How I Plan to Beat the Economy
Two years ago, I was laid off from my job as an Internal Communications Specialist for an area hospital. Since then, I've been doing some freelance work and continuously looking for a job. I have sent...
View ArticlePhotos, deathers; can't anyone play this game
I watched the usual suspects provide the usual drivel and the usual bloggers put in their 2 cents in the post Osama Bin Laden era. Proof is asked for about Obama's birth in the USA - long form birth...
View ArticleCanadian Election Results
UPDATE 1:00 AM: I think this will be my last update for the evening. Check back for my post-mortem in the morning. Taken: Leading in: Percent: Conservative 162 4...
View ArticleTop Comments: Nosama Edition
We have so many insightful and powerful diaries written here at Daily Kos. Our diaries inform, inflame, impassion, and even entertain. We Kossacks have strong voices and an even stronger will to be...
View ArticleWhat's Next?
Yesterday and today were great days for our country. I admit to being happy when I heard the news. I admit to being excited. I'm a third-generation New Yorker. I remember exactly where I was when...
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The Rachel Maddow Show - May 2, 2011
For just tonight... I'm not going to be the least bit shy, meek, or mild in expressing my thoughts about today's big news - like y'all expected anything else from me! ;D
View ArticleLet's talk torture, Dick. Myths I
So, Dick Cheney and friends want to claim that torture is responsible for Obama finding bin Laden. Think so? Many argue that when a prisoner gets tortured, he will say anything just to make the...
View ArticleOsama, we hardly knew ye -- thanks to our timid media
Put on your waders, here comes the presidential bullshit: Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today’s achievement is a...
View ArticleFirst Time Diary New Type of Campaigning
Alright, this is my first ever post here. I have been a long time lurker and finally am ready to dive in and post. So here goes. As we enter the long slog that will be the 2012 presidential...
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Power of Community: Fukushima Rov #54
This is another clearinghouse diary for discussion and commentary about the ongoing nuclear disaster(s) in Japan. For updated information on news and a timeline of the events following the March 11...
View ArticleBin Laden - The End, A Personal Note
Earlier this evening, my wife and I were relaxing and discussing the events of yesterday and we were both struggling to put our thoughts into words. Gone is a man whose actions and the results of...
View ArticleAnd The News Was Delivered Without A Smirk
There was no "Mission Accomplished" banner. No codpiece. No false bravado. No rejoicing. No call to rejoice. No tooting his own horn.
View ArticleBin Laden Is Dead; Now How About That War?
In the wake of President Obama’s announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rushed to preempt an idea that must be coalescing in the minds of many Americans even...
View ArticleMy Response to the Obama Campaign
Sometimes I share too much - this may be one of those times - bad boundaries and all, when I'm pissed off. Sour grapes - absolutely, but why not share it, at the worst it will be totally ignored....
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A Woozle Named Lucky: A Happy Story
Those of you who have read my previous diaries know that I have recently retired from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. I had planned to stay on for at least another year. The frustration and...
View ArticleWhile You Are Entitled To Your Own Opinions, You Are Not Entitled To Your Own...
I had been seeing a meme popping up on Facebook from a few people on my friend list that simply had to be addressed. The first person it was addressed with quickly found them self on the end of the...
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The Daily Show/Colbert Report Chat thread 05.02.11
Tonight on TDS & TCR, a whole lot of sh-- stuff and a couple guests.
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Black Kos Music: Late Night in the Justice Department
I'm your VJ/DJ, Justice Putnam; and I'll be manning the dials, spinning the discs, warbling the woofers, putting a slip in your hip and a trip to your hop. Sit back, roam the Big Orange and have a...
View ArticleAnd Empire Finally....Is A Disease
And empire finally, as Thucydides understood, is a disease . With these words Chris Hedges summarizes his view on the United States after the death of Osama Bin Laden. He was speaking in Southern...
View ArticleSenator Lindsey Graham: Epic Fail! 20110502
I usually do not write about pure politics because many others here do it much better than I. Whilst I keep up with politics, those of you who read my three regular, weekly series know that I am much...
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