Posting History for LWelsch
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| Honesty I love The Daily Show and The Colbert Report . To find such good satire one must return to Jonathan Swift. As Nancy Pelosi put it there is a new congress in town. Sadly the new congress ... |
LWelsch | 05/25/2007 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Hope has morphed into widespread gloom The last two paragraphs of Bob Herbert's op-ed column Fire and Imagination column are:
Now, with so ... |
LWelsch | 08/14/2010 | 21 | 6 | - | 28 |
| Hostages? Surely you're joking Mr. President President Obama must be going bubble crazy. No one was being held hostage. To say someone was being held hostage is just plain nuts.
The president speaks of this as a one time situation. The next ... |
LWelsch | 12/08/2010 | 15 | 5 | - | 38 |
| How can we use OWS to elect more and better democrats? Some republicans used the Tea Party to elect what they considered to be more and better republicans. OWS and Tea Party members (not leaders) have they same complaints. They feel like they are being ... |
LWelsch | 10/08/2011 | 89 | 7 | 1 | 221 |
| How Do You Ask a Man to Be the Last Man to Die in Vietnam? | LWelsch | 10/23/2006 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| How much worse? The economy is going to get worse before there is change. How fast and how much worse are questions yet to be answered. Right now there appear to be two options. Option one is default. Default is a ... |
LWelsch | 07/21/2011 | 10 | 2 | - | 73 |
| Hula Hoops - Election 2008
In 1957 the hula hoop was reinvented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Medlin, founders of ... |
LWelsch | 07/02/2007 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| I am a social capitalist I made up the term social capitalist to describe my set of beliefs. I believe good societies provide for all their members. Providing includes food, shelter, healthcare, education and productive ... |
LWelsch | 10/15/2015 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| I am a social capitalist - I mean a capital socialist I believe neither socialism nor capitalism are ideal, but a mix of both will benefit society better than strictly one or the other. I will only address the issue of the "means of production." In a ... |
LWelsch | 08/09/2011 | 3 | 1 | - | 28 |
| I am against the Senate Bill LaFeminista in "Shut Up You Stupid Woman" and slinkerwink ... |
LWelsch | 12/20/2009 | 21 | 2 | - | 43 |
| I am back I have been gone from Daily Kos for over a year now.I nearly lost my foot. However I was very fortunate and only lost my heel. I am walking and using my computer now. I got Dragon Naturally speaking ... |
LWelsch | 12/03/2012 | 14 | 27 | - | - |
| I am deeply disappointed in Representative Wiener I believe Representative Wiener is a highly intelligent and articulate man. I found him to be an excellent spokesman for many of my beliefs. Should he resign? I answer with a definite no. Should ... |
LWelsch | 06/07/2011 | 39 | 2 | - | 147 |
| I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more As I listen to the media I keep hearing this need to boil down "occupy wall street" to a simple 30 second sound bite. I also hear this need for the "occupiers" to solve all the problems in 30 ... |
LWelsch | 10/01/2011 | 7 | 11 | - | 67 |
| I am very proud of my County today I learned that non-whites are now a majority in Montgomery County Maryland. See the ... |
LWelsch | 02/10/2011 | 23 | 16 | - | 137 |
| I do not want my tax dollars used to support religion I do not live in California. Public tax dollars in California have been used at Hastings College of the Law, part of the University of California, to support student groups as long as the groups do ... |
LWelsch | 04/19/2010 | 45 | 23 | - | 49 |
| I feel sorry for President Obama President Obama ran on change. Change is difficult. Part of the problem is that so many large changes need to happen. One was/is in health care. One was/is in nuclear arms. One was/is in the economy. |
LWelsch | 04/12/2010 | 68 | 15 | - | 131 |
| I no longer love DailyKos like I used to Yes, I love DailyKos. The interaction here is better than at any other web site and I like the ambiance of the site. And yet as the Temptations put it in the song my love ... |
LWelsch | 03/23/2011 | 57 | 24 | - | 508 |
| I remember the demonstrations and riots of sixties My neighbor's store was burned to the ground. There was smoke in the air and the smoke did not come from the steel mills. Demonstrators in Washington DC were rounded up in buses and then the buses ... |
LWelsch | 08/10/2011 | 5 | 2 | - | 52 |
| I thought groups would be good During the beta I thought groups would be a great addition to DKos. I am learning that there are too damn many groups. I have not yet seen an ass wipe group, but I bet one exists. The trouble is the ... |
LWelsch | 02/19/2011 | 28 | 8 | - | 186 |
| I watched the news today oh boy Senate Republicans Defeat Reauthorization Of Jobless Aid, Tax ... |
LWelsch | 12/04/2010 | 27 | 2 | - | 29 |
| Ideals Come First Are Sanford and Ensign pragmatic? I think not. In the diary Stop Telling Me I'm Not ... |
LWelsch | 12/30/2009 | 7 | 2 | - | 22 |
| If the Democrats will Not Govern then the time is rapidly approaching when Democrats will be voted out of office. Cindy Sheehan recently called on Nancy Pelosi in Cindy ... |
LWelsch | 07/12/2007 | 32 | 3 | - | - |
| Impeach Earl Warren I remember the signs from my youth. My family drove in the 54 Pontiac from Maryland to the Florida Keys in the late fifties. All along US 1 there were signs, Interstate 95 did not exist. There mixed ... |
LWelsch | 06/29/2007 | 11 | 17 | - | 17 |
| Inflation should be a concern BUT , and this is a big but, unless we deal with both the underlying needs of people and the underlying causes of inflation simultaneously we will enter a period of stagflation that will cause ... |
LWelsch | 09/30/2011 | 18 | - | - | 66 |
| Interdependence The time has come to move from celebrating independence to recognizing our interdependence. With a few exceptions humans have always depended on each other. Yes I will grant you the occasional ... |
LWelsch | 07/04/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 14 |
| Is Almost Everybody Really that Stupid? I ask the question, because stupidity on economic issues is running rampant. I will start with President Obama. All the news outlets are reporting that ... |
LWelsch | 09/06/2010 | 68 | 17 | - | 46 |
| Is anyone listening? Tom Toles makes a point in today's Washington Post. (Unfortunately DailyKos will not allow images from the ... |
LWelsch | 08/17/2010 | 16 | 2 | - | 22 |
| Is Chris Matthews a Racist Start by watching the video below
See URL http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Chris-Matthews-On-Obama-I-Forgo
The transcript reads:
I was trying to think about who he was tonight. It's ... |
LWelsch | 01/31/2010 | 103 | 6 | - | 39 |
| Is Joe Lieberman the next AG? If President Bush is looking for a bipartisan appointment that will give control of the Senate to the Republicans and have a Democrat/Independent supporting all of Bush's unconstitutional unitary ... |
LWelsch | 09/02/2007 | 54 | 1 | - | - |
| Is President Obama channeling Herbert Hoover? This may sound like a weird question. Yet as I read Paul Krugman's op-ed What Obama Wants I couldn't help but ask ... |
LWelsch | 07/08/2011 | 13 | 5 | - | 59 |
| Is the democratic party self immolating? I am frightened of the republicans. Never in the sixty plus years of my life have I seen such a destructive party. 9/11 changed everything. Most profoundly 9/11 changed the republican party. The ... |
LWelsch | 09/04/2011 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 172 |
| It Could Never Happen Here As a US citizen I like to think It could never happen in the US today. When bad despicable actions happen, I like to think that if they happened in the US then they are past and the US has ... |
LWelsch | 05/24/2007 | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| It is like déjà vu all over again Deal, no deal, or lousy deal? One problem of the giving hostage takers what they want is that the next time hostage takers want something they will take hostages. I wonder when will Pres. Obama ever ... |
LWelsch | 01/01/2013 | 12 | 7 | - | - |
| It is productivity - stupid Part of the underlying understanding of economics is the belief that in a capitalistic society people will behave rationally. Unfortunately people do not behave rationally. People do not minimize ... |
LWelsch | 08/08/2011 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 47 |
| It is the economy stupid! Most important jobs, stupid! For years John Kenneth Galbraith was my favorite economist. He died and along came Paul Krugman. I still love Professor Krugman, but after listening to the following my favorite economist is John ... |
LWelsch | 12/05/2009 | 2 | 2 | - | 39 |
| It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Bob Dylan
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ... |
LWelsch | 03/11/2011 | 26 | 2 | - | 167 |
| Jobs - The winning republican message of 2012 Unemployment is higher today than when President Obama won the election in 2008, than when President Obama took office in 2009 or the stimulus package was passed later that year. Yes the velocity of ... |
LWelsch | 08/04/2011 | 37 | 6 | - | 115 |
| Jobs - The worst scenario Tonight is the night of the big speech. The bets are the proposal will be somewhere between three hundred to four hundred billion dollars. A good deal of money will be for extending unemployment ... |
LWelsch | 09/08/2011 | 3 | 1 | - | 52 |
| Jobs / Financial Reform / Jobs This is not going to be a long diary - I never write very much. Yes, I am glad that the Health Care Bill is now a Law. The Health Care Law is barely a beginning and we need to move to single payer ... |
LWelsch | 03/28/2010 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| Jobs and Afghanistan are more important than health care 'YOU'RE SCREWED' Rep. Michael Capuano tells fellow dems.
People are talking about what will happen in ... |
LWelsch | 12/15/2009 | 11 | - | - | 55 |
| Jobs, Jobs, and again Jobs Okay employment is increasing. Yes there is the infamous bikini curve showing increasing unemployment rates under Bush and decreasing unemployment rates under Obama. The bottom line is that unless ... |
LWelsch | 04/26/2010 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 42 |
| Just got a call from an Obama fund raiser I told the fund raiser that I was annoyed that President Obama was not addressing the unemployment problem and that he allowed the country to be taken hostage without using the bully pulpit to state ... |
LWelsch | 07/13/2011 | 56 | 5 | - | 305 |
| Justice, Punishment, & Rehabilitation Does our system of government deliver JUSTICE ? I do not believe so. I believe our laws and system of government deliver punishment in lieu of justice and in the false belief that punishment ... |
LWelsch | 02/23/2011 | 6 | 2 | - | 31 |
| Killer Mike - "Burn"
Listen to this carefully. This is not just the truth for African Americans, ... |
LWelsch | 08/05/2011 | 3 | 3 | - | 42 |
| KosAbility: Celiac Disease I feel fortunate to talk about Celiac Disease in the month of May as May is Celiac awareness month.
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday ... |
LWelsch | 05/22/2011 | 111 | 56 | 2 | 304 |
| KosAbility: My Dyslexia teacherken wrote an excellent diary titled KosAbilities: living with my dyslexia . Please read his diary on this ... |
LWelsch | 10/03/2010 | 44 | 29 | 1 | 67 |
| Krugman slightly misses In today's op-ed column Block Those Metaphors Paul Krugman, one of my favorite economists, misses the target on ... |
LWelsch | 12/13/2010 | 70 | 8 | - | 42 |
| Labor Day is Coming DC is hot. Anybody who counts is on vacation. As Cheney might say, that all changes on Labor Day. Most people know the facts. Some are already claiming limited success for a failed surge. Failed, ... |
LWelsch | 08/27/2007 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Lack of a Silent Majority | LWelsch | 09/26/2006 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| Lessons Learned I occasionally republish what I write on the website www.truthtown.org on other forums such as the Daily Kos. I republished ... |
LWelsch | 06/23/2007 | 10 | 1 | - | - |
| Liberalism is not a failure, nor has it succeeded I just finished reading a great diary titled The Failure of Liberalism . I disagree vehemently ... |
LWelsch | 06/10/2011 | 9 | 2 | - | 51 |
| Libertarianism versus Interconnectedness Before giving my own thoughts I provide Miriam-Webster's definitions for libertarian ... |
LWelsch | 05/23/2010 | 12 | 4 | - | 25 |
| Like a Thief President Bush went to Iraq on Labor day weekend. The MSM calls it a surprise visit. The reality is he went like a thief in the middle of the night. |
LWelsch | 09/04/2007 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 |
| Listen to Sarah Silverman | LWelsch | 06/03/2010 | 31 | 18 | 2 | 34 |
| Looking Backward | LWelsch | 10/31/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 21 |
| Losing the November election Despite the utter stupidity of republicans we democrats are in danger of losing November's election. By losing, I mean republicans will gain at least one seat in congress. There is a possibility ... |
LWelsch | 08/05/2010 | 28 | 5 | - | 19 |
| many millions of Americans trapped in a world of hurt So ends Bob Herbert's op-ed column Two Different Worlds .
The movers and shakers of our society seem ... |
LWelsch | 09/18/2010 | 5 | 8 | - | 27 |
| Many Pro-Lifers are really Pro-Death Not long ago there was an important diary called What It Means to Be a Pro-Life Democrat . The author, The ... |
LWelsch | 04/02/2008 | 42 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Mediocre Employment numbers The New York Times reports that Spurred by Private Hiring, Job Growth Gathers Steam . The article notes ... |
LWelsch | 03/04/2011 | 5 | 4 | - | 50 |
| More brinkmanship with a government shutdown coming soon I remember a diary I wrote not long ago End of September there is yet another ... |
LWelsch | 11/02/2011 | 4 | - | - | 60 |
| More cuts in county governments I live in Montgomery County Maryland. Montgomery County is one of the richest counties in the United States with one of the best school system in the nation. Yet the County must cut its budget for ... |
LWelsch | 03/17/2010 | 11 | 2 | - | 15 |
| Moving on The next item on the agenda is filibuster reform. The filibuster rule must change. Hopefully Democrats will insist on a rule where a senator must talk in order to filibuster anything. Only if the ... |
LWelsch | 01/02/2013 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| My muse: President Obama is a part of the problem LaFeminista wrote an excellent diary called Morning Muse: Obama is not the problem. I disagree. The failure of President ... |
LWelsch | 09/04/2010 | 33 | 10 | - | 31 |
| Nancy Pelosi broke her Oath of Office Nancy Pelosi and all high level federal officials take an oath of office to uphold the constitution. The clip ... |
LWelsch | 07/15/2007 | 32 | 11 | - | 11 |
| New Technology and Education This started as a comment to teacherken 's excellent ... |
LWelsch | 03/05/2011 | 2 | 1 | - | 27 |
| New Year's Resolutions I resolve:
To limit my use of "Obama" in the title of diaries
To continue the struggle to improve the economy
To recognize capitalism is not the solution to every ... |
LWelsch | 01/01/2011 | 7 | 4 | - | 67 |
| No filibuster reform!! All talk and no action again. Procedure was blamed again and again for not getting more bills passed in the Senate. The biggest procedural problem was the filibuster that allowed republicans in the ... |
LWelsch | 01/27/2011 | 11 | 4 | - | 71 |
| No Hard Questions on Palin for McCain I just watched Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer . One thing was apparent. No questions, absolutely none, on any of tricky issues on ... |
LWelsch | 09/09/2008 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| No man is an island
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so ... |
LWelsch | 08/02/2010 | 16 | 5 | - | 13 |
| No Middle Ground in War One thing that people fail to realize is that there is no middle ground in war. You can either fight with all resources available or exit as quickly as possible. There is no in between point. I ... |
LWelsch | 06/28/2007 | 17 | 2 | - | - |
| No to the DRAFT Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) has long advocated returning to the draft, but his efforts drew little attention during the 12 years that House Democrats were in the minority. Starting ... |
LWelsch | 11/20/2006 | 66 | 4 | - | 16 |
| Nobody wants Nobody wants cuts in government services. Nobody wants increased taxes. Nobody wants to see the debt increase. Nobody wants deficits.
Put simply nobody wants to deal with the reality with which we ... |
LWelsch | 12/12/2012 | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| Not a Dime's Worth of Difference When looking at Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's policies, there is very little difference between them. Both have highly similar economic policies, health plan policies, and military policies ... |
LWelsch | 04/18/2008 | 19 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Not Policy alone When thinking about presidential candidates I consider many factors, including their policy positions. I am not even certain policy positions are the most important issue. Among democrats I argue ... |
LWelsch | 09/25/2007 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Not Thinking Most people do not think, rather, they memorize and regurgitate. When asked to recite the letters of the alphabet almost everyone regurgitates a, b, c, . . . A few might say q, w, e, . . . Someone ... |
LWelsch | 11/15/2009 | 12 | - | - | 57 |
| Nothing happened to Obama To echo teacherken and ej25 read Drew Westen's article What Happened to ... |
LWelsch | 08/07/2011 | 46 | 10 | 1 | 255 |
| November's election is FUBAR Yeah, that is right. November's election is Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Let's start with the Republicans. The other night Ed Rendell called the republicans wacky. That they surely are. Look at ... |
LWelsch | 08/27/2010 | 35 | 9 | - | 39 |
| NY Times flubs O'Keefe profile We all should remember James O'Keefe of Acorn fame. The New York Times Sunday ... |
LWelsch | 07/31/2011 | 9 | 6 | - | 136 |
| Occupy Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade I am a fan of the Occupy Wall Street petitioners. I am not a participant. Medical reasons keep me from participating. But, I am pissed. Ministry of Truth speaks the truth and he is right about OWS ... |
LWelsch | 11/15/2011 | 47 | 9 | - | 154 |
| Ohio Ballots Voting results in Ohio were highly questioned in the 2004 election for president. In yesterday's election there was a shortage of ballots in Cleveland (... |
LWelsch | 03/05/2008 | 9 | 1 | - | - |
| Oklahoma Cervical Ultrasound Law ... |
LWelsch | 04/29/2010 | 14 | 8 | - | 30 |
| Olbermann on Unions The following is Keith Olberman's speech on Unions. |
LWelsch | 04/02/2011 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 226 |
| On being wrong More important than being right is how one deals with being wrong. Very successful intelligent people are seldom wrong. Yes they do make mistakes like not seeing a speed limit sign hidden by bushes, ... |
LWelsch | 08/05/2011 | 34 | 6 | 1 | 119 |
| On the meaning of being Christian As a child I remember going to the YMCA. My father told me that if I was asked what religion I was that I should say Christian . At that time my parents practiced the religion of the Sunday ... |
LWelsch | 08/29/2011 | 44 | 3 | - | 147 |
| Only if we democrats win big is there a chance of avoiding catastrophe Why do I say a chance of avoiding catastrophe? I say that because only with a big democratic win, meaning more house seats and a greater than sixty-two seat majority in the Senate, will the ... |
LWelsch | 09/19/2010 | 27 | 9 | 1 | 30 |
| Our Public School System is Being Destroyed I repeatedly argue in diary after diary that the US and the world needs more and better education. I believe hundreds of billions of more dollars needs to be spent on pre-K through post graduate ... |
LWelsch | 07/07/2010 | 151 | 43 | - | 61 |
| Pay as you go is stupid, dumb, idiotic Pay as you go or PAYGO as Wikipedia puts it, means "financing expenditures with funds that are currently available rather than borrowed." Aside from ... |
LWelsch | 02/13/2010 | 85 | 5 | - | 28 |
| Political Jujitsu I recently read article Jujitsu in Action — The Smart Way to Fight Smears Against Obama While I agree with everybody who say ... |
LWelsch | 06/13/2008 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Politics is not the problem Recently I have seen articles, diaries, videos, comments, TV pundits, and on and on blaming "politics" for the debt ceiling crisis. The alternative to politics is dictatorship. Arguments, open ... |
LWelsch | 07/31/2011 | 5 | - | - | 27 |
| Power to the People Occupy Wall Street brings back memories. This oldie but goodie captures the mood I see at OWS. |
LWelsch | 10/11/2011 | 6 | 3 | - | 27 |
| Pragmatic and Impractical Lately I have seen a number of diaries with hundreds of comments about how the "professional" left is not being pragmatic. By "professional" left the diaries refer to anyone who criticizes any ... |
LWelsch | 12/01/2010 | 38 | 6 | - | 41 |
| Prejudice Yesterday teacherken wrote an excellent diary on Hatred . I agree that hatred is terrible. While I do not curse at other drivers ... |
LWelsch | 05/01/2011 | 3 | 2 | - | 65 |
| President Bush will Celebrate the Death of Important American Principles | LWelsch | 09/29/2006 | 7 | 6 | 1 | - |
| President Obama failed in his first two years in office I see op-ed articles and DailyKos diaries touting how successful President Obama has been since his election and how successful the 111 congress has been. E. J. Dionne ... |
LWelsch | 12/23/2010 | 206 | 20 | - | 380 |
| President Obama gave a barn burner of a speech in Chicago Watch below. I could not find a transcript. |
LWelsch | 04/16/2011 | 18 | 22 | 1 | 263 |
| President Obama is "Killing Me Softly with His Song" As I was reading Eugene Robinson's op-ed In budget wars, the GOP demands ... |
LWelsch | 04/12/2011 | 10 | 2 | - | 60 |
| President Obama is FUBAR That is right President Obama is Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Unemployment is rising again. Despite the stimulus unemployment is now ... |
LWelsch | 12/03/2010 | 88 | 9 | - | 74 |
| President Obama needs direction Okay, I broke my promise not put President Obama in the title. It was a silly promise that needed to be broken. Right now the Tea Party has set the direction for Republicans. And that direction (... |
LWelsch | 03/01/2011 | 10 | 4 | - | 68 |
| principle, rules, negotiation, compromise, and common ground I recently wrote a diary title “the country was “not” founded on (yeah I know I said in) compromise.” I received many comments even though I pointed out that the constitution ... |
LWelsch | 12/17/2010 | 6 | 1 | - | 99 |
| Privacy - What are your rights? We all know about unreasonable search. But, what about a right to privacy? Do corporations have the right to know where your cell phone is/was? What is stopping them? Do Google or Bing have a ... |
LWelsch | 06/24/2010 | 4 | 2 | - | 39 |