Daily Kos

Mercenaries, revisited

by marquer

Tue Dec 19, 2006 at 09:25:13 AM PDT

Many of us remember the shitrain when Kos referred to certain American "security contractors" killed in Fallujah as being mercenaries. Let us now revisit that topic in light of this latest sad escapade.

NOLA physicians administered euthanasia

by marquer

Sun Sep 11, 2005 at 05:17:17 PM PDT

Yes, you read that subject line properly. In the United States of America, in the twenty-first century, this advanced and wealthy nation abandoned desperately ill people whose doctors were forced to administer lethal doses of morphine to prevent their further suffering.

Full story via the Mail on Sunday from the UK. Funny how you don't see stories like this one in the Stateside press, huh?

http://tinyurl.com/8p33v

Goss creates turmoil at CIA

by marquer

Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 08:12:19 PM PDT

New boss shows up with a coterie of cronies who, fuelled by ideology and arrogance, proceed to alienate longtime objectively-minded professionals and do massive damage.

Sound familiar? Well, it's a new song to the same old BushCo tune. This time the wrecking crew is Porter Goss and his henchmen at Central Intelligence.

This comes on the heels of Mike Scheuer (a.k.a. the intelligence officer who anonymously authored Imperial Hubris) resigning from the Company yesterday.

Urgent last-minute volunteering questions

by marquer

Sat Oct 30, 2004 at 07:53:25 AM PDT

Woke up this morning to find the dynamic EV map at mydd is showing a red Ohio, and Bush ahead in the electoral vote count as a result. Yikes! I had planned to drive out to Nevada and volunteer on Monday and Tuesday there, but OH is a bigger prize, and the race is closer there.

My situation is such that I can catch a red-eye out to the East Coast tonight, rent a big enough vehicle to provide wheels to the polls, and be in OH ready to work by sunrise on Monday. This is all on my own dime, as are my lodging and feeding. All I need is to be pointed at the work.

The question is, are ACT or similar organizations able to turn around such very-last-minute volunteer submissions? I'm going to be ineffective in a place which I don't know well, unless I'm promptly provided on arrival with instructions, directions, maps (!), et cetera. It's easy to go to acthere.org and sign up, but how fast are they able to respond to new volunteers right now? I can imagine things are crazily busy.

Relentless Republicans

by marquer

Mon Sep 13, 2004 at 03:32:57 PM PDT

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/13/MNGCG8O2KU1.DTL

How could this badly weakened President possibly survive and win re-election?

GOP ruthlessness and message discipline is part of it. Democratic spinelessness and indiscipline is the other part.

It's impossible for Democrats to control the first part -- Republicans won't play nice because they've been asked to -- but what's the excuse for the second part?


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