Today ONLY: One Second, One Dollar
Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 08:16:23 AM PDT
Today is World AIDS Day.
Bristol- Myers is donating a dollar to AIDS research every time someone goes to their website and moves the match to the candle and lights it. Do a good deed and light this candle...
https://www.lighttounite.org/
Remember those that have lost their battle to this devestating disease and give hope to those combating it today.
One Second, One Dollar
Update [2006-12-1 13:46:30 by digital drano]: - The Light to Unite site appears to be down... perhaps overwhelmed by massive interest... As noted downstream, the light count had hit the maximum that Bristol-Meyers Squibb intended to donate. Thanks to all who participated!!
Pacifica Radio Archive needs your support
Tue Dec 06, 2005 at 04:26:43 PM PDT
Freedom of Speech begins with access to information. Before the blog, there was Pacifica!
Today is Pacifica Radio Archive's Annual Fund Drive DAY! Their goal is to raise $180K today.
As a consistent bastion of progressive thought and speech. I think Pacifica Radio deserves the support of the dKOS community. They accept NO corporate support. Pacifica is the true liberal media... unsullied, un-bought.
You can contribute by phone:
- 818.506.1077 from the Los Angeles area
- 800.735.0230 from elsewhere in the US
You can contribute online:
http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/....
Let them know dailyKos supports saving progressive history!
--- History, some premiums on the flip
Jr. Dems Talk Back! w/poll
Thu Nov 03, 2005 at 04:04:35 PM PDT
- Tired of listening to the MSM wanting, nay, yearning for SOMEONE in power to talk your truth?
- Do you want to feel like someone "gets it" and is willing to speak out on TV?
- Where ARE the Democrats?
HERE THEY ARE!
Catch the "30 Something" Democratic Working Group on the US House floor again LIVE tonight sometime between 8-10 p.m. (EST). Their discussion from the floor will be broadcast on CSPAN or can be watched here: http://www.cspan.org/
more after the flip!
30Something Working Group: Jr. Dems Talk Back
Wed Nov 02, 2005 at 07:57:09 AM PDT
On November 1, 2005 the 30Something Working Group lit up the floor of the House with a scathing discussion of the current administration. It was exciting to see Democratic Reps telling the truth without whitewash or reservation.
In my diary, OMG!.. CSPAN: Dems on the floor NOW people commented on the real time discussion, but it doesn't do the Congresspeople justice. You have to read the full transcript.
Thomas Congressional Record 11/1/05 30something Working Group
They come on CSPAN weekly. MUST SEE TV!
READ it, PRINT it and PASS IT ALONG.
More on the flip.
OMG!.. CSPAN: Dems on the floor NOW
Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 06:40:11 PM PDT
9:20pm EST on CSPAN
The Drum is beating on...
Dems taking a STAND NOW!
30somethingdems, Representatives Wasserman-Schultz, Meek, Delahunt, Pallone, Inslee and Ryan, are on the floor of the House discussing Treasongate, McClellan, Wilkerson and the press corps, CIA damage, the V-POTUS, the and run up to the war. They are getting it all into into the Congressional Record.
CHECK IT OUT!!
Update [2005-11-2 1:42:43 by digital drano]: They adjourned at 11pm EST, but the text of their conversation will be online in the Congressional Record tomorrow. It is wonderful to hear Congresspeople echoing all the things that we've been saying here on dKos.
Update [2005-11-2 10:22:43 by digital drano]: Here is the transcript:
Congressional Record 11/1/05 30something Working Group
To quote Kossack The Bulldog Manifesto's downstream comment:
...they were comfortably using words like "lies", "deceptions", "cabal", "crimes", "cronyism", and "culture of cronyism and corruption".
AMEN!! More on the flip.
A Fitzmas Carol
Tue Oct 18, 2005 at 08:23:17 PM PDT
In honor of Fitzmas and georgia10's terrific diary, I thought we could use a Fitzmas carol or two. I thought of one...perhaps you could think of another.
Join in the chorus!!
The South shall rise AGAIN
Fri Sep 16, 2005 at 12:47:32 AM PDT
After watching some of the Roberts hearing and thinking about the drastic changes in mainstream political philosophy since the 1960's, it seemed to me that a revolution is going on. The return to states rights, personal responsibility and property reminded me of an American history class I half heard 25 years ago.
SO I looked back at the civil war...particularly the Confederate constitution. I was suprised to discover how much of the Republican philosophy was codified in the Confederate document.
The intentions set forth in the Confederate constitution directly parallel many of the major talking points of the modern GOP. It begs the question...is the Republican revolution the manifestation of the cry "The South shall rise again?"
Sun paper rant demands Bush GO!
Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 01:13:30 PM PDT
In a
scathing commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Gordon Adams encapsulates all our anger and succinctly lines-up-the-(lame)ducks in this op ed piece.
It starts here:
After Katrina fiasco, time for Bush to go
By Gordon Adams
Originally published September 8, 2005
WASHINGTON - The disastrous federal response to Katrina exposes a record of incompetence, misjudgment and ideological blinders that should lead to serious doubts that the Bush administration should be allowed to continue in office.
When taxpayers have raised, borrowed and spent $40 billion to $50 billion a year for the past four years for homeland security but the officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot find their own hands in broad daylight for four days while New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast swelter, drown and die, it is time for them to go.
This is a must read!
UPDATE:
please comment or send email comments of support to publiceditor@baltsun.com to offset the wingers.
Stop the EPA ---NOW!
Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 05:24:28 PM PDT
Anderson Cooper just reported that they are dumping the chem-laden, body-strewn fecal swill in NO in the Mississippi. This will send that fetid soup down stream polluting the oyster/shrimp/fish beds and beaches.
WHOSE BRILLIANT IDEA IS THIS?
The Environmental PROTECTION Agency a la Bush.
Cut and Run in NOLA
Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 09:13:55 AM PDT
They never mounted a real effort to help those people get out. 70 buses for 100,000+ people. Grossly Inadequate.
They never had a serious food/water drop for may of the folks stranded in the sewer that was New Orleans. What are they waiting for?
They allowed those people to suffer with hope for 4 days. THen they cut an ran. National Guard pulled from the city. Now it has devolved into anarchy. What next...more fires, more babies and old folks dying. Are they pushing for a Watts style riot to justify their storming the city?
Tomorrow/Tuesday ...will they go in guns blazing and mow the place down to restore "law and order". (Quell the insurgency)
It doesn't have to be this way!
Troops in the Dome in the Dark spells Trouble
Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 06:04:40 PM PDT
FEMA's Michael Brown just threatened NO with 30,000 troops to protect the people in the Superdome. Can't you see the scenario:
In the dark Superdome with a bunch of hot, angry, thirsty, hungry black people...some, gangsters with guns. Add a bunch of scared NG/army guys, many white ready to enforce order. Toss in a few thousand babies, children, mothers, elderly, sick, good men. A fourth disaster in the making.
Yeah, march in like fucking cowboys and start shooting at anyone who looks wrong. Sounds like a formula for a massacre. Urban warfare on American streets is ugly.
Won't that look great. Shooting fish in a barrel, they are ALL sitting ducks. Storm refugees dead on the ground with military bullets in them. Others stampeded.
Can't you see the bloody pictures on the news. Won't FEMA look like big heros for "restoring order", Iraq style.
CNN takes BushCO to task
Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 12:41:21 PM PDT
The dam is breaking!!
CNN is now reporting on the administration's bungling of the Katrina preparation and aftermath. Wolf Blitzer et. al are tearing up the airwaves.
The are talking about the poor response, the lack of NG, the lack of food and water, the lack of military support. They are laying it at the feet of President Bush NOW!
A Question of Race w/Quiz
Sun Jul 31, 2005 at 02:03:12 PM PDT
Yesterday Armando's post
The "No Race" Superiority highlighted that, in the US, race is not clearly defined using genetic markers. As a person of color, my reaction was "D'uh". Race mixing has been occurring since the European invaded the shores of the new world. Most Black Americans and many White Americans are racially mixed, especially if they're ancestors have lived in this country prior to the civil war.
So I created a little quiz.
All three women were born in VA during the 1800's.
Which were considered white? Which were considered colored?
Poll after the flip!
DSM, DSM, Don't forget the DSM
Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 05:12:06 PM PDT
REMEMBER the DOWNING STREET MEMO.
For the first time in a long time the DSM has fallen off the recommend list...now when it is gaining steam and about to break through.
Karl Rove is NOT the point! He PUNKED you. His crass comment is tactical. BAIT AND SWITCH! Now the weekend talk shows will focus on Rove and Durbin and apologies, NOT the memo that could sink the Bush war machine.
Stay on message folks!
Save Sesame Street!
Thu Jun 16, 2005 at 04:02:24 PM PDT
A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR and PBS, starting with "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," and other commercial-free children's shows. If approved, this would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch.
The cuts would slash 25% of the federal funding this year--$100 million--and end funding altogether within two years. Rural stations and those serving low-income communities might not survive. Other stations would have to increase corporate sponsorships.
MoveOn.org is sponsoring a massive congressional petition opposing the cuts. Please sign.
Halliburton Investigation - Keep the pressure on
Thu Oct 28, 2004 at 11:03:49 PM PDT
On the eve of the election, under the hubub of Al Qaqaa hitting the fan, Halliburton is under investigation by the FBI for criminal misconduct.
In a formal whistle-blower complaint filed last week, the top civilian contracting officer of the Army Corps of Engineer has disclosed high level misconduct wrt the review and approval of major Iraqi reconstruction contracts that were awarded to HALLIBURTON subsidiary KB&R.
FBI Investigating Halliburton Contracts Oct 28,2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.
Considering Cheney's penchant for secrecy and arm-twisting, it seems highly suspicious that the VP had nothing to do with the contract awards. He was in the middle of the developing energy policy with corporate cronies. He went to the CIA allegedly "cherry-picking" evidence to support going to war in Iraq. How can the VP not have been consulted in Halliburton's selection for a
5 year, sole source contract?
Conservatives jumping ship...
Tue Oct 19, 2004 at 01:15:44 AM PDT
The president does not represent traditional conservatism: a commitment to individual liberty, limited government, constitutional restraint and fiscal responsibility. Traditional Republicans are caught between a rock and a hard place, according to the article in Salon--
Why conservatives must not vote for Bush.
Conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan worries that Bush "is fusing Big Government liberalism with religious right moralism. "
A few conservatives are distressed at what Bush has wrought in Iraq:
"Crossfire" host Tucker Carlson said recently: "I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it."
William F. Buckley Jr., longtime National Review editor and columnist, wrote: "With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn't the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war."
The American Conservative Union's Don Devine says bluntly: "A rational conservative would calculate a vote for Kerry as likely to do less damage" fiscally.
(Funny how the TV spinmeisters haven't said any of this on their TV appearances.)
Email the article to your conservative Republican aquaintances/family members/friends. If the "big boys" are jumping off the Bushship, they will can the leap without guilt. If they can't GO Kerry, send their vote to Libertarian Michael Badnarik or urge them to just say NO and stay home.
