A few months ago, I was driving my 65+ year old mom to the Detroit airport, and I, naturally and deliberately, steered the conversation to politics.  Being her age and what not, I was not at all surprised to find out she was a Hillary supporter.

Hi all,

last week of my campaign so I can't write long.  Long story short, I have a few extra dollars to spend this week, and need to decide how to do it!

Strange feeling, going into the voter booth, and seeing your name printed on the ballot.  Surreal.  Twilight Zone.

As I diaried before, I was appointed to a vacant Lansing City Council seat in May, and immediately started to campaign.  The competition will be tough, and politics is much stranger from the inside than you would suspect from the outside.

Shameless.  That's what I am doing.  I'm not usually in the habit of asking for favors, let alone asking for money, but hey, what is a close knit family of 125 thousand people for if not to lend support?

My name is Bill, and I am running for Lansing City Council.  Can you please spare 5 bucks to help me with my campaign?

Greetings fellow liberals and democrats.  I wanted to share my experience of interviewing and being appointed to the Lansing City Council last week!  Needless to say, I was inspired by the very grass roots chatter you read here every day, and want to contribute to our local government by advancing the liberal and democratic agenda, even at a low level post.  Hey it's a start!  The appointment is through the end of the year, so I will be running in a primary in August, and hopefully a general in November.  I need your advice.

Well, tonight is the big game.  Not to rain on anybody's Opening Day parade, since the Tigers are going to take you all out this year, but one last NCAA Basketball wrap up before we dust off our mits and golf clubs.

Is Dailykos a 21st century Scooby Do?

For those of you too young to remember the ORIGINAL Scooby Do cartoon series let me explain why I think Dailykos is of course the Mystery Mobile, our vehicle of transport, that on occassion breaks down and is up and running again within 30 minutes thanks to ct, Markos is Fred "Freddie" Jones, the leader, and all of the rest of the wacky characters that make up the gang.

Sorry to be contrarian to nycve, and Jerome a Paris, but I have a positive story to tell about the American healthcare system from my recent and personal experience.

First, Mike Rogers, our rethug congressman from Michigan runs a sunny, happy, joyful, bouncing, and uplifting advertisement for ethanol.

Not of utmost importance nor particularly political, but today I turn to you, my extended family, to find out what kind of cell phone you have and who your service provider is.

But this quote stuck out for me:

...a Greenwich millionaire cable company executive named Ned Lamont.

So after a hard day's work and another 5 hours on my roof last night, I finally sat down to dinner.  As is my routine, I peruse the editorial page for the lastest nasty letters and hack columns.  

I came across this gem by Mona Charen http://www.jewishworldreview.com/...  To open her latest enlightened piece of wisdom:

In 1970, six percent of all births in the United States were to illegal aliens. In 2002, that figure was 23 percent.

WOW!  I had no IDEA the problem was this bad!  Do you know why?  It isn't.  

So yesterdays "Why are conservatives so afraid", which was great by the way and sounded just like this astute comment,
post drew some fire from Byron York at National Review Online this morning here

which was then picked up as...

11 Jordanian officials resign after bombings on CNN.  No that is how an administration accepts responsibility for complete and utter intelligence failures.

Sorry no transcript that I can find, but let me share with you some of his comments as best that I can recall.

Obviously it has been discussed ad nauseum around here including by Markos on the front page now.

(Why is the MSM like MSNBC a week behind like the pie story, and Markos a day or two behind the Diary Writers of DK?)  

Anyway...