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blue husky https://www.dailykos.com/user/blue husky/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:09:53 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:09:53 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) GUS GUS GUS Friday https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/19/744479/-GUS-GUS-GUS-Friday It's Friday, GUSsacks and friends! I hope everybody's doing well and hanging in there as best as they can. Yay to the GUSsacks who have been on this journey with me!   <blockquote>    1BQ      amk for obama    bgblcklab1    blue husky    bsmechanic    coppercelt    flumptytail    gchaucer2    Im a frayed knot      interceptor7    khloemi    LarsThorwald    magicsister    MinervainNH    nannyboz    ncsuLAN    Pennsylvanian    sallycat    seenaymah    smartcookienyc    Vacationland    Wood Dragon </blockquote> Our Diary List:   <blockquote> smartcookienyc: Friday 5pm edt/2 pdt   bgblcklab: Saturday 9am edt/6 pdt   Vacationland: Saturday 7:30PM edt/4:30 pdt   gchaucer2: Sunday 9PM edt/6 pst </blockquote> For prev. diary entries go <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/tag/GUS">here</a> And now some emo to go with your (smoke-free) coffee... rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) GUS Smoking _744479 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:58:01 +0000 Married, almost 40, don't want kids.  WHY? Share your stories https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/10/740935/-Married-almost-40-don-t-want-kids-160-WHY-Share-your-stories I have reached an age where all the people in my cohort--all the friends that I've grown up with--have had kids by now.   Except me. In recent years I've heard my best female friends tell me about the lovely scent of a baby's pate, the cute cooings of a child's voice, and how their ovaries just react to these infantine stimuli, as though it were a natural fact. Which it is. So why don't I feel this way as well? rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) Personal procreation _740935 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:10:33 +0000 A sugar-free cookie: kindness vs torture https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/4/739032/-A-sugar-free-cookie-kindness-vs-torture This topic might have been covered in other diaries; if so, I apologize, and will delete if necessary. ______ There's a difference between how you might acquire real information, versus false information. The former might not require much more than kindness, and an extended hand.  The latter....Well, maybe torture is the way to go. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) al Qaeda alQaeda Torture _739032 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:59:54 +0000 Capitalism is dead. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/20/733688/-Capitalism-is-dead Once upon a time there was a vast swath of land that, aside from the Natives and other beings that lived in it, could be had for the taking. This was the philosophy of those who had come to the Americas from Europe, and implemented Manifest Destiny, a philosophy which colonized what we now call the United States, on the backs of a hundred different indigenous tribes, and millions of people from Africa, brought here against their will. The sort of thing which built up our country in the name of Manifest Destiny is no more; partly because we devised machines to replace the laborers/slaves, but also because we more or less have colonized every last bit of earth this continent had to offer.   Yet we continue to hold onto that Manifest Destiny dream: that dream of the cowboy, wrangling his lariat; the dream of never-ending resources and the constant reaching for new ones.  The legacy of capitalism, which is, and always had been, built on an unending stream of capital, and cruel human labor. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) Capitalism _733688 Wed, 20 May 2009 19:34:51 +0000 Newbie to newbie: cat diaries, Part 2 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/16/732357/-Newbie-to-newbie-cat-diaries-Part-2 If you are a newbie on here, I bet you are wondering why people get so freaked about about the pootie diaries, pro or con.  I already discussed why the pootie diaries matter, in an earlier entry. Well, he's my two cents on the matter. I, like you, have wondered why people here have violent feelings about the pootie diaries: there are those who will fight (and HR mean comments) to the end, versus those who feel they have to make a mean comment about pooties every single time a pootie diary is posted, and get HR'd to the nines. In the beginning, I hated the pootie diaries.  But now?  Well, I welcome them, now. Why is this? Every time I find myself reacting strongly to a thing, I always stop and wonder why I feel so strongly about it; and I have come to the realization that whenever I feel such a way, it has more to do with me, than the topic at large. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) Barack Obama BarackObama Meta Pooties _732357 Sun, 17 May 2009 03:31:46 +0000 What the stars hold https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/15/731908/-What-the-stars-hold I was always, from my earliest days, what you would call an "underachiever": never really applied myself at school, never really applied myself much to the type of the things that society in general considered important; simply because, I thought, that it wasn't worth it. However, after some years I realized that the reason why I didn't apply myself to such things was because I didn't think I had the wherewithal to achieve it; and somewhere down the line, I understood that if you don't aim high, then you never achieve anything. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) BarackObama College President Obama _731908 Fri, 15 May 2009 19:26:17 +0000 Newbie to newbie: why the cat diaries exist https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/6/728569/-Newbie-to-newbie-why-the-cat-diaries-exist Let me begin by saying that when I first joined the DKos I did not at all understand the whole cat diary thing.  In fact in incensed me, enough to diary about it (if you care to go back in my diary history and check it out--I won't provide the link to it).  And it still is an obsession for me of sorts, clearly, since I'm choosing to diary about it again.  I won't stop to consider just why at the moment. And yet, over my short tenure here, I've come to realize just what these pootie diaries are supposed to be about, and it makes me think about the particular culture that arises in any place, whether it's in the office break room, in a classroom, at a family gathering, or at a blog site. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) catdiaries Community Meta Pooties Recommended Woozles _728569 Wed, 06 May 2009 21:45:50 +0000 We the peeps (with woozles!) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/16/709412/-We-the-peeps-with-woozles For many years, I was utterly disengaged from politics--I read nothing in the news, I knew nothing, I didn't want to know nothing.  Because I'd come to the conclusion that the news couldn't really tell me the truth, and the truth that could be had (for instance, at Democracy Now), was so hopeless and depressing that it wasn't even worth perusing, because in the end, what could someone such as me do about it? rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) Daily Kos DailyKos Meta Woozles _709412 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:55:24 +0000 Pooties and R-word and other DK horrid things, oh my! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/30/685168/-Pooties-and-R-word-and-other-DK-horrid-things-oh-my So I just want to talk about some of my observations that I've acquired ever since I joined the DK back in October or whenever it was (check my UID, wowsers that figure could maybe pay off the National Debt! LOL) At any rate, allow me to spew some rather random and useless observations on the State of Daily Kos as it stands, which I will be the first to admit probably doesn't have a lot of substance.  But, considering the topics which I'm about to discuss, should be a moot point, really. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) irrelevant Joker Pooties Rant Rush Limbaugh RushLimbaugh TDK _685168 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:31:31 +0000 The Obama effect: encounter at the grocery store https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/8/657794/-The-Obama-effect-encounter-at-the-grocery-store Here's my own personal story of the Obama effect.  It's not quite as profound as the diaries written by  JeffLieber and others, but still, it was an experience that gave me pause and left me quite mute. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) Barack Obama BarackObama Hope Prejudice _657794 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:45:19 +0000 Prop 8:  "They" are Us https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/6/656367/-Prop-8-160-They-are-Us I've been reading a lot of diaries here about how the "black vote" failed the gays by voting Yes on Proposition 8.  Some of the diarists have been up in arms about it, and have vowed not to vote for "black interests" again because of it.  And this does trouble me.   This particular ballot measure had been as of equal importance to me as getting Obama elected.  It's hard for me to articulate why, except that I have always believed in equal rights for all, and that there are several people whom I love dearly who would be (and now are) gravely affected by the passage of Proposition 8.  Its passage tells me that perhaps I assume too much about people in California: I assume that most people in this state, like me, know that they have friends and loved ones who are gay, and to whom "gay" or bisexual is not a big deal at all, just another version of love which isn't all that different from any sort of love any of us who are not gay experience, since I guess most of us tend to fall in love with human beings, right? Well, maybe I might be wrong about assuming that people in California feel the way I do.  And what it tells me is that what's needed now is outreach, and connection. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) AfricanAmericans Equality Proposition8 _656367 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:52:59 +0000 I've seen "real" America, and its name is Justice https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/31/641174/-I-ve-seen-real-America-and-its-name-is-Justice There have been a couple diaries here in the last few days thanking Kos and other people on this site who have made a difference.  I'd just like to take the time to extend my own thanks to all of you here, because this site has really helped keep me sane over the last couple weeks. I'm one of the nail-biting Chicken Littles that people sometimes bemoan.  My anxiety about this election has kept me awake at nights, wondering what I am going to do if Obama doesn't win. But you guys at Daily Kos have really helped a lot, because I see the intelligence, the decency, the drive, and the kindness that so many of you show in your diaries and comments, so there are times that I think With folks such as these supporting Obama, how could he lose? But perhaps the most striking thing for me about being here, and about this election in general, is that it has shown me that maybe there really are two Americas.  However, the dividing line between them is not at all what people like Palin or Bachmann say it is.  It has nothing to do with religion, or race, or sexual preference, or income, or education. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) Daily Kos DailyKos Election Hope Justice _641174 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000 Why science research is not a "special interest" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/25/641895/-Why-science-research-is-not-a-special-interest <blockquote> "Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age. Let's set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed. Let's recruit a new army of teachers, and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more accountability. Let's make college more affordable, and let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America." </blockquote> This is a direct quotation from the Obama for America website <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/.">http://www.barackobama.com/...</a>  I begin this diary with this quote in order to underscore an important reason why we should care about science funding. rss@dailykos.com (blue husky) Drosophila fruitflies scienceresearch _641895 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:02:29 +0000