Another Modest Proposal

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Monday April 17, 2006 · 4:34 PM PDT

2006/04/17 · 16:34

I confess I have tired of fighting the Republican agenda. I am ready give up and give in. I am ready to admit I may be wrong. Wrong about "family value" matters. Wrong about abortion. Wrong about torture. Wrong about any number of issues.

To clarify, I am willing to meet Republicans half-way. And I am ready to write it into law. In fact, I will go the extra mile. I am willing to give it an up or down vote and have it written into the United States Constitution if that's what Republicans want! I am ready to "let go and let God", so to speak.

Before you write me off as a nut case or just another liberal wimp, let me explain! Follow, please--below the fold... Read More

S.O.S. to Union members! What happened to the message?

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Saturday April 01, 2006 · 9:42 AM PST

2006/04/01 · 09:42

I have been posting at a community web site for a year now and something just struck me! There is one (retired) union member who is good at defending what the unions have accomplished. There are several of us who are non-unions members that defend the importance of unions. But the three most conservative posters (who pretty much hate Unions) are/were members of Unions.

What is up with that? Something is very wrong with this picture. Why is it left up to non-Union members to defend the Unions from their own members?

Below the fold is a sampling of the anti-union postings from current or former union members... (And, yes, I understand that they may only say they have been union members. That said, I do tend to believe they are telling the truth about their membership.) Read More

Wanted for Thought Crimes

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 7:22 PM PST

2006/03/21 · 19:22

There is an article in the City Pages about a professor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota who taught a class on "Racial and Cultural Minorities" and was harassed (my word) by several students "...for various purported sins, from focusing too much on the problems of white people to being insensitive toward students' feelings. [He was]...hauled before the chair of the sociology department to defend his teaching, and ultimately the two most vocal critics ... [were] removed from his class and enrolled in an independent-study program."

The previous year, Martin Markowitz, a tenured professor at Hamline, had also been criticized by two students. It became so rancorous that Markowitz refused to teach the course again the next year.
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Hunting for the perfect acronym. Need your help!

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 1:15 PM PST

2006/01/19 · 13:15

SNAFU and FUBAR are wonderful additions to our American lexicon. It's time for a new acronym that will be as popular and fun to say and that will immediately convey in one simple soundbite the horrendous messes that Republicans have willfully created in our country. Republicans have planned the chaos in Iraq, legislated a disaster with Medicare, orchestrated the destruction of FEMA and New Orleans, organized the looting of our tax dollars with the K-street project, and implemented the planned destruction of our environment. And on and on it goes.

I haven't come up with the perfect-sounding acronym yet, but I'm going to start by throwing out the ideas I have so far. Then it's up to you dailyKosters to define and refine.

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The elephant in the room...the struggle within (with poll)

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Sunday January 15, 2006 · 8:22 AM PST

2006/01/15 · 08:22

We've all read muliple diaries and comments within the diaries about how we need to "take to the streets" to take our country back. I have happily contributed my share of comments to that effect. I am as angry as anyone about the direction this country has taken. I have lost friendships over this and have almost lost some relatives in my refusal to keep quiet. It was a bargain I didn't take lightly, but I willingly took the risks because I deeply believe our country is in a crisis.

Yet I don't know if I have the guts to lose my job/career. I do believe that our jobs are on the line if we really do what is needed to take our country back. I don't think we are at a point in time where we need to fear losing our lives to protect our democracy, but we are in peril of losing our jobs. And that is the elepant in the room.

Does anyone else struggle with this or am I the only one? Read More

Why do the Republican elite hate our troops?

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Saturday January 14, 2006 · 2:54 PM PST

2006/01/14 · 14:54

When I read a few days ago that Murtha was being swiftboated, I decided we needed to fight back, but how? It always seems like we are in the position of defending one of ours after the fact. As I read the comments after kos's post today on "Swiftboating Murtha", there was one comment that really stood out to me by Exclamation Point Brian. EPB's comment was

Perhaps GOP is only practicing up...for the swiftboating of all Fighting Dems in 2006. Time to innoculate each one against the inevitable smear campaigns.

We need to go on the offensive and let the duck-and-run Republican "leadership" begin trying to defend their unpatriotic actions. Let's not wait for them to smear us--let's get the truth out there first! I put together a list of 10 ways that the "Republican elite" dishonor our soldiers. Please add to the list. And let's go on the offensive NOW! Read More

Massey Defends Himself Against Smear Campaign

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Saturday December 24, 2005 · 7:24 AM PST

2005/12/24 · 07:24

This seems like the best time to post this, even if it may seem like it is "old" news. It is very much related to the Mao book hoax. My post is how we liberal "skeptics" allowed Jimmy Massey of Iraq Veterans Against the War to be swift boated. It has bothered me for a long time, but I haven't seen an "opening" to help set the record straight. Today is the day.

Jimmy Massey is one of the members of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Several months ago, there was an article that called into question Jimmy Massey's honesty in relating his experiences in Iraq. It was written by Ron Harris. This "clarification" article was printed not only in the corporate media, but (if I remember correctly) was also posted on buzzFlash.com and/or rawstory.com. Without contacting Jimmy Massey for a chance to defend himself, the article only printed Ron Harris' version of events. In essense, Jimmy Massey was swift boated--and we liberals helped it happen by not questioning this article. Read More

We are shareholders of brand America

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Saturday December 17, 2005 · 7:51 PM PST

2005/12/17 · 19:51

We are shareholders of brand "America". It is our brand and our reputation.

How proud we were of brand America. The brand name on any product we produced set it apart from all others. We were proud of brand America and all that it stood for. Our products were not perfect, but they were always improving. When a product was defective, we owned up to it and vowed to do better! Never satisfied with the status quo, we always demanded better of ourselves and everything brand America produced. Most of all, we took pride in the fact that our most cherished and sought after brand America products such as liberty, freedom of speech, voting rights, and protection of civil liberties, were available and affordable to all.

Five years ago, brand America was hi-jacked by a band of counterfeiters. They have robbed the company coffers, gutted the warehouse, and sold the contents on the black market. These interlopers refuse to provide the resources to produce brand America products, exploit the employees, and treat its customers with disdain. Read More

Drink Bush-lite!

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Sunday December 04, 2005 · 6:58 AM PST

2005/12/04 · 06:58

The "Bush was Right" song just begs for a parady. Let's see what we can come up with. If you need to see the actual words you can get them from http://www.rightmarch.com/...

I'm not going to give the link to the video or lyrics, as I just ate lunch and it would upset my stomach, but you can easily find it by using a google search!

Here's my version of the refrain... Read More

Forged Prewar Intelligence: Our new "Don't ask! Don't tell!" policy

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Saturday December 03, 2005 · 4:29 PM PST

2005/12/03 · 16:29

FBI Is Taking Another Look at Forged Prewar Intelligence
http://www.latimes.com/...
From December 3, 2005 LA Times

This LA Times article describes, in brief, the history of the forged Niger documents, the brouhaha over Joe Wilson's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times and the results of the initial FBI investigation requested by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The lack of due diligence by the FBI screams out at the reader. Read More

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