Have we forgotten the lesson of the USSR?

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Sunday November 29, 2009 · 7:52 AM PST

2009/11/29 · 07:52

What is wrong with all the folks who want to jail those nitwits who snuck in to see Obama?

Are we the new Soviet Union?

Anybody remember Mathias Rust?

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

These people did us (and Obama) a favor.....they identified a security breach.

Going after them hard legally makes no sense unless they committed felonies to get admitted AND have things in their record suggesting that they were bent on doing mischief once they got in.

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 6:33 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 06:33

The national tracking polls (on their faces) seem to be tightening significantly (or at least were until yesterday), throwing all of us into a semiparanoid tizzy. We can't contemplate the slightest chance that the GOP: will continue to run our country into the ground with any equanimity at all. It just isn't funny..........

However, there is a very hopeful factor that we should consider before we ask our shrinks to prescribe us his favorite phenothiazine - or cyanide.

I noticed that if you assume Obama wins all of the states that he currently has 90% win probability or better (as per 538), he gets 286 EV and a clear (if not resounding) win. How can he be within 5% on national polls - i.e. well within the sampling error range of most polls and by no means a done deal?

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I am asking MY shrink for

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I am asking MY shrink for

cyanide

4 votes

cannabinoids (for nausea, of course)

35 votes

antipsychotics

5 votes

a nice Freudian "talking down"

8 votes

a little more smack

5 votes

how DARE you call us shrinks!

3 votes

arsenic (I need to go slowly and painfully)

2 votes

Moral outrage about JRE is for SUCKERS

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Friday August 08, 2008 · 8:24 PM PDT

2008/08/08 · 20:24

I don't really know where to start.

America has been led down the garden path by power hungry people riding moral high horses for years now - we're famous for it around the world.

They do it with God, fear and our own sense of being better than anyone else around...."American exceptionalism"

GOPers have done it for the past 30 years, railing against other people's totalitarianism and with the fear of the Bomb.

In the past decade, people who wanted to loot this country did it using a combination of fear and a spasm of nativism brought on by 9/11 to distract our attention and make us lose perspective.

Obedience to a Christian God and being holier than thou are underlying themes as well. They work well to foster GOP goals.

But we on the Left do it too....we lose perspective and equate things that are vastly unequal in importance, and get deluded as a consequence too..........

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Friday January 12, 2007 · 12:27 PM PST

2007/01/12 · 12:27

Bush was at 44% approval/ 54% disapproval 2 days ago in the (much maligned) Rasmussen tracking poll. His support has undergone the fastest drop ever recorded (for him) to todays reading of 35%/63% A/D.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/...

That's a net shift of 19 points in the A/D difference in 2 days.

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 3:09 PM PST

2006/11/17 · 15:09

I have seen several references to this rumor today, one in ThinkProgress.

It seems to be an anonymous source saying that since Rove screwed up real bad on the election, Harriet Meiers, Trent Lott and sundry others have it in for him, and Susan Ralston was forced to resign, KKKarl will retire "within weeks, not months".

I'll take vanilla on the rumor, which is not why I write this diary.

I am writing the diary because the Freepi seem to be taking this big, and it's been fun to watch Read More

Bush plummets to record low 32% approval in Pew poll

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Thursday November 16, 2006 · 6:34 PM PST

2006/11/16 · 18:34

For a change from recriminations and backbiting, we have here a delicious piece of info from Pew - the folks who were telling us that the Dems were losing their Congressional lead just before the election, producing who knows how many Maalox moments in Kossackstan.

http://www.pollingreport.com/...

Bush is at 32% approval, 58% disapproval.

This represents a jump from an A/D spread of just 13 points before the election to 26 points a week afterward.

Even assuming that the pre election sample was skewed GOP, that's not bad.

That's the worst A and the worst D in Pew EVER - even lower than the May nadir Read More

Looks like Good Weather for Election Day - Is that Good?

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Sunday October 29, 2006 · 7:36 PM PST

2006/10/29 · 19:36

Long range forecasts strongly suggest that the weather will be precipitation free for virtually the ENTIRE USA outside of Alaska, with the exception of the Northwest coast states (WA, OR and some of Northern CA - you guys always cop it this time of year).

Here's a 48hour precipitation map for the period of next Monday through Tuesday night: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/...

Before anyone flames me in disgust for suggesting that a weather forecast 8-9 days away is worth a damn, let me say this:
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W: I can ship Dems off to Gitmo now

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Wednesday October 18, 2006 · 10:37 AM PDT

2006/10/18 · 10:37

Well not QUITE literally

But that's the gist of what he has actually said.....and it amounts to that........Seriously.

Keith Olbermann really wasn't joking about his "See me in Gitmo"

From today's Froomkin:http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

First, Bushie LIKES this bill - he didn't even do a signing statement!

Here's another sign of how pleased the White House was with this legislation.
Signing statements -- in which the president quietly asserts his right to ignore legislative provisions that he believes conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution -- have become a controversial tradition at the Bush White House.

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Monday October 09, 2006 · 8:26 AM PDT

2006/10/09 · 08:26

This is from a post front paged at Americablog http://AMERICAblog.blogspot.com/

I am posting it as a diary here because I think that "Axis of Failure" is an inspired political slogan that perfectly captures the failures of Bushevik foreign policy and which deserves to be used generally in the course of the next month to counteract the attempts of Busheviks to:

1) change the subject from Masturgate

2) conflate failure in North Korea with the WOT and use both to inspire the Fear and Cowardice conditioned response from the American Voter that they evoked so masterfully in '02 and '04. Read More

We have to name it: "The Disappearing Act of 2006"

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 6:52 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 06:52

We have to name this bill!

The GOPers like to pin ridiculously non-descriptive names on their legislation that usually suggest the opposite of the effects that said legislation will have on America:

The Patriot Act
No Child Left Behind
Clear Skies

etc. etc.

Lets beat them to it and add some truth to this one for a change..........before the GOPers can call it the American Motherhood for Truth Act, or some such garbage.

I like "The Disappearing Act" because it honors the people who "disappeared" without a trace in Argentina during the 70s-early 80s and those who disappeared from Stalin-era photos of Soviet bigwigs.

The Disappearing Act also says what may happen to YOU (yes, even you, ma'am) in what used to be the Land of the Free, but is now the Home of the Frightened.

Remember, if Bush says that you "support terrorism", you are an Enemy Combatant and can be tossed in the can forever.

Remember also that Bush thinks that anyone who "thinks" in a way different from him (i.e. who thinks at all) is supporting terrorists (see KO's recent commentary on the subject). Read More

Worse than an Avian flu pandemic....and it's HERE

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Thursday September 07, 2006 · 12:26 PM PDT

2006/09/07 · 12:26

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

This looks worse even than the predictions of what bird flu might do if it acquired the ability to be transmitted human to human.

On a day when there are lots of discussions about fear-mongering using terrorists, here's something that is REALLY scary......it's right up there with the ecological collapse that will accompany climate change....and it is happening NOW.

World health officials last night put out an unprecedented warning that deadly new strains of tuberculosis, virtually untreatable using the drugs currently available, appear to be spreading across the globe.
The new strains are known as extreme drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB. They have been identified and have killed people in several countries, including the United States and eastern Europe, and they have recently been found in Africa, where they could swiftly put an end to all hope of containing the Aids pandemic through treatment.

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 11:40 AM PDT

2006/08/31 · 11:40

http://blogs.abcnews.com/...

This is from Al Hayat via an ABC investigative report from Brian Ross:

You'll have to use the link to read it, as I can't cut and paste even limited excerpts. The following points:

1) As far as I know, Al Hayat is well thought of as a ME news source, but I'm no expert.

2) The "conversion to Islam" story is false - it was a cover for the so-called "real demands" of the terrorists (the "Holy Jihad Brigades"), and was put out to prevent people from learning that the US was actually negotiating terms with terrorists, something they have sworn on a 10 mile high stack of Bibles that they'd never do. Read More

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