California Fires: Why was the air quality data changed?

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 1:16 PM PDT

2008/07/10 · 13:16

I'm at my computer right now. It's in an upstairs office -- a converted bedroom -- in my home in Sacramento. I haven't been out of my house in a few days. I'm trapped by smoke drifting into the valley. I'm one of those "sensitive" to air pollution (I have mild asthma), so I'm pretty well stuck until our air clears.

marisa

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Friday February 23, 2007 · 3:23 PM PST

2007/02/23 · 15:23

In an interview scheduled to air Sunday, Jimmy Carter told George Stephanopoulos he wants Al Gore to run in 2008, but that he's worried Gore won't do it.

ABC's Political Radar blog quotes President Carter:

. . . . "If Al should decide to run -- which I'm afraid he won't -- I would support Al Gore."

The former Democratic President asserted Gore could accomplish much more in the White House than he ever could as a private citizen, saying to Stephanopoulos, "His burning issue now is global warming and preventing it. He can do infinitely more to accomplish that goal as in the incumbent in the White House, than he can making even movies that get -- you know, that get Oscars."

marisa

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Tuesday October 11, 2005 · 11:14 AM PDT

2005/10/11 · 11:14

According to an article published at Raw Story today, Cheney spokesman Steve Schmidt left the country on the 3rd and -- wow, how convenient -- won't be back until the 26th:

The chief spokesman for Vice President Dick Cheney, Steve Schmidt, left the United States Oct. 3 and won't return until Oct. 26, just as the investigation into who outed a covert CIA agent wraps up, RAW STORY has confirmed.

Schmidt has left for Iraq. A RAW STORY email sent to Schmidt's private White House address Tuesday yielded this reply: "I will be out of the country from October 3rd through October 26th and will have VERY limited email access. For assistance, please contact Jon Berrier at 202-XXX-XXXX. Thank you."

read the rest at Raw Story

marisa

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Saturday October 01, 2005 · 7:36 PM PDT

2005/10/01 · 19:36

Today my 14-year-old attended an all-day event for students planning to become doctors, the AMSAARC Annual Pre-Med Conference. This event was required by his high school, where he's enrolled in a special academy for pre-pre-med students.

We just picked him up. He spent a good half hour unloading swag he picked up from the medical schools and associations attending the conference and telling us about the cool NIH program he'd like to attend in a couple of years.

NOT SO COOL, he said, were all the military recruiters. A number of his fellow 9th graders gave these recruiters their names, addresses, phone numbers, much to his dismay and despite his efforts to talk some sense into them. I guess that 14-year-olds are now fair game. Read More

Neo-Nazi Billboard in Florida

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Monday March 21, 2005 · 11:50 AM PST

2005/03/21 · 11:50

According to the Kevin Alfred Strom of the neo-Nazi web publication National Vanguard, the sweet Aryan lass -- "a lovely White woman seated in a field of flowers. She has no Black arm around her. She is part of no multiracial "team." Her fair skin is softly shining in the lights as you get closer. She is the image of natural beauty, innocence, wholesomeness. You notice she bears the symbol of life on her simple White dress" -- is pictured on one of three highway billboards currently sponsored by this group nationwide. Read More

Durbin calls for Senate Investigation: Raw Story

marisa

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Tuesday February 22, 2005 · 4:41 PM PST

2005/02/22 · 16:41

This just in (insert fake morse code 1940s-style "newsflash" soundfile here):

FLASH: DEMOCRATIC SENATE LEADERSHIP JOINS PUSH FOR INQUIRY INTO GANNON AFFAIR; WHIP SENATOR DURBIN CIRCULATING LETTER CALLING ON OTHER SENATORS TO SIGN ON: DEVELOPING HARD...

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Saturday February 19, 2005 · 12:40 PM PST

2005/02/19 · 12:40

I read somewhere on dKos yesterday that Al Franken, who broadcast his show from CPAC on Thursday and Friday, had had a "meltdown" and thrown a chair at Michael Medved.

Here's what really happened: Medved invited Franken to come be interviewed on his show, but kinda sorta forgot to tell him that Swift Boat Liars' John O'Neill would also be present.

Franken objected, telling Medved that if he'd known in advance that O'Neill would also appear, he would have had time to prepare. Read More

PropaGannon preliminary datamap: 2 degrees of separation

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Thursday February 10, 2005 · 10:32 PM PST

2005/02/10 · 22:32

As part of the Gannon investigation, we've put together a database to map relationships between Gannon/Guckert and other people and organizations.

SusanG helped recruit a crack team of data researchers/enterers and now the database has nearly 100 different people and 90 different organizations. Read More

PropaGannon: Kerry to be "first gay president"

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Thursday February 10, 2005 · 4:51 PM PST

2005/02/10 · 16:51

This is the diary to collect and condense information about "Jeff Gannon"'s "Kerry as 'first gay president'" piece, so please don't recommend it.

I've been Googling this for a while. During the 2004 campaign season, the "first gay president" meme wasn't limited only to Mr. G's speculation, nor was it limited to wink-wink-nudge-nudging about JK. Even Shrub got labeled as "the first gay president."

Here's what I've got so far: Read More

Dem Breakfast in Sacramento + DNC W. Caucus: my observations

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Saturday January 22, 2005 · 7:51 PM PST

2005/01/22 · 19:51

First of all, it was great fun. What a strong sense of energy and optimism -- maybe it's from being a member of the minority party (nowhere to go but up), maybe it was participating in an event in the presence of Howard Dean; whatever the cause, it feels like a good time to be a progressive Democrat.

[editor's note, by marisa] Fiat Lux corrected my attribution of the breakfast; it was sponsored by California Democratic Clubs. Read More

NYT: Torturers sue AP over pictures

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Tuesday December 28, 2004 · 9:05 PM PST

2004/12/28 · 21:05

This is about the sickest thing I've heard of this year. File this under "rendered (nearly) speechless":

6 Members of Elite Navy Force Sue News Agency Over Photos

Six members of the Navy Seals and two of their wives sued The Associated Press and one of its reporters yesterday for distributing photos of the Seals that apparently show them treating Iraqi prisoners harshly.

One wife had put the photos on what she believed was a password-protected Web site, a lawyer for the group said. The suit, filed in Superior Court in San Diego, charges The A.P. with invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It does not name the plaintiffs.

Yeah, we wouldn't want their "privacy" invaded any further, now would we? Read More

Moderate Republican sees "Fascist Revolution"

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Tuesday December 28, 2004 · 8:35 PM PST

2004/12/28 · 20:35

"Emmanuel Ortiz" -- a nom de blog to protect the politically-connected -- is a moderate Republican who's been documenting the 2004 election irregularities since the beginning of this month on his blog, Scam-O-Rama..

Scanning Scam-O-Rama doesn't yield much new data for the average obsessive Kossack. What is different, however, is that it's written by a Republican lawyer. Ortiz writes in his (truly refreshing) profile:

My political career has included opposition research for a Republican gubenatorial campaign (the most successful in my state's history), national fund raising for an unsuccessful Republican Presidential campaign, and a Republican campaign for US Senate. Quite simply, I am horrified. . . .

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California Fires: Why was the air quality data changed?

Jimmy Carter: Run, Al, Run!

Cheney Spokesman Bugs Out

Military recruiters targeting my 9th grader

Neo-Nazi Billboard in Florida

Durbin calls for Senate Investigation: Raw Story

CPAC video: Franken's so-called 'meltdown'

PropaGannon preliminary datamap: 2 degrees of separation

PropaGannon: Kerry to be "first gay president"

Dem Breakfast in Sacramento + DNC W. Caucus: my observations

NYT: Torturers sue AP over pictures

Moderate Republican sees "Fascist Revolution"