Fantasy World; Make Biden Senate Majority Leader After He Becomes Vice-President
This is going to be a radical idea, but since we currently have Harry Reid as the majority-leader in the Senate is something to think about. What if instead of having a vote for leadership, the VP...
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Let's Not Give Bush A Free Pass These Final Months
With all the talk about Biden, Palin, the DNC convention, the RNC convention, Obama, and McCain, neither the media nor Daily Kos has talked much about our failed occupations. We are still occupying...
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No Republican Convention: Is this actually bad for us?
The Republicans are going to have a minimal convention today as Gustav ravages New Orleans. The following week could have been written by Aaron Sorkin. Not only is a black man the Democratic nominee...
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President Uses Gustav to Promote Off-Shore Drilling
The President just gave an update on Gustav, but instead of showing any symptoms of conscience or mentioning the mistakes of Katrina he launched into a call for off shore drilling. I've just seen it...
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Dear Kossacks, Enough About Palin Let's Focus On McCain
If we're going to write diary after diary attacking someone let's spend our time on McCain. After all, the faults of Palin shows the central line of attack we should target McCain on, i.e., his...
View ArticleMichael Moore is Relasing his New Film For Free!
A week ago, Michael Moore came to Daily Kos to pimp a new book he's written. I really laid into him in my comments about his diary. It was inappropriate in my opinion to post an advertisement on...
View ArticleDo we need private banking institutions?
Perhaps this is too radical to even be spoken aloud, but the idea keeps coming into my radical leftist head. Private banks loan us, the people, money with interest fleecing us of our own wealth. Our...
View ArticleThought on Barney Frank's Call To Reduce Military Expenditures
Frank defends call for cut in military spending Rep. Barney Frank defended his call for a 25 percent cut in military spending in a brief interview with Politico on Monday, after his comments sparked a...
View ArticleSenate races spoiling my mood.
First, how in the hell does Ted Stevens win in Alaska?! WTF is wrong with those goofy people up there. Incumbency is so powerful that not even a felony can stop one from getting knocked off....
View ArticleReply to "Obama can kiss my fat white @$$" (myspace bulletin war)
Orginal: 'Twas the night before elections And all through the town Tempers were flaring Emotions all up and down! I, in my bathrobe With a cat in my lap Had cut off the TV Tired of political crap. When...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough F-Bomb Is A Perfect Example Of Why Censorship Has Gone Too Far
On Morning Joe this morning Scarborough said "Fuck You". I assume I needn't change the Fuck into an F-word as we're all adults here. In an aside if a kid is reading this diary good for you! I'm...
View ArticleBush Administration Seek To Finalize UIGEA Before Leaving Office
Bush and his fools are trying to finalize the UIGEA before he leaves office. If they DO finalize it, seems like it will be much harder/take longer to fix in our favor. PLEASE get involved and be...
View ArticleJohn Conyers wants Single-Payer Health Care: Let Obama know you want it to!
Here is an email I received from Rep. Conyers this morning. Dear Michlawa2: President-elect Barack Obama has set up a website to gather ideas from ordinary citizens on the most important issues facing...
View ArticleTurkish PM storms off after exchange with Shimon Peres
This is after Peres was allowed to ramble on about how just the offensive in Gaza has been. Erdogan tried to respond and, obviously, was cut off by a moderator. So he stormed off.
View ArticleThere is a Market for it...Good Journalism
Waking up this morning, I thought about this portion of the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer interview: JS: But there are literally shows called "Fast Money." JC: I think that people...There’s a market for it...
View ArticleCNN does not mention Spanish Torture Inquiry on their website
Shocking I know. Still, I went to cnn.com to see what the headlines of the day are. Front page: Lights go out across planet for Earth Hour Mother Nature pounds Central Plains, South 45 min King:...
View ArticleOur self-manipulation
Reading this site recently, I have noticed that some people are accepting as true facts that are clearly wrong. In noticing this trait in others I have discovered that I have also been actively...
View ArticleEnough with the term "wing-nut" already
Most of what the right has to say now days really does seem crazy. Don't get me wrong. Facts don't matter to most of them, logic doesn't seem to matter, truth doesn't seem to matter... Still, many...
View ArticleEd Shultz has a realy good show
Is anyone else surprised at the quality of the Ed Shultz show? I must say I was skeptical when I heard he was given his own show. His program hasn't just been entertaining but its been educational....
View ArticleTorture is Evil But Lying America Into War Deserves Prosecution
Understandably, we are all upset at the Obama administrations refusal to prosecute those who tortured in the name of America. Put in perspective though, it is on the tip of an evil iceberg that...
View ArticlePopulation explosion: The forest and not the trees
The human population of Earth reached 1 billion in 1804, 2 billion in 1927, 3 billion in 1959, 4 billion in 1974 and 5 billion in late 1986. Last year on October 12th 1999, the human population of...
View ArticleMr. President enough already
How often will we continue to give this President the benefit of the doubt? Simply because he is better than the alternatives we had is not enough to declare unending fealty. I for one cannot simply...
View ArticleOur Destiny
Certain myths upon which our society is founded perpetuate lesser myths which, whole being no less true, can be much more harmful. The biggest myth of all is our creation myth. It is told to us...
View ArticleAl Qaeda is not in Afghanistan: Why are we?
The head of U.S. Central Command said Sunday that Al Qaeda is no longer operating in Afghanistan, with its senior leadership having moved to the western region of Pakistan. Gen. David Petraeus said...
View ArticleGitmo will not be closed: Duped again
Sike! Remember feeling so elated watching President Obama using that beautiful left hand signature to declare Guantanamo would close within the year? It was a wonderful feeling right? Remember...
View ArticlePoint by Point: Dick Cheney Speech Counter Part 1
The Former Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech today in front of American Enterpise Institute -- AEI) with whom he is now a trustee. I am going to give a point by point counter and analysis of...
View ArticlePresident Obama: Sometimes a picture says a lot
The peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq are well aware that we torture. Their families have seen American bombs dropped on their cities, they've grieved over lost loved ones, they've fled their homes and...
View ArticleLaRouche Pissing People Off: A lesson to progressives
Today walking back to my hotel in Seattle I saw a few booths with a few Larouche youngsters passing out pamphlets. The first booth showed a picture of Pelosi with a banner saying: Impeach Pelosi....
View ArticlePopulation: The Locus Of Our Problems
Over-population is responsible for many of the ills our society and world face. From crime to global warming, the nearly 7 billion humans that occupy this planet is the cause. I have a modest...
View ArticlePresident Obama is not deserving of the Nobel Prize
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing...
View ArticleThe Perils of Technological Success
Our culture tells us that an increase in technology is an increase in progress. Technology will save us from our depressed lives, increase our standard of living, become the very thing that saves...
View ArticleCan it really be said enough?
I'm actually pretty happy that the House passed Health Care reform today. But you know, I remember President Obama and the Democrats promising "Universal Health Care". Over and over again I heard the...
View ArticleAfghanistan Will Show The President's True Colors
Afghanistan has already severed the head of one super-power. Not long ago, the Soviet Union made the fatal decision of following numerous empires into the dustbin of history. They invaded and...
View ArticleNew York City Mayor Spends $100+ million Buys Election
What city on Planet Earth greatest represents the Taker culture than New York City. Overpopulation, pollution, gross-capitalism, greed, non-friendly people that would be offended by a friendly hello...
View ArticleChallenge Obama in 2012
What are we here for? Can we sit idle while the President continues the terrible occupation of two countries, while the American people suffer 10% unemployment? Is it any less evil when President...
View ArticleMy April 2008 Anti-Obama Afghanistan Diary
I wrote a diary during the primaries calling out the President on his Afghanistan policy. Enough with the, "Why did you vote for him if you knew his policy" stuff. I voted against McCain frankly....
View ArticleWe Create The Nation's Wealth; Not The Banks and Insurance Companies.
We loaned the Banks our money with no interest, so that they could loan it back to us with interest. They spend their existence (banks) loaning us money at interest, producing no wealth in and of...
View ArticleA Theory On HCR, Filibuster's, And Other Things
Here is Wiki on the Filibuster: In the United States Senate, the Senate rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless a 3/5ths...
View ArticleBrother-in-Law Deployed To Afghanistan
He is 18 years old, enlisted in the Army a couple of months ago and just finishing basic training. In 5 months he will be helping with the fuel supply (position unclear)in Afghanistan. He's 18 years...
View ArticleWar is Peace; America's New World Order
"But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American...
View ArticleMay Dick Cheney live forever
I pray that he never dies. That he can live to pay for what he has done. Death is too sweet an end for such an evil man. Although 'Man' is an interesting thing to call him. He has survived 5 heart...
View ArticleThe Problem is YOU
For years I've listened to progressives complain about the Bush administration...we've complained about Exxon, about Corporate power, about the disparity in wealth in the country and abroad, about...
View ArticleIs Glen Beck serious?
I'm watching him give a lecture on communism that is pseudo-intellectual except for the fact that almost everything he is saying is ridiculous! From Obama's parents being a Communist, to how America...
View ArticleWe Are At War With Corporatists
I'm watching the Kagan Hearings and Lindsey Graham had praise for the nominee. He praised her for not supporting Habeaus Corpus for Bagram detainees. Of all the things she has done in her life, this...
View ArticleDid President Obama Authorize the Assassination of US Citizens?
I'm watching Glenn Beck (which i often do now for comedy) and he mentioned the administration targeting a US citizen for assassination. Is this true?
View ArticleThe Third Term of George W. Bush
Surge in Afghanistan, troops in Iraq in perpetuity, Gitmo, Military tribunals, Climate change, Secretary of Defense Gates, DADT, Tax Cuts for the wealthy... Tell me again that when a progressive says...
View ArticleSonnet on Occupy Wall St.
In the days in which all our progression Our values and decency, common dreams Falters, and falls into sad depression And no one listens to our silent screams Behind the sirens, concrete, the crowds...
View ArticleMr. President things are getting out of control
Dear President Obama, I write to you humbled by the courage of young people across the country, defying power and sacrificing their time, energy, and safety in the cause of liberty. Indeed, it was...
View Article"We are the ones we've been waiting for!"
"You see, the challenges we face will not be solved with one meeting in one night. It will not be resolved on even a Super Duper Tuesday. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we...
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