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Best blogs other than dailykos?

by mel4444

Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 12:56:55 PM PDT

I've been reading dailykos for years, and want to find similar sites that present political and campaign news from a progressive perspective. I'd appreciate your suggestions for sites that are similar in outlook and content to the main page on dailykos, and that you would recommend for reading.

Four emails on immigration.

by mel4444

Thu May 04, 2006 at 03:37:10 PM PDT

Several recent emails got me thinking about the situation of immigrants and the distorted rantings of the Republican right. I intersperse them here to make the point. The first one, forwarded by a friend, is currently making the rounds among hundreds or thousands of Republican emailers. I found a copy of it on the web here. It is titled MR. PRESIDENT, I'M HEADED TO MEXICO,  and I reproduce it as quoted text:
Dear President Bush:

I'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.

I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here...

The second email was distributed to employees of my company. It begins:

Jose Perez Ortega [name altered] is a [position withheld] in my lab.  He is 41 years old and was suddenly diagnosed with stage 3 multiple myeloma 2 weeks ago.

Dailykos joins the loony bin

by mel4444

Sun Jan 22, 2006 at 04:16:01 PM PDT

I've decided to quit reading dailykos.

It lately seems to have become a breeding ground for nutjobs who belong in the loony bin. They write ridiculous stories with specious logic, yet nonetheless end up being highly recommended.

I think it may reflect a decline in the overall educational level of the readership in dailykos as it has become more popular. The readers are getting stupid, and recommending stupid stories. This is a dangerous trend, as eventually Dailykos may just become a source of paranoid gossip for the left

Then they actually argue using ridiculously illogical arguments when you point out to them how stupid they are for writing such a story.

Some examples follow

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Alito: machine gun ban unconstitutional

by mel4444

Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 08:53:49 AM PDT

From a review of conservative judges by TNR.

Samuel Alito Jr., 54. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Known as "Scalito," or little Scalia, he is considered less blustering than the big guy, but liberals will undoubtedly balk at his abortion record. In 1991, he dissented from a decision to strike down Pennsylvania's spousal notification provision--a decision the Supreme Court later upheld in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the decision that reaffirmed Roe v. Wade. What should be far more troubling to Senate Democrats, however, is Alito's 1996 dissent from a decision upholding the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting the possession of machine guns...

FEMA = Failed Entirely to Move their Asses?

by mel4444

Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 02:54:56 PM PDT

The letters FEMA used to stand for Federal Emergency Management Agency. But now that George Bush is in charge, the agency has allowed New Orleans to be destroyed. Of course, this was the fault of Governor Blanco, since she refused to issue George Bush a permission slip which he needed to avoid the possibility of later being sent to the principal's office.

Nonetheless, since FEMA no longer manages emergencies, we need to assign a new name to the acronym. I have humbly drafted a first attempt, FEMA = Failed Entirely to Move their Asses.

My challenge to this community: come up with words forming the acronym F-E-M-A that would best describe FEMA under Bush!

Heartless and headless in every office of government.

by mel4444

Sat Sep 03, 2005 at 07:22:49 AM PDT

The lack of compassion and competence at every level of the Bush administration is made evident by two emails sent out this week to all employees of the National Institutes of Health.

One has been previously mentioned on this site, urging NIH employees to participate in a bogus "Freedom Walk" on September 11, that seeks to perpetuate the Bush administration lie that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were somehow linked to Iraq. It was considered important enough to be sent out to the entire NIH staff on Wednesday morning, which happened to be Day 3 of the Bush New Orleans disaster.

The second, seemingly an afterthought, describes how NIH employees may volunteer to provide medical care for those stranded in New Orleans. It was sent out Friday, on the fifth day of the disaster, just after 5:00 PM, right *after* most employees had left for the Labor Day weekend.

Details below

There's something about Safia.

by mel4444

Thu Feb 03, 2005 at 03:13:50 PM PDT

A previous diary on  Safia al-Souhail, the Iraqi woman in the balcony during the state of the union speech, noted that although Bush had blamed the murder of her father on Saddam Hussein, the family had previously claimed that the US government was involved in his murder.

Yet although two years ago Safia's sister blamed the US as a virtual accomplice in the murder of her father, the family appears to have changed its tune more recently.

In a more recent article Safia pins the blame for her father's murder on the UN's oil for food scandal.


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