse than Bush? Vyan explores the radical authoritarianism and The Brutality of Rudy Giuliani, so-called Republican front-runner. (srkp23)