Liberal is NOT a pejorative term: take back the meme! (w/poll) updated
This is my first diary, and it’s born out of continual frustration at losing the meme wars. If you’re anything like me, you’re sick of hearing liberal used as an insult, guaranteed to get knee-jerk...
View ArticleAction alert: aol straw poll has McCain way ahead!!
aol.com has a poll up today on who you'd vote for for president.Right now (7:44 AM EDT)_McCain is WAY out front in every state with well over 60% of the vote.Please straighten this out. I don't know if...
View ArticleSMU secret Bush Library plans revealed!
Heh, heh. Got this viral e-mail from a friend and thought folks here might enjoy what’s going around to people’s in-boxes. I’m sure Kossacks can think of some more fine additions. Short diary, but...
View ArticleMake Marcy Kaptur's winning bailout strategy viral!
A diaryjust fell off the list that should never have gone away on a day like today with all the financial news and analysis and political triangulation in full swing. It is an absolutely brilliant...
View ArticleThis diary is short but very sweet, with poll! Please pile on.
I got this e-mail and felt the need to share with the DK crowd. I love it when these things go viral, especially when I get them, as in this case, from someone not particularly political. It seems that...
View ArticleLet the torture light shine: Don’t lose the debate before it starts!
Spin is spin is spin. Torture is torture.Why have democrats allowed the republican branding of torture to stand? Remember that the "death tax" is properly known as the "estate tax" or the "inheritance...
View ArticleRockin’ Rollin’ MetaMeta Health Care Feeding Frenzy
Call me naïve. Call me Ishmael.Call me a veteran of the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam war movements.Call me a formerly hopeful radical reformer of all that was wrong with the US.Call me a jaded...
View Articlemy letter to save ES cell research. Please help! Poll
There have been other alerts about the debate on human embryonic stem cell research. I reiterate that this is one of the most important potential technologies since antibiotics or surgery. Please let...
View Article“What can men do in the face of such reckless hate?” “Ride out with me.”
I rarely write diaries, and none of them go anywhere anyhow. But, like so many here, I really need to rant it up a bit after what I’ve seen over the past two years, and especially in the past few days....
View ArticleYou’ve got OUR money. Fork it over!
This is a short rant disguised as a diary. I rarely write diaries, but these past weeks have been surreal. Somehow, primal scream therapy seems to be called for - although I'll refrain from those...
View ArticleSo, who’s gonna be mitt’s veep? (w/ poll)
Mitt’s enthusiasm gap is pretty dire. He’s the one the base goes “meh” over, but the corporate folks just love. One after another, he fought off all comers. One after another, the base sampled possible...
View ArticleMitt, I want my money back (poll)
Lots of good diaries on this over the past several days, and here, just for starters. Harry Reid accuses MR of not paying any income taxes for ten years or so. MR swore under pain and penalty of...
View ArticleKeep pounding on the tax returns – win:win:win!
Let me join those who want to keep pushing that tax button. Now with the Ryan nomination fading from the very hottest topic of the moment, and lots of happy talk coming from the DNC, let's review some...
View Articlepersonalize it!! Would you let your wife die?
This is very short - off to a doctor's appointment, but i wanted to set the table for 2nite, and for next prez debate.Personalize it. Remember Dukasis's deer-in-the-headlights moment when asked what...
View ArticleDear Mr. President: What could they possibly offer for this smelly deal?
I don't diary often, and they usually scroll quietly off the "recent" list. But I'm moved to ask these questions.You’re prez of the US.You’ve accomplished great things in some areas.You’ve finally got...
View ArticleMajor breakthrough in Down’s Syndrome research
Thought I’d pass along a little good news and some fascinating and very cool science. Dr. Jeanne Lawrence’s team at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester published in yesterday’s...
View Articlethis is secessionism
The Republican crusade to shut to government of the US, to cut its economy loose from its moorings, to risk plunging the world economy into unknown waters of global depression, to wrest from our...
View ArticleSo, Mr. Trump, exactly when was America great?
Mr Trump, you tell us that you want to make America great again. Would you tell us when you think America was great? No one is asking you that simple question. It might challenge your first grade...
View Article“He-e-e-e-lp! I’m so afraaayyyed!” Ridiculing fear, a successful approach...
Not much of a diary, perhaps, but an observation and a suggestion that may be helpful this political season.I was watching football this weekend with some friends, and some of my friends’ friends. A...
View Articlemy letter to save ES cell research. Please help! Poll
There have been other alerts about the debate on human embryonic stem cell research. I reiterate that this is one of the most important potential technologies since antibiotics or surgery. Please let...
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