Hi! I'm a Democrat, and I think your church sucks. Vote for me!

Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman University of Michigan

Cross posted at Ressentiment

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People are going to find out what a C-SPAN junkie I am, but too bad.  This is bigger than me.  I don't like to dilute DailyKos with diaries because I'm not that good at writing and I'm very compassionate of what people have to wade through.  My enjoyment of DailyKos is pretty much that of serious fan.  If there were DailyKos games, I'd be the one in the front row with no shirt on with a Giant Orange K rolling down over my pot belly, screaming at the top of my lungs and generally making an ass out of myself in a chorus line of fans.

Now it's personal.  But I refuse to vote more than once being a person of principle.

When should the troops come home from Iraq?

Now 38% Once the planned 250,000 Iraqi troop force is trained and take over 58% * Only after hostilities against U.S. troops end

The Key to happiness if you are a Citizen Watcher employed by the federal government is to have a unique identifier for every person on the planet in a centralized database. In esoteric technical circles this unique personal identifier is referred to as The Key. Advanced nirvana in watcher-world is to write this unique identifier, The Key, onto personal identification devices and make it illegal to leave home without it.

I am not a troll.  I offer my true feelings here inspite of my fear of ostracism from DailyKos.  I can't prove I'm not a troll because my history of approved comments has dissappeared into the archives to save bandwidth.

If your computer already knows the IP address for Daily Kos it won't need to go ask DNS and risk getting no answer.

Instructions follow for how to hardcode your local host file to avoid DNS lookups for known hosts.  

As of about 10 this morning there are about 4400 results for Gannongate at Google.  Results 1-10 are in the blogosphere, not MSM. There are about 4 Daily Kos entries on page one.  

So Google definitely ranks blog pages higher than Yahoo.  

Yahoo returns 292 results for Gannongate one word and 28,000 results for Gannon gate two words.  The larger result for the two-word concept just means there are more probability that the words Gate and Gannon occur on the same web page.  

Which begs the following questions when writing about it.

1. Which terms are searched by non-Kos researchers, i.e. the "real" audience?

2. What's the most effective name for this scandal?

3. How do people use "brands" and how are they created?  The word Watergate automatically tells a story, and Contragate definitely reinforced the association between "gate" and administration hijinks.
   

Church leaders have been talking with God again, and it turns out that God is Green!

Get the Hell out of here, you say!  No it's true!

From now on, take a Bible with you into the Frame Shop.  If you want to advocate an issue that's basicially common sense, see if you can find a basis for it in the New Testiment.  

Could we get universal health care if we work that "love thy neighbor" deal hard enough?.  

The consequences of failure are serious.  The suicide of 25 year old Andrew Viel at the World Trade Center brings home for all of us what we all have at stake in this confrontation.  I am certain that I am not the only one who has strongly contemplated following his decisive leadership.  

I cannot get the image out of my mind of the scene from Ghandi where hundreds of Hindus resolutely line up at the gates of the British Empire to have their skills split open by their mercinary Sikh countryman.  

We in the United States will never attain the discipline of nonviolent protest that emmanates from the highest chakra.  But we should aspire to it.  

I am very fortunate to have friends who refuse to lose hope and who do everything they can to realign the framework so that you can see things in perspective.  I've resolved to pass their help to others.

When I first saw Robert Vanderbie's Purple America, sent to me by a friend, I didn't realize the significance of what I was looking at.  The color purple just made me think about how much it cost us to have gays on our little foundering raft.  Fortunately the backlash was temporary and localized to my person.  I am completely restored to my faith in humanism. I blogged the (slow) progress of my understanding of Vanderbie's map here.  

Relax.  Meditate.  Grok the oneness of the democratic party.

If anyone needs further convincing read the precision reasoning in the The Nation's Endorsement of John Kerry

The wise man does nothing and yet everything is done.