But Dad, You Don't Know What Being Black IS!
This isn't going to be a long diary. I really just want to riff on this.Yes. I am a white person, and I have experienced the things that are in this diary and comment in particular in many different,...
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FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’By Spencer Ackerman Email Author September 14, 2011 | 8:45 pm | Categories: Crime and Homeland SecurityThe FBI is teaching its...
View ArticlePosh Mosh Disneyland and all things Dickish!
THIS IS A MOSH PIT DIARYThat will appear in just about any diary I will author for now, and I just want to post up why.
View ArticleThe Joys Of Private Health Insurance
So to put it bluntly, I have reached a point where I have the resolve to quit smoking. Folks, this is a pain in the ass! In my life, I've kicked other things I managed to get hooked on. No big deal....
View ArticleOn Acting Out
It appears the many attempts to marginalize OWS are working better than I expected to see. My somewhat regular conversations touch this subject fairly regularly, and it's almost always in the context...
View ArticleERROR! The merchant does not accept this type of credit card
Dammit!!I've been putting off the lifetime subscription for a while now, thinking I would pick one up soon enough. Been here long enough, and now it's just soon. Very soon.So I go to bite the bullet...
View ArticleI'm IN!! -->Thanks all of you Kossacks!
If you don't have a subscription yet, now is the time.Nag, Nag, Nag...Lifetime subscriptions are only purchasable through the end of the month, and that's not too terribly long.
View ArticleI'm Sorry, We Don't Take Cash...
This has happened to me TWICE over the weekend, and I'm growing annoyed over it.On most any bill, these words can be found: "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"Really?
View ArticleA happy lark
Was outside looking at my dust covered back window, and just wrote "GOBAMA! DEMS 2012!" on it, because it was just fun.Looking around, I saw quite a few empty canvases out there, and well... you know...
View ArticleWhy Not Add Quick Signature Petitions?
I jump on these regularly, and always fill out my info. Would be really nice to cache that, so that I can just sign one and continue on.How about it?
View ArticleFirst Health Care Premium Decrease In 5 Years!
The 20 percent cap is having some impact. Our health care policy has increased by double digits every year, with one recent year being almost 30 percent!That was the year before the Affordable Care...
View ArticleWhy we need to keep the pressure on LIMBAUGH.
Nothing says, "I'm sorry!" like dollars, bad press and some dropped stations.Right now, most of Radio thinks that Rush is invincible, and even when his show doesn't pay much for ADS, the "coat tails"...
View ArticleWhat would you say to thousands of strangers?
There is a project out there to explore that exact question. The listserve is simple: One person a day is selected to send an e-mail to the others on the list.The list consists of everyone who...
View ArticleUsing Personification To Combat Vilification
Advocacy has three pillars:Reason: The facts involved with the advocacy are linked toward a call to action in a self-consistent, fallacy free, logical, common sense way. The advocate takes facts,...
View ArticlePolitics Is A Contact Sport
This isn't a long diary. I just want to put something out there for your consideration, in light of recent bullying events here at Dkos.Free speech isn't a shield. Normally, I write that in response...
View ArticleMANDATE
This will be short and sweet!First, the Republicans took one in the sack hard! We won, they didn't, and we won on the same ideas that we won on the first time.That is a goddammed mandate people! This...
View ArticleProgressive Talk Silenced in Portland and rumored in Seattle
Short story: KPOJ replaced by FOX and KPTK 1090 rumored to be replaced by CBS Sports related programs apparently.Clear Channel was taken private in 2008 by Bain Capital, LLC and Thomas H. Lee...
View ArticleSeattle 1090 AM KPTK Format Change From Progressive Talk To Sports
In my earlier diary, I mentioned this change as a rumor, hoping it was bad info.Well, it's not! FUCK.That's two. I wonder about Denver next...Shouldn't we get organized on this stuff? I know many...
View ArticleDealing with our GUN Problem
After careful consideration, I've come to the conclusion that we must get back to the very basics on this.The NRA and other gun lobby organizations as well as their ardent supporters have a very simple...
View ArticleI Miss Richard Meyers
I don't have much to write, so I won't write much. Throughout all this really ugly political time, our completely broken, unproductive and embarrassing Congress, I looked forward to Richard Meyers and...
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