What would McCain do in his first 90 days?
I heard this question on the radio the other day, and thought McCain was going into brain freeze mode again. The questioner asked, "What are your plans for your first 90 days in office?"Long pauseThen...
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Sarah Palin: McCain's "Trophy" VP likes to kill bears and wolves
McCain has made the right choice for VP - the right choice to demonstrate once and for all that he has lost his "bear"-ings (see below) and lacks the judgment to be President of the United States. In...
View ArticleMr. Palin, Mrs. McCain & Gov. Palin from PEOPLE mag interview
Evidently PEOPLE magazine was allowed inside the "cone of secrecy" about McCain's pick for VP, because they have the first print interview coming out. There were some irresistible quotes ...
View ArticleBiden vs. Palin - who's the true feminist? (with Poll)
On the one hand, we have a woman who has scrapped her way to becoming governor of Alaska (a sparsely populated but idealized "frontier" state). Her credentials for being a feminist: • She's a woman. •...
View ArticleSarah Palin "Scream"
Ok, this isn't much of a diary, but I just spent waaay too much time putting together a page on CafePress with buttons that say "President Palin" and the central image from Edvard Munch's painting "The...
View ArticleCraig Ferguson's rant on Wall Street & McCain
For those who aren't late night television watchers, Craig Ferguson is (in my opinion) one of the funniest and most subversive comedians on TV. He's Scottish, ok, and about my age, which means that...
View ArticleLet's find out, once and for all - do we love or hate Obama? (with...
Ok, I'm getting tired of coming to DKos for substance and finding diary after recommended diary rehashing the argument over whether Obama is red-hot or diddly-squat (or, for those with better memories...
View ArticleC'mon Dkos - help Haiti !!
I just went to the only current diary on the earthquake (7.0) in Haiti - there were 225 comments. I know that doesn't mean that there aren't lots of other Kossacks donating via their own channels,...
View ArticleA gentle reminder...about Haiti
Donations to Haiti have slowed to a trickle, after a wonderful response - I particularly loved how Dkos came together to buy tents via Shelter Box (more after the jump)
View ArticleCan you imagine 1/5 of the US covered in water? (with poll!)
That's the situation in Pakistan right now - at least 1/5 of the country is underwater. Will we come through for Pakistan the way we did for Haiti? Not comparing disasters here, but Dkos has been so...
View ArticleMassive wave of new climate refugees in Pakistan
According to the National Geographic and the New Scientist, the floods in Pakistan that have left 20 million people homeless were caused by the same abnormal jet stream that caused the fires in Russia,...
View ArticleTerry Jones' Daughter: "He needs help"
Ok, so we all know this guy is crazy, but confirmation comes from Der Speigel Online, in an interview with his daughter. She says he was formerly a pastor of a sect-like congregation in Germany, where...
View ArticleReal people speak out for Barbara Boxer
So my colleague at the college where I teach got fired up and invited 15 or so friends over to her house to record a video for Barbara Boxer, and against Carly Fiorina. Please check out the result,...
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Donald Rumsfeld is an Alien Lizard
...who eats Mexican babies. It's in Wikipedia (or was), so it must be true! Evidently someone on a computer with an IP address from the US Congress has been making, shall we say, "creative" edits in...
View ArticleLet's do something about Ebola
Ok, so instead of tossing pies about whether Ebola is or is not a threat here in the US, why don't we actually pull together and do something about the humanitarian crisis taking place right now in...
View Article#YouAintNoAmericanTrump
Just in case you hadn’t heard, a passenger on the London Tube shouted “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv” on Monday to a man who stabbed 3 people. The hashtag based on this took off.I think we can all agree...
View ArticleReally? Do we have to do this?
It’s getting very hard to sift through the attacks between Bernie and Hillary supporters to find actual information, which is why I joined Dkos in the first place. I remember being so amazed and...
View ArticleWhat has Bernie ever accomplished?
Supposedly, he’s an idealist, a dreamer, with no idea how to accomplish what he is proposing in his speeches. Although he says at every opportunity that he will not be able to make the admittedly...
View ArticleA bit of restorative justice for Reverend Barber - Support the NAACP!
I’m just catching up with what apparently went on early this morning with a now-removed diary saying that Sanders supporters were not welcome at Reverend Barber’s 10th Annual Moral Mondays march in...
View ArticleCan you share positive reasons to support your candidate?
Reflecting on a conversation I had with my haircutter recently, I realized that she was not at all interested in the current political process, until I mentioned some specific policy commitments of the...
View Article$500k spent by school district on ... gunfire detectors
I was gobsmacked to read that a school district in Fresno (that’s California, ranked 42 in education) has voted to give $500,000 to the police department to pay for a gunfire tracking system! Not just...
View Article2.5 million people have voted for Bernie Sanders so far. Do we really want to...
According to Dan Diamond of Politico Pulse, 2.5 million people have voted for Bernie Sanders so far. Let’s put aside the question of whether Bernie can or will win the nomination. Those votes will be...
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Finally, the NY Times puts a positive article about Bernie on the front page!
Although the title of the article tries to downplay his accomplishments, the NYT has finally put a positive article about Bernie Sanders’ accomplishments as a member of Congress on its front page:For...
View ArticleDeadly anthrax outbreak in Siberia due to climate change
As if mystery sinkholes and rubbery ground were not warnings enough, climate change and unusual warming have brought new threats to the north of the planet. Anthrax, also known as the “Siberian...
View ArticleAmerican Nero
Trump as NeroEurope Must Defend Itself Against A Dangerous PresidentThe headline above is from an editorial by Klaus Brinkbäumer, the editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel (Europe’s largest newsweekly,...
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The Clock is Ticking ... Please Comment NOW on National Monuments
Yesterday the Department of the Interior opened the upcoming review of national monuments for public commentary. For those who want to jump right in, you can comment at this link (button on top right...
View ArticleOn July 4, praise to Langston Hughes: "Let America Be America Again"
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—Let it be that great strong land of loveWhere never kings connive nor tyrants schemeThat any man be crushed by one above.(It never was America to me.)O,...
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