Romney Gets a Predictable Endorsement

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Thursday November 01, 2012 · 1:41 PM PDT

2012/11/01 · 13:41

Mr. Burns endorses Romney!

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Tuesday June 05, 2012 · 8:42 AM PDT

2012/06/05 · 08:42

One of the movies featured in Netroots Nation's Screening Showcase panel talks, Heist: Who Stole the American Dream is a riveting, clear and concise, but also hard hitting and motivating documentary film. It provides the background of Roosevelt's New Deal that secured many safeguards to protect and strengthen the middle class and provide economic stable safeguards in the American banks and then how a movement that started in the business community in the 1970s made an effort to remove or weaken all the many safeguards so that now the foreclosure crisis, the banking crisis of 2008, the decline of union membership and strength and the definite decline of the middle class happened after. The movie especially shows how key agendas from the 1970s from the conservative movement are now happening in full swing in both Republican and Democratic administrations. The movie concludes with current grassroots solutions, trends, and movements on how to fight back the current trends. An effective film to show at house parties and to motivate and educate political volunteers. This is a must see documentary to all who care about America's future and an essential for the movie library of the progressive.

The movie is part of Netroots Nation's Screening Showcase and will be part of Friday afternoon's panel, Screening Showcase #3, at 4:30 p.m. in room 550.

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Sunday May 16, 2010 · 8:59 AM PDT

2010/05/16 · 08:59

Before every election, it seems that those of us in California receive these fliers from a group that claims to either be for Democrats, Progressives, etc. These fliers endorse candidates (in the general, usually mostly Democrats) and then interestingly enough, always seem to be for or against propositions that protect corporate interests. This time we have received one from a group titled "Californians Vote Green." These fliers are in fact advertisements with candidates/proposition endorsements that were PAID to appear, along with others they just happen to list to appear "legitimate." You HAVE to read the fine print. To read more, look at the Calitics diary someone else wrote here, last Friday: http://www.calitics.com/...

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Saturday November 07, 2009 · 8:04 PM PST

2009/11/07 · 20:04

In general, the Carrots Not Sticks movement makes a recommendation to give carrots, rewards, when your congressmen vote the correct way, rather than focusing so much on giving out sticks, messages of disapproval, etc. to those who vote against.

In the case of the Stupak Amendment, I think both is in order. And since now focus is on the final passage, I think it is very important to remember that tonight, access to abortion, and thus the right to choose, has become more restricted to poorer women, and the Health Care Reform bill has now FAILED to be a gender equity bill (the House version, at least).

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 1:33 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 13:33

In late July, 1999, on a day when I was supposed to be apartment hunting in Tucson, Arizona, for my future temp position at University of Arizona, I had to instead spend a few hours on the phone calling people. I got a disturbing voice mail from a representative from my insurance company, Blue Cross, letting me know that I was currently under investigation for an emergency hospital visit I had in January, 1999, where an argument was being made that a pre-existing condition I had that was approved, could have had other issues during the month and a half I was not insured when my previous insurance at a graduate student at UCLA Medical Center, had lapsed. If whoever on that board that was making this determination was successful, I would have had to pay a debt of over $70,000 plus interest and instead of becoming a first time home owner, as I became a month ago, I would still probably be paying that debt right now. Can you imagine what's going through my mind during this health care debate? Can you imagine what's going through other's mind are they paying debts like this right now?!!!

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Saturday May 09, 2009 · 11:21 AM PDT

2009/05/09 · 11:21

I have my father give me a good idea what b.s. is really being spouted up at any given time. First of all, the spin currently is FYI that the Democrats are "full of pride"--they are filled with so much "pride" that they really need to get over themselves, etc.

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Friday December 19, 2008 · 11:22 PM PST

2008/12/19 · 23:22

Back in 1992, the "Culture Wars" were probably new and unleashed, even when the country just elected Bill Clinton. In the state of Colorado, the same state that elected Bill Clinton, also passed an amendment to its Constitution, now infamously known as Amendment 2 (which reared its head in its moniker in Florida this year). That amendment basically said people with LGB identities had "no protected status," no means for recourse for discrimination, and furthermore no legislature or statute could undo this amendment as it repealed city ordinances passed in Denver, Aspen, and Boulder. In its effect it tried to remove the proclamation of such existence. I lived in Colorado during that time.

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Saturday December 13, 2008 · 10:57 AM PST

2008/12/13 · 10:57

Cross-posted at Calitics

On the "Day Without a Gay", I took the day off from work where I decided to use my time and skills where I was strongest. As a librarian I have a knack of finding sources and providing them to the researcher potential of sources.

So on that day, I headed to a major research library (I work at a community college library that's limited in resources on what I needed to do), where I would have access to electronic resources, with print sources nearby, if needed.

Already by reading 1 book and 1 article, I learned about past Mormon Church activism that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment, but also learned how an anti-gay amendment was defeated in Idaho because the No campaign successfully appealed to Mormons in that state: http://www.dailykos.com/...

The idea is if people do their research, they can make golden discoveries. I believe if activists and a campaign are more information literate, they will be smarter in their outreach, strategies, let alone help the general public become more information literate as well, on the issue of LGBT rights and Marriage Equality.

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Friday December 05, 2008 · 7:31 PM PST

2008/12/05 · 19:31

I know-- "Not another Prop. 8 diary!" you might scream, but that's not the point of this particular diary, except for all who hope where to go forward, to either repeal the proposition by voter initiative in California (or other similar laws/amendments in other states) or simply focus on arguing either State or the nation's Constitutional law-- I really believe it is good to understand how we got here.

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 9:30 PM PDT

2008/08/28 · 21:30

Many years ago, when I was about four or five years old, the television was on, it was the news (so of course I didn't care), and my father suddenly pointed to the television and told me, "Norman, they're about to show the President of the United States. He is the leader of our country and the free world!" I looked up and I saw an African American man. And for many, many years I have always remembered that the person I was in the t.v., who was talking into a microphone and into a camera, and looking really serious, out there, by himself, at night, in a brown suit jacket, was the first time I thought I saw the President of the United States.

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 5:12 PM PDT

2008/04/28 · 17:12

I've had a long stressful day and weekend--looked at dailykos for three minutes to see I need to not read any diaries (except maybe this one I am creating)--

And since diaries real estate is being cluttered on Wright, etc., I have little conscience posting this diary. Feel free to post Pootie, Puppy pics, talk about trivial things, maybe even discuss what you are looking forward to at this summer's Netroots (which I will be attending the first time).

Meanwhile, I'll have my music on and doing also much delayed housework in my apartment today (might as well do it, as the manager is having it's every other months expections--this time to set bug traps--even though I haven't seen any bugs, but if there are, all the more reason to clean :) ).

And from time to time, I'll post another track here and be amused by other persons' tracks--call this a cool off period, as I don't want to read the ranting and raving today.

Right now my Ipod is playing: "Charlie Don't Surf" by the Clash.

Best, everyone! :)

Randi Rhodes Has Left Air America

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Wednesday April 09, 2008 · 11:09 PM PDT

2008/04/09 · 23:09

For more information go to: http://www.green960.com/...

I think Air America will be gone a year from now. Rachel Maddow will have her show on MSNBC and likely, Sam Seder, Mark Maron, maybe Thom Hartmann will go to NovaM, while Laura Flanders will likely be back firmly with Pacifica. (And maybe Ring of Fire will be a syndicated show). I mean what's left?! It's all fallen apart.

For more insight, listen to Mike Malloy's commentary here: http://premium.hotlinkfiles.com/...

On the next cruise, I guess it will be the Titanic with a party of one--Mark Green.

As for Randi, she's supposed to be live again (or tape delayed), this Monday, on so far at least two stations, WJNO in Palm Beach, Florida, and KGGN in San Francisco, CA from what I got from the Message Board: http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/

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