Remember Lush's Katrina Biowarfare Diary
I just don't have any digging time, but it would be cool if the people here who are good at digging would occasionally take Lush's Sept. 3, 2005, diary "Biological Weapons in New Orleans?" out of the...
View ArticleA short filibuster against tyranny
OK, I haven't read all of the diaries or comments or stories or newspaper articles, and I wasn't a poli sci major, and I now realize that I don't really know how filibusters work, and I suck rocks,...
View ArticleCorzine, Menendez: Let Fulop Run!!!!!
OK, I'm not a political insider, I don't know every angle, and I don't know whether what my paper says is true. But my paper says Steve Fulop, a young veteran who is a terrific city councilman in...
View ArticlePR Idea: Give A Wingnut A Hug / Contest
I was thinking of the article about Hillary Clinton complaining at a UAW event about the Republicans playing the "fear card." Here is reframing idea: instead of using the rhetoric of complaint and...
View ArticleDems Have Ideas: The Platform
I think it would be nice if the cool folks here would have some kind of weekly platform thread. What bugged me about the Sunday Times book review of "Crashing the Gates" is the assertion that Markos,...
View ArticleSoylent Green Now: Peak Fish
I like gasoline, but I'll bet there's some way to get along without it. Getting along without fish, however, would be a real pain. The Marine Fish Conservation Network says only 13% of federally...
View ArticleBurkle Blackmailer Linked To Gannon
Best of Both Worlds says Jared Paul Stern quoted Jeff Gannon in an April 25 gossip column. The question is: does this piece of circumstantial evidence help strengthen the argument that Stern might have...
View ArticleSoylent Green Now: Peak Food
You know that opening montage in Soylent Green that hints at the crop failures that led to Soylent Green being people? The Lawrence, Kan., newspaper says AccuWeather believes the coming summer may...
View Article2 Heroes: A Diplomat And A German General
I just found a really beautiful press release that refers (boo! hiss!) about Hiram Bingham IV, a diplomat in Vichy France who worked to help Jews and British POWs escape from the Germans during the...
View ArticleIs EPA fudging air quality stats?
When I look at New York from the west side of the Hudson River, it looks as if New York is sitting under a giant cloud of terrible smog all day long. But, when I visit the EPA air quality Web site, it...
View ArticleRightMarch.com goes after foreign language ballots
It's interesting to see how hard RightMarch.com is campaigning against everything to do with illegal and, really, legal immigrants. I think RightMarch.com is, basically, an e-mail mass marketing firm...
View ArticleSeriously: What Bush has done right
I'll probably make my usual typos here, but I don't mean for this to be taken as satire. I think one key step to winning any battle is to understand the strengths of your enemy, however awful your...
View Article'99 article about Clinton Al Qaeda response
The idea that Clinton didn't try hard to catch Bin Laden is absurd. If you search with Groups Google, you see that Bin Laden made systematic efforts to assassinate Clinton and others in his...
View ArticleRovies preparing own sex scandal stories???
I have a friend who is unofficially one of us but, officially, is still a Log Cabin Republican and is pretty well plugged in to the GLBT Republican universe. He says the Republicans are preparing to...
View ArticleHelp: Minn National Guard "smart bomb" banner real?
OK, I'm addicted to the Drudge Report as well as this site. My theory is that whoever picks the stories for Drudge Report (whether that's Drudge or someone else) hates what's going on Iraq and is an...
View ArticleScientists: All seafood gone by 2048
The journal Science has published an article suggesting that just about all sources of seafood may run out by the time the youngest Daily Kos Readers are getting ready to retire: Overfishing May Harm...
View ArticleModerates and Progressives
I think one thing that's happening on Daily Kos this week is that, after months of holding our breath and wishing for change of any kind, some of us are remembering that we're really Greens, some that...
View ArticleScary McCain Web censorship bill
John McCain has introduced S. 4089, a bill that would require ordinary message board Webmasters to go through roughly the same formal notification process for kiddie porn posters that an ISP now has to...
View ArticleOT: Have you had a high fever?
I'm just getting over some kind of cold from heck during which I had a 104 degree fever but otherwise was never quite obviously sick enough to call the doctor.But I am hypochondriacal enough to try to...
View ArticleHelp!! What's up with those terrifying MoveAmericaForward TV ads?
If you're reading this and have mojo: please help investigate and discredit MoveAmericaForward, or pick up on this diary and diary more about the organization (if you see its ads) to help reduce its...
View ArticleNYPD spied on city councilman - RNC '04 surveillance doc dump
A new document release release of documents gives some details about how the New York Police Department monitored peaceful protest groups around the time of the 2004 Republican National Convention in...
View ArticleA nice Palestinian mom's blog
I'm one of the members of the Jewish, pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian contingent here who tries mightily to support the proposition that, if France and Germany can be staunch allies, the Israelis and...
View ArticleCandidates: Stick Up For One Another!!!!
I might have missed something. But, anyhow, if this hasn't happened yet: all of the major Democratic presidential candidates ought to get together and declare to one another that, if people like...
View ArticleHow do they make the WEEKLY HYSTERIA SHOW?
It seems as if the MoveOn.org/BetrayUs hysteria is yet another example of the Viguerie/Rovie hysteria machine at work.The people who run the hysteria machine are happy if they have some genuine...
View ArticleAttention communications staffers: New RightMarch.com spinoff
I just today got an e-mail from Gary Kreep's "United States Justice Foundation," which seems to use the same e-mail list as RightMarch.com and other wingnut talking point spreaders.See this SourceWatch...
View ArticleBeware Of Rovie Hate Planting
Certainly, there are differences between our candidates, and they (and us supporters) can say mean and dumb things. But I think Clinton, Edwards and Obama have plenty in common, both in terms of...
View ArticleThe Hate Machine and Michelle Obama
Suppose Obama comes out way ahead tomorrow.I think the Bush Rovie Viguerie Hate Machine -- aka the shadowy Swift Boater public relations agencies -- will start implementing plans they probably already...
View ArticleSet a primary winner support rule
Suggestion: The Democratic party should require participants in the presidential primary process to promise to support the Democratic nominee, whoever the nominee turns out to be, or at least to avoid...
View ArticleIdea: Make it fun to pay taxes
I was going to put this in an unrelated comment to an existing tax diary. But, anyhow: here is an idea free for the use of anyone who likes it.Encourage people to pay taxes and view paying taxes as the...
View ArticleI think Obama should protect Hillary
I'm sure that one reason Hillary Clinton is still running is to stay in the race in case she can get the Democatic nomination through some unexpected twist of fate. Another reason may have something to...
View ArticleThoughts about how to mock John McCain
It seems to me that one huge question right now is: how do we make fun of a presidential candidate who is threatening to perpetuate policies that could end civilization as we know it without also...
View Article"Al Qaeda I: BCCI": Why they slam Obama's middle name
Today, I see a highly recommended diary about a Democrat from Tennessee who is questioning whether Obama has ties to terrorists.One thing to keep in mind is that the Republicans have to do everything...
View ArticleFISA solution: promise to use against R's!!!
I have figured out a way to get the Republicans to understand why they should lead the fight against the current version of the FISA bill.Emphasize that Obama is likely to win the presidential...
View ArticleHate PR Machine Op-Ed Campaign Sample
In the body, I'm posting excerpts from an op-ed that the Republican Hate PR Machine is using to whip up a Saul Alinsky hysteria.I think I received this op-ed because I (shudder) got myself onto several...
View ArticleSave The Economy Contest
Do you have some ideas for saving the economy? If so, what would you do?I'm posting my suggestions in the body of this diary.
View ArticleThe Blue Screen of Death Econ Recovery Plan
To me, it looks as if the money/contract/securities-based system is acting like a corrupted Word document that's completely out of control. Stuff is going in circles and inserting garbage characters in...
View ArticleAdjusting the Main Street vs. Wall Street Meme
I'm going to make a plea here for a slight change in the way the Obama folks talk about Wall Street and the investor/trader/speculator community.I think that he should figure out a way to talk in terms...
View ArticleObama needs some business people
I was a primary swing voter, but I loved Obama as a candidate and love him as a president-elect. I know he knows best.But, anyhow, just for kicks: I'm looking at the bios of Obama's top-level Treasury...
View ArticleFed: Loans To Poor/Minorities Did Not Tank Economy
Wingnuts have tried to pin blame for the economic meltdown on the Democrats by arguing that the root cause is that federal Community Reinvestment Act regulations forced banks to make too many mortgage...
View ArticleThe Misunderstanding of Captain Kirk
It sounds as if the new Star Trek movie is great and has a great new version of Captain Kirk.But I think the features about and reviews of the movie display a misunderstanding of the character of the...
View ArticlePromote One-Child Households
We went to the zoo Saturday and say a little play for children about the environment. We characters told us to conserve by recycling, using as little water as possible, and buying organic and...
View ArticleMr. President: Please help Jersey City's Steve Fulop
I was a primary swing voter who ended up voting for you and ended up feeling great about that vote. I think you are a wonderful president.But you recently helped the Hudson County Democratic Party...
View ArticleIdea: VOLUNTARY Public Option
My preference would be to see our country adopt a single-payer system, but I'd rather have any health reform bill that would treat people with health problems decently than no health reform bill.Here's...
View ArticleMr. President: I Stand With You
I think that the people here who are criticizing the health reform bill and the process for writing it are often correct, and often making the criticisms that you yourself would be making if you were...
View ArticleWe stand with Harry Reid
Harry Reid is human, and he shouldn't have used the term "Negro dialect," but he is a brave, canny guy who's doing his best under tough circumstances to get us a health reform bill and make President...
View ArticleCould we put Conan O'Brien to work as a candidate?
I understand that different people have different tastes when it comes to comedy, and that Conan O'Brien might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I was wondering what folks here might think about him...
View ArticleNeed an ID assistance program
I met a panhandler who said he has two uncashed paychecks because he has no valid ID and no way to remedy that situation. Who knows whether that's true or not, but I liked the comments of someone on...
View ArticleFeingold should stick with Obama on H.R. 4173
Russell Feingold is a very great, principled guy, but because he has such firm principles, he's forcing President Obama to play footsie with the likes of Susan Collins to get the Dodd-Frank Act through...
View ArticleNeed a structure for intra-party debate
I would like people like President Obama, Russell Feingold, Howard Dean, John Kerry and Wesley Clark who've benefited from blogosophere support here, and the Clintons and other people who've benefited...
View ArticleMr. Obama: I'm your base, and I haven't crumbled
I'm just hoping someone on Obama's social media outreach team will see this and convey the message that plenty of his bedrock American moderates and moderate liberals support him at least as strongly,...
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