Sell $1 Trillion for $1

Tom0063

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Wednesday July 27, 2011 · 8:53 PM PDT

2011/07/27 · 20:53

Wild idea, but wild times cause for wild ideas, maybe.....

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$ 1 Trillion for $ 1?

12 votes Vote Now!

$ 1 Trillion for $ 1?

Crazy

5 votes

So crazy it just might work

6 votes

Pie

0 votes

I want to thank Rush Limbaugh

Tom0063

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Monday January 10, 2011 · 8:25 PM PST

2011/01/10 · 20:25

Along with Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Beck and all the others.

Hannity provided a particular turning point today with his observation that liberal rage over rightist rhetoric during this tragic time was "evidence that liberals have lost the policy debate."

They are right. The more we rage against them, the more we rationalize their culpability, the more feed for their victim-mill.

They know this game, and they love it. They can't lose. Unless we take all our energy from this, forget about them and their drama queen personalities, and channel it to a a hit against their strongest (weakest) point: gun control

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123 votes Show Results

Best outlet for our sorrow and rage?

123 votes Vote Now!

Best outlet for our sorrow and rage?

Rage against hatemongers

11 votes

Advocate improvement of mental health care

35 votes

Work for better gun control

38 votes

We're all doomed

25 votes

Apple pie

13 votes

OK People - It's Crunch Time!

Tom0063

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 5:12 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 17:12

Call for Coakley.

Click here for 5 numbers:

www.obama.com

NOW.

Tom0063

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Friday November 27, 2009 · 12:29 PM PST

2009/11/27 · 12:29

My old friends (we worked together at the airport 20 years ago)

were going to come visit me in Omaha for New Year

Not now.

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Is conspicuous consumption...

36 votes Vote Now!

Is conspicuous consumption...

What makes the world go round.

3 votes

A personal choice

5 votes

A personal vice

4 votes

A social ill

5 votes

A major structural problem

16 votes

Exquisite Norwegian cloudberry pie

2 votes

Let's remember - it's Yes WE Can, not Yes HE Can

Tom0063

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 10:51 AM PDT

2009/09/02 · 10:51

The right has been amazingly energized by their fight against healthcare reform. They think they are winning the battle.

The left has become much more complacent, relying upon our electoral victories as if the job was already done.

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28 votes Show Results

My commitment to healthcare activism is:

28 votes Vote Now!

My commitment to healthcare activism is:

I'm doing too much and I need to cut back

1 vote

I'm doing as much as I can

7 votes

I need to do more

12 votes

I'd like to do more but just can't right now

1 vote

It won't make any difference - why bother

5 votes

Apple Pie

1 vote

Help! We're meeting Ben Nelson on Wednesday

Tom0063

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 10:34 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 10:34

Dear DKOS members,

It was just announced that the healthcare town hall of all healthcare townhalls, the first Ben Nelson healthcare townhall, is due to take place here in Omaha on Wednesday.

We need help in formulating the most trenchant questions and brief comments, specifically those that will take apart his lack of support for the public options.

Ummmm.....here I must confess my ignorance....

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Should the Netroots help Nebraska with Ben Nelson?

49 votes Vote Now!

Should the Netroots help Nebraska with Ben Nelson?

Yes! This is what we were made for!

31 votes

Probably, even if it isn't 100% guaranteed to work

7 votes

Don't know if it's work the effort

1 vote

Useless

7 votes

Grass Fed Sandhills Beef Pot Pie

2 votes

Bumper Crop Sweet Corn (vegetarian option)

0 votes

On the Demise of Pie

Tom0063

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Sunday March 08, 2009 · 9:40 AM PDT

2009/03/08 · 09:40

This just a very short diary, but it is warranted because it covers a rather important item for safeguarding the efficacy of polls on dKos.

I have noticed over the past few months that poll takers have increasingly stopped serving pie in their polls......

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94 votes Show Results

Should we comment pollsters who offer no pie?

94 votes Vote Now!

Should we comment pollsters who offer no pie?

Yes

11 votes

7 votes

Couldn't resist choosing some pie here (even though I think we should comment).

25 votes

Pie

50 votes

Mission Accomplished! Pat Robertson "Remarkably Pleased with Obama"

Tom0063

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Wednesday December 24, 2008 · 4:34 AM PST

2008/12/24 · 04:34

I have been enormously grateful to many in the Dkos community as you have struggled and grown on the issue of homophobia the last few days.

And then last night Pat Robertson crows that he is "Remarkably Pleased" with Obama.

Doesnt' this make even hard core progressive Obama fans (of which I was one) squirm with nervousness?

(Anti-Warren diary trolls: this is not a Warren Diary - it is a Pat Robertson Diary).

And a diary about labor expert Mary Beth Maxwell (a lesbian from my hometown and my grandmother's home parish) being dumped in favor of a Hispanic congresswoman not particularly involved in labor issues. (They say the Hispanics were mad at only getting Commerce - so much for "no tokenism").

This is a diary about the fact that the greatest GLBT presence at the inauguration is a band that has "graciously" been "allowed" to participate in the parade.

This is most important a diary about "who will be sacrificed next"?

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38 votes Show Results

LGBT inauguration/cabinet slams

38 votes Vote Now!

LGBT inauguration/cabinet slams

Smart

7 votes

Tragic

7 votes

Despicable

6 votes

Sadly Necessary

7 votes

Kool-aid Pie

4 votes

Tart but vivacious Key West Key Lime Pie

6 votes

Change.gov has shut down its discussion Forum

Tom0063

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Friday December 19, 2008 · 4:24 PM PST

2008/12/19 · 16:24

It seems that due to the Warren fiasco

Change.gov has closed down Join the Discussion for the people to talk to the transition team.

They are stopped at 4,199 entries.

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Who's the next sacrificial lamb at the alter of national unity

209 votes Vote Now!

Who's the next sacrificial lamb at the alter of national unity

Labor

96 votes

Teachers

25 votes

Immigrants

27 votes

Wall Street Bankers

9 votes

CEO's of failed companies

9 votes

Blacks

6 votes

Retirees

16 votes

crow pie (for intense Obama campaigners)

16 votes

sweet revenge pie (for Hillary supporters)

4 votes

Most Serious McCain Chaos Moment Yet: Updated 3x

Tom0063

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 9:27 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 09:27

Getting this up so it can be front and center for those who rely on Dkos.

This, taken with the "my fellow prisoners" slip, really do raise questions.

Slinkerwink posted this first in her Obama ad diary, but I think it deserves its own.

Videos and text commentary under the fold.

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Was McCain's Mistake

325 votes Vote Now!

Was McCain's Mistake

Mental Confusion

15 votes

Chaotic Organization

90 votes

Mental Confusion and Chaotic Organization

172 votes

Joe's Fault

13 votes

Plumber's Pie (ahem)

9 votes

Assisted Living Lemon Cream Pie

26 votes

Touching Lives by Canvassing

Tom0063

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 10:44 AM PDT

2008/10/19 · 10:44

I've been canvassing quite a bit the last few weeks.

The weather has been glorious every Saturday, and it has been wonderful to get out and talk to real people rather than just banter and rave with disembodied intellects online.

I've been working on my legislative district, LD 7, the old-ethnic, blue collar, ever-more Hispanic neighborhood of Omaha. I was born and grew up here, then moved away for 25 years and just returned last year.

Omaha is the only city in the nation with our own separate electoral vote

(NE CD2 - NE and ME are the only 2 not-winner-take-all states)

There have been many interesting moments as I have learned how to share with people, but yesterday one conversation really stood out.

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Have you had any

7 votes Vote Now!

Have you had any

Yes, indeed

2 votes

No, but the

0 votes

I really have a hard time seeing the value of the work I did.

0 votes

I'd love to canvass, but no time

2 votes

I'd love to canvass but disabilities prohibit

0 votes

I'd like to help, but I too much anxiety talking like this to voters

1 vote

They'd be crazy to let me get near the voters

1 vote

South Omaha Pirogi

0 votes

South Omaha Sopapilllas

1 vote

Updated: Cooler Russian Heads Agree: It's Wag the Dog

Tom0063

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Wednesday August 13, 2008 · 2:55 PM PDT

2008/08/13 · 14:55

Update: the information from Geiiga (in comments below) that Karl Rove made a special trip to the Crimea recently provides further evidence of the correctness of this analysis.

My last diary analyzed the likelihood that the attack on Ossetia was a classic "Wag the Dog" scenario, with the war being unleashed by Cheney to whip up good old war hysteria and bolster sorry Republican chances.

Target No. 1 of the Ossetia Attack: Obama.

The majority of Kossack poll participants agreed with the analysis.

Well it looks like at least one of Russia's leading political analysts agrees.

In today's Izvestia , one of the top 3 Russian newspapers, there is an analysis of the situation by Sergei Markov, director of the Political Studies Institute.

Here's the link to the Izvestia article.

Since I cannot just refer most of you, dear Kossacks, to the Russian version, I will need to provide translated quotations at length.

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What is the target of the Ossetia Attack?

127 votes Vote Now!

What is the target of the Ossetia Attack?

Ossetia. Saakashvili wants it and that's all there is and nothing more.

12 votes

Georgia. Russian beasts wants it.

5 votes

Russia. NATO must beat back the bear at all cost.

2 votes

NATO. Russia will not have it, and they made it impossible for Saakashvili not to attack Ossetia.

13 votes

Obama. All the real issues above were just tinder for this conflagration. Cheney lit the match to warm up the fire for Friend John.

77 votes

Lynn Cheney's Apple Pie

8 votes

Spicy Caucasian Pie

10 votes

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