Are we Starstruck?
Watching this site, the political compass of my political world, has caused me some concern over the last few weeks. You have gone on and on (and on....) about how Obama can do this, or Hillary has...
View ArticleGetting ready to Caucus in WA - Still making up my mind...
So, today, I will head to Maywood Elementary school in Bothell, WA, and caucus for the next president. Ever since I voted for John Anderson in the 1980 weekly reader poll when I was 6, I have been...
View ArticleNothing to see here...
Looking over the recommended list today, I can't see anything except frothing "intra" partisan bickering. Whose votes didn't get counted where, or which superdelegate is saying "fuck you" to who, or...
View ArticleWA Dems - Vote Today! Why the Primary Matters
To make it interesting, I'll do this as a "top ten list". However, in the interest of full disclosure, I'm all about participatory democracy, even if it's for seemingly symbolic purposes and "beauty...
View ArticleWhy I think Hillary should stay in the race..
First and foremost, can I respectfully remind everyone here of the DKOS diary Guidelines:Especially #22, which states:Diaries on contested Democratic primaries: Be positive. Make an affirmative case...
View ArticleDKOS Gut Check: Are we drowning the movement in Kool Aid?
I'll start with my bias, just so I'm really clear. I am 100% for improved populist-based (aka "people-powered") democracy in the United States. It's pretty clear in my comment and diary history. I...
View ArticleGallup: HRC 48 BO 44 - And why you're blowing it. UPDATED.
SOHere is the latest polling data. Yes, it shows the Barak Obama campaign in freefall. And let me go ahead and steal your process here - I am a 100% unadulterated concern troll at this point.I am...
View ArticleOK.. DKOS is officially nuts.. See you all in a few months
Wow... I mean. Wow! I've seen it all here, but this last week really takes the cake. Trying to keep up with the tiresome, un-hinged, un-thinking blather that seems to keep re-spawning itself in the...
View ArticleThe Economic Meltdown - Should I Be Terrified Yet?
I am not an economist.. not by a long shot. So, when people start talking about overleveraged derivatives and the imminent unraveling of the U.S. financial system, I find myself scrolling down to more...
View ArticleBailing out America: Our time is now
From Obama's Website:I am asking you to believe not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington.. I am asking you to believe in yours Revolutions are never planned. They are always a...
View ArticleAhmadinejad in Russia
By most accounts, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent departure to meet with Russian diplomats and economic leaders is naturally in line with what everyone already knows - that Russia, China, and Iran have...
View ArticleHello, Cruel World.
I was gone for awhile, and am back just long enough to offer up a bit of perspective on this little experiment in government we're all a part of.For background, I joined dailykos back in 2004 because i...
View ArticleMy white male millionaire friend is voting for WHO!?!
I got a call from my buddy last night to come watch Sunday Football, drink a couple beers, and just catch up. We talk politics like we watch football: We mutually respect each other's right to be...
View ArticleSullivan calls Obama "Dem's Reagan"
Newsweek writer Andrew Sullivan is thinking beyond 2012.But one thing that has so far, in my view, been underestimated is the potential impact of a solid Obama win, and perhaps a Democratic retention...
View ArticleWhy I like Barack Obama and Want to Re-Elect Him
The best thing about politics is that, unlike sports or movies, you actually get to impact the outcome. Do I care about polls, campaign strategies that no one will listen to, or who won a debate of...
View ArticleMitt Romney: Show Me Your Tax Plan.
I grew up in Missouri.. the "Show Me" state. It's based on the notion that talk is cheap, and we'd prefer to see results - details. In the case of your tax plan, talk may very well be pretty dang...
View ArticleDKOS - Sensata Employee Breaks story of Emergency Plant Closure
On Friday afternoon October 19th, Sensata employee Tom Gaulrapp revealed on the progressive political blog dailykos.com that Sensata was abruptly closing it's plant.BREAKING: Sensata closes plant down...
View ArticleJust One Vote
I voted today. I hope each of you votes, too. Voting seems like a small thing, maybe even a meaningless thing. But it's not. Voting is a uniquely meaningful and grand act.I know some may think voting...
View ArticleTop Republicans: How to Attack Romney
Whenever you need a reminder that Mitt Romney is a liar, just look at "what top Republicans say about Mitt Romney": This should be required viewing for all democratic operatives. They are almost more...
View ArticleLet's talk about 2014
We're pretty good at this at the presidential level. And we had a very, very good night tonight.But we have a lot of work to do. We really are the good guys, and are fighting some really nefarious...
View ArticleFinding a progressive voice in the most recent Israel-Palestine rumble
So, we have a rapidly-escalating situation in an area of the world that is very unstable, even by it's own historical standards. There is a well-recommended, and well written piece by Assaf that...
View ArticleOn Confronting Immorality
I recall a conversation I had with a pastor on why, after feeling a call to ministry at a young age, I subsequently left the church. "Why did you leave?" she asked me."Because the Church had become...
View ArticleHow the Republicans are Ceding Economic Hegemony to China
Lost in the cataclysmic predictions about impacts of a debt ceiling crisis on the U.S. and world economy is another issue that is not getting much attention.Could this be expediting the end of U.S....
View ArticleJustice for Daisy, and an apology
Let me first say that I am implicated in the rape culture not only in Maryville Missouri, where I played football and grew up, but also that which prevails across our country. And I owe an apology to...
View ArticlePope Francis and turning America blue
I saw this quote on my social media page today:“The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology. And ideology does not beckon [people]. In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his...
View ArticleDKos asked me to come back - but what I found was what I left.
I grew up in a rural Missouri town, the child of a school teacher and a college professor. Bright blue people in red state America. I had an entertaining exchange with my sister this morning, as she...
View ArticleWestern Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church Elects denomination's first ever...
You can find the press release here. Reverend Karen Oliveto of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial United Methodist Church will be the first-ever United Methodist Bishop to be elected as an out member of...
View ArticleLet's make history together.
I’m not a huge Hillary fan, just as I wasn’t big on Bill, and only thought “Yes, We Can”, actually could if the people made Obama do it (which he actually begged for, to no avail). I think she’s not a...
View ArticleA Call to the Progressive Pulpit
There has been much discussion in this election cycle about this most recent spawn of the “Republican” party that has hijacked the pulpit of American public discourse in recent years. A particularly...
View ArticleHillary steps to the Podium, and Obama exits stage left.
During the Philadelphia rally, there was a moment that caught me off guard. After President Obama introduced Hillary Clinton, inviting her to take his place at the podium that (not accidentally) said...
View ArticleWhat to tell our kids tomorrow morning?
My older sister called tonight, asking me for advice on what to tell my twin 6th grade nephews when they woke up tomorrow. She put me on speaker, so my 11th grade nephew, still up and upset after...
View ArticleWe Must Never Stop Marching Now
This will be short.Most of the damage that we might have tried to avert years ago — to the earth, to the poorest around the world, to the once-proud legacy of our nation— has already been done, or will...
View ArticleThe Tree of Liberty and the Need for Revolution
My father, a retired political science professor, told me today that Thomas Jefferson said democracy needs a revolution every 20 years to survive. I looked it up: Yet where does this anarchy exist?...
View ArticleThere were "No Clues" to raise any suspicion?!? Um...
They’re saying that they had “no clues” about motives or had not way of knowing that the Las Vegas shooter might be a threat to society, but does anyone else see the flawed logic here.Legally and under...
View ArticleGuns, Health Care, and Hurricanes: Reclaiming the Narrative of "Life"
Last Night, my wife and I posed a logic question to our children. We introduced them to the term “pro life”, and explained that it was a label used by people who oppose giving women the choice to...
View ArticleTrump's Hate Speeches: Inciting Violence and Threatening the Republic.
Donald Trump’s rally speeches are hate speeches that are inciting violence against the people of the United States of America. His speeches permit, give cover to, and, as the photo above shows,...
View ArticleCNN exquisitely exposes Trump’s “nationalism” for it’s pathetic disfiguration...
A “dire warning” has been issued.Kevin Liptak and Kaitlyn Collins have put together A chilling snapshot of where the current administration has taken the United States of America on the world stage.As...
View ArticleStep. On. Their. Throats. (No, not literally :/)
Everyone please remember what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot. If, for example, a democratic president was elected, but only after colluding with an enemy foreign power via direct...
View ArticleWhite House Torpedoes UN Effort to Save 400,000 Yemeni Children from Starvation
The US is torpedoing the UN efforts for a ceasefire in YemenFrom CNN Yesterday:The US has "slammed the brakes on" a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a limited ceasefire and...
View ArticleU.S. F-16's Strike Munitions Site in Syria.. Owned by the U.S.
Seriously folks, can this get any more screwed up? US F-16’s just bombed a U.S.-owned munitions storage facility. We literally just completed a series of air strikes on ourselves.In what apparently...
View ArticleLack of COVID-19 test access potentailly exposed my son.
I just got the following message from my kid’s school:Dear Families,I was just notified by a member of our parent/volunteer community at (your school) that they have tested presumptive positive for...
View ArticleWA State Covid-19 Notes 3-18-2020
Greetings here from COVID-19 Ground Zero, near the King/Snohomish county line in Washington State. One of the things I hope to focus one in these diaries is whether a narrative starts to develop...
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Covid-19 State by State - WA 3-19-2020
The calm before the storm? That’s what I wondered when I saw the daily information dump from the WA Dept of Health, showing only a modest increase of 189 new cases and 3 deaths, to 1,389 total cases...
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Covid 19 State by State. WA 3-22-2020 "100 Million Surgical Masks"
In the race to stay ahead of the devastating exponential growth curve which is COVID-19 impacts on our world, local leadership and innovation will absolutely be the difference between saving thousands...
View ArticleCOVID19 SbS: WA - UPDATE: Inslee orders "Stay at home"
UPDATE:“Stay at Home” order issued by Gov Inslee for two weeks (minimum), effective immediately for individuals and 5:30 pm Wednesday, March 25th for businesses. This is essentially the same as most...
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Covid StatexState: WA 3-26-2020 - A Setback.
There is not a state, county, and town in America that is going to be safe enough to do anything but hunker down for at least the next several weeks.It was only 3 days ago that Washington Governor Jay...
View ArticleOpen thread.. over the top for PA, AZ, GA
Just a place to discuss if needed.PA 27k votes to goGA 1775 to goAZ holding on the 40+kNV .. already baked.Take the lead in one an we can all celebrate!
View ArticleIan is Almost a Cat 5
Link to recent update from NHC on the rapidly-intensifying and likely catastrophic Hurricane Ian. The updated numbers on Ian are really bad.. Ian has cratered to 937 mb and is sustaining 155 mph winds....
View ArticleFraudulent charge from Free Republic, LLC
This is a short diary, but I thought I’d post here. This morning I was notified by my credit card company declined a fraudulent charge from Free Republic, LLC — yep that Free Republic. Posting this...
View ArticleGluesenkamp Perez wins WA-3
CNN has called this:538 out her odds at 2%. We’re at 204-211 with 20 races to go, and women in CA and AZ have a lot of uncounted votes.
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