When is a job offer NOT a job offer?

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Friday May 28, 2010 · 4:54 PM PDT

2010/05/28 · 16:54

We all know about the flame wars and the pie-fights over Obama-lovers vs. Obama-haters. As one who is often called naïve for supposedly following blindly, I have to say I am rolling on the floor, laughing my fat ass off at this Sestak thing. I mean seriously, Sestak became a god or a darling, or whatever fond term you want to apply, of the left. He was the guy with integrity and chutzpa for taking on the incumbent who switched parties. I mean, hell, who would want Specter when we could get Sestak? Right? Right?

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Friday March 05, 2010 · 3:57 PM PST

2010/03/05 · 15:57

KUDOS UPDATE *** Itskevin provided us with a link to a Slate article -- http://www.slate.com/... -- that may have been printed without the writer's awareness of the of ABC World News spot. If that's the case, then Timothy Noah deserves our kudos for his due diligence as well: chatterbox@slate.com.

UPDATE: Being on the rec list means that people are reading this. If people are reading this then people can take action. If people take action, then we can stop Stupak’s distortions. So thank you for reading and if you take action, thank you even more!

On Wednesday evening I posted a diary about Rep. Stupak’s distortion of the abortion language in the Senate bill on Hardball with Tweety. At the time, the story was under the radar. By the time I woke up Thursday morning, he was all over the place making the same distortions and going unchallenged. The story made its way to the front page top headline at the Huff Po. I reposted my diary, desperate for readers to help get the CORRECT language out there. I sent my diary to Rachel Maddow and NARAL and NOW and Emily’s List. I made calls to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Diana DeGette’s offices. A friend posted my diary at his blog.

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 10:35 AM PST

2010/03/04 · 10:35

I diaried about this last night before the story got coverage at the Huff Po, Good Morning America and Reuter’s so whether or not it’s within diary rules, I am reposting this diary because I think action is needed. I am prepared for the lecture but am willing to risk getting chewed out because I think this diary is more relevant today now that his distortions are picking up steam in the press.

Last night on Hardball with Tweety, Bart Stupak made two dramatic statements that he has made before and will continue making as long as he is given a platform (Tweety loves this topic so one action we can take is tallying the number of times Tweety mentions the Stupak language between now and the final vote). We need to understand the language in this section of the bill thoroughly and then bombard the office with calls and show up at any meetings and raise hands to challenge him in a civil, yet factually correct manner.

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Wednesday March 03, 2010 · 6:53 PM PST

2010/03/03 · 18:53

Tonight on Hardball with Tweety, Bart Stupak made two dramatic statements that he has made before and will continue making as long as he is given a platform (Tweety loves this topic so one action we can take is tallying the number of times Tweety mentions the Stupak language between now and the final vote). We need to understand the language in this section of the bill thoroughly and then bombard the office with calls and show up at any meetings and raise hands to challenge him in a civil, yet factually correct manner.

Summary and action assistance after the jump.

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 3:45 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 15:45

This is not a diary about me informing you. This is, hopefully, a gathering of people who want to learn about the process mixing with people who truly understand the process -- including the BYRD RULE. I see several comments a day asking for clarification and yet very little given and I am frustrated reading throw away comments about reconciliation because I don't know that anyone who makes those comments actually KNOWS for sure what they are saying.

There are plenty of people on this site who care about expanding their knowledge and even more who love to share it. So I want this to be a place to help us filter through the myths and determine the facts.

In particular, I think most confusion revolves around the BYRD RULE. This seems to be the rule that people don't realize exists or don't know how to apply it to what we face now.

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15 votes Show Results

When it comes to Reconciliation and the Byrd Rule:

15 votes Vote Now!

When it comes to Reconciliation and the Byrd Rule:

it's clear as mud and I want to learn.

3 votes

it's clear as Jell-O salad so I want to know more.

2 votes

it's crystal clear, what's your problem?

5 votes

who the hell cares, let's just call for it because it sounds good?

5 votes

1/11/10: "National Human Trafficking Awareness Day"

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Monday January 11, 2010 · 10:14 AM PST

2010/01/11 · 10:14

Do a search of your local news media and chances are you will find stories in your community about men, women and children who have been stolen from home and turned into prostitutes, field laborers, nail salon workers, and any number of human slaves.

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My awareness of Human Trafficking

5 votes Vote Now!

My awareness of Human Trafficking

is little.

0 votes

is mediocre.

3 votes

is something I have focused on for a while.

2 votes

Call to Action: Help Find the Missing Act

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Monday December 21, 2009 · 5:11 PM PST

2009/12/21 · 17:11

On August 24, 2004, Billy Smolinski disappeared. He is still missing. His mother, Jan, could have given in to despair and the unknown but instead she found a fight deep inside to not only move forward in grief but to improve the system that is supposed to help moms like her find their missing children. Part of her fight is with the very people who are supposed to look for Billy. The people with the training and resources haven’t done enough -- in part because Billy was 31 years old when he disappeared and in part because there aren’t any laws in place setting procedures for declaring and searching for missing people who are neither children nor seniors.

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Tuesday September 15, 2009 · 9:17 PM PDT

2009/09/15 · 21:17

Keith Olbermann recently awarded one of his worsts to Orly Taitz (the birther birther) because she

has now produced another actual Obama Kenyan birth certificate. Somebody stepped on it. See, you can tell it‘s really Obama‘s birth certificate because the baby‘s footprint is black.

Well, that got her mad. She had to prove she isn't crazy and that she doesn't just go around faking things. So Ms. Taitz went on the hunt for some of her favorite Republicans' birth certificates and was able to get pictures of the footprints found on each. She worked extremely hard to get these so please, show her the respect she's due. These are really real. They are actually real.

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 11:34 AM PDT

2009/09/04 · 11:34

I was inspired, by Jake Stonebenders post on the Lubbock ISD refusal to play President Obama's speech, to seek previous speakers invited into the LISD during the previous eight years.

In 2002 and 2003, a man named Christian Thomas Lee, toured several schools in the Lubbock, TX ISD. He brought with him classic works of art and historical documents, like the painting, "Christ On The Mount Of Olives" and the pardon of President Nixon. He is highly regarded as an inspiration for children by bringing art and culture into the schools. He is doing a great thing and should be welcomed into schools. Lubbock ISD loves him. So do Governors Pawlenty and Crist. So what kind of praise does he receive and what are his goals?

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Thursday August 06, 2009 · 8:22 PM PDT

2009/08/06 · 20:22

Senator Cornyn wrote a letter to President Obama today regarding flag@whitehouse.gov where we can forward emails that distort and lie about health care reform. I got one of those emails the other day and was thrilled to send it on to the White House (even though I know they already got it because the were debunking it the day I got the email).

But Cornyn had to make it into something it isn't saying, "I am not aware of any precedent for a President asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed ‘fishy' or otherwise inimical to the White House's political interests," Sen. Cornyn wrote. "You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program. As Congress debates health care reform and other critical policy matters, citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights."

I am on Cornyn's email list and got his disgusting letter in my inbox. This is what I sent back to him:

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Regarding "fishy" emails:

42 votes Vote Now!

Regarding "fishy" emails:

I have received them and deleted them

1 vote

I have received them and wrote back with the facts

3 votes

I have received them and sent them to flag@whitehouse.gov

3 votes

I haven't received any and am glad

3 votes

I haven't received any: BRING THEM ON

5 votes

I haven't received any but will send them to flag@whitehouse.gov if I do

9 votes

I haven't received any and won't send them to flag@whitehouse.gov if I do

7 votes

I think Cornyn is fishy

11 votes

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Wednesday June 03, 2009 · 12:02 PM PDT

2009/06/03 · 12:02

This is my first diary entry and I intend to send what I wrote to as many sources as I can think of. But what better place to start than here on the Daily Kos?

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When is a job offer NOT a job offer?

SAT. EVENING UPDATE -- ABC News ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOB!

Stupak is back and getting media coverage - action needed

UPDATE: Stupak: He’s Baaaack

Reconciliation

1/11/10: "National Human Trafficking Awareness Day"

Call to Action: Help Find the Missing Act

Taitz Uncovers Republicans' Footprints (w/pictures)

When Lubbock raved about a guest speaker

Something fishy here alright, Cornyn -- you!

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