ACTION ALERT: Help Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy

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Thursday January 29, 2009 · 3:10 PM PST

2009/01/29 · 15:10

Please take some time to call your Senators and Representatives and urge them to support The Helping Families Save their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2009 (H.R. 200). The bill has already been approved by the House Judiciary Committee along a string party-line vote (with all Democrats voting yes and all Republicans, of course, voting no), and will soon be voted on by the full House and Senate. This legislation has the support of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. You can read the full text of it for yourself here, or you can read the CRS summary here.

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 1:29 PM PDT

2006/06/08 · 13:29

Armando has been bullied, harrassed, and (apparently) intimidated into silence by Stephen Spruiell who runs NRO's Media Blog. The question now becomes, how do we respond? Read More

Proud to be Chickenhawks

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Friday April 28, 2006 · 6:58 AM PDT

2006/04/28 · 06:58

Last night I was killing time at Atrios' place, when Phila brought to our attention the latest in Wingnut counter-offensives. He posted about this on his blog:

Not all of us understand this, sad to say, and so we've continued to call him a chickenhawk. Now, though, he's come up with the Final Solution. Like other oppressed minorities, he's chosen to co-opt the pejorative language used against him. Henceforth, when you call Captain Ed a chickenhawk, he'll agree with you:

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Friday Project: Let's Build a Left-Blogosphere Dictionary!

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 10:11 AM PDT

2006/04/21 · 10:11

I ran across this post today at Firedoglake:

I had breakfast with my friend Doctor Vickie on Wednesday morning. She said she likes to come to the website and she always enjoys reading it but half the time she doesn't know what we're talking about. I explained that I know some times it seems impenetrable; bloggers tend to talk to the blogosphere, we assume people are following the conversation and are familiar with the cast of characters, storylines and slang that are conventions here. It can make it awfully hard to catch on. In our defense, people who show up here day after day get tired of having the same things explained over and over again, and since those are the ones we hear from the most we tend to respond to their wishes.

So I thought, why don't we create a dictionary of slang for newbies? That way, pissed off Americans who find their way to Left Blogostan will be able to quickly jump into the fray without having to lurk or ask awkward questions. I started on quite a long list based on the FDL comments, Atrios Archives, etc. but I need your help to get everything. Read More

Music Uninspired by Katrina (shameless self-promotion)

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 1:27 PM PST

2006/01/25 · 13:27

When the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, it was fair to say that I was overcome with a wide range of emotions: anger, compassion, fear, shame, sorrow... the list goes on. At the time of this disaster, gish and I had recently started experimenting with the creation of industrial music. We started a band and called it Junk Sick Fuck Fest (I'm not sure why, really). We don't plan to ever get record deals or concert performances or anything. It's just an interesting hobby that allows us to express ourselves both artistically and politically.

Music downloads and more chatter after the flip...
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Chinese-Americans Protest Dalai Lama Speech

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Friday November 11, 2005 · 6:16 AM PST

2005/11/11 · 06:16

The Dalai Lama, who has long proved that science and religion don't need to be enemies, is scheduled to give a talk at DAR Constitutional Hall on the neuroscience of meditation. Certain Chinese-Americans are protesting this speech and are trying to shut it down. They claim that they have reservations about mixing science and religion. But could their complaints have less to do with religion, and more to do with the Dalai Lama's controversial political agenda?
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Do Pundits Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are?

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Thursday November 03, 2005 · 2:10 PM PST

2005/11/03 · 14:10

The short answer? Of course not. I can sense your astonishment. See below the fold for some shocking revelations!

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Concerns About My Local Anti-War Group

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 2:16 PM PDT

2005/08/22 · 14:16

[Cross-Posted from my blog, Forged Demon]

I have an uneasiness with many anti-war organizations, and I am sometimes relunctant to join with them because of these misgivings. One of these is that the organizations seem more about vilifying their enemies (Bush and the police) and scoring political points rather than staying on the anti-war message. Case-in-point: one of our local anti-war organizations, St. Pete for Peace.

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Hillary Clinton vs. Predator

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Monday August 08, 2005 · 7:09 AM PDT

2005/08/08 · 07:09

Last night, I was playing a video game I rented called Predator: Concrete Jungle, wherein you take the role of the fearsome predator from the movies by the same name. Now, the Predator movies are pretty violent, so you would expect the game to be no different. And it doesn't disappoint. Within a half-hour, I had eviscerated mobsters, crushed skulls, and sliced police officers in half. At one point, my mission was to make "an example" of three gang members who had stolen Predator technology. I grabbed one by the skull, dragged him up to the top of a tall building, flayed him alive, and then hung him off the side. And all I could think about was, "I wonder what Hillary would think of this?"

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