Faux Trials for Gitmo?
It sounds like we are about to have preordained or faux trials for 6 Guantanamo prisoners. And it just doesn't sound like American justice to me.
View ArticleIs Experience a Presidential Prerequisite? w/poll
I present the shortest diary in existence based solely on logic. Obama has made the case that judgment supersedes experience and I wholeheartedly agree. My proof is exquisitely small in everyway...
View ArticleMother Pelosi Intervenes w/poll
Emblazoned on the front page of today's SF Chronicle in big font: "Pelosi's Heard Enough"
View ArticleHow YOU can influence PA
My family has roots in Northeastern rural PA going back three generations. Many of my Irish relatives (on my Dad's side) settled in Wayne county in the late 1800's. Some of the relatives lived there...
View ArticleSuperdelegate Lynn Woolsey update
Just a quick teeny diary on an issue that had been disturbing me for some time. My Congressional Rep. Lynn Woolsey had endorsed Sen. Clinton for President. This seemed sooooo wrong because Lynn is...
View ArticleBook Review: "The Lizard Cage"...an ode to the human spirit?
For the past few evenings I have been reading a book of fiction that held me horribly transfixed with the pathos and poetry that are the essence of our human selves and our potential. About halfway...
View ArticlePlease Help Me Counter this Anti Obama email
A person I think of as loving and kind (we both volunteers at the same humane facility) forwarded me the following Obama right wing attack that is obviously making the rounds in the conservative...
View Article60 MINUTES Infomercial
Last night I felt a major disillusionment as I watched the puff piece, the infomercial, the propaganda offered by 60 Minutes when they profiled Bobby Jindal. Up until that moment I had thought that...
View ArticleTown Hall with Lynn Woolsey: impressions
Tonight I attended a Town Hall meeting held by my representative, Lynn Woolsey. She was finally compelled to hold it I think due to a certain amount of clamor by those who didn’t feel her previous...
View ArticleLimbaugh and Miss America
Think Progress reports that Rush Limbaugh is to be one of 10 judges for the Miss America Pageant in 2010. Limbaugh will be one of a panel of seven distinguished judges that will help decide which of...
View ArticleLove Song For Rachel (Public Option for All)
Cold clouds of winter Disperse to reveal the sun Rachel radiates.Today, Oct. 26, 2009, Rachel Maddow gave the clearest explanation of health care reform options for the US that I have ever heard or...
View ArticleBack to the Basics: Healthcare Reform
Sometimes we get so caught up in the minutia of DC politics ...and the diaries that go there...we become distracted from the finish line. We find ourselves signing petitions galore, firing off emails...
View ArticleThe Outsourcing of America (Campaign Finance Reform Poll)
I am not an economist...but I am cognizant of a few things economic, so at the risk of being pinged for stating the obvious I shall take the plunge into diary land:Economics is all about the...
View ArticleWoolsey Calls Senate Health Bill Too Flawed
This morning bloomed with a glimpse of sun which we haven’t seen much over the past week. Rain storm after rain storm have been rolling through northern California without much of a break in between....
View ArticleSchultz "advises" Gibbs
And I agree with him: "The President is losing his base". It isn’t that Ed Schultz is one of the intellectual elites. It isn’t that I always agree with Ed (or anyone else from the President on down...
View ArticleThe Ex-terminator back in action
I didn't vote for Schwartzenegger and am not generally enamored of him...but for today Arnold is once again a hero!! The Ex-terminator is back in action; not with a fusilade of bullets, but with...
View ArticleMoving On to $$ Action Diary
No doubt we have all engaged in windmill tilting at one time or another (healthcare, the environment...you name the issue), but somehow the windmills continue to go round & round and new ones keep...
View ArticleThe Swarm & the bee whisperer
Friday we could see bees flying everywhere in the yard next door. Then they disappeared. We didn’t know where they had come from or where they had gone.Then yesterday, Saturday, a neighbor whose back...
View ArticleCalifornia CD 2 : Update
It ain’t over till ALL the votes are counted. And as we speak (or write) they are busy at the Marin County Registrar’s office counting some 40,000 more absentee ballots. Note that there are only...
View ArticleDr. Jeffrey Sachs, Economist: Telling It Like It Is
We all know that there is major corruption in our U.S. government and that Wall St. rules DC and buys "our" legislators. It’s certainly nothing new. But it isn’t something we talk about every day,...
View ArticleSurveillance and Global Warming (with actions)
As citizens of the United States (and Earth) we face two pressing and major issues: 1) Global Warming/Climate Change 2) Loss of democracy/erosion of Bill of RightsUpcoming actions around the US where...
View ArticleClimate Change as a Moral Issue
The local papers here in southern Oregon will accept a letter to the editor 1x/month. So each month I labor away in rewrite after rewrite, until I can't stand it anymore and just fire them off with a...
View ArticleDaily Kos: Spam Center?
Is Daily Kos now being used as a spam center?Just received this email…and note that I have been very clear about who I’m supporting so this is not even a targeted use of spam. I don’t recall ever...
View Article"I Like Your Button"
“I like your button”Wearing a Bernie button is a kick and a half. It’s fun!! All kinds of people respond to it…most with joyful wide open grins, some with a more conspiratorial sly smile and a few are...
View Article200 Words: Letter to the Editor Corporate Coup; G.W.; Bernie
My LTE published in our local newspaper today. Increasingly “our” legislation is written by and for the largest corporations; the same industries that now own all our media; the same industries that...
View ArticleThe Secret of Bernie Supporters
This is not complex but I think it is the very essence of why most of us support Bernie. We recognize what is destroying democracy and need a leader who recognizes it too. Bernie knows that is the...
View ArticleOn Life and Death and DK
Brain not as agile as it once was. I am losing some of my ability to use the computer and links etc. plus tried to add a picture. sighwww.facebook.com/…Amy Goodman, spokesperson for democracy, and...
View ArticleTimely Truman Quotes
I was 5 years old when when Truman won the presidency over Dewey in 1948. My parents were politically aware and vehemently anti Dewey. Their passion must have made quite an impression because it...
View ArticleThe Day My Mother Taught Me Empathy
My mother never spoke of regrets for pathways not taken…despite having an opportunity for a very independent life as a singer that she turned away from. I think it was her own idea. In her late...
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