Dreaming of Home

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Tuesday December 25, 2012 · 9:00 AM PST

2012/12/25 · 09:00

This one will be short. Follow below the orange croissant.

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Saturday August 25, 2012 · 6:23 PM PDT

2012/08/25 · 18:23

Much of this diary is to be filled with excerpts from the first diary I wrote here on DK, as Armstrong's first steps on the moon continue to be among the firmest memories of my life. I'm a long time space geek -- my favorite toy growing up was a commemorative edition GI Joe of John Glenn and his Friendship 7 capsule to scale, complete with an authentic spacesuit (with a helmet visor, tinted to block the glare of the sun) and a 45 of some of the communications between him and ground control during his flight (with one note of inauthenticity: A tether for a spacewalk, which Glenn did not undertake). I also eagerly and carefully put together the plastic models of the Apollo rockets and moon lander. Fun times -- and the moon landing and walk were more than just mere icing on the cake. So, 'neath the orange fillagree, I present you with a bit of reprise and a personal observation.

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Monday July 04, 2011 · 4:00 PM PDT

2011/07/04 · 16:00

The words of the Declaration of Independence still ring across the centuries with as a vibrant a statement of principles -- not merely the practical, bill of particulars of the singular injustices unde which the Colonies chafed, but for the bold statement of the philosophy of the quarrel:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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Friday March 25, 2011 · 5:48 PM PDT

2011/03/25 · 17:48

It was 100 years ago today.

A fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building (now known as the Brown Building) located near Greenwich Village in Manhattan and consumed the building's top three floors.

146 people died in the fire.

And we see today people willing to have that horror repeated.

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Tuesday October 26, 2010 · 5:48 AM PDT

2010/10/26 · 05:48

No, this is not just another GOTV diary.

Well, actually it is. But not about what we've been talking about, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and (to a much lesser extent) governorships.

Nor is this about what will happen to health reform, financial reform, and the prospects for any further stimulus (dim as that prospect appears to me thus far), although these issues will be affected.

This is about the long-range future, and Karl Rove's cited "permanent Republican majority." Read on.

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Monday July 19, 2010 · 7:01 PM PDT

2010/07/19 · 19:01

We've all seen it. Tea Partiers and Republicans denying that there is any racism in the Tea Party, employing a pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain move-along-nothing-to see-here approach to dealing with the issue.

Case in point:

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 · 12:15 AM PDT

2010/07/13 · 00:15

Harvey Pekar, the author of the comic book series American Splendor and a frequent guest at one time on David Letterman's show, died Monday Morning at the age of 70.

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 10:31 PM PDT

2009/09/11 · 22:31

I know: That's hard to listen to, hard to take.

So was 9/11/2001.

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Monday May 25, 2009 · 9:55 PM PDT

2009/05/25 · 21:55

In Flanders Field

John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

"War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means." - Karl von Clausewitz

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 5:12 PM PST

2008/11/10 · 17:12

This is something of a cautionary tale, a warning, inspired by what we've just witnessed and accomplished. The older folk among us well remember these events (and no doubt their memories may differ, as that is the nature of memory), which may make this a bit of a history lesson for the younger among us. But this caution is to be seen as a call to action. So, join me in a trip down memory lane after the fold.

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Dreaming of Home

Neil Armstrong, August 5 1930-August 25 2012

For The Fourth: And Who'll Deny That's What The Fighting's All About?

Triangle Shirtwaist: It was 100 Years Ago Today....

This November, think nationally, act locally.

Why the Tea Party covers up it's racism

Harvey Pekar 1940 - 2010

9/11

How do we honor the fallen?

In 1968, I was 11