5th of November
What I've being seeing in national politics for the last three years; what I've been reading on the Daily Kos; and what I heard in Obama's acceptance speech is that we must have a party that is...
View ArticleJohn McCutcheon plus
My wife and I are going to have the honor of hearing John McCutcheon for the forth time this coming Sunday in Tallahassee. For anyone who doesn't know John's music, I envy you the pleasure of...
View ArticleAttacking Palin
We need to get organized on how to fight the Bush/McCain/Palin ticket.Let's learn from the Repubs. They have already managed to brand her as a "reformer" and a "maverick". We need to be consistent in...
View ArticleI see ostrich people
I've been reading DKos for several years and just started contributing a couple of weeks ago - so I probably haven't earned a rant diary yet. But the "chicken little diary" pissed me off.Yes some of us...
View ArticleThis is what I'm talkin' about
fighting smart. The SoS project is doing the behind the scenes work to make sure that all of our foot work and phone calls amount to a victory and not a recount. God bless 'em.On the Center for Public...
View ArticleOne evening in the future...
A fathers sits with his daughter while she does her homework.Daugther: Daddy, who was Sarah Palin?Father: She ran for vice president a long time ago.Daughter: Was she like President Hillary?Father: No...
View ArticleGot my button
My wife and I got two of our Obama buttons in the mail today - our t-shirts, bumper stickers and other buttons are on back-order (our local Obama offices have only had "Asian-Pacific for Obama buttons...
View ArticleBreaking: Moose vote - w/poll
Several Moose herds in rural Alaska have received fraudulent voter registration forms. McCain's campaign is denying any part in the mailout. And while national polls show that the addition of Palin to...
View ArticleTalk to everyone, then do it again.
My mother is 78 years old. She doesn't follow politics - at all. She is very hard of hearing. Usually, she asks my advice on who to vote for. We talk things over, and she pretty much votes the way my...
View ArticleNo on 2!
I wanted to highlight the battle against Amendment 2 (the ban gay marriage amendment), but when I did a search I found and read hungrycoyote's diary and realized that he had said everything - better...
View ArticleThank You Daily Kos!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank You! I was one of those folks who wasn't sure about President-elect Obama. I voted for him in the Florida primary, but it was a last minute decision. I was swayed by much of...
View ArticleBarack Obama is stupid
He was dumb to think that a man with a black African father could be elected president of the USA.He was stupid to believe that in a post 9/11 world a man with the middle name of Hussein could become...
View ArticleTallahassee D. Reporting Crist to run for Senate
The Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Capital News etc. is reporting that Charlie Crist will announce tomorrow that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez. This is good and...
View ArticleWhy so many are frustrated
I think the reason so many people are frustrated with the Democratic party is two fold. One, we have a party which is a coalition of different groups and secondly the way the party functions tends to...
View ArticleBefore the storm
Before the storm, before the sad pictures of people in the rubble that was their homes, before the cries of "we will rebuild" let me say that you are a fool to build a permanent home or business on a...
View ArticleWhy I did it - Lifetime Subscription
I know that a lot of the DK community can't afford to subscribe, and I wish that I could give out some free subscriptions. My wife and I are doing okay, but not great (from our rung on the ladder we...
View ArticleA bit about me
Since I got invited to join Phazebook Progressive Social Networking Group and I accepted the invitation, I feel I should follow through and post a diary about myself. Especially since I think that this...
View ArticleOpen letter to Catholic Women
I know that this letter will sound snarky, and I know that I will get lots of "what the hell do you know" comments, but honestly the question I pose is sincere. I'm prepared to be flamed for sticking...
View ArticleMissing the point of the tragedy
I woke up in the middle of the night with the need to write this diary. I read some of the anti-gun diaries yesterday and the responses and all I could think about was how we were getting it wrong. We...
View ArticleA request to the Kos gods - re: Mars
Dear Central Committee of the Orange Order, Many of us will be following the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory in the wee hours of Monday, August 6. I think that it would be grand if you could...
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