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please help me Web-search shackles

Some possibly race-sensitive person recently left a 3-ring finely crafted set of black styrofoam neck shackles in the middle of my front lawn. I really JUST saw them. At first I moved them behind the...

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in praise of dead white Republican men

We are stirring up a discussion about living white Republican men in the South but as a Yankee my question is about martyred white male Republicans. The ones who supported Lincoln, fought for equality,...

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2010 Republicans -> proposed meme = a cult, a niche

Who are the "2010 Republicans" and why does this matter? My complaint reading about kos' Research 2000 poll is that it says Republicans believe this and believe that. My complaint seeing news coverage...

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Sara Robinson's 5-point antidote for creeping U.S. fascism

Back in the day, I kept hearing about Orcinus and Dave Neiwert (now also at Crooks & Liars) and like many people that was how I came to know and learned to appreciate Sara Robinson. Many people...

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If you can't report a lie then lie about what you're reporting

Let's be clear that the primary proposition of journalism cannot be disproved: If you can't report a lie then lie about what you're reporting Lies are reported as lies per se by attribution without...

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Nate Silver's "McGOP": They walk alike, they talk alike

Over at fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver posted a great diary today looking at the crosstabs of the Daily Kos / Research 2000 poll of Republican identifiers: McGOP: The Virtues and Vices of Sameness...

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The Growing Meme of GOPnuts: new poll

The Daily Beast's John Avlon reports on a new Harris poll detailing Republican voters' reality-challenged views in a manner similar to that earlier explored by our Markos Moulitsas for his upcoming...

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Heard of David Paul Kuhn's WhiteMan-ology?

A "friend" on Facebook had a link to David Paul Kuhn's "White men shun Democrats" March 27 op-ed at http://www.timesunion.com/... This basically reprints his March 22 LA Times op-ed "Revenge of the...

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Christian-oriented diary: @ that Antichrist thing

I know this is bound to piss some people off here because talking Jesus stuff at dKos is kinda asking to rile stuff up. But I'd like some help from the Bible-knowledgeable folks here and I'm hoping for...

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By the time he gets to Tucson...

He's made it to Tucson. My former brother-in-law is going cross country to raise money for a good vets charity. He's walking 20 miles a day but kind of driving, parking, then walking that much each...

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Walking for Fisher House - Day 24 out of 110

At the Walk for Warriors blog, my former brother-in-law John Coté is documenting his walk cross-country for Fisher House. Here's how he puts it on his Fisher House fundraising page: I'm walking from...

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Day 41 for Fisher House got gritty

My former brother-in-law whose cross-country walks are supposed to raise funds for Fisher House is still at it and made it from San Diego to Carlsbad New Mexico. His Walk for Warriors blog is at...

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FYI Progress and Freedom Foundation folds

For those who follow some of the entities like Progress and Freedom Foundation ( http://pff.org/ ) it's somewhat noteworthy that it is shutting down. More at http://www.broadcastingcable.com/......

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Mooz-lum was pretty good. Seen it?

I just want to give props to what was probably a hard indie movie to get made well: Mooz-lum. Even though I've been on the movie's mailing list, I couldn't make it to see it in theaters and only just...

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Please Facebook-rec UNESCO fundraising

Have you heard about the snag that United Nations activities through UNESCO hit after admitting Palestine as a member? Our country has to stiff them the $65 million they were expecting because of the...

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The lie we should encourage Republicans to say

"I voted straight Republican ticket." For those of us who are not of the authoritarian mindset, I think we view and can't understand the serious realpolitic of being stuck in an intolerant right-wing...

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Rummie's crusader comics for W.

While the quality of presidential daily briefings is under discussion, I wanted to remind folks about the crusader comics Donald Rumsfeld added to his Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence...

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Romney is an avian-basher

Debate #1 it was wanting to fire Big Bird. Debate #2 it's indifference to dozens of birds dying. CROWLEY: Governor, on the subject of gas prices? ROMNEY: Well, let's look at the president's policies,...

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Are you with the AFL-CIO to Protect Our Future?

They had our back. Their Protect Our Future petition is a great next-day action to put pressure where we need it during the lame duck. So don't duck out. Sign:...some legislators and their friends on...

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2010 walk for Fisher House now a 99-cent ebook

It would really surprise me if more than a handful of you remembered my three diaries about John Cote in 2010:April 24, 2010, By the time he gets to Tucson... April 25, 2010, Walking for Fisher House -...

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Info please re: fraud, waste and non-compliance fines

I'm hoping some of you who are more knowledgeable might help me dig in to where our future national conversation about the federal budget can target agency departments that bring in revenue through...

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Change.org petition for Pete Seeger memorial on Nat. Mall

Producer Dan Efram has launched a Change.org petition: "Create a Pete Seeger Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC." He also has an extensive description of why this matters published by...

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Christina Gagnier for CA-35

Since our CA-35 Dem Rep. Gloria Negrete McLeod is not running for reelection, I think you'll be pleased to consider Christina Gagnier as a likable possibility. She recently launched...

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Is it routine for car ins. cos. to screw their customers?

An accident happened to my son. He proceeded through a yellow light in an SUV pulling a trailer going 35 mph. An approaching vehicle attempted to make a left turn and struck his SUV on the side. The...

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BattlegroundTexas.com's "Game On" challenge

Anywhere you go today on BattlegroundTexas.com, they are asking:It's time for a change. Are you in? [email][zip] The submit button reads "GAME ON." Gotta love that. My question for us, here,...

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Do children have ANY right to medical information about their own bodies?

I raised my two grown kids in Southern California and was always hypersensitive, as a single working Mr. Mom, to things that could make me lose custody -- aka the "awesome power of the state."I...

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racism links: my recap for myself

Spurred by the graphic in Paul Krugman's "More on Slavery's Shadow" athttp://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/... which links to a paper showing "strong relationship, at the county level, between the slave...

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Help name these southern counties, Pls

Please help me identify what some of the darkest counties are on this quasi-map.I'm hoping people who KNOW these will be in a position to notice subtleties lost on me. So far, my main progress has been...

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Bernie is Politics for Grown-ups

If you don't know me, I can be vague in a reach exceeds my grasp kind of way, so here goes ...Bernie's policy focus and internal consistency, as a human being, presents any listener with an immediate...

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"Prices versus values"& the Pope

The WSJ story headlining HuffPo has this great quote:“This whole discussion of Grexit only leads to head-shaking for me,” Axel Schäfer, deputy floor leader of the Social Democrats in parliament, told...

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Varoufakis on Bankers versus Democracy

The short recap of who Yanis Varoufakis is: that Greek finance minister who called for the vote against austerity and then was thrown out of the government to make the bankers happy as Greece...

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Smarter and safer gun ammunition?

SmartRounds(.com) as illustrated in the "far out" animation-video below is just one of many innovative efforts to build intelligence into ammunition.Black Lives Matter has exposed the need and selected...

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The Bulls of Bashan and Bernie

[Disassociated blogspew ahead; pro-Bernie; proceed at your own risk. :) ] If you listen to the Chinese navy, encirclement might be the strategic issue of our time; we are about to see a massive flex of...

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Toward a Stable Idealism

DISCLAIMER: Not intended as a Bernie-Hil diary although I’m for Bernie and there’s some political revolution in here. As for Hillary I blame her campaign for the thrill I’m missing since she still...

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Human Justice and Both Candidates (HJ=H+B)

IMHO we are seeing Hillary and Bernie evolve as people on the campaign trail. This morning I watched Hillary’s interview with Rev. Al Sharpton on Politics Nation and her demeanor for the first time was...

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We can be Bernie's Revolution no matter what

Under no circumstances will I relinquish what I have seen and felt since the day Bree Newsome climbed down the flagpole. I think back to Michele Obama’s response about being proud of America (much...

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Got any books to recommend on white-ness? (not snark)

I seem to think I have started to see things about white-ness in a new way. Some of it is offensive to me. All of it makes me wonder what books are out there. I normally ask here first for things like...

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New Guard, Heroes, and Why I'll Stay a Dem

This is a centering exercise for me so slam away. I hope to be self-serving to myself psychologically and for some, what centers me might be their flavor. I supported Bernie from the hour he announced...

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Thoughts on Revising the Hillary "Honesty" Meme

Coming from the Sanders side the following might be my own effort(s) at reconciling myself to our candidate and putting in perspective the platform battles. I'm definitely influenced by her speech...

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Group Power, the Political Revolution and Stronger Together

Ray Raphael’s Founding Myths is kicking my ass. One thing he maintains in the early chapters — I’m only just past Valley Forge — is that our sense of history and the founders has been...

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Really proud of Hillary. Memories of Bill's second term.

Quick hit to say that I am just so proud of Hillary the last few days and the last few weeks. I realize the stakes are existential and that she doesn’t want us to sit back and think “She’s got this,”...

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What SmartMob activities would energize youth for Hillary?

The effort to form an unthinking mob has worked for ages as fascism has demonstrated. What I’m calling SmartMob activities are post-Internet. Occupy tactics plus the social media world we now all live...

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Trump as our National Drillbit & the Next 4 Years

Trump was elected our president to shake things up, and even the arguments for his unfit-ness suggest he will be our Schumpeter “creative destruction” president. People who were against him did not...

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Reaching out to Pres. Trump through our resistance

I have spent way too much time following MSNBC, of course also here and HuffPo, TPM, etc., and wherever else seemed like it might serve. I truly love the BLM-ers I follow on Twitter (where my username...

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Loyal Dem voter mysteriously double-registered in 2016. Anyone else?

I moved right before November’s election. I filled out the online (California, from L.A. county to San Bernardino county) change-of-address form that was related to the Post Office change of address....

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What's on Twitter today @ShaunKing (Dallas?) updated

Somebody I forgot when might have thought Mr. Shaun King was someone we thought well of here. Some of us do think well of him. Couldn’t find him in search (on me). Learned his work here. translation:...

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How do we get behind the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act here?

I was just on Twitter when I saw this for the first time, and it lit me up that I hadn’t heard it sooner:xThe Senate's 3 black members introduce bill to make lynching a federal crime...

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Soliciting leads on how State University systems have interacted with their...

I’m fishing for leads on something I expect will be fragmented, which is is sort of the point because I’m interested in what went on in different States of the Union.xSoliciting leads on how State...

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Looking back on the reparations hearing re 2020

H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative JusticeMany were impressed by the recent House hearing on reparations led by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. I feel its finest fruits are being erased from the memory hole...

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ACHOS A Child's History of Science 1750 to 1900 first version

While I’ve been telling friends, family and associates about my new self-published Kindle book (paperback pending; I ordered 20), I thought many times about other diarists’ books mentioned on dKos. I...

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