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Jan 29 2010
Saudi Arabia to use Citizens United to interfere in US politics thanks to NeoCon SCOTUS treason
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Thanks to the Supreme Council Court, meet your new Corporate Masters!
Say hello to Saudi Arabia!
Saudi Arabia has already signaled that the progressive effort to build a clean energy American economy is its “biggest threat”:
Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil exports so stands to be one of the biggest losers in any pact that curbs oil demand by penalizing carbon emissions. “It’s one of the biggest threats that we are facing,” said Muhammed al-Sabban, head of the Saudi delegation to U.N. talks on climate change and a senior economic adviser to the Saudi oil ministry. […] Climate talks posed a bigger threat, Sabban said, and subsidies for the development of renewable energy were distorting market economics in the sector, he said.
It’s good to be the King of Saudi Arabia!
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Jan 28 2010
Liveblog interview with Congressman Joe Sestak (with Updates!)
Thanks for the frontpagey goodness budhy! : )
Crossposted at Daily Kos
I am thrilled to announce that Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA08) is live in a liveblog interview with me at TheProgressiveElectorate.com I have posted the body of my part of the interview below the fold and will be adding updates with Congressman Sestak’s commentary. If you wish, we are thrilled to have you join us and ask any questions you like of the Congressman as he fights to be the true Democratic voice for Pennsylvania in the US Senate.
Please join us at TheProgressiveElectorate.com where we would love to hear your input.
Thank you for joining us this evening. The ProgressiveElectorate is honored tonight to be hosting this exclusive liveblog interview with sitting Democratic Congressman and former 3 star Navy Admiral Joe Sestak who represents Pennsylvania’s 8th district and is currently challenging current Republican Democratish Senator Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary for the upcoming Senate election in Pennsylvania.
Before we start, I’d like to introduce Congressman Joe Sestak to our readers.
Joe Sestak was elected to Congress in 2006 to represent the 7th Congressional District where he was born and raised. During a distinguished 31-year career in the United States Navy, Joe attained the rank of 3-star Admiral and served in the White House, Pentagon, and in operational commands at sea. He is the highest-ranking former military officer ever elected to either branch of Congress. He attended the Naval Academy and later earned a Ph.d. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. After retiring from the Navy, Joe returned home to Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Susan, and daughter, Alex, and proudly represents the 7th District.
Before asking Representative Sestak a few questions of my own, I would like to thank him again for joining us here tonight, and, of course, I strongly encourage anyone who is reading this to join in with Congressman Sestak and I with any questions they’d like to ask. The more the merrier, I always say.
Now, on to the show.
Jan 26 2010
My own brother robbed me. Please help.
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Three weeks ago my own brother robbed me of every cent I had left and kicked me out into the street.
I just landed a job with an up and coming start up Progressive Political organization, but the job does not officially begin to pay until the end of February. I will be working on several of their projects as an opposition researcher, writer and reporter, among other things. This is the break that I have been waiting for. They have provided me with a laptop and cell phone, which is why I am able to write now. This helps a great deal, but it does not replace the money that my brother has stolen from me.
So I turn now to you, dearest friends, who are more family to me than my only flesh and blood, in the hopes that you can help me out until this job starts up for me, because my only brother just stole from me the last few dollars I had to my name.
If you are able to, please make a donation to the link below.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin…
A full explanation and more below the fold.
Jan 24 2010
Charge a President with Murder
Crossposted at Daily Kos
If accountability is off the table, so is Democracy.
In an age when the rich and powerful have more control over the creation of the law than ever we face the greatest threat to our Democracy we have ever known. We have met the enemy, and he is us.
If the rich and powerful can bribe lawmakers to do their bidding AND those lawmakers are not subject to the same laws they are supposed to uphold than there is no freedom, there is no equality, there is no justice. The biggest threat to our democracy is not a man with a bomb in his pants or a hijacker flying a plane, it is a man with unlimited power and no one that he must answer to. If that man is an American he is capable of doing more damage to America than any terrorist could ever dream of.
If you love freedom and Democracy please join me below the fold.
Jan 20 2010
Howard Dean: “People who blame others are losers”
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Before the circular firing squad slash blame game begins, let’s get this straight right the fuck now.
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC moments ago that Democrats aren’t necessarily to blame for what seems like a likely loss in today’s special senate election in Massachusetts.
“I certainly don’t think it’s a referendum on President Obama,” Dean said.
~snip~
“This is not the time for pointing the blame.”
People who blame others are losers. If you want to win elections, you stop blaming and get to work.
So let’s get this straight, Coakley lost, she lost for reasons all of her own. I am not really interested in the blame game. I am interested in learning from this experience so that Progressives don’t make the same mistakes the next time.
Anyone who is interested in winning elections is more than welcome to join me below the fold.
Jan 18 2010
Erick Erickson plays stupid
Crossposted at Daily Kos
What I do is called speaking truth to power.
What Erick Erickson of RedState.com does is called speaking lies for rich people.
For a refresher, dkos blogger pinback found that RedState (was) trying to jam Coakley phone banks, and I questioned the legality of those actions yesterday. Erick Erickson, mature adult that he pretends to be, decided to respond. Bad move.
The not so very bright readers of Kos want to send Martha Coakley and me to jail.
Why us?
Well, I published the list of union organized phone banks for Coakley on Friday night.
Some genius who probably thinks Joe Stalin was just misunderstood now is convinced I must go to jail. WITH A POLL!!!!
I assume s/he (that covers everything including transgendered I hope) also wants to send Martha Coakley to jail. She did the same thing I did, but offered up even more details, including the phone numbers of the locations and email address of the contact person.
Idiots.
By the way, points off to the Koskidz for misspelling my name.
Them’s fighting words.
More below the fold.
Jan 16 2010
Should Erick Erickson go to jail for this if the law was broken?
Crossposted at Daily Kos
First off, I strongly encourage anyone who is reading this to go check out an article titled RedState trying to jam Coakley phone banks by dkos user pinback for more information on this story.
So, as for the title of this article, my question is, should Erick Erickson of RedState.com go to jail the same way the last Republican hack who pulled this phone bank tampering scam did?
Federal law prohibits making interstate calls “without disclosing the caller’s identity and with the intent to annoy . . . or harass any person at the called number.”
A hat tip to dkos user inland for the RawStory.com link.
More below the fold . . .
Jan 12 2010
Feingold considering asking Reid to step down
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Where is Joe Lieberman to save you now, Harry?
Or maybe C Streeter Jon Ensign can come to Harry’s rescue again
Add John Ensign’s parents to the list of Republicans for Reid.
Michael and Sharon Ensign donated $4,800, the maximum donation, to Nevada Sen. Harry Reid during the third fundraising quarter, according to a report from political newspaper Roll Call.
Bold added by the diarist
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Jan 11 2010
Breaking! Republicans re-discover racism!
Crossposted at Daily Kos
In the year 2010, the Republican party has finally, officially, re-discovered racism.
In between demanding to see President Obama’s birth certificate so that he can prove for once and for all that he is NOT a secret Kenyan Muslim and Republican demands to be able to racially profile all Muslim-Americans who might be mistaken for a terrorist based on appearance, name or faith, the Republican party has re-discovered racism in America, and all because of this comment by Democratic Senator Harry Reid.
Despite many, many acts on their own part that could be considered racist, Republicans finally became aware of the existance of racism in America again when a Democrat supposedly did it too.
In 2009 I catalouged racist moments made by Republicans in an article titled Just call him a N!&&ER and get it over with, Republicans. We ALL KNOW that’s what you mean. By Republican standards NONE of these instances were racist. Why? Because It Doesn’t Count If You Are A Republican.
Obviously.
But, just for the sake of accuracy, lets review the year of 2009 in Republican racism and selective outrage.
Jan 07 2010
Michael Steele loves, LOVES “Obama is a racist “
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Remember when FOX employee Glenn Beck said that “President Obama is a racist who hates white people and white culture.”?
Well, the Republican party officially agrees with that now.
Listen as Republican party leader Micheal Steele states how much he Loves, LOVES Glenn Beck.
More below the fold, and two questions for every Republican candidate in 2010 as well . . . .
Jan 05 2010
Why I fight
Crossposted at Daily Kos
What needs to be done in 2010? What can the left do in 2010 to ensure a better, stronger America for ALL Americans?
Before deciding what needs to be done, first we must remember what we are fighting for.
Paul Wellstone
July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. Government must remain the domain of the general citizenry, not a narrow elite.
~ Senator Paul Wellstone
“Politics isn’t about big money or power games; it’s about the improvement of people’s lives”
~ Senator Paul Wellstone
“I think this is really a good example of the commercial calculus and ties taking precedence over everything else. It’s sort of like the almighty dollar is triumphing over a lot of other values that we have as a nation.”
~ Senator Paul Wellstone
More below the fold . . .
Dec 30 2009
So, a blog entry equals EPIC FAIL. Here’s what to do next
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Hello.
Yesterday, I posted a blog entry here at Daily Kos and a few other websites that was, to say the least, not my best work. In fact, it was a total FAIL. Some might even say EPIC.
In order to rectify the dis-service done to all by the first erroneous article I had published, I will be posting a full retraction here based on observations and analysis provided by credible sources, but before that, I thought it might be helpful and fun to explore the reasons why blog entries become EPIC FAILs, and what the publishing blogger and commenting bloggers can do should such a situation of EPIC FAIL occur while traversing the intertoobz.
So, before addressing the aforementioned corrections regarding the EPIC FAIL blog entry that I posted yesterday, lets first turn our attention to what an EPIC FAIL is, and how a blog entry might become one.
What is EPIC FAIL, Alex?
The following video will explain what exactly a FAIL is and what it takes to make a FAIL Epic, but generally speaking it is any time when one person, group of people or object can not achieve it’s intended purpose or goal. What makes that FAIL Epic is simply how bad the performance is.
With this in mind, a blog entry, whether a full diary/article or comment, becomes an Epic Fail under the following circumstances.
1. Not based on fact/reality
2. Off Topic
3. Stupid/offensive
4. Trollish
5. Other
I think these 5 examples cover the universe of blog EPIC FAILure perfectly, and though an EPIC FAIL of a blog entry can fall into more than one category, for the ones that just make you shake your head there is always the fifth choice, other, which could just as easily be labelled WTF and no one would know the difference, but I digress. We will cover WTF at some other time, it is a big subject to deal with, and one at a time is enough.
So, now that you have identified EPIC FAIL in a blog entry, what do you do?
More below the fold . . . .