A Response to "Big Things" - The President's Campaign Fundraising Letter
I received an email from Barack Obama - well, his fundraising campaign - that cited "big things" as a subject and provided a link that had "begin_again" in the URL. Nice. I didn't bother to read it. I...
View ArticleThe APA and the transgender community ~ A diary of links ~
In 2010, at the insistence of the transgender community, the World Professional Association for Transgender Heath released the following statement regarding proposed changes to the American...
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Photo Diary: Alabama Tornados and the Aftermath
Over 160 fatalities have been reported in my State today as a result of yesterday's ravaging storms. (pictured above Tornado touches down in Tuscaloosa). Numbers keep rising as I've been writing this...
View ArticleThunda Around the Rotunda: Pro-Worker Motorcycle Rally Saturday, April 30
Hat-tip to Dkosser Sandhill Crane for alerting me to this... Join hundreds, perhaps thousands of motorcyclists and sheduled speakers Sen. John Erpenbach, Sen. Mark Miller, Rep. Cory Mason, Rep. Peter...
View ArticleSo you think we'll have Serious Policy Discussions Now?
So, now that the Birther Conspiracies have been crushed into dust, we can now move forward into having some serious policy debates &trade. Yeah, right. As we've already seen the After-Birther...
View ArticleBREAKING: Shackled Latina Mom Wins Case
Kind of a big deal: A federal judge has ruled in favor of a Nashville mother who triggered a national outcry after she was shackled during labor and after giving birth while in custody of the Davidson...
View ArticleTell Washington Post To Cancel Trump Invitation To White House Correspondents...
HELP STOP “MAINSTREAMED” RACISM! Tell the Washington Post to cancel their invitation for purveyor or ignorant propaganda Donald Trump to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday @...
View ArticleHow To (Theoretically) Win A Republican Town Hall
I could have won! Maybe... It took me almost 2 days, but at 4:00 this morning I figured out what I should have said and done Tuesday at Paul Ryan's Town Hall meeting. Follow me below the fold to...
View ArticlePetitions to recall WI State Sen Robert Cowles(R) filed
Today, the Committee to Recall Robert Cowles submitted over 25,000 signatures -- more than the required 15,960 -- to the state’s Government Accountability Board, becoming the ninth recall drive of...
View ArticleRepublicrats- The new party
A typical misconception floats across the political spectrum. Most democrats and republicans still think that there parties are unique and that if you are part of the other, well then your just plan...
View ArticleBurnaby School Board meeting hijacked by homophobes
I'd just like to report in on what happened this past Tuesday at the local school board meeting. The main topic up for discussion was policy 5.45, which would have created an explicit policy built...
View Article280 Dead in 2nd Deadliest Tornado Outbreak Since 1932
For years, meteorologists and the nostalgic among us have referred to the Super Outbreak of 1974 or the Palm Sunday Outbreak of 1965 as the worst tornado outbreaks in our nation's history....
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RKBA: Open Thread
Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us...
View ArticleNaturally, Arizona Birther still has "so many questions"
Leave it to Arizona. Representative Carl Seel's knuckles are dragging so deep in the desert sand that he's permanently stuck in one place: Conspiracyville. Seel was the sponsor of Arizona's Birther...
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This one is personal.
The truck has been pulling up in my neighborhood every day now for weeks, a harbinger of a California spring as sure as any Eastern robin. She parks, puts up a wooden sign reading "Oxnard, fresh," and...
View ArticleRepublicans for Lord Voldemort
This winter at a meeting of like-minded people, one of our members wore a T-shirt with a slogan I had never before heard or read: Republicans for Lord Voldemort. Because I had seen each of the...
View ArticleJeff Immelt and the Fed
Maybe this is generally known, but Jeff Immelt of no tax-paying GE and Head of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has also been in the Federal Reserve club. General Electric Chairman...
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Dying to give birth
Pregnancy can kill you - especially if you are a black woman in the US. The PBS Newshour covered a recently released report which gives the details. Report: African-American Women at Higher Risk for...
View ArticleRegarding "The Jerry Brown Method"
Now I usually don't do these sort of reply diaries, but right now there's a diary up that presents Jerry Brown's budget fight as being some kind of shining example of how a progressive politician...
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