Job for Pelosi: Stop Fraudster Bailout

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Friday November 12, 2010 · 9:15 AM PST

2010/11/12 · 09:15

So I was glad to see the delivery of the petitions and messages to Speaker Pelosi's office the other day. We do have her back, and she's been showing us why lately.

Now there's a new job to ask her to do, that won't be very easy - don't let a retroactive get-out-of-jail-free card bill bailing out MERS or any of the other criminals in the foreclosure fraud machine.

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Sunday February 04, 2007 · 3:50 PM PST

2007/02/04 · 15:50

I have noticed that most, if not all, of the progressive sites I read use book links through Amazon's affiliate program. Now, last I heard, Amazon is not a union store, and is still a net Republican donor.

So what I wonder is, why Amazon?

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Sunday August 29, 2004 · 7:36 PM PDT

2004/08/29 · 19:36

So I'm looking through Seeing The Forest and come across this quote (via Moonie Times via UPI) from our good friend Dennis Hastert:

"You know, I don't know where George Soros gets his money," Hastert said on Fox News Sunday. "I don't know where -- if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from."

Isn't that slander? As in actionable, sue-his-ass slander? Does the "I don't know" really give you cover to say anything? Like, I could go on TV and say, "I don't know if George Bush screws monkeys up the ass", and it would be OK?

I didn't see the show, though. If anyone did and can say more about the context, I'd sure like to hear it. I know it's probably kind of dim to be shocked by anything these guys will say, but my word.

Operation Truth - Iraq vets speak out

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Wednesday August 25, 2004 · 5:49 AM PDT

2004/08/25 · 05:49

The site launched today:

Operation Truth is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the soldiers who have experienced them first-hand.

No words are adequate. Just go read what they have to say. (Example after the break.) Read More

Where Bush Needs To Be (PG-13 version)

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Tuesday August 24, 2004 · 9:12 AM PDT

2004/08/24 · 09:12

I love this mail that just came out from the Kerry campaign:

President Bush has the opportunity to achieve an average, or even greater, bounce from his convention. Typically, elected incumbents go into their conventions with a 9-point lead, while incumbents who have gone on to win enter their conventions with a 21-point lead. Most current polls show the race quite close. This gives the president substantial room to bounce.

Oh, yes, set those expectations. Hah! Read More

Marching Through Texas

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Sunday August 22, 2004 · 8:59 AM PDT

2004/08/22 · 08:59

Some smart words from Steve Gilliard that I think bear repeating, comparing the styles of Clinton and Kerry to Civil War generals:

Clinton was a puncher. He went after Bush Sr. all day, every day. His aides were punchers. They loved to get in the mix and kick ass. Clinton was at his best, like Grant, in a fight. While Grant was derided as a drunk, a great personal flaw, it never affected him in combat. He fixed his goals and he went for them.

[...]

Kerry, OTOH, is different. He's more like Sherman than Grant. [...] He's a big offensive guy. Whereas Clinton would fight every day, stay in contact, Kerry picks his shots like hammerblows and lands them with skill. He also lets his enemy spend themselves in pointless spoiling attacks. Kerry, like some generals, is either blessed or extremely lucky with the sense of good timing. He let the Swift Boat attack run up and peter out, knowing they didn't have the juice for a sustained offensive. After all, he knows these men and they know him. He knew what they would be capable of. And while the DNC and some bloggers, including myself, were staring at this poll which said Kerry was being dinged by the slanders of these folks, Kerry knew he would attack, when and how.

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Thursday August 19, 2004 · 11:07 PM PDT

2004/08/19 · 23:07

I wish something like this - these words - could be on every lamppost and telephone pole in DC... Read More

RSS Advice?

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Wednesday August 18, 2004 · 10:09 AM PDT

2004/08/18 · 10:09

Is anyone using an RSS tool (or browser add-on) to keep up with what's new on all these way-too-interesting sites? I'd love to hear some recommendations, FAQ pointers, anything like that. I am sans clue, as Richard Cheney would say.

(Particularly stuff that could run on OS X/Mozilla.)

emergent systems and politics

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Thursday August 12, 2004 · 10:38 PM PDT

2004/08/12 · 22:38

Via Crooked Timber: a great essay by Steven Johnson on emergent (self-organizing) systems and national politics. Johnson is the author of Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, and the essay is an update of the part of the book dealing with politics, covering the Dean campaign (which happened after it was published). He argues that it showed both strengths and weaknesses of that approach when applied to national politics. What I found interesting is that I think we're already seeing corrections to some of the problems he identifies - here and elsewhere in the blogothing. Read More

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Job for Pelosi: Stop Fraudster Bailout

Why Amazon?

Hastert slanders Soros?

Operation Truth - Iraq vets speak out

Where Bush Needs To Be (PG-13 version)

Marching Through Texas

A present for George

RSS Advice?

emergent systems and politics