The Debt Limit
The debt limit, or debt ceiling, and the issues brought up by Republicans' refusal to raise it are complex and therefore often misunderstood. I read a comment here that stated that the U.S. would...
View ArticleA 'living wage': why it's often a misnomer
While I completely agree that people - all people - deserve a 'livinfg wage', i.e. a wage that lets people have a decent life, and that this is a goal every decent human being should strive to achieve,...
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View ArticleTremas, Umlauts and extra E's
This started as a comment in a diary in which the name "Oesterreich" featured. I soon realized, however, that what I had to say was growing ever more off-topic/thread-highjacky and that it would...
View ArticleMy pathetic apology
I shouldn't have used the words/terms I used in response to Rei's post. What I was angry about never existed.Although it's no excuse, I read her first paragraph and thought she was talking about...
View ArticleWhy the Ruble Should Matter to Putin
I started this as a reply to a post, but it was, even simplified, too long.I would have preferred more people read this, and now less will. On the other hand the people who do read it may really read...
View ArticleWhy a black Annie isn't the same as a white Tiger Lily
There have been quite a few diaries lately about fictional characters and their 'race' or the 'race' of actors who portray them. A comment in one of them prompted me to write this diary. I won't be...
View ArticlePutin and Hitler; Crimea and Sudetenland
Vladomir Putin's pronouncements that he will "protect" Russian speakers - up to and including unilateral annexation - is so reminiscent of Adolf "most evil human ever" Hitler's policy in the 1930's...
View ArticleWorld Cup: Belgium vs USA
I just wanted to wish both teams the best of luck for tomorrow's game.Of course only one team can go through, and you don't get a prize for guessing which team I would prefer that was. :-)But I do hope...
View ArticleMy First Campaign
I should warn anyone looking for something important or pertinent to read, well, "move along, nothing to see here". :-)But I have enjoyed a lot of the non-Earth shattering, everyday life stories people...
View ArticleAn open letter to Kos
I thank you for providing all of us with this forum and also for the way you have expanded it; you invite input from us Kossacks concerning the rules, you do your best to make this site a community and...
View ArticleThe volcano in Iceland
I recommend everyone read Rei's and Fishoutofwater's diaries on this, such as this by Rei and this by Fishoutofwater. Please keep in mind that they are posting new diaries on this very often.Their...
View ArticleThe Chinese regime shows its true colors, again
Perhaps you haven't heard, but the Fake-Communists in Beijing have decided that they will pick the candidates the people of Hong Kong can choose from to be their Chief Executive - basically agovernor...
View ArticleThank you, Barack Obama
I saw a pic of you, here at Dkos. You looked old. Of course, we all grow older, every day. But you are older than you deserve to be. You have taken not one, but countless hits for the Team. Team...
View ArticleA dog, several wasps and me
I'm not sure this warrants a diary, but I can't shake the feeling it might, so I'll let you guys decide :-)Join me bellow the cleverly disguised orange jacket and find out more...
View ArticleBlackadder and Ferguson
This diary started its existence as a reply I was going to post in one of the almost endless sea of excellent, thought-provoking diaries about Ferguson and the almost certainly racist murder of Michael...
View ArticleSix songs for life, six songs I love
Bob Marley, "Redemption song"Everlast, "What it's like"Lauryn Hill, "Everything is Everything"Jose Gonzalez, "Heartheats"Sepultura, "Refuse/Resist'"Lilly Allen, "Fuck you very much"
View ArticleSome advice needed
I had lunch today with my girlfriend and her (female) best friend.I wish I hadn't, because now whatever I do is wrong.Why?While having genial conversation Africa came up as a topic. Best Friend has...
View ArticlePanic because of Ebola is bullcrap.
Do I fear Ebola? No. Panicking about it is so dumb it makes the virus look smart. [Louis Gohmert remains near/at the bottom.]Before I go on, I need to make clear that if we don't take the threat...
View ArticleHow to alienate your 'allies': call them allies...
I fervently believe in the rights of women, people of color, LGBT people, the disabled, the poor, religious or secular minorities of whatever kind. I am not, however, an ally of any of them.I realize...
View ArticleLiberia: A brief and brutal history
As pretty much all kossacks know, Liberia has been in the news a lot lately, and not in a good way.Ebola has taken root there, in a country with broken infrastructure and a damaged yet resilient...
View ArticleMost of Europe will recognize Palestine
Next week, the French Parliament will vote on a non-binding resolution to recognize Palestine as a state.Sweden has already recognized Palestine. The parliaments of Britain, Ireland and Spain have...
View Article#Romneyshambles aftermath
Willard has decided to not run for POTUS in 2016... mostly because he found out he would have to use his own Rmoney and he would lose, again.Now, it's true that decent people everywhere are mourning...
View ArticleRacist Outrage in Belgium
I don't really know how to start this diary... I can't think of anything appropriate to say...Anyway, I was a student Leuven (Louvain in French and often called that in English for historical reasons),...
View ArticleAd for 'Texas Rising': Whitewashing
I say ad, because the 'History' channel here in the Philippines hasn't shown the full trailer, at least not while I've been watching. The series premiere is scheduled towards the end of July here, so...
View ArticleFive lies about Greece/Grexit
1. Greece is in 'austerity mode' because it is paying off it's debts.Wrong. Greece has received more loans than it has repayed in recent years. Austerity is due to it's credit card being maxed out. By...
View ArticleGreece: a recap
Let's take a look back at what got us (Greeks, Europeans, Everyone else) to this point...*Greece borrowed far too heavily for decades. This precedes the advent of the Euro by almost as many decades....
View ArticleT-Rump, JEB! and the clown car...
Anyone else remember the good old days when the worst thing that could happen to America was a Bush or terrorists killing 3000 people in New York?Me neither.#Trump #Jeb.
View ArticleThe Salon Interview of Paglia
Over at Salon.com you can read part one of three of an interview with Camille Paglia. I find many of the things she says utterly disturbing.Even though it's only a third of what Salon saw fit to...
View ArticleTrump sucks banks moneymakers, but there's another way...
Donald Trump, four-year-old extraordinaire, has made it legal for financial services companies to screw their clients.In the popular-vote-loser’s alt-right universe screwing people -especially people...
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Most of you are U.S. citizens, a few more are greencard holders… the latter isn’t worth so much in the Trump times, of course.I’m just a former resident of the U.S. (legal) but please understand that...
View ArticleRoy Moore: All hat, no chattel.
Roy Moore is frustrated that he, as a male WASP, can't treat people like things...Whether it be black and brown people, women, religious minorities, teh evil gays, they should all submit to him......
View ArticleWith Trump admitting to asking for foreign help, let's remember this isn't new.
So, idiot, morally bankrupt and all around degenrate failure Donald Trump admitted to asking for foreign help with the 2020 election, even if he is too stupid and narcissistic to realize that.And of...
View ArticleNo, Trump and/or Pence can't hold the Precidency hostage
I may be a furriner, despite my years growing up just outside NY, NY. But surely I'm not the only one who has read the U.S. comstitution?Because I keep hearing and reading how it would be impossible to...
View ArticleWhy we can never accept Cuomo as D-Nom for POTUS
Andrew Cuomo has been touted as a potential replacement for Joe Biden if the latter should succumb to COVID-19.No. Just no.Again: No.Now, one can debate Cuomo jr's actions as Governor of New York...
View ArticleWe are not monsters
Either you agree that people have basic, inalienable rights, that everyone deserves a fair trial, that there are laws that protect these rights in a liberal democracy or you don't.I'm never going to be...
View Article"Our zero-sum politics"
In this morning's APR by the ultra-esteemable, and in my case, ultra-esteemed Dr. Greg Dworkin, this quote from a 538 piece by Lee Drutman:"Most likely, Senate and House Republicans will eventually...
View ArticleBurn Dejoy to the ground: XPO logistics boycott
Hi all.Apologies to those living under a rock or Rick Wilson (the 'pastor' not the LP guy) or who are on Mars where the internet sucks even more, but I'm not going to go into the details of Louus...
View ArticleEnough with the Lincoln Project love
I scarcely know where to begin... but I guess 1988 is as good a place as any.That year George Conway was working as a lawyer focused on securities and other aspects of finance, including being...
View ArticleThe first casualty of 2020 predictions
This is just a short observation but even at this early hour, it's quite clear that the "red mirage" was a mirage.I point this out not to be glib or whatever, but because the lack of "red mirage" will...
View ArticleFlips so far:
So far declared races are a wash in the Senate and House, but with a lot more upside left on the D-side than on the dark side.Of course, you may want to depend on a specific source for your "calls"......
View ArticleNo headline, just disgust.
Of all the thousands of things about Trump and this election that make my skin crawl, my head ache and my blood boil, one just seems to tap my spine…Criticising Biden and Democrats for not knocking on...
View ArticleTop random number of reasons CNN employs Chris Cillizza
You may have noticed that CNN still employs Chris Cillizza, here is a list of a random number of reasons why, in supposably some order, maybe from worse to worser. So here we go.38. It alway close to...
View ArticleSome songs for the transition from Trump to... well a non-sociopathic President.
It's a given that these days, at least for most people, well life ain't easy.And with *cough* the 'Proud Boys' tearing down free speech and vandalizing churches, the least weasel throwing a hissy-fit...
View ArticleCan someone draw me a cartoon?
I'd really like to see a one panel cartoon of an Elephant with a Trumpdo behind a desk on an old stye phone in the forground, whilst the backround (80-90%? of the frame) is an Escheresque stairscape of...
View ArticleMy open letter to Gov. DeSantis
Sir,I was born a long time after the land you govern was stolen from it's inhabitants.I was born a long time after human beings whether from the new world or the old, were robbed, robbed of their...
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Canadian style tyranny is on it's way. Here!
Friends, morans (Hi Jerry!), countrymen (and like none of you 'urban people' ok, I mean, blah), hold my beer!I come to bury democracy, not to praise it. The evil that Canada does will live forever, the...
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