Spammed by Erick Erickson

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Tuesday July 16, 2013 · 11:23 PM PDT

2013/07/16 · 23:23

This isn't actually new. I signed up for a RedState account, back in the dark days of the Bush administration, so I get occasional mails from various Republican politicians and such. It doesn't, well, hasn't, even count as spam... I asked for politics, I get politics.

Today, I got something a little different, right from "Erick Erickson (red-state@news.redstate.com)" himself.

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Saturday February 04, 2012 · 4:56 PM PST

2012/02/04 · 16:56

I come to DailyKos, well, daily, pretty much. I do it for a fairly obvious purpose: I want to read the articles. Today, I couldn't do that.

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Wednesday September 16, 2009 · 6:00 PM PDT

2009/09/16 · 18:00

So, last night, we're doing normal stuff. Dishes, homework, laying on the couch, the usual evening routine, until... "OUCH!", and some cursing, from my wife, who just doesn't DO four-letter words. She'd stepped on a sewing needle that had somehow ended up in the carpet. "I felt that sucker grate against bone," she said, to sympathetic wincing from everybody.

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 11:55 AM PDT

2008/09/03 · 11:55

Yeah, she's an... astonishing person to pick for VP. Yeah, there are ... several issues that can be raised about her. Can y'all stuff it into some kind of daily mothership "SARAH PALIN SUCKS" post and leave some space on the front page?

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Thursday February 14, 2008 · 9:02 AM PST

2008/02/14 · 09:02

Mom never did end up in any sort of leadership position, not officially. Never mind that when she was a travelling salesman, she sold ridiculous amounts of stuff, or that when she became a dBase coder, she wrote some really good code; people kept telling her that she didn't have the "experience" to be a manager.

They were lying, of course. The real reason was that she was a woman.

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Wednesday February 06, 2008 · 11:56 AM PST

2008/02/06 · 11:56

Candidate diaries seem to come in two kinds: ones where the diarist has already decided on their candidate and tries to convince everybody to agree with them, and ones where the diarist describes their own decision.

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Monday October 22, 2007 · 11:34 AM PDT

2007/10/22 · 11:34

I'm watching Southern California burn, and in the back of my head, I've got this little voice, ticking off the points...

Yet another disaster,
Driven by climate change,
Totally predictable,
All the National Guard that should be helping are off in Iraq,
Scary satellite photos,
Outbound roads jammed with evacuees,

... and, y'know, I'm having to tell that little voice that no, this is NOT like two years ago. This is NOT going to be another Katrina.

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Monday September 10, 2007 · 3:02 PM PDT

2007/09/10 · 15:02

I'm hearing some flak about how MoveOn was "uncivil," calling Gen. Petraeus "Betray-Us" in their newspaper ad this morning.

Me, I'm not too bothered about this

Now, I can think of a few things that might be "uncivil"... (mind you, the rest of this diary is probably uncivil)

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Sunday January 14, 2007 · 11:12 PM PST

2007/01/14 · 23:12

There's been plenty of talk about Overton windows. Well, right now, opposing the war on Iraq is in the "policy" column. Impeaching Bush and Cheney is working its way over from "reasonable" to "sensible." The idea with the Overton window seems to be that once something's to "reasonable," you leave it alone; you want to push on the EDGE of what's acceptable, to move that edge in the direction you want to go.

It's time to start talking about where to hold the war crimes trials.

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Monday May 15, 2006 · 1:55 PM PDT

2006/05/15 · 13:55

There is a legitimate philosophy of government, which is followed by many people in this country. It used to be called "conservatism," and so I will call it here. It's the philosophy that started with Thomas Jefferson's observation, "The government which governs best, governs least." It's the thing that takes George Washington's warning about avoiding foreign entanglements to heart. I don't always agree with the results it comes up with, but I believe that it is a valuable thing, and it always makes me happier to know that there are people who wonder whether this or that should really be done by the government, or if it would be better to let individuals take care of it themselves.

The Republican party used to be the party of conservatism. As such, I approved of it, and occasionally voted for it. Read More

The non-philosophical underpinnings of wealth re-distribution.

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Tuesday May 09, 2006 · 2:38 PM PDT

2006/05/09 · 14:38

I started this as a reply to one of those blasted Republi-trolls, on another blog. This one was demanding some sort of philosophical reason for wealth redistribution. SO, I thought about it a bit, and came to an interesting conclusion: I don't have a philosophical reason, only a practical one. Read More

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