Mainstream media pushing Rovian "War Crimes" meme re Guantanamo trials
Has anyone else noticed the egregious, misleading use of the term "war crimes trials," by the mainstream media in describing the Military Commission Act trials that the Bush administration is now...
View ArticleRemembering Katrina: Why the Gulf Oil Spill is not Obama's Katrina
The idea that the horrific environmental catastrophe in the Gulf is somehow the Obama administration's Katrina has been floated in both the mainstream media and the blogosphere for several days now....
View ArticleOK, I'm now convinced: Blow up the Gulf well
Two articles in the NY Times in the last two days have given me a completely different perspective on the idea of "blowing up" the well to cap it. Before reading these articles -- one an op ed in...
View ArticleFall 2008: Complete Economic Catastrophe, Part 1
Around late September 2008, I rode out to the edge of New York City, to eastern Queens to one of the few "feed stores" in the city -- actually a pet food store that also carries some livestock feed. I...
View ArticleHow TARP and the Fed Prevented Complete Economic Catastrophe-Pt.2
This is the second entry in my series of diaries on what actually happened in the Fall of 2008 and winter of 2009, and why the global economic system almost completely collapsed. As I said in my first...
View ArticleSnowpocalypse: Mike Bloomberg commits political suicide
I just read the front page round up. It includes a blurb from the NY Times about the political firestorm that is erupting here because the Bloomberg administration has failed to plow the outer borough...
View ArticleBREAKING: Nelson Mandela hospitalized; SAn Media keeping vigil
South Africa's former president, the first Black president and first post-apartheid president, has been hospitalized in Johannesburg. The government and Mandela's family are trying to calm the South...
View ArticleAnother TARP/Bailout Myth: Banks got money for zero %
I have been reading the lively discussion of several diaries today about the bailouts and TARP, and the question of whether they were profitable to the taxpayer. I'll leave that discussion for those...
View ArticleBad News: Republicans can end Union bargaining without Democrats
This is a very short diary, but I just wanted to make everyone aware of this possible tactic that the Republicans can use. It occurred to me as I was reading the DK diaries about by Chris Bowers,...
View ArticleWhy nuclear power is not "the" solultion to our energy crisis
Since the nuclear accident at Fukushima, there has been a lot of discussion about nuclear power, its safety, and practicality. Fortunately, most of it has been very level headed, and several diarists...
View ArticleAnyone know the chemistry of seawater in the nuclear core?
This is a short diary -- really just a question. The issue has come up a few times, and I was wondering if any of our nuclear engineers or chemists or physicists have an answer. What is the effect of...
View ArticleHEARTBREAKING Video SOS from Japanese mayor near Fukushima: Near starvation
This video is just beginning to be circulated widely, so I hope that the DK community views it and passes it on. It reflects the complexity of the problems created for emergency response workers and...
View ArticleBREAKING: Osama bin Laden Shocked to Find Self in Hell
Amazing story on the front page of the newspaper!JAHANNEM, OUTER DARKNESS—Osama bin Laden, who organized and financed the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and...
View ArticleStraight man's reaction to Gay man's perspective on Anthony Weiner
I wrote a comment on wecandoit7's insightful diary about Anthony Weiner, entitled "A Gay Man's Perspective on Anthony Weiner" and several who commented on my comment suggested I make it a separate...
View ArticleFolks, Time to Put a Fork in Anthony's Weiner. It's Done.
A few hours ago, Gawker published a photo of an iPhone photo purporting to be Anthony Weiner's weiner. Breitbart has confirmed that it is a photo of the W/weiner. Politics isn't always fair. In...
View ArticleHow the mortgage "fraud" problem could spur recovery
Here's a quicky diary, unedited and basically a spill it on the floor and see if the cat licks it up idea.Before explaining this, I have to note that much of what you read on DK about the mortgage...
View ArticleA Non-Hysterical Progressive Analysis of so called Social Security Cuts on...
I like to read and write about economics and finance but hesitate to do so because (1) it's hard to explain anything without explaining everything, and the draft diaries just get too long until I have...
View ArticleEmpiricism, Pragmatism and Incrementalism as Progressive Ideology
"The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing..." --Archilochus, adapted as the central metaphor of the essay by Isaiah Berlin, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"Before making my...
View ArticleWhat happens if US defaults?Your job, checking acct, ATM, SS or UI check,...
A number of diaries here, and a very large number of print news, internet, radio and television reports have pondered the question: What would happen if the US were to default on its Treasury debt....
View ArticleBREAKING! Republican Utah US Attorney appointed by Obama according to...
This will be a very short diary because I only want to point out what should be a well known fact among people who follow the news, but apparently isn't.US Attorneys are recommended by the US Senators...
View ArticleHoly sh*t! Just had a mild earthquake in NYC???
This will be very short. I think we just had a mild earthquake here in Queens, NYC. I've never felt anything like it. The house was shaking side to side in a very rythmic pattern and the ground was...
View ArticleMost of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did
Reposted on the anniversary of the assassination of Rev. King. MBThis will be a very short diary. It will not contain any links or any scholarly references. It is about a very narrow topic, from a very...
View ArticleWhy a Federal Lawsuit over Mortgages "Took so Long" and Why It's Not a Slam Dunk
Laurence Lewis has a rec list diary up today about a federal lawsuit against "the banks" over misleading mortgages.The response and debate have been interesting. Some people seem pleased that the...
View ArticleWhy I'll boycot DailyKos for a week
Before I explain this, let me say that I really, really overall like DailyKos. I had been participating in other so called progressive forums for years before I moved most of my participation to here...
View ArticleChamber of Commerce Gets it Right on Cutting Government Jobs and Spending...
Unfortunately, it's the Athens, Greece Chamber of Commerce, not the US Chamber of Commerce. This is a very short diary -- really just a note.I was listening to The Takeaway on NPR, and they were...
View ArticleRobert Parry, Angry Black Lady Blog on Why the Left Can't Deal with Iraq War...
Sometimes an article states what I've been trying to articulate and understand so well, that there's little I can add. Robert Parry has an excellent analysis up entitled, "Why the Left Won’t Accept...
View ArticleOn Abramoff: The U.S. Congress is Actually Not Particularly Corrupt These Days
By historical standards. It certainly is corrupt by the standards of western democracies and by the standards we would like to hold our politicians to, and by the standards of the system we need to...
View ArticleBREAKING: Japanese Authorities Detect Radioactive Cesium in Rice above...
This won't be a very long diary, because there have only been a few reports out for a few hours.Japanese authorities have detected radioactive cesium in levels considered above acceptable levels in...
View ArticleObama Personally Offering Free Ponies to All Americans! (For real)
Let it not be said that DK is not fair and balanced. (Sorry for the double negative.)But since there is a diary up right now about Obama personally legalizing "Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption,"...
View ArticleThe Romney Demographic that Worries me Most? Independents who are Hostage...
It seems that Mitt Romney has a very strong probability of becoming the Republican nominee. Given the choice between Romney and President Obama, I don't think that there is going to be much of a shift...
View ArticleSah it Loud! I'm Blah and I'm Prouh
I also want to give a shou out to my progressive, liberal and Democratah Whah brothers and sisters who support peace, justice, civil rights, and economic opportunity and equalitah.Same to may Laha-ano...
View ArticleElegy for a Murdered Small African Country (Liberia) and How Peace Activists...
A week and a half ago, on Martin Luther King day here in the US, Liberia's 24th president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in for her second term in office. Like Dr. King, President Johnson Sirleaf...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin: A teachable moment about institutional racism and subjectivity?
It's gratifying that almost everyone at DailyKos who has written a diary about this matter or commented upon it has expressed outrage at the killing, deep empathy for the family of Trayvon Martin, and...
View ArticleHow Tax Phobia Created the Ridiculous Health Care Case
This is going to be a very short diary in which I'm just going to vent/rant a bit about how idiotic the current Supreme Court case over the Affordable Care Act is.As everyone and their brother now...
View ArticleFor the 20th Anniversary of the Rodney King Riots (in New York)
Our Own Rodney Thing HamdenRice Manhattan and Brooklyn, May 1, 1992 “That music is a little sad for this kind of play, don’t you think?” Paul called out from the fourth row of the empty little...
View ArticleGood grief people; Cory Booker, a simple, non-conspiratorial, explanation of...
This diary is going to be super short. I just want to point out one factor that may explain Mayor Booker's positive defense of equity funds like Bain Capital.I'm glad there's a bit of push back...
View ArticleYet Another Reason to Admire Former President Jimmy Carter
This will be an extremely short diary, but I just wanted to share something amazing I read in the NY Times this morning. It was an obituary of Wesley Brown, who died recently at age 85, and was the...
View ArticleMy Prediction about Mitt's Taxes: He Paid Zero Taxes in 2009
First, let me admit this is pure speculation, but it is informed speculation. So this diary will be very short.As George Wills said, Mittens has done a cost benefit analysis, and has concluded that...
View ArticleI'm beginning to miss George W. Bush
With my jaw hanging open much of the time online reading about what Mitt Romney and the good ship Mittanic has put out each day, I'm beginning to -- and I'd never thought I'd say this -- miss George W....
View ArticleLEAVE MITTENS ALONE! HEAR ME?? LEAVE ROMNEY ALONE RIGHT NOW!!
So here's my idea for a citizen crowd sourced youtube political commercial. Most people have seen the very funny youtube video by the satirist Chris Crocker about a deranged Britney Spears fan yelling...
View ArticleRomney calls President Obama a Habitual Liar
Jed Lewison has a diary up right now about Mitt Romney's bizarre incomprehensible twisted illogic on the topic of his politicizing the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Jed rightly...
View ArticleTin Foil Hat Time: Is Romney Deploying a Blogosphere Army?
This is a very short, and very paranoid diary. I have noticed over the last few months that in the comments sections of many online versions of publications, after any article critical of Mitt Romney,...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Destruction in my Neighborhood - and How you can Help
I am very grateful that my neighborhood, in southeast Queens, mostly was spared. Hurricane Sandy seems to have been worse in terms of wind speed than last year's hurricane Irene, but the destruction...
View ArticleWhy the "Styling" of Assault Weapons Matters: Think Baseball Bats
This is a very short diary and just my 2 cents on one aspect of the debate over gun rights and the assault weapons ban.Many gun enthusiasts have pointed out, correctly, that the main difference between...
View ArticleChina’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution – The Origins of Ultra-Left...
Mass rally in Tiananmen Square during the Cultural Revolution with crowd waving Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book"You can't understand today’s China unless you try to understanding the ten catastrophic...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Legacy of Nelson Mandela
My heart sank once again this morning when I turned on the radio early in the morning to listen to the BBC and the first words over the air were "Nelson Mandela." The reason my heart sank is that every...
View ArticleAnyone Remotely Interested in Representations of Race Needs to Watch This 3...
African Americans and Americans who aren't often see things in fundamentally different ways as the recent diaries about certain representations of President Obama made clear.And people over a certain...
View ArticleWhy the Fourth Amendment Sucks (And Doesn't Prevent Mass Electronic...
The NSA Programs Are Constitutional Because The Constitution Sucks on Electronic Surveillance and Always HasWe have to face an unsettling fact: The Fourth Amendment sucks. In the light of recent...
View ArticleThe NSA is not for counter terrorism OR domestic spying
I have never witnessed a political debate that was more ill informed and hypocritical than this one -- and I mean on all sides. It's just appalling.The NSA's mission is secretive, but based on the...
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