Misery's the River of the World - Everybody Row!
Armando blogged this story about women's rights activist Mukhtaran Mai* this morning and I thought that since it really required our attention and our letters that I would try to keep an up-to-date...
View ArticleLet's Get it Started...A Netroots campaign to Draft a Sentor to Carry the DSM...
Steven D posted this Diary on getting Hillary Clinton (!) to take up the Downing Street Memo in the Senate and be Conyer's counter-part. Naturally this got the usual response that it'll be a cold day...
View ArticleCelebrity Crime & Politics
On Nov.20th, 2003 the headlines screamed "Jackson Arrested for Child Molestation!" And so the media circus began. That part we're all familiar with. But what else was going on on that...
View Article*Breaking* McCain-Lieberman Amendment Goes Down...
In case anyone missed this, the McCain Lieberman bill amendment to the U.S. Energy Policy (H.R.6) was voted down yesterday 38 to 60. See how your Senator voted below... UPDATE: This is the...
View ArticleSave the New Deal (Petition on PUHCA)
[Links to petition have been fixed. Sorry about that.] This is a follow up to the excellent diary by TocqueDeville on the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act as part of a provision in the...
View ArticleA Fight We Need to Win
The dismay on DailyKos over a rapid number of betrayals at the hands of Congressional Democrats is palpable. The Bankruptcy Bill, CAFTA, and the defacto repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company...
View ArticleTarget Schumer on the Estate Tax
While Bush has wasted over $180 billion on war, giving nearly half a trillion to the richest 1% while entrenching the nation in $7.8 Trillion in debt, our side of the isle is arranging to compromise...
View ArticleTroll Alert
[Update - This has started already on DailyKos.] I read the following post at Tom Tomorrow's webiste:Tom Tomorrow: Just something I noticed while sitting here in my LevisTM brand blue jeans, sipping a...
View ArticleCheney to Leave Secure Undisclosed Location
[This is mainly for New York and New Jersey Dkos members]Dick Cheney is appearently coming out of the bunker to help raise funds for Congressman Vito Fossella, of Staten Island. There is an effort...
View ArticleCell phones and the Age of "Tera"
Great idea for cell phones (see below) for emergency/disaster situations. Following the disaster in London, The Ambulance Service has launched a national "In case of Emergency(ICE)" campaign with the...
View Article"I've hit the trifecta!" - A Prayer for San Francisco
I'd like to say a prayer here for San Franciso. They say bad things come in threes, and the top three disasters predicted before Bush got in office were:A terrorist Attack in New York.A direct hit by a...
View ArticleBodies Left to Rot Illustrates Why Privatization Doesn't Work
At what point in America did the logic of privatization become so automatic that no matter how badly it turns out, the response is to sign another private contract? Check this quote for what I mean...
View ArticleFrameshop: Why Republican Government Doesn't Work
Sometimes brilliance comes in small packages. A little while back I found this nugget in a post by Sterling Newbury: Republicans say government doesn't work, the evidence is that Republicans in...
View ArticleBloomberg Supporters Hate America (w/Poll)
Okay, snarking aside, let's put the most important mayorial election* in the country into perspective. First let me pose some questions which highlight what is at stake here. I'll address them...
View ArticleRepublicans: "Don't Pull out til AFTER 2006"
Here's an interesting article on how support for the war is dwindling due to the impacts of the hurricanes. The money quote though is from Anthony Cordesman, an expert on Iraq with the Center for...
View ArticleHot Wet American Summer
If you think that it feels hotter lately, you'd be right. It is. According to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, this summer was 1.2°F (0.7°C) above the 1895-2004 mean making it the tenth warmest...
View ArticleTell FEMA to Extend the Deadline
FEMA is about to close the deadline for families to apply for aid on the Gulf Coast. Given the intensity of the damage and the difficulty many families have had in being removed from the area, just...
View ArticleWhen Blue Abandons Green - A Cautionary Tale for Democrats [w/ poll]
In 2002, GM led its unions to believe that a US engagement on increasing fuel-economy would lead to unemployment. In February 2002, the UAW petitioned the US Senate to reject the bill to raise CAFE...
View Article2005 was [update - THE Warmest, not 2nd] Warmest Year on Record
Well, it's official. According to the World Meteorological Organization 2005 was the second warmest year on record. it may tbe that in the long run, what Bush is most known for is failing to lift a...
View ArticleGore: Climate Scientists are Being Targeted
Gore's recent speech, which has gotten so much attention on this site, included an alarming point that has not been commented on yet here: Our lead experts on climate change are being targeted in a...
View ArticleGOP's 'Anger' Strategy Has Dems Defensive
What the hell is this? Appearently it's what passes for a "good story" and a "balanced" headline at the Associated Press. You know you're in for it when a story starts like this:GOP's 'Anger'...
View ArticleBreaking - Bush Reads a Book (NY Times)
In Dec. of 2004 a study by Naomi Oreskes came out in the Journal Science cataloging all the peer-reviewed scientific papers (928)over the past ten years on climate change (a.k.a. Global Warming)to see...
View ArticleUnder Bush, Agencies Regularly Breach Balance of Powers
Kudos to the LA Times for pickng this up... This article details all of the ways that the administration has been putting liability limitations into regulatory rules, often in an unconstitutional...
View ArticleDemocratic Victory the First in Memory
So...how are those guys out in the boonies "pickin' their noses" on local Democratic campaigns doin'? Well, it appears, according to the NJ Star Ledger, that their success has no modern historical...
View ArticleWhy Democrats Lose - Short Version
From SalonWhile Feingold's position on Iraq comes far closer to reflecting the sentiments of the Democratic Party's activist base, the senator will be battling the perception that he cannot win the...
View ArticleOpen Letter to The Daily Kos Community on Global Warming
Now that you've seen "An Inconvenient Truth" what are we gonna do about it? There has been a lot of talk about global warming on this site but I haven't seen enough discussion of exactly what policies...
View ArticleAmerica is #1!...In 'Climate Refugees' [A Katrina Diary]
As global warming changes the landscape it has been expected that the increases in floods, droughts, and storm intensity would lead to the inevitable increase in refugees fleeing devasted areas. It...
View ArticleHow to Boycott Disney
Now that the Disney Corporation has declared war on us, it's time to declare war on the Disney Corp. Here's how...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi's First Mistake - Leading
<snark> After only just winning a majority of seats in Congress Nancy Pelosi has already made her first big mistake - Leading. By deciding that as the future Speaker of the House it might be a...
View ArticleKos: Institute a "Take It Outside" Rule on "Brawling"
This diary is in response to the recent thread on Sen. John Edwards recent post. Within one post the whole thread got taken over by an incredibly stupid insider argument that totally ruined the...
View ArticleYour Leaders Are Trying to Kill You
The opening arguments of the most important Supreme Court Case in our life times began yesterday to determine whether the EPA should be regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act...and that...
View ArticleBe Fashionable! Be Contrarian! or Why Cool People Deny Global Warming
I hate, hate, hate spending time arguing with the hydra-headed climate deniers movement because, let's face it, they're a stupid, ignorant bunch and it's no fun to argue with people so out of their...
View ArticleHoly S**t Batman - Lynn Cheney on the Daily Show
Um...I know there are more important things going on but I've never seen anything that quite captures the weirdness of what's been going on for the last 6 years or so then this segment where Jon...
View ArticleIf McCain Wins All Hell Will Break Loose in Iraq
The title is total supposition but follow me through the argument and I think you will agree with the conclusion that Iraq is on a knife edge that hinges on the outcome of the US election. Consider...
View ArticlePolicy!
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View ArticleSolar & the Death Knell of the Utility Industry
The title of this diary may appear to be too good to be true. However, I just recieved a press release from Nanosolar, a start up solar manufacturer which produces "solar laminates" - a new type of...
View ArticleMcCain (& the Republican Party) WANTS to Lose
My reason for writing this diary is the strange feeling I got at the annoucement of Sarah Palin as McCain's VP. -- Fear and confusion. It's such a WTF choice. I mean on the surface it seems so...
View ArticleEnvironmental Armageddon Planned in Canada - Obama to Approve?
One of the reasons that we all fought for Barack Obama was to have a sane climate change policy come from the White House which would be based on science. But right now in Alberta an area the size of...
View ArticleObama Admin Undoes ALL Progress on Climate Change ?
Tar sands are one of the dirtiest forms of oil out there. Canada has the largest reserves in the world of tar sands oil and the US is the key target market. THE major pipeline from Canada to the U.S....
View ArticleJoke of the Day
This is the American version of a British joke:A banker, a teacher, a Republican Congressman and a Fox News viewer are sat at a table. On it there is a plate with 10 cookies. The banker scoffs 9 of...
View ArticleThe Conservatives Made a Video
I've been here at Daily Kos a long time. Mostly as a lurker reading every day but I've had my odd bursts of activity too, usually about tragic things - Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, Afghanistan, and...
View ArticleCoal & Oil Companies HATE this One Weird Trick to Win the Climate Battle!
Today is the big climate march worldwide and I wanted to go but could not. So instead I thought there might be another way to make my contribution on the day as I take a train (and not a plane!) to get...
View ArticleNY Times Says 9 Billion People Is Not A Problem
The title of a recent article and accompanying video in the NY TImes has a quite ironic Title.The Unrealized Horrors of Population Growth dismisses the idea that the size of the human population could...
View ArticleTPP - It's Time to Put the 50 State Strategy Into Effect
This diary is going to be short and sweet. 41 Democrats just sold us out. These elected officials need to know that we are coming for them. There will be a price to be paid for this kind of vote and...
View ArticleBefore You Pull the Lever Today, Please Watch this video: A non-pie fight...
There has been a lot of discussion about income inequality in this election. However, this has been framed in the less than persuasive set of arguments around which of the Democratic candidates people...
View ArticleAnd the Band Played "Bait and Switch"
I woke up this morning to the shock and surprise all around the liberal internet universe to Hillary Clinton’s mis-statements about Nancy Reagan’s positive role in the national discussion about AIDS in...
View ArticlePutting the Final Screw on Donald Trump
I would agree that it’s too early to start writing an obituary of this years presidential election but I would caution that failure will take care of itself but success must be prepared for. This diary...
View ArticleAll The Votes Are In And Oh! How Jesus Wept! - An election song
In these moments we all need some art. I don’t know what to so say so I need to sing it. To play it. My friends and I had a band in London a while back and my buddy G. wrote this with me. Seems...
View ArticleWhy Clinton vs Sanders STILL Matters - a practical way forward
Well here we are. Sigh. Like nearly all of you I believed the polls and believed in the American people to make the decent and sane choice. I voted for Clinton and we won in the end but the system —...
View ArticleNY Sen. Schumer's Dangerous Brinkmanship: Helping Trump Potentially Start the...
I’m a little surprised this isn’t already on the front page or in community diaries. We all know Trump needs a distraction from the Mueller investigation badly. It seems like the Minority Leader in the...
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