Serbian government collapses, and other news
al Jazeera and AP are reporting that the government of Vojislav Kostunica collapsed when a united stand against E.U. membership could not be reached. HuffPo also posted up the AP story. Greg Palast...
View ArticleChimpy's new gambit is in Venezuela, here we go again!
You are in a park...a man approaches, you just know this is a dope sale pitch, but you arn't sure if it's a sting, so you engage this guy and he opens his pocket to show you pack after pack after pack...
View ArticleNot a campaign diary! re. Frontline
Work lasted into the late evening last night. After a nap I got up and watched the second part of Frontline's Bush's War series on streaming video from the WGBH website. [What a nice site that is.]...
View ArticleMaliki undercut, US "faced" by Sadr.
In a slick move, Shiite cleric M. al Sadr ordered his forces off the streets in the Southern provinces of Iraq. Though the Jaysh e Madhi is splintered, and there may be factions that do not obey the...
View ArticleNot a candidate diary! Things that piss me off.
As I watch the election cycle unwind and see how damn damaging this primary circus is becoming and how Obama, who should be trouncing McSame is just tied with that slug, I get pissed off. I am royally...
View ArticleChuck Todd and cynicism...
By now everyone this side of Oswego county NY knows about the "Fizzle in Philly." The last debate of the primary season between Barack and Hillary. So, after looking around at the various reviews and...
View Article4050 dead troops now...and we quibble about parsed Clintonspeak?
Iraq War Casualty Counter tells me that 4050 of our sons/daughters/moms/fathers/relatives/friends have "bought it" in the Iraq Calamity. Arab times via Juan Cole knows about it. Iraq Today knows about...
View ArticleThank you Steuben County, Indiana....
For those of us old enough to remember 76A license plates, (I had one) it did my heart good to see that though you went for Senator Clinton 57% to 43%, you made many of us proud by outpolling...
View ArticleMoDodo-ism, and my two cents.
Maureen Dowd is apprently getting bitter in her old age, and her opinions sound more like the snarlings of a spinster bluestocking living with agoraphobia, and in reclusion in The Dakota than a smart...
View ArticleUmmm, folks, let's get a grip here.
Good morning, just a short diary to address a noxious piece of mail I recieved. This "letter" was sent to explain Barack Obama to me in terms of him being a radical Muslim. The well-printed letter,...
View ArticleUTU and BLE-T Endorse Obama, Railroad Kossacks update.
Daily Kos has many walks of life represented. From high school students, to retired people. We have nurses, plumbers, computer code writers, doctors, lawyers, and I think an indian chief, maybe two,...
View ArticleRecent Story: Diplomats ready to flee Pakistan.
Pakistan appears on the verge of civil breakdown. Slightly more progressive forces may have won the day in the elections that ended the Presidency of Musharraf but are failing badly. In the US, unless...
View ArticleDo You Give A Damn About Your Life?..(with poll)
You should if you snore loudly. The bane of many a relationship, (including the one between Mr. and Mrs. Boilerman), is often snoring, and it is not always the husband that is the culprit. Did you know...
View ArticleZOMBIE ATTACK! or fear and loathing in the NRA Pink Pogoda.
This may have been diaried and blogged about elsewhere and by others but by golly we should look at this again, and continue to debunk this and keep at it. I have belonged to the National Rifle...
View ArticleDusty Foggo threatens to lift lid off Bush Garbage Can...
Due to lack of a open comment section, please accept this short diary about one of the "soldiers" in the Bush Caporegime. Kyle Dusty Foggo, former #3 man at the CIA, and indicted member of the...
View ArticleI have changed my mind, NO BAILOUT!!! w/ Poll
No bailout, no way, no how! Paulson did his gimmick and the Pubbies blew it up. Paulson/Dodd went the way of the Purple goose thanks to those self same Pubbies. Let's jump and look at the best...
View ArticleThank You for the fellowship....
This year, 2008, was the first time that I had volunteered to work phone banks in a political campaign ever. Everything else: be it for Bill Walsh; and later his son, Jim Walsh, vs George Wortley in a...
View ArticleAll the fitting news.....
So much goes on that at times, no one seems to notice stories of special interest that happen and then drift into news oblivion leaving the wretched refuse of maddening goofy pundits and political...
View ArticleBrother, here we go again...start of the Holiday Season
Black Friday has again come and gone and the number of people killed was fairly low. HuffPo is trying to tell me that Black Friday sales were good; right on their front page. But a Black Friday does...
View ArticleDixon vs University of Toledo, asking lawyer Kossacks for help
As a blue/gray collar tradesman with just a smattering of legal understanding, I am asking for help from Kos lawyers and paralegals about a case unfolding in Ohio right now that strikes me as a test...
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