Can you help us help our Portland neighbor save her home from the big banks?

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Sunday September 07, 2014 · 6:23 PM PDT

2014/09/07 · 18:23

Longtime kossack here and, yes, it has been a very long time since I posted a diary. I did notice y'all have done just fine without my words of wisdom ;-)

But after a long dry spell, I'm writing today because my neighbors and I are trying to save our neighbor's home from the big banks. I'm hoping you can help.

Here's our neighbor Diane...

And here's her story... Read More

Chalabi: 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 1:51 AM PST

2006/11/04 · 01:51

We are so far beyond the cliche of rats deserting a sinking ship. The neocons and their enablers are in a lifeboat throwing each other over the side. The latest bit to dribble out? E&P has a preview of this weekend's NYT Magazine expose on Chalabi and his one-time BFF Wolfowitz. Have a bite:

So, Ahmad Chalabi, what went wrong in Iraq in the war you helped to sell? "The Americans sold us out," he tells longtime Baghdad reporter Dexter Filkins.

One more sad sorry example of the Keystone Cops in charge of our national security. I cannot believe anyone is voting for any of them. More below... Read More

Libertarian Democrat? No You're Not

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 10:15 AM PDT

2006/06/15 · 10:15

I understand the marketing impulse behind kos' idea of the Libertarian Democrat; it's a desire to find a new term to take the place of that battered and maligned word, Liberal.

But the facts, as they say, have a well known liberal bias. Have some facts:

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 10:22 AM PDT

2006/06/14 · 10:22

As you say, starting Thursday, the House of Representatives will hold a debate on the Iraq war. We're pretty savvy here at dkos. We know that the goal will be to get:

1) Juicy soundbites for Republican opponents, and/or...
2) Democrats to declare muddied positions on the war that will get them in trouble with us

As I'm sure you're already aware, Think Progress has released some details... Read More

SALON: Ask Harry Reid

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Monday June 12, 2006 · 12:43 AM PDT

2006/06/12 · 00:43

As you all heard, Harry Reid gave the final keynote of Ykos. He speaks softly, with no bluster, reading his speech much of the time. He comes across as softspoken and almost shy.

But as he spoke, it became obvious to me why the Bush Administration underestimated him. The words couldn't be more different than the delivery -- tough, straightforward, without the pandering of a politican running for, say, president.

A recent interview in Salon ($$) that puts all those traits on display. Here's an extended excerpt:

Can a red state Mormon who's voted against abortion rights and thrown his support behind Joe Lieberman find love at a blogger convention?
Before speaking to the YearlyKos crowd, Reid talked with Salon in a conference room just off the convention floor. In the course of 20 minutes, he discussed the effect blogs have had on Washington; argued that Dick Cheney is single-handedly running the entire intelligence community; described his personal relationship -- or lack thereof -- with George W. Bush; and defended his decision to endorse Lieberman over his Democratic primary challenger, blogger favorite Ned Lamont.

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Sunday April 30, 2006 · 4:04 PM PDT

2006/04/30 · 16:04

Jeffrey Feldman's diary talks about how to remake protests so that they are more effective. Here are the steps:

1) Pick One Color

2) A Slogan Everyone Can Say

3) Pick A Protest Gesture

All of those steps are meant to make protests work in a more savvy media environment. But to expand on my comments in that thread, they miss the main point.

This is first and foremost a war of information. But the only two entities fighting that war are BushCo and Osama bin Laden. Both do so through competing campaigns of misinformation. Yet we on the left are fighting the last war, with the same old weapons.

To fight on the terms of an information war, we have to target the tools of misinformation that BushCo has used to decieve and obfuscate. That means we have to go after the media filter itself.

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Rove's October Surprise: Osama Bin Laden

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Sunday April 23, 2006 · 4:04 PM PDT

2006/04/23 · 16:04

Another Bin Laden tape has surfaced. As Steve Clemons remarks on his blog:

If America does, in fact, capture or kill bin Laden in the next few months, I suspect that it will produce somewhat of a surge of support for Republicans in the election.
If these tapes keep appearing, there is increasing likelihood of a bin Laden factor in November 2006.

Of course Rove would be taking a page out of our playbook... Read More

Alterman asks for help re: the next Ben Domenech

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Tuesday April 11, 2006 · 12:01 PM PDT

2006/04/11 · 12:01

Eric Alterman asks for our help:

Someone brought up the question of the whether the Democrats will be able to present an effective alternative to Bush in the next election, Joe Klein shouted out, "Well they won't if their message is that they hate America--which is what has been the message of the liberal wing of the part for the past twenty years."
Once again I am forced to say, "What the hell is going on here?" How about a little noise in the blogosphere politely asking Time to hire a genuinely liberal columnist?

Joe Klein is a mofo who should be beat with a tire iron. Sorry, meant to say "who should have some sense talked into him."

Dem in 06 = Dean in 03

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Sunday November 20, 2005 · 3:10 PM PST

2005/11/20 · 15:10

It is perhaps a fitting irony that Murtha has now come around to Dean's essential position of being opposed to this war. In hindsight Dean has been the real Dem leader on all of this. Ahead of Kerry and Edwards and Clark and Hillary and Murtha, certainly. Perhaps only Feingold has been at it as long.

I did not support Dean back in the campaign. If it matters I was first for Edwards in 02, who then rewarded me by drifting out of sight and mind, then moved to Clark as part of the Draft Clark movement in 03. After Kerry won the nom, I threw all of my effort and money behind him too, and still think that he makes a fine junior senator from Mass. But I think a lot more highly of Dean now; more importantly I think of Dean as a man ahead of his time.

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Bush at 34%: The Crazification Factor

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 11:29 AM PST

2005/11/17 · 11:29

Bush's approval rating is at 34%. To the rational among us, those paying attention and/or taking our meds, that still seems insane. Lucky for us John Rogers over at Kung Fu Monkey explains it. He has replaced wild-eyed astonishment for a more scientific approach to figuring out how many crazies actually support Bush. It's called The Crazification Factor. Here's how John works it out:

John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is --
Tyrone: 27%.
John: ... you said that immmediately, and with some authority.

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If Judy Miller had testified a year ago Kerry would have won

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Friday October 28, 2005 · 3:19 PM PDT

2005/10/28 · 15:19

Our friends at Americablog raise a really important question:

I just got a call from a friend whose wife came up with a very interesting point. Fitzgerald today said that he could have been having this press conference a year ago, if Judith Miller had been more forthcoming. A year ago would have been October 28, 2004. That's about, oh, one week before the presidential election.
With the 2004 presidential election as close as it was, this could have easily - would have easily - swung the election to Kerry's favor. But Judith Miller didn't come forward, and Bush wasn't damaged BEFORE his re-election.

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AMERICABLOG: Rove in hiding [2ND UPDATE] 22 indictments???

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Wednesday October 05, 2005 · 1:07 PM PDT

2005/10/05 · 13:07

Sweeeeeeet. As John says...

The White House is hiding Karl Rove - they know something's coming...
by John in DC - 10/05/2005 03:36:00 PM
I just talked to a source who told me that Karl Rove has been missing from a number of recent White House presidential events - events that he has ALWAYS attended in the past. For example, Rove was absent from yesterday's presidential press conference to promote Harriet Miers. These are the kind of events Rove ALWAYS attends, I'm told, yet of late he's been MIA each and every time.

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Can you help us help our Portland neighbor save her home from the big banks?

Chalabi: 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'

Libertarian Democrat? No You're Not

Dear Rep Slaughter, about Iraq...

SALON: Ask Harry Reid

Why protests don't work, and how to change that

Rove's October Surprise: Osama Bin Laden

Alterman asks for help re: the next Ben Domenech

Dem in 06 = Dean in 03

Bush at 34%: The Crazification Factor

If Judy Miller had testified a year ago Kerry would have won

AMERICABLOG: Rove in hiding [2ND UPDATE] 22 indictments???