Posting History for Geekesque
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| Hillary and Rupert, sitting in a tree . . . | Geekesque | 05/09/2006 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 13 |
| I've discovered the true agenda behind the CT diaries. | Geekesque | 05/30/2006 | 65 | 16 | 1 | 7 |
| Gay rights, abortion rights, and 1st Amendment are a 'waste of time.' | Geekesque | 07/16/2006 | 21 | 6 | 1 | - |
| US Military: Only gun control can save Iraq. | Geekesque | 07/20/2006 | 41 | 11 | 1 | 2 |
| Christian Taliban (FRC) revolt, call Abramoff a "VALUES issue." | Geekesque | 10/03/2006 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Civil war erupts in Iraqi parliament | Geekesque | 11/02/2006 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 139 |
| Beyond Bush: The larger enemy lurks in the shadows George W. Bush is the worst president in the history of the United States. He lacks human decency, intellectual capacity, and the common sense of a goat. He has been one rolling wave of disasters ... |
Geekesque | 12/09/2006 | 59 | 54 | 1 | 8 |
| Life imitates satire at the Libby trial (jurors must trust Cheney?) As you've probably heard, juror selection in the Scooter Libby trial has begun.
And, apparently it's going to be a long, long process, if the Associated Press is to be believed.
Their headline: |
Geekesque | 01/17/2007 | 24 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| STFU about Clinton not being electable (Updated) UPDATE: Some people don't like being told to STFU.
Fine.
If your argument is valid, you'll have facts and logic to support it. Without those, the electability meme is just an unsupported, ... |
Geekesque | 02/07/2007 | 265 | 25 | 1 | 8 |
| Head of group (Fidelis) calling for Dems to repudiate Marcotte is an editor at Redstate.com I'll make this short and sweet.
In an attempt to follow up, tag-team style on the Edwards bloggerz flap, the 'national Catholic-based advocacy group" Fidelis has called upon Senators Clinton ... |
Geekesque | 02/13/2007 | 30 | 29 | 1 | - |
| Texas Republic Party: Evolution a Jewish Plot (Elders of Darwin?) You just knew it was going to happen. Anti-semitism and hostility to science are two pillars of rightwing Christian fundamentalism. Eventually, somewhere, the Bush/DeLay party was going to find a ... |
Geekesque | 02/15/2007 | 105 | 52 | 1 | 26 |
| A Republican shows Democratic wannabe 'leaders' how it's done. Former Senator Alan K. Simpson, a Republican from Wyoming, has a startling opinion column in the Washington Post today.
Startling because the headline is more honest and blunt on the issue of anti- |
Geekesque | 03/14/2007 | 42 | 29 | 1 | 35 |
| Obama's website asks: "Can Obama's substance match his style?" I've tried to avoid writing primary 2008 diaries for a whole host of reasons (the foremost of which is that they're grossly premature).
But Barack Obama's website is featuring something ... |
Geekesque | 04/30/2007 | 83 | 38 | 1 | 10 |
| John Warner (R-VA) seeking to effectively force US withdrawal via Trojan Horse? There was a lot of buzz last week regarding Feingold-Reid (or Reid-Feingold). However, virtually no attention was paid to the Warner Amendment, which was rejected 52-44 along mostly party-line ... |
Geekesque | 05/22/2007 | 49 | 32 | 1 | 26 |
| Salon: Obama is a girly man and Hillary is butch I think we have reached a new low from the folks at Salon.com. Not low for them, but low for the world of political commentary.
You see, Obama is a positive, caring person. Which makes him a ... |
Geekesque | 07/12/2007 | 121 | 37 | 1 | 9 |
| This just in: Edwards still matters A lot of people had assumed that the 2008 primary race had become a two-person race. This theme was reinforced by the recent media spat between Clinton and Obama.
But, it was also born out by ... |
Geekesque | 07/26/2007 | 226 | 42 | 1 | 14 |
| Your problem is with black people in South Carolina Let's stop dancing around the fringes of what's going on with the Donnie McClurkin story.
He's said some really offensive, really ignorant, really appalling, and totally unacceptable things about ... |
Geekesque | 10/23/2007 | 800 | 132 | 1 | 76 |
| Tell Barack Obama what to do to make things right. No recap is needed for the horrid mess that was the McClurkin fiasco (I'm sooooo sick of even typing that moron's name). It reflected poorly upon the Obama campaign in any number of ways, depending ... |
Geekesque | 11/01/2007 | 333 | 51 | 1 | 19 |
| The New Face of Electability, part I. The standard definition of electability for a Democrat goes something like this:
Governor
White
Socially moderate to conservative
Non-ideological to hawkish on foreign policy and the use of ... |
Geekesque | 11/14/2007 | 189 | 127 | 1 | 7 |
| Clarity + Respect = Strength and Electability. Cross-posted at OMS.
Yesterday I examined the numbers behind ... |
Geekesque | 11/15/2007 | 207 | 46 | 1 | 12 |
| Brayquing: Obama to get endorsement of UNITE HERE (parent of NV Culinary 226) Yeah, this is big.
Per the New York Times:
Unite Here, the union representing ... |
Geekesque | 01/08/2008 | 303 | 125 | 1 | 8 |
| Magic tries taking Obama to the rim, but is REJECTED by Kareem! Note: If you don't have a sense of humor, this diary is not for you.
In what has to be the most ridiculous metaphor of the campaign season, two former Los Angeles Laker greats have entered the ... |
Geekesque | 01/22/2008 | 111 | 65 | 1 | 41 |
| Obama will kick McCain's butt, not hold his hand Kumbayah.
Why can't we all get along.
Going along to get along.
This kind of b.s. has been thrown at Barack Obama for over a year now by his critics (when they're not complaining that he's ... |
Geekesque | 02/02/2008 | 223 | 183 | 1 | 20 |
| Clinton blogs, LA Times regurgitate far-right attacks on Obama Currently, the race to the bottom amongst the few remaining pro-Clinton blogs is between Larry Johnson's NO QUARTER (now receiving an influx of traffic from places like Free Republic) and, in a bit ... |
Geekesque | 04/11/2008 | 92 | 41 | 1 | 50 |
| Who will win North Indy-lina? It's tempting to think of two separate contests a week from today. In reality, there is only one contest--the quest for the Democratic nomination. And on May 6, there will be a loser and there ... |
Geekesque | 04/29/2008 | 43 | 27 | 1 | 23 |
| You idiots (McCain edition) Once again folks on the Netroots are being played for chumps.
Last time, it was the stupid Moveon advertisement nontroversy.
This ... |
Geekesque | 05/22/2008 | 45 | 31 | 1 | 13 |
| Yeeeeeee-haaaaaaaaaaa! | Geekesque | 09/11/2008 | 115 | 56 | 1 | 50 |
| Senate Democrats Eager to Pass "Permanent Occupation" Resolution The fallout from President Obama's noble blunder continues. Senate Democrats are now eagerly lining up to sign a resolution, sponsored by Orrin Hatch, explicitly repudiating the 1967 lines as a ... |
Geekesque | 05/25/2011 | 67 | 19 | 1 | 276 |
| Nobody cares about the poor, and that includes the Netroots The ideological debate in this country is not about rich versus the poor.
Instead it is about whether the government should serve the rich or whether it should serve the rich and the middle class.
... |
Geekesque | 06/17/2011 | 289 | 128 | 1 | 1122 |
| White House Fact Sheet: Infrastructure is the new hostage Joe Biden tried to convince House Democrats yesterday that the administration was ... |
Geekesque | 08/02/2011 | 26 | 14 | 1 | 144 |
| Senate Democrats + House Blue Dogs to dismantle Obama jobs plan on behalf of Republican colleagues In a determined effort to convince the base that losing their Senate majority would be no big deal, Senate Democrats are already trying to dismantle the jobs program, and using Republican talking ... |
Geekesque | 09/14/2011 | 27 | 29 | 1 | 225 |
| Virulently racist NYPD Facebook group exposed The West Indian American Day Parade, held every Labor Day in the heart of Brooklyn, is one of the largest cultural events in the country. Attended by upwards of 2 million spectators, it's Carnival ... |
Geekesque | 12/06/2011 | 9 | 26 | 1 | 189 |
| Wolf Blitzer: My job is to be like Judy Miller | Geekesque | 08/12/2005 | 18 | 6 | - | - |
| Two sentences explain Brazile's Katrina comments | Geekesque | 09/20/2005 | 17 | 17 | - | - |
| A truly bizarre theory on Dems and Roberts | Geekesque | 09/22/2005 | 13 | 3 | - | - |
| The Dems strategy on Roberts starts to pay off | Geekesque | 09/26/2005 | 26 | 2 | - | - |
| Confirm Harriet Miers! | Geekesque | 10/03/2005 | 93 | 6 | - | - |
| Chutzpah alert! Jonah Goldberg defends Republican cronyism. | Geekesque | 10/13/2005 | 11 | 5 | - | 11 |
| Somebody just ratted out Karl Rove | Geekesque | 10/21/2005 | 46 | 23 | - | - |
| Niger documents story EXPLODING | Geekesque | 10/25/2005 | 28 | 9 | - | - |
| Charles Johnson of LGF: Can he really be this stupid? | Geekesque | 10/28/2005 | 12 | 1 | - | 31 |
| It's the dead civilians, stupid! | Geekesque | 11/10/2005 | 6 | 9 | - | - |
| Woodward urged source to come forward in bid to help LIBBY | Geekesque | 11/18/2005 | 25 | 6 | - | - |
| Wingnut bloggers explode over irrelevant story. | Geekesque | 11/22/2005 | 36 | 12 | - | 9 |
| Why do we smear Democrats here? | Geekesque | 11/29/2005 | 92 | 8 | - | 6 |
| When in doubt, accuse a Democrat of treason. | Geekesque | 11/30/2005 | 6 | 2 | - | 15 |
| Holy fucking shit! House Republicans do their job! | Geekesque | 12/14/2005 | 21 | 10 | - | 9 |
| The Mohammed cartoons--don't fall for the hype. | Geekesque | 02/04/2006 | 32 | 25 | - | 17 |
| The Swiftboating of the Generals who want Rumsfeld to resign has begun | Geekesque | 04/13/2006 | 29 | 20 | - | 26 |
| Our own wedge issue: An anti-earmarking amendment? | Geekesque | 06/05/2006 | 28 | 3 | - | - |
| Gannon redux or is Rep. Hoekstra a filthy liar? | Geekesque | 06/22/2006 | 17 | 23 | - | 7 |
| Tom Reynolds caught in OBVIOUS lie yesterday by local press. | Geekesque | 10/04/2006 | 3 | 12 | - | 6 |
| Lieberman and Nietzsche: What doesn't kill him may make him stronger | Geekesque | 10/18/2006 | 12 | 2 | - | - |
| Scandal! Iraq state TV accuses Bush of releasing terrorist!! | Geekesque | 11/01/2006 | 26 | 19 | - | 17 |
| Republicans eliminate Iraq auditor office (Contemptible Arrogance!) | Geekesque | 11/03/2006 | 6 | 7 | - | 1 |
| A Question for the Bitter Lamont Supporters | Geekesque | 11/16/2006 | 114 | 7 | - | 7 |
| Attention media figures: John Boehner has major ethics issues. | Geekesque | 11/17/2006 | 28 | 40 | - | 138 |
| Those who know them the best: Home state voters on Presidential wannabes Hotline the other day linked to a story hosted (unfortunately) by the AEI. However, the story itself is based on exit polling, and includes some fascinating numbers.
Basically, some exit ... |
Geekesque | 12/08/2006 | 9 | 2 | - | 7 |
| A glimmer of hope in Iraq? I know, it feels stupid to even contemplate it, let alone type it. Things have been awful, and Bush's stewardship has been as awful as could be.
But, the New York Times today reports that Iraqis-- |
Geekesque | 12/20/2006 | 15 | 2 | - | - |
| Can we please call her "Senator Clinton?" (UPDATED) Here at Dkos, and on the Internets in general, references to "Barack" and "John" and even "Dennis" aren't used to refer to candidates.
But, one candidate is commonly referred to by her first name. ... |
Geekesque | 01/20/2007 | 104 | 25 | - | 6 |
| Republican Senator calls out Joementum's weaselish McCarthyism That Joe Lieberman is a sycophantic, unprincipled weasel who licks the boots of power is now a matter of bi-partisan agreement.
Today, mindful of how history has judged others and how it will ... |
Geekesque | 01/24/2007 | 48 | 40 | - | 9 |
| A modest proposal regarding Hillary Clinton It is no exaggeration to state that Senator Clinton's detractors outnumber her supports by a wide margin at this site. Indeed, there are more diaries dedicated to trashing her here than there are ... |
Geekesque | 02/19/2007 | 116 | 13 | - | 3 |
| Clinton opens wide lead in Southern states (including N. Carolina) Caveat: 'Undecided' leads the race by a wide margin. Gore/Clark fans may commence fighting over that vote.
Caveat II: I'm also unsure of Elon University and its methodology, so this poll ... |
Geekesque | 02/26/2007 | 36 | 5 | - | - |
| Kent Conrad tightens budgetary screws on Iraq war, Bush Kent Conrad is Chair of the Senate Budget Committee. He also is the only current Senator from a Red State to vote against the Iraq War Resolution. And he's a deficit hawk.
In other words, he's ... |
Geekesque | 03/01/2007 | 26 | 24 | - | 18 |
| Bob Shrum: I pushed Edwards to vote for war (To be honest, this makes me think more highly of Edwards and especially his wife. And it seems like classic DC consultant crap that they fed him.)
In case anyone had any silly notions about ... |
Geekesque | 03/13/2007 | 114 | 35 | - | 7 |
| Out of Iraq Caucus and Blue Dogs unite on timeline for withdrawal The Appropriations Committee voted today on the timeline for withdrawal from Iraq and the overall supplemental appropriation.
Long story short: the vote was a victory for the good guys.
... |
Geekesque | 03/15/2007 | 34 | 25 | - | 18 |
| The 'liberal' L.A. Times: "Obama the Magic Negro" (UPDATED) No, that title is not snark. That's what the latest in the "Obama can't be who people think he is" nonsense. I can't tell if it's intended as a bigger dig at Obama himself or those silly white ... |
Geekesque | 03/19/2007 | 209 | 18 | - | 11 |
| Seeing a different game on Iraq Over the weekend and into this week, there was a lot of excited chatter and angst over the Democratic response to Bush's inevitable veto of the supplemental funding bill and various candidate ... |
Geekesque | 04/05/2007 | 42 | 19 | - | 15 |
| Obama, funding, Iraq, and negotiations In the FP story where mcjoan felt compelled to give theblaz's dead horse one more kick in the ribs, it became abundantly ... |
Geekesque | 04/11/2007 | 75 | 24 | - | 17 |
| Why everyone here is right on Iraq funding There has been a lot of very, ahem, spirited debate amongst Democrats and progressives regarding a strategy to bring US troops home from Iraq and the role that the Congressional funding power would ... |
Geekesque | 04/16/2007 | 12 | 8 | - | - |
| Congressional Democrats ready to fold on Iraq Do you want to know what all of the internal fighting, struggle, sweat, and debate amongst Democrats is going produce?
'Advisory' guidelines.
Yep. We get to pass a bill that gives Bush advice. |
Geekesque | 04/19/2007 | 87 | 38 | - | 14 |
| Wingnut bloggers/cartoonist showing Hillary Clinton in BLACKFACE!! Day by Day is a rightwing comic strip intended for rightwing Republican bloggers who think they're cool because they're Republicans with a computer or something. It is created by one Chris Muir.
... |
Geekesque | 04/26/2007 | 23 | 10 | - | 13 |
| Forget Britney's junk! Obama smacks whiny Chuck Grassley in Iowa over Iraq The title refers to this obnoxious diary.
Barack Obama is doing a very good thing in his primary campaign stops.
He's calling ... |
Geekesque | 05/11/2007 | 77 | 35 | - | 19 |
| Chuck Grassley: Who cares what I think about Iraq? I'm only a Senator! For those outside of Iowa, Barack Obama and Chucky Grassley, who has been embarrassing Iowa since 1974, have been sparring over Iraq.
Well, not exactly. They've been sparring over talking about ... |
Geekesque | 05/12/2007 | 12 | 21 | - | 20 |
| We should be more reasonable than Dick Cheney. This diary is going to piss a lot of people off.
Well, that's too bad.
Because I am in full-on gadfly mode.
Because, dogmas need to be debunked.
More below the fold. |
Geekesque | 05/14/2007 | 143 | 19 | - | 8 |
| Dem presidential contender supports caving on Iraq, embraces LIEberman as 'friend' I can only assume that everyone on Daily Kos will join me in denouncing this candidate, who went on national television and undermined his own party.
The gory details below the fold. |
Geekesque | 05/24/2007 | 149 | 14 | - | 17 |
| (UPDATED) A challenge to critics of the Democrats who voted "yes" It has become conventional knowledge around these parts that voting "yes" for the appropriations measure this past week was an act of caving, cowardice, corruption, and complicity.
In fact, even ... |
Geekesque | 05/27/2007 | 336 | 12 | - | - |
| Rightwing wacko melts down on US Senate floor, whines that Obama is undermining bipartisanship Apparently Senate Republicans didn't get the memo that Barack Obama only cares about making sure that everyone gets along. Obama's unabashedly pro-family and progressive amendment to the ... |
Geekesque | 06/07/2007 | 42 | 31 | - | 17 |
| Republican rivals fight to avoid Giuliani endorsement Washington (GNS)
With Rudey Giuliani staving off multiple scandals, many observers have begun to look ahead to a Republican presidential primary contest without the former New York mayor. And ... |
Geekesque | 06/26/2007 | 14 | 8 | - | 7 |
| Forget Petraeus: The Crocker report is the key to Iraq in September As just about everyone knows, in September General David Petraeus is going to give a report on the success or failure of the 2007 escalation in Iraq.
Obviously, that report will be a big deal (to ... |
Geekesque | 06/29/2007 | 20 | 19 | - | 17 |
| On Impeachment and Iraq Over at MyDD, Armando/BTD and Meteor Blades are engaging in an, ahem, spirited debate inspired in part by the latter'... |
Geekesque | 07/03/2007 | 74 | 12 | - | - |
| Please read and recommend Eternal Hope's diary Seriously, it's one of the best diaries I've read here in weeks, and it's getting criminally ignored.
Yes it's kinda long, but well worth the read.
Anyhow, here's the link so you can go check it ... |
Geekesque | 07/11/2007 | 15 | 7 | - | - |
| Washington Post: OMG, Hillary has b00bs!1!1!!!! Just in case anyone thought that the media was done with its thoroughly noxious, sexist, and misogynistic coverage of Hillary Clinton, the Washington Post delivers another reminder of just how ... |
Geekesque | 07/20/2007 | 477 | 150 | - | 110 |
| NH: Sununu will vote with Bush, but not appear in public with him The word 'triangulation' is one of the most overused words in the political lexicon. It's stale rhetoric just as it's a stale tactic.
However, I think we need to come up with a new word--'... |
Geekesque | 07/23/2007 | 23 | 20 | - | 7 |
| Meeting with foreign leaders--let's answer the question as asked. Since this is the big dividing line between the two leading primary contenders in national polling and fundraising, it's only fair to see where most Kossacks actually stand on the issue.
In order ... |
Geekesque | 07/27/2007 | 164 | 21 | - | 6 |
| (UPDATED) Progressive Caucus shows no mercy to Republicans on Iraq Behind the scenes in Washington, the Progressive caucus has killed a proposal that would have let Congressional Republicans triangulate by pretending to vote against Bush but that would not have ... |
Geekesque | 08/02/2007 | 22 | 17 | - | 18 |
| Are Brangelina Kossacks? If they're not, they serve as proof that dynamics we see at play here extend beyond cyberspace.
It appears the world's sexiest couple got into a fight that we have seen replicated thousands of ... |
Geekesque | 08/06/2007 | 101 | 22 | - | 9 |
| Pakistan debunks Obama claims (snort, chuckle, guffaw) The name of Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States is Mahmud Ali Durrani. The English translation of his name is "Tony Snow" I believe. He recently gave an interview which calls to mind ... |
Geekesque | 08/07/2007 | 67 | 27 | - | 13 |
| (UPDATED) Hillary: "I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table" I'm sure some people are having trouble believing that Ms. Clinton would make such a statement. Not because it's an unwise statement--indeed it makes some sense.
But rather, because Ms. Clinton ... |
Geekesque | 08/09/2007 | 359 | 47 | - | 16 |
| White House punished by NFL for illegal spying New York (Geek News Services)
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reacted swiftly and sharply to the revelation that the Bush Administration had illegally spied on American citizens by fining ... |
Geekesque | 09/14/2007 | 24 | 22 | - | 9 |
| Clinton Israel statement possibly undermines Mideast negotiations Hillary Clinton produced a very worthy health care proposal yesterday that drew praise from pundits as diverse as David Brooks and Ezra Klein.
We should give her props for that.
However, her ... |
Geekesque | 09/18/2007 | 332 | 50 | - | 14 |
| Republicans angry at Bush over healthcare for children If one wants any proof that the years of tireless advocacy for healthcare reform and protecting the rights of children have paid some dividends, one need look no further than the Republican outrage ... |
Geekesque | 09/21/2007 | 25 | 23 | - | - |
| Clinton's Kyl-Lieberman vote: Still awful In yesterday's diary entry , I disproved the Clinton campaign's claim that it was hypocritical to support S.970 but oppose the Kyl-... |
Geekesque | 10/30/2007 | 180 | 60 | - | 52 |
| Dodd raps Clinton for feeding her own polarizing image Hillary Clinton made a curious choice this week--release an ad decrying the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy (VRWC) while at the same time trying to combat her image as polarizing.
Chris Dodd pounced, ... |
Geekesque | 11/20/2007 | 126 | 25 | - | 5 |
| Clinton forms new 527: Lolcats for Truth. I'm sure everyone has seen the story about an old Friend of Bill (FOB) trying to dig up dirt on Barack Obama's past as a ... |
Geekesque | 12/11/2007 | 45 | 30 | - | 1 |
| The polls are right--Clinton will win Nevada, which isn't New Hampshire The big lesson that everyone seems to have learned from New Hampshire is that polls simply can't be trusted. And that, thus, nobody really knows who's going to win Nevada.
That's nonsense.
... |
Geekesque | 01/18/2008 | 214 | 38 | - | 18 |
| Kill a Swiftboater with kindness today--Action Alert UPDATED Today, a Swiftboating group has its mouthpiece out.
You know which ones--the American Issues Project. The ones with the repulsive William Ayers ad out.
Today, they're trotting out their ... |
Geekesque | 08/26/2008 | 29 | 55 | - | 22 |
| Finally! The Obama campaign uses the "L" word. Recommend TomP's excellent diary on this subject!
As in "lies." As in dishonesty, deceipt, and deception.
As in, ... |
Geekesque | 09/08/2008 | 31 | 40 | - | 20 |
| Republican savior Fred Thompson: Cheese-eating Surrender Monkey Do you remember how much scorn was heaped at Democrats who suggested that maybe, just maybe, staying in Iraq for a McCain for an eternity was a really bad idea? That how a timeline for withdrawal ... |
Geekesque | 11/19/2009 | 35 | 12 | - | 155 |
| Al Simpson must . . . stay? (minor update) There has been a lot of uproar about the disgraceful comments about women and Social Security made by Al Simpson, co-chair of the National Commission on ... |
Geekesque | 08/30/2010 | 50 | 16 | - | 31 |