Our "Golden" ray of sunlight...
on our dark November day.The Dems got wholloped last night. I know. I bet a conservative friend of mine a beer for every seat the Creeps get above a House majority. If the numbers hold up I owe him...
View ArticleMaybe Breaking! Libyan Opposition forms Interim Government!
The people of Eastern Libya have formed an interim government in Benghazi. The former Libyan Justice minister Mustafa Mohamed Abdel Jalil will head the government. The former Libyan Justice minister...
View ArticleKarl Rove Blunders into the Wisconsin Protests
Davej wrote a good diary yesterday explaining an ad buy Crossroads GPS (Karl Rove's shadow RNC) has made to counteract all the good work of the poeple in unions. I just saw this ad on television today...
View ArticleNot Your Everyday Revolution
Ted Koppel really got my dander up this morning with his arguments about the inconsistency of the American approach to the various revolutionary and humanitarian crises in the Middle East, North Africa...
View ArticleNo Federal Employee Unions. . .Then what's with the AFGE?
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of hearing the most ridiculous claim made by Republicans and defenders of Scott Walker "that there are no federal employee unions." They say why are state workers...
View Article(Updated with new totals for P & K)Prosser gains 7500 votes from Waukesha County
Throughout the day various counties in Wisconsin have been adjusting their vote totals from election night. This is an unseemly process, but it happens all the time (it's hard to count thousands of...
View Article"Change we can still believe in" must include Cap-and-Trade
Mr. President, if 2012 is "our campaign," then you need to make cap-and-trade a top priority!President Obama gave a rousing speech to donors yesterday. Snippets of it have been shown on the cable...
View ArticleMy E-Mail to George Will: A Slight Correction or More Accurately You Are Full...
George Will this morning wrote a column arguing that Illinois is on the brink of losing 9000 businesses because it imposed an "Amazon Tax" recently.See my response below the fold.
View ArticleMichelle Bachman says that NATO airstrikes killed 10-30K in Libya
Michelle Bachmann just said on Fox News Sunday that NATO airstrikes have killed 10,000-30,000 people in Libya. She was challenged by Chris Wallace (a miracle). And after several Wallace attempts to...
View ArticleViolent Reaction to Naksa Day Protest Deaths
On June 5th, a group of Palestinian protestors marched to the ceasefire line between Syria and Israeli-occupied territories. UPI is reporting that 22 people were killed and over 225 people were...
View ArticleObama 2nd Qtr. #s are BIG! And Released first to his donors b4 the FEC.
First, let me give you the big #: $86 million. You have to wait until minute 3:30 to hear this though. Now, this money is split up between OFA ($47 million) and and the DNC ($38 million). I explain...
View ArticleEric Bolling "apologizes" for forgetting 9/11 and still proves he's an asshole
Yesterday, as pointed out by MediaMatters and MinistryofTruth, Eric Bolling, the replacement for Glenn Beck, said there were no terror attacks between 2000 and 2008. Today he "corrected" that, but...
View ArticleNever been prouder to be a Jew
Well more accurately I have rarely been prouder to be a Jew (my bar mitzvah in Israel was probably my proudest moment as a Jew). But "rarely been prouder" does not make a good diary title. Still the...
View ArticleMedia and Politicians still ignoring #F@%kYouWashington movement! Still...
Whoknu informed this community and me yesterday about an awesome movement happening on twitter. Apparently @JeffJarvis became frustrated at the debt ceiling mishegas and sent a couple of tweets that...
View ArticleThe Government is the PROBLEM! Not for what it does do but for WHAT IT WON"T DO!
Melissa Harris-Perry (who has been doing an excellent job of subing for Rachel Maddow) asked Howard Fineman a real interesting question. "Is there a structural problem being evident here?"...
View ArticleFox News' Eric Boiling Just Blamed Hip Hop for Prescription Drug Abuse
I was checking out the Five on Fixed News, to see what the enemy was thinking about Sunnunu's "learn to be an American" line. And I found myself watching the generally pointless 4th block of the...
View ArticlePolice Making it Too Dangerous to Walk the Streets
I was born in the 1980's. So I spent my formative years hearing about how the streets were too dangerous for me to walk around. This was supposedly true despite my living in the San Fernando...
View ArticleSupreme Court: LBGTQ is a Protected Class
Hello everyone and Congratulations to all of us for a better government but especially for our LBGTQ friends for the Court recognizing the "dignity" of your relationships.I want to talk about an aspect...
View ArticleRand Paul: "I didn't run for office for governing"
This morning I turned on Outnumbered and found that Rand Paul is trying to revive his presidential candidacy by spending an hour on Fox News. Around 23 minutes into the program, the hosts begin to...
View ArticleI GET IT but I still don't see how he wins
(Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA) For me to support Sen. Sanders you need to explain to me how Republicans don't win with a simple and idiotic formula: Socialist = Communist (like China and North Korea) and...
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