yKos Sailing Trips
Tue Jul 31, 2007 at 10:24:05 AM PDT
I'm not aware of any boards which are specific to the Yearly Kos event, so I thought I'd post this here. I'm aware that this diary may not strictly adhere to the diary guideline, and if you want me to delete it I will.
That said, I'm going to be hosting at least a couple sailing trips/ get togethers on Lake Michigan during Yearly Kos.
We have a PDQ 36' sailing catamaran which is in Monroe Harbor and we'd be happy to take out some people on Thursday and Friday (and perhaps the weekend). The view of the city from the lake is really amazing....
More details below:
Georgia10 Cover Story in Chicago Reader !
Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 12:32:17 PM PDT
While walking back from lunch today in Chicago's Loop, I did a double take walking past a newspaper box.
There, on the cover of the largest circulation free weekly in town was the smiling face of Georgia, along with the headline "Who Is Georgia10".
Wow, I thought, the Kos thing is really out of control. The Reader has a circulation of over 100,000 and a hell of a lot of people read it. Even my mom reads it.
Anyway, a short overview below, since it won't be up on the Reader's website until tomorrow, I believe.
Second largest Alaskan oil spill being hushed up?
Tue Mar 07, 2006 at 03:09:09 PM PDT
I searched and haven't seen a diary on this, which seems strange.
MSNBC is Reporting that there has been an oil spill near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. One industry watchdog says the spill could be the second largest in Alaska history.
State, federal and oil company officials said the total amount of oil spilled is still not known, but they discounted claims by an oil industry critic that the spill was much larger than BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. is saying.
The breach was discovered at 1:40 a.m. Sunday inside a low-lying section of the 34-inch transit line, which leads to the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.
More below.
U.S. nabs Al Qaeda's barber
Mon Oct 17, 2005 at 10:26:30 AM PDT
Seriously. That's not a joke. When I saw this linked at Huffington Post I really thought it had to be from The Onion. But no. The military is so starved to feed us good news about the war on terror that they actually released this huge story to the press. Check this
Reuters story below the fold.
I heart John Densmore
Wed Oct 05, 2005 at 12:21:46 PM PDT
This story from the
LA Times was posted to the Guided by Voices list today, and I thought some people here would find it interesting, since it speaks to politics and economics and ethics. I don't personally care for the Doors, being more of a punk rock guy, but this story was inspiring.
Ex-Door Lighting Their Ire
Drummer John Densmore refuses to let the group's songs be used in TV ads, much to the chagrin of his former bandmates.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
Bob Dylan is singing "The Times They Are A-Changin' " in a television ad for healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente these days, and who could argue? With Led Zeppelin pitching Cadillacs, the Rolling Stones strutting in an Ameriquest Mortgage ad and Paul McCartney warbling for Fidelity Investments, it's clear that the old counterculture heroes of classic rock are now firmly entrenched as the house band of corporate America.
That only makes the case of John Densmore all the more intriguing.
More below.
FEMA - wrong parishes- I think this is a BIG DEAL
Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 09:12:34 AM PDT
Please forgive me, I am aware of the current problem with too many repetitive diaries but I'm posting this because the others which mentioned this simply faded away, and hell, I'm a trusted user (or was until some software snafu) and I haven't diaried in a couple weeks.
Bob Harris has found that the presidential "Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana" which was released to the press and presumably the rest of the government on Friday, Aug 26 is seriously fucked up. ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html )
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Armando, Malkin and civility
Sat Aug 13, 2005 at 09:59:26 AM PDT
I noticed an interesting phenomenon yesterday.
In a front page piece entitled To What Level Will They Sink?, Armando decried the loathsome "media whore" slur of Cindy Sheehan that appeared at Redstate yesterday, courtesy of someone named Erick.
Soon after, this guy Erick started receiving abusive calls and email.
This result below:
shocked I am. Big Bizz supports Roberts
Wed Aug 10, 2005 at 11:59:02 AM PDT
Picked this up over at redstate (no link, find it yourself).
Wingnuts are outraged that:
" The National Association of Manufacturers held a press conference at 10am this morning to announce the results of their Judicial Review Committee. (no, I haven't heard yet) The interesting thing is that apparently, some folks in the press aren't actually interested in waiting for the facts. "
more below.
Wanna see me kick Hitchens' Ass?
Tue Aug 09, 2005 at 04:54:09 PM PDT
Hitchens dropped another bomb at
Slate yesterday. I read the piece and immediately focused on the money paragraph:
How can so many people watch this as if they were spectators, handicapping and rating the successes and failures from some imagined position of neutrality? Do they suppose that a defeat in Iraq would be a defeat only for the Bush administration? The United States is awash in human rights groups, feminist organizations, ecological foundations, and committees for the rights of minorities. How come there is not a huge voluntary effort to help and to publicize the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of "missing" Iraqis, to support Iraqi women's battle against fundamentalists, to assist in the recuperation of the marsh Arab wetlands, and to underwrite the struggle of the Kurds, the largest stateless people in the Middle East? Is Abu Ghraib really the only subject that interests our humanitarians?
Let's take a closer look at this paragraph below.
Fitzgerald takes on more Chicago corruption
Tue Jul 19, 2005 at 08:22:43 AM PDT
Forgive me if this has been diaried already. I did a search and couldn't find anything. If so, I'll delete it.
Patrick Fitzgerald's (yes, that Fitzgerald) office yesterday announced a new set of indictments of Daley administration figures. This guy does seem to be a prosecution machine, as Josh Marshall quoted somebody close to him as saying. A quick rundown from the Chicago Sun-Times follows below:
Bush's Martingale strategy in Iraq (or...Vegas, baby, Vegas)
Thu Jun 30, 2005 at 10:54:48 AM PDT
I was reading
YucatanMan's exceptional diary yesterday and the following quote from the WSJ really stood out to me:
The more that nation building in Iraq is in doubt, the more the mission creeps into a doubling of bets in hope of covering those that are lost.
It made me think of the Bush war strategy in Iraq as a Martingale. This is either a trivial or interesting thought, I'm not sure....
A Martingale is a theoretically perfect gambling strategy, as well as a more general and complex mathematical concept. I'm not a gambler, only a math geek, so if you're a gambler please bear with me.
Contactor abuse and military privatization
Sat Jun 11, 2005 at 07:41:19 AM PDT
I'm sure this has been discussed, since news moves fast here, but I hope I have a little to add to the subject.
The tension between private employees and public employees (the military) in Iraq seems to be reaching a peak. This LA Times Story details a recent case of contactors being abused after a recent dust up near Fallouja. The money quote in the story is:
Raiche said the Marines seemed resentful about the salaries contractors in Iraq are paid. "One Marine gets me on the ground and puts his knee in my back. Then I hear another Marine say, "How does it feel to make that contractor money now?' "
More below...
Why Abortion is Different
Wed Jun 08, 2005 at 09:26:38 AM PDT
With all the recent discussion of sexism here, I thought I'd try to point out why I feel that of all the issues we discuss regarding women (wages, exploitation, pornography, sexist language...), the issue that I feel strongest about is abortion.
In general I don't care much for the "personal story" diary here on kos. I usually prefer the hard hitting news debate stuff. But when it comes to my feelings about the issue of choice for women, only a personal story can really explain how I feel.
My grandmother was a working class hero. Yeah, I know, pretty much anybody who lived through the depression was a working class hero. But my grandmother changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of american workers - most of them women. She changed lives every day until her death almost 2 years ago. When she died, the Chicago Tribune asked me for a quote. The best I could come up with was "She was one of a select handful of courageous women and men who, over the last 60 years, transformed nursing from an underpaid and underappreciated job to a respected profession". More below...
Massive Inaugural Protest! - NO MANDATE
Fri Nov 05, 2004 at 05:34:48 AM PDT
Sorry if this has been posted earlier...I haven't seen it.
I believe we need massive protests for the DC inauguration. We need to show this administration, this country, and (most importantly) the world, that this administration does not have a mandate. Not even close.
We need millions of us in the streets in DC. Shut down the entire Eastern seaboard. We need to really make some news.
I believe we can use dKos as a central place to try to plan and organize just such a protest.
Let me know what you think.
