Two Vets

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Monday May 31, 2010 · 12:56 PM PDT

2010/05/31 · 12:56

Since it's Memorial Day I want to honor all our veterans, and remember two very special vets. One of them was a great friend of mine, Al Burt, a Vietnam Vet who passed away last year on Memorial Day. The other is a man who I don't know, Paul Reickhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, who is the person possibly most responsible for making sure our returning Iraq & Afganistan vets are treated better than their brothers & sisters who served in Vietnam were.

Before I get to them, i'd like to honor all of our veterans, and ask that we all remember that as we are mostly going on with our lives unaffected, hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters are still in harm's way, and over 2 million Americans have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It seems many Americans have forgotten that, even on Memorial Day. As Reickhoff writes: "On Memorial Day, it feels like we are citizens of two different countries..." Veterans and their families head to the cemetaries, the rest of us head to the beach.

http://iava.org/...

The sacrifice is not shared, it is borne almost exclusively by our military & their families. That is shameful.

catchaz

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Sunday March 21, 2010 · 7:25 PM PDT

2010/03/21 · 19:25

Boenher asked the ReThugs to "act like grown-ups" when the bill passes.

Do you think they will?

Or could it be Joe Wilson X 100?

UPDATE:

verdict is in: I said in comments i hoped reporters were on floor to hear what we couldn't.
It was just reported ReThug yelled "baby killer" at Stupak.

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Will the ReThugs "act like grown-ups" when the bill passes

128 votes Vote Now!

Will the ReThugs "act like grown-ups" when the bill passes

Yes

6 votes

115 votes

maypie

7 votes

Open Homophobia tipped & rec'd on Kos? say it ain't so...

catchaz

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Friday March 19, 2010 · 5:47 PM PDT

2010/03/19 · 17:47

Oh, it be so.

Yesterday, a diary who's title called Dana Milbank "Dick Whisperer" and speculated he gave good head got 31 recs and tips from 50 people.

Yep, 50 people think it's OK to label people we don't like as being gay.

50 people who think calling someone gay is an insult, and a proper one

50 so-called progressives who openly lied and claimed they didn't realize that saying a man must give good head is playing on our country's open hatred of gay people. (Okay, all 50 didn't, but those who did comment were scary!)

That's sad. Not surprising given the state of homophobia in America today, but very sad given this is a supposedly progressive site.

What's much sadder is that the mods let it stand. Sending the unmistakable message that it's OK to use homophobic insults if "we" don't like the person you're insulting.

UPDATE:
I always focus on the bad, i should have given props to those who called out the diarest or Hr'd it:
Aldous, Cartoon Peril, arodb, alliedoc,gave Hr's. Eileen B, purple priestess, robcat said it was offensive.

and i shouldn't have tarred the whole site. maybe mods never speak up? it was heartbreaking because i value the site.

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Is it Ok for progressives to use homophobic insults if we don't like someone?

135 votes Vote Now!

Is it Ok for progressives to use homophobic insults if we don't like someone?

No, if you use homophobic insults you suck!

103 votes

Hell yeah, i hate those f*#@$%%s anyway!

20 votes

i like pie better than gay people

12 votes

Progressives Supporting Hate Groups? Have we lost our minds?!?

catchaz

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Saturday March 06, 2010 · 12:45 PM PST

2010/03/06 · 12:45

I know we're mad, maybe even desperate. But supporting hate groups like the tea-parties, whether you're doing it because you hate people or because you're deluded enough to think it's a good political strategy, amounts to the exact same thing: YOU'RE SUPPORTING HATE GROUPS.

To all of the progressives out there engaging in or advocating this most outrageous and self-defeating behavior, i implore you:

PLEASE STOP SUPPORTING HATE GROUPS!

It is a very bad idea to play silly-ass political games with one of the most dangerous hate movements of our time. But unfortunately, I have read more and more progressives and Kosiacs doing just that, under the highly debatable claim that this will split the ReThugs and help Democrats.

But no matter what the reasoning, you cannot deny that advocating support for tea-partiers under the notion that it will help Democrats is asking us to support hate groups so we can gain politically. That is asking us to put party ahead of country, and should only get one response: HELL FUCKING NO.

PLEASE diarests and front-pagers, help stop the hate, speak up against the lunacy of progressives supporting hate groups!

STOP THE HATE! Now, before it becomes unstoppable.

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Push Poll: Should progressives support Hate groups?

113 votes Vote Now!

Push Poll: Should progressives support Hate groups?

Hell fucking no, are you crazy?

89 votes

Yes, who cares if hate rises in America if we gain politically?

24 votes

We need to start looking for new Democratic Senators in 2010/2012

catchaz

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Thursday February 25, 2010 · 7:46 PM PST

2010/02/25 · 19:46

I am stunned at how poorly so many of our Democratic Senators have behaved in the health care debate.
Do we really have to take this shit? I don't think so.

Right now, it seems our elected leaders are really taking progressives for granted. And that not only hurts us, it hurts the party and the country. America would be better, and Dems would be WAY more popular, if progressives had gotten their way and the public option had been passed.

I think we need to use the primary process to elect real progressives. We have to often acted as if we were ashamed to be progressive - you can't win an argument that way - and you can't win elections without winning those arguments for the voters. Even if we lose the primary, we get the platform for progressivism, as Tea-baggers are doing for their twisted viewpoints in the GOP.

Far too many Democrats have failed to lead or even opposed the fight for real health care reform,. I think we have the right and obligation on a progressives site to speak up in progressive opposition to any elected Democrat any of us feels need a primary challenger.

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Should Kosiacs use Daily Kos to promote progressive challengers to Democratic incumbents?

112 votes Vote Now!

Should Kosiacs use Daily Kos to promote progressive challengers to Democratic incumbents?

sure (yes)

88 votes

never (no)

3 votes

sometimes (maybe)

17 votes

pie (delicious)

4 votes

CNN & Lincoln Reports: Lincoln Scolds Obama

catchaz

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 2:55 PM PST

2010/02/03 · 14:55

Sorry for the drive-by diary, but need to after reading the excellent diary here by MinistryofTruth about Obama's exchange with Blanche Lincoln, and then immediately seeing a CNN report on the exchange. (Maybe someone who knows how will post a link to the clip, it occurred about 4:15 CENTRAL time.)

In a story about how six Dems used the discussion today to make campaign clips of themselves "standing up to Obama" (they reported that Lincoln has actually already starting putting out part of the exchange on a campaign website) CNN showed Lincoln asking a nasty question about lack of business experience in the White House, and then clipped the Obama answer to begin "Senator Lincoln is exactly right..."

So according to CNN & Blanche Lincoln, she stood up to Obama and he agreed with her.

oh well...

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Lincoln v Obama winner

179 votes Vote Now!

Lincoln v Obama winner

Both

2 votes

Neither

8 votes

Lincoln by a knockout

12 votes

Lincoln by a decision

1 vote

Obama by a knockout

97 votes

Obama by a decision

15 votes

stupidest poll ever

44 votes

Thank you People's Historian Howard Zinn, w/ links.

catchaz

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 3:53 PM PST

2010/01/27 · 15:53

A true American hero has died.

Howard Zinn may have done as much as anyone to change the perverted view of history as a record only of the doings of the rich and powerful. A People's History of the United States is an essential part of any American education.

Sorry, more of a report than a diary. But I wanted to thank Howard Zinn for helping to pull the wool from the eyes of generations of Americans, myself included through the work of his students. I was pleased to read that 2 of my favorite people, Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman, were students of his.

Link to article from Boston Globe.

http://www.boston.com/...

Since already diaried. i'll ad a few links below fold for those who want to learn more about Howard Zinn.

First is his idea of what we should do now...

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Have you read all or parts of "A People's History of the US"

41 votes Vote Now!

Have you read all or parts of "A People's History of the US"

yes

32 votes

8 votes

maybe

1 vote

Democratic Men Fail, Feminists Get Blame?

catchaz

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Sunday January 10, 2010 · 1:04 PM PST

2010/01/10 · 13:04

Just when you think you've heard it all...

For the past few months the Democratic men who run the country have been busy throwing the Democratic women who elected them under the bus. Now, on the supposedly progressive Daily Kos, we have a front page diary that harshly attacks those the writer holds responsible for the hideous treatment American women have been getting.

Do they blame the Congress that has passed the hideous anti-woman legislation, the Congress that is 83 PERCENT MALE?
No they don't.

Do they blame people like Max baucus, who successfully watered down real helath care reform while cheating on his wife and paying his mistress a government salary?
No they don't.

Do they blame the vested sexist interests who are working their asses off to keep women from achieving equality?
No they don't.

So who the hell do they blame? Oh, of course, this is America, so BLAME THE WOMEN. But even that's not enough to turn reality exactly upside down, so they go further, they blame the people who seem to be the ONLY people trying to stand up to the bigots, the feminists.

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Is it feminists fault that the Blue Dogs are fucking over women?

63 votes Vote Now!

Is it feminists fault that the Blue Dogs are fucking over women?

hell no!

16 votes

hell no, only a moron would think that.

35 votes

hell yes, it's always the women's fault.

12 votes

Baucus Proves (again) We Need More Democratic Women w/ poll & update

catchaz

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Saturday December 05, 2009 · 3:19 PM PST

2009/12/05 · 15:19

Once again, despite the ReThugs hatred of women and their endless policies designed to enforce that hate, one of our Democratic "brothers", Max Baucus, is giving these hateful ReThugs another chance to get votes from women.

There is only one solution to this ongoing problem: MORE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN IN POLITICAL OFFICE. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is what Democratic men have when it comes to women's rights. Since they get ZERO support from the ReThugs, women's rights are left to Democrats, and since far too many elected Dems are men, and far far too many of them are scummy men like Baucus & Edwards, women's rights are left behind. (See: Stupak amendment.)

Abominations like the Stupak amendment are what you get when you have such a ridiculously low percentage of women in office. So please, please, please, support Democratic women in the primaries.

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Do we need more Democratic women in office?

54 votes Vote Now!

Do we need more Democratic women in office?

yes (duh!)

45 votes

no, the men are doing just fine.

5 votes

pie (baked by a man!)

4 votes

The Full Unedited Unabridged Story of Palin's Revolutionary Effect on U.S.

catchaz

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Sunday November 29, 2009 · 12:46 PM PST

2009/11/29 · 12:46

Many more woman are now wearing boots. (just look, you can see for yourself!)

Many more people say batshit crazy things in public without anyone being surprised. (just listen, you can hear it for youself!)

catchaz

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Saturday November 28, 2009 · 3:39 PM PST

2009/11/28 · 15:39

[Headline redacted - MB]

OK, there are security problems, then there are SERIOUS security problems. This weekend, the secret service, who many have claimed have the situation well in hand regarding the most at-risk POTUS in American history, let a woman without a pass, who bore a hideous resemblance to ANN COULTER into the White House. They even allowed her to shake hands with the president! WTF?

I apologize to those who think this isn't funny. Actually, I don't either. I'm trying to use the ill attempt at humor to drive home the crucial point that Obama is in real danger. I've written diaries on the subject of the real danger facing Obama:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
http://www.dailykos.com/...

Everyone needs to read the article linked below the fold, because, as the article title states, the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this a president was killed.

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Does this incident prove Secret Service doesn't have situation in hand?

102 votes Vote Now!

Does this incident prove Secret Service doesn't have situation in hand?

yes

65 votes

12 votes

maybe

19 votes

pie

6 votes

Just say HELL NO to individual mandates without PublicOption

catchaz

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Saturday November 21, 2009 · 3:14 PM PST

2009/11/21 · 15:14

I am writing because i am in absolute disbelief over what it appears our cowardly and/or blue-dog Democrats are about to do to us and the country.

The idea of forcing people to buy insurance from the same crooks that got us into the current mess is the greatest corporate ReThugs' wet dream. But it's not the ReThugs that are about to pass it, it's the corporate Democrats. It's is surely the greatest stab in the back of the progressive movement since Bill Clinton signed and bragged about signing the welfare deform bill, ending the safety net it took Dems from FDR to LBJ to help create. But even Clinton wasn't conservative enough to fall for this crap. In one of his only productive decisions during his HCR fight, he flatly rejected individual mandates

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when i hear people brag "this bill provides 96% of Americans with health insurance." BULLSHIT! This forces people to buy their insurance, we aren't covering them they are covering themselves! To take credit as if we're "providing" people with some kind of service is a lie, and an outrageous lie at that.

We should fight like hell against any bill that FORCES people to buy any product from crooks, as this one will do without the Public Option.

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Q: will they "act like grown-ups"? A: "baby killer!"

Open Homophobia tipped & rec'd on Kos? say it ain't so...

Progressives Supporting Hate Groups? Have we lost our minds?!?

We need to start looking for new Democratic Senators in 2010/2012

CNN & Lincoln Reports: Lincoln Scolds Obama

Thank you People's Historian Howard Zinn, w/ links.

Democratic Men Fail, Feminists Get Blame?

Baucus Proves (again) We Need More Democratic Women w/ poll & update

The Full Unedited Unabridged Story of Palin's Revolutionary Effect on U.S.

Future news: Ann Coulter Sneaks into WH (w/ Poll)

Just say HELL NO to individual mandates without PublicOption