Your banner says "progress through politics" (electoral politics, I assume) and has a link to whitehouse.gov.
That looks very promising. :)
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That would be a bad start. :) Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
*unless they're from me, in which case, expect funny pictures and excessive swearing. Earth is the best vacation place for advanced clowns. --Gary Busey
Crossposting is always welcome. Earth is the best vacation place for advanced clowns. --Gary Busey
But of course, as I wrote on DKos, we're back to traffic inducing rox-sux wars. It's 2009 all over again: same participants (largely) only repeating itself like The Hobbit at inordinate length and with no narrative tension. We know how the movie ends.
Now you're all back engaged I will make sure to return to the Moose more regularly. My favourite peeps posting here, so only fun and information to be had. The p***artist formerly known as 'Brit'
You don't mind if I write a post or two, do you? I have been itching to write but I needed to find a place where Democrats who promote electing Democrats aren't called Third Wayists. Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
I was in another lifetime one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness a creature void of form "Come in" she said "I'll give you shelter from the storm". --Zimmerman
--Zimmerman
Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line Beauty walks a razor's edge someday I'll make it mine If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born "Come in" she said "I'll give you shelter from the storm".
I'm a bubbabot The p***artist formerly known as 'Brit'
kale & popeye food, as always are free. Earth is the best vacation place for advanced clowns. --Gary Busey
Insufficient noise filtering Over There. Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas. -- Anonymous
Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
In the end I didn't, my main reason was he pandered too much to the Orthodox Jews and defended them on this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05...
But if more GOP candidates can be like him on other issues (i.e. gun control, civil rights, the budget), we'd be in a better place.
PS- the party primaried him because they found him to be too liberal.
I hope so, we need a two-party system. "Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity." James Hilton, Lost Horizon
But I am all for seeing a return of sane Republicans, the Eisenhower type. The rise of the Teapublican has been bad for the country and for political discourse overall.
I don't understand why the political etiquette of "disagree, but don't be disagreeable" got jettisoned. Politics is not a purity game, it is always, always about compromise and pragmatism. Sometimes the deals stink. Sometimes the deals are surprisingly good. But entrenched positions will get us nowhere but stuck in the muck. "Fighting Fascism is Always Cool." -- Amsterdam Weekly, vol. 3, no. 18 (-8.50, -7.23)
Some of them are untrustworthy. :) Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
Not to mention inflicting cat and horse pictures on youse guys now and then, coz that's just how I roll.
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done subjunctively.
For example, your photo:
If you place your mouse over the photo, you will see a sekrit message. Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v660/EddyTeddyFreddy/A%20clutter%20of%20cats/More%20cats%204/1213018_zps0fd06627.jpg" width=300 title="Awwwwww!"/>
The bolded part is the hover!
Lots of us like cats and dogs and LOLing. Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
By George, it works! And I can change the image size by adjusting the number before "title".
Thanks! If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done subjunctively.
Reversed, you say? Uh-oh. Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas. -- Anonymous
Nuestra casa es su casa! :~) Just because they are posting on a progressive site doesn't make them progressives. - John Allen
;) Earth is the best vacation place for advanced clowns. --Gary Busey
Other than than, I taught a heavy course load this fall--both our big undergraduate introduction to archaeology and zooarchaeology for the MA and PhD students.
How's that for a royalist project.
Great to find on teh blogs again - love and best wishes for 2013. My lucky number as I was born on October the thirteenth. And anyone who lives in a tall building above the 12th floor is effectively lying to themselves. Come out. It's fine. Dump your Triskaidekaphobia The p***artist formerly known as 'Brit'
"I spend my days and nights pondering the meaning of life, the state of the universe, and the Home Shopping Network." -- Donald Roller Wilson
Happy to give up the Queen for a bit of constitutional rigour The p***artist formerly known as 'Brit'
Yay......just had to see if I could post a video. Love is the lasting legacy of our lives
Earth is the best vacation place for advanced clowns. --Gary Busey
Thanks.....I love John Fullbright's music. Love is the lasting legacy of our lives
But at least now I know how to embed hovers in my photos:
A move by Shell to avoid millions in Alaska state taxes may have backfired when the oil rig Kulluk ran aground Monday on Kodiak Island. The rig initially went adrift while it was being towed to a shipyard and tax shelter in Seattle. Instead, the vessel found itself literally stuck inside Alaska at the start of the new year.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/...
Love is the lasting legacy of our lives
Am I missing something?
Off to wander around and comment some!
In separating ourselves from the political blog herd, we set out to build a new place to gather that had clear lines of moderation, fostered a strong community, promoted reasoned discourse and well-researched diaries, and included a healthy dose of snark and dry wit. While we trend to the Left, we are focused on political pragmatism because we believe that without a dialogue from across the political spectrum, we'll never be able to move forward, beyond partisanship and rhetoric, and make progress on the challenges we face. We have built a strong community on which the success of the blog rests, and we believe that one blog and one blogger can make a difference in the world.
And one of the rules:
It is emphatically not acceptable to try to negatively dissuade other members from voting for the Democratic candidate.
Ponies make lovely Christmas presents, but waiting for them is a non-fulfilling prophesy.
America - and indeed most of the world - is some shade of centrist. The "far" ideologies are intellectual exercises (some would say "mental masturbation", but we try to be more understanding than that), not to be confused with anything that might keep you from being eaten by a bear. The Moose tries to be a place that lives in the real world, where ponies are lovely but being eaten by bears is a more often immediate concern. "Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity." James Hilton, Lost Horizon
Am I happy with centrist pragmatism...not really. But life needs compromise and negotiations. We need to find common ground with those in the middle that have ideas on both sides of center.
Glad to be here!
"It is what it is" is a phrase I have been picked on for using, most of my adult life.
But it is, so we always start from there.
And definitive ideologies? Where we know the outcome of decisions in complex environments before they are acted out?
Really?
I have opinions - many of them very strong and often enough bloody-mindedly clung onto - but I don't know what will happen with more/less of a given action/policy/way of life. Not one to advocate sitting on fences, either, I am happy to encourage others to go out and try whatever they feel strongly about (it almost always leads to learning things we were not expecting). That parenthetical bit, there, is the point. "Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity." James Hilton, Lost Horizon
This year we had Jared Huffman running for Congress and he was considered a moderate for us. Anywhere else in the country (excluding Santa Cruz and Berkeley) he would be far left liberal.
Everyone I know is an activist of some sort. Be it for the environment, social change, human rights...everyone is active. It is the best part of here. People talking to each other, even our few Republicans, to make things happen. A lot of us swallow hard and vote for things we don't like totally but that is life.
Sitting on fences - well I used to have a sig line: The only thing you get from sitting on fences is splinters in your ass. my granddaddy the cattleman!
... ponies are lovely but being eaten by bears is a more often immediate concern
Or as those of us who have at one time or another lost ratings privileges would say:
+4 Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
But talking of moderation, worth noting that several of your former combatants no longer have much in common with the disaffected oppositionalists The p***artist formerly known as 'Brit'
As far as those who disagree with that, certainly the shriekers, while quite noisy, are numerically smaller than they were. Unfortunately they are very prominent, having been elevated to a special status so their influence has increased.
I got my ratings back after 2 months. I am on my best behaviour now. ;) Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
Then, in the WA-01 primary, she broke a pledge to not go negative. But let the PI explain in Darcy Burner flip-flops, goes furiously negative
With signs she is falling behind, 1st District U.S. House candidate Darcy Burner has reversed a campaign pledge and gone furiously negative in an attack mailing directed at fellow Democrat Suzan DelBene. The attack mailing, sent out five days before the Aug. 7 primary, is in the tradition of political hit pieces designed to land on doorsteps at the last minute. "What is she hiding?" it asks of DelBene, and likens "multimillionaire Suzan DelBene" to "multimillionaire Mitt Romney." ... Burner became a hero to liberal "NetRoots" Democratic activists across the country during her 2006 and 2008 campaigns against Reichert. A majority of her contributors in the 2012 campaign come from out of state. Burner has been relentlessly boosted by the Berkeley, Calif.-based dailykos.com web site. She has touted her Afghanistan peace plan at a conference in Berlin, appeared on a panel with Occupy leaders at a New York forum, and was given a marquee speaking slot at the national NetRoots Nation conference last June in Providence, R.I.
The attack mailing, sent out five days before the Aug. 7 primary, is in the tradition of political hit pieces designed to land on doorsteps at the last minute. "What is she hiding?" it asks of DelBene, and likens "multimillionaire Suzan DelBene" to "multimillionaire Mitt Romney."
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Burner became a hero to liberal "NetRoots" Democratic activists across the country during her 2006 and 2008 campaigns against Reichert. A majority of her contributors in the 2012 campaign come from out of state.
Burner has been relentlessly boosted by the Berkeley, Calif.-based dailykos.com web site. She has touted her Afghanistan peace plan at a conference in Berlin, appeared on a panel with Occupy leaders at a New York forum, and was given a marquee speaking slot at the national NetRoots Nation conference last June in Providence, R.I.
Bold for emphasis. Markos sure can pick them. /nedlamont There was only one joker in L.A. sensitive enough to wear that scent...and I had to find out who he was!
Darcy Burner was a very engaging speaker at NN12. I saw her as part of a panel although I was not quite sure what she had in common with Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin and Mazie Hirono ... I think it is likely that she got her spot because of her ties to liberal blogs. She would make someone an excellent chief of staff but she is no politician. Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
Talking about politics is fun. The pie fights may get some hearts-a-pumpin' but I can live without it. Words have meaning. Our words will reflect what is in our souls.
