I hope you will all forgive a personal note
My mom crossed the rainbow yesterday morning at 5:15 am. I didn't make it back in time for she was not able to hold together the failing vehicle that carried her through this world. My sister was with...
View ArticleWe Might Be Wrong
Intentionally provocative, I think the title reveals one of our greatest strengths. As certain as we may be about the correctness of this or that policy, Progressives always understand that we have...
View ArticleWhat in heavens name brought you to Kosablanca?
p: "Politics. I came to Kosablanca for the Democrats."MB: "The Democrats? What Democrats? We are in the dessert, we only have pie."p (pauses): "I was misinformed."
View Articlebeen missing for a while...
the weekend dk4 opened, my mom transitioned - she entered the new state of being with a look of amazement and awe on her face, so my sister who was with her described that moment when her soul...
View ArticleThe demise of the 800-comment non-stunt diary
Something interesting has happened. We're missing something -- something I don't know that we'll miss.Have you missed it? It's the "non-stunt" diary with 800 or more comments.Markos's figures from...
View ArticleAmerica Is NOT Broke
Speech delivered at Wisconsin Capitol in Madison, March 5, 2011America is not broke.Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and...
View ArticleMarkos Moulitsas deserves honorary membership in the group Flame Free Zone
Flame Free Zone.It all began with this comment he wrote on a meta diary which had me snorting coffee out my nose etc.I'm letting the community figure it out. Site dynamics have been dramatically...
View ArticleI'm Bummed, Really Bummed...,
ashamed, bewildered, bugged, chagrined , confounded, confused, crushed, discombobulated, disconcerted, embarrassed, fazed, fuddled, humbled, humiliated, in a tizzy, mortified, rattled, shamed, taken...
View ArticleSen. Franken: 'We Can't Lose Net Neutrality'
On Monday, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken made the corporate takeover of the Internet – and the government's acquiescence to these corporations – frighteningly clear.Franken told a crowd of independent...
View ArticlePersonal Storytellers: It Crashed Through Our Window
I was tired that night. I had worked twelve hours and finished cooking dinner for my boys. They were in high school at the time. My youngest had been brooding in his room for hours. He had been...
View ArticleHere is the undeniable evidence that proves Obama kept his progressive promises
As we continue having this "healthy" discussion about whether Obama has kept his campaign promises to progressives, I thought it would be a novel idea to re-read those 500 promises and do my very own...
View ArticleVoter Registration in Northwest Milwaukee: Exactly *Which* Rules Are We...
The Woodlands is a huge condo development in northwest Milwaukee that makes up a whole ward and is home to over 1,000 voters. It is a predominantly African American community of renters and owners....
View ArticleA story of a mini ecological disaster
When we think of global warming, we think of sea levels rising and ice caps melting and maybe more and bigger hurricanes. Big events that will probably happen decades in the future. But maybe the...
View ArticleYes, Bradley Manning Did "Break The Law". The Pentagon Papers, Wikileaks and...
Crossposted from The People's ViewIntroductionWhen I think of torture, I think of how horrible and degrading the African American experiences were during the Jim Crow era where black folks were...
View ArticleGod's Welfare System
Who knew?http://www.holisticpolitics.org/...Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy...
View ArticleAn "Easter Egg" at the Royal Wedding: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Secret...
Count me one of the estimated two billion British royal wedding watchers. Sleeping in, I was content to view BBC America’s first rebroadcast of the event. A dedicated Anglophile and long-time admirer...
View ArticleAnd Empire Finally....Is A Disease
And empire finally, as Thucydides understood, is a disease . With these words Chris Hedges summarizes his view on the United States after the death of Osama Bin Laden. He was speaking in Southern...
View ArticleThe Days That Change Our Lives.
I was fifteen years old. It was a sunny November day. It was cold in our neck of the woods in Marion, NC. I was wearing a new jacket mom had bought me. I was sitting at the back of my freshman...
View ArticleScott Walker Loses His Battle Against Wisconsin Prosecutors
There has been a battle brewing over the past month in Wisconsin over the jobs of the state's hundreds of prosecutors. To bring those unfamiliar with this particular underhanded scheme of Scott Walker...
View ArticleLeftist ‘Bath Water’ Party Wrong on Obama. 9 Facts on FDR, Truman, LBJ Show Why.
These days, Obama-denial is almost hip. With only 27 months in the history books, some fair-weather liberals are letting their tunnel-vision focus on unfulfilled expectations cloud Obama’s historical...
View ArticleNorth Minneapolis struck by tornado
North Minneapolis is a mostly-black segment of Minneapolis sometimes referred to as Murderopolis, because the killings seem to rise when the economy's bad. It's a neighborhood of charming twenties...
View ArticleA Non-Hysterical Progressive Analysis of so called Social Security Cuts on...
I like to read and write about economics and finance but hesitate to do so because (1) it's hard to explain anything without explaining everything, and the draft diaries just get too long until I have...
View ArticleThe Better Angels of Our Natures
We must all hang together, or we shall surely all hang separately. --Benjamin FranklinI'm going to do a bunch of things in this diary that are...
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An Appeal to All of Daily Kos - Here's Your Chance to Do Something...
To say that these are uncertain political and economic times is a huge understatement. The world's financial markets are in turmoil and healthy future of the world economy in doubt. Joblessness (and...
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Secret Santa for Kitsap River and Remembrance!
okay - this is the start of the push for Kitsap River and Rembrance's Secret Santa gifts!Secret Santa heard Kitsap River when she admired this petrified wood necklace.She messaged me that she was so...
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piper's fund - the auction to help bring piper home!
this is a very quick diary to let all the woozle and pootie lovers know that piper is still being kept from her family - the negotiations have moved from concerned rescue groups trying to help resolve...
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piper still needs your help - and so do ALL dogs who fall into this abyss!
10:24 AM PT: just realized i should put the auction information at the top since there are less than two days left. Pipers Legacy, Auction#2you might remember my original diary "ever had pup lost or...
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