Why I Stopped Blogging at Daily Kos

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Thursday May 21, 2009 · 9:46 AM PDT

2009/05/21 · 09:46

There are just way too many people in there. There are so many that something strange and sort of ugly has evolved concerning authorship.

I have found that over the years there have been many good diaries scroll off down the poop chute toward oblivion without half a nod. Horrors!

Some of these diaries were mine, mostly not because I write here very seldom. There have been cases where well written pieces just disappeared without hardly a comment. And why? There is a standard you have to meet to get to the rec list.

Batbird

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Sunday January 25, 2009 · 9:47 AM PST

2009/01/25 · 09:47

via To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults - washingtonpost.com.

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 25, 2009; Page A01

With Obama, al-Qaeda faces an entirely new challenge, experts say: a U.S. president who campaigned to end the Iraq war and to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who polls show is well liked throughout the Muslim world.

Whether the pro-Obama sentiment will last remains to be seen. On Friday, the new administration signaled that it intends to continue at least one of Bush's controversial counterterrorism policies: allowing CIA missile strikes on alleged terrorist hideouts in Pakistan's autonomous tribal region.

Batbird

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Friday December 26, 2008 · 8:39 AM PST

2008/12/26 · 08:39

The Washington Post ran an article yesterday titled Army Officials Say Many More Active-Duty Troops Are Needed by Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post Staff Writer.

The gist of the story goes like this: the army is so overworked that we need more men, 30000 to be exact. On the contrary, what is so overworked is the phrase "the army is overworked".

There is a better solution than adding more soldiers.

Batbird

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Tuesday November 25, 2008 · 9:56 AM PST

2008/11/25 · 09:56

I was unsure that the release of Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan had been diaried. The search turned up no diaries so on I go.

A new day is dawning on America and the sunrise looks like this:

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I have read some news this morning that has made me proud, once again, to be born in the USA. This may be yesterday's news but it made my day when I read it this morning. There are a couple of articles out about the military trial of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, detailing the results of his verdict, much to the chagrin of the DOD.

Hamdan:

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Sunday November 23, 2008 · 10:48 AM PST

2008/11/23 · 10:48

This started out as a comment to the diary It's OK to be an American now by teacherken. He touched briefly on a subject that is important to me and got my juices flowing. However, they overflowed too much, so here I am.

This may be old hat, may be a bit boring for some, so I'm going to throw in some patriotic pictures just to ease the pain. So here we go and the subject is the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Batbird

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Thursday November 20, 2008 · 3:51 PM PST

2008/11/20 · 15:51

We all play the movie reel in our heads about withdrawal from Iraq, what it will look like. It’s the one that has pictures of ships being loaded, long convoys headed away from Baghdad, and all the other things involved in that maneuver. We wonder how many will stay behind and for how long. And I ask, just what will the status quo look like in Iraq during these times of imminent withdrawal?

Batbird

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Monday November 17, 2008 · 1:07 PM PST

2008/11/17 · 13:07

I began posting comments on DKos sometime before the 2006 election. Before that, since before the 2004 election, I had been posting comments to articles on the online version of my local newspaper. That was a great experience because there were many there who knew for certain that Liberals were cut and runners and my mission in life was to debunk them. It was a free for all sometimes. I learned that no matter how much truth there was on my side, the right-wing nut-job mouth breathers either were going to drown me out with talking points, or attack me on a person level mercilessly when that failed. So in order to seek out greener pastures, and having heard how great DKos is, I signed up in 2006.

Batbird

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 4:32 AM PST

2008/11/02 · 04:32

Here are the reasons why John McCain is having a tough time catching up in the polls according to McCain’s advisers in the Washington Post article titled The State of the Races, By David S. Broder, Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, November 2, 2008:

McCain advisers said yesterday that they think the race has tightened but acknowledged that the senator has a difficult path to victory, given the economy, Bush's unpopularity and the sour public mood.

The poor thing! Those reasons are supposed to justify McCain’s inability to regain the lead. Here’s my take on these scapegoats.

Batbird

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 8:50 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 08:50

I was just browsing today's diaries and was marveled at how quickly the news of J.T. Plumber's no-show was caught and then posted on DKos. Amazing.

Batbird

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 9:43 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 09:43

I received the following viral email from an old Army buddy that I am still in touch with (amazingly) since I retired seven years ago. The version I got was in large letters and in different colors to highlight the talking points. I’m sure that most everyone has gotten similar mailings. This one motivated me to doing some digging about the economic reality of Bush first few years.

Here’s the letter after the jump:

Batbird

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 9:15 AM PDT

2008/09/19 · 09:15

In light of the recent economic catastrophe on Wall Street I can’t help being reminded of Executive order 51, May 2007, which gives the President unusual powers. Executive orders for continuity of government in response to and recovery from a national emergency are not new (This order revokes Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998, the continuity order established by President Clinton.) but some of the language in this order is stunning.

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Could Bush be so bold?

134 votes Vote Now!

Could Bush be so bold?

Hell yes! It's still not too late for impeachment!

91 votes

Maybe, if WaMu goes under....

10 votes

Nah. This is just tin foil hat stuff.

33 votes

The No Child Left Behind law that no one talks about.

Batbird

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Thursday June 26, 2008 · 10:03 AM PDT

2008/06/26 · 10:03

Some talk has surfaced lately about the NCLB. Barack has mentioned it in speeches saying that the No Child Left behind law left the money behind. I wanted to point out that there are other provisions of the law that also need scrutiny and review.

No Child Left Behind, Subpart 2, Section 9528 requires that school districts release the names, addresses and telephone numbers of juniors and seniors to military recruiters upon request unless an opt-out form is signed by the student's parents and returned.

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Why I Stopped Blogging at Daily Kos

Al-Qaeda getting snitty

More Troops? Now?

Three cheers for Justice over the DOD

The Pledge, under the Constitution, not God (w/update)

Peace and Quiet

My Experience with DKos (so far).

Debunking Scapegoats

First my take on Joe, then some encouraging news

Debunking a viral E-mail from a friend

Is it possible that an economic meltdown = martial law?

The No Child Left Behind law that no one talks about.