I searched my inbox and found ZERO emails telling me where to go canvass

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Friday September 17, 2010 · 7:50 AM PDT

2010/09/17 · 07:50

Seriously. My email is on the same lists as everyone here, OFA knows I live in NYC, I searched for "canvass" and found only Deval Patrick stuff from when I lived in MA. At least he's doing his job.

So 2 questions:

Where do NYCers who want to canvass for democrats in general sign up?

Who the hell's job is it to email me this information and why aren't they fired?

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Thursday April 08, 2010 · 9:45 PM PDT

2010/04/08 · 21:45

I happen to think that some degree of racism is involved in the teabagger movement, but it's not so much "I hate black people" racism as it is people who are really disturbed by a black guy all of a sudden being the boss. 'It was ok for them to hang out as long as they knew their place' type of thing. Motorcycle guy nailed it here.

But the recent survey of tea party attitudes towards race, purported to prove that the tea partiers are all racist, is total bunk. The article describing the survey, of course, provides a skim over some of the presumably more eye-popping figures without breaking out any further descriptions. Excepts follow.

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 6:44 PM PDT

2008/09/19 · 18:44

I'm going to start running these diaries and hope they take off. We're all loving the polls right now, but we can't get complacent. I'm hoping we can get a great collaboratively edited how-to-help going, saving everybody time and getting volunteer hours out into the field. People in similar areas can find each other in the comments.

It's put up or shut up time, people. If the ground game (aka, you) materializes like it's supposed to, we will win.

First draft at the clearinghouse below, hopefully people post content to improve it with soon.

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How many hours I've logged in the week before Friday debates start (be honest folks)

21 votes Vote Now!

How many hours I've logged in the week before Friday debates start (be honest folks)

0, but not for long!

6 votes

2 votes

2 (if this or below has any clicks, either you're lying or I made the rec list)

1 vote

2 votes

1 vote

2 votes

0 votes

10 (ok, pace yourself)

1 vote

0 votes

3 votes

To Everyone Who Thinks We Might Attack Iran

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 · 9:14 AM PDT

2008/06/25 · 09:14

By way of introduction, I think everyone who thinks there's a tiny chance we will attack Iran is dumb. There are a million reasons not to, and Bush doesn't have any daddy legacy issues with Iran. Also, his friends in the oil industry are aware of what it would mean, Iran could stop all Saudi and Kuwati shipping at the drop of a hat.

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Will the US attack Iran Before 2009

182 votes Vote Now!

Will the US attack Iran Before 2009

Yes

81 votes

101 votes

Palestinian PM Abbas calls for Early Elections - Hamas "vows to derail"

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Friday July 20, 2007 · 7:06 AM PDT

2007/07/20 · 07:06

According to al Jazeera, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for early elections

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New elections?

28 votes Vote Now!

New elections?

Should happen in Israel and Palestine

10 votes

Should happen in neither place

0 votes

Should happen in Israel, not Palestine

3 votes

Should happen in Palestine, not Israel

11 votes

Death to the West!

4 votes

Peace in Gaza, how?

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Saturday May 19, 2007 · 1:25 PM PDT

2007/05/19 · 13:25

Today, another dubious truce was announced between Hamas and Fatah. This is the fifth attempt at such a truce in the last two weeks or so and although there has been sporadic fighting, it seems in the last few hours to have largely died down. There have been exchanges of hostages (many on both sides shot in the leg before release to prevent them re-entering combat) and it looks, well, crappy, but better than it has the last two weeks. Qassam rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel continue, with 9 launches so far today. Israel has sporadically responded over the last few days, sometimes returning artillery fire at launch sites and launching a couple attacks at Hamas operational leadership believed to be behind the launches.

The situation is still extremely flammable, but there appears to be a window. What do Israel, the Arab World and the West do now?

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Action items? (Multiple-selection, cite numbers in your post)

42 votes Vote Now!

Action items? (Multiple-selection, cite numbers in your post)

1. Re-occupy Gaza

7 votes

2. Arab-leage negotiations with Palestinians to end fighting, rocket fire

2 votes

3. Targetted attacks on missile supply chain

5 votes

4. Egyptian invasion of Gaza

6 votes

5. American aid to Fatah

1 vote

6. Withdraw from West Bank and see what happens

10 votes

7. Retaliatory shelling on Gaza

3 votes

8. Israeli negotiations with Hamas to end shelling

8 votes

Honesty on Iraq - How many Friedmans until we leave?

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Wednesday February 21, 2007 · 9:08 PM PST

2007/02/21 · 21:08

Every Presidential candidate has a plan to leave Iraq within 6 months to 2 years (that is, 1 to 4 Friedmans). I'd like to explore the 2-4 Friedman, just over the horizon "sweet spot" that most of these candidates are in and why I think it's utter BS on most of their parts.

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When to leave Iraq?

10 votes Vote Now!

When to leave Iraq?

Yesterday, and damn the consequences

5 votes

1 Friedman, pick up the gear and get out

3 votes

2-4 Friedmans, and I'm serious, explanation below

0 votes

2-4 Friedmans, but that's what I said 2-4 Friedmans ago

0 votes

Probably 1-2 friedmans after Petraeus fails to fix a huge mess he inherited, but the resolutions now are just goofy

1 vote

Stick it out, thick and thin

1 vote

Lebanese PM extends offer of troops to Israel, Olmert finds 'interesting' -- No Diary yet?

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Tuesday August 08, 2006 · 9:22 AM PDT

2006/08/08 · 09:22

I'd just like to get something off my chest first. This is the most important development since the release friday of the US-French draft resolution. So I come to dkos, and what do I see? Read More

Globalization and CAFTA: A repudiation of flat-earthers by a reality-based democrat

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Thursday September 29, 2005 · 10:46 AM PDT

2005/09/29 · 10:46

So a couple months ago when CAFTA was passed, I noticed two things:

A majority of dems voted against.
Those that voted for were excoriated here for either breaking the party line, or for disagreement with the actual policy.

I know a bit about economics and pretty much anyone will tell you free trade is the way to go. I think that it's necessary for this community to have an honest discussion about free trade that involves more than knee-jerk responses and bile. Free Trade is the wave of the future; If we just seal off our borders and quit trading, we'll be left behind. So the question becomes one of managing the problems that it does create.
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I searched my inbox and found ZERO emails telling me where to go canvass

The "Teabaggers are racist" survey is flawed (regardless of any actual racism)

"Volunteer for obama one night before the debates" clearinghouse

To Everyone Who Thinks We Might Attack Iran

Palestinian PM Abbas calls for Early Elections - Hamas "vows to derail"

Peace in Gaza, how?

Honesty on Iraq - How many Friedmans until we leave?

Lebanese PM extends offer of troops to Israel, Olmert finds 'interesting' -- No Diary yet?

Globalization and CAFTA: A repudiation of flat-earthers by a reality-based democrat