Posting History for rescue

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Political murder 101 - the lethal injection of innocents There remains no greater evil than the manifest injustice of those in power who abuse their citizens for political gain. Holding one of the highest badges of achievement in this area can go to TX ...	laserhaas	02/12/2011	20	30	3	468
The Men Who Stole the World My interview with Nicholas Shaxson, author of 'Treasure Islands', about America's and Britain's leading roles in the global offshore economy and the prospects for challenging corporate tax avoidance.	heathlander	02/12/2011	35	100	18	1098
Marine Life Series: Ruby on NOVA It's ...	Mark H	02/12/2011	32	55	-	410
An Interview with Adlai Stevenson III, Part One: Government Transparency Editor's Note: Earlier this week I had the great honor to be able to interview former Illinois Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III. He is promoting a new book entitled The Black ...	cabaretic	02/12/2011	5	6	2	175
Activists Stage Sit-In (and Sleepover!) in Governor's Office As I type this, a group of 13 activists are holed up in the office of Kentucky's governor, Steve Beshear (D), and are planning on spending the weekend there. Their purpose? To get the ...	bmaples	02/12/2011	14	47	-	584
The Rescue Rangers welcome Kossaks back to Daily Kos Community Spotlight is the new home of the venerable and respected institution of Diary Rescue, brought to you by the volunteer Kossak posse of Rescue Rangers. We check every diary posted to Daily ...	claude	02/13/2011	96	67	2	811
Falling When I was young, I used to play with balance. I started with railroad tracks, and moved on to fences and other objects: anything I could do to stabilize myself on a thin, small surface was fun to me.	Julie Waters	02/13/2011	20	48	4	553
And Lo A Messiah Was Born - The Battle of Tillamook Bay Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, SOURCE of Scientology and Dianetics. As the Church of Scientology tells us, LRH was a genius, an explorer, a war hero and ...	Mortifyd	02/13/2011	74	34	-	446
Sunday Morning Musings - Philly Lots of things swirling through my head this morning. I've been reading "Savage Inequalities" and I'm not sure I've read a book as heart-breaking as this book. I'm half-way finished and I keep ...	princss6	02/13/2011	96	36	-	366
Opportunity in Thailand? If you’ve been focused on Egypt, you might not realize that Thailand and Cambodia have exchanged artillery fire again. While both sides are currently honoring a cease fire, it’s believed that at ...	SpecialKinFlag	02/13/2011	45	9	-	410
“Freedom” is the New “War”: Take It and Run! There is nothing more beautiful than an idea, an action that works. Such were the events in Egypt over the last 18 days. Soft power worked, was almost perfectly orchestrated and thus, has provided a ...	yomamaforobama	02/13/2011	42	32	-	308
Soggy patches of green It's 39 degrees today. Above freezing for the first time in several months. It's going to stay that way for days. Maybe longer. By the end of the week the foot of snow on the ground will have ...	Muskegon Critic	02/13/2011	53	90	-	458
A tale of two Egypts The cameras have, for the most part, turned away from the spectacle in Egypt. Mubarak is, of course, gone. The protests haven't completely died down but most of them have faded away (and the ones ...	maxomai	02/13/2011	35	66	4	339
(Anti-Capitalist Meetup) Anatomy of a Struggle: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Welcome to the Anti-Capitalist Meetup's new home at DKos v4.0! If there is ever to be any effective pushback against the hegemony of capital, we will need bases of power, organized expressions of ...	ActivistGuy	02/14/2011	53	62	10	444
How regulation came to be: Filling it up with Ethyl It's been so long since I paid any attention, so long since it made any difference, so many years since I had any choice, that I didn't know, and had to run out the garage to check. On my 1995 Ford ...	dsteffen	02/14/2011	84	134	13	627
Social Security: The Real Reason Behind the Call for Reform The contemporary economic crisis has forced many fiscally-minded individuals to reevaluate America’s long-term financial stability, bringing to the forefront new warnings concerning the state of ...	Epsilon	02/14/2011	157	80	5	937
Military & Labor: Why People's Revolutions Succeed? Why and when do People's Revolutions succeed. I would argue, that -- for all very real differences between countries, cultures and history -- it really comes down to two factors: 1. Will the ...	DrSteveB	02/14/2011	24	20	1	195
Amy Bishop: A Year On A year ago this month, in a conference room on the campus of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, Amy Bishop opened fire on her colleagues, killing three. The media consensus at the time the ...	kbeans	02/14/2011	30	15	-	233
Public Education: Testing 1-2-3... Guy Fawkes posted a diary yesterday called "Getting Schooled, Not Educated." . In it, he made the ...	GrafZeppelin127	02/14/2011	32	31	-	237
Nurse In at the Hirshhorn One of the great things about living in DC Metro is easy access to the free quality museums that line the National Mall. It's also a great resource for house bound parents experiencing a little ...	Enterik	02/14/2011	17	27	1	145
Lessons from Egypt: demonstrations work As a longtime activist I have often gotten this question from all sides: what good comes of all that protesting? On the one hand there are people who don't participate in grassroots politics and ...	Steve Masover	02/14/2011	57	33	1	209
Valentine's Day 2011 - On Love and the Gay Rights Movement	flowrider	02/14/2011	19	22	1	142
Introducing the Bipartisan War Tax Act of 2013 George W. Bush was the first modern president to ...	Jon Perr	02/14/2011	27	63	3	408
A Valentine Story I thought something romantic and sad was required for Valentine's day and thinking about it, up popped the saddest love story I remember. A story that if it wasn't true would be pure schmaltz. This ...	David Seaton	02/14/2011	9	17	2	105
cinephile review: wisconsin death trip (1999) My husband is a dedicated Wisconsonian who hails from Baraboo and still makes his living there despite the fact that we reside near Chicago. He cannot shed his Dairy State roots and he does not ...	sunspark says	02/14/2011	31	16	-	225
Meta Monday: A Requiem for DK3 DK3, child of Markos Moulitsas, beloved student of Meteor Blades, trusted colleague of Susan Gardner, siblings of the late DK1 and DK2, and notable frenemy of political commentators everywhere, died ...	SuperBowlXX	02/14/2011	43	54	3	397
Scott Walker Doesn't Care About Wisconsin Children So much mayhem has resulted from Governor Scott Walker's recent announcement that he plans to tackle the state of Wisconsin's financial woes on the backs of its workers that few people have noticed ...	FlotsamInaWebSea	02/14/2011	81	75	2	415
The Hidden Cost of Union Busting... I was going to post this on facebook; however, the more I thought about it, I felt that this would be a more appropriate forum...one reason a lot of my relatives did not know what my parents were ...	Mark E Andersen	02/14/2011	89	227	14	995
Planning can save lives I recently asked my daughter how a friend of hers was doing and the reply was, "He's still not comfortable around knives, but other than that he's okay." I asked if he was suicidal and she replied, "...	EclecticCrafter	02/15/2011	23	32	-	210
Standing stones In this escapist diary, I consider the standing stones of northwestern Europe, particularly in Britain and Ireland. The most famous example of these monuments is Stonehenge, in Wiltshire. Wikipedia ...	Cartoon Peril	02/15/2011	52	46	4	341
In Memoriam: Eddie, My Friend (Pootie-Related) Having been lurking, occasionally commenting, and on the rarest of times writing diaries (a grand total of 2) here on DKos, I know that there's a large contingent of fellow animal lovers around. It ...	Silvan Elf	02/15/2011	70	91	-	405
Obama, Hillary, Now is a Good Time for the US to Remain Silent Regarding Iran UPDATED I've never been a big fan of Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy. I thought she was a war-monger during the campaign just a couple clicks toward sanity compared to McCain and his "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran.	FrankCornish	02/15/2011	164	83	-	777
Copyright Duplicity In today's The New York Times , Scott Turow, Paul Aiken, and James Shapiro make the argument that copyright has ...	AaronBa	02/15/2011	170	104	5	811
SOCIAL SECURITY’S HEALTHY FINANCES There has been a determined campaign for years by conservatives such as former Nixon Commerce Secretary and Wall Street billionaire, Pete Peterson to undermine the public’s confidence in Social ...	stewarjt	02/15/2011	80	63	4	309
Spending Cuts as Magical Realism In the practice of fiction the genre known as “magical realism” is all about introducing fantastic or magical elements into a narrative as if these elements are perfectly normal. This genre ...	Dr Bud	02/15/2011	20	33	3	223
The English Disease America is not the only "sport crazy" nation. All nations treat sport pretty much the same way. Karl Marx may have said that "Religion is the Opiate of the People (Masses)", but he surely would ...	twigg	02/15/2011	84	35	2	611
An Interview with Adlai Stevenson III, Part Three: Religion in American Life While in the midst of a discussion about the vast unchecked growth of the military, the subject of religion entered our interview. While on the subject, I mentioned that I am a Quaker, and opposed ...	cabaretic	02/15/2011	19	27	4	223
Keeping Vigilant Over California's Machinery of Death If the State of California had its way, executions would still be carried out in the gas chamber. The State opposed a lawsuit brought in the early 1990s to establish that such a method ...	Lovechilde	02/15/2011	8	23	2	137
The Promise of Watson I'm sure that many of you watched two of Jeopardy's greatest living human players go up against Watson last night. So far, there's been a lot of differing opinions on it. Some are awed by the ...	Explodingkitchen	02/15/2011	111	65	4	581
Paleoclimatology Primer 2 About 6 months ago, I wrote up a summary of how paleoclimatologists determine the temperature of the past, focusing primarily on oxygen isotopes [Paleoclimatology Primer http://www.dailykos.com/story/	BlueberryTomatoSoup	02/15/2011	29	56	11	359
A Modest Proposal To Decrease The Deficit (With Apologies To Jonathan Swift) It is a melancholy object to those who travel through the United States, when they see the streets, the roads, the doorways crowded with the unemployed and homeless. These souls, instead of being ...	adc14	02/15/2011	17	29	-	300
In honor of Darwin: Let's fight for science First, a simple definition, per Wikipedia : Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge" or "knowing") is the effort to ...	Julie Waters	02/15/2011	98	87	10	408
Adalah: Bahrain's March to Democracy About the series: Adalah ("justice" in Arabic) is a diary series about the Middle East, with special (but not exclusive) emphasis on the ...	unspeakable	02/16/2011	34	57	-	278
Can you support teachers and bash teacher unions? The myths and truths Public sector workers are under assault, and no public worker has been more maligned than the schoolteacher. What’s worse, is that school teachers are being attacked from the usual suspects, but ...	AlecMN	02/16/2011	219	144	16	802
Addressing the Debt In 2011, the developed world will be facing larger deficits and mounting concerns over national stability; the year will usher in loud demands for public sector deleveraging, even though ...	Epsilon	02/16/2011	44	13	2	178
In Memory of Casey: 1998-2011 This diary is my poor attempt to remember my best buddy, Casey, who passed away February 15, 2011, at approximately 1150 AM. He had struggled for the last couple of months with congenital heart ...	A Man Called Gloom	02/16/2011	83	109	1	746
An Interview with Adlai Stevenson III, Part Four: Diplomacy and Foreign Policy On the subject of diplomacy and foreign policy, Senator Stevenson followed in his father's admittedly massive footsteps. In particular, he spent much time working in the Far East, and holds an ...	cabaretic	02/16/2011	3	10	2	68
Photography Gear Addiction My philosophy regarding buying photography equipment. It is also a statement about consumerism in general. There are two distinct approaches to photography gear and equipment. There is the ...	stevej	02/16/2011	218	55	6	501
Bureau of Land Management vows to continue Powder River Basin coal subsidies There are many taxpayer subsidies for coal companies. Some in plain sight. Some hidden in regulatory minutiae. The Powder River Basin coal leasing policies of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is ...	DWG	02/16/2011	23	37	5	155
Deficit Chickenhawks “We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could ...	agnostic	02/16/2011	11	28	-	169
My Grand Father's war If the headline sounds hyper and attention grabbing, well that is my intent. For starters my grandfather (my father’s father) did not fight in any war that I know of. However, the headline is not ...	kekuta	02/16/2011	11	12	-	157
Slave Labor & Privatization on increase, Driven by Conservative corporations and lawmakers A few weeks back I wrote about Rick Scott's ascendancy to the Governorship of Florida, asking whether or not he would actually follow the advice of his Transition Team's recommendations. I voiced ...	Bob Sloan	02/16/2011	58	62	4	317
I blew the exam(s): First tests done, depressing results I am a teacher. I teach students at the college level, ones who are bright and attentive, who come to class (most of the time), have learned to at least overtly pretend to care about the material, ...	annetteboardman	02/16/2011	132	57	-	912
Republicans Punt on Deficits. Seriously. If nothing else, the Republican Party is a machine for generating talking points - and irony. While Senators Mitch McConnell and Jeff Sessions insisted President Obama's $3.73 trillion budget ...	Jon Perr	02/16/2011	34	42	1	347
Public Education: The Reading Problem, Part II In yesterday's diary , I wrote about the problem of getting aliterate (as opposed to illiterate) ...	GrafZeppelin127	02/16/2011	81	33	8	355
Let's take a little trip. Governors of three states have now decided that they don't need federal funding for high speed rail initiatives. They say that nobody will ride them. They say that they'll be slower than flying. ...	Gonzeaux	02/16/2011	68	48	-	235
Mules, electric cars, trains, and jackasses I've just spent 30 minutes listening to a Tea Party neighbor rant about electric cars and high-speed rail. The gist of his rant is . . . well, you know . . . waste of money, never work, plenty of ...	Old Redneck	02/17/2011	126	122	-	552
Mass Mobilization to Save Workers' Rights: From the Front Lines in WI Wisconsin is in the middle of a massive popular uprising. Last Friday, our newly elected Tea-Party governor, Scott Walker, introduced a "	lil bird	02/17/2011	352	349	4	2213
The Conundrum of Discrimination: Hiring Qualified Immigrants (a personal experience) As an executive officer on the board of directors for a government-subsidized local immigrant aid society in Québec, Canada, I have the privilege of being part of the hiring (and unfortunately, ...	David Kroning II	02/17/2011	50	42	-	308
Sequenced: The Human Genome - 10 Years Later Ten years ago a momentous achievement in science was completed - the sequencing of the human genome. Initially started as a publicly-funded venture, ...	mconvente	02/17/2011	55	51	5	367
Gasland Critic ‘Energy In Depth’ Was Created By Major Oil and Gas Cos According to Industry Memo DeSmogBlog has uncovered an industry memo revealing that ‘Energy In Depth’ is hardly comprised of the mom-and-pop “small, independent oil and natural gas producers” it claims to represent. ...	bdemelle	02/17/2011	10	45	1	217
The High Impact of a Low Cost Education Hi, my name is Adam and I didn't do very well in high school. My family doesn't have connections. I am not a legacy. My family didn't have enough money to put food on the table, my parents couldn'...	rexymeteorite	02/17/2011	60	82	2	461
Partisan bickering for us, 21st century infrastructure for the rest of the industrialized world ( cross-posted on my own blog ) Not that this should come as that much of an extreme shock to the ...	aerojad	02/17/2011	28	42	-	241
Disease!: Four billion dead This is the first installment of Disease!, planned to be a semi-regular series of diaries about a category of overlooked epidemics -- plant and animal diseases. While they rarely make ...	Serpents Choice	02/17/2011	104	109	7	580
William Eggleston, American Photographer with a Democratic Camera Bill Eggleston was born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives still with his wife Rosie. His youngest son Winston works as his assistant. Bill doesn’t talk much about his photographs, ...	Agathena	02/17/2011	38	46	-	272
Growing Up, Letting Go Enough time has passed now that I can put this up. I have one child, a son, who was 2 when I was diagnosed with cancer. That was 16 years, 2 recurrences, and 2 academic careers ago. Because I've ...	DrLori	02/17/2011	25	52	3	274
Tea Party Despots, the Wisconsin Protesters, and the Montana Freemen This isn't going to be one of those long, scholarly diaries that better Kossacks than me write. It's more of a "hey, looky over here, this is instructive" kind of diary. Basically, I want you guys ...	Black Max	02/17/2011	67	115	5	802
Living in Burma (Myanmar) part 5-Reflections My wife and I had the unique opportunity to live and work in Myanmar for about 6 months in 2004. It was the experience of a lifetime and one that I thought worth sharing with Global Expats. While I ...	Road Dog	02/17/2011	38	24	3	152
The Tragedy of Private Ownership I was recently in the audience of a young ideologue. The child said that one of the things that had troubled him about his ideology (anarcho-capitalism) was the lack of environmental protection. ...	James Allen	02/17/2011	84	64	1	529
Marriage Inequality: The political becomes personal (This is my very first diary. I think the new DK4 format takes the pressure off a bit. I used to feel that to write a diary, I needed to put together a well-researched treatise. But now that ...	katynka	02/17/2011	44	57	2	262
Will GOP Push Ryan's Plan to Ration Medicare? On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Paul Ryan blasted Obama budget chief Jack ...	Jon Perr	02/18/2011	25	34	-	171
February Photography So far this month I haven't done any serious photography but have, as always, had the point and shoot in my pocket and ready to go. These were all shot with said camera, often at low resolutions and ...	stevej	02/18/2011	63	42	2	264
Deficit derangement Over the past month, we've seen all sorts of "deficit-cutting" measures being proposed. And hey, as someone who's fairly fiscally conservative, I would agree with those proposals....if they'd been ...	wolverinethad	02/18/2011	17	26	-	178
Catcher in the Pie 1. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is why I came to Daily Kos in the first place, what groups I belong to, what diarists I follow, ...	Mother Mags	02/18/2011	43	94	5	377
Sick of the Irony I sit here sick as a dog, stuck in a web of irony. As a school teacher of middle school youth, I arrive at school at 5 AM and leave at 5 PM. About once a year, this schedule takes its toll on my ...	brazmunkee	02/18/2011	23	52	3	374
An Interview with Adlai Stevenson III: Part Five, The Death of Congressional Sanity In this final section, I'll cover the portion of our talk in which we discussed the differences and distinctions in government between the House and Senate. Stevenson was a first-hand witness to ...	cabaretic	02/18/2011	4	19	-	146
This is Where it all Began! It's great being my age. It's not like I have another choice, but when you all get to this place, on the brink of 70, you will finally get to appreciate some history. This diary is about a tiny ...	dolfin66	02/18/2011	41	19	-	257
Enabling the Community to Help Itself Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute'...	NourishingthePlanet	02/18/2011	33	27	-	165
Photography, How To Make The Political Personal (Part 1) Over the last few years, my activism has taken many forms - I've been a Field Organizer for ...	msblucow	02/18/2011	43	59	4	269
The Ghost Weeks (3) Today is February 18, 2011. I’m a bit late with this third installment of the Ghost Weeks. I’ll put in some extra time today to make up. The reason for the delay is I needed to collect a bit ...	cskendrick	02/18/2011	21	33	-	242
Small Biz Owners Demand American Dream For some reason, small business associations too often still spout Sam Walton propaganda. As though small business and big, transnational corporations are on the same team, while workers, ...	rhetoricus	02/18/2011	75	45	2	228
Learning to Live with Type 2 Diabetes I got a gift at the end of July. At the time it didn’t seem like it, but it was. Last summer, after about 6 months of dragging around feeling totally exhausted and barely able to function a lot ...	Hawksana	02/18/2011	55	33	6	268
Dkos4: Day 6 Thoughts For me, jumping right into the deep end of this Olympic sized web pool was not a good idea. I nearly drowned because I had no idea it was so big and so deep. By day three of trying to grok the ...	scribe	02/18/2011	64	41	1	299
When a bass player dies... What does it mean when a bass player dies? There isn't a lot of video out there that I can find of Dave Shapiro. You can see him at the beginning of this piece-- he's the guy hunched over a double-	Julie Waters	02/18/2011	84	58	6	393
Trickle-Down Hate Our daughter is 8 years old. She's a sweet kid with a big artistic streak, just like her mother. She knows very little about politics and understands even less, which is just as it should be. But ...	Phil T Duck	02/18/2011	66	132	3	543
Slave Labor comes to Montana and could cost competing businesses civilian jobs As I've written so many times before - resulting in tender digits - jobs continue to be lost all across our great nation. Private businesses trying to compete with prison made products using cheap ...	Bob Sloan	02/18/2011	40	72	4	360
There but for the grace of the public sector go I Humpty Dumpty and I are peeps. Well, kinda. I, too, had a great fall. But while all the King's horses and all the King's men were busy working on the egg, I had an entire team of public sector ...	a gilas girl	02/19/2011	66	119	1	479
Witnessing is Powerful At some point in the Egyptian revolution, representatives of the demonstrators made it very clear that self-determination is what they sought. They didn't want outsiders influencing their process. ...	UnaSpenser	02/19/2011	41	133	4	483
A few words on Wisconsin May I ask a few moments of your time to contemplate the events in Wisconsin? I believe there can be no clearer picture or clearer truth as to where this country is right now, and what the Republican ...	absdoggy	02/19/2011	131	179	7	860
Dollars in their pocket An elderly gentleman gripped my hand, struggling to speak. He spoke almost no English, and I don't speak Spanish, but he wanted to thank me. I had just changed his life and he could not tell me ...	chicagobama	02/19/2011	10	32	-	155
What Governor Walker Is Really Threatening As the son of a union organizer and as former union member, when I heard that the national guard was being called out I knew deep in my bones what it meant. If you know the history you hear the ...	YellerDog	02/19/2011	216	248	9	1462
(Sort of) Defending the Fed The North-South shift occurring in the international market economy has created resurgence in analyzing market cycles, such as Arun Mortianey’s Supercycles: The New Economic Force Transforming ...	Epsilon	02/19/2011	15	6	-	76
Saturday Ciclovia content removed by ...	JayinPortland	02/19/2011	32	27	-	151
Researching at the National Archives First of all, I have been busy and very remiss in participating at Daily Kos. I was thrilled to see the new face of KOS and particularly excited to see the genealogy section - a big thanks for this.	ciganka	02/19/2011	48	37	3	274
Eyes on Egypt and Region Liveblog #112 Protest and revolt in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen continue to develop. Things took a hopeful turn in Bahrain as troops were withdrawn from the capital, and protesters re-occupied the Pearl roundabout. ...	frenchman	02/19/2011	262	78	3	798
The Importance of Primaries, Local Elections, and the Situation in Wisconsin I'm a proud Wisconsin resident. I spent some time in other places, but nowhere was ever home quite like Wisconsin. One of the happiest times in my life was last spring when I was able to leave a ...	TobyRocksSoHard	02/19/2011	33	45	-	229
While You still have Some, They don't have Enough The battle of those who don't have much left against those that want it all seems to be coming to some as a surprise. The super wealthy super elites have manipulated the masses through thought ...	Mentatmark	02/19/2011	49	71	2	357
Teachers' Lounge: Characteristics of Graduates and Our Responsibilities toward our Students I was never taught how to teach. When I went through grad school (largely in the 1980s) I was lucky to get a chance to teach at all. When in my first GTRA position I was hired to grade term papers,	annetteboardman	02/19/2011	30	18	-	169
The other national impact of Wisconsin Clearly, the events unfolding in Wisconsin as Governor Scott Walker pursues his 2011 budget repair bill - a bill that is necessary to correct an annual shortfall he created last month by immediately ...	wiscochiman	02/19/2011	73	113	3	653
Wealth, Child Neglect and Educational "Reform" "Hey tea party....This is what you want? Albertson's grandson getting richer on your taxpayer money" - Former Idaho Congressional ...	The Book Bear	02/19/2011	8	24	-	163

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