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Would you say...

Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 03:44:09 PM PDT

What would you say?

If you saw graves of soldiers killed in a needless war, a wife crying for her husband, would you say God Damn America?


there is more... much more ...

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Is this DAMN worty?

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Witness Account: Hillary Poaching Pledged Delegates [Updated]

Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 09:56:58 PM PDT

This is more or less a repost of the following MyDD diary.

In the diary the poster describes Adams county assembly where the pledged delegates are chosen to be sent to the state convention.

Clinton Gaining Delegates in Colorado

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I was at my Adams County assembly last weekend. Obama won the county on caucus night 55-45, but at the assembly Clinton tied him. The same, I hear, is happening in other counties. Clinton actually still has a paid operation here working these county assemblies. At these county assemblies, delegates are chosen for the state convention, where, finally, the delegation to the national convention is chosen. So Adams county will be sending the same number of votes for Clinton as for Obama to the state convention. If, as anecdotally appears to be the case, Clinton does five points better at county than on caucus night, you could see her gaining several delegates that are currently being given to Obama. Potentially as many as 5-6. Most caucus states have similar systems, btw.

On Experience: Abraham Lincoln is not qualified to be president (updated)

Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 09:49:45 PM PDT

I saw a beautiful comment today.  

It turns out that folks who spent 8 years in Illinois State legislature and 2 years in US Legislature, give great speeches are not experienced enough to run for president.

I am of course talking about Abraham Lincoln.

Here's what I think: experience means jack. Did you know Abraham Lincoln served 8 years in the Illionois State House of Representatives, and 2 years in the US House of Representatives?

Obama has 8 years in the Illinois State Senate, 3 in the US Senate.

He has Lincoln beat by a year.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. -- George Bernard Shaw

more after then jump

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Horribly Stupid: Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site

Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 09:40:25 AM PDT

From The Brad Blog:

This idiotic company has had a photograph of the stupid key sitting on their own website's online store!

And somebody made a working key using this image!
But it gets worse. It seems this key can open ANY Diebold voting machine!!!

It seems Diebold cannot and do not want to do ANYTHING RIGHT!!!

A bit more after the jump..

Redstaters call for murder of opposing senators

Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 11:16:29 AM PDT

In my daily perusing of Redstate.com the I come up upon this murderous gem.

Arlen Specter - R, PA - has announced he's off to Syria on  fact finding mission. RedState.com members respond by calling for him to be arrested, tried, or just bomb him until he is dead.

Tom DeLay: You can not fight a war and balance the budget.

Sun May 07, 2006 at 06:43:31 PM PDT

Watching a Crooks and Liars clip in which Howard Dean took on Tom DeLay was a pleasure. DeLay actually mumbled the phrase, "Raising mimimum wage will hurt poor people" and then delivered this, very interesting quote:

You can not fight a war and balance the budget.

That just seems like a good bit to put up in any Democrat's ad.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/...
Around: 2:17

Fax using your own computer, read and setup, (and no this is not an Ad for Fax Service)

Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 03:56:22 PM PDT

I feel I have to bring back this diary. I have been faxing for the last 2 weeks to nearly every senator and I dare say in my state (California) it payed off.

For those who are too timid to call. For those who wish they could fax. For fax machine dispossed!!! The time is here!! and the time is now!!!

Did you know?
  • Your computer might already have a fax machine!!!
  • Computer Faxing is as easy as emailing.
  • Its a lot harder to ignore a slew of faxes

READ ALL ABOUT "HOW TO FAX FROM YOUR COMPUTER" in this dkosopedia ARTICLE:
http://www.dkosopedia.com/... (http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Faxing)
Please recommend so more people who migh fax will see it.
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Will you fax now?

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USA Today: To avoid TSA no-fly name games, DO NOT fly "Southwest"

Thu Jan 05, 2006 at 12:21:02 PM PDT

I did some googling, and found that No Fly Lists are not uniform. Here is a story of how one man managed to avoid them, even though his name was on the No-Fly-List. He found he simply should stop flying Southswest. (of course now that I post this article on the DKos, I am releasing classified information, and hence a leaker)


Shortly after 9/11, somehow my name ended up on a list. What list is hard for me to figure out. I fly mostly Southwest. Every time I book travel, I am unable to take advantage of the airline's Internet-generated boarding passes to get a better boarding group. I also can't check in at the curbside. I must always go to the ticket counter, even with electronic ticketless purchases, and get my ID checked.

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What airlines do you know denied passangers using these TSA "lists"

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War on Christmas is over, Easter Bunny is next

Wed Jan 04, 2006 at 07:52:06 PM PDT

Now that Christmas season is over, and the beat up Santa Clause and Baby Jesus are licking their wounds, we have to start thinking about how we can keep Christians Right delusions about discrimination of Christians, and Bill O'Reilly from losing FNC paycheck.

Hence I now propose to kidnap all the Easter Bunnies, steal their chocolate eggs and demand ransom. Here is what you will need.

(see below fold)

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Will you help us fight the Easter bunny?

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Family Bombshell: Highly Apolitical Mom speak about Rendition, and Voting

Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 11:53:13 AM PDT

Here is a personal bombshell from my own family. My mom is as apolitical as one can get. She does NOT follow the news at all, only watches movies and weather channel. I can not recall the last time her mentioning any political issue. But alas it happened.

Before I unwrapped a New Years present (couple of minutes back) that had a label "From Santa" on it, I shook the present to figure out what it is and said "sweater". To this my mom said that she does not think so. So I asked her, with a smirk: "how do you know, since the present is from Santa and not you." At which point she looked at me and said: "I had Santa Claus arrested and renditioned out to a different country to get the information out of him. It took me a minute to realize that my eyes popped out and my jaw dropped. I was THAT surprized by her comment.

Eventually when I regained control of my speech, I said "So I bet you'll at least vote now?" To which she replied: "Somebody got to get those idiots out there". This is from a woman who has not voted for the last 20 or so years. There maybe yet be hope for this country.

Thinking about 2008 candidates (w/ poll)

Wed Dec 28, 2005 at 10:49:35 AM PDT

I feel I have to ask the DKos community.
There are rumors floating around about Democratic presidential bids. So far here is what I am gathering here are the possible choices (or so I gather):

 Hilary Clinton
 Mark Warner (Virginia Governor)
 Russ Feingold

What is your take on it? UPDATE: I make no claims that these are the only candidates.

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Take your pick

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Drill in ANWR via Excutive order hypothetical? What would stop bush?

Wed Dec 21, 2005 at 04:12:44 PM PDT

So now that ANWR tack-on has failed, Bush needs to issue a secret Executive Order to drill there. And prosecute anyone who finds out about it and leaks it (excluding Karl Rove and the rest of course). After all the war powers he has gives him the authority to supply gasoline to the troops.

Remember his motto: Just Do it, Constitution be damned

Now give how he issues illegal orders now, what do you think would stop him from doing that?

Who are you vilifying today? - The Slogan

Sun Dec 11, 2005 at 07:23:15 PM PDT

I've been thinking for a while now on Republican use of slogans and their usage in every days speech. Nowadays you hear such rhetoric from conservative talking heads: Well The Party of surrender today issued a statement. They are working it in everyday spech.

So after some though I figured out a pretty good usage of a slogan of our own.
"Who are you guys [Republicans] villifying today?"

It works pretty much for every interview and every response.
Here are some examples:

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Your take on the idea?

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E-voting Machines: North Carolina Board of Elections sued by EFF

Sat Dec 10, 2005 at 10:08:17 AM PDT


The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a complaint against the North Carolina Board of Elections, asking a state superior court to void what the EFF calls an illegal certification of three electronic voting systems.

"This is about the rule of law," EFF staff attorney Matt Zimmerman said in a statement. "The Board of Elections has simply ignored its mandatory obligations under North Carolina election law."

North Carolina law requires the Board of Elections to review all voting system code "prior to certification." Ignoring this requirement, the Board of Elections on Dec. 1 certified voting systems offered by Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems and Election Systems and Software (ESS) without having first obtained the system code.

Now the question of the day is:
Will this stop my dead cat from voting 43 times in the election again?... I know it has rights but it keeps voting republican...

Sources:
http://www.internetnews.com/...
http://yro.slashdot.org/...

"Diebold maybe be criminally sued" said judge. Diebold threatened to leave North Carolina.

Tue Nov 29, 2005 at 06:27:55 PM PDT

A North Carolina judge ruled that Diebold may not be protected from criminal prosecution if it fails to disclose the code behind its voting machines as required by law. In response, Diebold has threatened to pull out of North Carolina." From the article: "The dispute centers on the state's requirement that suppliers place in escrow 'all software that is relevant to functionality, setup, configuration, and operation of the voting system,' as well as a list of programmers responsible for creating the software. Diebold lamely claimed that: "The company does not have the right to provide Microsoft's code, he said, adding it would be impossible to provide the names of every programmer who worked on Windows."
So they are refusing to show their code and list of their programmers by claiming they have no right to provide Microsoft code, and list of Microsoft  programmers.

As on their threat, I think we can all honestly says:
Hey Diebold, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

Source: http://www.slashdot.com

Fax using your own computer, read and setup, (and no this is not an Ad for Fax Service)

Sat Nov 26, 2005 at 01:16:25 AM PDT

While relatively new member to DailyKos I have long been a reader. Whenever I've seen a call to action I've done my best to call by phone, email and fax. But alas my fax machine broke  this week. But its a shame for a programmer to make such excuses. So I recalled my days of faxing out resumes on mass using my computer and whipped up an step by step tutorial for dKosopedia.

dKosopedia:Faxing

Faxing from your computer is as easy as emailing.
After initial setup, you do need any messy paper, just type a message, File > Print it to the Fax, enter a phone number and you are done.

Here are the details on how to set it up on your Windows XP Computer (probably works for Windows 2000 too). The whole setup will take about 10 minutes and then you are good to go.

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