Daily Kos: bergman16

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Thursday November 04, 2010 · 6:59 PM PDT

2010/11/04 · 18:59

I won't insult anyone's intelligence with a long intro, just a poll.

How many Blue Dogs will switch to the GOP in the next 90 days? Any Senators (remember Shelby and Campbell after the 1994 wipeout?)?

Actually, not a poll, just food for thought...Okay, a poll after the jump.

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119 votes Show Results

How many Benedict Arnolds?

119 votes Vote Now!

How many Benedict Arnolds?

0 Reps and 0 Senators

27 votes

Between 1 and 5 Reps and 0 Senators

41 votes

Btwn 1 and 5 reps and 1 Senator

24 votes

Btwn 5-10 reps and 0 senators

4 votes

btwn 5-10 reps and 1 senator

10 votes

more than any of the above

10 votes

tiramisu

3 votes

Right-wing flame war in NYTimes!

bergman16

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 7:45 PM PST

2010/01/22 · 19:45

An interesting NYTimes magazine essay just hit the internet. I am truly sorry to make this a crappy little link/nondiary, but it's worth reading in its entirety and (mostly) enjoying.

link below

(above edited slightly since posting)

Desperate ******bag Jay Leno Dumps on Public Option

bergman16

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Thursday November 19, 2009 · 6:58 AM PST

2009/11/19 · 06:58

Douchebag Jay dumped on the public option in his monologue last night. You know, his...you mean you don't know? Jay has a show...Stop me if you were unaware of this. I thought perhaps you were one of the nine people who watch him in his 'new' show in his new timeslot. You aren't?

Of course you aren't. My bad. Link below the jump.

Get the dang kids in the Public Plan!

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Sunday November 01, 2009 · 4:59 PM PST

2009/11/01 · 16:59

Two things in the House plan that seem to me to be at odds--particularly if it's going to be based on negotiated rates--is the public plan portion of the bill and the extension of parents' rights to have children on their plan up until age 26.

More below..

Gaaaaa! Mine Eyes!!!!!

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 3:05 PM PDT

2009/10/07 · 15:05

Okay, my 12-year-old is typing this because I am forced to keep my head under the faucet to extinguish the flames from my eyes. That....SKIN!!! It's so painful. It's so...slow. It's so...

Why the GOP won't regain Congress in 2010: Me!

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 10:11 AM PDT

2009/10/01 · 10:11

I've been thinking over the last week about why I'm so convinced that the GOP will not be able to take back many seats next year, and basically it comes down to this. They won't because of me.

Not because I'm Soros-like God, with bottomless pockets, nor that I have a brilliant electoral strategy. Really, it's because I am so much like you.

More below.

Poll

62 votes Show Results

For the 1994 mid-term elections I

62 votes Vote Now!

For the 1994 mid-term elections I

Was able to vote but was completely oblivious and didn't

5 votes

Kinda noticed them in a haze of ___________ but didn't vote

2 votes

Voted but without a lot of info

10 votes

Was totally up to speed, voted, but didn't donate, etc.

16 votes

Same as I am now, committed, informed, active, and a contributor

10 votes

was unable to vote (non-citizen, too young, etc.)

19 votes

Rich Benjamin video nails the bagger racism w/update

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Thursday September 17, 2009 · 5:49 AM PDT

2009/09/17 · 05:49

There's a new book coming out by a Stanford scholar who spent some time in whites-only exurbs, found friendliness but cluelessness about how segregated America is once again becoming. It's not my intention to hawk the book or even the writers' fine work, but I did want to pass along a link to the YouTube ad and particularly the responses to it.

In a nutshell, you see in the video the "But we're not racists" public face of the new segregation, and in the comments you see what these folks say when they don't have a camera in their faces. It's mind-blowing.

More and a YouTube link after the jump, with the over-the-top vile bagger responses that made even jaded old me blush.

Link and disclaimer below the fold.

UPDATE: the 'nailing' I referred to has less to do with the author's book as it has to do with the comments the YouTube video engendered and the juxtaposition of the two. Troutfishing's recc'd diary also made me think using the term 'bagger' so loosely is a mistake. Title fail, perhaps. I do encourage you to click through and read the comments if you're so inclined.

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57 votes Show Results

Do you think we're re-segregating America?

57 votes Vote Now!

Do you think we're re-segregating America?

Naw, slowly and surely we're evening everything out.

13 votes

Yes, but the freedom to live anywhere (and move away when you don't like your new neighbors is what makes us great,

12 votes

Yes, and it's a damn shame

32 votes

Hey, NYTimes, end the weasel-words and make history again!

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Monday May 04, 2009 · 7:06 AM PDT

2009/05/04 · 07:06

Today's NYTimes story: "Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White House" by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, used the following terms to avoid the simple noun "torture" when discussing what the US did to detainees:

brutal tactics
C.I.A. methods (X2)
interrogation policy
the program (X5)
C.I.A. program (X4)
the policies
coercive interrogation methods (X3)
interrogation program
agency's methods
harsh interrogation(s) (X4)
"enhanced" interrogation
coercive methods
physical pressure

You will find the word 'torture' used in that story, but only in reference to a UN proclamation against it. The rest of the article is a lovely hatdance by the writers, apparently still unwilling (or by editorial fiat, unable) to use the proper and accurate term when discussing US tactics.

But the Times has had no problem using the term torture elsewhere, for the same tactics...

Lies about Flyne Swu: By Reps Bachman & Foxx (R-Wingdale)

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Thursday April 30, 2009 · 7:14 AM PDT

2009/04/30 · 07:14

Representative Foxx and I (Representator Bachman) would like to take this opportunity to address the Kaily Dos community and speak specifically about the lies and impropoganda about the Mexican affair, that being the gist of misinformation whose source is south of our wonderful border to the south but doesn't include the wet part.

Please continue to follow our discussion felow the bold:

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36 votes Show Results

Which is scarier?

36 votes Vote Now!

Which is scarier?

Hogmilking migrant workers

3 votes

Al Gore's huge moneymaking global warming Ponzee scheme

6 votes

President Obama's lack of any record of live human birth

11 votes

Michelle Obama's delts

5 votes

The flesh-eating French first puppy

11 votes

Ask your GOP friend why they want to make rape legal.

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Friday April 24, 2009 · 6:34 AM PDT

2009/04/24 · 06:34

It seems to me like that there's one good analogy to use whenever one of these torture enablers says something like, "How can it be a crime if we do it to our own people?"

The reply? "Because in our SERE program, participants are doing it willingly. They volunteered for it, and they know that everyone in the room knows that."

The predictable response will be "What difference does that make? It's the same techniques, the same result."

The next point is key...

Torturer's club was simply planning for the fallout from another attack

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 7:23 AM PDT

2009/04/23 · 07:23

One thing that I'm sure many here have already figured out (I think I'm quite late to this realization), is that the core group of terror enablers in the Bush administration weren't primarily concerned that Americans would get killed in another mass attack. Their real nightmare was that America would get attacked and they would be blamed. They knew the tactics were unlikely to give them any info they couldn't get (more efficiently) in other ways. They knew they were breaking the law. The reason they did it was because they were convinced another attack would happen on their watch and they needed something extraordinary, unprecedented, to show they tried to prevent it.

My reasoning below.

A lede for any interviewer of McCain

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 6:21 AM PDT

2008/09/11 · 06:21

I realize that there are as many suggestions for ways to go after McCain as there are diarists, but I would like to see any interviewer, during a debate or the increasingly uncommon press conferences, ask the following question of McCain:

"After 8 years of having a leader who literally had no idea what was going on in his administration--the crimes, the perjury, the incompetence--how is it that you are allowing others in your campaign to operate in a way that you don't condone?"

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