Hurricane Ike LIVEBLOG 1 -- Go To Diary #2...
GO TO LIVEBLOG DIARY 2!Please DO NOT Recommend this diary. Instead, please recommend the Mothership. These diaries are intended to provide an up-to-date emergency information and references for our...
View ArticleAttn. TX Kossacks: Ike Aftermath Roll Call
This is a community diary primarily for those in East Texas who are weathering the storm, and those who have friends/relatives/loved ones in the area.If you are in the Houston/Galveston/Port Arthur...
View ArticleLIVEBLOG: Hurricane Ike Aftermath Media Blackout (Child Diary #1)
Please DO NOT Recommend this diary. Instead, please recommend the Mothership.These diaries are intended to provide up-to-date emergency information and references for our many Gulf Coast/eastern Texas...
View ArticleI voted today.
Yep, you read that right. I voted in the 2008 General Election here in Ohio. On a Sunday afternoon, On October 12, 2008, a full 24 days before election day.Join me over the flip for some data and my...
View ArticleAmazing Vote For Hope video
Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.This was previously posted last week, but I thought it good to remind people of its existence, especially since it seems to have been passed over and/or...
View ArticleWherein my religious friend finds Hope
I've mentioned my African-American Conservative/Republican Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christian friend in the comments a number of times before, but the email I got from him today was worthy of a diary...
View ArticleKickass Video: "Continuity"
Just got an email from the Ohio Democratic Party, with a very interesting message.Check the flipside for a fascinating new video...from John McCain!
View ArticleNo Yard Signs? What to do???
I couldn't find an Obama yard sign to save my life. Here in Northerast Ohio, they seem to be far and few between. I was told by a friend that there weren't that many made -- and that the campaign was...
View ArticleEntertain the Vote! Drive Away Gloom at the Polls!
When JeffLieber posted his diary How an umbrella can win the election yesterday, I commented that I went to Election observer training Tuesday night in Cuyahoga County, the heart of the Democratic...
View ArticleBarack, the Boss and 100K in the Rain (with lots of pictures!) -- UPDATED
They gathered in downtown Cleveland, Ohio from far and near, for the next-to-last rally that Barack Obama will attend prior to Election Day.They came to hear Bruce Springsteen sing, and to hear Obama's...
View ArticleROLL CALL: How I Helped
Dailykos members played an enormous role in federal, state and local campaigns and issues in yesterday's elections.Let's take a moment to to take credit for the roles that each of us played.
View ArticleFilling Empty Bowls: 36 Hours for Feeding America (9) -- Looking Beyond the...
So, exactly who are these "hungry" that we've been talking about in this Feeding America series?Well, according to this fact sheet:• In 2007, 36.2 million Americans lived in food insecure households,...
View ArticleYou think the big box stores have got it bad? UPDATED with a response from Steve
All we hear on the news is the dire reports that Best Buy, Circuit City, Toys R Us and Walmart are all experiencing lower-than-hoped-for revenues this holiday season.What's being drowned out is the...
View ArticleSedition -- Breaking UPDATE: TARP money being made available?
Sedition is a term of law which refers to covert conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition...
View ArticleThe hungry are still hungry after the holidays
The wrapping paper has been thrown away, the gifts have been placed on the shelves, and you feel good that you took a bag of groceries to your place of worship last week to help feed the hungry during...
View ArticleBreaking Eggs In The Fight Against Hunger
It's 3:30 AM or so EST, and I just finished my prep work for a marathon effort in my personal fight against hunger in the US.At 10 AM, I will open my front door, and throughout the course of the day,...
View ArticleBroken Eggs for Fighting Hunger: a Recap
Yesterday the lovely Dania Audax and I held our 16th annual Hair of the Dog Brunch to raise money and collect food for the Heights Emergency Food Center.Knowing that 1 out of every 8 Americans go...
View ArticleFilling Empty Bowls (8) 36 Hours for Feeding America: Special Challenge...
We've spent the last 27+ Hours talking about hunger in America, about how one out of every eight Americans will have gone to bed tonight without eating enough to be nourished, and how hunger reaches...
View ArticleMassively Updated: Unemployment Rises 50% @ My House
Dateline: Cleveland, OhioUnemployment rose 50% in one household in Cleveland Heights, Ohio at 9:00 AM this morning, when I was officially laid off from my job as a production manager for a local...
View ArticleMojo Friday -- Good (make that Great) Friday Edition
Hey there mojo fans, Timroff here in place of our valiant leader TexDem, who is visiting relatives this week and isn't in a place where he could dedicate the normal amount of time to take care of all...
View ArticleRIP Dom DeLuise
Sadly, it has been announced that actor/comedian Dom DeLuise has diedAccording to reports from Entertainment Tonight, DeLuise died peacefully in his sleep last night at a Los Angeles-area hospital....
View ArticleMojo Friday -- Home Downsizing Edition
Welcome to Mojo Friday!Today I'll be taking a break from my current effort to bring you all the mojo you need/deserve, because...A: TexDem is, once again, visiting family and doesn't have access to a...
View ArticleFeeding America: A Weekend of Hope: Teaching Us To Fish
As you may know, a group of us have been participating in a blogathone to raise awareness about hunger in America, and about a program sponsored by Feeding America wherein your donation of a paltry...
View ArticleBad Math on the front page
On the front page, DavidNYC gives us an analysis of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's record, and says...Apparently, out of the 380-odd opinions she penned while on the Second Circuit, the...
View ArticleNFTT: Kossacks, I need your help
I was going to write that I don't ask for a lot, but I realized that's not exactly true. In the last year I've asked you to donate to Feeding America and do something to help out your local food...
View ArticleUpdated: Six Kossacks -/ Still /- Need Your Help
It's coming down to the wire, as the next ten of 30 Democracy For America Scholarship winners will be announced on Friday.Of the current Top-Twelve, Six of us are kossacks -- but two of us remain below...
View ArticleDear DFA and fellow Kossacks: Thank You!
I just wanted to take a minute to thank all of the fine folks who voted for me, and to the judges at Democracy For America who thought I was worthy enough to receive a Scholarship to Netroots Nation...
View ArticleLate Night Friday @ Netroots Nation '09: Roll Call
Nightbirds at NN'08 in Austin should remember the scene well: There we were, 50-strong in the lobby of the hotel, enjoying the fruit of the vine while singing and swapping stories.Well a few of us are...
View ArticleNN'09: All work and no play...
...is exactly what we do NOT want to have happen at Netroots Nation '09 in Pittsburgh.As I reminded folks the other night, nightbirds at NN'08 in Austin should remember the scene well: There we were on...
View ArticleNN'09: A Quick Update From the Westin Hotel
Netroots Nation '09 descended upon Pittsburgh today, as hundreds of bloggers checked into the Westin and Omni hotels in anticipation of tomorrow's opening festivities.The annual pre-convention Cheers...
View ArticleNN'09 Schedule Update
Three major events were left off of the official Netroots Nation '09 Schedule.The MFM/C&JR&CFExtravaganzapaloozaNetroots For The Troops Care Package Assembly SessionThe Sunday Morning...
View ArticleDisgusting and Vile.
According to the New York Times...Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life InsuranceAfter the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big...
View ArticleFeeding America: How the hell did we get here? (updated)
Originally I planned to write about growing food yourself, in reference to the old adage "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever."budhydharma made me rethink...
View ArticleRepublican ad on the Front Page?
Why is there an ad for Tom Ganley for Senate on the Front Page of dailykos.com?
View ArticleRecent statements by Republicans in Congress
Actual transcripts from statements made by members of the Republican leadership in both the house and the senate during the last two weeks are found over the fold...
View ArticleUpdated: Thank You For The Quilt!
The amazing Community Quilt from my friends here at Daily Kos has arrived.This diary is to thank all of you who participated -- THANK YOU!!!!!! OMG! WTF! BBQ!* -- but also to ask your help in raising...
View ArticleTaking a Break
Sorry, friends, but what I'm seeing here the last few days has made me come to the conclusion that I just need to take a break.
View ArticleWe are all to blame
This diary started as a series of comments in Crashing Vor's diary from earlier today, but I realized that I needed to sum it all up in one magnum opus. So here goes:Don't try to pass the buck. We are...
View ArticleFeeding America #8: Time, Talent and Treasure!
Welcome to the Memorial Day weekend blog-a-thon for Feeding America! This weekend's series is the latest in an on-going community fund-raising project for our nation’s food banks that began in 2008....
View ArticleDid every politician in America email you?
Did your email list get swamped the last few days with pleas from government officials begging you for money?Are you as sick of being treated like a political ATM as I am?I spent the last three days...
View ArticleFeeding America Blogathon: Bringing Year-Round Local Food Home
So in this series we've learned about different ways that local areas are trying to fight the hunger crisis. So let's get the important stuff out of the way:If you have the means, please donate to...
View ArticleStill trying to help Sara R -- Updated
First, go read this diary from earlier todayThen grab your wallet and join me on the flipside.UPDATE: I'll donate an additional dollar for every recommend this gets. It's the best I can do.
View Article# askthespeaker
Seems Boehner wants us to ask him questions on twitter from now until Sunday evening that he'll answer via Youtube on March 1st. We should use "#askthespeaker" in our questions.Let's flood his inbox,...
View Article1 in 6 Blogathon for Feeding America: Feeding Occupiers and the Homeless
So I've been planning for weeks to participate in this wonderful Feeding America blogathon, when a weird thing happened: The Occupy Movement started, and I found myself in full facilitator mode,...
View ArticleRefuting "Lincoln's Ten Points"
Lately, there's been a yarn being told that opposes the #Occupy movement by using "Abraham Lincoln's Ten Points" which support a capitalist ideal and refutes the notion that having an unbalanced system...
View ArticleThe Hyperbole is Killing Me.
It’s been a long time since I posted, but I’ve been heavily lurking the last few months, and the pain I have been feeling has boiled up into action:Please, I beg you: stop the hyperbole.Whether you...
View ArticleI might be a Prophet
Back in June of 2016, I made this graphic thinking that Humpty Trumpty was deep in the pocket of the Russian Mob. There were rumors floating around that he owed a group of oligarchs something to the...
View ArticleIn the Country's Best Interest?
In what I would argue is the most disturbing piece of testimony during the Impeachment Trial today, Alan Dershowitz, noted Harvard Constitutional expert and defender of #Twitler, #Epstein and Mike...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Do the math.
There were 35M reported cases of Influenza in 2019. Out of those, 35,000 people died. It's terribly sad, but, in reality, it's only 1/10th of 1% of all cases. only 1 in 1,000 people.If those Influenza...
View ArticleEnough is enough
This is a hyper-meta post, but, frankly, I have finally gotten to the breaking point. Dear Michael Langenmayr and the DailyKos staff:STOP.Your hyperbolic emails coming every day begging me for cash...
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