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"We're all hicks, to these people. If we want it, we have to take it." - Huey Long. I think out loud. Listen carefully... Don't tread on me.

Hey Minnesotan Victims!!

Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 08:08:34 AM PDT


Only one line in my speech for you today.  Several for political purposes though.  

Democrats in Congress

Mon Jul 23, 2007 at 07:30:35 AM PDT

Any reasonable Congress-person who will hear it.

With all due respect.

A bunch of fucking little league baseball players playing in the Superbowl.  This is all you've got?  Censure??  You guys are NOT UP TO THE TASK.  We need to draft some real players.  One's that will put their padding on and play the fucking game instead of running out into the field waiting for the ball to come to them.  It's the wrong game you stupid assholes.

Update:  Yeah, it reads a little wacked out.  But I was very tired when I started, and very angry as I wrote this.  I never thought I would say this, but I feel like I'm losing faith in my Party.  For some reason I thought my party would be more direct.  Instead I feel like it's full of a bunch of wishy washy flippity floppity wet handshakers.  WTF.  I don't like the fact that I am beginning to understand the "Democrats are weak" meme, and it's taking root.
WTF happened to Ross Perot?

It's cheaper to be green.

Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 12:48:20 AM PDT

A nice young college age guy knocked on our door yesterday.  He was a representative from Green Mountain Energy spreading the real gospel (good news).  I used to have a very nice contract with Direct Energy in Houston, but it expired last fall.  Now I'm getting probed deeper than I ever have if you know what I mean.  It was on my to do list to find an altenative, so when the GM guy showed up I sat down with him and we went over my bill.

A History of Disbelief

Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 05:05:28 AM PDT

Jonathan Miller is not someone known here in the United States.  That should change.  In England he is a well known television presenter.  He is widely respected enough to have been knighted in 2002.

Earlier in his career he was a popular theatre and opera director.  And before that he studied science and medicine at Cambridge, serving for a few years as a medical doctor afterwards.  He has professed a love of science, particularly biology, throughout his life and has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Clearly a diverse and extremely intelligent man.

Mr. Miller has offered his talents of presenting and gifts of keen intellectual conversationalism in a 3 part series that was shown on the BBC in 2004 titled "A Brief History of Disbelief".

Fox News is not legitimate

Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 02:31:50 PM PDT

I don't have the capability to do this all by myself.  

In order to help explain where we are coming from in the Nevada Democratic primary debate context I think it would help to give a sampling of just why pretty much all of us here don't believe Fox News is an honest news outlet.  

Sure, they are the largest.  But that doesn't mean they are the a legitimate news organization.  Here is a good example of how that kind of thing can happen:

Here it is actually happening:

Saturday Morning: Waking Up in the Universe

Sat Feb 03, 2007 at 04:26:03 AM PDT

Good morning everyone!  I am a huge fan of the online video revolution.   I found some good videos last night I want to share with the new DKos video sharing syntax thingy.

I know there is a great spirtual battle going on these days between the believer and the non-believer, with the booms, snapping, and screaming sounds of the front lines coming from the area of evolution.  I am one who has always maintained there is no direct conflict between evolution and the Bible.  Whatever side of the line you start on, I believe it is in everyone's best interests to educate themselves as completely as possible to the matter of the debate.  Know your enemy as they say, if you want to get that passionate about it.  I don't.

The President salutes goofy ((youtube YVynnbx1Xsc)) syntax!

Thu Feb 01, 2007 at 09:22:55 PM PDT

You won't see a video you put up until you publish or post your text though! A little more after fold.

Hey New Orleans!!

Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 07:00:18 PM PDT

Tonight, Madam Speaker, My Fellow Americans...

Fuck You New Orleans!

Baby it's Cold Outside!  But enjoy it while it lasts.

Wed Jan 17, 2007 at 04:26:32 AM PDT

I'm up early this morning, as I often am, curiously and somewhat hopefully watching the morning news and their web sites for school closings, particularly the school where my wife teaches.  I live in Houston, and we have ice on the ground and roads this morning, as we did yesterday morning.  A very bizarre event to say the least.  Schools have been closing everywhere because the roads are dangerous and drivers don't know how to handle the ice.  Unfortunately it looks like I'll be driving my wife in to work today; I'm from Wisconsin so I know what to expect in the roads a little better.

I began to wonder where all of this cold air is coming from.  I have movies of my wingnut brother-in-law in my head saying "so there is your global warming.  Haha!".  Surely there must be some explanation.  Science wouldn't fail me.  Wingnuttery delusions couldn't triumph what I thought was the truth [of global warming] again this late in the game.  Not after November!

Poll

Where are you in your global warming activities

7%8 votes
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| 107 votes | Vote | Results

The Evidence is In! NOT GUILTY!!

Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 04:55:05 AM PDT

Mike Stark isn't, that is. Warning: Raw crime photos below the break.

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Boo!!

Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 05:43:43 PM PDT

Just some light reading.  And yes, it's political, but it won't raise your blood pressure.

Hey Hunter!!

Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 02:47:34 PM PDT

Heh heh!

Poll

Loose lips sink ships. Will you behave yourself for the next 3 weeks?

25%8 votes
9%3 votes
0%0 votes
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6%2 votes
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29%9 votes

| 31 votes | Vote | Results

Thanksgiving Dinner Theater: Shock and Awe II

Mon Sep 25, 2006 at 01:48:51 AM PDT

I was just reading this couple days old article that was linked to in some other diaries about Bush Iranorama fantasies.  

http://www.thenation.com/...

update: "Sorry to throw a wet blankie on this little blogfire..."but its been pointed out to me the story above has been debunked. But the translation I offer of Bush's most recent attention getting message for us came before I saw the article. So I'm still wagering. Any takers?

I predict Bush will attack Iran after the congressional elections.  He knows an attack before would affect the election dramatically, so he'll not foul it for the Republicans any more than he has.  

I hate Delaware Dem

Thu Sep 21, 2006 at 02:28:03 PM PDT

Senator Obama is the coolest Senator to come around in a long time.  Twenty years ago I spent a summer in Rochester, New York.  While I was there I had my first taste of buffalo wings.  They were the kind marinated for days in secret recipes passed on for generations.  

Anyways, Hillary Clinton would make a great President. These wings were to die for.  My summer was in a culinary paradise.  Then it all ended.

A Moment of Silence

Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 03:08:25 AM PDT

The Sequel to "Path to 911"

Sat Sep 09, 2006 at 08:01:46 AM PDT

The dramatic scene is at the beginning.

Everything you need to know about George W. Bush

Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 03:26:50 PM PDT

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  So I hope this will do for a diary.

In case you didn't read me right, mac ...

Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 05:33:38 AM PDT

"... or whatever your name is."

OK, we all know what he said and did.
Well, if you didn't, here it is again:

George Allen last Friday, August 11th,

in Breaks, Virginia (very very rural Virginia, deep in the Appalachian Mountains.  George Bush could spend the rest of his presidency clearing brush up here - hint, hint George)

But I'm not sure all of us know why he said it.  I wasn't convinced at first.  Some say he said it arrogantly; others say it appears to be a genuine introduction.  I had a hard time believing he was mocking Sidarth.  

But then it sets in.  Unless spoken by someone younger than a 5 year old, there may be ignorance, but there is no doubt as to the grownup meaning of the word "macaca":


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